10 août 1539 : ordonnance faisant notamment du français la langue officielle du droit et de l’administration ➽ http://bit.ly/Ordonnance-Villers-Cotterets Signée par François Ier à Villers-Cotterêts, cette « ordonnance générale sur le fait de la justice, police et finances » est destinée à réformer justice et fisc, interdit l’usage du latin dans les procès au profit du « langage maternel français », et marque les débuts de l’état civil en imposant la tenue de registres par les curés
September 30th is the end of the fiscal year and the last day for Congress to fund the federal government. If funding isn’t passed, the government shuts down.
To date, the federal government has shut down 21 times, four times in the past 10 years. What does a government shutdown mean? Who’s impacted? What’s currently happening in Congress? Swipe through and remember, government shutdowns are impacted by your vote.
Check your voter registration at weall.vote/check and remind a friend to do the same.
worst way to start my new year, thanks. i have a lot of things to say about these companies but i'm tired and just keeping it focused to the pin side of things for this one. do not ever buy pins from these companies, literally ALL of them are stolen from small artists like me. if you want to buy enamel pins, check out etsy, and artist's personal websites and shops! (though even Etsy has some bootleg pins that ship straight from china, so tread carefully…)
Every pin I've designed is, thus far, EXCLUSIVE to my etsy. if you find it anywhere else, it's been ripped off! and once these stupid bootlegs pop up, it's basically a never ending game of whack-a-mole trying to get them all taken down...
A snap general election could be called any day. This will be the first general election that requires photo ID if you vote at the polls (postal votes 📫 are unaffected by the Election Act 2022).
If you don't have an approved form of identification (list here), you can apply for a FREE voter ID photo card. Find out more below or use these 5 minutes to register and get your ID sorted instead ❎ because, and this is important to know, the government really doesn't want young people to vote.
The Explanation
Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, may call a snap election in 2023. (A snap election is a vote brought in earlier ⏱ than the one that’s scheduled 🕐) The UK’s next general election (for MPs and the PM) is meant to happen between December 2024 and January 2025.
A snap election happens in as little as 25 days 😨 between the announcement (aka the PM asking the House of Commons’ to approve the dissolution of Parliament) and the vote 🏃♀️
You must be registered to vote - currently over 8 million people are not. Unlike other a democratic countries, the UK doesn’t automatically register all eligible voters. You have to do this yourself. Here’s a quick reminder of how to register:
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Over the past 15 years, it has gotten harder for British citizens to vote:
Families can no longer register to vote as a household 🏡 so young voters must register themselves (Cameron Govt)
Colleges and universities are barred from registering students 👨🎓 (Cameron Govt)
The Elections Act requires photo ID 🤳 for anyone voting in person (Johnson Govt)
Local elections (for city and town governments) in 2023 were the first votes that required VOTER ID. According to the Electoral Commission, over 14,000 people were turned away from the polls because they had not heard about the change.
The House of Lords tried to amend the Elections Act before it passed, to include more common types of ID, such as bank statements, bills, student ID, library cards and much more. This amendment was struck down in the House of Commons. A lot of the IDs included in the approved list are more likely to be owned by older voters than younger ones. For example, a 60+ Oyster Card is acceptable ID but an 18+ Oyster Card is not.
Here’s the important thing to know: voters who don’t have a driving licence or passport or other approved forms of ID, can apply for a free voter ID photo card. Watch the video below to find out how!
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And finally, please, for the love of our democracy, vote.
"Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles." Abbie Hoffman
"Colorado is poised to be the first state to to expand automatic voter registration to Native American reservations, thanks to a new registration system.
Tribal members have the right to vote in elections, from the local to the national level, just like other U.S. citizens. But actually casting a ballot has been an uphill battle for many tribal residents, including those here in Colorado. Even after obtaining official U.S. citizenship a century ago, Native Americans’ ability to vote has been consistently ignored or actively undermined. In recent decades, unequal access to in-person voting, early voting and election funding on tribal lands has been a particular issue...
Working with Colorado tribes, state lawmakers passed a set of election reforms earlier this year to expand voting access for Native Americans. Those reforms include the nation’s first automatic voter registration program of its kind for Native Americans. The program will cover both of the federally-recognized Native American reservations in the state—the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and will allow the tribes’ governments to submit lists of members to be registered through the Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office.
Griswold said the new registration system could make a big difference for Colorado's tribal communities.
"Seeing registration rates and turnout rates being much, much lower on tribal lands is a big problem that we want to solve,” Griswold said. “I personally believe automatic voter registration is one of the best ways to register voters in the state of Colorado, and all of our data shows how highly effective it is.”
Colorado is one of more than two dozen states that have automatic voter registration systems, but Colorado is the only state so far to extend its system to cover Native American reservations. When Colorado rolled out its system for the first time in 2020, about 250,000 people were added to the state’s voter rolls within the first year.
