Loving you just keeps getting better and better! Happy anniversary, @BarackObama. Here’s to many, many more years of joy, laughter, and memories to come. 💕
When you keep thanking God for what He promised, you keep talking like it’s on the way, you’re constantly meditating on what He said, then you’re going to see the faithfulness of God. He’s going to make things happen that you couldn’t make happen.
New York City Public Schools is banning more than half a million students and teachers from using artificial intelligence for the 2026-2027 academic year, the school district confirmed to ABC News.
https://t.co/N7eBILUXeR
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 🇺🇸
Some people say if you have faith, you shouldn’t grieve. You shouldn’t feel the pain, feel the sadness. We’re human. Jesus wept when His friend Lazarus died. He felt sorrow and heartache. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He was so overwhelmed that He sweat drops of blood. He’s God, yet in His human body, He had these emotions. It’s not a lack of faith to feel things.
There’s a new you on the inside, ready to rise up, break free, and reach new levels. Now do your part and have the courage to leave what’s comfortable, the courage to get away from dysfunction, whatever is limiting your growth, the courage to have a new mindset. Don't live with insecurity, not enough, can’t do it. Get rid of the old so that the new you can show up.
The Trump crime family sued Capital One for shutting down 300 Trump bank accounts saying it’s was because of politics.
Capital One just replied, it was actually because of a money laundering review…
This should be much bigger news.
Fauci helped with Aids/HIV, Swine Flu, MERS and Ebola treatment, turned a cancer 98% mortality rate into a 93% remission rate. Served under Republican and Democratic presidents with no issues. Spends 1 summer with Trump, and now you idiots are listening to Aaron Rodgers?
Did you know that when a male surgeon dies they just have his wife with no medical training take over and do all the surgeries? And if she's isn't available or doesn't exist, the job goes to his sister.
Sen. @CoryBooker to Acting AG Todd Blanche:
I was stunned earlier that you wouldn't commit to meeting with Epstein survivors. Your claim that you can't meet with them because they're represented by counsel is utter nonsense. You're a lawyer. You know this. That was not truthful. All of these women reported their crimes decades ago, yet you won't meet with them. What you will do is meet with Ghislaine Maxwell.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” - John 3:16
Today the President of the United States officially paid a woman $5 million for sexually assaulting her. What an absolute disgrace this Nation has become under this administration.
E. Jean Carroll receives more than $5 million from Trump years after a jury found he had sexually abused and defamed the former magazine writer. https://t.co/jCaZA2MYjO
Michael Jordan opened a third clinic in Wilmington, NC, for uninsured and underinsured residents. Funded by his $10 million donation, the Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic aims to provide quality care ❤️
In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.