#controller fund

[flightyalrighty]

Last sketch commission for the controller fund for @failteam! It's Silver! He won the next year's flower competition!

[nando161mando]

[txttletale]

like i thought maybe you were arguing that large-budget productions just shouldn’t exist because the cost that copyright law represents for society is larger than the boon that any blockbuster movie could represent (something i might actually agree with) but you’re… not even arguing that? you specifically bring up blockbuster movies as something that would still be produced without the profit motive, and you have given absolutely no source for where the budget for something like that could even come from.

i understand that if you just found one of my posts about copryright out in the widl it is understdanable to not know this, but basically,

besides, my point wasn't that 'blockbuster movies' specifically weren't made 'for profit' in some sense, but rather that any good blockbuster movie was made by someone with a creative vision who wanted the thing they were making to exist in the world. like, the lord of the rings movies wouldn't have happened under our capitalist mode of production if warner bros./new line hadn't thought they could be profitable, ofc, but the driving force behind them being made was peter jackson repeatedly pitching the project (and fighting attempts to cut it down to two films, or even one) because he desperately wanted to make them!

[sersfandomthings]

wanderer

(referenced from that one shot in the 3.3 interlude quest)

[snekdood]

so uh

for 1. most people are gonna take advantage of black friday and wont see your specific niche tumblr post, I hate to say it

2. the us isnt running out of money for war any time soon, so...

3. this is just antisemitism???????? all we need is some (((echoes))) around the us and israel and then I'd have no reason to suspect otherwise from op...............

[maerossi]

i know we love singing the praises of public libraries here, but also you should ask your local librarian if there's a maximum cap on late fees, and whether they send patrons' unpaid late fees to debt collection agencies. If the answers to those questions are weird and bad, you should write an email to or call the library director and tell them that, as a tax-paying local resident and patron, you would like your library's late-fee policy to become more patron-friendly and considerate of the most vulnerable members in your community

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Knefel at MMFA:

A new memo issued by the Trump administration directing the federal government to temporarily cease disbursing billions of dollars in funds appears to draw on arguments made by Russ Vought, the president’s selectee to run the Office of Management and Budget. Vought was a primary architect of Project 2025, a sprawling effort organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and staffing recommendations for President Donald Trump’s second term. In addition to that role, Vought is also the founder of the Center for Renewing America, a MAGA-aligned think tank that has spent over a year arguing that the president can unilaterally refuse to spend funds allocated by Congress, an authority known as the impoundment power that was severely curtailed by Congress in 1974.

The new Trump administration memo was issued by Matthew Vaeth, acting director of OMB pending Vought’s confirmation vote. The document calls for federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.”  “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” the memo states. Although the two-page memo doesn’t use the term impoundment, law professor Steve Vladeck argued that the Trump administration is claiming “the unilateral power to at least temporarily ‘impound’ tens of billions of dollars of appropriated funds—in direct conflict with Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, and in even more flagrant violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.” The existence of the document was first reported by journalist Marisa Kabas and later confirmed by The Washington Post and The New York Times. (OMB issued a follow-up memo claiming the freeze does “not apply across-the-board” and withheld funds are “not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act.”)

The direct effects of the memo are unknown given its scope and vagueness, but they could be detrimental even if the pause is short-lived.

“Experts said the memo as written was poised to bring a rapid halt to scores of federal functions, from assistance to homeless shelters to financial aid for college students,” the Post reported. “Health grants distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state aid for disaster reconstruction, might face delays.” The memo appears to exempt Social Security and Medicare recipients, and it says the halt “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.” It isn’t clear whether Medicaid recipients will be affected, although some early reports indicated that payments had been disrupted.

Project 2025 architect Russ Vought had his handprints all over the federal funding freeze.

See Also:

HuffPost: The 50-Year-Old Law Trump Is Challenging To Create Chaos

The Guardian: Trump move to pause federal loans and grants rooted in Project 2025

Ahmed Baba: Trump’s Funding Freeze Power Grab Causes Chaos And Legal Firestorm

[the-meme-monarch]

i love liking video games that are difficult to play assuring that i will never actually play it. i love making my siblings play it for me

[flightyalrighty]

a beautiful knuckles for @couch-house!

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[alyfoxxxen]

The CDC Has Been Gutted | WIRED

[celestie0]

would you leave gojo if his mom offered to give you $10 million dollars to stop dating him

[happilyfeatherafter]

Supernatural fandom really needs to use the phrase TPTB when did that fall out of favour?!

