Kara

Mostly a list of things I ate in 2009

[Kara @karafreeman]

This is an anti-America and What I’m listening to lately account

[Acyn @Acyn]

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

[Kara @karafreeman]

@RevNunnWisdom @SymoneDSanders @PatsFan0687 Whyyy were they looking at him like he was speaking a martian language

[Kara @karafreeman]

@SymoneDSanders @PatsFan0687 Oh brother

[Sydney Battle @SydneyBattle]

the witch at spirit halloween waiting for me to step on her mat

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

imagine if someone in 2016 told me that in 10 years I’d have more respect for Macklemore than Radiohead. the kind of prediction that medieval kings used to kill their seers for making.

[erin 🍑 @maizie_star]

idk how to boycott ed sheeran more than i already am but i’ll have to find a way

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “Anytime I critique America, the entirety of the Republican Party goes that’s America hatred. Bitch, you hate America. What the fuck do you mean? Between you and I, who hates America? The guy who wants everybody to have healthcare, to stop endless militarism, all of our productive output going to bombing schools instead of building schools over here, or the guy who is consistently advocating to rip apart the social fabric that pulls us together?”

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.

But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.

A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.

We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.

Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.

#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow

[VT Separatist @VTDemSoc]

Condemn hasan piker

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if democrats defended the working class like they defend israel trump wouldn’t be president

[Maine @mainey_maine]

They taking the wrong white people

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

not having children in honor of dolly parton

[Kevin Daly @kevinddaly]

Tim Curry should have won an Academy Award for the scene in Clue where he re-enacts the entire film. Goodbye to him.

[Bunny_Guts @BunnyGuts69]

it should have been Charlie Kirk again

[habitual line-stepper @alaskastardust]

computer. My Tennessee Mountain Home. loud enough to kill.

[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.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Dolly Parton created the Dollywood Foundation in 1988 to provide inspiration and educational resources to children.

The Imagination Library, inspired by her father’s inability to read, has donated millions of books globally to promote childhood literacy.

Thank you, Dolly.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

This is gutting. There are few people who are universally beloved. Dolly Parton is one. She made the US a better place. I've dreaded this day because of the unique way she was admired and loved by so many different people. We'll grieve together now, and it's an awful feeling.
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[Firastopher 🇵🇸 @firastopher]

Dolly Parton dead but all the genocidal warmongering psychopaths in power are somehow still kicking