Buddy Stone
@buddystone.bsky.social
The world knows he's a fascist. Resistance is Not Futile, it's Mandatory. Impeach. Convict. Remove. Support a Free and Skeptical Press. U.S. Navy Veteran #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
At 5:15 pm on Aug, 5, 1945, in Idaho, people were peacefully going about their day, unaware of the horror unleashed on the other side of the world. At that very same time, it was Aug. 6 in Hiroshima, Japan. A B-29 named the Enola Gay had just dropped an atomic bomb instantly killing 80,000 people.
#ICE awarded open-ended skip-tracing contracts to 13 private companies, potentially worth $1.2 billion. The companies are expected to send ICE photos and documents confirming where a person lives or works, and can earn bonuses based on the number of people found. www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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Manguiri Contracting, a company that primarily does trash collection, debris removal, and HVAC repairs, landed three contracts for fountain repairs and marble repaving, worth a total of about $6.5 million. Many contracts were awarded without a full and open competition process.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h agoSo you can’t afford groceries, gas, healthcare, utilities, or your mortgage. But hey, I got gold horses.
Ask: Create a Fox lede as if Schumer was missing instead of McConnell. Gemini: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has completely vanished for 52 consecutive days, fueling intense speculation over his whereabouts. His absence is sparking urgent demands from lawmakers for immediate transparency.
Q: Considering Trump's behavior regarding "checks and balances, independent courts, a free press, and regular elections," are his actions similar to Putin's? Gemini: Yes, Donald Trump’s actions and rhetoric follow the same core strategies Putin used to consolidate power.
The story is from eight years ago, but still an incredible story of survival.
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15h agoIndonesian teen slept in his fishing trap when it broke loose and swept him out to sea. He survived 49 days on raw fish and rainwater wrung from his soaked clothes until a cargo ship spotted him.
Just so you know. . . The #Epstein Files Transparency Act Nov. 19, 2025: signed into law. Dec. 19, 2025: statutory compliance deadline. Aug. 5, 2026: 229 days w/out compliance with the law.
Exactly 52 days (1 month/22 days) have passed since Mitch McConnell has been seen alive in public on June 14, 2026. June: 16 days missing July: 31 days missing Aug: 5 days missing and counting
Buddy Stone@buddystone.bsky.social · 2d ago51 days have passed since Mitch McConnell was seen alive in public on June 14, 2026. 1 month and 21 days 7 weeks and 2 days
Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure requiring state Supreme Court justices to be elected instead of appointed by the governor, another setback for Republican lawmakers trying to overturn the ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion.
Global warming exposes bones of extinct mammals and sunken Nazi warships www.cbsnews.com/news/danube-...
As the Danube River dries up, World War II shipwrecks and mammoth bones come into view
Water levels on the Danube River have dropped so low that dozens of World War II German battleships – and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view.
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Every fucking day with this miserable piece of shit is torture. We all see the abyss he's pushing us towards. We have the means to stop this stupid, worthless fuck, but absolutely nobody is ending this crime spree. He owns Congress, the Supreme Court, Justice Department. And his own secret police.
America's fate. . . Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (Bankrupt 1992): The building fell into severe structural disrepair and was imploded with dynamite on February 17, 2021.
"At the national level, there really are no good Republicans... Here's the reality, the modern Republican Party is Donald Trump's party... but it's not just Trump, the whole party is rotten." Hayes nailed it.
All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2d ago“Tillis and Cornyn caved even though they have literally nothing to lose,” says Chris Hayes. “At the national level, there really are no ‘good’ Republicans under Donald Trump.”
What John Cornyn and Thom Tillis did was entirely predictable.
Proof we're stuck in a simulation. The programmer needs his ass kicked.
"Where's my Roy Cohn?" - Trump (March 2017) Oval Office. He's here. His name is Todd Blanche.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."
We are witnessing the systematic destruction of American democracy and the justice system by those who swore to defend it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
“The missiles are principally the Army's surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The U.S. has used "virtually all" of these weapons, according to two of the sources.”
51 days have passed since Mitch McConnell was seen alive in public on June 14, 2026. 1 month and 21 days 7 weeks and 2 days
Buddy Stone@buddystone.bsky.social · 3d agoExactly 50 days have passed since Mitch McConnell was seen alive in public on June 14, 2026. 1 month and 20 days 7 weeks and 1 day
"For the Yurok Tribe, removing the dams was only the first step in bringing the Klamath River back to life... The goal was to rebuild the river's natural ecosystem using vegetation that had evolved in the region over thousands of years." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/afte...
After America's largest dam removal, the Yurok Tribe is bringing an entire river back to life by planting millions of native seeds
The removal of four ageing hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River marked a historic moment for conservation in the United States, reopening hundreds of miles of waterways that had been blocked for ...
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Come on Texans elect Talarico, Hinojosa, and Goodwin! Elect Texans that care about Texas and Texans
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d agoJames Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
Buried lede: "Another provision of the deal granted Mr. Trump, his two older sons, the Trump Organization and affiliated entities sweeping immunity from audits of tax returns." Unchecked Financial Records Immunity from Penalties Shield Against Discovery Unprecedented Privilege Erosion Public Trust
The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121@fightingliberal.bsky.social · 2d agoCornyn, Tillis back Blanche for attorney general after deal on DOJ fund GOP Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina formally announced their support on Monday for Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general. ...
"... having my DNA taken for peacefully protesting was unsettling and deeply un-American. My charges were thrown out, but my private biological information is sitting in a lab somewhere. My family members never even went to a protest, but their biological profile is now government property too."
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d ago
Idaho Weather Watchers (FB) posted these overhead shots of the Tartar Fire running towards Weiser Saturday night. #IdahoFire
The last fortune cookie 🥠 reads: "This year will be full of surprises." I hate surprises. ☕
Exactly 50 days have passed since Mitch McConnell was seen alive in public on June 14, 2026. 1 month and 20 days 7 weeks and 1 day
