#Wisconsin is fucked

[squeelokitty]

I'm in Wisconsin and I hear people talking about how agencies like the Department of Health Services are fucking useless and don't do anything helpful. And they're not wrong. Let me tell you why, though, because it's important.

A few years back, the legislature got big mad that state agencies didn't do exactly what they wanted. So, among other things, they created a new law that said that a legislative committee gets to review every single rule and reg before it can take effect. And if they don't like it, they don't let it through.

At the time, they weren't targeting DHS, they were going after the Department of Natural Resource because how very dare you insist on clean water when it means our megafarms don't make as much money (and things that help megafarms generally hurt small farms, btw, our independent dairy farms are really struggling). But then Covid. They didn't like that there was a lockdown. So they sued to destroy DHS's ability to respond to public health emergencies and they won because they had stacked the state Supreme Court.

We're fucked if there's anything like Covid or worse ever again.

In Montana, the legislature has attempted to destroy the independence of the state Supreme Court because they don't like that it sometimes decides against them. They wanted to be able to handpick justices and fire them at will. So far they have not succeeded.

They tried the same here and threatened to impeach our newest one (who has done nothing wrong) because she had support from Dems and pro-choice groups and they think she has prejudged those issues and can't decide fairly because they bought her vote. Let us be clear that they do not have a problem with the losing candidate having been supported by anti-choice groups and hearing cases, just as they don't have a problem with the fact that the current chief justice is the only one in our history to have been formally reprimanded for conflict of interest violations. Her buddy Rebecca Bradley is just as bad but the state ethics folks can't do anything about it because in 2014-2015 our state Supreme Court also overturned basic campaign finance authority around campaign coordination with special interest groups because the ethics folks went after Scott Walker.

Our governor is in his second term and more than half of his cabinet nominees from the first one were never confirmed. They just rejected several for the Judicial Commission (deals with judicial ethics issues). Why? No real reason. Because they could.

And if the tables are ever turned, if we have a Dem legislature and a Republican governor, they'll lose their minds about the Dems using this same power. The rules should only go one way.

So, like. Back to DHS for a minute: they're afraid to do anything anymore because of what the legislature will do if they don't like it. And that's by design. The GOP has done everything in its power to make them useless, because then they can say look how useless they are, we should privatize this. State agencies don't help you. You can't count on them. Look at how ineffective they are.

So if things don't work, ask yourself why and who benefits. It's the long game. It's not going to get fixed quickly. But since the current federal target is the National Labor Relations Board - which protects your right to unionize - ask who benefits when government is dismantled. It isn't you.

so many people are failing so hard at the most basic fundamental question of democracy that faces as voters in 2024:

fascism or nah?

democracy or nah?

authoritarianism or nah?

but the way some of you talk about Joe Biden it makes me think you wish that he was more authoritarian. I choose to believe people simply don't understand the legal separation of powers, I choose to believe it's a civics failure

but more and more I think there's just an appetite for authoritarianism. I think that's what draws people to Trump, actually. I think that's where you get dummy leftists saying "Why didn't Biden just sign an executive order to [insert thing that the courts would CERTAINLY immediately overturn here, like student loan cancellation, which is exactly what happened]?" and you're like "well, the courts" and they're "why didn't Biden just stack the courts" and you're like "well, the Senate" and they're like WHY DOESN'T HE STEAMROLL THE SENATE and it's like BECAUSE HE FUCKING CAN'T IT'S AGAINST THE LAW. And why isn't the senate better? because stupid fucks don't vote

people just want a benevolent dictatorship without realizing that such a thing has always been a fucking fantasy. a dictator is a dictator is a dictator.

[little-pondhead]

DP x DC Prompt

…

There are no more heroes.

Well, okay. Rewind a bit.

Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)

The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.

And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.

Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?

Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.

So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.

There are no more heroes.

Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.

Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.

Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)

In other words:

Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.

Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.

(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)

[dougielombax]

Holy SHIT!

No way!

No FUCKING way!

New shit has come to light! (To quote The Big Lebowski)

Somebody found the original source for the backrooms image!

(Screenshot is from the backrooms subreddit, credit to the uploader (I forgot their username))

And an additional pic from Tw*tter as well.

Holy shit!

At LAST!

I’m gonna include a few web links for good measure.

(THE NEW!)

I knew it would happen eventually but still.

This is incredible.

To me at least (shut up).

Feel free to reblog.

Apparently it’s an indoor racetrack now or something like that. Somewhere in Wisconsin.

Backrooms Kart when? (PLEASE DON’T! THIS IS A JOKE!)

