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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63956802

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46478820

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52412851

June 2nd primary.

The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, which took effect January 1, 2011, created "voter-nominated" offices. The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act does not apply to candidates running for U.S. President, county central committees, or local offices.

Most of the offices that were previously known as "partisan" are now known as "voter-nominated" offices. Voter-nominated offices are state constitutional offices, state legislative offices, and U.S. congressional offices. The only "partisan offices" now are the offices of U.S. President and county central committee.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/goodnewseveryone/p/716380/new-water-vole-populations-found-in-south-yorkshire

Yorkshire Water say they are creating new habitats to encourage the endangered rodents.

King Charles III, can we talk?

Charles, why are you doing this? why are you conferring legitimacy onto a piss-baby fascist by gracing him with your royal presence? there’s no good reason for it. what’s in it for you? you’re a literal king. it’s right there in your title. you could be doing anything else with your time right now.

**no world leader needs to be giving Donny the time of day. he’s turned the United States into a pariah state, so treat him like the pariah he is. **just say no.

plus, Donny’s an unpredictable ticking time bomb. meet with him, and you’re basically spinning the Big Wheel of Bugfuck. anything could happen. worst case, you’ll end up dogpiled in the Oval Bordello like Zelenskyy.

best case, you’ll simply stand around helplessly while Donny makes a fool of himself.

Donny, what the fuck are you doing? did you catch what just happened in that clip? dude cut in front of King Charles and prevented him from shaking hands. how rude. who does that?

but of course, blocking British royalty is kind of Donny’s signature move.

for fuck’s sake, Donny — how about having a little situational awareness?

in fact, do not ever stand between Donny and a camera, or you’ll be in for a rude awakening, as the Prime Minister of Montenegro found out during a 2017 NATO photo op.

what a dick.

but that’s what happens when you spin the Big Wheel of Bugfuck — and that’s why, when Donny invited King Charles to America, the king should have replied that he would have loved to, but he literally had to be doing anything else on the planet.

and of course Donny made the royal visit all about himself.

“in a few hours, His Majesty will stand in the heart— of the United States Capitol as the very first British king ever to adrist— a— joint session— of— the— United States Congress, so he’s gonna be addressing— Congress, and I’m gonna be watching. I was thinking of going but they said I don’t know. that might be a step too far. I would love to go— it’s not supposed to be protocol but I would love to be with you.”

yeah, he actually said ‘adrist.’

Sundowning Grandpa Befuddlepants’ rapidly-increasing deterioration is impossible to ignore. he can no longer read. he’s completely flummoxed by the one-syllable words his handlers have written for him. dragging Donny out in public and forcing him to speechify is really at this point a form of elder abuse.

do you think Donny has any idea what the words he’s struggling to pronounce mean? he seems completely mystified by what he’s saying. he also seems completely mystified by punctuation, as he mechanically gasps out each word.

“majestic inheritance their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage their hearts beat with an English faith in standing firm for what is right good and true.”

majestic inheritance whaaaaat?

I’m surprised that Republicans haven’t turned Donny’s cognitive decline into yet another reason for why he needs a vulgar Epstein Dance Hall™.

by the way, Donny missed a perfect opportunity to ask King Charles about the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow. I certainly would have.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/ukraine/p/1638990/ukraine-exposes-russian-directed-plot-targeting-killings-and-sabotage-across-europe

Ukrainian prosecutors, in coordination with the National Police and law enforcement agencies from several countries, have uncovered a network allegedly operating under the direction of Russian intelligence services that was preparing a series of contract killings and acts of sabotage across the European Union.

This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on April 27.

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According to the investigation, the operation had been active since August 2024, with Russian intelligence coordinating activities from abroad through intermediaries. The network’s primary objective was to organize violent crimes within EU member states.

One of the key targets was in Lithuania, where the group prepared contract killings. Suspects conducted prolonged surveillance of two individuals: a Russian opposition activist granted political asylum in Lithuania and a Lithuanian citizen known for supporting Ukraine. The group collected detailed information on their residences, daily routines, and movement patterns in preparation for a potential attack.

The network reportedly involved individuals from multiple countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Moldova, and Greece. Participants carried out various roles, ranging from surveillance and recruitment of perpetrators to financing, logistics, and coordination.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46162386

Benito Mussolini Executed (1945) On this day in 1945, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, likely by communist partisan Walter Audisio, and then his corpse was hung upside down...

Benito Mussolini Executed (1945)

Sat Apr 28, 1945

On this day in 1945, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, likely by communist partisan Walter Audisio, and then his corpse was hung upside down in the Piazzale Loreto, where it was beaten and shot by angry crowds.

Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) was the founder and leader of the National Fascist Party who inspired numerous fascist leaders, such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and António de Oliveira Salazar, ruling Italy as "Il Duce" since 1925.

Mussolini's grip on power had begun slipping as the Allies pressed into Italian territory during World War II. On April 25th, 1945, Mussolini attempted to flee Milan for Switzerland after the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia (Committee of National Liberation for Northern Italy) seized control of the city. Two days later, Mussolini, along with other fascist leaders, were arrested traveling in a German convoy near the village of Dongo.

Accounts vary on how exactly Mussolini was killed, but the most commonly accepted version of the events suggest communist partisan Walter Audisio was the person who pulled the trigger. Following World War II, Audisio would be elected to serve in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

In any case, the evening of April 28th, 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress, and other executed fascists were loaded onto a van and dumped in Piazzale Loreto, a town square where fifteen partisans had previously been executed by fascists and their bodies left on public display.

• Date: 1945-04-28
• Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.history.com.
• Tags: #Communism, #Fascism.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

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cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/10055530

From Atlanta Capital B News

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