Carol-Anne

[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.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: ICE threw tear Gas into a Minneapolis vehicle with an African-American family and a six month old baby inside. The baby stopped breathing.

Anybody who stands for this crap needs to re-examine their patriotism.

Please don’t give these horrible people a reason to escalate even further. That is what they want.

[َ1993 @abaddiesdiaryy]

Selena Gomez is a way better person than me because this would be my profile pic if I was her 🤣

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

The sad irony: The "freedom" convoy actually had a lot of freedom...To travel across the country. To honk their horns all day & night. To party in hot tubs. To occupy Ottawa for 3 straight weeks.

Privilege is having freedom & having no clue that you have it.

[MaggieK 🇨🇦 @MaggieKeresteci]

I don’t feel controlled by government when I wear a mask or get #COVID19Vaccine any more than I do wearing a seatbelt, deciding not to drink & drive or stopping at red light. I am vaccinated bc I want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. The common good matters.

[Carol-Anne @carolannegreen_]

@alexisjewel__ Wait.....I need to get this ASAP 🤤

[Paula Simons @Paulatics]

Sigh. To those of you who were offended. No, I’m not giving orders. Yes, I am suggesting that we take the pleasure off front line & essential workers as best we can. And yes. 398 Albertans have died of Covid - one quarter of then in the last few days. It’s not a hoax. Or a plot.

[corey loves you so so much @coreylovesyou2]

if u voted for trump, block me now. i dont want anything to do with u, i have zero respect for u and i mean this in the most disrespectful way possible. not only did u vote against basic human rights and equality, u voted for racism, homophobia, islamophobia and transphobia.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Holy shit......this.

[Carol-Anne @carolannegreen_]

@VicIwanegbe LITERALLY

[t @lilvonii]

a 16 year old was murdered for throwing a sandwich in a cafeteria. when the school staff heard that he threw a sandwich one of them sat on his neck for 12 minutes. he kept saying that he couldn’t breathe and died of cardiac arrest. his name is cornelius fredericks. SAY HIS NAME.

[ClevyRicch @ClevyRicch]

“I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have no gun.”

SAY HIS NAME
Elijah McClain

I stay haunted.

[d @sansrival___]

These Milwaukee community members uncovered a child kidnapping/rape house run by local PD and caught officers sneaking people out the back and y’all think we can just reform this shit away?

The only answer is abolition.

[Padma Lakshmi @PadmaLakshmi]

Germany doesn’t have Nazi monuments to “remind” citizens of their history. Instead, they have memorials for the 6 million Jews and others who were murdered.

The U.S. doesn’t need statues of confederate generals to “remind” us. We need monuments for Nat Turner & Harriet Tubman.