“Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, via the HYLA brand, today announced that the Company and certain of its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Nikola has also filed a motion seeking authorization to pursue an auction and sale process under Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code,” says “Nikola” in a Wednesday press release celebrating their global leadership.

Nikola, founded by conservative Mormon entrepreneur Trevor Milton but no longer led by him because he’s doing four years in the joint for two counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud for lying to investors about the technology and how many preorders had been placed for the trucks, was once a “unicorn” in the space despite being stuck taking famed inventor Nikola Tesla’s first name since his last name was already taken, lol. They’re now the second American electric truck company born in the era of convicted felon President Trump’s “manufacturing is back” bullshit in his first term to turn out to be built on a foundation of lies after the Lordstown Motors failure.

Corrupt “social media” company Trump Media and Technology Group and marginally more legitimate right wing YouTube knockoff Rumble early Wednesday filed a federal civil complaint in Florida’s Middle District against Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes to stop his “ultra vires attempts to illegally censor American companies operating primarily on American soil.”

Now while the MAGA Reich, specifically Elon Musk, have had it out for De Moraes for months, mostly over the usual “censorship” circlejerk – Ketamine Brain screamed the jurist is an “evil dictator cosplaying as a judge,” accusing him of “trying to destroy democracy in Brazil” for banning Twitter in the country in August over right wing conspiracy bullshit and only lifting it in October after collecting a $5 million fine – the timing is extremely hard to ignore given what just happened to Trump’s ally, disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro, who now stands accused of plotting to assassinate De Moraes along with President Luiz Lula and other officials following his defeat in the 2022 election.

Like it was fucking hours later. Why this stupid lawsuit and not some kind of sanctions or tariffs against Brazil? And this lawsuit is stupid. How the fuck is a US federal court supposed to have jurisdiction over a foreign government’s legal system for issuing “sweeping orders to suspend multiple US-based accounts (‘Banned Accounts’) of a well-known politically outspoken user (‘Political Dissident A’), ensuring no person in the United States can see his content (‘Gag Orders’)”?

This is how they’re supposed to help Bolsonaro? (Assuming he’s “Dissident A”) And even if some MAGA judge does rule their court has jurisdiction over De Moraes, when is Musk going to sue the ChiComs for blocking Twitter to give political dissidents there access to “free speech”?

“Yum! Brands announced today its plans to designate two brand headquarters in the US, located in Plano, Texas, and Irvine, California, to foster greater collaboration among brands and employees. This strategic decision will involve relocating KFC US corporate office employees currently in Louisville, Kentucky, to the KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano, Texas. In addition, US-based remote employees will be asked to relocate to the campus where their work happens.”

“Yum! Brands and the KFC Foundation will maintain corporate offices in Louisville. Taco Bell and Habit Burger and Grill will remain headquartered in Irvine, California. The relocation of approximately 100 KFC US corporate roles will occur over the next six months, while the relocation of 90 remote positions will take place over the next 18 months. Throughout the process, employees will receive relocation and transition support,” says a Tuesday press release from KFC corporate parent Yum! Brands that, on top of officially de-Kentucky-fying Kentucky Fried Chicken, kind of scrambles that whole “SEE JOE ROGAN AND TESLA AND HP AND ORACLE MOVED TO TEXAS BECUZ CALIFORNIA IS TOO WOKE AND GAY LIBS, LOL” narrative the MAGA dipshits have been spewing for years.

Not much of a win for those dickheads when it’s one of the poorer, shittier Red States sending jobs to a richer, bigger one, especially when the same release seems to also include a vote of confidence in the Golden State. Yum! were sure to add some hollow paeans to continuing the Kentucky-ness of the brand, ending the release with “To commemorate its deep-rooted history in Kentucky, Yum! is strengthening its commitment to advancing higher education locally by providing a $1 million endowment to the College of Business at the University of Louisville [blah blah blah]. Additionally, KFC will continue its brand presence in Louisville with the ambition of building a first-of-its-kind flagship restaurant.” Maybe just build it instead of touting an “ambition” to do so, lol.

