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For once, a Trump fall guy is going to make some money off him:  a fund owned by Trump Media and Truth Social co-founder Andy Litinsky sold 7.5 million shares of DJT, netting more than $100 million in the process, CNN reports.

A contestant and loser on the fake reality show The Apprentice, Litinsky was prevented from selling the shares previously under the company’s lock-up provisions for insiders.  Litinsky’s shares become the first major block of the stock sold; DJT finished about one percent lower on Thursday.

Litinsky continues to be involved in litigation with Trump and Trump Media, which tried to revoke the shares issued to Litinsky and Wes Moss, another former The Apprentice contestant who help found Trump Media.  Trump claimed they were irresponsible and wasteful in establishing the company, whose sole product is a downgraded Twitter ripoff that continues to lose money.

Besides the exploding door panels and bug-filled software, Boeing will now have to deal with a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation that the aircraft manufacturer to correct a problem that causes a rudder failure in 737 MAX and and older NG jets, the Seattle Times reports.

One would think that a potential rudder failure would prompt the NTSB to do more than issue a recommendation.  According to the FAA, United Airlines was the only US carrier with the effected jets in its fleet, and it already changed the questionable component in nine jets.  But with the Board may issue a wider call to ground the aircraft to change the component in all models.

In the United States for the UN General Assembly but making some timely visits to critical suppliers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with the guy who blames him for his first impeachment while he’s in New York, the Washington Post reports.

The Republican standard-bearer, adjudicated rapist Donald Trump, said during a press ramble that he would meet with Zelenskyy Friday morning at 9:45 a.m. ET, an unusually early time for Trump to be seen in public.

After Fox bro-caster Jesse Watters lathers compliments on adjudicated rapist Donald Trump like they’re Barbasol, Kristi Noem’s side thang and serial abuser Corey Lewandowski tries to get the propaganda network’s audience to believe the 78-year-old Republican candidate and convicted felon will Aderrall-charge his way through the last forty days of the campaign.

“Well, listen, Donald Trump is the greatest fourth-quarter player ever to play the game,” Lewandowski boasts forgetting that the literal fourth quarter of Trump’s single term in office started with the pandemic and went downhill from there.  “You want the ball in his hands when the game is almost at the end, and he is now gearing up for what is going to be the 40-day run.”  Lewandowski then goes on to say Trump will be doing “three, four, five” events a day.

A new set of Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state surveys finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 50 to 47 percent in both Arizona and Michigan, 52 to 45 percent in Nevada, 50 to 48 percent in North Carolina, 51 to 46 percent in Pennsylvania, and 51 to 48 percent in Wisconsin with Georgia tied at 49 percent each. Again, Bloomberg/Morning Consult was a freaking nightmare for Joe Biden when he was still in the race.

Besides the Taco Bell drive-through at 2:30 a.m., the best place to find hardcore drinkers and other miscreants in the early hours is the local Waffle House, an establishment known for 24/7 service.  Hurricane Helene, which has powered up to be a Category 4 as it hits the southern wasteland of Florida, forced a number of Waffle House diners to shut their doors and take cover, CNN reports.

The so-called Waffle House Index has been around since–surprise!—George W. Bush’s time in office when FEMA was run by a show horse association administrator.  Locals relied on if the Waffle House was closing to determine the dangers from approaching storm.  Waffle Houses also have a color chart to signal the risk:  red means the diner is closed; yellow means its serving a limited menu; and green represents the color your face will turn after eating at one.

Rain from the storm is already reaching into northern Georgia as other storms hit the Carolinas and Virginia.  In Florida, officials have ordered certain coastal regions evacuated as the eye of the storm moves north off the coast of Tampa, while other areas have imposed curfews and stay-at-home orders.  Sean Hannity hasn’t yet asked why Floridians have decided to remain in the path of a Category 4 hurricane, nor has he questioned why school buses are still in the hurricane’s path.

This is sad. Funny, but still sad that two adults are telling each other what they want to hear about the presidential candidate choice of the opposing party. They really don’t like their audience too.

A new Fox News survey of likely voters in Georgia finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 51 to 48 percent while a Fox Arizona survey finds Trump up 50 to 47. The abortion referendum receives 72 percent support in the poll.

The totally biased in favor of Biden and Harris Justice Department got a federal grand jury to return an indictment against Iranian agents for hacking convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign on Thursday, Politico reports while noting that the charges and the defendants’ identities are not yet available. The full indictment is expected to unsealed publicly on Friday.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has filed the 180 page document outlining convicted felon former President Trump’s failed post-2020 election coup attempt in DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan’s court, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports, while noting nothing is listed on the docket yet.

That doesn’t actually matter just yet because, as reported, the document will be under seal for as long as Chutkan deems necessary and if she does unseal it for public consumption, there may be heavy redactions in order to comply with grand jury secrecy requirements. The New York Times on Thursday did however note that “A grand jury rule normally requires the government to keep secret information gathered by such investigative bodies – like testimony by witnesses whom prosecutors call to testify before them, or documents investigators gather with their subpoenas. But that rule contains exceptions. Among them, Judge Chutkan can authorize the disclosure of grand jury information ‘preliminarily to or in connection with a judicial proceeding,'” meaning it’s really up to her.

