In 2012, Santa Cruz suffered a 4-1 defeat to Grêmio.
When the final whistle blew, there was just one Santa Cruz supporter left in the stands.
His name was Tiago Rech.
The image went viral around the world and earned him legendary status among football fans.
Years later, Santa Cruz offered him a job at the club. He worked his way through the ranks and, in 2018, was elected club president.
The story didn't end there.
In 2020, under Rech's presidency, Santa Cruz won the Rio Grande do Sul State Championship and qualified for the Copa do Brasil for the first time in the club's 107-year history.
One of the greatest stories of loyalty in football.
The best outcome for the Kremlin is a negotiated pause or ceasefire; US would lift some sanctions and allow them to use their shadow funds. This would allow Russia to regroup, retrain, and relaunch their invasion at a later date while diminishing / cooling off Ukraine’s forces.
Imagine surviving a hurricane only to learn Washington is withholding disaster assistance because your state refused to enforce Trump’s election conspiracies. Authoritarianism means your family’s safety becomes leverage for one man’s power.
A Ukrainian pilot writes:
"Today we flew over one of the villages in Kharkiv region. I looked down and saw an elderly woman. She stopped, looked up at the sky, and began making the sign of the cross for us...
I don't know if words can convey what I felt in that moment. Such a simple gesture, yet it carried so much heartfelt prayer, faith, care, and hope that, for an instant, everything around me seemed to stand still.
These are the people we keep going for. They are the ones who give us the strength every day not to give up and to keep flying, carrying out our mission."
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This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.
Andrea Pirlo e i «rubli insanguinati», è già polemica sul nuovo Ct: il contratto con lo sponsor in Russia e le accuse da Kiev - Il video https://t.co/s8Nc5ZQG6W
Every day, we receive reports from our Sumy region and other regions of Ukraine on the consequences of Russian strikes against ordinary agricultural enterprises and bread production facilities. This is Russia’s deliberate tactic of carrying out callous strikes. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to inform all our partners and representatives of international organizations about the consequences of Russia’s campaign of terror against our ports and agricultural sector.
We have seen this before, in 2022, when Russia’s aggression put food security in many parts of the world at risk – in the Middle East, North Africa, and many other regions of the world.
Now, because of Russia’s blockade of grain exports from the Black Sea region, the cost of living may once again come under pressure – serious pressure – in countries such as Egypt, Libya, and many others that depend on imports of grain and grain products. We are preparing to counter this, and we will coordinate as closely as possible with all our responsible partners who can help protect normal life from Russia.
From the evening address. (1/3)
Russia wants to receive another 30,000 troops from North Korea. Since June, preparations have been underway in Russia’s Voronezh region to receive them. North Korea is also preparing to transfer additional launchers for ballistic missiles to Russia.
This is a threat not only to Ukraine. Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons, and gain real combat experience in using them. All of this is a threat to everyone in Asia who is within range of North Korean missiles.
From the evening address. (2/3)
We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.
Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.
The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.
The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.
Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.
The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.
But sure. My paintings.
Oggi mia moglie ha finalmente toccato con mano la sua terra, la terra del Luhansk, che non vedeva da oltre 11 anni…ma c’è un dettaglio… e ve lo racconto:
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."
RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!
Putins styrkor försökte göra det som rysk doktrin alltid drömmer om: ett klassiskt pansargenombrott. Men verkligheten på slagfältet 2026 är brutal — och den är inte på Rysslands sida.
🔥 Vad som faktiskt hände
• Ryssland samlade dussintals stridsvagnar och pansarfordon nära Dobropillia i Donetsk. • Målet: slå hål i den ukrainska linjen med ren råstyrka. • Problemet: Ukraina såg allt — och var redo.
Phoenix‑drönarna från Pomsta‑brigaden gjorde det moderna kriget gör bäst: de förvandlade ryskt pansar till brinnande metall på några minuter.
Resultat:
9 stridsvagnar förstörda
2 pansarfordon utslagna
3 Grad‑raketkastare eliminerade
dussintals ryska soldater dödade
en offensiv som tog veckor att förbereda försvann på en eftermiddag
🔥 Varför det här är viktigt
Det här är inte bara ett lokalt misslyckande. Det är ett strategiskt mönster:
• Ryssland försöker bryta dödläget med pansar → Ukraina slår ut det med drönare. • Ryssland försöker massera fram styrka → Ukraina använder precision. • Ryssland förlorar 5 000–6 000 soldater i veckan (Rubio, US State Dept).
Det är en armé som bränner manskap och materiel snabbare än de hinner ersätta det.
🎯 Slutsats
Putins pansaroffensiv var inte bara ett misslyckande. Den var ett bevis på att Ryssland inte längre kan genomföra klassiska genombrott i modern drönarkrigföring.
#Ukraina #Ryssland #Donetsk #Drönarkrig #Geopolitik 🇸🇪
Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.
Ladies & Gentlemen;
Please meet the President of the United States:
Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.
Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.
34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying.
91 criminal charges.
Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.
6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.
5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.
4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.
2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.
2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.
1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.
Even his charity was a grift.
Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.
Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second.
A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.
Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.
Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.
Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.
First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.
Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.
Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.
Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.
Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.
Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.
Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.
Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back.
Efficient, if your goal is chaos.
Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.
At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.
His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.
Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.
Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.
His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.
You’re paying for this. Not China. You.
Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.
None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.
It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.
So, the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out. VIA~ Debrina Elkins
“If I go, Iran will fall into ruins, and if Iran falls, the Middle East follows. And if the Middle East is in ruins, great terror will reign over the world."
- The Shah of Iran
Look at the world today and tell me he wasn't right about everything.
Absolute masterpiece from the Ukrainian SBU.
russians in occupied Crimea bought fake fuel QR codes.
The money ended up funding Ukraine's 110th Mechanized Brigade.
Poetic justice.
"Putin didn't create Russian apathy, but he perfected it. A society that stops caring about the truth eventually loses its humanity"
- Garry Kasparov
Very well said and respect to this man. His views accurately reflect the current situation.
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