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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️

@mistymotors.net
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Senior Writer at The Autopian! A lifelong fan of all things that move, with a soft spot for the Smart Fortwo, the Suzuki RE-5, and aviation. Trans and proud! 🏳️‍⚧️ You're awesome and beautiful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 🩷 mercedes@theautopian.com

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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 11/04/2026
So yeah some people don't call cops after being the victim of a crime. 6 years ago, some amateur drug manufacturers stole my work van. When they got caught, they told the cops I was a part of their "business". Cops interrogated me for hours, trying to get me to admit to running a drug ring. So fun.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 11/04/2026
"My education isn't law..." Well, that part is pretty clear. She only said that victims don't press charges. You can call the police and demand charges all you want, that doesn't mean you'll get them. But there is a good chance the cops will find a way to put the blame on you. 1/2
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 11/04/2026
Maybe you should stick to sports, pretending to be smarter than an actual lawyer is not a good look for you...
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 04/04/2026
I would LOL hard if your response to this is to torture me with the Smart Crossblade review.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 31/01/2026
Now I have this mental picture of buff Jesus and the ten commandments being about lifting weights.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 26/12/2025
The Scion was wrecked twice, has lasting issues from both crashes. I'm chasing an issue with the headlight circuit dying, rough idle, and intermittent gas pedal failure. I replaced the coils, plugs, and the pedal, and it's still wonky. It currently gets 23 mpg and I'm still figuring that problem out
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 29/08/2025
Thank you! My favorite is my 1976 Suzuki RE-5 Rotary. Sounds like a billion buzzing bees, is as smooth as a turbine.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 26/05/2025
Birdy Tuvok says thank you! 🩷
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 18/05/2025
I am happy that these tiny cars are cheap and tiny. Otherwise this would be a terrible habit. 😅
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 18/05/2025
Omg, it's the legendary Gamecat! That's a name I haven't seen in a hot minute. Thank you so much for the kind words! 🩷
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 11/05/2025
I love you, babe! 😘♥️
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 05/04/2025
Confession: I'm not hate-watching it. This show is so bad that I actually enjoy it. 😅
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 22/03/2025
While I think meeting allies where they are is reasonable, this is not that. This is meeting people who aren't really allies in hopes it'll win the next election. As if we didn't recently watch the Harris campaign parade around a bunch of Republicans and still lose, but sure.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 05/03/2025
Yep. Keep in mind that she's advocating for the arrest of any trans person who uses the bathroom without proof of medical transition. She's someone using her platform to discredit trans men and enbies. We should absolutely call out toxicity, especially when it only serves the people erasing us!
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 21/02/2025
ChatGPT cannot get its facts straight when I ask it a simple question about a pickup truck that has an easily verifiable answer. I cannot even begin to imagine a bot attempting to understand the nuance and context of a genocide. Research is great, but researching via a chatbot is not.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 21/02/2025
Respectfully, your "talk" with ChatGPT could not have produced any reliable information on such a sensitive subject. These programs do awful research and have been proven to just make things up. If I ever submit an article for publishing citing ChatGPT I hope my editor would fire me on the spot.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 13/02/2025
Might want to reconsider that screen name...
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 08/02/2025
I'm not sure that chick is capable of answering questions. The logic is all over the place.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 08/02/2025
I sure did, unless you somehow meant something else:
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 08/02/2025
Ah my bad, I misunderstood you. It seems you believe the *entire* trans flag doesn't represent binary trans women. Yet you still still fly the flag you hate in your name. So confusing. 🤷‍♀️
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 08/02/2025
mercedes@theautopian.com (My work is public so my email isn't a big deal)
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 08/02/2025
Are all of your takes done without a moment of introspection? You say white doesn't belong in the trans flag and that the flag doesn't represent real trans women. Yet, you're still flying the flag in your name. By your own logic you must not be a real trans woman.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 08/02/2025
Hi! I do! I'm selling a VW and am trying to replace it with an Audi A2. I would love to know how much different importing from Europe is.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 02/02/2025
Wow! That's honestly impressive. I was going to ask about why a MAGA dude was even in a site like this unless it was in bad faith to begin with.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 02/02/2025
And yet, after over a century of research, nobody has found a solution to easing dysphoria that has a better hit rate. That includes whatever you're suggesting. My wife's been through conversion therapy, it didn't work. I'm more than a decade into my "new" life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 02/02/2025
Transitioning has never been a cure-all. If you were depressed for a reason that didn't have to do with dysphoria, fixing the dysphoria will not fix that. Further, a lot of trans people are depressed because, frankly, people like you try to tell us how to exist. Or they're alienated by family.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 02/02/2025
Identifying as another gender has not been considered to be a mental illness since the publishing of the DSM-V in 2013. Gender dysphoria is related to the physical and/or societal distress experienced by a trans person, not the identity. The recommended resolution for dysphoria is transition.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 02/02/2025
An error according to whom? The majority of the medical and science fields have come to the conclusion that the gender is more of a spectrum than a binary.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 01/02/2025
I wish people understood that the conservatives aren't interested in compromises. Brianna Wu keeps pitching them and conservatives still hate her. They don't want compromise, so why should we volunteer it? I transitioned over a decade ago on self-ID. People act like it's a crazy new radical thing.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 01/02/2025
It was good while it lasted. The Social Security Administration is now under orders to stop processing gender marker changes. If you're trans and you didn't update your social security information, it appears the window closed. Please update every other document you can while you still have time!
