Every time I look at my tax return and the amount of deductions I lost with the Trump tax returns I get pissed.
I ran a business that brought fair pay & equity to part-timers, working students, artists/actors & gig workers.
The Trump tax cuts destroyed so many lives. /1
My niece has been asked to not wear her shaved head at work. They told her it was a distraction.
She's an inhouse attorney. What are they thinking?
I cannot divulge the company but they are in for a world of &^%
She is the best & undeserving of this.
Y'all wanna dismiss bernie's rape essays as something from when he was 30 yrs old & irrelevant but college protests & attending The March on Washington over 50 yrs ago is relevant civil rights cred.
Make it make sense.
#KHive4Biden
Y'all understand how big this is?
I am in tears. I know people who lost it all for being queer in the Corps.
We have been pushing this for a long time.
Tens of thousands of LGBT veterans forced from the military for their sexual orientation and given other-than-honorable discharges will be able to receive full Veterans Affairs benefits under a new move from the Biden admin set to be announced Monday.
I was being harassed in a bar full of men by a dude. when I got fed up and cussed his azz out, I also cussed out the guys seeing him being disrespectful to me unprovoked who did nothing.
I called them all puzzies & told them if they see me, never fcking talk to me ever. /1
Y'all talk about WH messaging, Every week they have town halls, Zooms and meetings on different topics.
I get email invites for all of them.
These journos are not reporting on the BORING work they keep claiming is not being done.
Chris Rock's past commentary and conversations in relation to Black Women and Jada tells you who he is.
before she came on his show he parodied her activism in a horribly unfunny clip & then minimized it during this interview.
A lot to unpack on here. /1
I swore not to work another election. It's a long grueling day about 16 hours long. It's thankless work.
Yesterday changed that. I will be working this primary.
Many of them apologized, some are now friends, but it took a lot.
Unbeknownst I was in a cop bar & they let this correction officer just harass a woman.
Our pain is too often a spectacle & entertainment.
Yet when it is two men, they deftly step in to quash the situation. /4
I just got a fb friend request from someone I knew from over 40 years ago who wound up being a homophobe & rejected his brother who was dying from AIDS.
I have some old polaroids of his Brother, I will post one in a message asking him not to request me again.
My memory is long.
Elizabeth Warren is over 70 years old.
There should be a list of accomplishments that she has done to help the marginalized and the poor since y'all claim she is all about that life.
I had abortions.
Miscarriages & needed D&C's to prevent sepsis.
Ectopic pregnancy detected at 11 weeks, emergency D&C.
I was pregnant for six months & had a premature delivery of a son that did not survive.
Last pregnancy was a BC fail.
Abortions are healthcare
I was new in the community going back & forth when I was on military leave.
They all learned a lesson that day as for years when I saw one of them & they tried to talk to me, I reminded them that they were one of the puzzies I said to never address me. /3
For transparency, YES, my Son is a fan of Joe Rogan and I told him Joe was 🗑️ back in 2016.
My brilliant but gullible af vaccinated son is now an anti-vaxxer, talks about Ivermectin, the bailout, is a rabid Joe defender & hates Fauci.
It is tearing my family apart.
Looks like I am going to start traveling by private berths on a train. I am not a train person, but I will be one, because I refuse to fly w/ unmasked ppl while I still care for the immunocompromised
Because when I stood up for myself to this dude, that was when they acted.
As if he needed protection, (he did in the end) it was peachy keen when he was blowing cigarette smoke on me & calling me a bish. /2
Every now & then I look at the large national staffing companies that have come in the place of entrepreneurs like me. Standard pay is less than I paid folks being trained.
The GOP plan is to pay workers less while demanding more. /6
@Mpikanisi__
@LungyMpisane
@ZakzR
I see you on some BS.
Either you are a predator or you're looking for a free nanny for your kids. I just put a hex on you over this post.
My Son blocked me because I told him to stop flirting around & just go get his MAGA hat.
His latest rant was about youtube "censoring" his conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxer faves.
I mean he has an entire origin story about SARS COV-2 that involves US & China, I fcking can't.
@colorfullstory
Baby, she protected that thread.
Anti-Black American-ness is universal.
That is why I am careful how I operate in spaces and learn other languages so I can know what ppl are saying when they think you don't understand.
It is obvious he' had a longstanding & weird fascination with Jada & Will Smith. Why else would he congratulate her for not mentioning Will's name in an interview that was about her and her current projects.
That & the champagne was so bizarre. /3
Tennessee is celebrating "Own a Negro" Month.
This is 2023.
Y'all have the power to change the narrative and reality for everyone in your state.
