#Bengal votes

[bengals-barnesbabe]

[lewishamiltonstuff]

I just cast the most important vote of my life 😌

[the-mic-drop]

Non-Sports Fans Only (Pt12

Time for the semi-finals!

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

BABY BENGAL PICTURE TIME

Maraly, wee fiesty charcoal girl

Sweet lil man

Shy lil Leeli girl

And some more

Maraly

Snugglebug brother

Leeli!

All kittens are beginning to adjust! They're getting calmer and starting to accept this as their home. They did lots of exploring of the front porch today (under my supervision) and wore themselves out! They've all been treated for fleas and we're going to start working on worming them in a day or two. The little girls hiss and growl at their poor confused brother a lot and we're fairly sure it's because they're at the age where they start going into heat, so their hormones are making them grumpy. But they're getting a lot calmer and none of them have been fighting and they respond VERY well to verbal tones when I tell them, "It's okay" "Calm down" "Be nice!"

They're all little sweethearts. Baby boy wants love the most, he just wants to snuggle all day. Maraly and Leeli like being held because then they can see over the latticework to the world beyond :)

For those who didn't see my post the other day, here's the story of how I rescued three Bengal kittens from the streets.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Abhijeet - Ole Ole 1994

Abhijeet Bhattacharya is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi Film Industry. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Odia and his native language Bengali both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Abhijeet has sung 6034 songs in more than 1000 films. He was nominated for Forbes Popular 100 Indian Celebrity in the year 2014.

Yeh Dillagi (This Cheerfulness) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Naresh Malhotra and produced by Yash Chopra. Based on the 1954 American film Sabrina, its story revolves on two brothers (Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan) who fall in love with their family driver's daughter, Sapna (Kajol), a successful model. The film released on 6 May 1994, and emerged as a commercial success, grossing ₹10.8 crore against its ₹1.6 crore budget.

At the 40th Filmfare Awards, Yeh Dillagi received 4 nominations – Best Actor (Kumar), Best Actress (Kajol), Best Music Director (Dilip Sen, Sameer Sen) and Best Male Playback Singer (Abhijeet for the song "Ole Ole"). The film's soundtrack album contains seven songs composed by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen. It became one of the top three best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums of 1994, with 4.5 million sales. The song "Ole Ole", sung by Abhijeet was a hit at the music charts. "Ole Ole" was remixed for the 2020 film Jawaani Jaaneman.

"Ole Ole" received a total of 68,2% yes votes!

[bengals-barnesbabe]

📢*ehem this announcement is for anyone who thinks I abandoned #Track9 because let’s be honest I kinda did… These are my newly updated draftssss, there’s lots of goodies in here and I’m STRUGGLING to pick something to finish soooo I leave it to my humble readers. Note Operation Tiger WILL BE FIRST*😭📢

Here’s an accurate time summary for each option being done.

More #Track9 ~ within 2 days of OP 🐯

PFW ~ within 24 hours after OP 🐯

Spa Day ~ within 2-3 days of OP 🐯

Mission Report Pending ~ within 2-3 days of OP 🐯

Any other Bucky Fic ~ within 2-3 days of OP 🐯

any requests ~ within 3-4 days of OP 🐯

[reasonsforhope]

"It was widely described as the week that India’s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on Tuesday [June 4, 2024], all predictions and polls were defied as Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in a decade while the opposition re-emerged as a legitimate political force. On Sunday evening, Modi will be sworn in as prime minister yet many believe his power and mandate stands diminished.

For one opposition politician in particular, the humbling of the strongman prime minister was a moment to savour. Late last year, Mahua Moitra, one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), found herself unceremoniously expelled from parliament and kicked out of her bungalow, after what she described as a “political witch-hunt” for daring to stand up to Modi.

The murky and allegedly undemocratic circumstances of Moitra’s expulsion from parliament was seen by many to symbolise Modi’s approach to dissenting voices and the steady erosion of India’s democracy. She was among several vocal opposition politicians who were subjected to investigations by government crime agencies.

But having won a landslide re-election in her home state of West Bengal, Moitra will return once again to parliament, part of the newly empowered opposition coalition. “I can’t wait,” said Moitra. “They went to egregious lengths to discredit and destroy me and abused every process to do it. If I had gone down, it would have meant that brute force had triumphed over democracy.”

