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"Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
--Mary Oliver
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C. S. Lewis on why you NEED to read old books. This has never been more vital than it is today
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2: "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand"
August 8, 1911. Congress made a decision that quietly shapes American politics to this day. It froze the size of the House of Representatives at 435 members.
For most of the country's history, the House kept growing. As the population expanded and new states joined, lawmakers simply added more seats so representation could keep pace. The chamber ballooned decade after decade as America grew.
On this day, Congress capped it, setting the number of representatives at 435. A later law made that ceiling permanent. Ever since, no matter how much the country's population has exploded, the number of seats has stayed locked at that same figure.
The consequences are huge and often overlooked. Because the number is fixed but the population keeps growing, each representative now speaks for vastly more people than they did a century ago, hundreds of thousands each. It affects everything from how power is divided among the states to how presidential elections work. A number most people never think about was set in stone on this day.
Broadcast, a "spatial symphony" at Worlds Fair Park, will involve 100s of moving parts. Literally - 600 musicians performing as they move around the park. knoxnews.com/story/entertain…
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Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/
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The rule of conspiracy theories is — that which does not corroborate a conspiracy theory only reveals that the conspiracy is even more elaborate than we thought.
Who is subverting POTUS? The #Epsteinfiles are a total joke. I know Kash, Pam B and The President. This is not the file. WH tells me that they believe the usual suspects FBI/SDNY has the actual #EpsteinClientList and are refusing to turn it over. THIS IS AN INTERNAL CIVIL WAR if true. I will be doing a special X cast in a few minutes.
Adding a $20 processing fee. 😘
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Charles Bukowski once said: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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My only hot take from this video is that Americans really take for granted how they won the geographic lottery by being born here.
21-year-old Margarita Sacarías broke down in tears after she was deported back to Guatemala from the U.S., expressing her devastation largely because of what it would mean for her and her parents, who had pulled together more than $25,000 in loans to pay her smuggler. "I really need to get to the other side, to give my best to my parents," she said. "They have nothing."