In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
Folks I have to say I can’t recall swearing at a PM before Ok prob Starmer! The thing is I & YOU can see what’s happened to this country WE? Feel the pain & WE know what WE want done SO how come these Feckers in charge of our country can’t? Yep it’s enough to make one Swear👇🤷♂️🙄
A woman was lying in a Barking park looking at the stars with a bloke she'd just started seeing.
Two Afghan men who had no right to be in this country put a knife to his throat and raped her.
One came on a small boat in 2023. Put up in a hotel on your money. Asylum refused. Still here.
Refused, and still here. Nobody came for him. Nobody was ever going to.
This is why people feel utterly powerless.
⚠️Two Afghan migrants accused of repeatedly r-ping and assaulting a 14YO girl on a train from Kent to London
Baryalai Rahimi, 25, & Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, allegedly attacked the girl on a South Western Railway train in Feb.
They deny all 10 charges.
In custody until 4/11.
This would be headline news a few years ago, now it hardly gets a mention..
🚨Two Afghan illegal immigrants convicted of knifepoint rape in London park.
Khan Agah and Noorullah Ahmdzai (26) were found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court of raping a woman at knifepoint in Barking Park, east London, on 16 August 2025.
The victim was stargazing on a first date when the pair pinned her down, threatened to kill her companion with a Swiss Army knife, and took turns assaulting her.
They were convicted of two counts of rape, threatening with a knife, assault by penetration and false imprisonment.
Sentencing is due in October.
Source: https://t.co/adtGCNhYi4
Shabana Mahmood has said she is not willing to drive the boats back to France for fear of knocking migrants into the sea.
What a load of tripe!
The French escort the boats day and night to our shores without knocking migrants into the sea.
How can the French manage this but we can’t?
This country has no chance of improving until the mega dinghies are redirected to France.
I'm pretty sure that illegal immigrant rapey men who have to be given instructions not to rape or be violent towards women, shouldnt fuckin be here in the first place.
We were left with a mess. The Biden administration had the highest deficit-to-GDP in history when we weren't at war or weren't in a recession. For 2025, we brought it down by more than a percent.
JUST IN: President Trump declares the U.S. is "way ahead" of China in the artificial intelligence race.
Trump also highlights America's technological dominance across multiple industries.
“We're ensuring that America remains the undisputed leader, not only in Bitcoin and crypto, but also technologies like prediction markets, artificial intelligence and much more.”
"Artificial intelligence, we're way ahead of number 2. Number 2 is China."
🚨 Our national debt just hit 40 TRILLION DOLLARS!
This is bad. Congress needs to get spending under control and BALANCE THE BUDGET. Americans deserve better.