What if swinging at the first pitch is the organization’s approach to a competitive at-bat?? #Padres

Jagger Haynes turned in a career-best outing, a bunch of rehabbers pitched well across the system, and the Storm edged closer to a playoff birth. That and plenty more from a busy in week in the Padres system in the Wrap-up: madfriars.com/2026/06/16/san…

Thank you for making this week so effin’ amazing! For embracing Anika, Loren so profoundly. Aimee Mann for joining us on Time Stand Still in tribute to Neil. To you, our fans, your steadfast support is what has made this a reality. Forever grateful! 📸: rosshalfin

Jesus Castro dominates for @Storm_Baseball, Ethan Salas has a solo act for @missionsmilb, and the ACL club takes advantage of a very ACL night. That and plenty more - including live coverage from two games - in the Daily: madfriars.com/2026/06/11/san…

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First pitch swinging is just giving the at-bat away! #analysis

See our page debunking many deniers’ lies. stopdenial.auschwitz.org In the case of KL Auschwitz, a surprisingly large number of such sources have survived, despite the SS’s attempts to destroy and burn all documentation before the final evacuation in January 1945. Moreover, the crimes committed in this camp were also testified by witnesses, who were far more numerous than the survivors of Treblinka, Sobibor or Belzec. As a result, the history of Auschwitz is among the best documented of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The primary sources of knowledge about the history of the Auschwitz camp are the accounts and testimonies of witnesses. The authors of these accounts were primarily: - Survivors of Auschwitz, - SS members of the camp staff, - residents of Oświęcim and surrounding villages (including members of the resistance movement), - civilian workers employed in the expansion of the camp and working alongside the prisoners on construction sites and in factories, chiefly in Upper Silesia. Among the testimonies written during the war, the following in particular should be mentioned: - the manuscripts of Sonderkommando prisoners, which they had hidden (buried) near the Birkenau crematoria, - the secret messages and reports written by resistance movement members and smuggled out of the camp, - correspondence illegally smuggled out of the camp to avoid SS censorship, - the reports of those who had escaped from the camp—both Poles and Jews. Of the key sets of records, the most important in confirming the existence and functioning of the gas chambers in Auschwitz include: - transport lists (Transportlisten) of Jews sent to Auschwitz from transit camps in various countries of Europe, sometimes containing last-minute deletions of individuals withdrawn from the transport and the inclusion of the names of those added to make up the transport quota; - collective lists of Jews from various transports who were given prisoner numbers (Zugangslisten Juden – nicht fotografiert); - similar lists of registered prisoners, including Jews as well as other deportees, prepared by members of the resistance movement (Liste der Männertransporte, corresponding lists for women, and separate lists of male and female Jews assigned numbers preceded by the letters A and B). The above sources indicate that from the commencement of regular selections of Jewish transports on the Auschwitz ramps, the number of deportees began to dramatically exceed, by several orders of magnitude, the number of prisoners registered in the camp. Moreover, there exist: - a few surviving reports on the results of selections on the Birkenau ramp after the arrival of transports, prepared by the KL Auschwitz Employment Department; - statistical summaries compiled at Bletchley Park based on SS radiograms intercepted and deciphered by British cryptologists during the war; - extensive files of the Central Construction Office of the SS and Police Auschwitz O/S containing information about the planning and progress of construction work, including the construction of crematoria and gas chambers; - files of the Camp Administration Department (Verwaltung), including certificates for purchase and delivery of Zyklon B; - files of the camp Employment Department (Arbeitseinsatz), including reports of the number of prisoners employed in the Sonderkommando; - photographs of the burning of corpses in incineration pits, taken by members of the resistance movement within the Sonderkommando; - photographs taken by the SS, showing the selection procedure on the Birkenau railway ramp, from the arrival of a transport of Jews to the place where the deportees waited to enter the gas chambers; - SS photographs showing the progress of work on the construction of the crematoria and gas chambers; - aerial photographs of Auschwitz and Birkenau taken by the pilots of Allied reconnaissance aeroplanes in 1944, showing the plumes of smoke rising from the incineration pyres; as well as many other documents containing information confirming the existence of gas chambers. Above all, the Museum grounds contain the ruins of the crematoria and gas chambers, which, despite having been blown up by the SS, still retain their clear functional layout. Moreover, Gas Chamber and Crematorium I building have survived in the Auschwitz I main camp.

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Where Saving Private Ryan happened today, and where 19 Bedford Boys died. It's getting dark now in Normandy. D Day, my favorite day in history, is drawing to a close. Please follow me on Substack. alexkershaw.substack.com/

Padres allegedly hit rock bottom & proceed to get shutout by the Mets. Don’t trade Ethan Salas for this team.

There are 40,000 German soldiers in the landing areas. 150,000 Allied ground troops are fast approaching. Not one German is aware of this right now. By the time the Battle of Normandy is over, 300,000 Germans will be casualties. The Longest Day is less than an hour away. See more at substack.com/@alexkershaw

At 01:55 hours on June 6, 1944, a massive strike wave of the US Eighth Air Force roared into the skies from bases across southern England, bound for German coastal defences and front-line troops in Normandy. This formidable operation involved 1,198 heavy bombers.

Jake Cunningham had so much fun with this first-inning homer that he did it again in the third. And the fifth. He's now second in the MWL with 13 homers on the year.

California! I’ll be celebrating the 55th Anniversary of “L.A. Woman” at @TheWhiskyAGoGo on Saturday, July 25th with Wild Night - The Music of Van Morrison! Join me as I perform the album from start to finish, along with all of your favorite @TheDoors classics.

Jhony Brito is almost certainly going to be optioned to El Paso when he has to be activated from the 60-Day IL tomorrow. It doesn't seem like there are other candidates to go to the 60-day, and the 40-player roster is currently full, so there's a move to come.

Padres Down on the Farm: June 4 (Karpathios homers in Missions win) Via @StatNerd_Base #Padres eastvillagetimes.com/pg7t

The gorgeous, haunting work of @outofedenwalk walking partners & documentary photographers Murat Yazar (@Niviskar) & Matthieu Chazal is being featured in a new exhibition in Turkey: 4rophotos.com

OH ROMEO! 💣 2-run homer puts us back on top in the 7th!

Turning 78 today with no thoughts of retiring! Happy birthday, Palomar Observatory!!! Just like every other night, tonight we will open the dome and point the @ztfsurvey camera towards the dark skies. Undoubtedly, the universe will treat you to a lovely fireworks show!