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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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Please don’t end your decade-long series with a mass shooting.
I try to avoid spoilers in my responses — but I can promise you 100% that there will be no in-strip mass shooting.
It’s just on my mind a lot these days.
A horrible possibility… statistically not a very likely one, but no less horrible for it.
Sadly, not as statistically unlikely as anyone would like.
Was running some numbers…. each year your chances of being injured by a gun are roughly 1 in 3704… or a 0.027% chance. Which on the one hand seems a small chance. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure i know over 3700 people. Not well, but know them. Meaning there’s a pretty decent chance, every year, someone I know will get shot. Maybe not killed, but injured by a gun.
Though things get skewed in that a lot of people I know aren’t in the US, so they’re almost certainly safer. 675 times safer if they happen to be in Japan.