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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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…unless Unagi con has something you desperately need in which case it’s better to buy one.
A case of where Lynn needs to call up Jim and go, “My dude, are you currently running a group/message-board titled “Bork Con Sucks?” And are you running flack for the Neo-Nazi you refused to remove from your convention? You know, the one two members of your staff had a restraining order against? The same one another staff member asked to leave your convention?”
And if he says “yes”, we get into asking if he’s still doing it after Lynn had her momentary talk post previous convention (Trae didn’t make this explicitly clear in dialogue).
And if he says “no” she confronts him with the “I’m looking at the posts right this moment, and if it persists Bork Con will have to rethink it’s equipment sharing agreement with UnagiCon”.
You not idea how often this stuff comes up in Florida conventions; not the whole Neo-Nazi thing, but one Con-Runner casting shade at another convention even when they have agreements to share things and play nice.