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[kiesha @kiesha9i]

WHEN I DIE, PLEASE BRING CAT FOOD INSTEAD OF FLOWERS TO MY GRAVE.
I WANT THE CATS TO KEEP COMING BACK TO VISIT ME.

[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.

[𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 😈 @DiehardDerrick]

Serena Williams is a dominant, cisgender female athlete that was accused of being a man.

So was Katie Ledecky, A’ja Wilson, Imane Khelif, and many more.

Cisgender women are not safe from transphobia because transphobia is a tool of misogyny.

[mikal bridges lover @redhead_og]

Congrats! The biggest threat to women’s sports has yet again proven to be cisgender men. For everyone who wanted to “protect women,” you just proved you don’t give a shit whatsoever!

[Betsey @Betsycashmoney]

Just so we're clear:

There are ZERO trans players in the W or any level of NCAA hoops.

The W didnt "need" a committee to define anything.

They were FORCED to form a committee, because the dumbest people on Earth decided to start harassing W athletes & transpeople FOR NO REASON

[Roe 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them @GraceRoe5142]

I feel like I’ve been watching the government try to murder the population of New Orleans my entire life.

[Robin Lopez @rolopez42]

Biggest issue: If you're being drafted, people are saying "we want you around for 4 years" & I can't imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes.

We've seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality.

[Jibber Prevalia 🦆🕷🕸 @RealCraigT]

Trans women trying to play in the WNBA: 0

Weird dudes trying to play in the WNBA: 2

[Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski]

Royce White is a known woman abuser where he was just given a 50 year stay away order for his ex wife and two year from his stepson because of multiple finding of abuse by a judge.

Right now there are zero D1 trans athletes in Womens College Basketball, zero in the WNBA and 7 over all in D1 sports. You could not name one of them. There are 9 trans athletes in women’s high school sports. Most individual, very few team. You could not name any. But go ahead and google and look for an arrest record on any. I did. You will find none.

What I just said are facts. Conservatives love to say facts don’t care about your feelings.

So maybe if you truly care about women and kids don’t praise and listen to a guy who beats women and kids.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

So what you’re telling us is that the threat to women’s sports was never from trans women and always from loser males?

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

The WNBPA issued a statement in response to former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom's plans to enter the WNBA draft in 2027:

"To everyone who loves this game: The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions. We embrace justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.

Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns."

[Vols Over All Y’all @VolsAF]

Once again, it’s not the trans community that is the danger to women

It’s MAGA men

Every time

[Paddocast Sports @PaddocastSports]

I normally wouldn't weigh in on something like this, but after seeing it become something that will continue to follow the Fever, I think it's worth discussing. More importantly, I think it's an important conversation about the future of women's sports.

Hopefully I've earned enough trust from those who follow me to know I try to be a straight shooter, even when it's uncomfortable. If you don't know me, all I ask is that you read this with an open mind. I promise I'd do the same for you.

I was at the game and honestly didn't notice any of these people until it was pointed out afterward. I believe people have the right to gather, express themselves, and have their voices heard. I also think both a Storm fan and a Storm co-owner made some poor judgments that night.

That said, I think this is a conversation worth having in good faith because it matters.

NCAA President Charlie Baker testified that he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes among roughly 510,000 NCAA athletes. There should absolutely be fair eligibility policies for the rare cases that arise. Fairness in women's sports matters.

Where I struggle is that we've turned one of the smallest issues in women's sports into one of the loudest. If we spent even a fraction of this energy on funding, coaching, facilities, player safety, injury prevention, keeping girls in sports, and enforcing the promises of Title IX, we'd improve the lives of far more women athletes.

The imagery of juxtaposing little girls with adult men is intentional because it evokes a strong emotional response. Whether you agree with the underlying position or not, campaigns like this focus public attention on an issue involving an extremely small number of athletes while the much larger challenges affecting hundreds of thousands of girls and women receive comparatively little attention.

If the goal is truly to strengthen women's sports, I'd love to see just as much passion directed toward investing in girls' programs, improving facilities, supporting coaches, advancing injury research, expanding opportunities for young women, and advocating for better resources at every level.

The part that stuck with me most wasn't even what happened in the arena. It was reading the comments under the interview with the two teenage girls afterward. So many of the loudest voices weren't celebrating women's sports or talking about investing in girls' athletics. They were mocking the WNBA and women's sports altogether.

That's why I think this distinction matters. It's entirely possible those girls genuinely believe they're standing up for women's sports. I don't question that. But many of the people amplifying them didn't seem interested in supporting women's sports at all. They seemed interested in opposing transgender inclusion, and women's sports simply became the vehicle for that message.

To reiterate, I do believe there should be fair policies for this outlier issue. I just don't believe it should dominate the conversation about women's sports. When an issue involving fewer than 10 known NCAA athletes receives more attention than the things affecting hundreds of thousands of girls and women every day, I think it's fair to ask whether our priorities are truly aligned with making women's sports stronger.

Women's sports deserve advocates who show up not just for the controversies, but for the athletes, the teams, the girls dreaming of playing one day, and the future of the games themselves.

[𝐢𝐫 @VikasTrphyButch]

Do not forget about them.
Keith Porter.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

sudanese children are starving while the world turns a blind eye to them. i beg you all to use your platforms to advocate for sudan.

[soLo @lodollasign_]

really could go my whole life without hearing Richard Jefferson speak again and be better for it 😵‍💫

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”

[soLo @lodollasign_]

think fast, you only get one try