Jackie Evans💙🇺🇦

I'm interested in things that matter in the area I live in & beyond.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A stunning compilation of Alley McGlynn’s favorite paper art creations.

[📹 alleymcglynn]

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Masked far-right agitators blocked Europe’s busiest port today, trapped locals, and caused miles of gridlock.

Kent Police made zero arrests.

Peaceful climate protesters who did the exact same thing at Dover were fast-tracked straight to prison.

[Marc.o @Blaze2Bulls]

Unsere Nachbarin ist 85. Ihr Mann ist vor 10 Jahren verstorben, Kinder hat sie keine, Auto auch nicht. Also helfen wir hin und wieder beim Einkaufen oder wenn etwas nicht funktioniert.

Wenn man dann mal länger mit ihr spricht, merkt man erst, wie der Alltag für viele alte Menschen heute wirklich aussieht.

Der nächste Geldautomat? 10 km entfernt.
Die nächste Bankfiliale? 15 km.
Das nächste Geschäft? 3 km.
Die nächste Bushaltestelle? 1 km.

Und gleichzeitig setzen wir Dinge voraus, die für uns völlig normal sind.

Online-Banking? Hat sie nicht.
Smartphone? Noch nie besessen.
E-Mail-Adresse? Keine.
Internet? Hat sie. Weil man ihr irgendwann einen Anschluss verkauft hat.

Wir bauen Bankfilialen, Schalter und persönliche Ansprechpartner ab und ersetzen sie durch Apps, Portale und QR-Codes.

Und nennen das dann Fortschritt.

Für uns vielleicht.
Für sie wird die Welt dadurch jeden Tag ein Stück kleiner.

[Moments & memories @momentmemori]

Life gives tears, smiles, and memories. Tears fade, smiles pass, memories stay forever.

[The Florence + the Machine Fan Club @FATMFanClub]

Florence Welch backstage before her Leeds and Reading Festival shows, styled in custom Alexander McQueen by @aldenejohnson .

Photos: Lillie Eiger

You can read the interview Aldene did with Wonderland Magazine here:

https://t.co/zDoxTDkFsL

[Kimiyah-Vette C8 @boujiebaddie]

Donald J. Trump said Kamala would raise gas prices by 25%.

Thank God we avoided that nightmare. Today gas prices are only up by 62%.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Dolly Parton figured out something too many billionaires never will: the greatest measure of wealth isn’t how extravagantly you can spend it on yourself. It’s how many lives you can change with it. She chose children over trophies. That’s a legacy money can’t buy.

[I am the cornerstone @D_RejectedStone]

This is what we mean by kids need to go outside and play.🥰

[Wyre Davies @WyreDavies]

Chaotic scenes at Calais ferry port tonight - thousands of motorists trapped in lengthy jams to get into the port. Once there, no traffic direction . Many passengers, although checked in on later ferries, are missing them because of very lengthy UK passport checks.

[Sauce & Brown @SauceandBrown]

A SMALL FAVOUR FROM AN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS 👋
Seems that Socials are making us work a little harder to be seen at the moment… 😅
So if you see this post, give us a like, leave a comment or — even better — give it a share.
Thanks for keeping independent businesses visible. ❤️

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman]

This Fabulous exhibition is at The St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery in Lymington, Hampshire.

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

A special tribute to the Queen of Country, @DollyParton.

From her many friends, fans and admirers across the pond.

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.

Dolly was a global cultural icon whose seven-decade career reached generations of fans. Beyond entertainment, Dolly leaves a significant philanthropic legacy through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, which has provided hundreds of millions of books to children worldwide.

At Nine-Two-Five tonight, we celebrate her and her legacy 💖

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Country music legend Dolly Parton died today at the age of 80.

My favorite story about her:

Parton wrote the songs “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” on the same night.

When the first song was at the top of the charts in 1974, Elvis wanted to record his own version of the song. Dolly was interested until Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ manager, said that it was standard procedure that when the king of rock and roll covered a song - half of the rights to that song would go to him in the future.

She refused it.

“I said, ‘I’m really, really sorry’ and cried all night. It was terrible for me, on the one hand, it’s Elvis. People told me: “You are crazy.” It’s Elvis Presley…’ but I just couldn’t do it. Something told me in my heart not to do it and I didn’t. I know he would rock with that song. But I couldn’t. And then Whitney Houston came along with her version and I made enough money from the rights to buy Dollywood.”

She grew up in severe poverty and no one famous has done more for the education of the poor than her.

In 1990, the percentage of students who did not graduate from high school in her hometown was over 30%. She introduced the “Buddy Program”, where all high school graduates received a nice sum when they graduated. It wasn’t just a waste of money, she personally came and explained the concept to them - everyone should find a buddy, and whoever doesn’t succeed she will find one for them. Everyone had to sign that they will graduate and do everything in their power to ensure that their buddy also graduates. She taught young people about friendship and helping.

The number of school dropouts dropped to below 6% and has remained so until today.

When 900 families lost their homes in the 2016 fires, she paid each family $1,000 for the next five months. When she came to the bank to finish the paperwork, she gave each family another $5,000 to find. A total of nine million dollars.

Also, her work - Imagination Library from 1995, was inspired by her realization that young people in rural areas and poor families already fall behind when they start school and that this prevents them from pursuing higher education. The goal of her program was for every child in her district to receive one book, once a month, from birth to school, completely free of charge, without any conditions. It started as an initiative in her hometown and has spread to a huge number of countries around the world.

By 2018, over 100 million books were distributed in this way.

She is also known for her witty statements, at the beginning of her career she said:

“I’m not offended by jokes about stupid blondes because I know I’m not stupid… and I’m not really blonde either.”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[David Chipakupaku 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇲 @David_Chippa]

Dolly's Imagination Library is responsible for giving out 7m books to children in the UK alone. She contributed to an HIV charity album; gave $1m to find a COVID vaccine; set up a reserve to help the bald eagle; donated repeatedly to hospitals; and set up college scholarships.

[BBC Hereford & Worcester @bbchw]

Pershore Town's first team players donated their wages to fund people who lost their homes amongst the devastation, whilst the club also opened up its clubhouse to the community. Hear more 👉 https://t.co/sUv8eamoik

[Jon Harvey @jondharvey]

Well this doesn’t happen every day. My life as Count Binface, on the front of the Times.