Athan Manuel

Liberal Greek-American Tar Heel enviro Nats fan, living in NW DC. Tweets are my own.

[Dina Titus @repdinatitus]

Ambassador, I’m sorry to say it appears you’ve developed a bit of clientitis.

Let me help you — Turkey cannot rejoin the F-35 program while it maintains Russian S-400s. If you or @POTUS try to circumvent that, Congress will stop you.

By the way, aren’t you in the Epstein Files?

[Dina Titus @repdinatitus]

Turkey's readmission into the F-35 program would be unacceptable and illegal. I pressed @SecRubio on this and underscored why Turkey cannot have F-35s.

[Athan Manuel @AthanDC]

No

[Fireside Yankees @FiresideYankees]

MOCK TRADE:

Yankees receive:

🔵SS CJ Abrams

Nationals receive:

🔴INF Anthony Volpe
🔴RHP Carlos Lagrange
🔴RHP Jack Cebert

WHO SAYS NO?👀

#Yankees

[MLB @MLB]

From the bleachers to the ballfield and everywhere in between …

Baseball is for everyone. #Pride

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

Trump’s endorsement of Paxton should put to rest the fantasy Trump cares about the GOP as a whole. What he cares more about is building a party that’s loyal to him, not building or sustaining a party that can win. There’s a HUGE difference which is why he regularly endorses the more flawed candidate as they’ll always be more loyal.

[Chelsea Janes @chelsea_janes]

Women were given the right to vote a few weeks later

[Athan Manuel @AthanDC]

As a Greek and an American I couldn’t be more embarrassed. THIS is American culture? And does that moron really think fast food is more delicious than Greek food?

[Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle @USAmbassadorGR]

An exciting day for Greece! It was my honor to participate in the ribbon cutting for a brand new McDonald’s at The Mall in Athens, the most technologically advanced McDonald’s in all of Europe! American businesses investing here create jobs and bring American culture – and delicious food – to the Greek people.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

I simply cannot believe I live in a timeline where journalists helped force the last president out of his reelection campaign for being too old, so the country put an unstable 79 year old who falls asleep constantly in office and none of the same journalists care at all.

[WTOP @WTOP]

The Washington Nationals will debut their new team dog, Natty, an 8-week-old golden retriever and Labrador retriever mix, this Friday at home against the Orioles.

https://t.co/L6hTRNpKeg

[Kathimerini English Edition @ekathimerini]

More than 80,000 attend Metallica concert https://t.co/rHebA5mtBs

[Barry Svrluga @barrysvrluga]

The Nationals played their 38th game yesterday. Blake Butera ran out his 32nd different lineup.

On a new approach from the new regime, a small indication of the organization's seismic shift.
https://t.co/flPKj5jPPb

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a monarch butterfly migration arriving in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. None of these butterflies has ever been here before.

Their great-great-grandmothers left this exact grove in March. By July those grandmothers were dead. The butterflies you're watching are four to five generations downstream, born somewhere between Texas and Ontario, and they just flew up to 3,000 miles to a tree none of their parents ever saw.

The brain doing the navigation is smaller than a grain of rice.

The mechanism is a sun compass time-compensated by a circadian clock running in the antennae. Cut the antennae and the monarch loses orientation within hours. The clock corrects for the sun's position drifting across the sky as the day moves. Add iron-bearing magnetite particles for magnetic field detection on cloudy days, and a 0.5 gram insect is running redundant inertial guidance.

The destination is more specific than the navigation.

They cluster on a few dozen oyamel fir groves in the Sierra Madre at 9,000 to 11,000 feet. The microclimate has to sit between 32 and 41°F. Below freezing kills them. Above 41°F burns the fat reserves they need to survive five months without feeding. The right band exists a few hundred meters thick on a few specific mountains. Outside it, the migration ends.

One generation each year is built differently from the rest. Summer monarchs live two to six weeks. The fall generation lives eight months. It postpones reproduction, fattens up, and carries the entire round trip in a single body.

The map is genetic. Nobody has fully decoded how.

A monarch hatched in a backyard in Toronto in September has never seen a mountain, never smelled a fir, never met an ancestor. It flies south for ten weeks, picks the right peak, and lands on the tree its bloodline has been returning to for tens of thousands of years.

The forest knows the families that come back.

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

We are announcing today that The American Revolution will stream for free in its entirety on all PBS platforms from May 25th through July 12. Hope you have a chance to watch, ideally with friends and family, as you think about our 250th anniversary this July 4th. https://t.co/c8fc6Sldj5