Hopeful Anyway 🧸

Don’t vote for the person. Vote for the policy. Compare my policies on homelessness to theirs: PRATT: -Mandatory drug treatment -Send home addicts who were bussed in from out of state -Enforce the law BASS & RAMAN -Put addicts in overpriced housing and let them do drugs next to your kids’ school -Give methheads free pipes -Make YOU pay for new teeth for said methheads How is this even a race?

Did you know that if you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants together in a jar, they usually coexist peacefully? But if you shake the jar hard, they immediately turn on each other and start killing one another. The red ants see the black ants as enemies, and the black ants see the red ants as enemies. Yet the real enemy is the one shaking the jar. The same thing happens in human society. Before we turn on each other, we should stop and ask ourselves: who is shaking the jar?

In May 1860, she kissed her six children goodbye. She thought about the dinner she would cook later. She thought about the laundry. She thought about the quiet life of a mother in Illinois. She had no idea that when the front door clicked shut, it would stay locked for three long years. Her husband, Theophilus Packard, was a respected minister. To the neighbors, he was a man of God. But inside their home, he was a man who could not stand a wife who thought for herself. Elizabeth Packard liked to read. She liked to debate religion. She had her own opinions about life and faith. In the 19th century, for a woman to have a brain was considered a danger. Theophilus decided to end the argument once and for all. He didn’t need a crime. He didn't need a witness. In those days, the law in Illinois said a man could commit his wife to an insane asylum without any evidence or a public hearing. He simply had to say she was "disturbed." One morning, a group of men arrived at her home. They didn't listen to her logic. They didn't care about her tears. They dragged her away to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum. Elizabeth was 43 years old, perfectly sane, and suddenly a prisoner. When she entered the asylum, she expected to see people who needed medical help. Instead, she found a warehouse of "inconvenient" women. There were wives who had argued with their husbands about money. There were daughters who refused to marry men they didn't love. There were women who were simply too loud or too independent. "This is not a hospital," Elizabeth realized. "It is a cage for the unwanted." The doctors tried to break her spirit. They told her that if she just admitted her husband was right and she was wrong, she could go home. They wanted her to say she was crazy for wanting her own thoughts. Elizabeth looked them in the eye and said, "I cannot buy my liberty by a lie." She didn’t give up. Instead, she started to write. She hid scraps of paper in the linings of her clothes. She tucked notes under floorboards. She recorded every abuse, every scream in the night, and every story of the women around her. She became a secret journalist inside a living nightmare. After three years, she was finally released, but her husband locked her in a room at home. He planned to move her to another asylum in a different state. This time, Elizabeth’s friends helped her get a message to a judge. A trial was finally ordered to determine if she was actually insane. The courtroom was packed. Theophilus was confident. He brought "experts" to say that her religious doubts proved her mind was broken. But then, Elizabeth stood up. She didn't shout. She spoke with the calm power of the truth. She explained her beliefs. She showed the jury that having a different opinion is not a disease. The jury only needed seven minutes. They came back with a single word: Sane. Elizabeth walked out as a free woman, but she found that her husband had taken everything. He had sold their furniture, taken her money, and disappeared with their children. She was alone and penniless. Most people would have disappeared into the shadows. Elizabeth did the opposite. She spent the next forty years traveling the country. She stood before the legislature and demanded new laws. She said, "A woman's mind is her own, and the law must protect it." Because of her, states changed their laws. They made it illegal to lock a person away without a fair trial and a medical exam. She turned her private pain into a public shield for thousands of other women. She proved that even if you take away a woman’s home, her money, and her children, you can never truly take away her voice.

@interiorsuckerr I feel like @KiDCuDi would love this

"Sky Guy" resin sculpture by Johnny Nash

its not even procrastination anymore im highkey not gonna do that shit

@RyanGarcia Let’s goooooooo love you @RyanGarcia 🥊

Since I won 120,00 I’ll give one person 10k who likes this tweet and follows me. Let’s go

@BhadBhabie Beautiful!!

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@DrewCouver56 Um can you send me the flyer? 😂

🚨 Nearly died over the past 2 weeks and spent days inside Vancouver ERs undergoing tests. While sitting in the ER at Vancouver General Hospital, flyers were being handed out offering patients $360 cash, breakfast, and lunch to smoke medical cannabis and do driving simulator studies. I’ve been sober 29 years. Sitting in an emergency room being offered drugs felt absolutely dystopian. Nothing against the doctors and nurses — this is about how broken the system has become. Full video now up on my YouTube channel

I wasn't too worried about hantavirus until this morning when I heard the director general of the WHO say "our best immunity is solidarity" That's the one thing we don't have my guy

I am so invested in Spencer Pratt becoming the next mayor of LA. Even though it doesn’t affect me at all, I really hope he wins.

Orcas spotted swimming right under the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver 😳 Have you ever seen orcas this close in Vancouver? 🐋💭

@simsimmaaz You made it man

I have $30 in Optimum Points #wealth

@Zamaniii0 Yeezy Yeezy Yeezy

If someone offered you $1m to listen to just one artist for 48 hours straight, who would you choose ??

Quitting my job to pursue my true passion: not having a job

@bosveryaaaaaaaa None of them

Kişilik testi siz hangi yüzüğü seçerdiniz

spirit deadass shutdown while we was in midair we had to jump out the plane like fortnite

Guys, I’m not ok 😮‍💨🥹

@CaptPiccard Ya I can’t respect that at all, a little humility goes a long way.

#90dayfiancebeforethe90days #90dayfiance I hate a disgruntled bitch that talks shit about a man after she gets dumped, classless hoe 🤦‍♂️