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Ellipsis's JournalISIS claims responsibility for attack in busy Moscow-area concert venue that left at least 40 dead
Source: CNN
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular concert venue complex near Moscow Friday that left at least 40 dead and more than 100 wounded after assailants stormed the venue with guns and incendiary devices.
The terror group took responsibility for the attack in a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq on Telegram on Friday. The group did not provide evidence to support the claim.
Video footage from the site of the attack, the Crocus City Hall concert venue, shows the vast complex, which is home to both the music hall and a shopping center, on fire with smoke billowing into the air. State-run RIA Novosti reported the armed individuals “opened fire with automatic weapons” and “threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire.” They then “allegedly fled in a white Renault car,” the news agency said.
State media Russia 24 reported the roof on the venue has partially collapsed.
The attack unfolded before the music group Picnic was set to preform, according to Russia 24. The band’s manager told state media that the performers were unharmed.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/europe/crocus-moscow-shooting/index.html
An interesting email to my hard core democratic mother from Gavin Newson
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I gotta ask... Is thisTed Nugent post for real?
https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarcirclejerk/comments/15nyt75/the_nuge_is_a_dildo/18 Feb: Shocking Footage REVEALS THE REAL COST RUSSIANS PAID FOR AVDIIVKA War in Ukraine Explained
Dane Co. judge rules Wolfe legally in position at Wisconsin Elections Commission
A Dane County judge ruled on Friday that Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe is legally in her position as a holdover despite the expiration of her term last summer and that state law does not compel the body’s six commissioners to appoint a new chief election official.
Since the 2020 election, Republicans in the state have become increasingly hostile to Wolfe, blaming her for numerous perceived flaws in the administration of that election. Many of those complaints involve decisions made by the six appointed commissioners, yet she has become a regular target of the state’s election conspiracy theorists.
Wolfe was unanimously confirmed by the state Senate to a four-year term in 2019. Prior to her term’s expiration, Republican legislators began threatening to vote down her renomination. In a legal maneuver to avoid Senate confirmation, the three Democratic appointees to the Commission abstained from a vote in June to renominate her.
The scheme was taking advantage of a legal precedent created by Republicans when they worked to keep a Republican appointee to the state Natural Resources Board in his position for nearly two years after his term expired in an attempt to retain GOP control of the environmental policy making body.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/dane-co-judge-rules-wolfe-legally-in-position-at-wisconsin-elections-commission/?
Gov. Evers Submits Fair Maps to Wisconsin Supreme Court in Redistricting Litigation
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV/bulletins/384ba20?MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today submitted fair maps to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the Court to consider in ongoing redistricting litigation. The governor’s proposed maps for the districts of the Wisconsin State Legislature submitted today are responsive to the will of the people, avoid partisan bias, and increase the number of competitive legislative seats. Additional details on the governor’s submitted maps are available below.
“Wisconsinites don’t want Republican or Democrat maps because Wisconsin isn’t a red or blue state—we’re a purple state, and our maps should reflect that basic fact. I’ve always promised I’d fight for fair maps—not maps that favor one political party or another—and that’s a promise I’m proud to keep with the maps I’m submitting today,” said Gov. Evers.
Gov. Evers, represented by Attorney General Josh Kaul, previously filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit before the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s current legislative maps. Gov. Evers and Attorney General Kaul later filed a brief in the same lawsuit asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare Wisconsin’s legislative maps unconstitutional and institute new maps that avoid the partisan bias that has “infected” Wisconsin’s legislative maps “to the detriment of Wisconsin’s democracy.”
GOVERNOR TONY EVERS’ BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF PROPOSED REMEDIAL MAPS (maps in brief)
https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2024/01/12/file_attachments/2747011/Gov%20Map%20Brief%20FINAL-1854902%20%281%29.pdf
Dane Co. judge rules clerks can accept absentee ballots with incomplete witness addresses
A Dane County judge ruled that election clerks in Wisconsin may accept absentee ballots that are missing parts of a witness address as long as they can use the available information to discern how to contact the witness.
The ruling, which came Tuesday from Judge Ryan Nilsestuen, granted a request filed in September 2022 from a Madison voter and Rise Inc., a liberal group focused on increasing participation among young voters. The lawsuit sought to overhaul the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s (WEC) guidance on the acceptance of absentee ballots when the witness signature is incomplete.
State law requires that when someone casts an absentee ballot, another person must witness the voter filling out the ballot. Witnesses must then sign the ballot envelope and provide their address. The WEC has worked in recent years to define what the address requirement means and what components must be included to allow the ballot to be accepted and counted. Election issues in Wisconsin have remained controversial since the 2020 presidential race. The address question has lingered, hinging on what must be included — does the witness need to provide the street address, municipality, zip code and state? Is the state implied if the municipality is in Wisconsin? Is the zip code required? What if a municipality with a long name (which is not uncommon in Wisconsin) is written with a regular abbreviation in the small space provided on the envelope?
The lawsuit challenging the guidance was filed against the WEC and the clerks of Madison, Green Bay and Racine shortly after a Waukesha County judge had ruled in a different case that clerks would no longer be able to add missing address information — a process known as ballot curing. Prior to that case, guidance written in 2016 allowed clerks to add missing information “if clerks are reasonably able to discern any missing information from outside sources.”
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/dane-co-judge-rules-clerks-can-accept-absentee-ballots-with-incomplete-witness-addresses/?
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