#TennesseeThree
#FlipYourHouseAndSenate
I can never get back the extra hours it took me to do my hair. The extra hour I lost waking up early enough to run & have time to make my hair polished to be in uniform.
Times w/ friends that I didn't swim because my yt counterparts didn't schedule in hair time for me.
#CrownAct
Did I tell y'all the story about when my neighbor's GOP friend came over to play spades in my backyard and I kicked her tf outta my backyard when she started talking anti-Black nonsense?
My former employees still call and ask when I am going to reboot the other part of my business & I tell them it is unlikely til we get huge Democratic majorities that will reform the tax code again. /5
Why are folks so evil?
What will it take for people to just stop. Just press pause and breathe a minute?
How are we supposed to just stand still and take abuse from people claiming to abhor violence.
Part of my business plan was the tax structure that allowed me to maintain my homes, pay a living wage to people trying to survive living on the East coast and keep my business funded.
I made work schedules around my employees availability and location. /2
Key to sustaining my business model was the deductions I got from running my business from home in NYC.
The tax code actually helped me afford to keep it running and afford all of the insurance & compliance necessary in the different states I operated in on the east coast. /3
@GammaReigh
yes, She had been wearing head wraps & they were giving her the looks. This thing with Jada happened so Tuesday she just took off her head wrap & went w/ her bald head in solidarity w/ Jada & the yts have been in a tizzy.
She has alopecia caused by chemo. I am flying out to her
Folks, do you think I am being an ahole for not wanting to have ppl who are unvaccinated in my ambit?
Everyday I find out that someone who wants to be in spaces with me/my family are antivax.
Same way they're scared of the vaccine, Even tho I am fully-vaxxed, I'm scared of them
After the Trump tax cuts everything went off a cliff. It was not going to be sustainable paying my employees a great wage and sustaining basic operation costs.
I had to adjust my businesses focus & concentrate on work I can do myself or farm out to IT techs. /4
What Jane Campion did was violence.
It was compounded disrespect and unforgivable.
It equates with touching our hair.
Just because we don't publicly drag you after you humiliate and disrespect us, does not give you a pass to violate our space for the cameras.
When you check your voicemails and your friend's Mom and her neighbor's are cussing
@AOC
and asking you to call her on Twitter for them.
LOL
So I am following orders and CALLING you for them. /1
How many of y'all forgave him for his misogynoir during this huge comedy special.
I was enjoying this comedy special until this part.
I had reached a plateau after this. Hard to ignore red flags.
He was telling us all along who he is. /2
I can go to the Caribbean for a few days for the same price it costs me to take a short train/flight to DC and stay at a nice hotel for two days.
These folks who came in for the insurrection were not poor, or living check to check.
If so, financed by someone with deep pockets?
Summer is approaching folks.
Bathe accordingly.
By accordingly I mean every day unless it's a physical constraint.
Those dealing with depression, I understand, it can be hard.
Put a shower & tooth brushing on a reward list and play happy music while you do it. we love you. /1
Educating young girls and teaching them about their personal power, agency and worth goes a long way toward changing rape culture and the systemic abuse of our youth. /7
"because the conversations he has on his podcast reflect the conversations that people have in real life"
we know, racist yt folks talk like that all of the time.
Yes, I will die on this hill. You cannot buy authenticity and love. The reason people *love* Joe Rogan is because the conversations he has on his podcast reflect the conversations that people have in real life.
For starters, the format. It's long and searching and not set up
Part of the reason why Black Women will save face in these situations is that when we are subjected to microaggressions in predominately yt spaces there is always going to be people who virulently pushback on our pushback & then it becomes about what we did & not about Karen/Chad
Y'all don't forget Natalie James
@JamesForAR
is running to be the first Black Women US Senator representing Arkansas.
This can be done. Y'all can also hand Huckabee a loss in the Gov race.
VOTE ARKANSAS!!!
I will never forgive all of the folks who played a part in vilifying this Woman over something they heard and not over something they knew or took the time to investigate.
Every. Single. Word. Half the country needs to develop their emotional intelligence and critical thinking skills. That anyone would choose a ruthlessly bombastic liar over her, is a clear display of willful ignorance.
Yesterday I was in a conversation with an old friend who has a transitioning adult child.
I had to stop them in almost every exchange to correct them from misgendering & dead-naming them. /1
@nycgunner74
Everyone there knew I was new to the area. I knew no one. I was rehabbing my home around the corner.
I found out that I was in a "man's" bar and that women were not "allowed" in there.
Until today they talk about how I desegregated that bar.