Jessica Garton

☆ Baseball & Basketball Mom ☆ Special Education Director ☆ Ashland University Alum ☆ Cleveland Sports Fan ☆ Non-Profit Co-Founder ☆ Certified Swifie ☆

[lindsey ok @lindseyyok]

I'll never understand why Taylor Swift having fun makes people so mad.

[Pixar @Pixar]

Taylor Swift has a friend in Randy Newman at the world premiere of Toy Story 5

[🏈👑❤️‍🔥 | fan acct. @tayvishazetoo]

Full performance of Taylor and Randy Newman singing “You’ve Got A Friend In Me”

[Taylor Swift Updates @TSUpdating]

🚨Taylor Swift performing ‘You've Got A Friend in Me’ with Randy Newman!

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Nobody is coming to save your aging parent.

Not Medicare.
Not the hospital.
Not their primary care doctor.

When your mom gets discharged on 14 medications and three specialist referrals…

The person coordinating all of it is usually an exhausted daughter with a full-time job.

We need to talk about that.

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

The All-Star Ballot is LIVE!

Do your civic duty and #VoteGuards today at https://t.co/twAxRaaPhX to get our guys to Philly. 🗳️

#GuardsBall

[Taylor Nation @taylornation13]

Today’s forecast is looking cloudy ☁️https://t.co/ZSGtuHSAkb

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

Proud to welcome to Cleveland Heights native, @tkelce, as a minority owner.

#GuardsBall | @newheightsshow

[alex ☁️ @msidnights]

A MELHOR SEQUÊNCIA QUE VC VERÁ HOJE 🥹❤️

[Lea ❤️‍🔥 @CchieftayLea]

The way his manager and his wife blocked them in so no one bothers them 🙂‍↕️

[Cleveland Cavaliers @cavs]

🙌 @tkelce loved this JT bucket as much we we did! #LetEmKnow

[Jessica Garton @SpedTeach24]

@taylorswift13 and @tkelce at the @cavs game!!! #LetEmKnow

[Cleveland Cavaliers @cavs]

EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, GAME 3.

🕗 8:00PM
📺 @ABC
📻 @wmms, @wtam1100, La Mega 1300
📝 https://t.co/u4OEL4vU3o

@RocketOTD | #LetEmKnow

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

It was a Monday in early August 2023. The exhausted truck drivers of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour thought they were heading to a routine production meeting before the Los Angeles shows.
They had no idea what was coming.
Scott Swift walked in. Taylor's father didn't say much—he just began handing out envelopes. When the drivers finally peeked inside, some thought the check said $1,000. Others read $10,000. The third driver stared at his and said out loud: "This has to be a joke."
It wasn't.
$100,000.
Each driver. Nearly 50 of them. The industry standard bonus from the biggest stars? $5,000 to $10,000. Taylor had given them more than ten times that.
But here's what made it matter most: these drivers weren't wealthy. They lived in truck cabs. They hadn't seen their families in 24 weeks. They were people who would never own homes—until now. Until that envelope.
That moment of shock and tears? It was just the beginning.
Across the entire Eras Tour, Taylor quietly handed out $197 million in bonuses. The dancers. The band. The riggers. The lighting and sound technicians. The caterers. Every single person who built the show—they got bonuses, handwritten notes, and wax-sealed letters. When dancers opened theirs on camera in her docuseries, they broke down crying. Some couldn't believe she was real.
"If the tour grosses more, they get more," she explained simply. These people work hard. They deserve it.
But the crew bonuses weren't the only quiet revolution happening.
Starting in March 2023, in every city where the tour touched down, a call came to local food banks. Taylor wanted to donate. No press conference. No announcement. No photo op. One donation fed 75,000 meals. Another provided hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh produce. Across the tour, the total reached millions of meals—possibly more—all delivered in silence.
She never posted about a single one.
And it wasn't new for her.
In March 2020, when the pandemic locked down the world, Taylor scrolled through social media posts from fans who were breaking. A photographer about to lose everything. A person staring down eviction. She sent direct messages with rent money—$3,000 here, $13,000 there. Some fans got enough for months of bills. She read the Washington Post. She noticed the names. She helped.
She never announced it.
Years later, in October 2025, a two-year-old named Lilah—fighting a cancer so rare that only 58 families in America had ever known it—was filmed by her mother dancing to a Taylor Swift song. Lilah called Taylor her friend. A few days later, the GoFundMe received a $100,000 donation.
The note said: "Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor."
Mike Scherkenbach has worked with the wealthiest people in music. He's seen the bonuses. He's seen the behavior. He's watched billionaires guard their money jealously.
What he saw with Taylor was different.
The biggest tour in history grossed $2 billion. The artist behind it became a billionaire from her own songwriting. And then she signed her name onto hundreds of envelopes by hand and sent enough money back to the people who built her dream that they cried opening their letters.
That isn't strategy. That isn't a publicity stunt.
That's what happens when someone, somewhere along the way, remembered what matters.

[Jessica Garton @SpedTeach24]

@TheCLE @cavs This would make my son so happy!!

[Destination Cleveland @TheCLE]

🚨GIVEAWAY🚨

We're giving away (2) tickets to Game 4 of the ECF and a (1) night stay in Downtown Cleveland. To enter:
1. Like this post
2. Share this post
3. Follow @TheCLE
4. Be a @Cavs Fan (we'll check)

Winner will be notified Sunday morning before 10 am. Good luck!

[Barstool Cleveland @BS_Cleveland]

The Detroit Pistons playing “defense”

[OLIPOP @drinkolipop]

GIVEAWAY DAY!!!

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Comment below or retweet this tweet for a chance to win!

[Lakers Lead @LakersLead]

LeBron's paternal instinct kicked in during Bronny's debut 💜

[Jessica Garton @SpedTeach24]

Yo #Cavs fans...wake the hell up, this is the playoffs!!!
#LetEmKnow