Nik Venture

How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week? From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories.

Trump’s losing-est week?

My new column on federal judges pushing back, from tariffs to immigration to Harvard and the National Guard: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

FBI Targets Yet Another Trump Enemy Because He Made Trump Mad Donald Trump’s FBI searched the home of John Bolton, who became one of the president’s most prominent foes after leaving his first administration.

We did not put John Bolton’s name in the headline for a reason. It’s not about him, per se; it’s about the numerous people who Trump wants the government to destroy because they hurt Trump’s feelings

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Nicolais: Colorado Dems should not bring a butter knife to the redistricting battlefield President Trump continues to push for electoral advantages. Hesitation by Democrats in blue states like Colorado could help him in his cause

My column this week makes the case for Colorado (or any state) to join other blue states to combat red state gerrymandering.

My main takeaway? Be a part of the fight or be "complicit in the anti-democratic national outcome."

coloradosun.com/2025/08/24/r...

Texas last night. They locked a representative in the building, they arrested those who stood up for her.

We are here at the point in the fascist timeline where lawmakers are arrested, kidnapped, silenced, shot, threatened and abused. Yet there are still people who think it’s normal.

‘Fact-Check This Crap’: The 5 Juiciest Fox News Revelations in Smartmatic’s Newly-Unredacted Court Filing A slew of private text messages from current and former Fox News hosts were made public on Tuesday night after a judicial hearing officer unredacted parts of a motion filed by Smartmatic.

In today's least-shocking news that we all knew before, Fox staff and producers all along the election wasn't stolen in 2020 and lied for ratings.

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fac...

Yes, you can hear them all saying these things. Not a fantasy. It's what I grew up with.

It was what was always expected.

Not a fucking red carpet (and MAGA hangers-on w/knee pads like Monica Crowley. Sick)

We are in a sad state of affairs. Until the electorate comes out of its Fox & ilk stupor.

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

"Pretending that expressions of right-wing economic ideology are 'clinical reporting' is quite lucrative. In 2018, one of Axios' launch partners was Koch Industries, the conglomerate run by right-wing billionaire David Koch..."
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Analysis | Smartmatic should drop its case against Fox News given that many of the people it accuses of fraud were hired away to work for the federal government.

Puppets Who Kill on X: "Rocko's Telethon - #puppetswhokill #puppets https://t.co/1pVoPLCdux" / X Rocko's Telethon - #puppetswhokill #puppets https://t.co/1pVoPLCdux

The original bully puppet has always been Rocko
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My gut instinct is to say, wait until they find out that much inflation will come from 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, all so that money can be transferred 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 to the wealthiest top percentile, to ensure steady large return campaign donations . . . but, then again, can he abuse MAGA endlessly?

"twitter" . . . where am I? . . . what day is it? . . . probably that oldtimers disease I keep hearing about.

A black guy!!? How could JD stand being among such DEI wokeness. tsk, tsk. Clearly he must unqualified, I mean, just look at him. That's all you need to know. Right JD?

And if vacation is all they ever wanted, it would all come true.

(Hey, long-time fan, you liking my twitter witticism makes my day. I hope you rescue a dozen deserving Dalmatians today. That would be a perfect day too!)

If Lady Gaga joined with The Goo Goo Dolls they could call themselves The Goo Goo Gaga Dolls
. . . I'm just saying

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

In January 2021, Mnuchin and Pompeo discussed invoking section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment in light of Donald Trump’s obviously deranged mental state.

No doubt that still rankles Trump, and explains why both Mnuchin and Pompeo remain on Trump’s shit list.

A cutout of protesters in grayscale over a dark blue background, with the following text in white, all caps: (line 1; larger) ACTIVATE AND ENGAGE; and (line 2) THE TIME IS NOW.

A closeup of a polluted river filled with trash, in grayscale, with the following text in white, all caps: (line 1; larger) INFORM AND ACTIVATE; and (line 2) THE TIME IS NOW.

A cutout of three lab scientists looking at an iPad over a red background, with the following text in white, all caps: (line 1; larger) TEAM SCIENCE; and (line 2) THE TIME IS NOW.

A cutout of a side view of a bronze justice statue over a maroon background, with the following text in white, all caps: (line 1; larger) CALLING ON VALUES; and (line 2) THE TIME IS NOW.

4 new quick-guides to help you help your friends and fam STAND UP FOR SCIENCE and protect democracy

www.standupforscience.net/activate-eng...

www.standupforscience.net/inform-activ...

www.standupforscience.net/team-science

www.standupforscience.net/calling-values

@standupforscience.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Damage Report Elon Musk's Nightmare Comes TRUE As Shattering Research Unveiled

Another fail for hubris. His con is 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰 over.

Polls show him to be the most hated man in America.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMmt...

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that all these guys truly respect and care about women’s sports and female athletes, and totally aren’t just using them as a prop to stir up anger at trans people

Justice Dept. Subpoenas Office of Letitia James, Who Sued Trump for Fraud

Attorney General James took on Trump's fraud and the NRA's rampant corruption—and won both cases.

So it's little wonder that Trump's politicized DOJ is now coming after her.

The people of New York stand with their lawyer and champion.

Fuck yes.

This is the way.

We’ve never been closer to finding a potential cure for cancer than we were with mRNA.

So of course, RFK Jr. cancelled all government funding for mRNA.

God fucking damn it.

Right, I'm glad that Ghislaine Maxwell was put there so righteously . . . what's that? She got rewarded for agreeing to whitewash Trump from pedo ring associations with Jeffrey Epstein, and got sent to Club Fed? And most of the people at Alligator Alcatraz are desperate families. Oh, never mind.

How political attacks could crush the mRNA vaccine revolution Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.

Sadly prescient reporting from May on mRNA vaccines (a Nobel prize winning technology) being maligned by the administration.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This isn't justice. This is one monster helping out another.

As Mark would say: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!
Not for nothing, here is a classic Doonesbury from May 29, 1973, just over a year before Nixon, and all the president's men, went away. BTW John Mitchell was Nixon's "law & order" AG and spent 19 months in prison for multiple Watergate crimes.

‪@moderation.bsky.app‬ put a content warning on your reply. Is that stupid or what? Saying people need a hug because of what they lost in the floods warrants a content warning?

@moderation.bsky.app That's seriously messed up. I think there's still a few bugs in the moderation system.

YouTube video by Thunderf00t Rocket Man Musk: MEGA-BUSTED!

Few things are sweeter than a Thunderf00t take down of Musk. And he's done many.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71P...