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[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at https://t.co/cLu9I7M2wC

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at https://t.co/arzrqInqJA

[Marshall Mathers @Eminem]

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Man breaks down in tears after his wife and daughter were killed by lightning in Florida.

Kenya Glasgow, 31, and her 2-year-old daughter were found on the sidewalk in Margate, Florida.

"It's gonna be tough to lose somebody that I've been with for half my life. It's just gonna be tough, but I'll be okay, because I have to be, because I have another beautiful daughter that's inside..."

Heartbreaking.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Journalist, "You're against vaccines?"

Trump supporter, "Absolutely, 100%"

Journalist, "All vaccines?"

Trump supporter, "Every single one of them, they're poison"

Journalist, "All vaccines are poison?"

Trump supporter, "Yes they are"

Journalist, "What about the polio vaccine?"

Trump supporter, "There hasn't been a case of polio since 1960"

Journalist, "Since the vaccine"

Trump supporter, "Yeah"

[Matt Macauley @VisualAlgebra]

My 7-year-old daughter heard me say that Dolly Parton died, and got visibly very sad. I was surprised she even knew that name.

“You know Dolly Parton?”

In the sweetest timid voice, she replied:

“Well, I don’t _know_ know her. But she sent me books.”

🥹😢😭

[abdul 🌌📷 @Advil]

nobody else finds it weird that this tiny country has so much influence on what you’re allowed to see?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I appreciate that Dolly Parton played no part in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people.

[Variety @Variety]

Jane Fonda has released a statement in support of Mark Ruffalo after Paramount slammed the four-time Oscar nominee as “antisemitic”:

“Calling his criticism antisemitic is a smear to delegitimize criticism of the merger and to distract from the question Paramount would rather not answer: Should one company be allowed to accumulate this much power over our movies, television and news?”
https://t.co/AX1hR1Vys1

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ms Rachel remains undefeated.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Alex Pretti's family on how they found out about his death.

"It was all over the news. We watched it. I was like that's our son. That's Alex and they killed him. No one called us. Watching our son shot 10 times trying to help someone. And being beaten, sprayed with tear gas.

My shock is that he was murdered and no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable and it's been seven months. There was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice."

[yazan𓂆 @yazanomarrr]

Elon Musk is tightening the grip on our presence here, shutting doors in the faces of Palestinians and Muslims, while giving space to hateful propaganda.

If you believe in our right to live, to speak, to be seen… just say hello.
A simple “hello” is enough to remind us we’re not alone in this world full of unjust silence.

[ViiV @ViiV_333]

A Jeju police officer was arrested today for deliberately shutting down missing-person cases — not one or two, but roughly 298 of them. He told families their loved ones were safe, then quietly deleted the cases from the missing-persons system.

The case cracked open because of Jang Mi-ran's disappearance, which turned out to expose a far larger cover-up.

Jang Mi-ran, 37, went missing on May 12.

Her boyfriend reported it, and the officer assigned to the case told him he'd reached her, that she was safe, and that she didn't want her location shared — then closed the file that same night. It later emerged there was no record police had ever actually contacted her.

Once the officer was identified and implicated, investigators went back through his past cases. Between August 22 and 24, they found four bodies of people who had been reported missing — Jang Mi-ran among them, found 104 days after she disappeared, just a few minutes' walk from where she'd been staying. The other three were men, two in their 60s and one in his 70s.

Since prosecutors' authority to conduct supplementary investigation was abolished, public anxiety has been mounting over how a single officer could kill hundreds of cases with almost no way for anyone to catch it.

Video: the family, enraged, confronts the officer. (Chanel A News)

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

Este abuelo japonés intentó organizar dos veces una sesión de fotos con sus gatos en un campo de girasoles, pero en ambas ocasiones algo salió mal 😭

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Iceland has a breed of sheep that nobody breeds for meat, because for a thousand years it has been bred for one quality only. Judgement.

They are called forystufe. Leader sheep. Taller, longer in the leg, narrower through the body, oddly marked, and always at the front, with their heads up while the rest of the flock has its head down. When they move, the flock moves. Nobody votes.

A proven leader sold for two or three times the price of a good sheep. Bloodlines became famous. When a great one died, the farm kept the head.

