@fabianacristinx Reply to @justmatou here’s how to make every pair of jeans fit like magic 🤍 #fashionhacks #fashiontrick #jeanshack #shoelacejeans #springoutfitideas #fashioneducation ♬ Intimidated (feat. H.E.R.) - KAYTRANADA
Friday, July 26, 2024
Making Jeans Fit
Great Advice From a Kid
@jeronimoooo0000 Homeboy better seize the day, his friends brain was on full at 8am
♬ original sound - Jeronimo
What's White Privilege Worth?
An excerpt from The Nation -
Can You Put a Dollar Amount on White Privilege?
Tracie McMillan’s The White Bonus attempts to quantify the literal cost of racism in America.
By KRISTEN MARTIN
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When Tracie McMillan was a student at New York University in the mid-1990s, she landed an internship at The Village Voice and worked under Wayne Barrett, an investigative journalist who considered himself a “detective for the people.” Barrett’s tutelage shaped McMillan’s mission: “To hold the powerful to account by reporting rigorously and telling full, honest stories about the poor.” McMillan came to focus her own journalism career on the travails of American workers—particularly those struggling to earn a living wage—primarily through the lens of food. In outlets like City Limits, McMillan explored New York City’s food deserts; later, her first book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, exposed the underpayment of undocumented farm laborers and the racial and gender inequities in restaurant kitchens. She would come to identify as working-class herself, in part because she barely earned more than her subjects.
McMillan had grown up white and middle-class in an exurb of Detroit. Her parents had jobs good enough to afford home ownership, albeit with help from their own parents. This domestic stability soon crumbled, however. On New Year’s Day 1982, when McMillan was 5, her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and soon after suffered a debilitating, traumatic brain injury in a car accident. She lived the rest of her life in institutional care. When McMillan lost her mother—first to institutionalization, then to death at age 44 in 1993—her father, who had long struggled to control his temper, took out his rage on her. But even these adversities did not cause the family to lose their class position.
Nonetheless, McMillan saw herself as downwardly mobile because she refused to rely on her abusive father’s money. Unlike many of her NYU peers, she worked multiple jobs throughout college to pay for rent, living expenses, and a portion of tuition. Though McMillan’s upbringing was full of personal loss and maltreatment, her economic precarity in young adulthood was a choice—and, as she would come to realize, she was never truly without a safety net. Even when she went undercover as a grape-picker, Walmart shelf-stocker, and in the kitchen of an Applebee’s for The American Way of Eating and mostly lived off her wages from those jobs, McMillan’s connection to her coworkers was tenuous. They may have had similar paychecks, but her skin color ensured that she was treated differently. She was buoyed all along the way by her whiteness.
In The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, McMillan comes to terms with what her race has given her, turning her investigative eye toward telling a “full, honest” story about whiteness. She attempts to provide a literal accounting for the monetary difference in how white Americans like herself “directly benefit from racism,” tallying, in dollar amounts, the flip side of “‘the ‘Black tax’—the higher costs faced by Black Americans who have been denied so much of the aid extended freely to whites.” This “white bonus” has its roots in public policies for housing, employment, education, crime, and social welfare, as well as the accrual and distribution of familial wealth facilitated by generations of racist policies in both the public and private sectors. As the book unfolds, McMillan tracks how she and four other middle-class white families she profiles have profited from racism—and, ultimately, what racism has cost them.
But The White Bonus has an inherent flaw, one McMillan acknowledges in the introduction. “I cannot take a full measure of the material benefits of racism—and, as many economists have told me, it is likely that no one can,” she writes. “Racism is too complex, too slippery, too multifaceted to pin down its value in a definitive way…. any estimate I offer will be woefully, dramatically, impossibly insufficient.” Still, McMillan proceeds to offer estimates, down to the cent, in “The White Bonus Index” at the back of the book. Reading The White Bonus, it’s hard not to wonder why McMillan proceeded with this methodology. Her book attempts to answer whether the benefits of racism are worth their cost to white Americans, but in taking an individualist approach to a systemic problem, it poses another question: Whom is McMillan really trying to hold to account with this rough accounting?
McMillan begins her “story of white advantage in America” with her grandparents, focusing on how housing policies from the early 1900s through World War II allowed them to build wealth. She proceeds to take the reader through two more generations of her own family’s finances through an analysis of the federal, state, and local policies that have long subsidized life for white people at the expense of taxpayers of color.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/white-bonus-tracie-cotton-review/
Job Interview Red Flags
An excerpt from the Daily Mail -
Job recruiter reveals the biggest RED FLAGS that instantly turn employers off during an interview
Emily Levine, from LA, said there are a few simple mistakes that people make
She said sharing too much about what you expect can turn off employers
The expert also advised against seeming overeager to get promoted at first
By LILLIAN GISSEN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
A recruiter with more than a decade of experience has shared the biggest 'red flags' that will instantly turn off employers during a job interview.
Emily Levine - executive vice president at Career Group Companies, from Los Angeles, California, who has worked in recruiting since 2010 - recently told Business Insider about the worst things that people can do while meeting with prospective new employers.
She explained that the way you handle yourself and the information you divulge during a job interview is vital.
And according to Emily, there are a few simple mistakes that people make that often cost them the position.
First, she warned against sharing too much about what you expect from the position at first.
She also said seeming 'overeager to get promoted instead of focusing on the job they applied for' could be a major red flag to employers.
'[Already thinking about your next steps] sounds the alarm in the interviewer's mind,' she dished.
In addition, Emily recommended that people do as much research about the company they re applying to before going in for an interview.
