#Funding issues

[global-newz]

Congress Candidate Withdraws: Funding Woes Hit Puri Lok Sabha Seat Contest

In a significant setback for the Congress party in Odisha, Sucharita Mohanty, the candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha seat, has withdrawn from the electoral race. Citing the party’s alleged denial of funding, Mohanty’s decision has stirred controversy and highlighted internal challenges within the party.

Background: Sucharita Mohanty, a seasoned journalist turned politician, expressed her inability to continue campaigning in Puri without financial support from the party. She emphasized the crucial role of funding in mounting an effective campaign, especially in a high-profile constituency like Puri.

Financial Strain: Facing a financial crunch, Mohanty’s campaign struggled to secure necessary resources for effective outreach and mobilization efforts. Despite her earnest efforts, she encountered hurdles in securing funds, which severely hampered her electoral campaign.

Party Response: Ajoy Kumar, the AICC Odisha in-charge, refuted Mohanty’s allegations and assured that funding was not an issue for Congress candidates. He clarified that the party had requested changes in candidate selection for several constituencies, including Puri, indicating ongoing internal deliberations.

High-Stakes Contest: Puri Lok Sabha seat has emerged as a battleground for prominent political figures, with BJP’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra and BJD’s Arup Patnaik vying for victory. Mohanty’s withdrawal adds another layer of complexity to an already intense electoral contest.

Public Appeal: Mohanty’s withdrawal sparked public discourse, with concerns raised over the challenges faced by opposition parties in securing adequate resources for electoral campaigns. Her appeal for public donations underscored the broader issue of financial constraints in political campaigning.

Party Dynamics: The Congress party’s inability to address Mohanty’s funding concerns highlights internal challenges and underscores the need for cohesive decision-making processes. The withdrawal of candidates in key constituencies could impact the party’s electoral prospects and organizational credibility.

Looking Ahead: As the electoral landscape evolves, the Congress party must address internal issues and streamline its campaign strategies to remain competitive in the upcoming elections. Mohanty’s withdrawal serves as a wake-up call for the party leadership to prioritize resource allocation and organizational cohesion.

Conclusion: Sucharita Mohanty’s withdrawal from the Puri Lok Sabha contest sheds light on the complexities of political campaigning and the critical role of funding in electoral processes. As political parties navigate challenges and opportunities, effective resource management and strategic decision-making will be essential for success in the electoral arena.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[3-aem]

universal healthcare is not broken and anyone trying to convince you it is is delusional and a dckrider for big health insurance. yes there are wait times but waiting for care is Not the same as being denied care.

in america your physician prescribes care and an insurer can still cuck you out of it because someone across the continent who has never met you can say: doesn’t seem medically necessary. Leaving you to handle a bill that is wildly inflated by the same insurers that just denied you.

let me drill it through your head you can pay thousands a year in premiums and still end up sick and financially burdened for years by One incident. no insurance company is Avoiding going broke by denying claims. theyre doing it to profit off your misfortune and your illness. Because healthcare fundamentally does not cost the amount that they claim it to be.

[stellaluna33]

The Jess episodes in Season 6 are SO gratifying (for those of us who, like Rory, would say, "I KNEW you could do something like this! I KNEW it, I knew it!") but at the same time SO FRUSTRATING, because everything about the way they were written suggests that they were making deliberate comparisons between Jess and Logan- comparisons in which Logan doesn't come off particularly well. Like they went to great pains to imply that: Jess knew Rory better than Logan (the birthday subplot), was better FOR her, was more mature, loyal, freaking noble, etc. etc... And then they just... never went anywhere with it! Logan jumps off a cliff and Rory feels guilty, and... The whole plotline gets dropped and they never talk about it again! It really freaking seemed like they were making a point, but WHAT WAS THE FREAKING POINT??? *flips a table!*

[devine-fem]

Jonjay shippers, since we are claiming that Jon and Damian never had any chemistry, no platonic chemistry, no friendship chemistry and claiming they don’t really like each other all that much and Damian’s emotionless and feels nothing for Jon and just genuinely horrible to him, here’s a shit ton of panels proving otherwise!

