Wesley Fenderson

HBCU 👨🏾‍🎓🟣 Ω man ⚡️🟡 LA Native🌴

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Roofers get into a fight while working on a job, fall off the roof, and continue fighting.

"The white folks are gonna call the cops if you guys don't calm the f*ck down..." one man was heard saying in Spanish.

Remarkable camera work here.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of its ability to develop into an embryo.

In other words, life begins with a flash of light.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Jupiter, high on caffeine, sleep deprived, and doing its best to take care of 115 moons.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Just in: The Los Angeles Lakers are trading Deandre Ayton to the Washington Wizards for Jaden Hardy and two Wizards second-round picks in 2031 and 2032, sources tell ESPN.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A hidden side of our planet that most people never truly see: the vast, endless Pacific Ocean.Covering nearly one-third of Earth’s surface, the Pacific is so immense that it could swallow all the world’s continents and still have room to spare. It stretches from the Arctic to Antarctica and from Asia to the Americas — an endless blue frontier that remains one of the most mysterious and powerful places on our planet.Beneath its surface lies a world of hidden volcanoes, deep trenches plunging 11 kilometers into darkness, thriving coral kingdoms, and creatures found nowhere else on Earth. Yet for most of us, it’s just “that big ocean on the map.”Time to give this magnificent giant the attention it deserves.

[USC Women's Basketball @USCWBB]

Nothing like a Filthy Friday to get the holiday weekend started 😈💪

[OLDSKOOLBBALL @oldskoolbballx]

Michael Jordan said, “The stats that matter to me are games we win and rings we collect.

If I played for stats, I’d still be chasing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s scoring record. That doesn’t drive me. It’s all about winning championships and winning.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

We just saw the exact moment a star exploded for the first time ever.

Astronomers have achieved a rare feat: imaging the exact moment a massive star detonated—and the explosion was anything but spherical.

SN 2024ggi, a supernova located 22 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 3621, was detected a mere 26 hours after ignition. This extraordinarily early discovery allowed researchers to train the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile on the event while it was still in its infancy.

Using the technique of spectropolarimetry—which analyzes the polarization of light to reveal geometric structure—the team uncovered a surprising truth: the expanding shockwave was distinctly aspherical, elongated into an “olive” or prolate shape along one primary axis.

This asymmetry means the catastrophic rebound following the star’s core collapse did not propagate uniformly in all directions, directly contradicting the long-standing assumption that the deepest layers of a core-collapse supernova explode spherically.

The progenitor was a red supergiant 12–15 times more massive than the Sun that had exhausted its nuclear fuel, triggering gravitational collapse of its iron core. In most supernovae, the initial shape of this breakout is quickly obscured as the blast wave slams into the star’s outer envelope. Here, however, astronomers captured polarized light signatures of the still-unobscured ejecta, freezing the explosion’s geometry in time.

The discovery carries far-reaching consequences. It strongly suggests that asymmetry is common, if not universal, in the earliest phases of massive-star deaths. Current theoretical models, which often assume spherical symmetry at the core, will need significant revision. Moreover, these distorted explosions could help explain observed peculiarities in supernova remnants, the production of gamma-ray bursts, and the kicking of neutron stars and black holes to high speeds at birth.

By catching a star in the act of dying asymmetrically, SN 2024ggi has given us a vivid glimpse into the violent, chaotic physics that govern the final heartbeat of the universe’s most massive stars.

[🎞️ Artist’s animation of a supernova explosion]

[Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection. ESO, 2025]

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨JUST IN: NASA released a new Mars image showing real clouds 250 million miles away. These include rare iridescent clouds seen for the first time on another planet.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

[USC Women's Basketball @USCWBB]

SARA OKEKE IS HOME 🏡✌️

[Dodgers Nation @DodgersNation]

Hundreds of fans have lined up outside of Dodger Stadium already ahead of One Piece Night 🤯

First pitch is still over 5 hours away.

The first 52,000 fans in attendance will receive the special straw hat and trading card.

[Trojan Football ✌️ ᶠᵃⁿ @TrojanFBx]

58 days until USC football is back! ⚔️

When freshman Reggie Bush broke loose for a 5️⃣8️⃣-yard touchdown run against Notre Dame in South Bend. Bush finished with 89 rushing yards on just six carries as USC rolled the Fighting Irish 45–14. ✌️

[Lakers All Day Everyday @LADEig]

The Snowtime Lakers 😭😭😭

[Trojan Football ✌️ ᶠᵃⁿ @TrojanFBx]

USC WR Terrell Anderson spoke highly of QB Jayden Maiava:

“That boy Jayden, he’s really a pro quarterback”

[ABC News @ABC]

HAPPENING NOW: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a flag on top of its spire.

The unidentified people appear to be wearing masks.

ABC News' Aaron Katersky reports. https://t.co/UXGzh22MoB

[Ballislife.com @Ballislife]

"Where the hell do the Lakers think they are going with a bunch of white dudes? Your top 3 players are white dudes! This ain’t golf or baseball. It ain’t even soccer... Pelinka has made this white dude central. No wonder LeBron walked out the door" - SAS

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

The torch has been passed in Los Angeles 🔥

The Lakers have always been defined by their superstars.

For decades, Kobe Bryant carried the franchise and defined a generation.

Then, LeBron James arrived to restore greatness and bring championship glory back to LA.

Now, a brand new chapter has officially begun.

The keys to LA have been handed over to Luka Doncic.

With LeBron moving on, Luka is now tasked with carrying the immense weight of one of the most iconic franchises in basketball.

The mission is clear: put the team on his back and lead the Lakers back to the promised land to hang another banner in the rafters.

Welcome to the Luka era in Los Angeles 😤