Erin Schrode

Momma. Activist. Rabblerousing optimist. Social entrepreneur. @TurningGreenOrg cofounder. Impact consultant. Treehugger. Writer. Speaker. Jew.

[Erin Schrode @ErinSchrode]

I ran for Congress. I didn't expect to be the target of anonymous trolls in anti-Semitic online campaigns. Read @AP: https://t.co/9jUdmgCmxQ

[Austin Stanley @AustinStanley81]

Dolly Parton addressed health concerns about her on May 4, 2026

She incredibly compared herself to an old antique car that needed a new engine, transmission, new pistons and spark plugs.

“They didn’t say anything about my mental health” she joked.

She clearly had a ton of plans and active projects for this year, including a Nashville museum and hotel, writing, recording, getting on stage in 5 inch heels.

RIP Dolly. Her greatness makes it feel like 80 is way too soon. 🧡

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

It’s hard to imagine living a life so well that when you die, the entire world, a world that hates each other, stops for a minute to all talk about how awesome you were.

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

Impossible to describe how HUGE this is. State AGs just pulled off what the federal government could never
https://t.co/UHli5rVxLA

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed.

Rhinestones on the outside, gold on the inside. 💛

[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.

[Imagination Library @dollyslibrary]

Our team, our local program partners, and every operational partner who helps make this program possible each month are heartbroken at the loss of our founder, Dolly Parton. (cont.)

[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.

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

Piker’s response to Democrats criticizing his anti-Semitic statement is to claim it was secretly orchestrated by aipac

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

You're the one who campaigned with that twitch streamer and won't denounce him. Who tried to equate a radical Muslim running a truck into a Jewish pre-school with the IDF killing a Hezbollah member in Lebanon. Who said many of your own supporters were warm toward Ayatollah Khamenei. Own it.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Hasan Piker is sexist, offensive and harmful. Shame on every pundit and politician enabling him.

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

The malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and antisemitic.

There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters at a moment of rising hate.

We will fight the cancer of antisemitism with the fierce urgency of now.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

It is genuine advice meant in the spirit of good will to tell any leader to stay 100 miles away from Piker who is morally repugnant (and repellant to the median voter)

[Max Rose @MaxRose4NY]

Success! We have made the headline about the Jews. We have done our work for the day my friends.

Cenk - can I see your tweet when Mamdani met Trump? 😘😘

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Piker mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination while dressed like Mao is not shocking because he’s an idiot who relies on outrage for income. What is shocking is that he does it while simultaneously tying himself to Dem candidates who he knows will be damaged by his behavior.

[Jonathan Eric Lewis @LewisJonathanE]

"Complicity in genocide" is going to become the new phraseology used to expel Jews from American public life

Every Jewish person who has a friend or relative in Israel, who has visited the country, who has attended a Jewish event about Israel, who has been a member of a mainstream Jewish organization, who reads or speaks Hebrew, will be considered "complicit in genocide"

The ultimate goal of antizionists is, and has always been, to invert the Holocaust in order to purge Jews from society

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Follow the thread & watch what is possibly the most disgusting political thread I've seen (& I've seen plenty!) pushed by FL candidate Dan Bilzerian against @VoteRandyFine @RepFine Bilzerian has taken Jew-hate to a new low. Bilzerian shouldn't get near Congress!

[Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo]

What happened last night at Central Synagogue should be deeply disturbing to every New Yorker.

Antisemitism is a cancer, and it will continue to spread when elected officials either fuel it with divisive rhetoric or meet it with silence.

Leaders must lead. There can be no ambiguity and no excuses.

Jew hatred must be confronted wherever and whenever it appears - and we must be relentless in eradicating it.

[Brooklyn Bridgebuilders @BklynBridgeNYC]

At this point, we believe every single pulpit Rabbi in NYC (except Abby Stein) has expressed concern about Mayor Mamdani’s rhetoric. Whether it was done via open letter, sermon or private meeting, they have uniformly expressed that many Jews legit fear for their safety in NYC.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

@NYCMayor Thanks for this post. Words after an attack are easy. A better way to address this: listen to the rabbis who sat with you days ago and asked you to moderate your rhetoric on Israel. They told you it was making Jewish New Yorkers less safe. Tonight proved them right.

[Jessica S. Tisch @NYPDPC]

Earlier this evening, an individual disrupted Shabbat services at Central Synagogue in Manhattan. As synagogue security was escorting him out, he struck a member of the congregation, damaged synagogue property, and then spit at and headbutted a member of the security team. An NYPD sergeant working a paid detail at the synagogue immediately stepped in and took the individual into custody.

I have spoken with the rabbi of the synagogue, and I’m relieved that no one was seriously injured. Those who were hurt were evaluated at the scene and are doing well. There are no known additional threats at this time, and additional NYPD resources have been deployed to the synagogue. The investigation is ongoing.

I understand the sanctity of this space and its meaning for congregants. Central Synagogue is where I grew up. In joy and in sorrow, it has always been a place of comfort and peace. What happened there tonight is deeply painful. A place of worship should never be a crime scene.