1.

“I thought I’d just sit right here so you’re not alone.”

2.

“Yeah, right. Never.”

3. Damian freaking out when Jon gets hurt.

4. Damian hugging Jon for no reason.

5. Damian denying Jon his place in the Titans but realizing he was the only one out of them they believed he had what it takes to be a member, then feeling like an idiot about it.

6. Jon calling Damian his hero.

7. I couldn’t tell you why but there’s something so sweet about this.

8. Clark using Jon as leverage for Damian to behave himself.

9. “Needing to remember.”

10. "That's why we're pals."

11. "You can't be responsible for everything Damian does."

12. Sewing cape.

13. "I mean that with love."

14. Protective Damian.

15. Protective Damian Pt2

16. Damian Wayne hates hugs right?

17. Shoulder sleeping.

18. Damian goes out of his way to buy Jon a christmas gift.

19. I don't know if Jon has a thought that isn't about Damian.

20. Hm

Anyway, I seriously don't understand how someone could say this? Do you seriously think that Damian doesn't care about Jon? This is why I truly think that you must HATE Damian and not read his comics to understand how he works. He does care about Jon, their friendship is not one sided or nonexistent, they are about each other and the stories they are in go out of their way to prove that to you. The lack of reading comprehension is crazy.

[bonefall]

How do the researchers react to the clan cats leaving the lake for a time?

You mean the little patrols they send out?

They aren't aware of them, EXCEPT for the Beaver Expedition that Dovepaw was on. They found out about that one because they got a phone call from the team in charge of the beaver introduction.

It was NERVE WRACKING. Both teams were terrified the other would injure their subjects. They were horrified when the cats dug out the top of the dam and pulled the squealing baby beavers out, thinking this was going to end BADLY, but practically cried in relief and excitement when the Clan cats baited the parents towards the lake.

(I like to imagine someone on the beaver team ended up hitting it off with someone on the Clan cat team. The wedding cake was cats and beavers.)

But generally? They don't know about expeditions. Sometimes they catch them leaving, but don't have the funding to chase them down.

Clan cats are also not under constant surveillance. Very important to understand this. Clan cats will attack anything that upsets them and good cameras are expensive; they snuck one into the ThunderClan Camp once in like 2009, and Firestar dug it up at the stake and dropped it down the WindClan border ravine because it was freaking his warriors out.

(The cats don't understand that the cameras watch; they just don't like the Freaky Human Thing)

So the team has to be careful, not install too many, and hide the ones they do have. They don't want the cats to move again.

[demonstars]

We need to start a prayer circle so sapnap goes to the spreen ping pong event.

[incorrect-riordanverse]

It's really disheartening that Rick Riordan stance on the war I understand that he wants to be neutral on this stance but in my opinion by becoming neutral he only worsening the issue as many Palestines are dying that are mostly children, how the majority of Israeli are supporting the Genocide of Palestine, and how the government is trying so hard (but miserably failing) to justified the genocide. I will hold him accountable for what he said on this issue as during this period the choice is basically "you are with us or against us."

Part of me wishes he will realize what he said was wrong and understand the bigger issue that plays at hand. I will criticism for his actions as how can a man who promotes LGBTQIA and representation of minorities and disabilities in his books turn a blind eyes to Genocide of people. However we can only wait and see on his next move.

One last thing about your previous you said you don't group Riordan with other authors where do you would group him with? Also this is more on an opinion base answer but many people are boycotting companies that support Israel there as been another post on Twitter on boycotting authors. Rick Riordan happens to be one of them. Do you believed that he should be boycotted with other authors or he should be properly educated and apologized for his previous statement? If you believed he should be boycotted what do tou have to say to those who might have the mentality of "separate the art from the artist"

thank you for this ask, and i completely agree with you! it is extremely hypocritical of him considering what he preaches for in his books. i think he’s convinced he has properly addressed the apartheid by using very vague language that can be applied to anything, and in doing so, he’s addressed nothing really.

