Jessica 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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Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory — Jessica Kant
When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint glimmer of what was to come.The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous ye...
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Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
I hope, but feel deeply doubtful, that at least someone at Apple realizes that if it hadn't folded last year with the app store, they wouldn't be in this position of being extorted over the news app. The second a company starts to bend, they're cooked.
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I hope, but feel deeply doubtful, that at least someone at Apple realizes that if it hadn't folded last year with the app store, they wouldn't be in this position of being extorted over the news app. The second a company starts to bend, they're cooked.
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The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
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Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet – including LGBTQ+ ones
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet
Fox News, a right-wing media empire, produces more articles referencing trans people than any other outlet, research suggests.
www.thepinknews.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet – including LGBTQ+ ones
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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I know how people presume that AI will help learning, and I understand the arguments for deployment, but I find them wanting and lacking in support for their specious conclusions.
To the second point: identification of fallacies is a fraught task, and it does matter how and why we identify them.
To the second point: identification of fallacies is a fraught task, and it does matter how and why we identify them.
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I know how people presume that AI will help learning, and I understand the arguments for deployment, but I find them wanting and lacking in support for their specious conclusions.
To the second point: identification of fallacies is a fraught task, and it does matter how and why we identify them.
To the second point: identification of fallacies is a fraught task, and it does matter how and why we identify them.
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Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.
February 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.
No industry has yet managed to appropriately adapt to language models in a way that preserves labor. Software engineering itself has been gutted as devs are laid off in record numbers. We don’t put enough value in actually employing people as its own social good, and we’re seeing the results.
As many have noted already, whether these tools are genuinely value adds for organizations matters less than the fact that their propagation aids management in disciplining labor and creating a labor market environment that benefits them
February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
No industry has yet managed to appropriately adapt to language models in a way that preserves labor. Software engineering itself has been gutted as devs are laid off in record numbers. We don’t put enough value in actually employing people as its own social good, and we’re seeing the results.
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I think a key distinction is labor cost — the costs of LLMs are currently hidden from most users bc the firms are losing money while competing for users. Once a monopoly is cemented, prices will go up and I’m not sure all firms will find LLMs are “cheaper”
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I think a key distinction is labor cost — the costs of LLMs are currently hidden from most users bc the firms are losing money while competing for users. Once a monopoly is cemented, prices will go up and I’m not sure all firms will find LLMs are “cheaper”
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I remember reading a book about the psychology of racism back in the day that cited a survey (from the 1990s, IIRC) in which the average American thought that 30% of the US was Black (it's actually like 15%) and 15% of the US was Jewish (it's actually <2%).
This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.
This is purposeful. Not only to spread disinfo, but to make their ignorant base feel like trans people are everywhere and trying to take over everything. Everything is a fear tactic to distract from the fact the GOP are the worst evil than anything they make up about trans people.
February 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I remember reading a book about the psychology of racism back in the day that cited a survey (from the 1990s, IIRC) in which the average American thought that 30% of the US was Black (it's actually like 15%) and 15% of the US was Jewish (it's actually <2%).
This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.
This is purposeful. Not only to spread disinfo, but to make their ignorant base feel like trans people are everywhere and trying to take over everything. Everything is a fear tactic to distract from the fact the GOP are the worst evil than anything they make up about trans people.
Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet – including LGBTQ+ ones
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Our product can show you what's outside the window that's right next to you, perform a Google search slower than you can yourself, and misinform your surgeon mid-procedure, causing a catastrophic failure that will injure you for life. The entire economy is propped up on it
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Our product can show you what's outside the window that's right next to you, perform a Google search slower than you can yourself, and misinform your surgeon mid-procedure, causing a catastrophic failure that will injure you for life. The entire economy is propped up on it
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what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"
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In turns fascinating, terrifying, and deeply depressing, this series is must-read to understand how we got here.
Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory — Jessica Kant
When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint glimmer of what was to come.The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous ye...
jessk.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
In turns fascinating, terrifying, and deeply depressing, this series is must-read to understand how we got here.
The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory — Jessica Kant
When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint glimmer of what was to come.The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous ye...
jessk.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
Through and through, this is what heroism looks like. We owe it to her, we owe it to our siblings, and we owe it to ourselves to do everything we can to stop it.
Abducted, tortured, and trafficked to a country she's never lived in, she's still trying to help others suffering at the hands of the Trump regime.
February 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Through and through, this is what heroism looks like. We owe it to her, we owe it to our siblings, and we owe it to ourselves to do everything we can to stop it.
I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health.
CW for basically everything
CW for basically everything
She Was Honored With A Human Rights Award. Then She Says ICE Tricked And Arrested Her.
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
www.huffpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health.
CW for basically everything
CW for basically everything
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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I remember hearing a story about how a group of Norwegian laundresses fucked up German uniforms during the occupation in WWII. Little things like too much starch or shrinking wool, etc. Just things to keep in mind
What’s darkly funny is that there’s an old CIA manual about this, and how if enough people do it, it can destabilize a country. It’s still on their website right now after being declassified in 2008.
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
I remember hearing a story about how a group of Norwegian laundresses fucked up German uniforms during the occupation in WWII. Little things like too much starch or shrinking wool, etc. Just things to keep in mind
Reposted by Jessica Kant
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Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club
🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
February 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club