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  • The Georgia election interference case against President Trump just appointed a new prosector for that case.
  • Peter Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, headed a nonpartisan state agency to select one, and he was chosen.
  • He replaces Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
  • As you know federal pardons don't apply to state crimes.
  • The judge remains the same, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
  • Remember this?

A Fulton County grand jury  indicted Trump in 2023 when he was out of office along with 18 others who allegedly formed a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost to President Joe Biden.

Following the loss, Trump had famously called Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to “find” the missing votes he would have needed to win. The alleged scheme also involved plans to submit a bogus slate of electors to falsely certify that Trump had won the election, a harassment campaign against Fulton County poll workers and a voting systems breach in Coffee County.

  • As president, Donald Trump seems safe for now from prosecution, 
  • However, 14 other defendants like Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are liable.
Now into the topic of the day, Paramount+, a streaming channel.  After adding HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu and ESPN, I noticed that I could also get Paramount+ for free.  I had the IT specialist at 15 Craigside install those new channels, but did not want to bother him again, so I tried to do it myself, and succeeded.
Paramount+ was launched in 2014 by CBS.
  • In 2017 had 1.5 million subscribers.
  • Rebranded in 2021 as Paramount+.
  • Draws primarily from the libraries of CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, the Smithsonian Channel, Showtime and Paramount Pictures.  Also original series, films, and sports, linked to CBS.
  • In August of 2025, announced the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights to the Ultimate Fighting Championship.  Slew of other agreements, many international, in soccer, rugby and other sports.

I particularly wanted to have Paramount+ accessible because Liam Neeson's The Naked Gun movie was being shown, for free.  Rotten Tomatoes had given it excellent 88/73 scores.  Unfortunately, I would have given it a score below 73, for the jokes were jejune and timing terrible.  The Naked Gun in 1988 with Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley and O. J. Simpson, also got an 88 reviewers' score.  However, this parody franchise began in 1982 with a series, Police Squad!, which scored 91/96.  I won't say anything more about this Liam Neeson version, but comedy, apparently is a challenge for him.

Cable News network MSNBC will tomorrow rebrand as MS NOW as a corporate spinoff from parent company Comcast (NBCUniversal).
  • Also gone will be the NBC peacock logo.
  • MS NOW will be My Source of News, Opinion, and the World.
  • MSNBC will still exist, but as Versant, a media company.  So there will not be a Versant channel, as such, for they will parent over CNB, USA, E!, Syfy, Oxygen and the Golf Channel. 
  • MSNBC was launched in 1996 as a liberal-leaning network that served as home to Rachel Maddow,  Chris Matthews, the the Morning Joe crew and others.  MSNBC came from Microsoft and NBC.  The new MS NOW will continue with most of its newscasters. 

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