Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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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Terrence is just unbelievably stupid.
Next he’s gonna claim he’s a Free Inhabitant under the Articles of Confederation…
huh… and I was worried he had some sort of diabolical plan… turns out he’s just and idiot. So long as the ladies continue to be calm and collected, which Lynn’s been giving a masterclass on lately, he is so arrested.
Ah, he’s going full Sovereign Citizen on us. This will end poorly.
He’s going Sovereign Citizen? Can’t he see the whole table is gold fringed?
They should just call the cops and have Terrance taken away, there is no reason to even stretch this out.
Terrence is self-centered to the extreme but not entirely stupid. He occasionally has a good idea. Or at least a not-horrible idea. So what’s the plan?
My guess is he’s trying to replay the “Nazi cosplay” incident. I’d be willing to bet that there’s someone with a camera taking video right now. It wouldn’t be hard to do. All Terrence has to do is stand there and be “Terrence” long enough for Lynn to lose her cool.
‘It’s a public space!’
Their business model is literally to charge people money to stay there. It’s like their entire thing. If you aren’t paying money to stay there, then someone else needs to be. Like the convention. Who just told you to go away.
Hotels are a public space. “Con space” and “Hotel space” are often different. Hotels have public restaurants and one has to be capable of getting to those restaurants. That being said, that really does limit Terrance’s available places to be, and with the restraining order, even if he does* have a room, he’s going to have some ‘splainin to do to the cops about why he has a hotel room in a hotel where a con is occurring where someone has a restraining order against him is one of the con-runners.
The term public gets dicey the way it gets thrown around. The convention is a public event because it is advertised to the public to attend. Any member of the general public can show up, buy a ticket, and gain entry. I imagine the hotel has advertised their business, so it too is open to the public. Both businesses can exclude specific people.
Then people start talking about public buildings and it gets weird because one can’t tell if they mean paid for with government money or open to the public.
Public Space – a park, a governemnt building.
Not a Public Space – a hotel, a venue. If you need to be a customer, it’s not a Public Space.