Jesspooka Kant 🎃

Jesspooka Kant 🎃

@jessdkant.bsky.social

Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ jessk.org/blog

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

404media.coChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support ProblemsBecause big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.
Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Read this now: "Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, the consultant class installs friendly operatives, charges fees, raids the party’s long-term assets, and gives strategic advice that ultimately serves itself over the long-term health of the party."

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Speechless. This Turek ad is such a punch to the gut. Way to stick the landing at the end right in our backs. I hope everyone who capitulated, collaborated, or otherwise used us as electoral chum knows nothing but blistering shame the rest of their days, and I hope we survive long enough to see it.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

I have tried my entire adult life to convince other staunch leftists to suck it up, hold our noses, and vote anyway because harm reduction matters. But I feel ridiculous doing it. How are we supposed to tell people the parties are different when they’re running ads saying “no we aren’t” all week?

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Oh my plans for next Tuesday? Am I going to vote? Sure. Then I’m going to take two Benadryl at 9pm, fully confident that in 12 hours no matter what the magic paper says nothing about the country will have changed whatsoever.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

If you aren’t instantly reminded of the history of forcing indigenous children into residential “schools” and the roll of family separation in the machinery of slavery, you are not looking clear-eyed at the present moment.

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

Sen. Wyden said Donald Trump is putting kids at risk of falling into "horrific cycles of trafficking" and the new ICE facility for unaccompanied children in Louisiana "will be another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children" www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

thequeenzone.comNew ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking RisksA new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Immigration enforcement in the United States has always been a racist project of white supremacy. There’s never been a time that it was good or just. At the same time, these pieces put together recently paint a picture of a growing worldwide virtual oubliette that should chill everyone’s blood.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

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bossk baby
@bonnnt.bsky.social

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social

Reminder that most of Nazi Germany's concentration camps were located outside of Germany

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

This is “extraordinary rendition” writ very, very large. Human trafficking as a state sanctioned punishment for the crime of being not white. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Read this thread. God it’s relieving to see someone who isn’t trans even mention that there are actual people being hurt

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social

I try to imagine it—hearing a vicious, down-is-up simulacrum of my lived experience wielded as a tool & a weapon, every single day, on the heels of all the other ways, implicit & explicit, I'm dehumanized by my society, culture, & politics—& I can't. I only know how it looks from here, & it's vile.

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

AI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

trib.alAI Bots Are Accessing People’s Bank Accounts UnpromptedBanks are rushing to update their terms of service and block the bots.

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Kim Kelly
@kimkelly.bsky.social

totally unrelated can I borrow like $500 for unrelated non-tattoo reasons that definitely aren’t me getting more tattoos

Spooky Big Dad@spicybigdad.bsky.social

As @kimkelly.bsky.social once said to me: once you get your first tattoo, your brain recognizes you as a “person with tattoos” and any barrier to getting as many more as you want for any reason completely evaporates

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Distractions are designed to draw attention away from something else, not towards the object of alleged distraction. The right wants anti-trans hate to be a permanent central fixture of their policy which centrists are glad to facilitate. Concretely this means that any ground ceded is gone forever.

BLACKCATFOXRABBIT 🇨🇴🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🐾@blackcatfoxrabbit.bsky.social

Centrists: "Trans politics are a distraction from the Trump tarrifs and kitchen table issues" Also Centrists: <spends $2,000,000 on ads saying they want to ban trans women from Women's sports>

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

The idea that there’s evil hiding under the surface that they’re drawing attention away from is facially false. They sold merch at a concentration camp in Florida, with pressers and a guided tour for the media. The evil is not only apparent, it is a dominant feature. It appeals to a lot of people.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Ultimately the only way to meet the moment is to recognize that hate is all three: their brand, belief system, and policy blueprint. Even their fiscal policy is predicated on a worldview that sees most people as disposable and unworthy— starving the poor, gutting healthcare, ending humanitarian aid.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

thenation.comWhy Calling Anti-Trans Hate a “Distraction” Is So TroublingIt’s a familiar line in the midterms: Anti-trans attacks are a “distraction” from “kitchen-table” issues. That sends a chilling message about whose rights are worth fighting for.

