Lauri Garber

Daughter of FDR Democrats; Mother and grandmother. I follow grandparents, artists, journalists, activists, and students. I do not follow anyone selling on X.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

MASSIVE BOMBSHELL on CNN. Axios Senior Media Reporter Sara Fischer exposes how CBS's parent company literally paid Donald Trump a $16 MILLION settlement and canceled shows just to appease his administration for regulatory merger approval. The corruption is blatant!

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

The Trump administration cancelled major energy projects across 16 states just because they voted for Kamala Harris and not Trump.

Their own lawyers even admitted they targeted blue states. I called Trump’s Energy Secretary out on it. Our states pay taxes and I won’t stand for this kind of garbage.

[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.

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

THIS IS CRAZY:

Weeks ago we started tracking a whale.
11 oil trades. 11 wins. Perfect timing. Every time.

BBC validated it. White House denied it.

Then a reporter asked Trump directly.

"Are you concerned about insider trading?"
Trump: "The world is a casino. It is what it is."

Trade on a tip from your friend.
Federal prison.

Front-run a war decision with $17,000,000.
No consequences.

The President just told you the rules don't apply to everyone.

The blockchain recorded every trade.
The BBC published the receipts.

And the most powerful man in the world just shrugged.

The game is rigged.
He just confirmed it.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Bayer is a German chemical company. They make Roundup. Roundup gives people non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Bayer has paid over $11 billion in cancer lawsuits.

This week, Congress is going to vote on a bill that gives Bayer permanent immunity from being sued by Americans who get cancer from their product.

Here is how it happened. 🧵

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@cwebbonline Another “improvement” that will have to be corrected to get it back to the way it was.

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@LucasSa56947288 The photographers don't seem to think they are in any danger. They keep filming.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Some people are pointing out that there’s something very suspicious about this video.

Notice anything in this video?

[Nostalgic Hubb @NostalgicHubb]

Can anyone crack this code? What was the fathers name?

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@EricLDaugh They are coming for you next.

[minddog @Matt_Nappo]

During his presidencies (2017–2021 and 2025–present), Donald Trump and his family have generated an estimated $3.4 billion in profits from ventures directly leveraging his position in the White House, according to a detailed analysis by The New Yorker. This figure isolates gains from presidential status, excluding pre-office businesses, and is corroborated by multiple outlets referencing the same investigation. It includes both terms, with much of the recent surge tied to his second term.

[OilScud @ScottBiggsify]

@badhombre I can't believe he's doing this because he loves America. 🥹🥲

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@ThePatriotOasis They did not say to give the them 1.5 trillion dollars. They said to give the American people health care. John Kennedy’s Louisiana is the least healthy state in the country with high rates of uninsured people and high rates of preventable deaths. He doesn’t seem concerned.

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@moment_mirthful @luismbat X is not a reliable news site. While there are some reliable and ethical journalists on X there are also a lot of people making baseless claims as if they are news.

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@goodfoodgal Why did the English who came to America do that?

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@BigCodeman911 @JohnJHarwood Eliminating funding for healthcare for non-citizens eliminate vaccines for non-citizens leading to epidemics that affect citizens. If non-citizens get sick and hospitals are not required to treat emergencies, they will die. What do we do with the bodies?

[Lauri Garber @laurigarber]

@AnonPlzX @EricLDaugh What specific criminal acts? If there were criminal acts, why was there no grand jury investigation? Vague allegations without facts are just vague allegations.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Epstein survivors just announced they will release their own list of names.

“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors.”

The government stalled.

Now the victims are doing it themselves.

[Monica 💙🌻🏳️‍🌈 @softtail65]

My account is being throttled so hard that not even half of my followers are seeing me daily.
Let's try this.
If you see this, comment with the Name of a Song that begins with the letter " 🅰️ "
Hit Like & Repost. ❤️ & 🔄
Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😉😘

[Walt @u_nonnie]

At least for Helene it was on the news at the time. I remember stories about it. Let's not rewrite history. Those people were threatening FEMA agents with violence because somebody told them tall tales about FEMA. So the agents were told to leave them alone. As for Katrina--I really don't remember. But we weren't playing these games back then, I remember that much.