makayla fincher

[U.S. Department of the Interior @Interior]

Dolly Parton carried the music, stories and spirit of her Tennessee mountain home wherever she went. She was a lifelong champion of the Great Smoky Mountains and proudly shared her love for them with the world.

While we may no longer see her working 9 to 5, we will always love her.

Here’s to Dolly, who made our world a little more beautiful.

[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.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

[robert franco @responsiblerob]

something that really confused me as a kid was the fact that there’s a dragon in a book named eragon and then a giant spider in harry potter named aragog and a hot guy in lord of the rings named aragorn

[Lola Garcia @DSC_lola]

Can we please get Nat Geo + Jimmy Chin back for every Alex Honnold climb? This Netflix coverage is unbearable.

[Weapon 𝕏 @HellRaz0r1776]

Big weather system coming through.
Here's what we know so far.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

To be clear and as I posted yesterday, I think the new food recommendations are pretty spot on, although I would increase the vegetable intake. Some starch is actually good, especially if you resistance train. Rice, oatmeal, sourdough bread, rye all terrific. But if you’re not doing something too deplete glycogen, you’re not going to need a lot of starches. Meat, eggs, fruits, vegetables, olive oil. Maybe a little butter. Eat that way 90% of the time and you’re doing great.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Oatmeal (and I think that’s rice and sourdough) made the cut! In all seriousness, assuming overall calories are kept in check and people exercise & get sun(day)light, this looks spot on. Maybe up the veggies a bit, add low sugar fermented foods like sauerkraut & this is great.

[Ross Sayers @Sayers33]

Saw a girl in a Franz Ferdinand t-shirt. She couldn't even name 3 other main causes of the outbreak of World War I

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Too good.
(Me, I’m going w/meat, fish, eggs, full fat Bulgarian yogurt, vegetables, fruit, low sugar fermented foods, olive oil, a bit of butter & water & salt… & rice & sourdough bread, the occasional homemade pasta & lots of Yerba Mate & coffee
Oh & creatine & omegas &…)

[Jordan Kaplan @JKap415]

Surely all the people who were mad about Jimmy Kimmel losing his show are furious about this

[SWAMPIST @Swampist]

Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.

Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too.

Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes.

Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him.

Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions.

Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs.

Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight.

J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind.

Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts.

Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship.

Patterns are clear:

Coordinated advertiser boycotts.

Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses.

Two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed.

Accountability only ever goes one way. The Left has spent the last decade perfecting cancel culture, destroying jobs, nuking shows, wiping platforms off the internet, and laughing while people’s lives were ruined. But sure… Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination? Totally fine.

[Tim Allen @ofctimallen]

I continue this week with deep sense of my helplessness overall. I turned to reading Marcus Aurelius:
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it," and "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one".

[iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno]

When they ask me "What radicalized you?" I’m showing them this.

[makayla fincher @mdfincher12]

This world’s not meant for showing mercy,
I got pictures of us that hurt me.

[blue @bluewmist]

to avoid burnout at work use the 30-30 rule: after 30 minutes of work, quit your job and disappear into the mountains for 30 years.

[Kayla @luv2read13]

do u guys think it’s possible to be smart again after letting my brain atrophy for 5 years

[michael @FilledwithUrine]

accidentally had my jaw clenched for 6 hours again

[Trill Withers @TylerIAm]

“In my first nine Super Bowls” 😭😭