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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…Wouldn’t it be simpler to make your own cons run the way you want? Terrence can start with Unagi con, which would have to be friendly to the Cause, right?
Everybody’s happy then or at least working on their own stuff and not trying to tear each other down.
Which given human nature is probably too much to expect…
I just find all this amusingly current given how Midwest FurFest just told Milo Yiannopoulos “Don’t come, we don’t want you here.”
is THAT why the proud boy tw@ts are planning to attend?
Would not be surprised. The story as I know it is that Milo publicly announced that he had bought a ticket and invited others to come as well, talking about hosting a right wing panel, etc. People caught wind, complained to FurFest. FurFest decided to rescind Milo’s registration. Milo has made some noise about taking action, and that’s all I know.
What strikes me as sort of sad (beyond the stupidity of the agenda in the first place that is) is that with just about any most groups, that last panel would be insanely overblown parody rhetoric, to the point that Dr. Evil would be hassling Trae about writing scenery chewing characters. In this case, it sounds about right.
hello restraining order extension