your first question on who i would group him with— probably other authors who are doing the exact same as him in their virtue signalling. i always like to link my other blogs to each other, so i don’t think it’s a secret that i have a red queen account and i’m pretty passionate about that. unfortunately, victoria aveyard is another fantasy author who has literally wrote a whole four-book series on the uprising against oppression but is now playing neutral in her address of the apartheid. rebecca yarros is in the same boat, although i haven’t read ‘fourth wing,’ fans have said there are large themes of oppression within the book. so if i had to group riordan it would probably be in the ‘i-like-to-write-about-it-for-profit-and-praise-only’ group.

in terms of boycotting, i think that’s a great idea! i would also like to remind everyone that the percy jackson tv show is coming out in a little over a month, but disney is a huge industry financially supporting israel as well ($2 million in funding), which is obviously far more damning than a poorly written address by one person. there is a boycott happening for disney as well— and the pjo show will be released on disney + . i implore everyone to not watch it on that platform!! personally i will be pirating it online (idk if i’ll get into trouble saying that here but lol oh well), because im pretty sure the boycott is only for withdrawing financial support, not simply consuming media.

i feel like separating art from the artist only works if that artist is… like, dead, and you’re using that art and its values as a historical insight to how the world was during its time. you can still like a piece of work that has a problematic artist, you can engage with the work (to an extent). but separating art from the artist barely works because either:

to engage with the art is to support the artist in some way, so that artist is making money based on your interaction with that (particularly in the case for singers and streaming of songs)

that artists’ views and values are so rancid that it’s literally embedded within the text itself. to ignore it is harmful.

harry potter is my all-time favourite example to use, because jkr is the scum of the earth, and her views are entrenched in her work. a lesser known example is sarah j maas and her books (she’s also not as dogshit as jkr, but then again, its not hard to be a better person than her). i’m not going to bag on these people for liking things by problematic people (would be hypocritical of me), i just think it’s cowardly not to address it when you come across it, or at least admit to it. to simply write things off as ‘separate to the artist’ is like purposefully turning off your critical thinking skills.

on whether boycotting or an apology is enough— if riordan did apologise and used specific language and not the nonsense he had in that blog, expressed his remorse for his ignorance and then actually did or said something to support the people of palestine then, yeah. that’s fine and that’s how we learn ig. but he should educate himself, too many activists, people from the arab community and especially palestinians are expected to be all-knowing and to educate everyone else on an already draining and personal tragedy. it’s been exhausting for me, i can’t imagine what they’re going through. if riordan (or anyone) needs to be educated, he should do it himself, and (at least in my opinion) i don’t think the info is very hard to find now. it’s just about weeding out the misinformation.

i think boycotting is a good idea as of now. it can serve to be a catalyst for self reflection for many people. also, as much as i hate most online discourses, talking about it online needs to happen. i don’t want these authors to forget, for a moment, about the ignorance they posted online during a time of international crisis.

[venacoeurva]

It's been a few years and I have to wonder... did the 2020 lockdown onward cause a decrease in the amount of zines in that insanely oversaturated fandom market because money, or did they go up because people were bored at home, but smaller, lower cost, easier solo or friend-group ones also or alternatively went up, maybe?

Because I just remember being So Tired of zines becoming polished art and cliquey popularity contest magazines that cost $30+ (Usually like $60 if there was physical merch included like keychains) basically and almost all the profit went to charity or material cost recouping, while people who were spending hours to days (and maybe longer, especially literature zines) on their pieces for like... $20 or less of pay, and that became the standard expectation :|

And I just now realized I haven't seen 2 trillion zine posts on social media lately except small low cost and more casual solo artist ones.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

My study partner and I got to weigh our rainbow trout, and wow have they grown! They came to us weighing an average of 10 grams, and only in a month’s time even the smallest fish have doubled in weight! There were some very hefty guys too, from a randomly selected group of fish the biggest weighed 81 grams, a massive amount of growth considering how small they were before! We’re aiming for an average weight of 100-150 grams, so we’re well on our way there.