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

prospect.orgThe Trump Administration May Have Just Lied to Judge About an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea - The American ProspectAn ICE agent told a judge a charter flight to Equatorial Guinea had been canceled. It just landed there.
Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Distractions are designed to draw attention away from something else, not towards the object of alleged distraction. The right wants anti-trans hate to be a permanent central fixture of their policy which centrists are glad to facilitate. Concretely this means that any ground ceded is gone forever.

BLACKCATFOXRABBIT 🇨🇴🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🐾@blackcatfoxrabbit.bsky.social

Centrists: "Trans politics are a distraction from the Trump tarrifs and kitchen table issues" Also Centrists: <spends $2,000,000 on ads saying they want to ban trans women from Women's sports>

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

The amount of money being pumped into this was literally unheard of a decade ago.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.

advocate.comElon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm targetAmerica PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.

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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

Not surprising. Pregnancy makes it harder to escape an abusive relationship. But let's be clear: this is by design. Republicans have no hidden that trapping women with men who beat or even kill them is the point. jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-b...

jessica.substack.comAbortion Bans May Be Connected to 135 ‘Excess’ Deaths of Women by HomicideThe leading cause of death for pregnant women is homicide, often by intimate partners
Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

So deeply grateful to every cis person, especially women, speaking up right now while others throw us to the wolves. It’s desperately needed medicine for the soul.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me

Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

The reason it’s so noxious when people in medicine and public health legitimize MAHA is that they take for granted that meaningful opposition is already forfeit. When someone tries to have it both ways they’re shocked when the rest of the scientific community pushes back, but these are the stakes.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social

My biggest lessons from this is that, many voices calling out unethical research still have the power to prevent harm. The global health community came together is solidarity and in advocacy to speak up on why the proposed study was so abhorrent. This was amplified by health journalists.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

This line slays me: “The minister of health in Guinea-Bissau, Quinhin Nantote, previously denied that the project would move forward. ‘This is not even remotely true,’ Nantote told the Guardian in Portuguese last week.”

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Leroy2
@wachendorfia.bsky.social

"There is no ground the party can cede that will satiate fascism, and a party that espouses equality but fails to defend it is morally hollow."

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

thenation.comWhy Calling Anti-Trans Hate a “Distraction” Is So TroublingIt’s a familiar line in the midterms: Anti-trans attacks are a “distraction” from “kitchen-table” issues. That sends a chilling message about whose rights are worth fighting for.

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TAGHIVscience
@taghivscience.bsky.social

Replying to @jessdkant.bsky.social

This is central to the scandal that's occurred in the UK (and now elsewhere). Institutions with decades of purported commitment to increased community involvement in research and healthcare going quiet - or worse - when transgender people were excluded and talked over.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Amazing news. Wild stuff happens when you actually talk to people who need this care. "...the court found the Government failed to adequately consult those affected by failing to consult on the substance of the regulations and failing to directly consult with gender diverse young people."

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising
@jillianw.bsky.social

"the clear message is that what is happening to you is a second-tier issue—that you don’t really count" Great piece. Gulf of America is a distraction. The JFK Center and that fucking ballroom are distractions. Transphobia, queerphobia, and racism are at the core of the project.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

thenation.comWhy Calling Anti-Trans Hate a “Distraction” Is So TroublingIt’s a familiar line in the midterms: Anti-trans attacks are a “distraction” from “kitchen-table” issues. That sends a chilling message about whose rights are worth fighting for.
Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Precisely this.

MiserableX@onlytoad.bsky.social

If you consider the dehumanization and attempted erasure of at-risk communities a distraction from "kitchen table" issues, you really need to take a look at who's setting your table.

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Billie Jean Sweeney
@billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Replying to @jessdkant.bsky.social

This is so great. One of many killer lines: “There is no ground the party can cede that will satiate fascism, and a party that espouses equality but fails to defend it is morally hollow.”

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Patrick Ness
@patricknessbooks.bsky.social

The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

We've reached the "product placement inside attack ads" stage of capitalism in South Carolina. Ad features a woman at a gas station where gas is approaching $6 a gallon, asking Grok why groceries cost so much.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃
@jessdkant.bsky.social

Meta nearly died as a company. Instagram is what kept it afloat, not Facebook. It’s designed to market products, surveil users and harvest data, and increasingly to sandbox dissent into ineffectual performance. Let it die.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social

When people say “I use it to push back” or “we can’t let them take over the platform” they simply do not understand the threat model, and are actively helping the far-right. They are the problem, too.

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...