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Mom to 4, one💔8/89-11/21. 💜Dolly💜Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty🌙 Fender Jazz | Marshall Tucker, Skynyrd, Eagles, Allman Bros

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@BirdCentralPark @wildbirdfund 😭

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@JanetJackson @MusicJim2 Happiest of Birthdays Miss Jackson!! You are awesome 🎉🎉💜

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@DollyParton Love you! You are in my prayers, and some of us are going through it too so you are not alone my Tennessee girl💐💜

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@amybruni Excited for you and this! Also so glad KS is on HBO now- just looked up Keeper of the Light, a fav. Met you n Nashville and wish you well!

[MM  @adgirlMM]

I don't know how else to say this, so I'll just say it plainly.

We are at Code Red.

If this administration is not put in check soon, everything that makes America beautiful is at risk of irreversible damage.

He is stealing, leasing and depleting our protected lands.
He won't stop.

Protecting our National Parks, U.S. national forests, and the majestic Arctic Refuge should not be a partisan issue.

Once these lands are destroyed, they are gone forever.

Future generations will never know or experience them. The wildlife that lives off them will not survive.

One man should not hold this power over the future of all Americans.

Call your Senators and ask them to protect our public lands and national forests.

Make it clear you will not support the reelection of a representative who votes to mine, drill, or log on our protected lands.

Code Red.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

37 years old. Healthy runner. Dad of two. Stage 4 colon cancer.

That was the devastating call former Boston College baseball player Christopher Kowalski received out of nowhere.

He had only subtle signs — a little fatigue and upper rib pain. Then came the news: colon cancer that had already spread to his liver.

His wife told him they had 48 hours to cry, feel everything… then fight. Now he’s turning his battle into a wake-up call.

Doctors are seeing colorectal cancer rising sharply in people in their 20s and 30s. Warning signs can be easy to miss (blood in stool, bowel changes, unexplained weight loss, abdominal pain), but catching it early saves lives — up to 90% of cases are preventable with screening.

Chris’s simple message: “Life is precious.”

If something feels off — no matter your age — don’t wait. Get checked.

What symptom or change made you finally go see a doctor?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Look at this list.

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@JackOsbourne Congratulations! Love to you all💜

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Some excerpts from an article in today’s New York Times:

“Overall, the top 1 percent now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.”

. . . . . .

“The private equity behemoth Blackstone, for instance, saw its effective tax rate drop from 18 percent in 2017 to 7 percent in 2018 to -1.3 percent in 2019. Over the same period, Bloomberg estimated that chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, whose personal fortune is largely reflective of his ownership stake in the firm, saw his net worth grow to about $19 billion in 2019 from around $11 billion in 2017. He is now worth an estimated $45 billion, a more than 300 percent increase in eight years.”

. . . . . .

“Federal Reserve data shows that the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans now own about $25.6 trillion worth of stocks and mutual funds, the same amount as the remaining 99 percent of the country. About half the stock owned by the wealthiest Americans — $13.7 trillion worth — is owned by the richest 0.1 percent.”

. . . . . .

“The Walton family, which controls Walmart, currently has an estimated combined wealth of $550 billion, up from $256 billion in the spring of 2020.”

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It’s America’s “Golden Age” indeed if you’re among the top 1 percent who continue to amass more and more gold. It’s hard to wrap your head around the fact that the wealth of the top 1 percent of Americans exceeds the GDP of the United States and China … combined.

On the other side of the tracks, ordinary Americans get fed a steady diet of empty rhetoric about how our elected officials are working hard for the working class as data prove that in reality it’s the rich who just keep on getting richer at the expense of the rest.

And life is really sweet if you’re among the 900 billionaires who are in the top 0.1 percent. Remember Pam Bondi saying we shouldn’t be talking about Jeffrey Epstein, we should be talking about the stock market going over 50,000? Well, the top 1 percent own 99 percent of all stocks, and the top 0.1 percent own half of that!

And to bring it back home, the two congressional candidates the party elites in Washington chose for voters in Western North Carolina — Chuck Edwards and Jamie Ager — are CEOs of multimillion dollar corporations and both are top 1 percent rich.

And both party-picked candidates are bankrolled by top 0.1 percent billionaires.

Stephen Schwarzman (net worth $45 billion), CEO of Blackstone Group (and pal of Jeffrey Epstein), is a max donor to Chuck Edwards. Schwarzman and his wife combined have given $14,000 directly to Chuck’s campaign.

I noted yesterday that Jamie Ager’s biggest donor is the Welcome PAC (10 donations totaling $36,500), and the second biggest donor to the Welcome PAC is Epstein pal Reid Hoffman (net worth $3 billion), co-founder of LinkedIn. Well, the biggest donor to the Welcome PAC is Rob Walton (net worth $146 billion), the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

And that’s how America’s ruling class works: the top 0.1 percent bankroll (since they’re too busy making money to run for office) the top 1 percent to hoodwink the bottom 99 percent to continue screwing themselves.

It’s not a Golden Age for the working class, it’s a Golden Shower. Maybe one day they’ll wise up and turn it off.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

No rehearsals, no warm ups, 74 year old and still sound amazing. That's talent at its best.

Music is the closest thing we have to a time machine.

[Chrissy Houlahan @RepHoulahan]

Did you change your last name when you got married? Are you one of the 140 million Americans who doesn't have a passport?

If so, the SAVE Act would block you from registering to vote. Let's stop this undemocratic bill in its tracks.

https://t.co/MYh10x120I

[Kristen Soltis Anderson @KSoltisAnderson]

In 2005, I learned to not feel great if Jim Cantore describes the weather heading my way as “downright scary”.

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

Wishing the Happiest Birthday to @DollyParton you have blessed us with your heart, soul and compassion. I will always love you🦋💜

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

So proud seeing the Franklin High School band in the Rose Parade this morning! Love their honor to @DollyParton !! #FranklinHighSchoolMarchingBand @CityOfFranklin @visitmusiccity #ninetofive

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@Rainmaker1973 Praying 💜

[NYMomma 💜🎩🌙🎸🫣🐾 @giant1956]

@DollyParton dear Dolly, I am so thankful for you and all your artistry and your wonderful, giving heart. God has blessed you and you have blessed so very many. Love to you🦋💜

[Gary Hershorn @GaryHershorn]

Some others from this morning's sunrise in New York City #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc @EmpireStateBldg #sunrise

[Gary Hershorn @GaryHershorn]

Quite the sunrise sky over midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building to start the day in New York City, Monday morning #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc @EmpireStateBldg #sunrise

[Gary Hershorn @GaryHershorn]

Sunset on the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building in New York City, Sunday evening seen from Bayonne, NJ #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork @empirestatebldg #statueofliberty @statueellisfdn #sunset

[GreatSmokyNPS @GreatSmokyNPS]

Update: The Gatlinburg Bypass is closed until further notice due to a large landslide that occurred Saturday morning following heavy rainfall.