Now, [Secretary of State] Griswold hopes the new registration program will have a similar effect on tribal lands in the state. She wants to see the program in place in time for the 2024 election. For now, tribal leadership is reviewing the plan and providing feedback on it.
“It will not take us much time to register people once we start receiving data,” Griswold told KUNC. “But I think there's a couple of logistics to still work through.”
Measures to keep tribal members' information confidential were added recently at the request of the Southern Ute tribe, and lawmakers have also increased the number of on-reservation vote centers available for early voting and on Election Day.
This year’s election reforms also build on a slew of changes in recent years. For example, in 2019 Colorado lawmakers guaranteed in-person voting centers on tribal lands and loosened address requirements for voters."
I usually ignore "National [Fill-in-the-blank] Days,” but today happens to be two of the most important out of the year. Today is National Pudding Day and National Voter Registration Day.
So… go check your voter registration status RIGHT NOW and then to celebrate, eat some creamy white stuff!
Dog
Augmented Human C4-621
You
621
Intruder
Illegal
Enemy AC
Merc
Corp AC
Registration number Rb23
Raven
Callsign: Raven
Mercenary
Corporate Merc
Corporate Dog
Interloper
Military Force
Hostile AC
Shameless Coral scavenger
Independent Mercenary
Hunter
Sharp
A local
An Independent
A merc who only kills for credits
A real merc
G13
G13 Raven
Kiddo
Freelancer
Maggot
Fake Redgun
Tagalong
Sewing club member
Not a total amateur
Not a pro
Corporate Vulture
Mere pawn
Scavenger
Hound of Walter
Competition
Good for nothing
Good for something
Wretched vulture
Unidentified AC
Damn Hyena
Rotten Money-grubber
Corporate scum
Enemy backup
One of the infamous Walter's hounds
Wallclimber
War buddies
Comrade
Buddy
Intruder
Doser
Shameless Corporate Dog
Greedy Mercenary
Greedy hound
Daring
A symbol of resolve
Only Other Person That Can Keep Up With Me
You Again
Old Augmentation
Recalcitrant
Mutt
Vermin
Pest
The Pest of Rubicon
Code 15
Raven the Wallclimber
Code 31C
Solo Independent Mercenary
Pitiful Dog
Gen 4
Fine hound
Another dead dog
Older type of Augmented Human
Tourist
No ordinary tourist
Smart Cookie
No slouch
A cut above the rest
Not afraid of anything
Belongs in a museum
Freak
My favorite little Tourist
A certain someone
New friend
The Freelancer from the dam raid
Target
Walter's Hound
Solo AC
Independent Merc
Trespasser to Rubicon
Walking Advertisement
Mascot
AC of Unknown Affiliation
Suspected Corporate Hire
Single AC
Code 5, Unknown AC
Independent Mercenary Assembly
That AC
Hostile AC
Priority Subject for Termination
One helluva merc
Hired Operative
Intruding AC
Grunt
Famous Mercenary
Fine Soldier
One Loose End
Corpse
Quick on the uptake
Not like those savages
Cur
Scoundrel
Oathbreaker
Just an AC
Patchwork AC
Better than the other ACs
Like a bird in flight
Killer
Menace to Rubicon
Target for Termination
Unknown Intruder
Intrusion Attempt
Menace
Volunteer
The Objective
Just a Gen 4
Strong
Worthy of your name
False Alarm
Impostor
Impressive Pilot
Wormkiller
Threat to Planetary Closure
20 Iguazus
A Real Redgun
Not so Special
Too Dangerous to Keep Around
Not Afraid to Die
The Only G13 Who's Managed To Live This Long
Strong
A Threat
Dangerous
Another Threat to Rubicon
Veteran
The Mercenary Who Took Your Name
Rat
Fool
The Big One
Corporate pawn
Rather Extraordinary
Gen 4 Augmentation
High Level Threat
Strong Candidate
One of Allmind's
The One Rusty was talking about
Head in the Clouds
Old-Gen
Alive
Handler's Hound
Old Colleague
Subject
Beast of burden
Guest of Honor
The Key
Smartass Freelancer
Wonderful People
Demon
Miserable Relic
Trigger for the Change to come
Dog without a shred of intelligence
Not worthy of humanity
Stray Dog
Obstacle
Faithful Hound
Biggest Threat
Legacy Augmentation
The Greatest Obstacle
The Liberator of Rubicon
The only one
The Spark of War
The Fires that Haunt Rubicon
The Monster who Burned the Stars
One With Allmind
Aberrations to The Plan
Trigger for Coral Release
Irregular
The Old-Gen Who Could Do It All
someone on aliexpress stole my wheatley pin too :( look at how they massacred my boy.... why the fuck does he look like that....
it's the portal fandom's turn: please please please do not buy pins on chinese websites like wish, temu, aliexpress, shein, etc. they are all traced and stolen from small artists like me, and way worse and uglier than the originals.