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.

I am reposting again as Nathan is FINALLY in the last processes of getting placement. He has applied for partial disability while he has been in the hospital for 2 months. He will have rent and utility expenses. Anything is so helpful, these days. Thank you 🥹

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THANK YOU TO THE PERSON WHO GAVE PETE SEGETH WHAT TO SAY, TODAY. Absolutely epic, my friend. 🫡

How far would you go to prevent a suicide? My brother has suffered a great deal and has psychosis that he just can’t shake. He is currently self admitted to a psych ward to keep himself safe. We need help. Please SHARE. gofundme.com/f/help-nathan-a…

Elizabeth Banks just broke down the SAVE Act… and it should alarm every American.

I’m today years old when I found out you could do this…

I don’t know what else to do. 🙏 gofundme.com/f/help-nathan-a…

Here is the contact information for the District Attorney of Minneapolis, MN. email and call until she files murder charges on the killer of Renee Goode!! Government Center, A-1200 300 South Sixth Street Minneapolis, MN 55487 Phone: 612-348-5550 Email: citizeninfo@hennepin.us

Unfortunately, I hold a grudge as long as 50 cent, so don’t try me.

This is NOT my America

Remember MAGAs, "I was just following orders" was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials

New DOJ files in Halbach Investigation released today: widoj.sharefile.com/share/vi…

Newly released MLK files archives.gov/research/mlk?ut…

Ouch!

I said what I said.

Mississippi = Whitemanistan

California will keep fighting on behalf of all our people including in the courts. If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control.

It'd be a shame if #CancelStarlink started trending today