Gwen Snyder is uncivil

I've never done regular clothes there, but my parents hipped me to their 360-brand base layers and that is fine stuff

That's why so much of Middle Age Consumerism is also "buy 20 of the thing that works, the moment it goes on sale at Costco"

So great. Darryl the locksmith is absolutely no bullshit and also gave my kid a vintage Happy Meal toy that's Miss Piggy on a tricycle, Lowe's could never

Their super-budget paper goods are a bit utilitarian for my taste but like. Still solid for what they are and you can't beat the price

I got mine in 2022 and they've been going strong since. So good up until that year at least

I love it

Oh AAA does auto insurance? Home insurance? Cool, take my money, I never want to have to think about this again.

I just want things that work, and don't cheat me or charge me rent, and won't break immediately, and won't forcefeed me ads and/or AI. I am so tired

Costco, our electrician, Darn Tough socks, the guys that did our brick repointing. That little hardware store at 45th and Walnut. Doc Martens, at least until private equity dug its claws in

Middle age consumerism is just the exhausting process of finally finding A Person Or Brand That Does Something Well and then prayerfully throwing money at them

We are all middle aged and you just posted about Costco, friend

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.

This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting

If I were one of the wealthiest people in human history, living in a country with ever growing wealth inequality, I might think twice about advocating ritual execution

this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes

every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"

extrajudicial killings are a lot like Jesus healing someone when you really think about it

Looks like schools are prepared as well

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Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

Lynchings, he wants to see people lynched.

Something that I don’t think people realize is how bonkers racist society was for a long time. Like it is racist now but it was *SO RACIST* that it is hard to describe it without sounding unhinged

calling it now, the “look for the helpers” of 2k26 is “look for the anarchists”

It is still of course a bad thing that Trump is trying to rebrand the US as TrumpLand.

But the way things are going south I think there is going to be some serious regret putting his face on everything and reminding everyone who to be mad at

Fat has a purpose, it is what gets us through hard times.

Trim all the fat, bad news

I will never forget how then-Mayor Michael Nutter "saved" Philly a bunch of money by selling off all our snow plows as an austerity measure one year.

Guess what happens to us now, when it snows?

Epitome of neoliberal "cost saving"

This stage of capitalism in a nutshell

it’s the perfect higher ed admin endpoint: incredibly lazy, a total betrayal of education as an ideal, and seething with hate for faculty

I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie

"Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the Constitution"

Trump knows better than anyone that the fascist base will happily feed upon its own at the first hint of weakness.

If his base really comes to believe that his health is faltering, they will eat him alive.

None of this stuff is metaphor for them.

They literally want to be able to believe that Their Guy can beat up The Other, that's why they're always AI slopping Muscle Trump.

Not as a visual metaphor but as wishcasting.

Their strongman HAS to be strong. That's the religion.

Worth remembering that Trump is not just an authoritarian, but a fascist authoritarian.

Fascism boils down to the belief that there's a "natural" order where the physically strong violently dominate the weak.

If a fascist strongman's base perceives him as enfeebled, he is politically fucked