While he may be returning for a historic third term, many have portrayed the results as something of a defeat for Modi, who has had to rely on coalition partners to form a government. The BJP’s campaign had been solely centred around him – even the manifesto was titled “Modi’s guarantee” – and in many constituencies, local BJP candidates often played second fiddle to the prime minister, who loomed large over almost every seat. He told one interviewer he believed his mandate to rule was given directly by God.

“Modi’s aura was invincibility, that the BJP could not win elections without him,” said Moitra. “But the people of India didn’t give him a simple majority. They were voting against authoritarianism and they were voting against fascism. This was an overwhelming, resounding anti-Modi vote.”

During his past decade in power, Modi and the BJP enjoyed a powerful outright majority and oversaw an unprecedented concentration of power under the prime minister’s office, where key decisions were widely known to be made by a select few.

The Modi government was accused of imposing various authoritarian measures, including the harassment and arrest of critics under terrorism laws, while the country tumbled in global democracy and press freedom rankings. Modi never faced a press conference or any committee of accountability for the often divisive actions of his government. Politicians regularly complained that parliament was simply reduced to a rubber-stamping role for the BJP’s Hindu-first agenda.

Yet on Tuesday [June 40, it became clear that the more than 25 opposition parties, united as a coalition under the acronym INDIA, had inflicted substantial losses on the BJP to take away its simple majority. Analysts said the opposition’s performance was all the more remarkable given that the BJP stands accused of subverting and manipulating the election commission, as well as putting key opposition leaders behind bars and far outspending all other parties on its campaign. The BJP has denied any attempts to skew the election in its favour.

“This election proved that the voter is still the ultimate king,” said Moitra. “Modi was so shameless, yet despite them using every tool they had to engineer this election to their advantage, our democracy fought back.”

Moitra said she was confident it was “the end of Mr Modi’s autocratic way of ruling”. Several of the parties in the BJP’s alliance who he is relying on for a parliamentary majority and who will sit in Modi’s cabinet do not share his Hindu nationalist ideology...

Moitra was not alone in describing this week’s election as a reprieve for the troubling trajectory of India’s democracy. Columns heralding that the “mirror has cracked” and the “idea of India is reborn” were plastered across the country’s biggest newspapers, and editorials spoke of the end of “supremo syndrome”. “The bulldozer now has brakes,” wrote the Deccan Chronicle newspaper. “And once a bulldozer has brakes, it becomes just a lawnmower.” ...

“This was not a normal election, it was clearly an unfair and unlevel playing field,” said Yadav. “But still, there is now a hope and a possibility that the authoritarian element could be reversed.”

Harsh Mander, one of India’s most prominent human rights and peace activists who is facing numerous criminal investigations for his work, called the election the “most important in India’s post independence history”, adding: “The resilience of Indian democracy has proved to be spectacular.”

He said it was encouraging that an “intoxication of majoritarian hate politics” had not ultimately shaped the outcome, referring to Modi’s apparent attempts to stir up religious animosity on the campaign trail as he referred to Muslims as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.

“The past decade has seen the freedom of religion and the freedom of conscience and dissent taken away,” said Mander. “If this election had gone fully the BJP way, then India would not remain a constitutional secular democracy.”"

-via The Guardian, June 9, 2024

[optimistpax]

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 30 January 1965, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's funeral took place. One of its most memorable moments was when cranes on the London docks dipped as his funeral barge went past. However, it later emerged that the dockworkers had originally refused to dip the cranes as they "didn't like" Churchill and had to be paid extra to do it. While typically depicted as a national hero today, in fact, Churchill was hated by many, especially working class people, hence why he lost the 1945 election. And despite being presented as an anti-fascist, Churchill actually supported fascism. He declared that Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was "a really great man" and wrote that he "whole-heartedly" supported Mussolini "from the start of the finish in [his] triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism" and supported Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), describing the independent African nation as not "civilised". Churchill also supported the military coup of general Francisco Franco and his fascist army in Spain and wrote of his admiration for Adolf Hitler in Germany, with whom he also advocated appeasement until late in 1938, even after Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. In his younger days, Churchill also opposed the vote being given to women or working class men. Famously, he was a virulent racist, who supported using poison gas on civilians, and he sent troops against striking British workers. During World War II, he was also a key architect of the manufactured Bengal famine, which killed between two and four million people. * If you value our work researching and promoting people's history like this, please consider supporting our work and access exclusive content and benefits at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2197887470396391/?type=3

