Sacha B
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Insistence on perfection is a tool of oppression used by the white supremacist patriarchy. Philly inside, Indy outside. Quilter. Scientist. (she/her, cis) 🌩️👀 2diVc_f8QB7S
“At 12:32 a.m. my son was on a FaceTime call with his friends that were coming to get him,” he said. “We were told that my son was shot at 12:35 a.m.. So what kind of encounter could have ensued? What kind of communication could that officer have given him?”
CNN@cnn.com · 6h agoA 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the wrong home and was waiting for friends to come get him when he was shot, his father said.
“The Dollywood Foundation, which reported $141 million in assets last year, also offers local high school graduates $15,000 scholarships. ‘She gave cash gifts to people in need long before it was popular,’ Ms. Palmer said. ‘She trusted the people that she wanted to help.’”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5h agoDolly Parton’s Dollywood Foundation “was initially focused on reducing school dropout rates in Sevier County, in part by offering $500 gifts to graduates. Cold, hard cash proved a powerful incentive; high school dropout rates plummeted to just 6 percent in the county, from 35 percent.”
neutral. lol. some of yall wouldn't recognize a moral stance if it danced in front of you wearing nothing but rhinestones
CNN@cnn.com · yesterday"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
This is fucking evil. The only Black city in Indiana continues to have no power while also paying exorbitant rates due to a data center sucking up their resources. And now the government refuses to help them. We're in a red state with ass-kissing governor *and* senators, too. Racism kills.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 16h ago“FEMA individual disaster assistance, which could provide direct financial help to affected households, has not been approved.”
there better be a phalanx of assistants putting Barbra and Liza in bubble wrap
✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Pre-order GO-MAN VS THE STAR DRAGON@hamishsteele.bsky.social · 14h agoEvery drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices
People noticing that there are a *lot* of icons who are eighty right now. Remember, 46 was right at the start of the Baby Boom. We're in for a *rough* few years.
QUEER HARDER. FOR DOLLY AND TIM. AND YOURSELF. AND ALL OF US QUEERS. WE LOVE YOU.
Gov. Braun can authentically honor her by putting the Imagination Library back in the state budget, rather than having his wife raise funds for it. It was $6M in the 2023 budget. Out of our current $44B biennial state budget, that's 0.014% -- with an immense ROI for the state's education outcomes.
The Times of Northwest Indiana@nwitimes.com · 14h agoIndiana Gov. Mike Braun ordered flags lowered to half-staff statewide to honor Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80.
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
like that's part of why people love the Tom Holland umbrella dance so much he put his entire ass into that BUT he's also having so much fun and there's a wink and a nod both Dolly and Curry knew how to laugh at themselves with the audience while never belittling themselves and that's incredible
ordinary people have no idea the system is such a kafkaesque nightmare
Emily Farris@emayfarris.bsky.social · 12h agoTomorrow's handout for my Immigration 101 lecture is really throwing the students in the deep end.
Haïti deserves better than the violence produced by colonial deresourcing and all the opportunists involved
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 2d agoAround 40 dead in gang attack near Haiti's capital
the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss
Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing
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In a significant win for abortion rights in the post-Roe U.S., on August 18 the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an Indiana law that barred abortion providers from helping minors find abortions outside of the state or even sharing information about abortion.
The Win for Abortion Rights in Indiana Has Reshaped the National Legal Landscape
The ruling sets the stage for further free speech protections for those who help abortion seekers who cross state lines.
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I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
CNN@cnn.com · yesterday"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
Exhibit ∞ of work done by WOC that is brushed off as too insignificant to care about even though literally everything depends on it. If white men did this work, there would've been endless explanation of how hard it was, probably with an implication that tiny women's brains could never. 🙄
Sacha B@shouldhavezagged.com · 17h ago"[T]housands of women, including women of color...were indubitably women of science, and their untold stories call us to reconsider who does science, and what counts as scientific expertise."
"[T]housands of women, including women of color...were indubitably women of science, and their untold stories call us to reconsider who does science, and what counts as scientific expertise."
Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible
The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.
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She is a great example of someone who undercuts all their collective boss-class bullshit about how lefties may not think they’re warm and fuzzy but they create jobs and keep the economy running; Dolly Parton was a massive job creator and businesswoman who also managed to not be psychotically evil
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 19h agoafter yesterdays dolly tributes, i dont want to hear from these assholes ever again unless theyre buying books for children