And the claim attached to them sounds like folklore until you read the records. They know the weather is coming, sometimes a full day out. If the leader will not leave the barn on a morning that looks perfectly fine, you do not move the flock. Farmers arranged their winters around the opinion of a sheep, and wrote it down as fact.

Autumn round-up, 1884. A large flock is being driven across the interior when a blizzard comes down on open sand and rock. Every landmark goes. You cannot pitch a tent on that ground and turning back is worse than going on.

At the front is a ram called Surtur, from Svinavatn, already known as a superior leader. The fjallkongur, the man running the round-up, makes a decision. He hands the whole thing to the sheep and tells his men to stay together.

A third of the way across, Surtur stops, turns, and walks back down through the flock to find the men. His face is packed solid with ice and he cannot see. They clear it. He returns to the front and walks back into the weather.

He comes back for the same service several more times that night. Nobody has to fetch him.

Then he stops and will not move at all. The men feel about and find grass under their boots, which tells them they are off the desert and nothing else whatsoever.

At dawn the storm eases and they work out where they are.

They are standing on the exact spot the round-up stops every year after crossing the sands. Surtur had halted there since he was a lamb. Afterwards the fjallkongur told his owner that without the ram, men would have died out there as well as sheep.

There are fewer than 1,500 leader sheep left, all of them descended from one district in the north east. Iceland recognised them as a breed of their own in 2017. There is a small museum out there, run by a local teacher, with the heads of the great ones on the wall and a coffee blend named after the animals. The saying on the wall is that if you wear clothes made from their wool, you will always find your way home.

Genetic work has since confirmed they really are distinct from every other Icelandic sheep. The folklore was right. Folklore usually is, out where the weather kills people.

No laboratory. No pedigree software. No genome. Just farmer after farmer, century after century, watching which animal was at the front when the light went, and breeding from that one.

A thousand years of selecting a sheep for its judgement, and at the end of it they built it a museum.

And here we are, in the country that calls them stupid.

[Unseen Japan @UnseenJapanSite]

|When my boss asks 'any questions?', I'd say, 'N'nya, none, thank you!' because 'n'nya' is Kagoshima dialect for 'no,' but I just realized they didn't know that and for a full year and a half thought I was a 27yo woman who sometimes speaks Cat."

[Pop Says @Cinema_says]

Hayden Panettiere says she was given “happy pills” by people on her team when she was just 15 to make her more energetic for red carpets and interviews while she was starring in Heroes.

She recalled being told, “Here, take one of these, it’s a happy pill, it’ll give you energy,” explaining that she didn’t realize at the time that she was being given a drug.

Panettiere said the pills were “something similar to Adderall” and that they made her feel happier and more energetic without realizing the potential consequences.

“They were to make me peppy during interviews. I had no idea that this was not an appropriate thing, or what door that would open for me when it came to my addiction.”

She also says the adults around her prioritized her career and income over protecting her, explaining, “I had people around me who were making money off of me, and you don’t want to rock the boat when the boat is making you money.”

Panettiere revealed, “There were so many people that should have stepped in. There were so many adults in my life who were supposed to protect me, who saw what was going on and looked the other way because as long as I was working, the machine kept running.”

She added, “I was the breadwinner from the time I was a little girl. When you are the one funding everyone’s lives, the dynamic completely flips. You don't have parents anymore—you have managers, you have employees, and nobody wants to tell the golden goose to stop.”

In the end, her legacy remains a powerful, urgent warning about the critical need to protect young performers from the very industries that make them stars.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Mothers in Gaza played Ms Rachel videos to distract their children during amputations because there was no anesthesia.

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

34 lives.

Not through fame, wealth or power. Through paying attention, recognising when someone was in crisis and refusing to walk past.

Railway worker Rizwan Javed MBE deserves every bit of recognition he has received. What an extraordinary contribution.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

A homeless man in London captured the attention of thousands, not for begging, but for the way he rocks his dog to sleep every night. When asked why, he explained that life hadn’t always been this way. “When I first got him, we had an apartment,” he said softly. “Living on the street has been a hard adjustment for him. The honking, the sirens, the people, it keeps him up. So every night, I make sure he’s asleep before I close my eyes.” #dog #wholesome #dogs #doglover