In 1869, Congress set the number of Supreme Court Justices at 9 — in part because there were 9 circuits at the time. It’s been 9 Justices ever since. Today, there are 13 circuits.

Elon Musk’s Twitter feed—tweets, replies, likes—is so racist it’s actually breathtaking It’s almost certainly the most famous and widely read neo-Nazi social media feed ever That Twitter has even a single mainstream advertiser left is candidly as shocking as anything in 2024

i get called anti-asian and anti-gay slurs here all the time when the things that would actually hurt me are "no one cares your clothes are from japan," "all these shoes look the same," and "you'll never wear that purchase"

Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization

many unintentionally funny things in the age-gap essay but none as funny as the author's apparently mistaken belief that she's writing about marrying a slightly older man when actually she's just writing about marrying rich

the perks of marrying rich are probably too straightforward and widely understood to pin a whole Edgy Gender Take on them, so i get it. does she? unclear.

I think fundamentally what’s happening is that she’s trying to reconcile the real insights of 21st century feminism, Catholic critiques of materialism, and her own reactionary politics, which means she ends up landing on “what if the real freedom is to be found in submission?”

one of the most obvious signs of infantilization today is the amount of people who seem to not understand that society stops being separated into different age groups after high school

Sam 👁️ Cartoons were purposefully constructed works of comedic art for children, often telling an overarching story over the course of 15 minutes. Sometimes there was even a simple moral lesson. Now it's just an endless loop of jingling keys on YouTube. Sound & fury, signifying nothing.

In researching the next book a trauma expert told me offhandedly she believed most political issues and controversies came down to an argument over whether kids and young people should suffer the same abuse as the previous generation and boy is that on my mind a lot recently.

Fuck off #rushlimbaugh may you fucking ROT IN HELL FOR SHITTING TURDS IN THE PUNCH BOWL OF DISCOURSE. Fuck you, your children, and your children's children, so hard. You were a CANCER ON OUR COUNTRY, & I'm glad you JUSTIFIABLY AND KARMA-SATISFYINGLY DIED OF CANCER YOU CHUCKLEFUCK

really excited to see an efficiency audit of the federal government run by the guy who bought an ad sales business for twice its value then destroyed the ad sales side of the business to replace it with a scheme to sell $8 of forums flair to the platforms 200,000 worst users

i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks. daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.