heath the librarian
@heaththelibrarian.bsky.social
librarian | speaker 📚
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feel like I'm going mad lmao
half my feed has been rowling and Epstein and I finally bother to go look and it's the most nothing a nothing could have nothinged
Please I beg of you. she a horrible bigot using her wealth to hurt people and regularly pals it up with other abusers. is that not enough?
half my feed has been rowling and Epstein and I finally bother to go look and it's the most nothing a nothing could have nothinged
Please I beg of you. she a horrible bigot using her wealth to hurt people and regularly pals it up with other abusers. is that not enough?
February 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
feel like I'm going mad lmao
half my feed has been rowling and Epstein and I finally bother to go look and it's the most nothing a nothing could have nothinged
Please I beg of you. she a horrible bigot using her wealth to hurt people and regularly pals it up with other abusers. is that not enough?
half my feed has been rowling and Epstein and I finally bother to go look and it's the most nothing a nothing could have nothinged
Please I beg of you. she a horrible bigot using her wealth to hurt people and regularly pals it up with other abusers. is that not enough?
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This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.
Spread this one far and wide.
Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.
Spread this one far and wide.
Spread this one far and wide.
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It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes.
Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...
Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...
Black Trans Trailblazers That You May Not Learn About in History Class
For Black History Month, we’re honoring these Black trans pioneers from across America.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM
It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes.
Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...
Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...
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Every single person I've spoken to says ICE is still terrorizing, brutalizing, and abducting people at the same rate they were before Homan's little speech
Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone
Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Every single person I've spoken to says ICE is still terrorizing, brutalizing, and abducting people at the same rate they were before Homan's little speech
Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone
Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone
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If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
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It's honestly exasperating because I don't think it should be controversial or some reality-denying statement to say "One big reason for the bad polling on trans stuff is that there was a deliberate attempt to polarize people against it"
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It's honestly exasperating because I don't think it should be controversial or some reality-denying statement to say "One big reason for the bad polling on trans stuff is that there was a deliberate attempt to polarize people against it"
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CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
Deadline 2/17/26
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗
Deadline 2/17/26
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗
January 27, 2026 at 2:41 AM
CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
Deadline 2/17/26
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗
Deadline 2/17/26
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗
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NYT was unprepared for the biggest story since the pandemic because bias blinds them. Bias pervades their coverage, preventing readers from understanding what's happening in the US today.
NYT top editors lack the curiousity and open mindedness needed for this profession.
NYT top editors lack the curiousity and open mindedness needed for this profession.
January 26, 2026 at 3:09 PM
NYT was unprepared for the biggest story since the pandemic because bias blinds them. Bias pervades their coverage, preventing readers from understanding what's happening in the US today.
NYT top editors lack the curiousity and open mindedness needed for this profession.
NYT top editors lack the curiousity and open mindedness needed for this profession.
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Journalist @audiosand.bsky.social calls this “content terror,” the bald-faced lie that contests what you just saw not as persuasion but as a form of power and violence in itself.
It's always astounding how the creative story telling of DHS never matches the videos we see.
Almost as though they lie to validate their crimes, hate, and violence.
Almost as though they lie to validate their crimes, hate, and violence.
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Journalist @audiosand.bsky.social calls this “content terror,” the bald-faced lie that contests what you just saw not as persuasion but as a form of power and violence in itself.
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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since Jonathan Haidt is spreading "social contagion" pseudoscience, time to re-up these two essays. "All the Evidence Against Transgender Social Contagion" links to research studies showing otherwise & how the theory was invented by anti-trans parents:
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
All the Evidence Against Transgender Social Contagion
Plus Thoughts on Why People Continue to Embrace This Zombie Theory
juliaserano.medium.com
April 1, 2024 at 3:10 PM
since Jonathan Haidt is spreading "social contagion" pseudoscience, time to re-up these two essays. "All the Evidence Against Transgender Social Contagion" links to research studies showing otherwise & how the theory was invented by anti-trans parents:
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
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If you have a 3D printer, you can now download software to print out lots of whistles, all embedded with the phone number for LUCE, the local immigrant rapid-response group.
www.printables.com/model/156587...
www.printables.com/model/156587...
