Paul V

37 living in LB and working in LA 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🏳️‍🌈. Lefty, in more than one way.

[gen @mariahsreverie]

everybody say thank you mariah carey and david lachapelle

[News to Remember @allchronology]

North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud 👏🏽

[Myles @MylesEhrlich]

The entirety of Ellie the Elephant’s halftime performance from tonight, a Mariah Carey tribute.

[Paul V @all_neon__like]

@Fthisapp @uspolitics1111 Explain that to all the immigrants that are dying of medical neglect, shot at by ICE agents, or being shipped to the wrong countries on other continents. He’s not going after every liberal but they are definitely killing Latin Americans indiscriminately and cruelly.

[Shark @sharkincrisis]

The hype around Orcas irritates me because Orcas are just dolphins that hit puberty, joined a gang, and started cosplaying as apex predators. A 6-ton tuxedo disappointment. They harvest liver like it’s profound, organ trafficking piece of shits. We've been apex since their ancestors looked like oversized penguins. They travel in pods because they can't sit with their own thoughts. We swim solo, while they need twenty cousins to bully a seal. They attack boats now, unemployment arc. People scream when we arrive, but they say “awwwnn” when they do. Their dorsal fin looks stepped on, while ours is a warning. We survived five extinctions while they survive on PR.

[Ajijo A. Charles @Jimerald1]

I miss when 95% of the successful artists were actually vocalists! Like, you needed to be able to sing to have that breakthrough.

[Paul V @all_neon__like]

@Confiroy_ Probably thinks condolences means congratulations? 😬

[Traeyz ♠️ @TraeyzX]

Dolly Parton reveals that the real Jolene was actually just a little red-headed girl asking for an autograph.

​“There was a little girl at one of our shows. She was a little red-headed girl, pretty as she could be. She came up to get an autograph.”

​“She said, ‘Would you sign it to Jolene?’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s a pretty name, I’m gonna write a song about you.’”

​“I said, ‘If you ever hear a song on the radio called Jolene, you’ll know it’s about you.’”

​“I got back to the bus and I was singing, ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene’ just so I wouldn’t forget the name.”

​“That’s why the whole chorus is pretty much just saying the word Jolene.”

[Paul V @all_neon__like]

ABSOLUTELY

[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 🇺🇸

[Paul V @all_neon__like]

Can someone start a list of all the things Dolly did to make the world a better place? Looks like we’re about to find out about a lot of things she did and donated with no fanfare or press conference over the years!

[✨Mr.Faith✨ @MrFaith91]

La Virgen María cuando le dijo a José que estaba embarazada de una paloma 🕊️

[𓆩♰𓆪 알잖아요 𓆩♰𓆪 @playboysoshi]

And then I opened the tweet—

[Paul V @all_neon__like]

@1Mo7t The guy looks like an animatronic

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

[Deb @DontCallMeDebby]

Joe Biden won the 2020 Election
Trump is in the Epstein files
And, I’m pretty sure Canada is trying to sage us.

[Paul V @all_neon__like]

@NoContextHumans I had a pug that would love lemons. She would make a face but always loved eating the pulp/fibers and came back for more each time

[Lauren Rinaldi 🧚‍♀️ @LRinaldiArt]

Made Jell-O shots to bring to the 4th of July bbq 🤗

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Manny Rutinel has won the Democratic primary for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.

He will face off against Trump-endorsed Republican Rep. Gabe Evans in one of the most competitive seats in the country.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: Any takeaways from the World Cup so far?

AOC: Oh man, I mean, I think it’s so cool to have it in the United States. I love that you have people from other countries coming in, but you also have these diasporas of people showing a tremendous amount of pride for their own family’s heritage.

And it’s really awesome to see that coming together in that celebration. You see all the fans from Norway, from Cape Verde, from Ecuador, and from all over the place just having a blast. So it’s really incredible and amazing.