Lawrence Charters 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Penguin advocate. Puffin wrangler. Knows way too much about war crimes and computer networks. Writer. Photographer. Computer pert (formerly an ex-pert).

[Lawrence Charters 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @lcharters]

A memorial for Dr. Kathleen Charters will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Sequim, Washington, on April 26, 2025, at 1 p.m. Instead of flowers, please consider a donation to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, https://t.co/oAs2KkwTSW

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

LIKE this tweet if you agree Donald Trump is a bumbling fool, a GLOBAL EMBARRASSMENT, a very tiny and confused man (memory issues) — AND Canada is an AMAZING neighbor filled with GREAT PEOPLE, America’s closest friend, and is our trusted ally!

[Missellie @Missellie19]

Canada’s trade war anthem

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Except for losing control of the Strait, losing our bases in the region, strengthening the control of the Iranian regime over its suffering people, starving our sailors, running through our stockpiles of precision weapons, and giving Iran control of the global oil market. Big win.

[NOAA's Ocean Service @noaaocean]

Discover how cutting edge technology is revealing new stories from beneath the waves.

In 1862, the USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, cementing its place as one of America's most iconic Civil War shipwrecks and becoming the nation’s first national marine sanctuary.

In part two of our series, step into the future of underwater exploration. Discover how cutting-edge 3D mapping technology is capturing the wreck in unprecedented detail, allowing the public to take virtual trips to the bottom of the ocean, explore the sanctuary, and inspire the next generation of ocean stewards.

Listen now and dive back into the story of the ship that changed naval history: https://t.co/mZtF83baHR

#USSMonitor #MarineSanctuary #OceanExploration #3DMapping #CivilWarHistory #Podcast

[Manu Bonachela @ManuBonachela]

No sabría ni por dónde empezar a explicar la importancia de este vídeo en términos de comunicación política. Dura 22 segundos. No hacen falta ‘masterclasses’ de dos horas.

Reconocer un error y disculparse en política es un arte. Hacerlo en menos de medio minuto, convertirlo en una oportunidad y salir incluso reforzado se hace así 👇

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

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Hey at least we alienated an ally for a dictator to still tell us to get fucked. Art of the deal, baby.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Low budget Alien

[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.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Roughly Same population, completely different worlds.

[NOAA's Ocean Service @noaaocean]

The oldest science agency in the U.S. government was founded as the Survey of the Coast in 1807, renamed Coast Survey in 1836, became the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1878 and joined NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in 1970. On March 24, 1926, the staff of the USC&GS took a photo in front of their Capitol Hill headquarters. On March 24, 2026, the staff at NOAA who inherited the mission of the USC&GS took a photo at their headquarters in Silver Spring. More on the history of the Geodetic Survey: https://t.co/Cipl7xjEyb

[yolanda @NOREGRETS65]

As he should 😂😂

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Ossoff: “There’s something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war. Treating citizens as fools and the selfless patriots who serve as pawns. Earlier this year, they claimed there was an imminent nuclear threat after last year they told us they had obliterated that threat. Both times lies. On day 12 of this war, the president said we won. On day 14, Secretary Hegseth said Iran’s military was destroyed. Five months later, we’re still bombing, Americans are still dying, Iran still has its uranium, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. I challenge anyone to defend this. A war built on lies told by a White House that is utterly absent any figures of integrity to dissuade this president from his delusions”

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

This is my favorite because it’s 100% accurate

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Next-level parking. 😂😂

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wolf: What hasn’t been discussed publicly, to my knowledge, is the fact that, in my opinion, President Trump committed a crime in negotiating the settlement agreement in this case and it’s possible that Mr. Blanche would be found to be a co-conspirator in that crime. Let me try to explain…

Congress enacted a statute that makes it illegal for the president or the vice president to directly or indirectly request the initiation or termination of a tax investigation. There’s a potential five-year prison term for violating that statute.

Donald Trump would not have immunity from criminal prosecution for violating that statute in this case because he filed this lawsuit in his personal capacity. Therefore, negotiating the settlement was not an official act for which he has immunity as president.

So, in this case, he was negotiating essentially with himself. As Judge Williams said in Trump v. IRS—a case in which I’m one of the 35 plaintiffs who, through excellent lawyers, persuaded the court to reopen the case and find that this was not a genuine case—it wasn’t a real case or controversy that was legitimately in federal court. It was a collusive case brought for an improper purpose: to get a personal benefit for President Trump, his family, and his allies.

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Retweet if you agree.

[We Assess and Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

This is the level of unbothered I'm striving for

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Dr. Fauci!