She said interviewers can always tell when someone is 'winging it,' and can be turned off by that.
'Even if they're provided with the link of who they're meeting with, [some people] show up completely blind, and they have no idea of anything about the company or the person that they're interviewing with,' she explained. 'Which is just so insulting.'
If you're scheduled to have a virtual interview rather than one in person, Emily added that where you decide to do it matters more than you might think.
She said that employers may be unhappy if you do the interview while you're in the midst of doing something else or if you seem 'too comfortable' during the chat.
Continue at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13659457/job-recruiter-red-flags-employer-interview.html
Trump's Attack Backfired Quick
An excerpt from Huff Post -
Trump's 4-Word Attack On Kamala Harris Gets Turned Back At Him In Most Humiliating Way
The former president's insult was quickly turned into a reminder of his own recent past.
By Ed Mazza
Donald Trump’s latest attack on Vice President Kamala Harris quickly backfired on social media as his critics used his insult against him.
One day after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Harris, Trump dismissed her as “dumb as a rock,” causing the phrase to trend on X.
But most of those messages weren’t in support of the former president.
Instead, Trump’s critics used the phrase to remind him of some of his most infamous claims and comments, from injecting disinfectant as a potential COVID-19 treatment to windmill cancer to the time he looked up at the sun during an eclipse:
"Dumb as a Rock" Trump is pic.twitter.com/fo0ZsNe7pR
— MAGA is anti-Democracy 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 #KHive (@JanSImagine) July 22, 2024
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-dumb-rock-insult_n_669f1460e4b03375f56ef8ed
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
Unwritten Rules of Work
@drkallschmidt Yes I know white collar can have emergencies and blue collar can not. There are 3 min caps on these videos people. #unwrittenrules #leadership #tiptok #communication #whitecollar ♬ original sound - Dr K
First Responders Tell What You Should & Shouldn't Do In Emergencies
An excerpt from Buzzfeed -
First Responders Are Revealing What You Should And Should NOT Do In Dangerous Situations, And Please, Take Notes
"EMT here. DO NOT put your feet on the dashboard. You don't want to see what happens if that airbag goes off."
by Liz Richardson, BuzzFeed Staff
14. "My husband is a SAR (Search and Rescue) pilot. The one thing that shows up best on his night vision goggles is flicking a lighter. So, always pack a lighter, and when you hear the chopper, flick it — don't just keep it lit!"
15. "Always listen to your inner voice! If it tells you to leave, then leave."
18. "Use the 'Health' app on your iPhone to enter the medications taken, medical issues, allergies, and everything else medical for you and your family. This way, it's easily accessible when you're stressed out and frantic. Make sure the same info is on your family's phones, too. I'm not familiar with Android phones, but it wouldn't be shocking for them to have their version of the same app. Better yet, if you or a family member has a medical condition like epilepsy or is allergic to common drugs like penicillin, get them a Medic Alert bracelet, necklace, wristband, shoelace slide-on, watchband clip-on, or any other assorted products. As a nurse who often worked in the ER, we actively looked for and used them, even the wallet cards. We instantly could access whatever medical info you input into their system."
"When it comes to kids staying with grandparents or family and friends, I can't count how many times I have been able to access the child's medical info through Medic Alert, which saved a life. Giving us the number to a pediatrician's office is helpful, but reaching someone with access to the needed medical records can take hours. A yearly fee varies depending on services and the number of families using the service, but it's covered under healthcare spending accounts. The fee is tax-deductible, too. Some insurance companies cover the cost of serious medical conditions, and Medic Alert offers free services for those who qualify. Medic Alert can even store your emergency contacts, the contact info for every doctor you see, a copy of your advanced directives, if you're a registered organ donor, and more. Even putting your medical info on a 3" x5" index card, laminating it, and keeping it in your purse/wallet is priceless in an emergency when you are unconscious, your phone is locked and doesn't have emergency access to the Health app activated, and/or there's no one with you that knows you're a type I diabetic or severely allergic to Vancomycin."
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Young, Gifted & Black - Yes Ma'am!
@that_crochet_gurl00 I was overwhelmed with compliments!🥹💕this is the best part of crocheting fr #crochet #fypage #fyp #crochetptomdress #prom #pink #fypviral #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp ♬ original sound - Sarah🐤🧶💕
From High School Buddies to Champions
An excerpt from SBNation -
Jayson Tatum and Matthew Tkachuk were high school friends, now they’re both champions
The Celtics and the Panthers winning the NBA and NHL titles means these BFFs have PLENTY to celebrate.
By James Dator
The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup Champions, winning a hard-fought Game 7 against the Oilers to win their first title in team history. It comes just after the Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship — and at the center of both teams is a remarkable bond between friends.
Matthew Tkachuk: Stanley Cup Champion
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) June 25, 2024
Jayson Tatum: NBA Champion
Two kids from St. Louis 🏆🏆 pic.twitter.com/aT0gHfDWgP
Jayson Tatum of the Celtics and Matthew Tkachuk of the Panthers are long-time friends, going back to their days at Chaminade Prep School in the suburbs of St. Louis. Tatum, a promising basketball player befriended Tkachuk, who wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps into the NHL (Matthew is the son of the legendary Keith Tkachuk).
The two spent time together, pushing each other, even making goofy videos together — as this assignment Tatum made for school stars Tkachuk briefly.
Old Ladies' Names Getting New Lives
From MamasUncut -
50 Popular Old Lady Names & Their Meanings
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https://mamasuncut.com/old-lady-names-making-comeback-2024/step8/
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