Retired, undefeated, flexed arm hang champion, Canada Fitness Awards 1978-1979.
Toronto, Canada
Joined September 2009
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Michael Leary retweeted
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 🇺🇸
Michael Leary retweeted
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school, she built hospitals and bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert once met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
Michael Leary retweeted
Genevieve has broken countless stories the MSM refuses to touch. Please help out if you can, she's being targeted with the usual vexatious legal action
I've never done this before, but I'm struggling at the moment, and in the thick of it. There are reasons I can't talk about it, some are legal, but personally I know there are crazy people who want to see me suffer.
If you think that the writing I've done for the past four years - especially all of my exclusives about the prison system and the history of gender identity ideology has been valuable, or helped you in some way, it would be very much appreciated if you can spare just $5.
Everything I've written since 2022, building up the body of writing and evidence I have - which has been used in court cases, by Attorney Generals in lawsuits, and especially in a Supreme Court case - I've just been doing on the basis of donations.
I don't make much money for the work I do because I consider my writing to be a public service and I would feel ashamed otherwise.
I've never used a paywall. But, because of that, I'm not making very much at all, despite having dedicated years of my life - and, if I can be bold, important contributions - to this conversation.
I have worked hard, written hundreds of articles over the past four years, many of them exclusives, and I'm not funded by any think tank, just by readers who appreciate having more information.
If you're able to just give a few dollars right now, it goes towards my cost of living and some of the lawsuits I'm engaged in that I can't talk about yet.
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Michael Leary retweeted
Larry the Cat wasn't born into royalty. Long before he became Britain's most famous feline, he was simply an ordinary stray trying to survive on the streets. His life changed when he was rescued by Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, where staff quickly noticed his confident personality, calm temperament, and strong hunting instincts. In February 2011, Larry was chosen to move into 10 Downing Street as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, with one simple mission: keep the mice under control.
Michael Leary retweeted
This is a banger that I've had it on repeat for 3 days now.
Have a listen of this
I'm not English, but I do like this.
#football #worldcup #soccer #goal #goals #england #footballsquad #HarryKane #Bellingham #sport #englishsquad #englandsquad #WorldCup2026
#fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup2026
Michael Leary retweeted
A reação do Jude Bellingham vendo a torcida inglesa inteira cantando HEY JUDE pra ele é simplesmente a cena mais bonita dessa Copa do Mundo 🥹❤️
Quem mais se arrepiou? 🏴✨
Michael Leary retweeted
Achraf Hakimi, the captain of the Morocco national team, will stand trial for rape in France. He is accused of raping a 24-year-old French woman in Paris, and could face up to 15 years in prison.
Michael Leary retweeted
There are monsters in Canada tearing down posters about this missing Jewish girl.
Please circulate this to help find Esther.
#EstherIsMissing
Michael Leary retweeted
SHE REPORTED 1,400 CHILDREN BEING RAPED. THEY INVESTIGATED HER.
Jayne Senior @Jes123tia456 spent 14 years as manager of Risky Business, a Rotherham Council project for vulnerable young women. For 14 years she handed evidence of systematic child sexual exploitation to police and social services. Names. Dates. Patterns. A 42-page intelligence report. She built the jigsaw piece by piece.
They shut down her programme. They told her the records were rubbish. They told her she was rocking the multicultural boat. They told her the children were consenting. Children. Ten years old.
She risked prosecution to become the source for Times journalist Andrew Norfolk, whose 2012 investigations finally broke the story open to the nation.
The Jay Report in 2014 confirmed what she had been screaming into the void since the late 1990s: at least 1,400 children had been abused in Rotherham.
Jayne got an MBE in 2016. The council got reputational damage it spent years managing. The officers got their pensions.
When she filed complaints with the IOPC about senior police officers who had done nothing, the watchdog warned her that if she kept going, she would be labelled a vexatious complainant and could face imprisonment.
She kept going.
Her complaint was eventually upheld in 2021. The report naming the officers was never published.
South Yorkshire Police @SYPTweet rejected the watchdog's findings. No officers were named. No further action was taken. Someone did warn her the officers might sue her personally if she spoke about it publicly.
She spoke about it publicly.
This is what accountability looks like in Britain. A youth worker risks prison to protect children. The institutions that failed those children close ranks, bury the reports, and threaten the one person who kept records.
The children were the problem, apparently. Not the men. Not the police. Not the council. The woman with the filing cabinet.
Source: The Times @thetimes, @BBC, @guardian , @yorkshirepost, Jay Report 2014, IOPC Operation Amazon 2022
Michael Leary retweeted
🇯🇵A Japanese developer built an app that puts a fat cat on your screen and forces you to take a break
Silicon Valley spent billions on wellness platforms, mindfulness subscriptions, and digital detox retreats
A guy in Japan said: fat cat, problem solved
Michael Leary retweeted
While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos.
You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before.
The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.
Michael Leary retweeted
We need your help to #SaveDenby!
We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost.
We need your help:
1. Share this post
2. Sign the government petition
3. Buy Denby
4. Visit us at the Pottery Village
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Michael Leary retweeted
Female genital mutilation is violence against children.
“FGM causes infection, incontinence, unbearable pain during childbirth, and deep physical and emotional scars that never heal. No tradition can ever justify torture,” says Ayaan Hirsi Ali, founder of the AHA Foundation, quoted by Fox News Digital.
Only legal accountability can protect girls.
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Michael Leary retweeted
She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.
Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.
She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.
The one everyone could see.
The one that said: nobody wants her.
For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.
The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.
The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.
Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.
But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.
She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."
So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.
She called it Sit With Us.
The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.
No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.
Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.
Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.
Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.
"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."
She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.
That's not just survival. That's transformation.
Michael Leary retweeted
Her name is Galyn Susman and she was laid off by Disney two years ago because of budget cuts (even though Disney turned over $88b profits that year)
