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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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The Man in charge… never thought about how often it automatically defaults to the male pronoun in these situation… Thanks Trae, just what I need to lay awake thinking about tonight.
I find it rather amusing that given the shift in personnel, the “man in charge” now in fact refers to the one member on staff who can rival Lynn in terms if fierceness. This should be fun.
One reason I like being a 6’5″ guy, I rarely have to put up with this sort of bullshit.
One reason I don’t, I occasionally get called to assist when someone else does.
yea when your over 6 foot all you gotta do is look pissed off and people raerly argue with you
Now, question. In this situation do you call the actual person running the con, or do you call the largest person(or veteran) on staff?
In my experience, it’s either the convention director or ops manager that steps in at this point. If they still refuse to leave, a legal contract is going to look better to the police than blatant intimidation. And it’s never a good idea to let stuff like this fly under the director’s nose, especially when it happens in a place attendees can see it. Head of security might be present as well depending on what happens.
Snicker… this should be good….