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With more than $8 billion in commitments from private companies and organizations partnering with public sector agencies already in his pocket, President Joe Biden hosted a gathering of advocates, food manufacturers, grocery chains and agriculture experts at the White House Wednesday to discuss food insecurity in the United States with the goal of eliminating hunger in the US by 2030, CNN reports.

“In America, no child, no child should go to bed hungry.  No parent should die of disease that can be prevented,” Biden told the group of more than 100 businesses and organizations that have made commitments to help alleviate the shortage of places people can buy or get healthy food options in their communities.

The last such conference, a 1969 meeting hosted by then-President Richard Nixon, resulted in the creation of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, as well as school meal programs for underprivileged students. 

The Seafood, the boat Rodney Dangerfield’s character, Al Czervik, plows into Judge Smails’ (Ted Knight) new sloop he’s dedicating at the yacht club in the iconic movie comedy Caddyshack, is available for sale at Chesapeake Bay marina for the bargain price of $349,000, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Currently owned by Chesapeake Bay Sport Fishing, the 60-foot vessel has been used as a charter vessel and as a stationary AirBnB in Stevensville, Maryland since 2017; it’s got a 4.92 star rating as a sleeping accommodation on the booking site.

Built by a now shuttered Australian boat manufacturer Striker in 1979, the Seafood is known as a “power yacht,” equipped with two 675 horsepower diesel engines which provided enough ramming speed to sufficiently damage the Judge’s boat, The Flying Wasp, as it was tied up at dock–and the anchor through the deck finished the job.

A federal judge in DC District Court granted Dominion Voting Systems’ motion to dismiss a countersuit Trump lawyer and woman who swiped right seeing Sasquatch’s profile on Tinder Sidney Powell on Wednesday, stating that Powell did not even attempt to fulfill the requirements for even filing a counterclaim.

Noting she filed the countersuit claiming that Dominion abused federal judicial processes, Judge Carl Nichols stated that Powell failed to specify or describe any malfeasance undertaken by Dominion after they filed the billion-dollar defamation suit against Powell for her false claims that Dominion voting machines were designed to be manipulated and that the company changed the results of the 2020 election.  Powell filed the suit claiming Dominion simply wanted “to punish and make an example” out of her.

While it’s obviously true that Dominion wants Powell punished for costing the company business by spreading false claims, Nichols said Powell didn’t even try to explain what part of the judicial process was abused by Dominion filing its lawsuit. 

QAnon dipshit Republican Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano on Monday posted on Facebook a call for his fans to join him for “40 days of fasting and prayer” to get God to intercede “for our elections, our state, and our nation,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

It’s not clear what God’s threshold is for intervening on Mastriano’s behalf in the election, if it’s a fixed number of fasting supporters of Mastriano required for His divine help in getting more people to vote for Doug, or if they need to be Pennsylvanians or if out-of-state fans qualify.

Trump scumbag Corey Lewandowski agreed to a deal earlier this month to pay a fine, undergo eight hours of impulse control counseling, serve 50 hours of community service, and stay out of trouble completely for a year, but not have to admit guilt on a charge of battery in Las Vegas over a 2021 incident in which he stalked a woman named Trashelle, Politico reports.

LOL! Dark Brandon just trolled dead MAGA Congresswoman Jackie Walorski by asking if she was there in the room while at the White House Hunger Conference. ROFLMAO! Cons owned!

A Lt Colonel in the Massachusetts Army National Guard is likely under investigation after he tailgated a tour bus full of senior citizens from Tennessee thinking they were migrants being sent from Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis, the Cape Cod Times reports. On September 19th, Lt Colonel Christopher Hoffman, 51, live-streamed on Facebook his 10 mile pursuit of the bus – while praising DeSantis to his audience – which he thought was from Florida because it said “Tallahassee” on the side somewhere. Hoffman forced himself on board at their hotel in Falmouth, apparently wanting to confront whom he thought were Venezuelans because something something it was unfair that some Afghan he worked with back in 2010 is still stuck there.