[whippersnappersbookworm]

I am so done with this state! It's a fucking joke! Mamata conducted a rally demanding justice for RG Kar when it is her party safeguarding those criminals. Who the fuck is she protesting against? Also, she called the attack on RG Kar a work of the opposition, when it's very clear who did this. She stood there on the stage, sprouting nonsense, while several known female faces or so-called celebrities (who didn't bother to make a single post or comment on the incident) just stood there listening to all that bullshit. I don't know how to feel about anything that is happening right now. I am tired of all these political parties using such a heinous incident to fulfil their selfish  interests. I am tired of people voting for Mamta. I am tired of the so-called educated overlooking the problems that are there in the state government. Just because CM is a woman doesn't make this state progressive and safe for us. I am so done with Kolkata and West Bengal. I don't have any hope left. MAMATA DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE WOMEN (OR ANY ONE TO BE HONEST) OF WEST BENGAL. TMC IS NOT THE LESSER EVIL OR A LIBERAL PARTY. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND ARE COMPLETELY RUINING THE STATE. IT'S HIGH TIME PEOPLE START ACKNOWLEDGING THIS.

PS: Please don't send me messages telling me how Bengal should give a chance to Bjp. They are the same! THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN OR COMMON PEOPLE. They are NEVER THE RIGHT ALTERNATIVE. 

[betterthanburrow]

Mr. PSL - Instagram AU

(Bengals Quarterback! x Digital Creator! OC)

liked by yourinstagram and 175,779 more users

Bengals: Your Monday morning cup of Joe

view all 6,609 comments

username1: Future MVP and Super Bowl Champion!

username2: this is the energy boost that i needed.

yourinstagram: my favorite cup of Joe 🥰

username3: it’s a wonderful morning for bengals fans!

username4: what a good way to start the week!

liked by joeyb_9 and 101,513 more users

yourinstagram: summer is the best time of year ☀️💟

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yourmama: my pretty daughter!

↳ yourinstagram: i get my pretty looks from you!

username1: 😍😍😍

username2: your nails design is so pretty!

joeyb_9: summer is the worse time of the year.

↳ yourinstagram: shut up joey.

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CincyProblems: it looks like Joe isn’t excited about the summertime as he is requesting for pumpkin pie!

(via @.yourinstagram’s instagram stories)

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username1: Joe is a crazy man for wanting to eat a pumpkin pie in JUNE!

username2: i hope everyone voted NO! on the poll

↳ username3: PUMPKIN PIE IS GOOD ANY TIME OF THE YEAR! STOP BEING A PUMPKIN PIE HATER!

yourinstagram: i still can’t believe i spent one of the first days of summer baking a pumpkin pie 😭💀

liked by yourinstagram and 395,980 more users

joeyb_9: Hands don’t look that small here.

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Bengals: 👌

username1: you know what they say about small hands

bengals.central: joe remembers what the haters said!

username2: those hands would look better with a certain type of ring on one of your fingers 🤔

yourinstagram: but you claimed that your hands were “too small” to help me with the pumpkin pie 🫤

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BurrowWorld09: Y/N’s Instagram Stories from today.

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username1: i can’t believe our QB hates all things related to the summertime… no wonder he loves pumpkin pies anytime of the year.

username2: it’s kinda crazy that joe would rather be on the football field than on a beach 💀😭

↳ username3: i bet Y/N had to bribe Joe to go to the beach with her by offering to play football with him.

username4: i love the new nickname for Joe, it’s another nickname to add the long list for nicknames.

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yourinstagram: bikini behavior!

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yourbff: THE MOST GORGEOUS GIRL!

username1: can you break up with Joe and date me?!

username2: 🤤🤤🤤

username3: what a lucky man Joe Burrow is…

joeyb_9: 🤍🤍🤍

↳ yourinstagram: love ya Mr. PSL.

