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Ruth Delgado

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Jersey says: ICE out!
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And I’ll say it again 🗣️ FUCK ICE We were able to successfully chase out five 🧊 vehicles from their hiding spot in Passaic, NJ. ‼️ ICE OUT OF PASSAIC ‼️
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2026
"Jessica Cantu Vuittonet, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, cast her first ballot in 2024 — for Donald Trump. Two years later, after her brother was deported, she feels angry and betrayed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)
In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Listen to these stories. We must protect TPS for Haitian immigrants.
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lawrencehamm.bsky.social @lawrencehamm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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No Kings: Vote Early — Newark, NJ · No Kings
NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY MARCH AND RALLY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026, 12:00 NOON LINCOLN STATUE, 12 SPRINGFIELD AVENUE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102 **We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next.** ...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 30/09/2026
ICE counts family-unit removals by person, so a family of four adds four. By that count, more than 66,000 family members have been deported since January 20, 2025, on pace for about 185,000 by January 2029. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-has-de...
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ICE Has Deported More Than 66,000 Family Members Under Trump Administration, Family Detention Is Back at Dilley and Karnes
New ICE data show more than 66,000 family-unit deportations since January 20, 2025, about one in ten removals, with an August spike above 20 percent, as family detention reopens at Dilley and Karnes.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"A car ran over me." Legal observers got video of ICE taking the victim from the hospital.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
from estamosunidosnj: On 9/23, ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct and he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, agents posed as police to try and gain access inside. Throughout this, Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them demonstrating clear collaboration. #ICEoutofNJ
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"According to the superintendent, ICE officials detained an adult walking on the public sidewalk. As a precautionary measure, the building was temporarily put in a 'shelter-in-place' based on initial reports received by the main office." ICE HAS NO PLACE NEAR OUR SCHOOLS. #ICEoutofNJ
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ICE Activity Sparks Shelter-In-Place At School In Essex County
ICE was back in Essex County this week. Here's where other recent arrests and detentions have been reported.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21/09/2026
I just received a notification of another death in ICE custody – the 57th death during Trump’s second term. It’s time to shut down these private, for-profit detention centers.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Leo Garcia Venegas, detained three times by DHS, just won a major victory in his case. The court stayed three DHS policies: Immigration agents can no longer raid construction sites without a warrant, round up workers based on how they look, and refuse to let them go after they show a REAL ID.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m demanding answers from DHS and ICE about today's shooting in Austin. They must preserve every piece of evidence, release the body cam footage, suspend the agent, and brief Congress. ICE has lied before. We deserve the truth.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/09/2026
ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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Aleks, no X @aleksnotx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am a naturalized citizen. I chose this country because it sheltered me from war and provided opportunities beyond what I could imagine. I built a life here, a family, a small business, and a career. I am enraged watching what the reactionary fascists are doing to it and I won’t stop resisting.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On #CitizenshipDay, we celebrate the millions of immigrants who have taken the step of becoming U.S. citizens while also recognizing the millions more who deserve the opportunity to fully belong in the country they call home. 🇺🇸
HAPPY
CITIZENSHIP
DAY
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zara Larsson claps back at the White House for an ICE promo video using her song Midnight Sun: This video is so dehumanizing. This song is about feeling connected to people, and this just creates a massive divide between people. It's just so fucking uncool. You guys are such fucking losers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump
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Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Says the candidate who voted yes to all of his mass deportation bills that “have gone too far”
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mr. President, I voted for all of your immigration enforcement efforts -- to the tune of $250 billion -- and now I'm finding out
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What she’s not telling voters in this ad is the she _repeatedly_ voted to fund those immigration enforcement efforts that are now threatening her political career.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social said if we win the house we're not gonna worry about impeachment and punishment, we're just gonna work across the aisle on affordability. If Jeffries doesn't understand that it is a moral imperative to save this country from Nazis, then QUIT
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Federal agents were seen on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him several times in the face while he was face-down on the pavement. The person filming the scene appears to repeatedly yell at the agents that the boys are minors." www.thedailybeast.com/horrifying-v...
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Horrifying Video Shows ICE Attack Teens on Way to Enlist
The teenagers said they repeatedly told ICE agents who were attacking them that they were U.S. citizens, but were told that the agents “don’t give a damn.”
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Natural-born citizens have birthrights, which include not being treated like this. And their parents’ identity or status does not matter, despite what many lawyers, politicians, and law professors tried to tell you.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“And when one of them told an ICE agent that he was a US citizen, one of them allegedly said, ‘I don’t care, your parents can’t help you now.’” Susan Collins stole our tax dollars to fund this terrorism across our communities.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Earlier this year, Kanye West “performed at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Raymond James Stadium without issue, despite his affinities for Adolf Hitler, the Nazi regime, and his long history of antisemitic remarks.” newrepublic.com/post/215395/...
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NFL Owners Band Together to Boot Macklemore From Ed Sheeran’s Tour
The musician was pulled after he called for a “Free Palestine.”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it seems to me most likely that the whole tour will be canceled now as a result of Kraft’s intervention injecting his own politics into the event and Sheeran’s concession to it
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After Robert Kraft rallied stadium owners to prevent Ed Sheeran’s tour from their venues unless he fired Macklemore, Sheeran’s opening acts Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe, as well as Sheeran’s touring band, Beoga, have all announced their departures from the tour.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🗣️ Make your voice heard! 🗳️ Register to vote today → vote.gov
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In response to ICE terrorizing our city, community members have begun to organize. Whether through WhatsApp or Telegram, neighbors are patrolling and informing. This past Saturday, we hosted a Know Your Rights workshop with legal experts and rapid response teams. El pueblo salva al pueblo. ✊
Picture of a group of people sitting for a presentation on Know Your Rights. 

