Brian Belensky

Hiker, Numismatist, Foodie

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

EXCLUSIVE

THE HUMAN SPRINTER

First known pictures of NATALIE HARP chasing after Donald Trump's golf cart in Scotland

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

OMG I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY RIGHT NOW!!!

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

It seems that Steven Seagal, a washed-up action star and devoted Putin bootlicker, has finally been abandoned by the Kremlin.

After selling his $1,3 million house in Moscow, Russia's Federal Tax Service blocked access to his bank account, potentially confiscating his wealth.

Prostituting yourself for an authoritarian empire never ends well.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

They’ll find Jimmy Hoffa before they find Chuck Cunningham.

[Amy @20th_Centurygal]

On this day in 1952, Big Mama Thornton recorded the original version of "Hound Dog", years before Elvis ever touched it.
The song was actually written specifically for her, and she absolutely killed the vocals. It ended up sitting at #1 on the R&B charts for 7 straight weeks.🎶

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Based on his long expertise with ship systems

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

nagging feeling that Hieronymus Bosch has already illustrated something like this, more artfully.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The People own the White House; Congress is the landlord; each President is a tenant — and like any tenant can’t make any unauthorized major renovations.

Pretty obvious stuff.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Imagine if your dad picked his job over you.

@berniemoreno is a despicable man

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

These “proof of life” images are getting more believable.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Earl Weaver had a cigarette pouch sewn into his jersey. This was not a man who showed up at the ballpark to fucking lose.

[Michael Linden @MichaelSLinden]

These clips of Elon really give you insight into one of the reasons why DOGE was such a spectacular failure: Huge arrogance, complete rejection of anything that challenges his perspective or priors, and total belief in his own expertise despite being obviously wrong about stuff.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

Syrskyi is out. Drapatyi is in. The General Staff faces an overhaul.

Tonight you will hear that Zelensky ‘caved.’ That the street now runs the war. That changing commanders mid-war is chaos.

I see the opposite — and I wrote it this morning: a leader who can be argued back into the right position by his own citizens is not weak. He is governed.

But don’t miss the deeper event. This was never about two men. It was a referendum on military doctrine — the Soviet inheritance of centralized command versus the war Ukraine actually proved it could win: software, iteration, initiative at the edge.

The old doctrine just lost its chief defender.

And look at who won. Drapatyi is the general who once offered his resignation because a Russian strike killed his recruits — he claimed responsibility for deaths he did not cause. In Moscow, generals collect medals for deaths they did cause.

That is the difference between the two armies. Tonight it became the difference between the two futures.

Fedorov’s return is still unresolved. The doctrine question no longer is.

Six days of protest. Zero broken windows. One corrected government.

Democracies argue. That is not their weakness. It is their weapons system.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, the ability to unite in a dark hour, take matters into our own hands, go out into the streets, and speak out against those in power has more than once saved our people when they stood on the brink of destruction.

Today, the fact that Ukraine remains a democracy despite everything has finally placed its best and most decent battlefield general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, at the head of its armed forces in this terrible war—a man supported almost unanimously by both the people and the army.

This is a great victory, one of the very many hard-won steps toward the light amid the darkness that have already been taken, with many more still ahead.

Today, the entire free world has something to celebrate.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"There were around 600 major-league baseball players when Willie Stargell and I played.
Willie Stargell was the only person who was liked by the other 599 players.
Not one person ever disliked Willie.
Some disliked me, or Pete Rose or other players, but not Willie."
Joe Morgan.
"Mr. Stargell intimidated pitchers as he set up at the plate with the distinctive pinwheel twirl of his bat, that kept time with the pitchers' motion.
Some of the 475 home runs he hit are among the longest in the game, including two shots that cleared Dodger Stadium and balls hit out of the old Forbes Field in Pittsburgh."
The Washington Post.
"If Willie asked us to jump off the Fort Pitt Bridge, we would ask him what kind of dive he wanted.
That's how much respect we have for the man."
Al Oliver.
Nine different players in Major League history have hit one home run over the roof at Forbes Field......
Willie Stargell did it SEVEN times.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Where is Susan Collins at today after the ICE shooting in Maine? Time to spin the wheel for her talking point.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Just sent out this post. The Ankara Summit was, contrary to the reports, the worst NATO summit in history. It was so bad there might not be another while Trump is president. Here are the reasons why, and it is not pretty.

[Mike Bones @mrmikebones]

Formed in 1989, Dread Zeppelin was an American rock band that famously performed Led Zeppelin songs reimagined in a reggae style, fronted by a Las Vegas-era Elvis Presley impersonator named Tortelvis.

[Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @MoltisantiThots]

The red card guy didn't even score. We paid off Fifa for nothin', T.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1963, Delia Derbyshire hand built the Doctor Who theme using only tape loops, oscillators, filters, and razor blades, long before techno existed.

[📽️ BBC Archive]