[strawberrycamel]

you're married to her, I'm on her dissection table. we are not the same

[jesstheespeon]

We're being very normal in the discord right now

Anyway. Daisuke Wisconsin real!!!!

[angiepants]

This is a Wisconsin State Fair cream puff.

They're a unique Wisconsin specialty and they are taken very, very seriously. They're only available at the State Fair, where an average of over 400,000 are sold in just 11 days every year. Here is a long article about their history, why they're special, and how to eat one correctly.

The Milwaukee Mile is on the State Fair Grounds, so eating one in Victory Lane is perfect.

[sara7272sworld]

Hi guys , hope y’all have a great day, my old account was hacked feel free to send me friends request 🥰🥰

[ei-encora]

okay im gonna be fr here the rest of this is unfinished and totally based on a fic im writing rn where pickles drags nathan to wisconsin with him in the preklok/earlyklok era but it's just so good that i feel the need to post it

i started doing a blur effect with my lineart recently and its making my pieces look way more finished i feel so powerful

[crippled-peeper]

theres a rumor going around that youre a zionist? is that true?

What the hell are you talking about

[yeahiwasintheshit]

THANK YOU WISCONSIN!

its what needs to happen in all purple states (and red... and hold fast in blue states)

[thisiswheremywritinggoes]

A state senator in the district where I work has co-sponsored a bill requiring public libraries in my state to automatically provide a list of all materials checked out by patrons age 16 and under to their parents within 24 hours of checkout. Hopefully the bill dies in committee. Barring that, I hope our governor vetoes it as soon as it reaches his desk.

I cannot even begin to tell you how asinine this bill is. How dangerous this bill is.

"But parents have a right to know what their kids are checking out of the library."

Sure, maybe you do. I don't give a fuck about your rights as a parent. The issue is whether I, as a public librarian, who follows a professional code of ethics, is under any obligation to provide that information to you. Your rights as a parent are not my concern. I don't answer to you. Your children aren't some half-witted partial-people -- they're either patrons or they aren't. And if they are, they have a right to privacy in the public library.

I'm not your ally in conducting surveillance over your child. It's not my job to make it easier for you to gather intel about your kids. That's called parenting, dude.

A child who knows their parent will be emailed a list of the materials they check out is not experiencing free, unfettered access to information. Full stop. Please pause for a moment and consider the dire consequences of this requirement.

If you want to bring your child to the library and monitor their checkouts, I won't get in your way. But, between you and me, the best thing you can do for your child is to bring them to the library and let them discover it on their own. Get out of their way. Let them browse and investigate and check out a million books and read only one of them twelve times in a row. Let them roam the shelves like they are starving and the books are food.

Stop telling them which books to read or not read. Stop sneering when they select a book from the shelf and deem it "too easy" for them, or "too difficult." If your kid is enthusiastic about an author or a series or a topic, rejoice! Enthusiastic people are the best people!

Let your toddlers pull a dozen books off the shelf -- don't worry, we pay people to put them back. Let them wander with reckless abandon. Let them make noise. We made this space for them. It's theirs. Nothing in the library can hurt them except your undeserved sense of self-importance and your prejudices. We made this space for them. Please get out of the way and let them discover it.

[their-name-is-fake]

Hey y’all! Just to give some insight into what we are seeing in the states. This is going to be close, like reaaaaallly close. Kamala would need to win Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin from the looks of it. So, where does that leave us? Who’s to say all three of these states are very volatile. There’s a high chance she loses Michigan ( I mena she fully fumbled it there so it depends on if the people choose to over look that), so that’s already bad news. Georgia would have been a good alternative but gerrymandering needed any chance of that.

There is an ever increasing chance that Trump is able to pull what he did in 2016 so y’all need to be prepared for that.

And even if he doesn’t win there is a high chance there will be riots so

[mik-mania]

i hate doing this but long story short, my last job stiffed me on my paycheck so i have a whole month of bills that have gone unpaid.

anything helps but i specifically need ~$50 by the 24th or else my car insurance policy cancels.

i have adopts in my ko-fi shop, but if u just want to be kind u can donate to my ko-fi ;w;

im also open to doodling for donations so if u want a doodle lmk as well

(if ur feeling super generous i also need $400 for rent.

doordash has been slow lately and ive used all the adoptables money so far for rent, but every single day is another $10 late fee. i got it down to just 300 but its back up to 400 now because of late fees.)

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

also i do apologize for the election posting tonight, i try to keep this blog free of real world stuff and i don't really have anything meaningful to say but i'm not gonna be able to sleep for awhile and a bit of posting making me feel better than just ignoring the news. i'm tagging everything "us politics" and "us elections" if anyone needs to block the tags.

[evandoodles]

i swear every time i draw caboose he looks different