Convicted felon former President Trump will hold a press conference at his decrepit tower in New York City following appellate arguments in the state’s half-billion business fraud case against him.

Right wing propaganda network Newsmax on Thursday reached a settlement in Delaware with voting technology company Smartmatic just days before a trial was to begin in the multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit filed over Newsmax’s blatant falsehoods claiming Smartmatic has somehow rigged the 2020 election against convicted felon former President Trump, the Guardian reports.

Details of the settlement were not available yet and they may never be as the one last year between Smartmatic and other right wing propaganda outlet OAN was reached confidentially.

Female fans of the first would-be female president are papering women’s restrooms, gyms, and boxes of tampons on store shelves with some variation of “Woman to woman: No one sees your vote at the polls. Vote Harris/Walz” across the country, NBC News reports on a trend that may inspire a similar movement to put “Man to man: Vote Trump or you’re a queer” in the men’s room at Buffalo Wild Wings, between pages of “Barely Legal” magazine copies, and at GameStop locations.

But more seriously, one of the women involved with movement, and who helps run a pro-Kamala Facebook group, says she had to enable anonymous posting “so people can talk, and what we have found is that a lot of wives are afraid to vote against how their husband votes.”

Free speech crusader Elon Musk on Thursday suspended the Twitter account of Substacker Ken Klippenstein just hours after he became the first journalist to publish one of the files hacked from the Trump campaign (allegedly) by the Iranians, despite being the at least the seventh to receive them.

This is the culmination of the cult of corruption rampant in the New York Democrat Party – from the former disgraced Governor Cuomo and his sycophant henchmen to the Communist Chinese who have infiltrated Kathy Hochul (the least popular NY Governor in history), to now Eric Adams.… https://t.co/XvgWwgqyDC

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) September 26, 2024

“Of course, Eric Adams should resign. Add him to your spreadsheet. New York Democrats will pay the price for this corruption and incompetence in November and Republicans will sweep this November. Thank you to the New York Times for your staff work keeping track of my high forced resignation success rate. I stand by them all. Oh, and the New York Times forgot to add Joe Biden to the list…” wrote Stefanik after the cutoff and it’s getting REALLY difficult to not give into temptation just use the appropriate word for her, even at the risk of offending our female readers.

Cuuuuuuuuuuuun-founding nobody, Stefanik clearly enjoy rolling around in the pen of hypocrisy, that one indicted politician should resign while another should be elected president, again.

Oklahoma Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters plans to ask the state legislature for an extra $3 million in public funds to purchase a Bible for every public school classroom and $500,000 for firearms training for school staff in his upcoming budget proposal, the Oklahoma Voice reports.

We guess we should just assume that the Bible and gun training vendors will be owned by donors to Walters’ campaign until we have evidence otherwise. It’s easier that way.

Republican pollster Echelon Insights’ monthly national tracking survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris up 52 to 45 percent over convicted felon former President Trump up, a net swing of 8 percent in Harris’s favor after Trump led 49 to 48 percent in August. Sucks for MAGA.

After having no luck shopping around all the shit they hacked from the Trump campaign to the mainstream media and then with independent bloggers, the Iranians finally found a willing partner in Substacker Ken Klippenstein, who writes that his copy of Team Trump’s oppo dossier on JD Vance “reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against ‘foreign malign influence.'”

“I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate JD Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself,” Klippenstein continued.

The 216 page document contains 16 instances of the word “heroin” but zero of “Hitler,” in its lengthy record of all the shit Vance said publicly about Trump over the years. Obviously it’s a long slog and might not be worth digging into to find anything new, but hey, if it embarrasses the Trump campaign we’re for it. Let them turn around and say foreign election interference is suddenly bad.

“Helene is gaining strength as it approaches the Florida Big Bend. A large eye has become apparent in satellite images, and that feature has been gradually clearing out over the past few hours. The minimum pressure has been dropping steadily to near 960 mb, and based on the aircraft flight-level wind data, the initial intensity is estimated to have increased to 90 kt. There have been several reports of tropical-storm-force winds occurring in portions of South Florida and the Florida Keys during the past few hours,” says a Thursday update from the National Hurricane Center.

“It should also be re-emphasized that Helene is a very large hurricane. In fact, comparing the system with previous hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico over the past couple of decades, Helene is at the upper bound in terms of size. As a result, storm surge, wind, and rainfall impacts will extend far away from the center and well outside the forecast cone, particularly on the east side. In addition, the fast forward speed when Helene moves inland will result in a far inland penetration of strong winds over parts of the southeastern United States, including strong gusts over higher terrain of the southern Appalachians. Accordingly, a higher-than-normal gust factor is indicated in the official forecast while Helene is inland,” the bulletin continued and holy shit this sounds like it’s going to be pretty bad.

In plainer English this means that for a lot of people and infrastructure in parts of Georgia and Alabama that – although they’ve been hit with plenty of storms that came in through the Gulf – this is likely the first time they’re ever going to be hit with true hurricane-force winds.