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💔 Israeli runs over 2 Palestinian KIDS walking to school… This is why we speak up.

So here we have Israeli snipers shooting at anyone who is trying to rescue a child they previously shot......

@gothburz @_sloveni_ They didn't have wine with the dinner?

Prime chateaubriand and Maine lobster, served at 6:45 PM. Grand Opera Cake with espresso cream, almond sponge, and gilded accents. 2,600 plates. All consumed before the evacuation. You cannot pocket a lobster tail in a tuxedo jacket. The wine was the only portable asset. The dessert had gilded accents. They left the gilded accents.

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.

@CNielocxc @WearForbidden Because her husband died?

@WearForbidden You literally sell merch on your X page….

When the room's in chaos but the merch is moving like crazy:

@Noodles42597090 @HatsOffff He literally got dragged out

@HatsOffff Vance left the woman next to him. What a fucking coward.

New video shows JD Vance fleeing WHCP shooting

@tommyborumjokes This is beyond cringe. Who falls for this crap?

What a scam

@NnPnemck Maybe she should have been home, with her children, who already lost a parent 🙄

The cruelest part is knowing the only person she wants in this moment to hold her and tell her she’s safe is no longer here.

@swamparchive @beyoncegarden Noone got killed

NOT HER CRYING LMFAOOOOOOO😭😭😭

There is a shooting and… The head of the FBI is just hanging out?

To whom it may concern… Gaza is still being annihilated 💔

We are human beings, not just numbers. 💔 NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE!

@donkoclock Distraction

Simple Yes or No. The White House Correspondents dinner was a staged media event.

@iranin_arabic 🍉

🚨 عـــــاجـــــل🔥 تم حظر الحساب بشكل غير رسمي على منصة X. نحن بحاجة الى 1000 تعليق وكذلك مشاركة إﻥ ﻋﻠﻘﺖ فأﻧﺖ ﻣﺸﻜﻮر ﻭإﻥ ﺗﺠﺎﻫﻠﺖ فلا بأس وجزاكم الله خيراً.

This is a man living in a tent on the ruins of his home in northern Gaza. A cursed soldier plays with his weapon, firing bullets toward the tents every day. Today, one of those cursed bullets struck this little girl. With no medical aid available, he carried his daughter on a bicycle. What breaks me the most is the final conversation between them—while he held the bicycle and her soul was slipping away… How he tried to comfort her, to ease her pain— her moans, her suffering, her silence… Until when, world? I beg you—I am not asking anyone to stop this hell, just tell me… how much longer? A message to me, and to the people of Gaza: Why do we film? Why do we write? Why don’t we just die in silence?

This is Israel, world Israel did this Repost please

@Boudicca61AD .🍉

I got 8 bullshit violations this morning, one after another for violent speech. They also gave me a 24 hour ban. I appealed & won them all bar one, which I removed. They now have me on a full shadow ban for posting PALESTINIAN ART, like WTF! If you see this post on your feed, leave a dot, I'd appreciate🙏

You think there’s a ceasefire in Gaza? This is one of many scenes of horror from today. An 8-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head. Israeli forces routinely shoot children in the head.

@MediawatchNw In our state, we have to pay property taxes yearly 😐

Well, After 23 years I just made my final payment on my home today. Now I don’t owe anyone anything. Feels weird but I’ll get used to it.

@mygodtoday @Waqas_Inayat1 @TheSaviour *Colombia

@Waqas_Inayat1 @TheSaviour A woman from COLUMBIA making these claims about Muslims is fucking WILD to me, maybe she should focus on making HER country a better place where all the same things she spouting at happen on an almost HOURLY basis

🚨🇬🇧🇨🇴Piers Morgan to Valentina Gomez: "Shabana Mahmood was born in Birmingham, in England. She’s as English as I am. You, however, were born in Colombia. You weren’t born in the United States. So I would argue that Shabana Mahmood has much, much more validity to be considered English than you do to be American."

Today, the body of our neighbor was found during displacement, buried and decomposed. He had been injured and kept bleeding for three days during the last evacuation from northern Gaza. When he realized he would not survive and no one could reach him, he covered himself with soil and buried himself while in prostration. Now, his bones were found formed in the position of sujood (prostration). His body was discovered beside a tree where he had chosen his final place. He left a sign for his family — his ring was tied above the soil with a thread and a small branch from the tree so they could find him. He will be laid to rest properly after Friday prayer today. Mercy to the martyrs, and patience for the thousands of families still waiting for news about their missing loved ones in Gaza. Speak about them. Do not let their stories disappear. #trending #viral #fyp #explorepage #Gaza #Humanity #RememberThem