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[Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville]

I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week.

But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry.

Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

The late gay icon and country singer left an undeniable impact on millions — and especially the LGBTQ+ people she championed. https://t.co/80YxBh919l

[Pádraig Belton @PadraigBelton]

Dolly Parton, what a wholesome and wholly amazing woman.

Visiting Ireland, she popped into a pub owned by Kerry Gaelic football legend Páidí Ó Sé. She came for a pint but ended up singing - her Coat of Many Colours, which told the story of growing up in poverty in a Smoky Mountains village. 

She was born in 1946, as much the rest of the world entered an unprecedented period of postwar prosperity - less so if you were one of 14 siblings born in a log cabin to a sharecropper who had never learnt to read.

And she gave so much of her money from music away - 100 million books, in honour of her father. One book a month to children participating in her Imagination Library, not only in the US but Canada, the UK, Australia, and even here in Ireland.

She campaigned strongly for gay rights, speaking out for same sex marriage from 2009 - not everyone in country music did. 

Her humour was self-deprecating and relentless. ‘I am a self-made woman, and I have the doctor bills to prove it’ was typical. (As was ‘I was the first woman to burn my bra—it took the fire department four days to put it out.’).

But even popping out for a quiet pint in the middle of Kerry she looked a million dollars - and was intensely aware of the shared musical past linking Appalachia and here. Hers, she said, was ‘Smokey Mountain DNA, but is from those old songs brought over from Ireland and England.’

Some woman. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band.

Rest easy, Dolly 🤘

[Fran Mallon @FranMallon1]

An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly

[Madonna Ultimate @MadonnaUltimate]

COME ON MEET ME ON THE DANCE FLOOR
COME HERE BABY I CAN YOU MUCH MORE TONIGHT
OH BABY LET'S DO IT RIGHT
I FEEL SO FREE
#ConfessionsII #Confessions2 #COADF2 #ClubConfessions

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Does anyone know what's wrong with Trump?

[GOSTOSOS ESCUTAM MADONNA @guiga_____]

I FEEL SO FREE ACABA DE NASCER!

[griffin🎃 @ohiojesustwink]

Here is “I Feel So Free” by Madonna
Just premiered on the radio without promotion, will possibly come to Spotify tomorrow :)

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Caitlyn Jenner using the restroom at Mar-A-Lago

#hypocrites

[Brian @Braill12]

What an amazing opportunity! Producers can create new takes on one of Madonna's most iconic songs.https://t.co/RuByFfFcsf
#Madonna

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[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

@esjesjesj He makes it look effortless

[Brian @Braill12]

Happy B-Day, Madonna 💖 The Queen who gave la comunidad LGBTQ+ a voice, attitude, y un soundtrack pa’ la vida.
#QueenOfPop #LaReinaDelPop #LGBTQCommunity #Madonna

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Inner City, Kevin Saunderson
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