Wayne Smith 🟦🇺🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

In 1978, a student working a summer job at minimum wage could earn enough to cover an entire year of in-state tuition at a four-year public university, often without needing to take on debt. In 1978, a student earning the federal minimum wage could realistically pay for an entire year of in-state tuition at a public four-year university with a typical summer job. With minimum wage set at $2.65 per hour and average annual tuition and required fees around $688, a student working 40 hours a week for 12 weeks could earn about $1,272 before taxes—more than enough to cover tuition and still have money left for books, transportation, and other expenses. That reality has largely disappeared. While the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour for years, average in-state tuition and fees at public four-year universities have climbed to roughly $11,000 annually. Covering tuition alone at minimum wage would now require more than 1,500 hours of work before taxes, the equivalent of nearly 38 weeks of full-time employment—far beyond what a student could earn during a normal summer break.

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What the U.S. Senate campaign in Maine is all about.

@MsAshBash420 😂

@ThexyBeatht_2 😮

My son looked right into my face and said: “typical Latina”. Someone bring the holy water. I’m gonna need it

He's definitely anti-woke...

@YourAnonNews 😂

Number of photographs of Donald Trump fast asleep during meetings: HUNDREDS. Number of photographs of every other president asleep during meetings, combined: ZERO. This POS has broken every POS record.

Trump’s name appears over 38,000 times in over 5,800 documents in the Epstein files. If you printed out those 5,800+ documents on 8.5” x 11” paper and placed them end to end, the Trump Epstein files documents would go from one end of the reflecting pool to the other, then back to the start, and then 2/3 of the way back again.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

LET’S KEEP IT REAL According to Trump, Black jobs are in factories. And we already know if a Black person is a doctor, lawyer, engineer, executive, professor, pilot, or CEO, he calls it DEI. Yesterday, Trump was asked why Black unemployment is still 7.3%, far above the national average of 4.3%. His answer? Don’t worry, Black workers will do well when more factories and car plants open. Apparently, in Trump’s America, our future is on the assembly line.

@cwebbonline 😮

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Albania has officially drawn the line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have launched an active enforcement operation to kick out foreign developers and private security personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites, The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign investors, the Albanian public unified under a single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has sent a clear message to international billionaires and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land. The people spoke, and the government had to listen.

@MsAshBash420 😂

This week, my amendment to ban billionaire-funded super PACs received unanimous support from my Democratic colleagues. The momentum is growing. It’s time to repeal Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to the public funding of elections NOW.