In 2016, I got death threats when I posted about Katie Johnson on Twitter. Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old. I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.

“She was, is, real. And it’s time we stopped swallowing the line fed to us that her story is a hoax—a line fed to us, ultimately, by those attempting to protect Trump and get him elected.“

The quietest important story

The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...

Frischer Wind für Euer Bücherregal – unsere Neuerscheinungen im November sind da! Alle im Überblick findet Ihr wie immer hier: shrk.vg/Neuerscheinu... @katemanne.bsky.social

Gleefully posting "pedo" memes can still be a way of avoiding hearing the voices of the victims. Everyone should read this, from @katemanne.bsky.social katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

Himpathy means protecting men like Trump even from themselves katemanne.substack.com/p/trump-in-h...

Get in, ladies, we're going to ruin Larry Summers' workplace 💅

“The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds.”

"The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds."

I love seeing a shred of accountability for Trump as much as anyone, but it's pretty striking that most people are prepared to believe a man who's a convicted serial rapist-sex trafficker and NOT ALL THESE WOMEN katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

By the way, the idea that no one has accused Trump of abusing any specific underage girls with Epstein is simply not true!

per Kate Manne, Katie Johnson already made these accusations...and was ignored. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

She said something great

This essay is excellent.

Par notikumiem ASV, taču lietderīgi palasīt arī SK sakarā. "How much easier to say that you think women are not that smart, or that we’re rather bad people, than to admit that male dominance suited you and that you’ll really miss it. And those who’ll miss it, unfortunately, include certain women."

@katemanne.bsky.social Read this! "It’s unfortunate that Andrews hasn’t understood a distinction as basic as (1) what women are like versus (2) what feminine-coded character traits are." katemanne.substack.com/p/male-domin...

Brilliant piece! Subscribed.

Fine. I said something katemanne.substack.com/p/male-domin...

Why the Trump administration would rather give poor folks cheap Ozempic than SNAP benefits to buy food katemanne.substack.com/p/let-them-e...

Must Read

@katemanne.bsky.social perfectly encapsulates why these people keep doing things that most of us find incomprehensible.

This conversation will break your heart and help you truly understand the bleakness of the post-Dobbs landscape katemanne.substack.com/p/being-preg...

Title should read "Another white male abuses his way into a comfortable & sheltered life." @katemanne.bsky.social calls it "himpathy." Maybe we should also call it the "Epstein Effect." #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's time to name the dynamic where (some) men don’t just dominate conversations. They desert them when it suits them, going eerily silent as dating and romantic partners and as parents katemanne.substack.com/p/men-not-ta...

An extraordinary excerpt from an extraordinary book by @manongarcia.bsky.social. No paywall katemanne.substack.com/p/living-wit...

Feminist philosopher and writer extraordinaire @katemanne.bsky.social has published an excerpt of Living with Men in her Substack, I hope this will make you want to read the book! katemanne.substack.com/p/living-wit...

Interesting podcast. Very chilling. zawn.substack.com/p/kate-manne...

Boundaries are an imperfect, individualistic bandaid for a fundamentally social problem: women are asked for too much, and punished for refusing katemanne.substack.com/p/our-bounda...

I thought this interview was fantastic. It gave me some new language for some of what I think about around working and parenting.

Straight women are being squeezed from every direction, with care demands and work demands ramping up at the exact same time. Meanwhile, the data shows men doing no more at home than forty years ago katemanne.substack.com/p/this-conve...

"Even if a political cause isn’t popular now, that doesn’t mean it can’t be, with the right moral leadership. Until it’s done, we fight. We take *pride* in fighting for people like Sylvia. And that is how we make the alternative of transphobia as shameful as it needs to be."

"Calling shame without shaming"

When progressive politicians like Mamdani lead--and call up, not out, appealing to voters' best selves--they win katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

We are in the middle of a moral revolution, which inevitably involves making racism, misogyny, and transphobia shameful. The Trumpian flight from shame is predictable. Throwing the victims of bigotry under the bus is not an option. We have to stay the course katemanne.substack.com/p/the-necess...

From @katemanne.bsky.social: "Shame is the likeliest source of the next, and much-needed, moral revolution. And there is an alternative to the flight from shame that can be emphasized and exploited: learning to live with moments of shame, and learning from their pain in ways that are redemptive."

I have a theory that fascist cringe will be the enduring aesthetic legacy of the Trump era katemanne.substack.com/p/fascist-cr...

"There is a widespread view that failing to put yourself in the shoes of another person—failing to empathise—leads to dehumanisation, and dehumanisation is at the heart of cruelty and evil." fivebooks.com/best-books/c...

What do Ezra Klein and Dr. Becky and for that matter Brené Brown have in common? A knee-jerk rejection of all shame that is as disastrous in parenting as in politics katemanne.substack.com/p/dr-beckys-...

The cruelty is the point katemanne.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Could Karen Attiah please be reinstated now? Himpathy—the endless prioritization of white men and their feelings over everyone and everything else—distorts who we rally around as well as who we memorialize katemanne.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

ICYMI: Our episode with Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social is now available on the HBS YouTube channel! Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNCS...

of all the damning things in this dispassionate, devastating piece, this fills me most w/a righteous thirst for real justice: ‘here is part of the transcript I did … no journalist has … ever bothered to write down her words’ “Katie Johnson’s Full Testimony of 2/11/16” youtu.be/gnib-OORRRo?...

Today is a good day to read & share this piece from @katemanne.bsky.social "The real conspiracy theory around Trump & Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, & continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, & much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds"

"Katie Johnson's story is all too believable. And we have buried and ignored it to our national peril." Very compelling argument from @katemanne.bsky.social

Yes, you really should.

this is so, so good

"The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds."

This is by far my most popular piece on substack, with close to half a million views. You should read it katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

This image is nauseating and shocking and entirely unsurprising to anyone who's been paying attention