Maddie Pierce 🇵🇸

VUMC RN || is it thinking too high of myself to not want to be sad?

[Maddie Pierce 🇵🇸 @mcgoozle]

"do your part. stay home. wash your hands. and every day, I'll come to work for you." 💕

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

Thank you everyone for your incredible messages of support and encouragement.♥️

Many of you asked what it was like in the ER right now. I want to share a bit with you. Please RT:

A Day in the Life of an ER Doc - A Brief Dispatch from the #COVID19 Frontline:

[Maddie Pierce 🇵🇸 @mcgoozle]

@ilyastunamelts this fic changed my brain chemistry

[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.

[Wendigoon @Wendigoon8]

Dolly was born in East Tennessee and used her success to make it better. So much money from her attractions and fame came into our mountain communities and was put into schools and infrastructure. She made the Imagination Library to help childhood literacy in Appalachia. Every month since our daughter was born, the library has sent her a book with a note from Dolly encouraging her to be proud of where she’s from and to learn the importance of the stories that built us. Her husband passed last year and she spoke of being reunited with him. I’m glad heaven is a little sweeter, and sings a little better for it. Rest in peace to the Queen of Appalachia, Jolene could never.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Maddie Pierce 🇵🇸 @mcgoozle]

@Ilyaspaghetti

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

No I don’t think so, usually hantaviruses are not as transmissible person-to-person as coronaviruses, but it’s another reminder of the risk of global infections emerging due to climate change, globalization, and why it’s reckless to defund @WHO @CDCgov

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Every time

[Lil Wayne WEEZY F @LilTunechi]

Geno a ho

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @brotherjones_: “PSA for my Republican colleagues— there’s a Super Bowl halftime show, I know some of you will be triggered by Bad Bunny… you should know he’s from Puerto Rico, which is in 🇺🇸.

You may watch the TP USA show, just know Kid Rock sings about underage girls.”

[Autism Research Institute @ariConference]

Shane Hollander, a character in the Canadian queer hockey romance that has taken the world by storm, diverges from that usual autistic archetype in a number of meaningful and refreshing ways.

https://t.co/umpVo6X9ug

[poet @prentisspoet]

the main “villain” of the pitt is the UNITED STATES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM; I never want to see that word being used to describe any of the girls ever again

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

The Pitt used their platform to tell the little known story of how the Muslim community raised money and paid for the funerals of those killed in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.

[dani @heyitsjobros]

me every single day of my life since I was 11

[kaz Y/DSA @lqvekanthony]

THE TREVOR PROJECT CAN BE REACHED DIRECTLY AT 1-866-488-7386, EVEN WHEN THIS IS GOING TO BE GONE. PLEASE SHARE TO POSSIBLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE.

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Scenes from Nashville’s #NoKings protest 1/

[taylor @wishescametrue]

rep og: there will be no explanation there will just be reputation.
rep tv: there will be no reputation there will just be explanation.

[beaner of bad news @wh0r30z]

JD Vance do you want to meet my ex

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

She was right

[South Carolina Women's Basketball @GamecockWBB]

It’s time to block out the noise. It’s time to be us.