Locke

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things the recovery industry will not tell you:

1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.

2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.

3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.

4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.

5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.

6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.

7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)

8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.

9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.

10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone else’s.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files.

At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

They’re doing this because more and more people are becoming aware that this company needs to be shut down and everyone involved in it arrested

[Locke @lochlinsucks]

this turkey isn't getting pardoned

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

“The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price. God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!” - President Donald J. Trump

[Alissa Wilkinson @alissamarie]

Pope Leo on cinema, today at the Vatican, could not be more right (and, dare I say, holy):

https://t.co/ae4o67MrwJ

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control.

That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Bill de Blasio putting his body on the line for Zohran

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

you’re not gonna believe how low we’re going to get this number

[Locke @lochlinsucks]

demons: we're tired of people calling us demons

[PropertyIndustryEye @PropIndEye]

Majority of landlords feel demonised by the media
https://t.co/bmwmQu4XjZ

[club cain @dykeofcain]

the new pope follows ethel cain on instagram

[john @0bungler]

It's going to be funny when Musk keeps slashing USAID and 4chan goes down

[Locke @lochlinsucks]

in this twt: waterhead acknowledges solution

[Carmine Sabia @CarmineSabia]

The FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner is the son of a deputy.

He was involved in the Police Youth Advisory program.

He used a handgun.

There is not a gun law in your fantasies, other than banning all firearms, that would have prevented this tragedy.

[sabina @thespaceavenue]

this is what the american military was doing in iraq btw

[Locke @lochlinsucks]

someone tell the guy that said VQM to change it to VQVariety

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

crazy how we all just collectively know what “it” means

[doc shartman @DocShartman]

she’s about to earn 1.840e47 points in balatro