Altersaside 🃏🌈

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[Peter @cena17thszn]

John Cena was asked if it changed anything when he found out Darren Young had come out as gay:

"My oldest brother is gay, coming from a family of five boys that's extremely tough to admit that and he's openly accepted by our family"

"I know Darren personally, Darren is a great guy and that's a very bold move, and congratulations for him for finally doing it"

"It's all about being professional. Darren Young is a constant professional, and I'm proud of him for doing that"

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: The game tonight is gonna be amazing. If they beat us we'll say it was rigged just like the election in 2020

[Altersaside 🃏🌈 @Altersaside]

@picazzolive @FmrRepMTG Have you said these same words to Trump?

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

“Harvey Weinstein suffers”

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

They’ve arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool than they’ve arrested from the Epstein files.

[Rover @GreatUsernam]

@FoxNews The Office being considered “edgy”

[Cucumberman @BersekEv]

En España los hospitales pueden sacar tu cama a la calle para que mueras lentamente si tú seguro privado no cubre los gastos.

Lo siento, me equivoqué, es Estado Unidos... la tierra de la libertad de Trump, en España la sanidad es universal.

Trump, tú país es horrible.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great talking to Stephen and the inspiring young people we’ve worked with at the @ObamaFoundation on the @ColbertLateShow.

When the Obama Presidential Center opens this June 19, my hope is that this will be a place where people can come together to meet, learn, and work with each other to create change in their communities. Learn more at https://t.co/ahkDMKalIn.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Just a reminder that we still don’t know who the shooter was targeting or what the motive was.

[Altersaside 🃏🌈 @Altersaside]

@SheStillResists @travisakers Apparently there were two people

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

Bro, go to bed.

[Bernard Taylor @BTForCongress]

Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it.

And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him.

Do with that story what you will.

[Billifer 🇨🇦 @billifer1973]

He’s backed himself into a corner. If he does it, he’s a monster. If he doesn’t, he’s a joke. That’s a dangerous place for a narcissist.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Whether you celebrate Easter, Passover, or a long-awaited spring, I hope you are having a good weekend with the people you love.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

@atrupar He sounds like a guy describing a raccoon he found in his garage.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Saying you're no longer a Trump supporter is like saying you're no longer a cannibal. People might believe you, but no one is ever going to ask you to babysit their kids—or eat at your house again.

[Beskar @_Beskar]

My mom was the first person to give skin to skin contact to one of the first babies born with AIDS in the US. Everyone else was in hazmat suits, and she saw that baby and decided it needed some loving. So she did it.

Ive tried to carry that with me. Miss you, mom. You rocked.

[Altersaside 🃏🌈 @Altersaside]

It would be interesting to see how she reacts. I think she knows a lot

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Will it be bye-bye Bondi?!!
https://t.co/5yP3L3aROO