Chad Westrom

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is guarded twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

It has been guarded, without interruption, since 1937.

In September of 2003, Hurricane Isabel reached Washington. The National Park Service, out of concern, gave the sentinels of the Old Guard permission to stand down for the storm.

They did not stand down.

The sergeant of the guard on duty that night refused the permission, calmly, and without further comment. He would later say, in an interview, only that permission was not the same as an order, and that in the absence of an order, the walk continues.

The walk continues.

Twenty-one steps. Turn. Face the tomb. Twenty-one seconds. Turn. Face the other way. Twenty-one seconds. Twenty-one steps.

The rain came sideways.

A tree fell in the cemetery a hundred yards to the east.

The wind lifted a portion of the roof from a nearby maintenance shed.

The sentinel did not break stride.

He walked. He turned. He walked.

At 3 a.m. the wind reached seventy miles per hour, and a sentinel weighing 175 pounds in soaked wool, carrying a rifle, and wearing sunglasses in the dark because the manual requires them, walked twenty-one steps, turned, and walked twenty-one steps back.

Nobody was watching him.

Nobody could have watched him. The cemetery had been closed. The public had been evacuated. The only witness was the storm.

He walked for six hours.

He was relieved at 6:12 a.m.

The tomb had not been left, at any point during the storm, uncovered.

There is no medal for this.

There is no ribbon. There is no citation. There is no commendation in his file.

The Old Guard does not require one.

The walk is the point.

The walk was the walk before there was a country to record it, and the walk will be the walk after everyone who remembers this night is gone.

Somewhere in America, at this moment, in whatever weather, a sentinel is walking twenty-one steps beside a marble slab, facing an unknown man whose name he does not know, for an oath he took to a country that will never see him take it.

That is what the promise looks like when nobody is watching.

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Me at 18:

If i make it home by 4, i can still wake up to work at 6

Me now:

We are not starting a movie, it's 8 PM

[Chad Westrom @cwestrom1]

@Matt_Pinner 67

[Chad Westrom @cwestrom1]

@Matt_Pinner 68

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Alarming Study Shows Average Somali High School Senior In Minnesota Committing Fraud At Just A 5th Grade Level https://t.co/623WtyfalX

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

I can’t believe this woman is a Supreme Court Justice.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: “We are now looking at the definition of a girl and we're saying only people who were girl-assigned at birth qualify."

No one is “assigned” anything at birth. At birth, gender/sex is VISIBLY recognizable by anatomy. It is not an assignation. It is a BIOLOGICAL REALIZATION.

Gender/sex is determined by biology, not personality choices. This isn’t complicated. This isn’t a choice, anymore than race or hair texture.

This WOMAN is a disgrace to SCOTUS.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

“Did you know that in 2008 more than 500,000 voters

— or nearly 19% of all voters in Minnesota —

registered on Election Day?

Did you know that former Senator Al Franken was elected by 312 votes?”

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

You want to know where the fraud is? Look at Lutheran Social Service (LSS).

LSS is a network of nonprofit social service organizations in the U.S. that provide government-funded and charitable services. Their “charity” begins with the money you earn through your hard work.

Their CEOs across different states make $300K to over $400K a year.

They are the ones resettling migrants and refugees to the states with the most generous welfare and social assistance programs.

Most LSS affiliates get:
‼️ 70–90% of their revenue from government sources
‼️ Funding from federal programs like HHS, DHS, HUD, Medicaid, and refugee programs
‼️ State and county contracts
‼️ Smaller amounts from donations and grants

-Minnesota affiliate reported ~$222.9 million in government fees and grants for 2024
- Illinois affiliate received ~$78 million in government grants in FY2024

These are the people responsible for placing migrants in your neighborhoods, using resources meant for your community.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Robin Williams explaining how golf was invented remains one of the greatest stand-up bits ever recorded.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

The congregation doesn't need your coffee joke.

They buried someone this week.

They're sitting in pews with divorce papers in their glovebox.
Kids who won't speak to them.
Test results they haven't opened.

They drove past three churches to hear you say something that costs you something.

So open the Book.

Forget the illustration you found on Google.
Skip the movie clip.
Kill the countdown timer on your outline.

Preach like a man possessed.
Preach like you'll answer for every wasted syllable.
Preach like their blood is on your hands.

Because it is.

The pulpit isn't a stage.

It's a witness stand...

[@amuse @amuse]

CORRUPTION: After $8B in fraud, Minnesotans are demanding Walz halt his new paid leave program before the Somalis loot it too. Launching another benefits pipeline without safeguards is reckless.

Minnesota’s incoming Paid Family & Medical Leave program faces backlash ahead of its January 1, 2026 launch. Gov. Tim Walz is being urged to suspend the rollout amid concerns it will be flooded with fraudulent Somali claims within days. The law provides up to 20 weeks of paid leave per year. With billions already lost to fraud in state programs, critics say Minnesota is inviting another disaster.

[American Sugar Alliance @SugarAlliance]

When it comes to sugar, wholesale prices have been falling for the past two years. It’s retail prices that are up.

Read more from Dr. Rob Johansson in @WSJ on why there’s not a supply problem, but instead a markup problem, and why offshoring our sugar supply would put American family farmers out of business and jeopardize our food security: https://t.co/65cchd2H97.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

People who died of hunger so far in 2025. ↳ 2,535,500

Deaths from GMO in the last 30 years. ↳ zero.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Organic agriculture is a $52 billion hoax.

https://t.co/zUxBjpD5Eu

[Des Moines Register @DMRegister]

Opinion: Global regulators agree: Glyphosate does not cause cancer | Opinion https://t.co/7r8n4zT3ln

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Warn Trump’s Unelected Shadow Government Is Dismantling Their Unelected Shadow Government https://t.co/ZD1Z8wOPYp

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

We've been sold a lie for decades:

"ORGANIC" and "NATURAL" are not only better for you-they're better for the planet.

Sounds great, right?

Except it's not true.

Here's the story of how these labels became some of the most successful marketing deceptions of our time 🧵:

[Jon Entine @JonEntine]

‘No link found between cancer and glyphosate’: Australian federal court voids all outstanding glyphosate cancer claims https://t.co/mLvVRuRyCT via @GeneticLiteracy