Reposted by Matt DragonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8hdo men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 42577411150
Reposted by Matt DragonWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8hremember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 363211763
Reposted by Matt DragonWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8hif you take the other side of any of those arguments you are implicitly accepting that there is a real debate here. there is not. the world's richest man let food grain aid rot on shelves for basically no reason that is even remotely defensible. 375985
Reposted by Matt DragonEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12hStill kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke 571634327
Reposted by Matt DragonCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 10262431791
Reposted by Matt DragonMatt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18hBut who are the adults in the room? Certainly not the #Cornell Administrators, who refused to take this violent, disgusting event seriously. Or maybe they thought banning the frat was all they had to do. But that’s not what we mean when we say the problems are systemic.newsletter.mattdragon.comWe keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's LeadershipCornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us. 111
Reposted by Matt DragonMatt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18hThe same Administrators who went after students doing pro-Palestine organizing, maybe they were distracted, one would think those two offenses should have held clearly different priorities. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/we-k...newsletter.mattdragon.comWe keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's LeadershipCornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us. 001
Reposted by Matt DragonAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4830151053
Reposted by Matt DragonAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones." 337255
Reposted by Matt Dragonsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Weird the AI didn’t catch that 371011133
Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 17hSubscribe here: newsletter.mattdragon.comnewsletter.mattdragon.comTL;DR;I write many words 010
Reposted by Matt DragonYukonHCornelius @yukonhcornelius.bsky.social · 18hIt is really telling that for some a drag queen reading a children's story at at family event is waaaaaaay too much influence, but a sycophantic chatbot privately encouraging suicide is fine. 031
Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18hThe same Administrators who went after students doing pro-Palestine organizing, maybe they were distracted, one would think those two offenses should have held clearly different priorities. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/we-k...newsletter.mattdragon.comWe keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's LeadershipCornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us. 001
Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18hBut who are the adults in the room? Certainly not the #Cornell Administrators, who refused to take this violent, disgusting event seriously. Or maybe they thought banning the frat was all they had to do. But that’s not what we mean when we say the problems are systemic.newsletter.mattdragon.comWe keep us safe - A failure by Cornell's LeadershipCornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us. 111
Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18h🧵It’s killing people by supercharging bullying, with the ability to make deep fake nudes, or fake images or even videos of things a victim said or posted. newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/ai-w...newsletter.mattdragon.comAI won't kill us — At least not like thatGen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them. 152
Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18h🧵It’s already killing people by helping to coach active shooters about how to not attract attention before their attack, or increase their lethality during it.newsletter.mattdragon.comAI won't kill us — At least not like thatGen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them. 173
Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 18h🧵AI is already killing people by coaching children how to die by suicide, or how to best hide their suicidal ideations and self harm from their parents or other adults in their lives who could help them.newsletter.mattdragon.comAI won't kill us — At least not like thatGen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them. 23419
Reposted by Matt DragonKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dealing with a slew of abusive emails to the Complainant Code Counselors email address. I get that people are mad, but what is gained by clogging the inbox for the group that HELPS complainants like Jane Doe? They are making it harder for students who need our help to get in touch with us. 1112
Reposted by Matt DragonKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They are also preaching to the choir. Every one of us took a position in this office out of a desire to help complainants get justice. 062
Reposted by Matt DragonKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today’s Cornell rapist is tomorrow’s Brett Kavanaugh. 26317
Reposted by Matt DragonKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet. 784124521
Reposted by Matt DragonKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These men make me feel sick to my stomach. Men like Michael Tracey and the rape-defending scum of the earth on that website need to burn in hell. I just hope she’s safe. Fuck. 42749175
Reposted by Matt DragonKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 393662587
Reposted by Matt DragonBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3041601096
Reposted by Matt DragonMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 43366431813
Reposted by Matt DragonKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 592882936
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A 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 12269921334
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seeing 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 213469398
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions 123089383
Reposted by Matt DragonJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454101430
Reposted by Matt DragonJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 24040111041
Reposted by Matt DragonDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately 832711421
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15284111497
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs. 92584269
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so. 202164181
Reposted by Matt DragonArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 176123282626
Reposted by Matt DragonAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership. 181808543
Reposted by Matt DragonThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-… 263096460
Reposted by Matt DragonDr. Sandwich, PhD @drsandwich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hi @marisakabas.bsky.social I found the street where Tom Homan lives 639611
Reposted by Matt DragonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game. 580197013104
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For 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 302211412
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It 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. 583653
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 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 174654
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This 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 575558
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026THIS 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 483277
Reposted by Matt DragonKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And 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 277889
Reposted by Matt DragonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co 723027564