Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school, she built hospitals and bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert once met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
She’s positively shaking with fury because no one that looks like this young man, a real cutie patootie, has ever stepped to her supremacy with such force and logical clarity before.
100 lengths at the community pool. I’ve swum almost every day this season. Having this public resource is a thousand times better than having a private pool. Instead of private affluence amid public squalor, we need public affluence—a rebuilding of shared and community life.
it’s genuinely insane that everyone is treating abdul el-sayed, who politically falls somewhere between elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, a self described capitalist, as if he’s the most extreme candidate america has ever had entirely because he’s a muslim
Thune had no problem calling Platner a “misogynist Nazi,” but a guy allegedly beating his wife and breaking a toddler’s collarbone after two other women have said he’s an abuser, too, is just a “family matter” if you’re in the right party
it’s very telling of the modern-day republican party that not a single republican politician, not even bernie moreno, has publicly called on max miller to resign
Two agents accused this man they had accosted of attempting to literally murder them, seemingly solely because they were embarrassed by how pathetic they are at their jobs, letting him get away. Was there any accountability? No.