Photo was taken from behind to protect the privacy of the group.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The degree to which ICE has ramped up in North Jersey recently cannot be overstated. Yesterday, ICE kidnapped four people a block from an elementary school at dropoff time in Montclair. This is after mass raids in Passaic, Ironbound and Kearny.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"ICE is not making New Jersey’s communities any safer,” said Gov. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social "That’s why I signed an Executive Order restricting access to nonpublic state property by its untrained agents. Once again, Trump tried to stop us, and once again we won.“ www.nj.gov/governor/new...
Governor Mikie Sherrill
@GovSherrilLNJ

ICE is not making New Jersey's communities any safer.

That's why I signed an Executive Order restricting access to nonpublic state property by its untrained agents. Once again, Trump tried to stop us, and once again we won.

My number one priority will always be to protect New Jerseyans, and I will continue to fight for safe communities for everyone in our state.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New Jersey Gov. Sherrill's executive order that limits federal access to state property for enforcing "civil immigration law."
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY and MIKIE
SHERRILL, in her official capacity as Governor
of the State of New Jersey,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-1770 (GC) (JTQ)
OPINION
CASTNER, District Judge
THIS MATTER comes before the Court upon Defendants the State of New Jersey and
Governor Mikie Sherrill’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff United States of America’s Complaint (ECF
No. 1) under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rules) 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6). (ECF No. 10.) The
United States opposed, and Defendants replied. (ECF Nos. 14, 20.) The American Civil Liberties
Union of New Jersey and 19 other organizations (ACLU-NJ) filed a brief as amicus curiae in
support of Defendants’ Motion, and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) filed
a brief as amicus curiae in opposition to Defendants’ Motion. (ECF Nos. 12, 18.) The Court has
carefully reviewed the parties’ submissions and decides the matter without oral argument pursuant
to Rule 78(b) and Local Civil Rule 78.1(b). For the reasons set forth below, and other good cause
shown, Defendants’ Motion is GRANTED.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"In Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, and the state-imposed terror against a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but Trump's proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be." Nails the stakes:
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ICE detained ANOTHER U.S. citizen in Passaic today. He told them he was born in this country. ICE didn’t care & detained him anyway. As always, terrorize first, ask questions later. Fortunately, he's out now but he shouldn’t have been detained in the first place. 𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞. #AbolishICE
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐘: ICE arrests in Passaic surged 4,200% during one week in July, as masked federal agents tackled and detained residents on streets and outside their homes. At least 75 people—including a U.S. citizen—were arrested that month. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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Violent ICE Raid in New Jersey Sent Dozens to Detention and One Immigrant to His Death
Immigration sweeps have upended Passaic, NJ, with videos showing federal agents arresting dozens of people on the street and from their homes, including at least one U.S. citizen.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“On Friday July 17, a day before the height of the arrests and Chajón Raxón’s detention, dozens of Passaic residents protested in front of City Hall—carrying colorful, hand-drawn signs with pro-immigrant messages …” #ICEoutofPassaic
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
At least 75 people from my community of Passaic were taken by ICE goons in July. One of them, José Efraín Chajón Raxón, was dead less than four days later in ICE custody. I'm outraged. But our city is fighting back. 📢 #ICEoutofPassaic documentedny.com/2026/08/28/p... via @documentedny.bsky.social
ICE Arrests in Passaic, New Jersey 
Weekly arrests during the second Trump administration 

Chart: Lam Thuy Vo for DocumentedSource: Deportation Data ProjectCreated with Datawrapper
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
During today’s hearing, @repsummerlee.bsky.social asked whether there is any evidence that cities and states that cooperate with ICE see lower crime rates. @davidjbier.bsky.social: “No, not at all.” Trump’s mass deportation agenda doesn’t build safer communities, it creates fear and erodes trust.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rep. @raskin.house.gov: “They’re no longer going after ‘the worst of the worst.’ They’re acting like the worst of the worst.” Watch his remarks from today’s hearing on ICE’s escalating tactics, from school pickup lanes to churches and elementary schools.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📍 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃, 𝐎𝐇: Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Wright State student originally from Haiti, took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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Philadisto @uncrossem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hitler youth active clubs in NJ & PA dredged up 15 dorks to creep on Princeton with flags & make terrible vids with their “keep New Jersey white” banner yesterday 08/29/26
Photo by motorist of Nazis on street in Princeton NJ Aug 29Hitler youth active clubs got around 15 guys to hold a “keep NJ white banner & pose at statue near Princeton Hitler youth “active clubs” got 15 guys to creep around Princeton NJ with flags on 08/29/26
15 Hitler youth marching with flags to make terrible vids, Princeton NJ 08/29/26
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

 

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000). 

 

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

 

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.         

 

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.
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