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I was today days old when I learned Dolly Parton covered Collective Soul’s “Shine” alongside Nickel Creek and the dobro player from Alison Krauss & Union Station. She won a Grammy for it. Blew me away. youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg?...

Jon Batiste with a gorgeous rendition of "I Will Always Love You" for Dolly Parton 🥺🙏

1/ You are who you are. Whether you’re gay, straight, Black, transgender, we are supposed to love one another. This is why I love Dolly Parton. Dolly let the world know she didn’t judge anyone because she is not God. She was the true meaning of #woke! ✊🏻✊🏿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ #SheShed #Pinks

El-Sayed: I thought you were for the everyday man. If you're for billionaires, you and I disagree. Watters: I just think I have the right to the fruits of my own labor El-Sayed: Billionaires don't make their money off of their labor. They make their money off their money

Alex Pretti's Father: "That's how we found out — watching it on TV. Watching our son be shot 10 times on TV, in the back, trying to help somebody…with a camera in one hand, and his left hand empty in the air."

I wish I could give flowers to everyone fighting the good fight.

THIS. Please make this man Sen Majority Leader

WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo

We all owe President Biden so much. Thank you, sir.

Alma Thomas, The #Eclipse, 1970 #WomensArt #Eclipse

JUST IN: Amy Klobuchar will win the Democratic primary for Minnesota Governor, per projections.

El-Sayed on Trump posting image of him & his wife in a restaurant w/ caption "2 DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are 2 people who don't like each other joined in the interest in making billions off of you, or 2 people who genuinely love each other enjoying pancakes ... "

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

Vice President Kamala Harris endorses Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan. “This was a hard-fought Democratic primary, and Michiganders were lucky to have such inspiring leaders step up in this moment.”

Sanders: The irony is that the proper criticism of communism is that the Soviet Union was an authoritarian society.  And then you’ve got the most authoritarian president in the history of this country. So I suppose when he says, “I’d be a great communist,” yeah, I think there’s some truth to that

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Ex-'60 Minutes' boss Bill Owens wants to launch rival news show with Scott Pelley, other fired staffers: sources trib.al/xIQrPy5

Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.

The points Miller makes in his video are common from abusers. He recorded her. He calls her crazy. He says she was nice to him. He says she never went to a doctor. Anyone who is a survivor of DV has heard all of it.

I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.

BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.

Dr. Fauci is one of greatest medical minds of our time. His work has certainly saved millions of lives around the world. During the COVID pandemic, he along with the world’s best doctors and scientists raced to create a vaccine and stop an epidemic.

History will remember Dr. Anthony Fauci as a hero. The best part? There is nothing the MAGA cult can do to stop that.

This rings true because this is the behavior we see day in day out, and have for 11 years now. We don't need an expert character witness to tell us this is true. That is him, those are the things he obsesses about, Dr. Fauci is dead on in his assessment.

Fauci.

"For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case." Bono on Glen Hansard.

Where is the lie? "And why the distraction from Rand Paul who is a nut and the left"

Suzanne Valadon, View from My Window in Genets (Brittany), 1922 #WomensArt

The fact that this hearing is even taking place says how unserious the Republican Party is. Nobody in America is concerned about Covid conspiracy theories. When is the cost of living, gas and food going to drop? Let’s talk about that! #Pinks

Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name.

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

Thank you Dr Fauci for a Lifetime of Service.🇺🇸 God bless you🕊🙏🏼

Woman with blue hat, 1927 by Gabriele Münter, Expressionist painter & co-founder of The Blue Rider, a German expressionist art collective founded in 1911, also including artists Marianne von Werefkin, and Maria Marc among others #Womensart

The Odyssey film was an entertaining spectacle but it gave women little to say or do.

Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her coastal scene sculptures #WomensArt

Be someone’s safe place. Cheer louder than their self-doubt. The #SheShed celebrates your wins, holds your hand through the storms & reminds you that you never have to face life alone. Surround yourself with human sunshine ☀️💛 #HumanSunshine #ViVaHerAlliance #TogetherWeRise #ChooseKindness

Saw The Odyssey last night and realized there’s another reason the right’s rage furbys are foaming at their mouths over the film. It is deeply antiwar, making an argument that builds incident by incident. Nolan’s sin: making explicit the vicious destructiveness of “heroic” ambition and violence.

Ana Garcia should be 71 today. She died at 68 in 2023 domestic murder suicide in Sylmar, CA. Three American women are killed by a current or former partner every day. Over 90% are killed with a gun. #disarmdomesticviolence

This is what it has always been about! We need to alter the way we process information. This is not personal it is global! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

AOC Makes A Great Point 👉.......

More than 1.6 million eggs sold at Kroger and other stores across six states are being recalled over possible salmonella contamination. Check cartons sold under Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire’s, Country Morning and Sunups with sell-by dates from July 20 through August 17—and do not eat them.

Saw a sign that said "Mitch McConnell is on Eternity Leave."

We had some important victories in court that will make a real difference this November. I hope you watch and share. youtu.be/GkAKjVMeQLA?...