“He harassed us to death,” said bus owner/driver Michael Vaughn. “Everybody was scared to death.” Hoffman sheepishly left after seeing the passengers were, in fact, old people from Tennessee and is now probably facing a misconduct investigation from his command. “The Massachusetts National Guard considers the conduct of this soldier to be inappropriate and inconsistent with our military values,” Massachusetts Army National Guard chief Colonel Mark Kalin said in a statement. “We are currently working to ensure our service member is evaluated and receives any services he may need, while also reviewing appropriate disciplinary actions. The incident is currently under investigation and no further information is available at this time.”

Here are a few pictures of the receding water at Venice. IMPORTANT NOTE: The water WILL come back. Please do not attempt to walk there or any other location with receding water. https://t.co/frMvkCrvBP

— NWS Tampa Bay (@NWSTampaBay) September 28, 2022

One Antwerp extremist was canceled Wednesday and an unknown number arrested in a series of police raids on far right groups aimed at disrupting “the preparation of a terrorist attack and the violation of the legislation on weapons” across Belgium, the AP reports. The unidentified suspect, 36, was tagged and bagged after exchanging fire with police as they surrounded his home. The dead suspect was reportedly an anti-NATO, anti-US, and Pro-Russia “gold and silver trader.” Six other locations associated with extremists were also paid unfriendly visits by cops on Wednesday.

Donald J. Trump

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Everyone is talking about the big hurricane barreling into Florida, as they should be, but perhaps a far more important event in the longer term was the announcement that the Nord Stream I & II Pipelines out of Russia (which I brought to the World’s attention as President when I explained how crippling reliance on it could be for Germany and other parts of Europe. Everybody laughed at the time, but they are not laughing anymore!) has been SABOTAGED. This could lead to major escalation, or War!

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Continued the mentally deficient non-statesman: “U.S. ‘Leadership’ should remain ‘cool, calm, and dry’ on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet. The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President. Do not make matters worse with the pipeline blowup. Be strategic, be smart (brilliant!), get a negotiated deal done NOW. Both sides need and want it. The entire World is at stake. I will head up group???”

Democrats lead Republicans 46% to 42% on the the generic ballot question of the purportedly gold-standard Grinnell College/Selzer poll survey in September. For comparison the September 2018 survey found Dems ahead 45% to 42%, the year they crushed the GOP in the House.

The same survey also found a pretty shitty 36% approval rating for President Joe Biden nationally. “If voters who refuse to align with either major political party are the definition of swing voters, for now, they are swinging toward Democratic candidates,” said J. Ann Selzer of Selzer and Company. “But not by much. It’s clear the president’s performance is not driving the women’s vote in the generic House race. Biden’s approval/disapproval rating among women who are likely to vote is even (46% approve, 46% disapprove), and 47% approve to 48% disapprove among suburban women voters. But among these same groups, Democratic candidates have a double-digit edge.”

An estimated 13 million Americans or 5% of the adult population – although “American” and “adult” in only the loosest sense – agree or strongly agree with the statement “The use of force is justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency,” CBS News reports on a CPOST-NORC survey.

“We have not just a political threat to our democracy, we have a violent threat to our democracy,” Dr. Robert Pape, the director of the University of Chicago’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) told “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan on Sept. 18. “Today, there are millions of individuals who don’t just think the election was stolen in 2020, they support violence to restore Donald Trump to the White House,” without elaborating on how those assholes think it’s possible.

“At 700 AM EDT (1100 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Ian was located by Air Force and NOAA Hurricane Hunter data near latitude 25.9 North, longitude 82.8 West. Ian is moving toward the north-northeast near 9 mph (15 km/h). This general motion with a reduction in forward speed is forecast today, followed by a turn toward the north on Thursday. On the forecast track, the center of Ian is expected to approach the west coast of Florida within the hurricane warning area this morning, and move onshore later today. The center of Ian is forecast to move over central Florida tonight and Thursday morning and emerge over the western Atlantic by late Thursday.Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 155 mph (250 km/h) with higher gusts. Ian is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Ian is forecast to make landfall on the west coast of Florida as a catastrophic category 4 hurricane,” says a Wednesday morning NOAA bulletin.

A defamation suit filed by a Venezuelan businessman against Fox Corp., Fox News Network and former host and guy who will wear the cheerleader outfit for Trump Lou Dobbs can proceed after a federal judge ruled the businessman has sufficient proof that he’s been damaged by their false claims, the Associated Press reports.

