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 🇺🇸
Some guy in the row in front of me said “nah you’re on your own after that” when mj asked him to bring her home. Like yeah dude that’s why you’d never be spiderman you’re not that guy pal
All this backlash against Sadie’s Jean makes it real clear MCU fans can’t handle anything that isn’t morally black or white. Do you know how many x-men are former villains? Rogue,Gambit, Emma, MAGNETO the list goes on
Boy math is calling women as "bad
drivers" when in fact men are responsible for 73% of car accidents. Boy math is calling women "emotional" when men are responsible for 90% of violent crimes. Boy math is calling women as "dependent" even though women carry out about three times more unpaid care and domestic work than men around the world. Boy math is calling women as being "overly sensitive" even though women score higher in cognitive empathy in 57 countries. Boy math is calling women "weak" while in most countries men have a significantly shorter life expectancy than women.
@deedeemegaadodo and then they're the ones that say "im literally spiderman☝️🤓" BITCH NO UR NOT‼️‼️‼️ SPIDERMAN IS RESPECTFUL TO WOMEN EVEN WHEN HE GOT REJECTED BY THE WOMAN SHE LOVES‼️‼️‼️
They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime.
So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here's what "fighting crime" actually looks like:
> 84% had no case number at all
> The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
> Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
> "Test" and "training" show up as reasons, run on real people's cars
> The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.
So what is Flock?
FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.
NOVA: Flock's AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.
SIGNALTRACE: a competitor's tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn't even need your plate.
Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone's camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein's money.
Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!
Are you kidding?? "Using racial slurs"?? They raped women, they've raped children!!! Hell they've MURDERED innocent unarmed Americans on national television for fucks sake!!!
Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.
18 months. $5 trillion fucking dollars in 18 months. And we still don't have healthcare. And they gutted education. And food assistance. And food safety, and clean air, and clean water. And cut 300k federal jobs. Where the actual fuck is that new spending actually going?
They’re giving away Lindsay Grahams seat to his sister and they’re giving Mitch McConnells seat to his cousin.
We do not live in a democracy anymore. This is not how a democracy functions.
We did not vote for these people.
No, but seriously the fact that Conor McGregor was even able to come to the United States and to have the red carpet rolled out for him after he raped a woman so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed is actually disgusting, glad his knee exploded.