heath the librarian
@heaththelibrarian.bsky.social
librarian | speaker 📚
trans nonbinary (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
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trans nonbinary (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
www.heathumbreit.com
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*whispers* libraries should not have Christmas decorations up
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
*whispers* libraries should not have Christmas decorations up
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“It attempts to elevate biased reviews to the same level of professionalism & authority as those done by actual experts … We know RatedBooks sows panic over book content by simply lying. Now, by providing ‘options,’ they give themselves further belief in an expertise that doesn’t actually exist.”
What Is The National Book Rating Index?: Another "New" Review Tool Attempting to Legitimize Bias in Book Evaluation.
The National Book Rating Index is a convenient answer to public institutions asking how to subscribe to right-wing review guides.
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The National Book Rating Index is a convenient answer to public institutions asking how to subscribe to right-wing review guides.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
What Is The National Book Rating Index?: Another "New" Review Tool Attempting to Legitimize Bias in Book Evaluation
The National Book Rating Index is a convenient answer to public institutions asking how to subscribe to right-wing review guides.
buttondown.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“It attempts to elevate biased reviews to the same level of professionalism & authority as those done by actual experts … We know RatedBooks sows panic over book content by simply lying. Now, by providing ‘options,’ they give themselves further belief in an expertise that doesn’t actually exist.”
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
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🏳️⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🏳️⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
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I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.
The Right’s Baseless Project to Link Trans People With Extremism
A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.
newrepublic.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.
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Wanted to re-share my new short commentary for @equalaccesspublicmedia.org about the mainstream media's credulity regarding transphobic bullshit ...
eapmstyleguide.org/9-23-2025-tr...
eapmstyleguide.org/9-23-2025-tr...
September 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Wanted to re-share my new short commentary for @equalaccesspublicmedia.org about the mainstream media's credulity regarding transphobic bullshit ...
eapmstyleguide.org/9-23-2025-tr...
eapmstyleguide.org/9-23-2025-tr...
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I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
September 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
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much as i probably agree w/ what this piece probably says ...
as a trans journalist, it just feels like gaslighting at this point, abusive behavior, these sorts of takes coming from the nyt itself — in light of this publication's *active and ongoing and devoted* contribution to the actual problem.
as a trans journalist, it just feels like gaslighting at this point, abusive behavior, these sorts of takes coming from the nyt itself — in light of this publication's *active and ongoing and devoted* contribution to the actual problem.
I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
much as i probably agree w/ what this piece probably says ...
as a trans journalist, it just feels like gaslighting at this point, abusive behavior, these sorts of takes coming from the nyt itself — in light of this publication's *active and ongoing and devoted* contribution to the actual problem.
as a trans journalist, it just feels like gaslighting at this point, abusive behavior, these sorts of takes coming from the nyt itself — in light of this publication's *active and ongoing and devoted* contribution to the actual problem.
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Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.
Have you *ever*, in all the thousands of shootings in America, heard a word about a friend, roommate or partner of a shooter?
September 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.
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For years, if not decades, voices demanding gun reform have been accused of “politicizing” violence—and of casting blame “too soon” in the wake of tragedy.
When it wasn’t gun rights but trans people on the line, that rhetoric went out the window.
When it wasn’t gun rights but trans people on the line, that rhetoric went out the window.
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
www.motherjones.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
For years, if not decades, voices demanding gun reform have been accused of “politicizing” violence—and of casting blame “too soon” in the wake of tragedy.
When it wasn’t gun rights but trans people on the line, that rhetoric went out the window.
When it wasn’t gun rights but trans people on the line, that rhetoric went out the window.
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What's more — and everyone forgets this — there was a COUNTER-letter, written by a bunch of NYT staffers, denouncing their union rep for supporting trans rights
Fun to see the names on that second letter!!!!!
archive.is/VCxsB
Fun to see the names on that second letter!!!!!
archive.is/VCxsB
September 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What's more — and everyone forgets this — there was a COUNTER-letter, written by a bunch of NYT staffers, denouncing their union rep for supporting trans rights
Fun to see the names on that second letter!!!!!
archive.is/VCxsB
Fun to see the names on that second letter!!!!!
archive.is/VCxsB
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Kash Patel: [sweating profusely] IS ANYONE NEARBY TRANS
September 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Kash Patel: [sweating profusely] IS ANYONE NEARBY TRANS
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Great analysis on how the media took a bad situation and made it worse — and threw trans people under the bus — by @newsjennifer.bsky.social.
eapmstyleguide.org/9-14-2025-me...
eapmstyleguide.org/9-14-2025-me...
The media made a bad situation even worse
At a time when serious people are calling for calm and reconciliation, the media’s failure to follow the most basic rules of good journalism made America less safe.
eapmstyleguide.org
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Great analysis on how the media took a bad situation and made it worse — and threw trans people under the bus — by @newsjennifer.bsky.social.
eapmstyleguide.org/9-14-2025-me...
eapmstyleguide.org/9-14-2025-me...
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From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
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Tell me why this person is being dragged through the mud right now
September 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tell me why this person is being dragged through the mud right now
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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
September 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
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Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
September 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
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This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit.
It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
No, there is not an 'epidemic' of shootings by trans people
There's still no evidence trans people commit more violence than others, experts say, despite online claims of an 'epidemic' of trans attacks.
www.usatoday.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit.
It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI posted about Musk’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in first person, as if Grok was Musk. In response to viral exposure, the original Grok post has been deleted and Grok is now falsely claiming screenshots of it are fabricated. This is just one example of why AI is so dangerous
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Elon Musk’s Grok AI posted about Musk’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in first person, as if Grok was Musk. In response to viral exposure, the original Grok post has been deleted and Grok is now falsely claiming screenshots of it are fabricated. This is just one example of why AI is so dangerous
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this is very much worth your time and if you find it useful, would seriously suggest sharing.
katelyn and co really did do the perfect debunking of the nyt’s anti-trans pseudoscience podcast
katelyn and co really did do the perfect debunking of the nyt’s anti-trans pseudoscience podcast
new episode is out on youtube now! we welcomed @sandyernestallen.bsky.social onto the pod and then absolutely obliterated the NYT's new anti-trans podcast "The Protocol" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrL...
We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen)
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast
www.youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
this is very much worth your time and if you find it useful, would seriously suggest sharing.
katelyn and co really did do the perfect debunking of the nyt’s anti-trans pseudoscience podcast
katelyn and co really did do the perfect debunking of the nyt’s anti-trans pseudoscience podcast
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You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...