Responding as gently as he could to demented old man Trump’s lies that Ukraine started the war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday told reporters the simple truth that the fat fuck has been brainwashed by the Kremlin’s “disinformation space,” CNN reports.

“Unfortunately, President Trump – I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us – unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky said without elaborating further on Donald’s batshittery.

The white South Africans whom convicted felon President Trump and his Afrikaner boss, Elon Musk, believe are soon to be victims of a mass land appropriation program at the hands of the country’s Black leadership are about to go through some things with the fat bastard’s “reciprocal tariffs” program, the chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, tells Reuters.

“It is not clear whether the exporters are Black or white; we don’t record such data,” said Wandile Sihlobo, but only a tenth of output is from Black farmers. “The majority of white farmers likely have a significant exposure into the US market” he said, estimating it to be about $450 million a year.

Brazil’s prosecutor general on Tuesday filed charges against disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro over his failed attempts to remain in power following his humiliating October 2022 defeat to leftist President Luiz Lula, Bloomberg reports. Investigators had previously determined that the pro-Trump dictator had full knowledge of a post-election plot to assassinate Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes.

The decision to move forward with the case now falls on De Moraes. Lucky sons of bitches.

Yeah so this is where you’ll be able to point back to in a couple of days or weeks when there’s a whole flood of media reports and screenshots of Facebook posts and what not where you’ll see Social Security recipients freaking out because their payment didn’t come. A lot of them will say something along the lines of “@realdonaldTrump, I am a full-blown MAGA patriot, I voted for you three times and support you so much but I AM A REAL RECIPIENT! I am NOT one of the illegal scammers stealing from taxpayers! PLEASE tell your DOGE people to make an exception for ME!”

A semi-truck trailer crash on a snowy Oklahoma highway on Tuesday destroyed untold thousands of eggs bound for a Sam’s Club location in the area, the Oklahoman reports on what would never be newsworthy if not for the failures of the Trump Administration to fix the egg supply chain problem.

A Chinese communist military helicopter decided to dare you to making a stereotypical joke about a culture encouraging terrible drivers, flying within 10 ft of a Philippines plane in a disputed area of the South China sea, the AP reports on the kind of shit that was supposed to stop happening now that convicted felon President Trump has been returned to the White House.

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— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 18, 2025

Denise Cheung, the chief of the criminal division in the US Attorney’s office in DC abruptly resigned Tuesday morning in what the New York Times reports was over a refusal to “carry out a directive from the office’s Trump-appointed leadership,” with that “leadership” being MAGA dickhead currently acting US Attorney – and nominee for confirmation to the post – Ed Martin.

Just going to go ahead and speculate that whatever that order was that it’s considerably worse than the SDNY exodus from this whole shitshow with Eric Adams. That the Times doesn’t mention any similarly major, politically-charged cases currently ongoing in DC that the “directive” could’ve been aimed at would suggest that it’s not about purposely fucking off from an existing proceeding but creating a new one to weaponize the justice system against the Orange God Emperor’s enemies.

Or Elon Musk’s. Martin twice this month vowed fanatic loyalty to Ketamine Brain and to pursue charges for those who “doxxed” the incels on the “DOGE” team bricking the federal government.

“On Monday February 17, 2025 at 2135 hours Abington Police and multiple Fire Companies responded to a commercial building fire at SPS technologies, located at 301 Highland Ave Jenkintown. Witness statements indicated that there was an explosion within the building and flames could be seen inside the warehouse structure. The building was immediately evacuated, and all employees are accounted for. There were no reported injuries,” says the Abington, Pennsylvania Police Department in a press release on more chaos in America during the Trump Administration.

“The scene is still active, and all citizens are asked to avoid the area at this time. At the direction of the Abington Fire Marshal, Montgomery County Hazmat Team and the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management, the Abington School District, Jenkintown School District and all private and parochial schools will be closed on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Smoke and particulates from this fire is filtering across the area. For this reason, a shelter in place order has been initiated and is currently in effect until this incident is under control. Hazmat crews are continually monitoring air quality in the area and advised that any residence or business within a 1-mile radius of this location remain closed until further notice. Continue to monitor social media and news outlets for updates.”

