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MSW • Abolitionist • Anti-adoption adoptee

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@GeauxGabrielle forgot to tag the author @justinevdl

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@GeauxGabrielle highly recommend this book about criminalized survival

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@synerGy_FAB @Spirit_of_1861 We did 3% down and we’re getting our PMI taken off after only four years because our home’s value has appreciated enough that our equity is at 25%

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@sulkingtime Need Jon Taffer to make a Bar Rescue episode on them immediately

[Jensen Ackles @JensenAckles]

My buddy Kirk was the waiter...can anyone spot the real blood pouring out of his head behind his ear? Took one for the team! Thanks again!

[لا حولَ @Idgafwarvet]

(on the verge of blowing my shit off clean) I should start looking into PhD programs

[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.

[Chicha Roan @jush_for_fun]

Everyone dying but him…

[lindsey marie @thekuhlest]

@offbeatorbit I think everyone needs to read the “fatal distraction” article at least once https://t.co/VAK19ygYfP

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.

https://t.co/07BtpKswBu

[Francesca Hong @FrancescaHongWI]

@jshbz If you need me I'll be balls deep in bourbon

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@facetedcarapace From Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi

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@everlarklvr Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

my mad fat diary was genuinely a revolutionary show and she means so much to me

[bug girl @buggirl]

y’all are letting american individualism melt your fucking brains oh my god hearing a baby cry while you’re getting coffee is not going to end your life. it’s part of being outside. in public. where people are. babies are people btw

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[The Nation @thenation]

Adoption as practiced in the US is rooted in racism, imperialism, colonialism, and outright abduction. It’s time to do something different, writes @mcenizas_.
https://t.co/JQwpdGAMdf