Melody Herr retweeted
Friends, I could really use some help.
A large group of Amish builders from Ohio are spending the next FIVE MONTHS fixing homes damaged by Hurricane Helene for FREE in Western North Carolina and South Carolina.
There's just one problem... the Amish don't drive, so they need drivers to take them back and forth to job sites and drop off trailers (if you have a truck).
I have already volunteered to help, but we need more volunteers.
If you feel led and are in the area, there's a sign up sheet in the comments.
You'll get free breakfast and free dinner too + you'll get to meet some of the heroes who have been working here to rebuild.
I'm an independent and agree with @McConaughey - Partisan politicians don't represent us. It's all in fighting and corporate interests on both sides. Time to end the stranglehold of the two party system. Maybe it was necessary 200 years ago, but it's no longer useful.
Melody Herr retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely WILD footage has emerged from North Carolina where a 30-foot inflatable pumpkin broke loose in strong winds and started tumbling down the road.
An Uber driver stopped his car to help the owners grab it.
Waiting for the outrage...
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Women in Afghanistan aren’t allowed to get an education to become doctors, nurses, midwives or anything really, because women aren’t allowed an education. Women in Afghanistan aren’t allowed to have jobs either, so even if they are already educated by some miracle, they still can’t become doctors or nurses or midwives. Women also aren’t allowed to visit male doctors anymore in a country where female doctors are as rare as unicorns. The Taliban also banned contraception and since consent doesn’t exist in Islam for women because we are farmland and at the service our husbands, women have to get pregnant anyway. I don’t think the Taliban worries about statistics and maternal mortality rate or women’s health of course (what a ridiculous notion!) so Afghan women are dying while the world is shaking hands with the Taliban who are intentionally murdering them.
We really need politicians to start taking this seriously. There has to be a better way than taxing senior citizens out of their home.
We can fund basic services through other avenues. I'd rather see a VAT. No more senseless home valuation changes.
My neighbor finished paying off her house in 2024.
She bought it in 1994 for $78,000. Thirty years of payments at $593 a month.
She's 74 now. Social Security pays her $1,910 a month. That's $22,920 a year.
The place two doors down sold for $615,000 last spring, so the county reassessed hers to match.
Her tax bill this year: $8,100. That's $675 a month.
She paid $593 a month to buy the house.
She pays $675 a month to keep it.
Thirty years of payments ended and the bill went up.
The deed says she owns it. The county bills her like she's renting.
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Additionally, the posting account originates in Canada, but mentions their “neighbor” is on Social Security, which is an American welfare system.
Hmm. I don't think so. We are making them, just scaling the wall is like...
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37 years ago today, @HoerrKeith and I started writing our story together. We’ve crossed continents and state lines, weathered plot twists we never saw coming, experienced joy and heartbreak, change and reinvention. It hasn’t always been easy, but it has always been ours. ❤️
Stressful day in the hood... uscrimeradar.com/s/jh1zca42?…
The only script I entered into AFF this year, a spec script for SHRINKING, placed as a second rounder in @austinfilmfest. Congratulations to everyone that submitted. You did what 95% of others don't... you finished a script!
I was busy enjoying some much needed R&R on the lake yesterday so I didn't get the chance to share the news -- my script, THE CHRISTMAS EVE, made the QF of @finaldraftinc Big Break!
Congrats to all my fellow writers on the list!
My ringtone is the Looney Tunes theme song, so it's no surprise I found the @coyoteacmemovie delightful. If you grew up with Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote, and the @looneytunes family, you won't want to miss this. I hope it inspires a new generation of #saturdaymorningcartoons.
Replying to @Write_Herr
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The magic behind a million dollar spec sale? Read @JEStew3's take on it.
And he's spot on.
Already miss her. Hope she and my momma are having a great old time up there.
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 🇺🇸
iRobot. Terminator. No longer science fiction. Brave new world.
KEY MOMENTS FROM CHINA'S 2026 WORLD ROBOTICS CONFERENCE IN BEIJING
Humanoid robots are getting WILD:
💃 Robots even celebrate with victory dances
🦘 TianKung reportedly clears 2.88m in a standing high jump, above the 2.45m human record
⚽️ Robot scores a free kick… then hits the Ronaldo SIUUUU! Celebration 😂
🥊 Robots boxing & sparring
🏃 2,000+ robots competing across events from 16 Countries
💥 Racing robots crashing into barriers
🔥 One robot even caught fire
The Robot Olympics are starting to look real. 🤯
2026 World Humanoid Robots Games kicked off on August 22 in Beijing.





