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 01/02/2025
Is that the best you got? I've heard better insults from 5-year-olds. They also had better punctuation, too.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 01/02/2025
That's not what your mom said last night.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 01/02/2025
Cry harder.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 27/01/2025
Sadly, it's being reported that the government has already stopped processing passport applications and updates from trans people. Talk online seems to indicate that I'm not the only one who has been able to update their social security card. I was shocked since I live in a conservative county.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 27/01/2025
Trans friends, you still have time to update your social security card! This morning, I updated my name and gender on my card without any pushback from my local office. The only proof I used was my driver's license. If you put this off, go to your local SSA office as soon as possible. Good luck! 🩷
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 18/01/2025
For decades I never took pictures with an open mouth. The reason was embarrassing. 10 of my adult teeth never came in. Last month, I had my baby teeth removed and in 5 months I'll be ready for implants. For now, I have temporary teeth, yet for the first time in my entire life I like my smile. ♥️
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 25/12/2024
I hear Santa heads the CIA. By that, I mean the Christmas Intelligence Agency.
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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I started HRT at 26 (in 1980) and transitioned socially at 29 (while keeping my teaching job with the Baltimore Public Schools). If I could do it in the Reagan Era, and if you are trans, you can transition, too.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/12/2024
Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.
targets, the District Court reasonably concluded that the balance of the equities tips toward
preliminary relief pending full consideration of the merits. Its analysis of the last two
preliminary injunction factors was not arbitrary or unreasonable. The court did not
manifestly abuse its discretion, and its injunction was not overbroad.
156 Finally, both parties have submitted notices of supplemental authority, citing recent
cases considering challenges to various laws regarding gender-affirming care. Without
exception, the additional authority pertains to claims grounded in the equal protection
clause or otherwise based on alleged unlawful discrimination. Some of the authorities also
reference new developments in research and evidence that was not part of the record
presented to the District Court in the preliminary injunction proceedings. Because, on the
record here, the District Court's conclusions on Montana's express privacy protections are
sufficient to uphold its preliminary injunction, we affirm on that basis. The parties will
have the opportunity during the merits proceeding for full development of the record, where their experts may offer insight on any new research, and for briefing on the current case law relative to their claims.
CONCLUSION
157 The District Court made no error of law and did not manifestly abuse its discretion.
We affirm its grant of a preliminary injunction on the basis of Plaintiffs' right to privacy claim. The case will proceed to trial, at which point the District Court will finally resolve the disputed facts and issue a final determination on the constitutional issues presented.
/S/ BETH BAKER
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We Concur:
/S/ MIKE McGRATH
/S/ LAURIE MCKINNON
/S/ INGRID GUSTAFSON /S/ DIRK M. SANDEFUR
/S/ JAMES JEREMIAH SHEA
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 10/12/2024
I see an RX-7, you have my attention! 😍
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 10/12/2024
The carb in question was on this 3.2cc replica of a BMW R 90 S boxer engine. It has the tiniest parts!
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 10/12/2024
A VERY tiny carburetor! :)
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 07/12/2024
Some of my favorite heroes are journalists and editors who have all inspired me to be who I am today. I try to write works that teach people something and brighten their day. Jesse Singal is not that. His work harms trans rights and people like me. That's why he's quickly becoming the most blocked.
Jesse Singal is being blocked by 25,737 people after just joining Bluesky. He's obsessed with writing about almost nothing but negative stories about trans people and calls himself an expert on trans people. That's weird. He is not trans, a scientist, or a medical professional.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 07/12/2024
Also, pretty sure Chase is busy with something more important than debating people who don't argue in good faith. To be clear, she thinks that people who are not medically transitioning need to be criminally charged for using the correct bathroom. Who needs enemies when you have allies like this?
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 06/12/2024
I love how Piers Morgan is supposed to be the venue for whatever this "debate" is supposed to be. Let me get this straight, Sheryl is an anonymous loser but it's perfectly valid to go on Piers Morgan's show with the intention of beating up a guy who is more accomplished than Wu and Morgan combined?
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 06/12/2024
My lovely wife took me on a birthday trip! We went to Chicago's MSI where I got infatuated with N7017U, a Boeing 727-22 delivered to United in 1964. This marvel helped ascend air transportation to new heights. Now that I occasionally dabble in flying planes my appreciation for this bird has grown. 😘
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 30/11/2024
Yes, it took me over a year to write this. I am really bad with this social media thing. 😅
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 30/11/2024
I'm hopelessly infatuated with one car, Smart. Yes, I know they don't make sense in America. I love these things so much that I named myself after the woman Mercedes-Benz gets its name from. One of my six is a diesel getting 70 mpg. Over the past 16 years I've done some crazy things with these cars!
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 29/11/2024
In the words of your ilk: Cry harder.
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Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistymotors.net · 09/02/2024
Edit: I apologize, I used Japanese emissions data in that calculation. EPA says her car emits 240 grams of CO2 per mile. A Scion iQ needs to drive 34,554,166 miles to emit the same CO2 as a Dassault Falcon 900 can in 6 months. I love aviation and especially pretty trijets but oh my do they pollute!
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