"Soy sordo. Pensé que TÚ no me querías a MÍ." 11 años. Dos buenas personas. Ambas completamente equivocadas la una sobre la otra. La mayoría del odio es solo un malentendido sin conversación.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
Former Vice President Mike Pence says he has “certainly seen evidence” of the Trump administration deliberately whitewashing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but says “an effort by some to rewrite” the history of that day won’t work.
“Particularly, I was offended on the anniversary of January 6, when the White House put out a timeline that literally blamed Capitol Hill police for the riot that took place that day,” Pence tells @margbrennan.
The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...
Back in 1935, Hollywood studio execs were uncomfortable showing Shirley Temple holding hands with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson while dancing!
But Shirley Temple reportedly reached for his hand anyway! 💃🕺
The US government already has a ballroom just down the street. The Andrew Mellon Auditorium is less than a mile away from the White House is beautiful and accommodates more people than the new ballroom will and is owned by the U.S. Government.
via Shelia Earl
WARREN BUFFETT: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes."
"Just pass a law that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."
I think American taxpayers are upset because you took a 7 month family reality show road trip subsidized by the American taxpayer and paid for by corporations you regulate, while not doing your actual job—which incidentally is also paid for by taxpayers who are paying an enormous amount for gas because of a war your boss launched and can’t get out of.