Brooke Thorington

Reporter WRKF/WWNO Baton Rouge/NOLA NPR affiliates, Pug aficionado & Auburn Grad 📻🧭🐅⚜️

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

Louisiana exonerees are still fighting for more compensation despite Gov. Landry's veto | WRKF https://t.co/EQYDiJHiCr

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

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[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

Even Derry Girls loved her https://t.co/YqgFQkS1UY

[Dittie @DittiePE]

He knew. He said so. He voted for it anyway.

Tommy Tuberville, now the frontrunner for Alabama governor, privately told the Washington Examiner back in mid-2025 that the House’s SNAP provision would “financially hammer” red states like Alabama — his exact words were “just don’t bankrupt us.” Weeks later he voted YES on the Big Beautiful Bill anyway, then put out a statement calling it the road to a “Great” America.

Ever since, he and his fellow Republicans, have spent a year blaming SNAP “fraud” for a mess their own votes helped create.

Here’s the receipt on that “fraud” claim: Alabama’s own DHR Commissioner, Nancy Buckner, said it herself — error rates aren’t fraud, fraud is a tiny sliver of it. Michael Ledger, CEO of Feeding the Gulf Coast, backed that up too, telling https://t.co/IZIWaoIvRs that fraud only runs “1 percent to 2 percent” of what’s actually being penalized here. So the “SNAP is overrun with fraud” line Tuberville’s been running for over a year doesn’t hold up against the numbers his own state is working with.

What it actually means for Alabama: a 9.52% payment error rate puts the state in the 10% cost-share bracket, which comes out to roughly $174 million state lawmakers have to find in the FY2027 budget. If they can’t or won’t find it, the options on the table are cutting people off SNAP or dropping the program entirely — real consequences for a program error rate that has nothing to do with fraud. Tuberville’s team is now quietly working with the state agency to bring that error rate down before the bill comes due, and lobbying alongside Katie Britt for a two-year delay.

None of this is happening to Alabama. Tuberville voted for it, knowing what it would do, then spent a year pointing at “fraud” instead of his own vote.

Now he’s the frontrunner for governor, running to fix a hole in the state budget that he dug himself.

[Melinda Deslatte @MelindaDeslatte]

At least 31 Louisiana officials signed NDAs for SpaceX’s ‘Project Osprey,’ according to documents obtained by @samkarlin https://t.co/vydQ0nbkPb via @nolanews #lalege

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

Rest in peace Dolly. May your sweet and lovely spirit live on. In a world filled with hate and division we need more Dollys not one less.

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

I think I’m going to need a support group after the season finale of Furious. @hulu I’m asking in advance for any leads.

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

#LA06 this race remains entertaining…

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

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[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

@FrederickHoll

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

@TaylorCaffery Then he kept rage tweeting 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

Gov Landry has made multiple posts over the last two hours criticizing NOLA Mayor Moreno for not thanking him and the president.

[Governor Jeff Landry @LAGovJeffLandry]

I want Louisiana to see this: @HelenaMorenoLA has thanked everyone for the National Guard’s presence in New Orleans—except the two people responsible for it: President @realDonaldTrump and me.

[LaRadioNetwork @LaRadioNetwork]

Louisiana doctors are sounding the alarm over a proposed massive funding cut to the National Institutes of Health.
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[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

@FrederickHoll I’m shook to know I’m one year older than Melania.

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

Poll shows 4-point difference between Letlow and Davis for U.S. Senate; 1 in 5 undecided https://t.co/YYwBSYozZD

[Melinda Deslatte @MelindaDeslatte]

Pecan Island residents fight to be heard on SpaceX as officials stay quiet on the potential project (from @thecurrentlaf) #lalege https://t.co/4S4sl3b2MA

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

Flock cameras are becoming a hot topic. Oil City Rep Danny McCormick (R) says he drafting legislation to ban them in LA. Here’s a link to extended segment on NPR’s Today, Explained on Flock Cameras. https://t.co/QR9cREV3Sd

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

@ronsterd89 Always right 🙄

[Brooke Thorington @mbthorington]

@JSODonoghue @LAGovJeffLandry Oh Lisa calls me an idiot then blocks me. 🤣 coward