No Hope for Change

Texas teachers worked 187 days last year for an average salary of about $55,000. Members of the House of Representatives worked about 87 days last year for $174,000, and Mike Johnson has the audacity to complain about it??

You’re told to save cash while inflation eats it. Told to get a degree while tuition bankrupts you. Told to work hard while billionaires buy your neighborhood. The middle class isn’t struggling. It’s being erased.

Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. Everything this administration does is filled with fraud and waste. wlrn.org/2026-05-14/des…

Mike Johnson making a strong case that minimum wage starts at 174k/yr

If you can’t budget $174K to feed your family while also having the best healthcare insurance in the country you have no business setting the budget for our country

My grandfather said he’d never move into a retirement home. He said, “Too expensive… and the food tastes like someone boiled sadness.” Instead, he checked into a beachfront hotel. We asked, “Grandpa, isn’t that even more expensive?” He smiled and said, “Not really. At the retirement home, I’d pay $200 a day for cold meatloaf and no visitors. But here? For $150 a day, I get ocean views, room service, fresh towels, a pool… …and suddenly all my grandkids remember I exist every weekend.” Then he leaned back in his chair and delivered the final line like a mob boss: “And if I die in the hotel lobby, the manager will actually look disappointed. But at the nursing home? They just call it Tuesday.”

DATA CENTERS SHOWING UP EVERYWHERE FLOCK CAMERAS SHOWING UP EVERYWHERE ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION??

Workers started setting boundaries. Leaving on time. Not answering emails at midnight. Not working weekends for free. The media called it quiet quitting and treated it like a crisis. Nobody called it quiet stealing when companies froze wages for 17 years while profits hit record highs. Only one side of that story made the news.

Millionaire: Makes $20m in 2026 Millionaire: Hires "artist" to make "art" for $25k Artist: Puts one streak on canvas Millionaire: Thanks artist and has art appraised by an appraiser in his same circle of friends Appraiser: Values artwork at $20m Millionaire: Donates $20m artwork to museum to get $20m tax write off Millionaire: Pays no taxes in 2026 Me at museum: This is stupid, it's just a line on a canvas Hipster next to me: No, you just don't understand it because you're uncultured."

The sun hits the Earth with 10,000 times more energy than we use. Every. Single. Day. We're not running out of power. We're just stuck using the wrong kind-because billionaires don't own sunlight.

Since Mike Johnson says members of Congress don't make enough money with just their salaries, may I suggest: - Dialing back on those streaming subscriptions - Reducing your cell phone plan - Taking public transportation - Eating cheaper cuts of meat - Eating in more often - Turning off the lights when you're not in the room - Getting a part-time job at Walmart - Growing a f-cking spine and stop whining Signed, Everyone trying to eke out a living in your shitty economy

It’s wild how 3 deaths from Hantavirus got more media attention than Israel killing ~3,000 civilians in Lebanon.

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections? When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

WELKER: So you're calling for strike on Iran's energy infrastructure? LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yeah. I'm calling to hurt this regime. Hurt them more. Maybe they'll make a deal if you hurt them enough. That's the literal definition of terrorism. And he said it on live TV. With a smile

Israel is wiping out village after village in South Lebanon. Villages older than entire modern states. Villages that survived centuries of history. Not military targets. Civilian homes. Civilian infrastructure. Civilian life. This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

Anyone who thinks the US and Israel attacked Iran only because of the nuclear issue is completely naive. Their real objective was to gain control over Iran’s natural resources and install a puppet government there.

No one needs AI data centers. But everyone needs clean water, food, a home, and a livable wage.

It was all about white supremacy.