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  But it’s not just Israel, the US used AI to mis-identify targets in Iran. The US strike on a girls’ school that killed 140 Iranian daughters was a double tap strike, and some witnesses have reported it was a triple tap strike. All planned and executed with the help of AI. So while we’re promised future cures for cancer, the cancer of AI already has the blood of hundreds of thousands on its “hands.” It’s US tech companies, US weapons, all paid for with US taxpayer money to enact this violence, t...

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  Our response to the “AI apocalypse” must be, at very least, to stop listening to the carnival barkers. The men (sigh) whose personal fortunes are directly connected to their ability to convince us that we have no choice. Instead we could listen to actual experts in the space, those who lawmakers, regulators, and corporate policy teams should actually be listening to. For many reasons, not the least of which is their lack of raging ketamine addiction. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/ai-...

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  This wasn’t one operation, one mission, one decision. This was thousands of people, making thousands of individual decisions to commit murders that you could only justify to yourself if you didn’t think of the victims as humans. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-09-25/

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  But it’s important to remember that while the Klu Klux Klan killed thousands of Black men, women, and children, every single one of those murders was committed by individuals. An individual made every decision to murder in a decades-long campaign of violence; they were individually responsible, individually to blame. There is, unfortunately, no shortage of Palestinian girls killed by individuals hiding behind their military uniforms, just as the KKK members hid behind their white hoods. https://...

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  We ban people, hoping to justify our ignorance and hate by labeling people illegal. We use the power of the state to harass, arrest, incarcerate or deport at home. We kidnap, execute, or bomb abroad. We lob the word terrorist whenever we need to avoid any critical thought or questioning at home and abroad. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-30/

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  We’ve been told for years that our country, even the blue parts, is hostile to our Black neighbors, women, LGBTQIA+. It’s time to start listening. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22/

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  So we must continue to have memory, and hold people accountable. While it’s important to move politicians, it’s also important to challenge them in primaries. We don’t have to forgive our leaders for throwing groups under the bus, even if they change their mind. We can still consider it a character flaw to have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do what’s right, to support our neighbors, to refuse to join in the othering. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22...

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  Our founding was a revolution against troops occupying our streets. Against taxes going toward violent oppression and enriching the few. Against locking up those trying to change things for the better. And yet some of our brave patriots, dumping tea in the harbor, dressed as indigenous people, because they were easy to redirect anger and consequences toward. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22/

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  Sure, a different President might not have built a steel cage for bloodsport on the White House lawn. But the deep moral and ethical rot of the Republican Party would still be deeply entrenched in Washington, DC, just without the obvious lightning rods for dissent. But it’s not just Republicans, it’s the Democrats who continue to let them steer the discourse, and justify working across the aisle. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22/

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  But that would be shortsighted and put far too much blame on one consequential but ultimately limited individual rather than where it should squarely rest, on all of us. Just as Trump is a symptom not the cause of the rot of the Republican Party, the United States of America at 250, is a symptom of the sins that started accumulated before our founding, and that we have consistently failed to address. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22/

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  It’s not hard to see that the decision to throw LGBTQIA+ employees, neighbors, and students under the bus of “Yay, America!” aligns with our entire oppressive, genocidal history. We have, since before our founding, been a country in search of Empire: One built on ethnic cleansing, enslavement, violence, oppression, and strict racial and class hierarchy. Even within our othering, we pit marginalized groups against one another and elevate ourselves. https://www.publicsq.org/latest-articles/hqspwq6...

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  ICE is establishing a regular cadence of random violence including extrajudicial executions. There's no reason to expect they won't continue or even expand this attack on all of us on Election Day. "Our country has a long history of people dying for demanding or daring to try to exercise their right to vote. Congressional Democrats clearly have no plan to stop ICE from committing whatever violence they choose, wherever they choose to inflict it. So it will require the rest of us,...

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  His diabetes diagnosis as a teen was supposed to be a sentence of early death. But he, giving a lot of credit to medicine and science, pushed that out. Multiple hospital stays, lost little toes on each foot, and early adoption of a new technological innovation, an insulin pump, kept him going. Later, attempts to save his leg meant another long hospital stay, including hours in a hyperbaric chamber, in the hope that high pressure oxygen could overcome a circulatory system choked by decades of dia...

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  Our interests aligned around technology and around the fact that where you were born, or the parents you were born to, had far too much influence on your quality of life and your ability to succeed. I think we agreed, in the time he was alive, that technology had been an overwhelming force for good. But the introduction of the Tech Billionaire Broligarch in these last ten years has soured me on technology, and I believe it would have soured him as well. At least to the extent that tech chooses t...

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  That other can be Palestinians, even children. It can be women, even girls. It can be trans people, even trans kids, just trying to understand themselves. The specifics don’t matter, there is no why. All that is required is that your target can’t defend themselves. How broken can a society be that we would allow adults to shift so much blame for their problems to children that they could then justify violence against those kids? That, is America. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things...