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Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it's vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon Musk has literally poured millions of dollars into Brad Schimel's campaign, and we are fighting for our lives here. I've already voted, and if you haven't yet and you live here... make sure you do.
But no matter what happens tomorrow, no matter what the result is, the fight is far from over. ICE agents are grabbing people off the streets, our public institutions are being systematically destroyed, and our international and diplomatic relations with historically close allies are just, honestly, fucked right now. Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and trans and queer rights have been under steady attack by the right. As a nonbinary person and member of the trans community, I'm genuinely scared for a lot of my friends right now.
But we fight. We stand up. We survive.
If we accept defeat, we are handing victory to those who want us dead. By living and fighting, we carry on to the next day and then the day after that. I know I posted it right after the election last November, but there's a pretty famous Joe Hill quote everyone should keep in mind: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
Go out, hug your friends. Build a local community if you can, and get involved in your local politics. Make sure you call your Reps and Senators every day if you can, and for pete's sake fucking vote.
We can make it as long as we don't stop fighting.
Remember that on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches' Collective's April Brew virtual event! Attendance is free, and you can register here!
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Is this follow-up fall-out from the day before? I’ve known some conventions to bench or take off the floor staff members or volunteers who have drama tied to them; same-said conventions have also black-listed people from volunteering for drama/baggage
It isn’t.
Especially since Sarah wasn’t involved in that situation.
But I betcha Lynn is finding a bit more free time today.
This could be bad…. Sarah hyped up on caffeine and sugar with nothing to do.
I’ve got the popcorn ready 🙂
Eh, Sunday’s are often slow anyway, don’t always need a full staff. So long as everyone still gets invited to the afterparty… and clean-up detail… need lots of folks for that.
Let me know how you motivate your staff members to help with tear-down and clean-up; the ones at my primary con are lazy shits who care much more about free food than getting our stuff back on the truck
No food until cleanup is done. Also, no booze until cleanup is done. Between the two, it’s not bad.