Shawn M Chartrand

An optimist and global citizen | with love for my family, earth and planetary sciences | working to make earth a better place | @sfuevsc @SFUENV | he/him.

[Shawn M Chartrand @smchartrand]

My 7-yr old daughter captured what the world needs. A superhero of love. #resist #WallofHate #NoBanNoWall #bridgesnotwalls

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

70 years ago, a woman discovered nuclear fission.

But her male colleague stole her work and won the Nobel Prize.

She fled Nazi Germany empty handed and died without a word.

Here's how the biggest theft in science buried Lise Meitner's name in history: 🧵

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?

[𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 @antifaoperative]

MAGA influencer & Fox News guest, Ricci Wynne, has been indicted for producing child sexual abuse material.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

Is Pete Hegseth a racist?

Hegseth has removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans, buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In fact all the names removed were people of color or women. Only white men were left on the list.

Your thoughts?

[Neo Jane @Neo_Jane8]

I agree with Robert DeNiro.. If you agree with him drop a 💙

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

On Friday, the Trump administration tortured a man from New Hampshire.

Fabian Schmidt—a legal U.S. resident, an electrical engineer, a father—was detained at Logan Airport.

They stripped him naked. Denied him food, water, and medication. Threw him in a cold shower.

To this day, the DOJ has not filed charges against him.

Why? To coerce him into giving up his green card. A man with no ongoing legal issues. A legal resident of the United States just trying to go home.

This is third world behavior—it's cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

It’s a warning shot to every immigrant, every student, every doctor, and engineer who might want to come here: You are not safe.

This is not America.

[The Dens 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @FoxBrambleFarm]

So many people still don't realize how many protests are erupting across the country. The sheer number of them should be national news, but instead we rely on local papers and the stories of the protesters themselves to document them. Here are a few from this week. 🧵
New York

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. EXCLUSIVE

An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency.

The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result.

Follow this thread for details.

[Shawn M Chartrand @smchartrand]

@Rainmaker1973 D8,R-5

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I'm no mathematician, but I do know this: 99% is a hell of a lot bigger than 1%.

Together, the American people can defeat Trump's advances toward authoritarianism and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the billionaire class.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

A South African billionaire worth nearly $500 billion wants to cut Social Security and Medicare for American seniors—many of whom are surviving on an average of just $762 a month.

Let that sink in.

The richest man on Earth, who pays little to no taxes, thinks your grandmother’s medicine and your grandfather’s check are the problem—not corporate greed, not tax breaks for the wealthy, not trillion-dollar war budgets.

This level of wickedness is staggering.

[Gordon Oz Osinski @drcrater]

This evening at #LPSC2025 I’ll present a poster on the status of the 🇨🇦 Lunar Rover Mission.

I am proud to lead the science team that is a true partnership between 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸. A symbol of how we can & should be working together #SpaceForAll

Apologies if I am distracted this evening, but a big part of me just wants to jump on a plane home to 🇨🇦

[Shawn M Chartrand @smchartrand]

@Matt_Pinner 7

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

@mjfree Trump's claim "they rigged the election, and I became president" is outrageous. We need an urgent, independent investigation into the 2024 election to uncover the truth and hold him accountable for undermining democracy. Enough is enough.

[AGU (American Geophysical Union) @theAGU]

We stand with scientists and communities across the country in opposing the dismantling of @NOAA. As climate disasters grow more severe, we need stronger science, not less.

We urge Congress to reject efforts that threaten NOAA’s mission and impact.

[Shawn M Chartrand @smchartrand]

@TheOnlyEsta YES

[Simon Fraser University @SFU]

The Fraser River is unique among the world’s great rivers – a huge, relatively natural, undammed, mountain river running through a dense urban area. But a lack of monitoring and poor management could threaten much of what makes the Fraser special, warn SFU experts.

[Shawn M Chartrand @smchartrand]

@drcrater Your focus on important aspects related to debiting the ISS is spot on Oz. Being blunt is a good thing here 👍🏾👍🏽.