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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

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 🇺🇸

[According2Taz @according2_taz]

Meghan will be flitting back and forth to America, whilst Harry stays in the UK with the children?

So a ‘Conscious Uncoupling’ then 🙄

If all this drama they have created is because those two are separating, just announce it. I’m bored and tired 😴

https://t.co/CrJq8VbMfE

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Let’s hope this catches on.

“Islamophobia” is getting a bit tired after all.

I’ll be looking for indications of blatant anglophobia in my replies and I’ll be reporting any anglophobic hate crimes to the relevant authorities.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

My parents divorced too, Bridget.

And yet everybody in my life still sees the importance of marriage & two-parent families.

And so does the evidence.

Children in two-parent households consistently do better than those who are not.

Just because you come from disrupted families does not mean you have to withdraw support for two-parent families.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Seven people, including two police officers, died in the horrific Middlesbrough crash.

We’re still learning the full details.

Twelve people have been arrested in relation to organised crime and the crash.

I have to point out, however, that 4 of the 5 people in the car driving the wrong way down the A66 - the car that killed the two police officers - had prior criminal convictions.

In fact, they had 37 prior convictions between them.

For drugs offences, stealing cars, racial abuse, assaulting police officers, and knife possession.

It’s not clear that any has served a single day in prison.

Two police officers are dead.

PC Blades, a loved husband and father to two young boys. This year, he was going to coach his son’s football team.

And PC Tom Clough, a former soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. His family described him as “our hero.”

I for one am angry.

Angry at the gangsters, and yes also their minions, who terrorise the rest of us and get away with it.

And angry at our leaders for failing us, and making our police officers’ lives a living hell.

I promise you this.

Reform UK will end this carnage.

We will restore law and order in this country.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨 SHOCK EXPOSÉ: British reporter sneaks onto migrant dinghy and catches French police GIVING FREE TAXI RIDES to people-smugglers back to their camps so they can keep flooding Britain!

Christian Drogan spent weeks undercover in the lawless Calais camps, posing as a fugitive British crook. He boarded a packed inflatable with dozens of others, filming every grim second of the seven-hour nightmare crossing.

French gendarmes pulled up mid-Channel, warned the boat the seas ahead were “very dangerous”, and offered anyone a lift back to shore. The ONLY ones who jumped at the chance? The four smugglers running the operation. Police cheerfully dropped them straight back on the beach to organise the next wave of illegal trips!

Unbelievable!

Drogan later said: “I rolled the dice with my life for this investigation, and its findings have only cemented my scepticism towards the establishment.”

TalkTV’s Isabel Oakeshott added: “There is a very good reason no reporter has ever attempted such a mission before: because it is both extraordinarily difficult, and extraordinarily dangerous.”

Border Force eventually picked them up in UK waters. One officer even told Drogan: “You’re on the wrong boat.”

This is the reality the authorities don’t want you seeing.

Great work!

[Ben Leo @Benleo]

Great FOI here confirming this police force, at least, records crime stats by ethnicity.

There’s no way the rest of them don’t do this.

So WHY is the government going to court to stop migrant crime data being published?

Is it the same reason they made rape and paedo guides for migrants?

Because they know if this data gets out, the truth gets out, it’ll be the END of their mass immigration experiment once and for all.

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

Jaw Drop Moment Incoming.

After our press conference yesterday my partner asked me why reporters were asking about Ukraine when the press conference was about social housing.

My partner is Ukrainian, hates Putin and loves our new social housing policy.

Over to you Bridget !

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

The UK is over £3 Trillion in debt.

That's £3,004,000,000,000!!

Rachel Reeves increased the debt by £500,000,000,000 in two years.

Andy Burnham keeps announcing more spending plans.

Totally irresponsible 'leadership'.

This Labour Government are leading us to disaster

SAME OLD LABOUR SAME OLD PROBLEMS

[Mollie'sMama @MolliesMama_]

Prince William,
'You are not alone'.
We stand with you.

You have the wisdom, fortitude and strength of your beloved grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip.

You have your beloved mother, Princess Diana's heart. Her compassion and resilience. You truly love the people as she did. You are putting that into action. You are hands on to get results. As Diana did e.g Landlines. The millions of lives saved because she wouldn't give up until laws were changed. They did! They are still removing them. But much less because of HER work.

You are your mother's son. Not just her physical traits and blue blue eyes but Diana's greatest attributes. Thank you for respecting your forever beautiful mother and not dining out on her legacy and memory.

You are an honorable man and a leader with integrity. You bring honor to the role as the Prince of Wales. May God continue to protect you and your family.

When the weight is great, look up, they've got you 🙌 💙❤️💞

@KensingtonRoyal @RoyalFamily @miketindall13 @ZaraTindallMBE @TheLaurences_
#PrinceWilliam #PrincessCatherine @ClarenceHouse

[The Spectator @spectator]

Cambridge University's education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor who wrote that Muslims should study engineering and computers 'to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate over all other deens.'.

Two weeks ago we covered one chapter Ahmed wrote in a Hizb pamphlet – published in 2002, and republished in 2017 (Ahmed was not involved in the republication) – where she attacked ‘western education’ as a ‘threat’ to Muslims, condemned democracy and integration, and criticised British schools for teaching pupils that child marriage is wrong.

However, the same pamphlet includes a second, even more radical chapter, co-written by Ahmed and another senior Hizb activist, Nazreen Nawaz, head of its women’s section.

This describes Hizb’s plan to create a fully Islamic education system as part of the Islamic dictatorship, the Khilafah, which is its core goal. As the chapter puts it: ‘nothing will be contained within the curriculum that contradicts with Islam, such as the teaching of the ideas of freedom, nationalism, democracy or evolution in a positive light’.

‘Nor can there be any schools established on any other religion, sect or race… Even the non-Muslims need to be educated under the educational curriculum of Islam… by pushing them to think about the correct belief in life.’

✍️ Andrew Gilligan

Article | https://t.co/qXmQuMzTbM | @mragilligan

[Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood]

We need more Kruger. Much more 👏👇

[Robin 🇮🇱 @Robiiin_Hoodx]

This Palestinian man was lying on the ground, pretending Israeli forces had beaten him.

Meanwhile, a UN cameraman was recording everything.

And people still wonder why they stopped trusting these videos.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Anika @anika_climate]

@TfL 🚨 WATERLOO STATION: Only the women’s toilets are GENDER NEUTRAL - so biological men can enter but the MENS are MEN ONLY. Am I missing something here?

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

Rachel lied about the spice girl lunch date.
Rachel lied about the casting rumor.
Harry got fired from African Parks.
Harry got a huge bill from the court case he just lost.
Already drama over how long they plan to stay, where they will live, and the never ending cries for security.
Tell me again how the royals need this.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Since taking office, @JMilei has brought monthly inflation down from nearly 20% to roughly 2%.

Halved poverty in Argentina.

Reduced government spending by laying off 56,000 civil servants.

Rent prices down 40%.

It can be done.

If the love for your nation and people is your priority.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Extraordinary footage of British journalist getting on a migrant boat & coming to Britain

MUST WATCH exclusive on Talk TV 5pm today

Huge congrats to Isabel Oakeshott & Christian Drogan

A year in the making. Shocking expose of French Police as well

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

You're out of touch.

I was a single parent for 17 years.

I looked after my two boys the best I could but don't you dare suggest having just one parent is comparable to having both loving parents bringing children up.

@reformparty_uk are trying give British families a leg up with our social housing policy.

All you are doing is not encouraging the family model with your welfare policies.

We will always put British families first.