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Fail forward

[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 🇺🇸

[unim @uniperson]

@FabrizioRomano Why cant @ChelseaFC keep this guy an use him as the dangerous winger he naturally is?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🚢 Titanic Survival Rate.

Total:
1st class - 62%
2nd class - 41%
3rd class - 25%

Men:
1st class - 33%
2nd class - 8%
3rd class - 16%

Women:
1st class - 97%
2nd class - 86%
3rd class - 46%

Children:
1st class - 83%
2nd class - 100%
3rd class - 34%

[unim @uniperson]

@footballontnt That's all fine and good. But if you were Christiano and clubs were willing to keep paying loads of money for you to keep playing . Would you retire?

[𝓐𝓤𝓓𝓤 @CineAudu]

I know exactly what I'm doing. How Dolly Parton shut down the noise and owned her narrative in 1977.

[gst @wearegst]

gst has been reporting on how Nigerian-made Fanta was rejected in the UK as 'unfit for human consumption,' yet this is the same Fanta Nigerians still drink today.

We will not stop.

[unim @uniperson]

@OBIKWANKWASOO @Dee_9889 He probably came with his own supportive crowd

[Tobi @Tobicods]

We all saw how the gridlock on Benin road made the person transporting catfish lose all the fish because they’ve been stranded there for days now.

That’s a prime example of “You cannot outwork a failed country”.

As you’re trying your best, the country keeps pulling you back.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

“As a man who has worked hard and travelled around the world, I can boldly tell you that the luckiest politicians on earth are Nigerian politicians. The level of ‘see finish’ they have for us is alarming. And to Nigerians, anything that this APC started, if we fold our hands and allow it, will become the norm.”

— Comedian Acapella blåsts the Chairman of Kuje Area Council, Abuja, following his statement that those not supporting the APC should leave Kuje Council.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

I see a lot of people who claim to be lawyers in #Nigeria carping at the presence of @Verydakman_ to address the @NigBarAssoc's #NBAAGC2026 in Port Harcourt.

There is something called #CustomerFeedback, guys.

Ordinary citizens who are not lawyers are customers of lawyers, the courts, & legal institutions.

By the way, lawyers who bribe judges can address us in the NBA with a straight face about ethics & things like that.

Judges who take bribes & read judgments sometimes not even written by them or in their courts can address us in fine accoutrements & we hail them.

So, why can't we abide citizens who are affected by this mess?

It's customer feedback & it's a good thing too!

[Iwu Nna @DaddyTwinzz]

You can't have roads as bad as this in 2026 and you want the world to see you as the Giant of Africa. This is a typical road in Yoruba states.

Please Abegistans, leave bantering with other African countries because you will lose woefully.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Dolly Parton, the beloved global entertainment icon who sold more than 100 million records and whose songwriting prowess and sure-handed approach to her career reshaped the face of country music, popular music, and the entertainment industry at large, has died. 🕊️

[Harmless @HarmlessHQ]

Peter Obi sat down here and listed all the bad roads in Nigeria. Seems, he's got a map of the country in his head.

No wonder he was advocating for the rehabilitation of existing roads instead of the coastal road.

And we actually called him a mad man for that 😥

And now, look at what's happening in Edo State.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

The DG of the National Identity Management Commission is the Head of Data Management for the APC Campaign.

The DG of the National Revenue Service is APC's DDG of the Fund Raising Committee.

It really has never been this bad

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

“Nigerian, Which Way? This Is The Current Situation On The Benin–Warri Expressway. Motorists And Other Travelers Have Been Stuck On The Road For Days, While This Vehicle Has Sunk Into The Bad Road With Its Passengers Inside.💔” ~ Man Cries Out

[Uzømå Økønkwø🦅 @okonkwo_jnr0129]

The footage coming out of this gridlock is getting harder to watch.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I have consistently continued to respectfully appeal to those in office today to prioritise reconstruction and maintenance of existing roads and other infrastructure over commencing new ones.

I left someone in Onitsha on Saturday night to take the first bus to Lagos on Sunday morning. Until I left Lagos at 8 pm yesterday, he had not arrived in Lagos. He only arrived in Lagos at about 2 pm today. A journey that usually takes a maximum of 8 hours now takes nearly two days.

This is not just about bad roads. It is about lost man-hours, stranded passengers sleeping on highways, wasted fuel, damaged vehicles, delayed goods, and businesses losing millions of naira.

Nigerians do not need new projects just for the headlines. We need functional roads that make life and economic activity possible.

A government must understand that infrastructure is not necessarily about the size of the project; it is about the number of lives and livelihoods it improves.

A new Nigeria is POSSIBLE, and Nigeria will be OK. -PO

[Dr. Kenon @drkenon2]

This is scary: this what Peter Obi spoke about. How can Tinubu abandon existing roads in Nigeria to start new projects?

How can Nigerians survive?

Just from Benin, you spend 3 days on the road? This is scary 😨