#project financier

[soulspark]

[biboomerangboi]

The whole party’s so codependent that this hardly matters anyway but Queerplatonic FabRiz is actually so important to me like all I picture is them at 20 being like Fabian “Hello my future lover, this is my emotional support provider THE BALL, I run most of my decisions past him and lose my mind if he’s not around.” Meanwhile Riz just gets the confirmation he’s actually loved for being a great friend and just the validation that his friendship is as important to someone’s life as a romance partner and also getting to at some point to be Fabian’s Sugarbaby.

[burritowitch]

you ever get bored and make slideshows about why your blorbos should not be removed from each other. neither do i haha

[franklyimissparis]

if there’s one thing about paul mccartney, it’s that he’s GOING to make a flop of a film when he’s going through it

[mizuribbons]

the fact that rui is a euclid class tumblr sexyman scares me. what happened here. what have we done. that's on the same level as fucking rouxls kaard what have we DONE

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Craig Harrington at MMFA:

The economic policy provisions outlined by Project 2025 — the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration — are overwhelmingly catered toward benefiting wealthier Americans and corporate interests at the expense of average workers and taxpayers. Project 2025 prioritizes redoubling Republican efforts to expand “trickle-down” tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation across the economy. The authors of the effort’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, recommend putting key government agencies responsible for oversight of large sectors of the economy under direct right-wing political control and empowering those agencies to prioritize right-wing agendas in dealing with everything from consumer protections to organized labor activity. [...]

Project 2025 would chill labor unions' abilities to engage in political activity. Project 2025 suggests that the National Labor Relations Board change its enforcement priorities regarding what it describes as unions using “members' resources on left-wing culture-war issues.” The authors encourage allowing employees to accuse union leadership of violating their “duty of fair representation” by having “political conflicts of interest” if the union engages in political activity that the employee disagrees with. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; National Labor Relations Board, accessed 7/8/24]

Project 2025 would make it easier for employers to classify workers as “independent contractors.” The authors recommended reinstating policies governing the classification of independent contractors that the NLRB implemented during the Trump administration. Those Trump-era NLRB regulations were amended in 2023, expanding workplace and labor organizing protections to previously exempt American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; The National Law Review, 6/19/23; National Labor Relations Board, 6/13/23]

Project 2025 would reduce base overtime pay for workers. The authors recommend changing overtime protections to remove nonwage compensatory and other workplace benefits from calculations of their “regular” pay rate, which forms the basis for overtime formulations. If that change is enacted, every worker currently given overtime protections could be subject to a slight reduction in the value of their overtime pay, which the authors claim will encourage employers to provide nonwage benefits but would effectively just amount to a pay cut. The authors also propose other changes to the way overtime is calculated and enforced, which could result in reduced compensation for workers. Overtime protections have long been a focus of right-wing media campaigns to reduce protections afforded to American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023, Media Matters, 7/9/24]

Project 2025 proposes capping and phasing out visa programs for migrant workers. Project 2025’s authors propose capping and eventually eliminating the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs, which are available for seasonal agricultural and nonagricultural workers, respectively. Even the Project 2025 authors admit that these proposals could threaten many businesses that rely on migrant workers and could result in higher prices for consumers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Project 2025 recommends institutionalizing the “Judeo-Christian tradition” of the Sabbath. Under the guise of creating a “communal day of rest,” Project 2025 includes a policy proposal amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to require paying workers who currently receive overtime protections “time and a half for hours worked on the Sabbath,” which it said “would default to Sunday.” Ostensibly a policy that increases wages, the proposal is specifically meant to disincentivize employers from providing services on Sundays as an explicitly religious overture. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

[...]

International Trade

Project 2025 contains a lengthy debate between diametrically opposed perspectives on international trade and commerce.Over the course of 31 pages, disgraced former Trump adviser and current federal inmate Peter Navarro outlines various proposals to fundamentally transform American international commercial and domestic industrial policy in opposition to China, primarily by using tariffs. He dedicates well over a dozen pages to obsessing over America’s trade deficit with China, even though Trump’s trade war with China was a failure and as he focused on China, the overall U.S. trade deficit exploded. Much of the rest of Navarro’s section is economic saber-rattling against “Communist China’s economic aggression and quest for world domination.”In response, Kent Lassman of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute promotes a return to free trade orthodoxy that was previously pursued by the Republican Party but has fallen out of favor during the Trump era.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda would be a boon for the wealthy and a disaster for the working class folk.

See Also:

MMFA: Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxes

[smilesobrien]

was just going to draw gemini starbright (again) for nozomi's birthday buuut.... i got carried away...!!

[thrilling-oneway]

2 years of after effects lessons at college and this is what i use it for

youtube link

[wyllaztopia]

hey guys, quick update!

this is in regards to @agdreamtale's progression and updates. from this point on, the story will be more lore-driven and thus i've been taking my time with panels and answering asks - meaning i've been drawing more panels with a bit more efforts.

i've also been busy with other things outside the internet, hence the lack of content. however, i do want to thank everyone for the support thus far.

i do have a question however - and this is for future bigger projects such as long comics and animations. would you be willing to support them financially? of course, they will come with their own rewards and whatnot - especially if i plan to set it up on patreon. just curious because we do have more high-end projects planned and being supported financially would be a bonus. i'll still do these projects regardless though! it's just something i'm curious about.

[smrtnik07]

[soulspark]

[hugs-and-stabbies]

ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!

yup 👍 still trucking on! Been having to step back from art a bit. At least stuff that I would post! I'm still working on stuff behind the scenes though :) I appreciate you checking in!! ♥ I actually have some more dead plate stuff to post rn!

[queer-lovebot]

One summer Wymack forces Kevin to get a job just to have the skills of working somewhere. Queue Kevin working at the most hellish retail place ever and having the worst time of his life.

[floorsauce]

Hi There

I’m reaching out with a heavy heart and a desperate plea. I’ve started a Tumblr blog https://www.tumblr.com/blog/em-omer to support my three precious children—my 5-year-old twin boys and my 3-year-old daughter—during the incredibly difficult times we’re facing in Gaza.

As a mother, it breaks me to see my kids struggle and I am fighting every day to keep them safe. Your support can make a real difference. Please visit the blog, share it with others, and help us spread hope amidst the darkness. Every bit of support and every share means the world to us.

Thank you for being a part of our journey.

With gratitude, Sadea

[marcheriest]

Development art for my current project The Luminary Lark Mirror, from my Patreon