We carry two, wait, no, THREE, different brands of locally-made pasta in the "local stuff only" shop I manage.

It's not the price of supermarket pasta, but it's also better than my supermarket Barilla which (I checked) is already made in IA and NY.

Not when there's a plethora of white men genuinely just realizing he's a disaster and mansplaining his failures to those of us already well aware, no.

"and religion" is the bit that got me.

My schizophrenic father found patriarchal evangelicalism VERY helpful for avoiding treatment and justifying the abuse of his family... they condemned my mother for leaving him.

Fuck that shit.

Likely entirely unrelated, but I found this, and had to share. www.westchestercc.net/documents/20...

Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.

I quit shopping because they cancelled their DEI initiatives: www.forbes.com/sites/dougme... Lots of other people have, too, which is why their stock has dropped, and probably also why they can't get good help, and the remaining staff don't take care of the place? Resistance takes many forms. 😉

Maybe this, coming to fruition? juliabrownley.house.gov/ventura-coun...

I insert my experience with "cold flashes" into these convos mostly b/c I've had *women's health advocates* tell me they were unaware and hadn't put it together themselves.

Short bouts of shaking chills when it's not that cold? Yeah, that's not your hypothalamus, it's just perimenopause.

Ah, understood.

I have a (white) former coworker who scammed and/or colluded w/landlords in minority neighborhoods to sublet apts for profit. Said it was easier than flipping houses. He should not have been welcomed by anyone ever, and I imagined maybe your new neighbor was equally questionable.

Ha. I was skimming and didn't get that far. Good eye.