To weigh the fish, we put them under anaesthesia so they wouldn’t be too stressed about the situation or thrash around in the weighing bucket. Here’s a picture I took of some rainbow trouts still coming to from said anaesthesia, absolutely zonked:

You can see some drastic size differences between different rainbow trout individuals. Not to worry, every fish recovered and was swimming normally with their buddies after a few minutes!

[jacqcrisis]

uuuuuuhhhhh I've thinking about a jayvik au in the same magic realism universe that Left Turn is set in. Two people doing probably illegal magic research for generally good reasons in a world with strict oversight in these matters by two separate governmental entities alongside class disparity, restrictive social/cultural norms, a shady underbelly... they fit well in that. Lower the stakes so they aren't working on anything too world changing but still enough where there's tension and navigating a system very much set up against them and obviously two like mind dudes who would have never met meeting and falling head over ass for each other.

And Viktor is easy to slot in there. There's a lower class of witches barred from a lot of their own society due to pissing off the Fae Powers That Be for one of several reasons. Viktor comes from one of these families, while also probably being First Born, which means his mother (or father if mom died in childbirth) refused to give him over to the Fae, which leads to exile. Womp womp. Grows up, probably falsifies information and identity to get into a university and eventually land a government internship. On top of that, magic is a physically debilitating force on the human body with a lot of witches who work in magical research developing lifelong disabilities from the toll their work has taken on their body. A fact that could exacerbate Viktor's pre-existing condition and also give him the drive for possibly wanting to delve into some more illegal research to fix or slow that.

and then you have Jayce, who I can't place just yet. Is he Regular Guy who isn't a witch but became aware of magic due to an event at a young age and has been seeking out how to harness that power? Or is he from a middle class witch family, looking to make something better for the world after his dad died of something preventable while also being subject to the usual expectations of a young man in witch society? I don't know. Torn on that. Thinking about it.

Anyways, similar story beats to canon at the start. Jayce gets caught doing something Probably Illegal, Viktor is on scene to check it out for Department of Not Letting Dudes Do Weird Magic Shit, figures out what exactly this handsome dumbass is up to, they strike a deal, Viktor vouches for Jayce and says actually, he wasn't doing anything wrong, Jayce avoids either exile or having his memory wiped, and now its crime boy time. Straight up crime boy nerd hours where illegal magic is done, detection is evaded, and love is fallen into.

Probably. Maybe. I just...need to write out my thoughts so far. Idea thats been in my head for a few days now.

[cheerupemokids]

All talk and he only gets top 15 💀💀

[logansgaar]

I think a lot of Tony stans would be in so much denial over how he'd view the UnitedHealthcare shooting ngl

[aalghul]

seeing someone genuinely argue that Bruce Wayne is just as, if not more, socialist than Oliver Queen….is this the world we live in

[elumish]

I genuinely think a lot of outrage over whether/how things are being covered by the news would be solved by Tumblr users actually regularly engaging with major news sources.

I recently saw a post with someone expressing outrage about how the Washington Post "broke" the news about Biden signing the aid package to Israel and that they had to search so much to find the information, as though there hasn't been literally months of coverage from every major news site that covers politics about the machinations to get Israel and Ukraine funding through Congress.

I see people saying that nobody covers what Israel is doing in Gaza--as though that hasn't been a major topic in the news for months. I see people talking about how nobody covers what's happening in Yemen, Sudan, Haiti, etc. as though, again, that requires more than literally googling things like "Yemen New York Times" to find a wide breadth of coverage that spans years.

Critiques of news coverage are absolutely fair and valid--but when you start them by saying that "nobody is talking about this" all it shows is that you aren't bothering to look.

[nellasbookplanet]

The funniest kind of critical role "critique" is always going to be the 'they present themselves as if they aren’t rich/a company no I will not give any examples' crowd. Like what does this even mean. They start literally every single episode with informing you they are professional voice actors. They have clearly advertised sponsors. They have an entire line of merch and an animated show. The production value of the set is bonkers. They run a charity foundation. Do you want them to start every episode with a blaring siren and a warning saying 'beware! company run content! we make money!!' Are you just angry that they are friends having fun as they make a living. Do you have any understanding of how money works.