One word truly describes who Dolly Parton was: GENUINE

In her remarkable career she did so much good for so many people, not just through her music but for her love for other human beings. She really cared. She genuinely cared about kids having books to read, about her employees, about making sure a Covid vaccine could happen, about the LGBTQ+ community, financial support across Tennessee and so much more. She was the real deal. And she never lost sight of where she had been and how she got to where she was.

May her memory last for many lifetimes to come.

Thirty-four states, 1645 confirmed cases, 5100 suspected cases and 141 hospitalizations later and a recall of iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms has finally been issued.

It’s about fucking time.

Unfortunately, I don’t think recalling the lettuce will be the end of it. For one thing, the recall has been issued for 27 states. Yet the cyclospora outbreak was found in thirty-four states. Also, what about the onions, parsley, basil and other herbs that were initially mentioned as part of the outbreak? What happened to the raspberries and strawberries?

I’m sure there’s more to come…

“Grab Your Pearls” Graham is dead. Officially.

Turtleface McConnell may or may not be dead. A picture floating around right now indicates he seems to be alive but still looks dead. And how convenient he surfaces after weeks of “where’s Turtleface” on the same day “Grab Your Pearls” Graham croaks. Odd. Alive or dead, he’s out anyway, so who gives a fuck?

When SHITHOLE hijacked America 250 to turn it into his “Freedom 250”, he should have kept in mind that, because of him, for many America is not free.

How can you advertise “Freedom 250” for your country on Independence Day when you have hired goons who kidnap and kill innocent Americans? How can you declare “Freedom 250” when your “administration” is ripping rights and services away from disabled Americans? How can Americans feel “free” when they’re struggling to put gas in their cars and food on their tables? “Freedom 250” apparently doesn’t apply to individuals who speak out against the shit this “administration” has been doing. Because the “government” doesn’t like it when people, especially members of the military, speak their mind against SHITHOLE. You think people feel “free” when they have no healthcare? Or when their right to vote is being jeopardized? You think people feel “free” when the very choice of what to do with their own body is taken away? Because SHITHOLE and his “administration” feels that’s how it should be.

On this Independence Day it’s difficult to be a proud American because not everyone in America is free. Today we are a greatly divided nation. But it doesn’t need to be this way.

In his speech on July 3, 2026, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke about the powerful in America and freedom:

The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.  

How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again — including 250 years ago — those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. As Thomas Paine once wrote, “this new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty […] hither have they fled.” And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted — but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark 250 years, what do we see?  

We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world — one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands — those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone — and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.  

Without saying it, he is quite clearly pointing at SHITHOLE in his statement. Of course, SHITHOLE wouldn’t understand anything he says, because unlike SHITHOLE, Mamdani makes sense.

Maybe in another 50 years America can celebrate a true Independence Day for all.

So SHITHOLE plans on making a long speech on Independence Day in 107-degree heat just so he can say he did it.

I say go for it, SHITHOLE. Because if there’s one way to do you in, 107-degree heat will do it.

And by the way, Turtle Face McConnell is dead.