Author’s Note:

summer will be coming to an end in a couple of weeks so i think it’s best to get this Summer Themed Instagram AU published!

if you have a Instagram AU request, please send the IG AU request to my Inbox and i’ll try to get the requested Instagram AU published as fast as i can!

thank you all for the love and support! 🤍

[bellzsad]

i just put as many options as possible in this poll even though i'm aware that most of them are rarely talked about!

i also know exactly which one will win but im curious so.. go ahead and vote!!

don't forget to put reasonings in comments/reblogsss

edit: sorry i wasn't aware that the brenda x gally ship was actually brendally, mb!! i didn't know much about the ship beforehand so i just typed the first ship name that came up. it's also supposed to be "bren", no "ben", that was a typo!!

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Black point

Genotype: aa B_ cscs D_ __ E_ ii kk __ oo/o- __ __ ww __ __

Synonym submission: seal point (brown face and leggies)

Submitter: @trucy-bloom

Propaganda:

my cat is a seal point Balinese and he wakes me up every morning by licking and nuzzling my face ♥️

#go black point!

Black rosetted tabby point

Genotype: A_ B_ cscs D_ __ E_ ii kk mcmc oo/o- Sp_ titi ww Wb_ wb'wb'

Synonym submission: rosetted seal lynx point (ie. snow bengal), white and cream striped! - seal lynx point spotted snow bengal cat. [spotted and rosetted is only different in one modifier, i grouped them together to make room for another color]

Submitter: @vincentus, @the-adventures-of-dave

Propaganda:

i just love them, i think theyre so cute and unique!

rosetted so pretty

#VIN?!?!?! VIN IN THE WILD!?!?!!!?? vote rosetted tabby 💪

#vote for Kep and his snazzy rainbow outfit!

this post 😊

[jackoshadows]

I loathe Rahul Gandhi so much. The best example of an useless nepo baby surrounded by corrupt sycophants who benefit from having him being in charge of the Congress party.

I hold Gandhi to be partially responsible if Modi wins because unfortunately as of now the Congress party is the only viable opposition party at the national level considering the regional parties can never appeal to voters at the national level in a country as diverse and different as India. Tamil Nadu's DMK will never win votes in West Bengal and, vice versa, Mamata's TMC will never win votes in Tamil Nadu.

And yet here is Rahul Gandhi, squatting like a giant toad at the head of his party after losing elections THREE fucking times, including in his own constituency. The way his greed has him holding onto power after the people rejected him IN THREE CONSECUTIVE ELECTIONS! Rahul Gandhi is a gift, a boon to the BJP. Every time Rahul Gandhi talks, I cringe. He has no idea how to appeal to the common Indian, how to connect with them.

And then the way he made this big show and talk about resigning after losing the last election and then held a sham of a party election where all his sycophants voted in a EIGHTY YEAR OLD MAN as a proxy puppet so that Rahul could continue to be the defacto leader and hold power and make decisions, while actually qualified leaders like Shashi Tharoor had to pretend he had any chance in this farce of a pretend party election.

The Congress party could have rebranded and remade itself anytime in the last ten years. Freed itself from the clutches of the Gandhis. Elected a brand new qualified young leader who could understand and connect with the people, the middle class, the youth and fight back against Hindutva with jobs, development, hospitals, roads, water, infrastructure.

And yet all the Gandhis care about is personal power, holding onto that power, fuck the country, fuck the descent into fascism and religious extremism, who cares about all that as long as this useless pos gets to stay as leader of the party and pretend he gives a fuck.

[curtwilde]

Once again the people of Bengal have voted against communal hatred, divisive politics, propaganda and misuse of central agencies and authoritarianism. I have faith in my people still.

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Go domestic shorthair! It’s a classic, you really can’t beat the plain old moggy. Thanks for voting! Y’all made Dave proud ❤️

After a long and hard fought battle... the classic Domestic Shorthair came out on top! There are a lot of cool breeds out there but it's hard to beat your classic moggy. I stole a picture of @the-adventures-of-dave of Dave to celebrate, since he campaigned hard for this victory.