Andrew Gamble

Lawyer and aspiring medievalist researching laws surrounding cultural property and antiquities.

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

Finally getting around to displaying what I think to be an amazing leaf from an antiphonary. I discovered it at an estate sale in DC and thought it needed a new home. Still working to translate each side, and so far it’s been fun. #medievaltwitter #medieval #latin

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

@dougkammerer McLean Gardens, NW DC

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

@maustermuhle Hopefully this gets cleared up fast, but what a storm.

[Educational & Cultural Affairs—U.S. Dept. of State @ECAatState]

The @StateDept’s AFCP remains one of our most impactful tools for preserving the world’s heritage while strengthening key partnerships for the United States abroad. 🇺🇸🏛️🇳🇵

[Thomas Berry @Thomas_A_Berry]

I was surprised to learn today that former clerks collectively pay for a judge's portrait after his death. I'm happy to do it of course, but I had assumed that came out of a court's budget. Turns out there is a 2018 law forbidding taxpayer money being used for portraits!

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

Amazing work @FBIBoston and @FBI! The return of this urn is a positive step toward the continued progress in thwarting the trade in illicit art, artifacts/antiquities.

A good reminder, as always, that objects like these are part of our shared global heritage. #culturalheritage

[FBI Boston @FBIBoston]

📣#BREAKING: #FBI Boston has recovered a 17th century reliquary urn, carved and gilded in wood, believed to be one of 17 ecclesiastical artifacts stolen from the Church of San Michele Arcangelo di Cangiano sometime between 2012 and 2022.

The FBI's Art Crime Team orchestrated its return to its rightful home in the Italian Republic. To see more images of this priceless artifact and learn about its recovery, visit: https://t.co/wo1MPdPuKH

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

The President’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” cannot be excused away as an attempt to gain leverage in negotiations with Iran.

This type of rhetoric is an affront to the ideals our nation has sought to uphold and promote around the world for nearly 250 years. It undermines our long-standing role as a global beacon of freedom and directly endangers Americans both abroad and at home.

The oppressive, terror-spreading regime of the Islamic Republic must be distinguished from the people and the civilization of Iran. Everyone involved—especially the President and Iran’s leaders—must de-escalate their unprecedented saber-rattling before it is too late.

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

Had a great day in DC today! 🌸

Went to the cherry blossoms today around the tidal basin and down to the wharf, ending at the Jefferson. Even became a Bloomin’ Junior Ranger with the @NatlParkService.

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Atmospheric scientist here, again. Let's do the math.

Auto start-stop saves 3 billion gallons of fuel and prevents ~30 million tons of CO₂ annually. You just killed it.
Meanwhile, NOAA's own data shows U.S. climate disasters averaged $140 billion/year over the last decade. In 2024 alone: $182.7 billion in damages. 568 lives lost. 27 separate billion-dollar disasters. Since 1980: $2.9 trillion and nearly 17,000 dead.

The average time between billion-dollar disasters has gone from 82 days in the 1980s to 12 days in 2023-2024.

Oh, and this administration just shut down the NOAA database that tracked those costs. Can't have expensive disasters if you stop counting them.

"Making America Hot Again" is costing Americans $140 billion a year. That start-stop button you just bragged about killing? It was free.

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

@LAYS LaysSBLX

[Nadine Babu @NadineBabu]

Hold up. Did Bad Bunny just give a Grammy to Liam Ramos???

I thought this moment was so touching and meaningful, but if it's Liam...that times a million.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

[Nobel Peace Center @NobelPeaceOslo]

The #NobelPeacePrize medal.

It measures 6.6 cm in diameter, weighs 196 grams and is struck in gold. On its face, a portrait of Alfred Nobel and on its reverse, three naked men holding around each other’s shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design unchanged for 120 years.

Did you know that some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after the award was given? A well‑known case is Dmitry Muratov’s medal, which was auctioned for over USD 100 million to support refugees from the war in Ukraine.

And the medal displayed at the Nobel Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to Christian Lous Lange, Norway’s first Peace Prize laureate.

But one truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.”

A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

We need to get men off their phones and get them back to searching for peppermint and wrestling bumbles over the edge of cliffs.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The U.S. will allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the country. https://t.co/UxZ3Tu4OBV

[China News 中国新闻网 @Echinanews]

Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng (@AmbXieFeng), on behalf of the Chinese government, formally accepted a tiger-shaped plaque #artifact that was returned by a US private institution on Thursday, according to the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
At the handover ceremony, Xie expressed appreciation and sincere gratitude to the US institution for voluntarily returning the relic. He noted that the artifact's return allows its historical, artistic, and scientific value to be properly preserved, while also adding positive momentum to China-US cultural exchanges.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

@wvgovernor @SecKennedy Disappointing to see your continued push to gut vaccine laws and politicize public health.

Weakening immunization requirements and promoting 'religious exemptions' risks deadly outbreaks. West Virginians deserve science-based leadership, not performative stunts.

[Andrew Gamble @andrewgamble003]

@RepRileyMoore You may not like him, but at least he’s held a town hall and spent time in the district 🤷