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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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Well, that was utterly completely unexpected…
They’ve been together for four years and five months, living together for over three years, and same sex marriage is finally legal in their state.
A little out of left field in the narrative? A little – but that was on purpose, and only just.
But everyone should have been expecting this pretty soon.
more the Way it was done then the fact that it was done to be honest i was expecting this since her dads funeral
Well, that was the “little” bit.
And yeah, everyone should have been expecting this since Megan’s Dad’s funeral. I was kind of telegraphing.
Awwwwwww…
The whole “thinking about the future, gah!” immediately made me think it was going to lead to a marriage conversation. Not having seen these two discuss that at all made me not expect a proposal, because it’s becoming more and more common to cohabitate indefinitely without marriage, and I didn’t know their feelings on this. When thinking about any of my friends that have been together that long, I always think something like “It’s about time!” which is just ironic considering that Brian and I have been together longer than most of them have even known each other and feel no particular call to get married.
Eh, I don’t think its ironic — you just happen to be wired differently than a lot of other people. Nothing wrong with it.
That’s adorable
Not sure if that’s a horrible proposal, or a great one. Asuming of course it is a proposal… might be a vintage pokemon card in there, or something.
They don’t seem like the type to have a huge grand proposal. This actually fits them. No we wait for the reaction…
What about “huhwhatthe-panic-iloveyou-panic-setthedate?-panic-helpmeweddingday-ikillyousomeday-(butiloveyou)-eeekweddingandparentsandfriendsfromstaf-PANIC?