What does the fire have to do with Trump? Not much if anything. But it just feels like things were better when Joe Biden was president, that major disasters like this just didn’t happen as often. Lots of people feel like things are spinning out of control and Trump is too old and weak to handle it.

Manhattan federal Judge Dale Ho on Tuesday ordered dipshit Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump Regime DOJ to explain what the hell’s going on, setting a status conference for 2 PM Wednesday.

“ORDER as to Eric Adams: The motion to dismiss states that ‘Defendant Eric Adams has consented in writing to this motion,’ but no such document has been provided to the Court. Defendant is therefore ORDERED to file his ‘consent in writing’ on the docket by 5:00 pm ET today. The parties are further ORDERED to appear before the Court for a conference on February 19, 2025, at 2:00 pm in Courtroom 318 of the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY. The parties shall be prepared to address, inter alia, the reasons for the Government’s motion, the scope and effect of Mayor Adams’s ‘consent in writing,’ ECF No. 122 at 1, and the procedure for resolution of the motion. SO ORDERED,” wrote Ho, evidently not a small amount pissed over the fuckery afoot.

In related news, hitting the docket on Tuesday is the February 3rd letter from Adams’s lawyers to scumbag Trump DOJ enforcer Emil Bove in which they first proposed the quid pro quo. “There is a reason that the Justice Department does not prosecute sitting presidents, and while a mayor is not a president, Mayor Adams is nonetheless the leader of this country’s largest city and needs to be an important partner to the President and his administration. An honest balancing of these concerns against the unsupported prosecution theories in this case militates strongly in favor of dismissal. A Justice Department driven purely by the rule of law never would have authorized this prosecution in the first place,” dishonest cocksucker defense counsel Alex Spiro wrote to Bove.

More related news: Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman on Monday sent an unsolicited letter to Judge Ho imploring him to reject the dismissal bid and instead appoint a special prosecutor to continue the case against Adams, citing some 1987 Louis Vuitton counterfeit case as precedent.

Italian-born Florida anti-vax freak Ivan Mariotti, whose previous claim to fame was getting arrested for impersonating a security guard after infiltrating a Taylor Swift concert at Hard Rock Stadium in October 2024, is in deeper shit this time, now being held by ICE after an early Sunday incident in which he fled a traffic stop on his scooter that had been initiated by a Miami-Dade County sheriff’s deputy, was chased on foot into the lobby of his condo building on Key Biscayne, and then proceeded to assault the cop and tried to steal his gun during the fight, Local10.com reports.

Mariotti, whose Facebook profile is almost entirely COVID conspiracy fan fiction – the lone exception apparently some shit about RFID chips being secretly implanted in people – faces charges of battery on an officer, depriving an officer of a means of protection, evidence tampering, and resisting arrest as well as the original traffic citations he had been pulled over for. “Jail records show he was behind bars at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $13,000 bond and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold,” says Local10’s article, but who knows what the next steps are on deportation when the asshole also faces six felonies. Probably has to do the time first.

More CorpMedia sob stories from fired federal workers.

Sorry, we voted to drain the swamp, so stand clear of the swamp for a while! If your services are truly needed, your position will come back. pic.twitter.com/ci11kjYD5S

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 18, 2025

This is just weird. Of course the idea is to tell MAGA assholes what to think, that it’s all just a corporate media propaganda op trying to make them feel angry for a Navy veteran now out of a job simply because she had transferred laterally at the wrong time. It’s just you’d think Breitbart maybe would try to be more subtle about it. The “we’re going to have to suck it up, it’s really going to get tough. They will tug at our emotions. Stand strong, America! It’s for the greater good,” line of defense needs better workshopping than this. At the very least don’t literally fucking say “sorry.”

