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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, reading texts between former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and Howard's unnamed relative:

Howard: "He's just been named President-elect."

Howard: "At least if he wins I will be pardoned for electoral fraud."

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in awe of the 1000+ students who flooded columbia's campus yesterday in response to the columbia president's warning of deploying the nypd and/or national guard against them at midnight

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Burger joint

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“An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys and aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an announcement by the state attorney general. Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman. They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election. Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA. Trump was not charged, but he is described in the indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator.”

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Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe

Put them all in prison for the rest of their lives, please.

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From Knox News:

Angela Dennis

Knoxville News Sentinel

Published 10:00 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2021 | Updated 4:55 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2021

It's been two years since Cyntoia Brown-Long walked out of the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville and walked into a life of advocacy.

These days, her time is spent traveling with her husband Jamie, fighting human trafficking and filling her Amazon cart with materials for the DIY projects all around her Nashville house.

Although she's working hard on behalf of others trapped in exploitative situations and living up to the redemption she fought long and hard for, Brown-Long says she is simply enjoying the little things that come with freedom.

"I think about this day all the time. The day I got my life back. I used to lay in my prison cell dreaming about this and where I am today. I am just so grateful," Brown-Long told Knox News in an exclusive interview.

After a life in and out of the juvenile court system, she was thrust into the human trafficking trade. Her troubled years ended with a conviction for the murder of 43-year old Johnny Allen and, over time, the feeling that there was no light at the end of the tunnel. She and many others thought she might die in a prison cell.

Brown-Long was tried as an adult in the Tennessee criminal justice system and found guilty of first-degree murder when she was just 16 years old. At the time, she was one of 90 minors in Tennessee handed what was considered a death sentence.

The grassroots efforts from celebrities and advocates plus widespread media coverage put pressure on a governor to grant her freedom at age 31 instead of well after 65. In 2019, former Gov. Bill Haslam commuted her sentence in part because of her young brain was still developing when she shot the man who was lying beside her and in part because of the "extraordinary steps" she took to rebuild her life.

Two years ago: Read Cyntoia Brown-Long's full statement on her clemency

Resiliency drove her to improve her life even when she had no idea whether she'd ever see life outside of the prison walls. While incarcerated, Brown-Long earned a stunning number of degrees: her GED, an associate's degree in liberal arts and a bachelor's degree in professional studies in organizational leadership from Lipscomb University.

"The decision to let Cyntoia go free was the right decision and I still feel that way today. I've had a chance to meet her and she's doing exactly what we hoped she would do, which is get out and spread the message about what happened in her life and what it looks like to do life differently," Haslam told Knox News in July about the anniversary of her release.

The former Knoxville mayor also said that laws around juvenile life sentencing are complex.

"Cyntoia's case was an eye-opener. This is a place where governors should look and review these cases very carefully. They are all different and rehabilitation should be the goal in our corrections system.

"In Cyntoia's case, I felt society would be better served with her outside of prison than inside.

She is an example of a person whose life has been changed and why we need to look deeply into each and every single juvenile case," Haslam said.

This is is damn wrong and sad. I really do feel for her… #JustImagine https://t.co/NQtZcYp0Xv

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Habits

by Nikki Giovanni

i haven’t written a poem in so long i may have forgotten how unless writing a poem is like riding a bike or swimming upstream or loving you it may be a habit that once acquired is never lost but you say i’m foolish of course you love me but being loved of course is not the same as being loved because or being loved despite or being loved

if you love me why do i feel so lonely and why do i always wake up alone and why am i practicing not having you to love i never loved you that way

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Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents investigation.

A redacted summary of the November 2022 interview given to the FBI by the witness – who is identified as “Person 16” and described as someone who worked in Trump’s White House – was made public in newly unsealed court filings in the criminal case on Monday.

Nauta was charged in June of last year with lying to the FBI and obstructing the investigation by special counsel Jack Smith, along with Trump who was charged with obstruction and mishandling of classified and national defense information. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

Nauta’s attorney declined to comment to CNN. Trump’s attorneys have not responded to CNN’s inquiry.

It’s not clear how the witness came to know of the alleged offer of a pardon. The FBI’s interview summary said Person 16 had not spoken to Nauta since Trump was in the White House.

“NAUTA was told by FPOTUS’ people that his investigation was not going anywhere, that it was politically motivated and ‘much ado about nothing,’” the interview summary says, referring to the abbreviation for Former President of the United States. “NAUTA was also told that even if he gets charged with lying to the FBI, FPOTUS will pardon him in 2024.”

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“Yes, Trump is a former president. But, under the law, he is just an ordinary citizen at this point in time. Once the public fully realizes that the emperor has no clothes and that Trump is just a bombastic charlatan, then everything can turn against him very quickly. I don’t know what the Republican Party is going to do if he implodes over the next few months, which is what I believe will likely happen. They don’t have a plan B. The Republicans have put themselves in an untenable situation, politically and morally. They are in danger of becoming a permanent minority party for the next couple of decades, comprised of angry white folks seething in their own sense of victimhood.”

— “The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling” with first criminal trial: ex-federal prosecutor

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not an immigrant. not a drag queen.

Every accusation is a confession.

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He’s literally the SHIT DEMON from Dogma 💩

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“No one ever comes back from the dead, no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is asked when he wishes to leave.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

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I came into the country in 1980 just in time for Jimmy Carter’s loss and transition to Reagan. I was seven years old and although I was much too young to understand politics, much less in a foreign language one thing was very starkly clear; republicans only seemed interested in serving whites. I learned this in public school from racial jokes (which time confirmed are often based on unpopular truths) and even from some teacher comments.

Ironically my father really aligned his views and life experiences with conservatives but overwhelmingly I found that his claims and practices were often at odds which only echoed typical conservative talking points.

And most recently the transition between Obama and trump reminded me so much of that long ago election when Reagan would begin a forty year attack on the spirit of democracy and justice.

Reagan walked so trump could run.

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.