My dad used to work with market segmentation studies in #advertising. "Do not mail your knitting yarn catalogue to teenage boys" etc. He told me I'm in the hopeless and worthless #marketing segment that is best ignored. Anti-consumerist, environmentally conscious, ascetic, hostile to ostentatious luxury consumption. I see it as a badge of honour. Fuck "the economy"!

#consumerism

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.

We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefitted from the deal.
propublica.org/article/kristi-…

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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

^{Alex.Bandoni@propublica.org (ProPublica)}