Matthew is one of the realest, most committed advocates I’ve ever met: saving lives, reducing harm, educating folks, and moving policy. If you can support, please do.

On #TDOV, TTJ calls for trans futures built on care, safety, healthcare, and freedom from AI that denies, flags, surveils, or erases them. Trans joy and dignity are required for a better future for everyone.

AI-based cuts harm people seeking Medicaid home care by delaying support and increasing denials. You and your loved ones pay the price when disabled people and elders lose care, and women are forced to fill the gap. People deserve fully funded care.

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Text reads, “A system mismatch can block access on the spot. That’s not neutral and can put someone in a situation where they go without needed care.” The image above is a quadrant of four images: a phone with a sale ad, a benefits card in jagged pieces as if cut up, a computer, and a photo with a black bar over it that says “CENSORED.” In the bottom-right corner of the graphic are a green arrow and the TechTonic Justice logo.

Text reads, “If you don’t match what the system expects, you won’t get to receive what you need to survive.” The image above shows a gender form section, and it’s a required field. There are two options, “Male” and “Female,” with no other options. In the bottom-right corner of the graphic are a green arrow and the TechTonic Justice logo.

Text reads, “Across healthcare, education, housing, benefits, and employment, AI is used to make decisions people often can’t see, understand, or easily appeal.” The image above shows a black box in the center with a blue question mark. There are five dotted lines branching out on different sides of the black box, leading to a stethoscope, a backpack, a home, a benefits card, and a briefcase. In the bottom-right corner of the graphic are a green arrow and the TechTonic Justice logo.

AI isn’t gender neutral. It shows up when benefits systems block people over “mismatches,” when automation flags “fraud,” and when hiring tools inherit old assumptions about who counts. Check out TTJ’s Tips for identifying AI Use: www.techtonicjustice.org/resources

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Text reads, “Healthcare: AI can further a system that already downplays women’s pain and symptoms, leading to delayed diagnoses and worse treatment. These AI tools often lead to worse health outcomes for Black and brown women.”

Text reads, “Career advancement: In a 2025 Brookings study, women’s names were favored in resume screenings only 11% of the time, compared with 51.9% for men.”

Text reads, “Credit: Until 1974, women didn’t have access to credit. The gaps in data from women lead to women facing higher rates of being denied credit or receiving lower credit limits.”

Want a dose of alternate reality? Look no further than the gender divide. AI tools use biased data that makes it harder for you to have equal access in hiring, healthcare, credit, face and voice recognition systems, and other systems that shape everyday life. Swipe through, read the stats, & share.

Opening for a CA-based lawyer with @techtonicjustice.bsky.social! Pay $100-130K. Great benefits.

Looking for ~3-5 years experience in civil legal aid. Involves path-breaking work at the intersection of anti-poverty advocacy + AI. Full details in link.

Deadline=Sunday, 2/22, by 11:59 pm PT.

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This tax season, your dollars are doing the most 💸 Not for childcare. Not for healthcare. Not for the safety net or your retirement. They’re using your dollars to build undemocratic systems that track dissent, give bonuses to kidnappers, and throw immigrants into inhumane warehouses.

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Move fast, break wages, bad bots do it well ❣️The algorithm catches the blame. The billionaires keep the bonus.

Landlords adore AI. After all, the math is simple:

Black-box tenant scores + unexplained rejections + higher rents = more money in their pockets.

Whether they box you out or box you in, they can always send you packing.

Want to know the latest happenings at TechTonic Justice? We've got job openings in California and Arkansas, new teammates, new resources to fight coming Medicaid cuts, new media appearances, and a whole bunch of general freshness! Check it out in our latest newsletter.

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Loewy Lecture - Rebuilding Tomorrow: A Blueprint to Resist AI Injustice STIA Presents the 2026 Loewy Lecture Rebuilding Tomorrow: A Blueprint to Resist AI Injustice Powerful people are using artificial intelligen...

DC folks, join me at a lecture Georgetown on Tuesday, 2/10, at 4 p.m. My talk is called "Rebuilding Tomorrow: A Blueprint to Resist AI Injustice."

I'll discuss the how powerful people use AI to drive mass injustice, how folks fight back, + how this may be the best hope for renewing U.S. democracy

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As we build upon such radical imagination, we have to understand a key truth: there’s no AI in freedom.

Job opportunities for people in California or Arkansas to come fight AI-related injustice with us! We're looking for one CA-based attorney with a civil legal aid background, one CA-based state organizing director, and one AR-based state organizing director. Details below. Deadline is Sunday, 2/22.

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CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Deadline 2/17/26

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My first album in 11 years, The Good Fight explores the stories, struggles, and joy of fighting injustice from the trenches, particularly during these evil days. Out now everywhere!

Authoritarians love AI.

Angry about all the oppression? Let’s devour all the Vultures. Produced by C maJor. New album, The Good Fight, drops 1/27.

Another song preview from The Good Fight album dropping 1/27. Dance Away is produced by Kid Maestro.

It’s super personal for me. It’s an homage to and reconstruction of the lives of two people dear to me who lived through and died as a result of the AIDS epidemic: my uncle Rick + mentor Joe.

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Talking AI harms on TV with the MS NOW Weekend Primetime team.

Caucus Mountain Devils?!?! What are those?!?! Listen to this song preview from the new album, The Good Fight, which drops on 1/27. Produced and mixed by C maJor.

Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis | TechPolicy.Press A conversation with Jacob Metcalf, Reem Suleiman, Kevin De Liban, and Tamara Kneese.

Feeling overjoyed to share that we made it to the 🔝

We're one of the most-listened-to podcasts of 2025—and it happened because people are ready to confront tech power.

Listen here: www.techpolicy.press/interrogatin...

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💫New Year New Us—We’re hitting the ground running. From shaping a bold strategic plan to building the team that will bring it to life, 2026 is about momentum and purpose.

The album art is by the amazing Siphne Sylve. The music is produced and mixed by Kid Maestro and C maJor of the Memphis-based Unapologetic team. END/

With everyone going on in the world, I want to share this and add artistry to my advocacy as part of a total effort to resist this moment of intensifying evil with my whole spirit and build towards something better! 3/

For those who don’t know, I’m a serious MC. Hip Hop was the music of my youth in the SF Bay Area + inspired me to devote my life to making a more just world. With a toddler, family obligations, and TechTonic Justice, I don’t have as much time as I’d like to make music. But, I still manage a bit. 2/

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New album coming January 27! Titled “The Good Fight,” it’s filled with tales and reflections—all in banger form—of my life as a do-gooder. Pre-saves and pre-orders at all the major outlets go live on January 6 (aka Tuesday). 1/

"Nobody is using this responsibly": @kevindeliban.bsky.social's warnings on A.I. and the lessons he took from beating the state of Arkansas in court after it denied benefits to Medicaid recipients because of decisions made by an algorithm.

Talking AI tonight (Sunday) on MS NOW Primetime (formerly MSNBC) at 5:20 pacific / 8:20 eastern. Tune in and let me know what you think!