The government’s back in bidness. It only took 43 days… The stress and disruption this shutdown caused was ridiculous and unnecessary! Of course, this happened just before the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Now we’re supposed to go out and, what, spend money and pretend this never happened?!
Tag: money
Federal Employees and All Those Affected by the Federal Government Shutdown: Watch Y’all’s Time (Lines) #Day 17
Who, among us, works for the feds? Anybody affected by the shutdown? Furloughed? Recently Retired? Fired? SMH… This is Day #17. Just marking time as we cross the halfway point into Month 1.
To Be Read | The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** Some spring/summer reading about systemic financial malfeasance and fraud committed against Black America: Emily Flitter’s book The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America “connects the dots between data, history, legal scholarship,…
It’s Friday! Just Got Paid? Ya’ll Boycotting Retail Spending or Nah?
Today is No-Buy Day where folks are refusing to buy retail for 24 hours in protest of the new regime’s and corporate’s rollbacks of DEI policies and programs. I been pulled all the way back on frivolous spending and am strict about sticking to my weekly/monthly budgets so I guess you could say I’m locked…
To Be Read | The Black Tax by Andrew W. Kahrl
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl. Published this month by UC Press and is next on the ole reading list. Anybody who’s…