Hilary Matfess

ROUGH MEN. [bangs on the masculinity sign] People. You NEED ROUGH MEN SO YOU CAN SLEEP.

a perhaps insane question:

does anyone have an outdoor desk they like?

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

Ethiopia’s Troubled Peace The government is picking favorites amid a split in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

The Ethiopian government is picking favorites amid a split in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which could unravel the country’s fragile peace, warns @hilarymatfess.bsky.social.

Many thanks!

am I very stupid or is the PRRI data only available in aggregate form (rather than individual, anonymized responses)? ccing @kaitsims.bsky.social for visibility and emotional support

"After Liberation" comes out NEXT MONTH! You can save 20% on your pre-order at www.sup.org with code MATFESS20.

And now the border is down the street and in the church and at the kindergarten. Because the border is no longer a physical space but an idea that justified “otherness” and follows people around owing to their race, religion or whether or not they have an accent.

shame is back on the menu boys

I just finished this book and it is — hands down — one of the best books I've ever read.

Thank you so much!!

awww thank you so much!!

G.I. Jane (feat. Hilary Matfess) Podcast Episode · Unclear and Present Danger · February 19 · 1 sec

I went on "Unclear and Present Danger" (w @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) to talk about GI Jane, American discomfort with women in combat, and how hot Viggo Mortensen was in those little khaki shorts. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

After Liberation | Stanford University Press War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take on new roles, cultivate new social networks, and ...

a fun thing about having OCD is that instead of being excited that my latest book, "After Liberation
Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions" comes out *next month,* I'm petrified it's bad.

Anyway! you can pre-order a book I am proud of here www.sup.org/books/politi...

<3 thank you!

Sexualized Deepfakes Are Exploding. Where Is the Policy Response? Nonconsensual AI porn has become ubiquitous across the internet, mostly targeting women and girls. But policymakers have been slow to respond.

Nonconsensual deepfake pornography has become ubiquitous across the internet, mostly targeting women and girls.

And yet, despite the scale of the problem, policymakers have been slow to respond, @hilarymatfess.bsky.social writes.

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I am tired of bending into knots to understand the evolution and motivation and pathos of men who hurt people.

There's a line from a Doubleclicks song that I come back to:

"I don’t care if you are happy now
I just hope that you are victimless"

rise and grind babyyyyyy.

while all you pillow-cucked honk shoo maxxers were 'getting the medically recommended amount of sleep' I was doom scrolling in bed

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listen, I am usually team "professionalization and training reduce civilian harm" but that rests upon the assumption that the people being trained and professionalized joined to *protect* civilians. And I am not convinced that holds for this new generation of ICE recruits.

Europe's five stages of grief wrt Trump:

1. Wake-up call

2. Backlash

3. Breaking point

4. Appease

5. Repeat

I'm still surprised by anyone who defends Trump's tariff policy.

When Hillary lost, one of my early reactions was “America hates older women”. The rhetoric used about Clinton and Warren: sounds like a schoolmarm, my ex wife, shrill, bossy, etc. These men have resented female authority figures their whole lives.

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

this unfairly maligns cowards (like myself) who suck it up and get the jab bc we believe science

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The making of a MAGA martyr Ashli Babbitt was killed while trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election — and became proof to Trump and his followers that women need protection.

Happy to have contributed to this report (and very sorry to my husband who is constantly stressed about me running my mouth on this stuff): 19thnews.org/2026/01/ashl...

Wow, they’re troubled? Should we throw a troubled and concerned party? Should we invite Susan Collins??

thank youuuu

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