Sam Sandahl

A sometimes irreverent San Diegan with degrees in Film, Video Production & Multimedia.

[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 🇺🇸

[Sam Sandahl @SamBSandahl]

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[NATAS-PSW @NATASPSW]

Morning/Daytime Newscast - Larger Markets
Good Day Las Vegas - May 31st, 2024
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Live from Paris, it's Panda-monium!
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[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

illegal transgender alien

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Hanging this in the Louvre.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

let's do this one more time: Joe Biden found docs he didn't know he had and returned them. Trump took docs that didn't belong to him, refused to return them and ignored a subpoena and that's why the FBI searched his golf motel. if you can't see the difference, I can't help you

[OH Control Room @OHControlRoom]

Prod: “Let's put the name Siobhan in prompter, no pronouncer, and watch what happens live."

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This is a BFD.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Honestly @tedcruz is a gigantic fraud. And always has been. He once debated me, against military action in Syria (i supported… the red line thing). Then a year later is attacking Obama for not enforcing the red line. He is an utter fraud charlatan clown.

[Sam Sandahl @SamBSandahl]

“These are the anti-LGBTQ+ bills that went into effect in the U.S. this month” by @Openly
https://t.co/ffDk9SbXKH

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I remember the anticipation over “Who shot J.R.?” It’s like tomorrow’s surprise witness at the January 6 hearings: “Who sabotaged American democracy?” (I mean we already know, but still, get the popcorn ready!)

[NBC News @NBCNews]

WATCH: "Full House" star Jodie Sweetin is thrown to the ground by police during an abortion rights protest in Los Angeles. https://t.co/ZDwyCbWePr

📹 Mike Ade / @bellikemike

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Two of Donald Trump’s nominees lied under oath about their views on Roe in order to secure confirmation.

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

Our two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children's hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family. I watched him take calls and Zooms from our hospital room all day, managing crisis after crisis while our son's heart monitor beeped in the background.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

I will never EVER agree with what Liz Cheney stands for, but I will forever admire her patriotism

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

A night unlike any other in American history.

[Sam Sandahl @SamBSandahl]

@Maisy13 I really wanna say something sexist here, but I also don’t want to be canceled.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

It's very disturbing that a party that is willing to let women suffer & die to ensure fetuses are carried to term won't protect actual living children by restricting gun ownership in sensible ways.

[ABC News @ABC]

“Why are you here?!"

A furious Sen. Chris Murphy demands answers from senators following Texas school shooting.

“Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate...if your answer, is as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives—we do nothing?”