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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Basically I think they’re actually going to take action around this versus the things the tech industry has long purported to care about but not taken action on

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I suspect they had the same anti-terrorism rules in place when their technology was used to kidnap a head of state and in partnership with Palantir www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says

Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir Technologies

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t mean what they put in writing in their TOS, I mean their actual moderation efforts and what their technology is actually used to do

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/10/2026

it’s worth bookmarking this piece because kat methodically demolishes the false narratives and lies being spread about this case

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Grace Garcia @givemegrace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Cornell’s student paper and the lawsuit had identified the seven fraternity brothers...And once men start to face consequences for sexual violence, no matter how small, that’s typically when the second kind of reaction kicks in: victim-blaming and rape denial. "

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Kat hits on something that i think needs to be stressed, which is that we tell men and boys that "no means no" but we really should stress that CONSENT CAN BE REMOVED AT ANY TIME. even an enthusiastic, sober yes can end in a no. CONSENT IS FLUID, NOT FIXED.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...

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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe

Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in NYC please join me, @lexmcmenamin.com and Anna Krauthmer for the launch of my new nonfiction book Playing the Victim at Lofty Pigeon Books on 10/21. RSVP link/more info below :)

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Kylie Cheung launches "Playing the Victim"

"A bold intervention into discussions of violence and victimhood . . . Kylie Cheung presents a daring challenge." —Prem Thakker

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m so sorry K.C. I hope you’re doing okay 🫂

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the legal system and in these mainstream commentary spaces, victims’ post-assault behavior is positioned as evidence of them lying, so that any feminist response to the crisis of sexual assault brought on by these high-profile cases can be deemed hysterical and unnecessary.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People are spinning the narrative that the Cornell victim consensually participated in group sex and changed her story later because she faced social ostracism. A lot of this is cherry-picking texts, but in reality a lot of victims initially claim they weren’t abused or raped as a coping mechanism

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s genuinely infuriating to see them pick apart everything the Cornell victim said and did following the assault to make it seem like she’s lying, which is how people have disbelieved victims forever, while also proclaiming themselves to be bold thinkers pushing against the status quo

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it similarly builds a cult-like mindset of tolerating abusive behavior that also reinforces the status quo among predominantly wealthy white women much in the same way it does for predominantly wealthy white men

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, someone else. But ofc Tracey was begging to do it.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He was criminally charged with a misdemeanor but he went through an adjudication process which means there’s no criminal record (I think). A civil lawsuit was dismissed. Horrific stuff

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is also why I hate Jon Hamm. He beat and tortured a freshman in the process of hazing that included dragging him around by his genitals that were looped around the claw of a hammer. The pledge suffered severe injuries and dropped out of school. I can’t get over that

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At my college a freshman recruit literally died from falling down the stairs after being coerced into drinking too much. Some of his frat “brothers” put off calling the ambulance and by the time someone did it was too late. I often think about him and his poor family

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Women have been the distrusted half of the human race for centuries.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are running with the narrative that it was consensual. That she wanted some form of group sex.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS is an instrumental part of rape culture. This is the wider societal enabling of rape and smearing victims. This is what survivors often identify as the most traumatic part of the experience, and as a journalist who believes survivors I can say it’s one of the worst parts for me, too

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why the DA smearing the victim and claiming she changed her story is so awful. A lot of these guys are already using that as their reasoning for why we can’t believe her and get upset. And many of them are journalists so they’ll influence much wider public perception and her actual cases

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The shame and smear anyone who has an emotional reaction to the case and especially anyone who chooses to believe the victim based on her word. They consider believing survivors to be the ultimate sin because it actually threatens the status quo where only victims of rape and sexual violence lose

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It happens every time. They bring up the extremely rare cases (usually they just bring up the Rolling Stone one) where allegations were fabricated to say we should doubt this victim. They try to poke holes in her story. They try to redefine and restrict the meaning of rape.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I agree that it shouldn’t, but the civil defense has already hinted they’ll use this exact line of rhetoric, and now even the state is backing them up. I don’t know if that will actually be admissible but I imagine it could still sway the opinions in the room

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What people who talk about “innocent until proven guilty” need to understand is that victims are actually the ones considered guilty while purposefully being held to an impossible standard.

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