Brent Scales

Cal Raleigh said he didn’t want to answer anymore questions after assuring reporters that he and Randy Arozarena have a great relationship “I hate that this is a thing. There’s no beef. He’s my brother.”

He's wearing a Front Toward Enemy shirt; Team USA saluting each other in the outfield; they know they haven't been drafted right?

Your move, @bdherzinger.bsky.social

John was the first person to suggest I write a book about Operation Anaconda, while we were both reporting from Bagram in March/April 2002. I didn't know him well, but he was an extraordinarily colorful character. RIP.

Hulu's "Paradise" Splits Its Focus And Gets More Frustratingly Unhinged In Season 2 There are a few pulpy delights here and there, but this particular apocalypse moves a bit too slowly.

Difficult splitting w/ @clintworthing.bsky.social , but it’s been an entertaining 5 episodes of “Paradise” S2. With exception of that One Great Episode, S1 was a soapy, overwrought mess. S2 has been twisty, if at times ham-handed, fun. Via @ebertvoices.bsky.social www.rogerebert.com/streaming/pa...

That exhibit goes hard.

Pani Natalia, 70 evacuated her husband in a wheelchair from the killzone.

They walked 13km (!) until they got to the Ukrainian defenders on the outskirts of Kostiantynivka.

"We've been together for 51yrs. I will never leave him".

Impossible to watch this w/o tears.

Video by Vadym Heiko.

“That’s twelve wrecked homes. The doctor and I think in terms of human suffering, not statistics.”

LED balloon!

Tremendous work by the CBS Sports editor who did this

Everyone will be quick to point out how Vietnam ended, but my favorite part of this is about how our military is somehow “leashed” under Pete Hegseth. Which just goes to show how there will always be some idiot finance bro in NYC claiming we’re fighting wars with one hand tied behind our backs.

Character mentions great generals in history, including the fictional Ender Wiggin.

Recently, I’ve picked up a couple of fun reads. Here, Pierce Brown adds a nice touch in “Red Rising.” Flawed but very enjoyable.

He doin allll right

This feels like a whole @autonocast.bsky.social episode (minus the usual sparring) succinctly condensed.

How Hegseth Came to See Moral Purpose in War as Weakness

“There’s always someone who thinks that if only we were crueler, if only we’d killed another million Vietnamese, then we would have won this war.” - @philklay.bsky.social

@gregjaffe.bsky.social on Hegseth then and now via @nytimes.com 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

I want to bury “lethal” and “lethality” in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone never to be exhumed.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."

Perspective: The National School Lunch Program feeds 30M kids a day at a cost of ~$16B per year.

At ~$2B a day, 8 days of war of war with Iran feeds 30M kids lunch for a year.

No argument here.

I’m just glad there is room in this world for Keaton Batman and Bale Batman.

tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

a football player with the number 7 on his jersey is standing next to another player with the number 5 on his jersey . Alt: a football player with the number 7 on his jersey is standing next to another player with the number 5 on his jersey .

I thought the tie breaker would just be a home run derby or something.

Cannot believe I am watching Italy-Mexico baseball because the Americans didn’t bother to read the rules of the tournament

Send samples, please.

Giuliani handled the cross-examination. It was a chance to redeem himself after his underwhelming opening, and to confront the corrupt big-city powerbroker directly, in front of a courtroom filled with members of the media. He started with the parking violations bureau scheme, but quickly moved on to grill Friedman about other shady deals he'd put together over the years. Wayne Barrett had written about an especially egregious one in the Voice: When Friedman was serving as a deputy mayor to Koch's predecessor, Abe Beame, he had delivered an enormous tax abatement to a young real estate developer named Donald Trump only days before Friedman left his job with the city to go work for Trump's lawyer, Roy Cohn. "Now, isn't it a fact that in your last week to ten days in office, you signed for the very profitable deals with one of Roy Cohn's major clients, Donald Trump-multimillion-dollar deals?" Giuliani asked Friedman. "You signed while you were deputy mayor, and you were going to his law firm a couple of days, if not a week later?"

reading “Gods of New York” about NYC in the 80s and sometimes you gotta just laugh at the screenwriters of history to stop from screaming

All bogs are good bogs.

“Shaheds are small, slow cruise missiles.” Your fingerprints are noted.

Iran’s Cheap, Plentiful Weaponry Puts US Military Under Unprecedented Strain As the conflict extends towards a third week, an arsenal of attack drones and ballistic missiles has helped make Tehran unlike any adversary the US has faced.

a free link about the state of the war, for you, the people

(bluf: this really is a war unlike any the u.s. has fought before, and it shows) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Big stuck boat week was so much more fun than Strait of Hormuz week

Worth it right now, no doubt.

a man in a suit and tie is holding his head with his hands . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is holding his head with his hands .

But playing the Wiz so 98% of us can’t see it.