Janeth Maranillo

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Mamdani posts message in Arabic warning about traffic in NYC from his official Mayor account

[Mario ZNA @MarioBojic]

🚨🇬🇧BREAKING: UK Police just arrested a crying 5-year-old boy while taking away his father.

Starmer's police dragged the terrified child into a car, then pepper-sprayed and the father and the man filming everything.

What the hell is happening in Britain?

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Many people owe the 12 year old (now 13) Scottish girl an apology.

You first @PoliceScotland

And you @freddiesayers - you posh twat

And you #narinder-heres-my-flange

God bless those girls. And well done mum

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

THE BANKS THAT FOUGHT THE CRYPTO BILL ARE QUIETLY BUILDING THEIR DEFENSE AGAINST IT.

🇺🇸 Today: JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced a shared tokenized deposit network, built to keep deposits from fleeing to stablecoins.

Days earlier: Stripe, Visa and Mastercard backed a new stablecoin platform.

The CLARITY Act would let stablecoins pay yield. That's a direct threat to bank deposits.

You don't build a defense this big for something you think won't happen. The banks are pricing in the bill passing.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

BBC report and documentary, on the plight of poor Afghan fathers forced to sell their children to survive.

Except you have to read some way into the article - which is around 2,500 words long - before it becomes clear they are specifically selling their daughters into child marriage and domestic slavery.

“If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years,” says one father.

Another father, pictured in the article, sold his five-year-old little girl. The framing is extraordinary.

Not only because the fact only female children are being sold is presented as unremarkable.

But also because the fathers making the decision are presented as the victims - rather than the girls who will actually live with the consequences of it.

The fathers’ desperation is real and tragic. But so is the reality that these girls are being treated as commodities.

[Janeth Maranillo @maranillo]

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[Rep. María Elvira Salazar @RepMariaSalazar]

The tragic death of Carmen Navas is absolutely heartbreaking and exposes the raw cruelty of the Maduro regime.

Torturing an 82-year-old mother by keeping her in limbo for a year, only to reveal her son had already died in state custody, is an absolute atrocity.

This crime only provides further evidence that this regime is guilty of abusing and destroying its people. It must be held accountable.

My deepest condolences go out to her family during this terrible tragedy. This is exactly why we cannot stop fighting. More than ever, we must keep pushing for a true democratic transition and absolute accountability in Venezuela.

The victims of this dictatorship will never be forgotten. 🇻🇪

[Reuters Venezuela @ReutersVzla]

Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody https://t.co/wOVpuXX5Ct

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Sprinting away would also be acceptable.

[Roseanne Barr @therealroseanne]

Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?

[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.

[Janeth Maranillo @maranillo]

@FLOTUS As proved by the Wall Street Journal, the violence and evilness from the left cannot be hidden anymore.

[@MikeBeach @mike123qwe]

@FLOTUS @JeffW701 Starting today, I won’t buy any products advertised on the @jimmykimmel Show-
@McDonalds @jcpenney

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.

A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.

Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

[Janeth Maranillo @maranillo]

@Pedro_Torrijos Am I the only one finding this suspicious?

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Jeff Bezos’s rocket company said a satellite from customer AST SpaceMobile was deployed into an incorrect orbit. https://t.co/K6FcZkNIIj

[Janeth Maranillo @maranillo]

@JeffBezos @JeffBezos You forgot to mention that you left the satellite you were supposed to deliver in the incorrect orbital parameter! Instead of celebrating this spectacular incompetence, perhaps you should articulate a precise “sorry” as per standard protocol in mission critique!

[Janeth Maranillo @maranillo]

@elonmusk Not problem at all. They have plenty of inmigrantes

[Janeth Maranillo @maranillo]

@DefiWimar How do you know is a Trump insider?