Majed Khalil says Dobbs and Trump attorney Sidney “The Kraken” Powell defamed him by claiming he and three other people designed systems used in Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic that were designed to manipulate the results of the balloting.

Khalil wrote a number of responses debunking the claims made by Dobbs and Powell, which made him a target of derision and harassment by Trump apologists who claimed the 2020 elections were stolen.

Members of the casts from two politically-themed television shows who couldn’t even have imagined the carnage the previous administration created will host an online fundraiser to benefit Wisconsin Democrats, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The October 9th online event will bring together members of the casts of The West Wing and VEEP to play online games, perform short scenes, answer questions and other things.  Donations of any amount made here will qualify for a link to the event.

West Wing stars Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Mary McCormack, Janel Moloney and Melissa Fitzgerald will join Veep stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Gary Cole and Tim Simons for the shenanigans.

A former Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia who was expelled from Congress in 1980 for his involvement in the Abscam bribery scandal has been convicted of bribing elections officials to pad the vote counts of his campaign advisory clients, NBC News reports.

Michael J. “Ozzie” Myers, the one-time representative for Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for bribing elections staffers.  City officials were adamant to point out that the winners of the elections were not changed in the scheme; only the margins of victory in the final counts were altered.  The vast majority of races affected by the bribes were judgeships in the city of Philadelphia.

Myers served in Congress from 1976 to 1980, before he was expelled by a 376-30 vote in October 1980 after being caught on hidden camera accepting a bribe from undercover FBI agents posing as Arab investors.  On tape, Myers told the faux-investors “money talks in this business and bullshit walks.”

Hurricane Ian knocked out power to the entire nation of Cuba on Tuesday, after hitting the island of 11 million people as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 miles per hour, the BBC reports.

Officials said the power grid collapsed when the storm hit, and one of the island’s main power plants remains off-line, preventing the system from operating.  The storm is now bearing down on Florida, which is warning that wide swaths of the state could be without power for extended periods.

Current projections put landfall on the Florida peninsula somewhere between Tampa and Sarasota on Thursday afternoon.  Meteorologists forecast the storm could hit the west side of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane after gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico.

Alice, the first all-new electric passenger plane, took its maiden flight at a Washington state airport Tuesday morning, circling for a few minutes before landing back at the airport eight minutes later, the Seattle Times reports.  (Video above from The Times’ Dominic Gates)

Built by US-Israeli partnership Eviation, the plane would be able to carry nine passengers as far as 500 miles.  If it gains FAA certification, the company already has orders for 125 aircraft from two regional air travel providers:  a regional airline in Cape Cod and charter airline that serves Florida and the Caribbean.  Although other all-battery-powered aircraft have flown, they have been conventionally-powered craft converted to battery power.  Alice will be the first aircraft designed from the ground up to be powered by batteries.

After playing video from a January press briefing in which a State Department spokesperson warned that “if Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward,” anthropomorphized Lands End catalog and unregistered Hungarian agent Tucker Carlson raises the claim that the Biden Administration ordered someone to sabotage the pipeline, which malfunctioned this week, because Vladimir Putin would never do something stupid that ends up harming himself.

“One way or the other, we’ll stop Nord Stream.”  Now looking back, those words seem chilling eight months later as natural gas pours into the Baltic Sea and into the atmosphere.  So you have to ask, could the Biden Administration really do something like this?  [Editor’s Note:  No, no you don’t ‘have to ask’ that.] We can’t say for sure.  We don’t know for sure.  We can tell you that close allies of the Biden White House believe they certainly did do it.

With the value of Truth Social bolstering his position, Donald Trump has returned to the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States, coming in at #343 thanks to an estimated net worth of $3.4 billion, CBS News reports.

Last year was the first edition of the list that hadn’t included Trump since 1996.  The valuation was based largely on an estimation of the value of Trump Media and Technology Group, which Forbes calls his “single biggest asset.”  The major component of that company is a potential merger with Digital World Acquisition Corporation, a special corporation created to inject funds into TMTG to bolster Truth Social, Trump’s failing social media platform.

Unfortunately for Trump, the shareholders of DWAC have not endorsed the merger; the last shareholder vote came up far short of the needed percentage to continue with the merger deal.  The corporation set another meeting to decide its fate for early October.  If the DWAC shareholders do not vote for the merger, TMTG’s value will plummet.