[justinsentertainmentcorner]

Alaina Demopoulos at The Guardian:

Madelyn Ritter expected to leave the St Louis date of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour with merch – she didn’t expect to also go home with some free emergency contraception. But that’s just what she saw upon entering the stadium. There, right by the women’s bathrooms, was a table where concertgoers could donate to abortion funds and pick up free condoms and morning-after pills, also called Plan B. “We noticed it immediately,” said Ritter, who is 25 (and, as she jokes, “too old” to love the 21-year-old pop star). “I was like: ‘What’s this about?’ They told me it was free, so my sister, her friend and I all took some. I personally don’t need it, but I’m going to save it in case something bad happens.”

Last month, in conjunction with her world tour, Rodrigo launched the Fund 4 Good campaign, which aims to protect women’s and girls’ reproductive rights. A portion of sales from the tour will go toward the fund. As part of the initiative, Rodrigo paired with the National Network of Abortion Funds, which connected her with local chapters at various stops on the tour. “There are plenty of singers making a stand about social issues, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” Ritter said. Abortion is illegal in Missouri. (It is only permitted in the case of an emergency that threatens the life of a pregnant person.) Missouri Republicans are also trying to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive healthcare like STI screenings and contraception in the state. Activists who staffed the table Ritter stopped by came from Right by You, a youth-focused text line that connects Missouri teens to abortion care out of state, birth control and information about their rights, and the Missouri Abortion Fund, which helps people cover the cost of an out-of-state abortion.

God Bless Olivia Rodrigo! Glad to see her taking a stand against Missouri's oppressive anti-abortion laws by giving out free emergency contraception items.

See Also:

PinkNews: Olivia Rodrigo hands out free Plan B tablets at Missouri tour, where abortion has a total ban

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:

Abortion, Every Day has learned that the Trump administration is freezing close to $35 million in Title X funding that was set to be distributed Tuesday. This unprecedented move won’t just hit Planned Parenthood affiliates—it will impact multiple nonprofit organizations, including at least one that may have been targeted in retaliation for a lawsuit against the first Trump administration. Another group had millions in funding paused over a statement affirming their “commitment to addressing systemic racism.” The scale of this funding freeze is staggering. Starting April 1, California, Hawaii, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee, and Utah will receive zero Title X dollars. Most of Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Alaska will lose access as well. Other states impacted include Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Remember, Title X is the nation’s only federal family planning program. It provides affordable reproductive health care—birth control, STI testing, cancer screenings—primarily to low-income and uninsured patients. There’s no overstating the impact here: Title X is a safety net. Six in 10 women who visit a publicly funded clinic consider it their usual source of medical care; for four in 10, it’s their only source.

[...]

And while the HHS is telling grantees that their funding is only “temporarily” withheld, the administration is asking the groups to hand over an impossible amount of documentation in just ten days in order to comply with their investigation. Things like copies of lists of patients and their races, lists of undocumented patients, and copies of any grievances brought against their many health care centers. The goal appears to be asking already-overtaxed organizations for so much, it will be impossible to comply. What struck most of my sources was how many of the grantees targeted appear random. Did some HHS intern search their websites for mentions of racism or gender-affirming care? That said, one grantee may have been attacked in retaliation—which is certainly a Trump administration hobby. Essential Access, which serves California and Hawaii, just so happens to have sued the first Trump administration in 2019 over their Title X rules. But again, it’s unclear. Some of the defunded groups provide abortions, others don’t. Some are Planned Parenthood affiliates, others aren’t. Folks seem to believe that chaos is part of the point. The targets of the freeze may seem random, but the attack on reproductive health care has been in the works for years. Conservatives haven’t just been chipping away at funding—they’ve been plotting a total overhaul. Last year, Republicans pushed to slash nearly $300 million from Title X. And then there’s Project 2025, which lays out how the Trump administration should “reframe” the family planning program to focus on “fertility awareness and holistic family planning,” and “education on healthy marriage and relationships.” They also want to end what they call “religious discrimination” in Title X grant funding—code for giving federal dollars to crisis pregnancy centers. In plain English: They want to take money meant for real reproductive health care and hand it to religious extremists who oppose birth control. All while the country isin the midst of a full-blown reproductive health care crisis.

The Trump Regime freezes $35M in Title X funding that will impact 20 states in part or in full. This dastardly move is a Project 2025-inspired attack on family planning, reproductive health, contraception, and birth control.

[flightyalrighty]

Jack sketch for @son1c!

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[aioliravioli-69]

Alright, who showed Buddy the tutorial?