# June, no, NOTHING! (Monthly Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** monthly-mini-rant\ **Created:** [June 1, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-no-nothing-monthly-mini-rants/1019081 "2025-06-01T19:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 266
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-no-nothing-monthly-mini-rants/1019081/266 "2025-06-19T01:04:50Z")
Oh rats, there’s a June-related rant. So I’ll just have to cross-post: > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/5961): > > (Didn’t want to make a new thread) I was on hold with Fidelity (UK - USA) and they mentioned something about Thursday being something like a holiday. At first I was like, “Oh, July 4th” yet then I saw that’s a Friday and had to ask. Happy Juneteenth! Kind of a manufactured holiday - on this date slaves in Galveston, Texas were freed on June 19th 1865 due to the Emancipation Proclamation which Abe had declared on January 1, 1863 (during the Civil War). Yet it took Congress to pass the 13th Ame… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-no-nothing-monthly-mini-rants/1019081)._