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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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…no actually she really need to unload with both barrels hate mongering bigot cant be beat with love and compassion they just corrupt it they need to be fought with cold reality
So Megan’s dad was very arrogant. But then again with how expensive healthcare is, I don’t blame him for not wanting to go. And assuming how this guy felt politically. he’d probably be okay with healthcare staying expensive. And now that thought process likely bite him in the ass.
Umm… politics had nothing to do with the Doctor line.
He saw Doctors.
He just didn’t take their advice or listen to what they told him to do.
“He just didn’t take their advice or listen to what they told him to do.”
Like an unfortunately large amount of American males. My own deceased father among them.
He was still arrogant either way. And it was his arrogance of not taking doctor’s advice because it meant changing his lifestyle to way he didn’t want to do, and because of that it eventually killed him.
Stop smoking, stop eating fatty foods, cut back on the sodium, get some proper excersize… advice a lot of people ignore.
Except that by now we know that neither fatty foods nor sodium are actually directly impacting health… (Worst they can do is induce people to overeat regularly, because we tend to crave them.) So a lot of the advice we heard about food over the past decades is bullshit. In general, anything that goes beyond “natural foods are better than processed foods” tends to be conjecture, which is wrong more often than not.
Advice about smoking and exercise though is perfectly valid of course 🙂