An Argentinian federal judge on Monday opened an investigation into batshit libertarian President Javier Milei after receiving a complaint against the “mini-Trump” alleging a crypto “rug pull” in which he had posted a tweet promoting the $LIBRA coin causing its value to skyrocket only to delete it hours later which then, naturally, had the opposite effect, the Associated Press reports.

Following the complaint Milei tried to distance himself from the mess. “I have nothing to hide and I have no problem coming forward and showing my face,” the crazy asshole said Monday in an interview with the Todo Noticias channel. “Those who entered there voluntarily knew what they were getting into,” he added. “As volatility traders, they understood the risks involved.”

Maybe he’s got a point there, that crypto traders should be aware that the value of an imaginary fiat is based upon nothing other than the machinations of the nihilistic pieces of shit enriching themselves by fucking over investors. Guys like Milei, Donald Trump, Sam Bankrupt-Fried, etc.

In a statement dropping on Monday night, New York Gov Kathy Hochul said Tuesday’s the day she’ll make the decision on whether to remove Trump asset NYC Mayor Eric Adams from office.

“I recognize the immense responsibility I hold as governor and the constitutional powers granted to this office. In the 235 years of New York State history, these powers have never been utilized to remove a duly-elected mayor; overturning the will of the voters is a serious step that should not be taken lightly. That said, the alleged conduct at City Hall that has been reported over the past two weeks is troubling and cannot be ignored. Tomorrow, I have asked key leaders to meet me at my Manhattan office for a conversation about the path forward, with the goal of ensuring stability for the City of New York,” said Hochul in the very trial-balloon-y sounding statement

“Let me be clear: my most urgent concern is the well-being of my 8.3 million constituents who live in New York City. I will be monitoring this situation extraordinarily closely to ensure that New Yorkers are not being shortchanged by the current crisis in City government.”

Tonight, I’m announcing a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the US. This serves as a strong warning to criminal illegal aliens to not come to America. If… pic.twitter.com/VcVgJYfSKR

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 18, 2025

You hear that amigos? Leave NOW or you’ll be deported! She’s serious about this! You’ll be so sorry if you don’t go back to Mexico or the other countries that are next to Mexico! Pack your stuff and get out or you’re going to get kicked out! No more screwing around! GET OUT OR ELSE!

For the crime of telling a Vanity Fair reporter that Third Son Barron Trump is “sort of like an oddity on campus. He goes to class, he goes home” as she expressed sympathy for him being deprived of a more normal experience at the school, NYU College Republicans chapter President Kaya Walker was ceremoniously removed from her position by the organization’s national leadership on Monday.

Said the national orgnaization in a statement: “We have been made aware of a statement made by the NYU chapter President that does not align with the values and principles upheld by our organization. Though Vanity Fair and The Independent unfairly framed what was said, upon review, we still found it to be inappropriate. The NYU chapter President submitted her resignation last night.”

“We are collaborating closely with the NYU chapter to ensure a smooth transition in leadership. Our goal is to reaffirm CRA’s dedication to the ideals of the Republican Party and conservative movement in a manner that reflects honorably upon our organization and its mission,” the statement continued before going into some masturbatory self-congratulating about their support for the Orange God Emperor. The statement ended with this: “In response to these developments, CRA President Will Donahue is extending an invitation to join CRA to the President’s son. ‘Barron Trump represents the future of the conservative movement, and we would be honored to have him join College Republicans of America,’ Donahue said. ‘Strong leadership is built on resilience, courage, and the humility to rise above petty hostility – qualities that Barron has already demonstrated. We invite Barron to join us in shaping the future of our party.'” Ughhhhhhhh man that’s fucking pathetic.

Immediately before the “oddity” quote from Walker the VF reporter wrote “Barron’s classmates described his day-to-day comings and goings to me as limited. One remembered asking to play basketball with him. Barron seemed interested, he said, but he got the sense that, with plainclothes Secret Service officers hovering, ‘he wasn’t really allowed to do stuff.'” Can’t wait for the reporting about Donahue flying to NYC and throwing a big ceremony that Barron doesn’t even show up to.