StephStags

StephStags

@stephstags.bsky.social

A #NAFO & #Fella circa 2022. History and Politics Junky Who Loves Fiona the Hippo, THE Ohio State Buckeyes, NAFO Fellas, and Food ✌🏻

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Ukrainian publishing house KSD has released video showing the destruction of its warehouse after a Russian attack on October 27. ​According to KSD, approximately 300,000 books were housed at the site. The extent of the salvagable stock is still unknown, as heavy smoke damaged

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Start deporting the right people.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Bolsonaro ignored a court order to relinquish his passport and is under criminal investigation for money laundering. I thought this administration was *against* letting criminals into the country. Oh, wait . . . not if they are corrupt, election-denying fascists like the man in the Oval Office.

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A Brazilian judge has ordered an investigation into a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance, saying it may have aided right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election. trib.al/V6djsyD

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Only days ahead of historic elections in Serbia, CPAC announces its first Balkans event, centering the country’s Beijing and Moscow backed strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic who has spent much of the past two years repressing peaceful anti-government protests.

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A Russian military satellite has pulled up alongside a commercial radar satellite and is staying about 5 km away. Trackers say this kind of approach, without the other owner’s OK, hasn’t been seen before in low orbit. defence-blog.com/russian-sate...

defence-blog.comRussian satellite shadows radar sat used by UkraineA Russian military satellite has maneuvered to within about 5 km (3 miles) of a commercial radar imaging satellite owned by ICEYE and appears to be holding position there, in what independent tracker ...

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It is a mystery to me why some people dubbed Marco Rubio as the one sane, thoughtful and reasonable person in the Trump admin despite not a shred of demonstrable objective evidence to support that position since the day he has been in office.

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75k ton tanker MYRA flying false flag Cameroon is heading out after a long loading Ust-Luga, Russia. Flying a false flag she is up for grabs. Any navy may stop and ascertain her status anywhere on the worlds oceans. She is just one of many slipping trough.

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It’s not just that GOP Senator Ron Johnson is aping Russian propaganda, which is quite bad on its own, but that he’s aping absurd Russian propaganda that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny, all to justify blatantly illegal aggression and mass killing, against a democratic US partner no less.

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In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

propublica.orgTrump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records RevealThe Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

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This.

Mickey Kuhns@mickeykuhns.bsky.social

READ THIS: The man who was the commanding general of Fort Hood when Nidal Hasan went on his shooting rampage, and who signed the actual death warrant authorizing Hasan's execution, is absolutely opposed to televising the firing squad. He speaks eloquently for himself here.

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Zacharia: "I am looking forward to walking in & working for President Trump. This job is not about me, it's about him... his policies are the most effective, most exciting. He's the most energetic, intense president we've ever seen. When I was there yesterday he showed me where the ballroom will be"

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Is that the Jacuzzi Bath Remodel lady?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"

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Far-right nationalist Jake Lang, who has made antisemitic remarks and performed a Nazi salute, and a group chant in support of Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers: “Mike Rogers for Senate!”

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Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.

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Russian-born American businessman Konstantin Sokolov gave $11M to MAGA Inc. and donated to Trump’s ballroom. He was recently tapped to lead Trump’s $201M TRIPP+ investment fund. @luchkov.bsky.social and I dug into his past and found that his former partner worked for Oleg Deripaska.

maligninfluenceoperations.substack.comInside Trump Donor Konstantin Sokolov’s Business Ties to RussiaThis investigation is part of an ongoing examination of Konstantin Sokolov’s network.

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Trump's human binky made the trip to Alabama with him #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/Getty)

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Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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The head of the OIG for the Federal Housing Finance Agency is accusing the agency of an “unreasonable refusal to provide necessary resources” to conduct oversight over financial institutions. https://www.washingtonsun.com/housing/housing-finance-watchdog-funding-cuts

washingtonsun.comHousing Finance Watchdog Says Funding Cuts Will Paralyze Its WorkThe cuts, amounting to $35 million in funding, were announced by the agency earlier this week.

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Q: You described the Iranians you're dealing with as 'crazy.' How do you get a deal done with the counterparts are crazy and irrational? TRUMP: Maybe you blow them up. Maybe you blow them up. We have to make that decision. We blow them up. The time is coming.

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"ICE spends about $222 a day to detain each person in custody — much more than it costs to ... supervise them, or to release them. Yet reports abound of abuse and cruelty, inedible food, and medical neglect in ICE detention[.]"

prisonpolicy.orgThe federal system: A patchwork of agencies rapidly expanding federal surveillance and punishmentBecause it is so fragmented, the federal system can be particularly hard to understand, which only makes it harder to change effectively through policy. We ...
Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org

While Americans struggle to buy groceries, ICE is burning through nearly $14,430,000 per day on the detention of 65,000 people.

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Here’s what’s happening: they are using religious faith in a very similar way to how Putin uses the Russian Orthodox Church. In their hands it is an instrument of political power, wielded to help keep people in line.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"

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The daily grind begins again. Trying to alert the world to the crimes of an aggressor, terrorist nation in the hope the world can ensure justice and stabilise again. Even the dumbest or most ardent Russophile must now realise Putin leads a Terrorist State. Day 1679 of his war.