LUCE (Massachusetts) whistle by Sokath | Download free STL model | Printables.com
www.printables.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 AM
If you have a 3D printer, you can now download software to print out lots of whistles, all embedded with the phone number for LUCE, the local immigrant rapid-response group.
www.printables.com/model/156587...
www.printables.com/model/156587...
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We put together some of the worst chyrons from Fox News this week -- including graphics that label anti-ICE protesters "insurgents" and declare that “Dems [are] at war with America itself." I've threaded the highlights/lowlights below:
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/inc...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/inc...
The incendiary and demonizing chyrons on Fox News evening programming regarding Minnesota, ICE, and protests
After Fox News pushed the Trump administration’s propaganda in its coverage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s deadly January 7 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the network has us...
www.mediamatters.org
January 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
We put together some of the worst chyrons from Fox News this week -- including graphics that label anti-ICE protesters "insurgents" and declare that “Dems [are] at war with America itself." I've threaded the highlights/lowlights below:
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/inc...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/inc...
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In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
News Stories Shape Public Perception of Trans Lives. We’re Keeping Score. — Assigned
Our Trans News Tracking Project seeks to catalogue bias at major news organizations in the US.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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It may seem straightforward, but people using "biological sex" can mean different, sometimes contradictory things. As journalists, it’s our job to use clear language that says what we actually mean.
www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...
www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...
Why “biological sex” may not mean what you think
There are a lot of terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex.
The nuances and differences aren’t always important....
www.transjournalists.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
It may seem straightforward, but people using "biological sex" can mean different, sometimes contradictory things. As journalists, it’s our job to use clear language that says what we actually mean.
www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...
www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...
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Note: reader demand for queer books is only going up
But publishing (depending on the publisher) is less about what they can sell to readers and more about what they think bookstores, libraries, schools, etc will buy. And book bans affect what a bunch of these can buy.
But as ever:
But publishing (depending on the publisher) is less about what they can sell to readers and more about what they think bookstores, libraries, schools, etc will buy. And book bans affect what a bunch of these can buy.
But as ever:
January 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Note: reader demand for queer books is only going up
But publishing (depending on the publisher) is less about what they can sell to readers and more about what they think bookstores, libraries, schools, etc will buy. And book bans affect what a bunch of these can buy.
But as ever:
But publishing (depending on the publisher) is less about what they can sell to readers and more about what they think bookstores, libraries, schools, etc will buy. And book bans affect what a bunch of these can buy.
But as ever:
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Hartnett: the testosterone *is* the advantage (so once you control for that, their entire argument should fall apart)
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Hartnett: the testosterone *is* the advantage (so once you control for that, their entire argument should fall apart)
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"We recognize that this is an Earth destroying plagiarism machine but we have no choice."
Bull
Shit.
Bull
Shit.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
"We recognize that this is an Earth destroying plagiarism machine but we have no choice."
Bull
Shit.
Bull
Shit.
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they really did just let the most 19 year old incel groypers run all the official government accounts huh
January 13, 2026 at 12:33 AM
they really did just let the most 19 year old incel groypers run all the official government accounts huh
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Resolve to defend the right to read. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social has compiled another OUTSTANDING list of actions you can take to educate yourself and others about ongoing threats to intellectual freedom.
60+ Small Tasks to Defend the Right to Read: Book Censorship News, January 9, 2026
No one is coming to save us, so we must do it ourselves. Here are 60+ small tasks to help defend the right to read in 2026 and beyond.
bookriot.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Resolve to defend the right to read. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social has compiled another OUTSTANDING list of actions you can take to educate yourself and others about ongoing threats to intellectual freedom.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery
my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery
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This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
with a nod toward the atwood quote:
cis people are afraid trans people will criticize them
trans people are afraid cis people will kill them
cis people are afraid trans people will criticize them
trans people are afraid cis people will kill them
You’ll see some comprehensive reviews of Trump’s all-out attacks on trans ppl in ‘25. I’m going ask you to keep the words below in mind. Think of them as an admission from his co-conspirator, the nyt:
“To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism”
“To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism”
January 1, 2026 at 12:51 AM
with a nod toward the atwood quote:
cis people are afraid trans people will criticize them
trans people are afraid cis people will kill them
cis people are afraid trans people will criticize them
trans people are afraid cis people will kill them
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.