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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I applaud you Garner. Even assholes can do the right thing sometimes. Most people are rarely ever wholly bad or wholly good.
I dunno about Terrance though… He just keeps getting worse.
Ya gotta remember, even jackasses have others that they rightfully regard as jackasses. Hardly anyone is a complete prong about everything. Well, ‘cept Terrance thusfar…
That’s pretty much what I meant, really.
Why did this conversation wait for Garner to have? Con staffers should have made this point to Terrence long before now.
I got the impression that Lynn and Ruth were the first con staffers to notice the uniform and Lynn was specifically told not to do anything. Garner was the third to notice and here we are now.
Sometimes I feel like people need a lecture on civics class 101: Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom to say whatever you want where ever you want. It means the government can’t limit it.
Lol cons can do whatever the fuck they want if you say or do shit like this.
Even from the government, you are free to say whatever, but you are not free from the results of doing so. And yeah, Cons get to make their own rules. To a point, of course.
AHH poppers paradox if your culture is too tolerant the intolerant will exploit it