MJ
@mjgrey.bsky.social
MJ, Melanie, Tetra, whatever... Multi trans girl, feminist, geek, Amazon-sized Californian, poly lesbian, scribbling writer and artist. She/Her
furthermore, Morgan popularized attacking trans ppl as potential predators within feminist & lesbian movements in the early 1970s, setting the groundwork for ppl like Raymond later
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterdayA committed opponent of sex workers’ rights movements and sex workers place in the women’s movement to the end. (Strange to lose two in one week…) Feminism is better for moving past her.
It is telling that Democratic Party officials are mustering a degree of previously unseen swiftness, vigor and aggression to crush what, so far, amounts to a mildly critical social democratic faction.
utopia deferred@utopia-defer.red · yesterdayif anyone wants some inside ball on why the news is choosing to fixate on eg Piker while attacking the DSA (relative to the nazis in power, etc) I just found out that our county’s democrat caucus is pushing out a very progressive and experienced women of color for her association with our chapter
thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
A transcript of a phone call filed by prosecutors this week shows how Andy Duong courted an Oakland council member with offers of a yacht party and political support.
‘She better start acting right’: Newly released recordings reveal more about Oakland corruption case
A transcript of a phone call filed by prosecutors this week shows how Andy Duong courted an Oakland council member with offers of a yacht party and political support.
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And why wouldn't media ask Lee's admin what the rush is? Why is the CAO rushing a contract that will add tens of millions in costs to an agenda with ten days notice when the other unions have not yet secured a contract? From every POV, it makes no fiscal sense.
Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH]@hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 4d agoWhy wouldn't local media give info about how many raises OPOA has had in the last decade vs civilian unions? My rough math: SEIU and IFPTE have received a total 19% worth of increases, literally having to go on strike to get most of it after years w/out. OPOA: a staggering 38.5%.
Why wouldn't local media give info about how many raises OPOA has had in the last decade vs civilian unions? My rough math: SEIU and IFPTE have received a total 19% worth of increases, literally having to go on strike to get most of it after years w/out. OPOA: a staggering 38.5%.
A lot of the moral panic around trans kids boils down to parents being displeased with who their children ended up becoming. To which I say, if all you want is another life to control, don't have kids, and see a therapist.
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real.
completely unrelated to AI, but this is basically how I felt circa 2016–2024 as a biologist & trans activist
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3d agoAt a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real.
Ooh i know this one 🙋🏻♀️ The purose of the Democratic Party is to fuck up attempts for a third party - Green, Socialist, Communist, etc A two party system is easily controlled. You know what the big donors do? They donate to both, so neither can win without them. That’s how they control *everything*
Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · 3d agoNot quite sure what the point of the Democratic Party is
“Every story about Dolly Parton’s generosity should shame the super-rich, who could easily make the world a better place for all.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Billionaires hoarding wealth while the rest of us struggle need to ask themselves: what would Dolly do? | Rebecca Shaw
Every story about Dolly Parton’s generosity should shame the super-rich, who could easily make the world a better place for all
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i think folks just have no idea the amount of shit you can actually do when you put whatever money you can find directly into community instead of director salaries and unionbusting people are conditioned to accept whatever they get when they should be expecting everything they deserve
the fucker who wrote this was my boss at trans law center when i got fired for unionizing. their take is correct-adjacent but they aren't naming the real issue, which is less how much money our orgs get and more how we use it. i know they know this, but obvs they won't say it bc they benefit from it
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️@mady.cat · 3d agogood riddance, they don't do shit to help us or support us. how many nonprofits have publicly supported the NYT boycott, which is a very bare minimum and not particularly radical form of protest? how many nonprofit executives have shown they care more about their career than the queers?
good riddance, they don't do shit to help us or support us. how many nonprofits have publicly supported the NYT boycott, which is a very bare minimum and not particularly radical form of protest? how many nonprofit executives have shown they care more about their career than the queers?
Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
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it's really cool when cops decide that they actually don't have to follow the law to issue a dispersal order before brutalizing queer people and making 18 arrests because "well what if they disperse and we can't arrest them?"
Mission Local@missionlocal.org · 4d agoSFPD officers did not issue dispersal orders immediately before arresting 18 people at the “Stud Alley” party over Pride weekend, according to internal police documents and body camera footage. from @frankiesd.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/09/stud...
The world’s richest man is a transphobic white supremacist federal contractor with a breeding compound and he materially supports one of the two US parties with as much money as he can and their opposition really ought to focus on stopping him for continuing to do that.
My very controversial opinion is that nobody should be allowed to do this in a democracy and in fact if people are allowed to do this you don't actually live in a democracy
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 3d agoElon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
Chat is it bad that every single website / app / tech product that we have found ourselves entangled with over the past 15 years eventually reveals themselves to be pro-fascism
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoIn an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password’s Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following: www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...
I post a lot of stories about cops using Flock to stalk former or current partners, but don't forget that cops also use Flock to intimidate and harass people who try to hold them accountable.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d agoOfficers illegally stopped, detained, and arrested a Navy veteran after he lawfully recorded a traffic stop. Then they tracked him for weeks using Flock Safety cameras. reason.com/2026/09/02/w...
so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah
Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoAs a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
Not only this, but cis hand-wringing about “Can’t HP mean something to meeee? My childhood memories are more important than trans people’s rights and sense of safety” grossed me the hell out. It’s a shit franchise from a shit person. HP stuff is a hate symbol and it tells me exactly who you are.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoAs a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There are truly so many people who aren't trans women who nonetheless feel absolute brazen confidence in spouting their rancid gutter-tier opinions about trans women. This is the product of a society that claps like circus seals every time someone has the original thought "tranny bad".
Congratulations to cis women for getting their own version of "The Transsexual Empire". Long overdue, glad it finally happened
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5d agoOk what the actual fuck, @wired.com!!!! Calling perimenopause a “buzzword” is wild, misogynist work that minimizes a decades long feminist movement to raise awareness about women’s health This article could have been good but instead is … very very bad
What City is responding to is a years-long toxic campaign waged by OPOA to destroy the career of any elected that seeks oversight. OPD wants an uregulated firehose of spending, while its actual operational strength has now clearly been proven to have zero effect on crime.
Oakland reopened the last 5-year OPOA contract, executed in 2019 in 2022 to extend it to 7 years & add "retention" bonuses. Since 2022, OPD's staffing has fallen by nearly 100 officers. Oakland is caving to a media fueled pressure campaign, it has nothing to do with "retention"
It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 5d ago“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Ask any trans woman what men are like when they think no women are around. Ask us if it has no material affect on women’s lives. Then believe us when we tell you what we’ve seen. It’s worse than you think.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · 5d agoI have some thoughts about men and their responses to this.
