The Based Librarian

You can now read my piece for free🤗…the @ALALibrary IS the problem. rightbooks4kids.substack.com/p/not-your-mam…

@SWIM_likey Hm. I don’t think Bible is considered feminist literature. Because that’s where this whole redemption concept comes from.

@BasedLibrarian 🚨🚨🚨COVERT FEMINIST ALERT🚨🚨🚨

What are we doing here?

@conservmillen @TrevorSheatz Thank you for saying this. I’ve been trying to figure out the problem here

@TrevorSheatz People are weird. I thought this was a great picture of the redeeming power of the gospel. Thanks for sharing!

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

There’s a lot of this in the material for celebrating America’s 250th.

In the books being published about the U.S., the only good America is progressive America. You know, where people only hold up signs with leftist taglines.

And Stacey Abrams to teach us about the 15th amendment…

@momofnell 😂

Agreed. And I’m in it!😂

It’s so dramatic that it’s funny. A @TheBabylonBee parody would be fitting.

Always the victims.

No, thank you.

So under Trump, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has had to “refocus” its priorities to reflect American core principles, and I think it’s hilarious. They’re having to actually celebrate America. 😎🇺🇸

All just in 2026 so far

Hmm what’s the commonality here

YA is just riddled with this stuff. It’s seriously every other new book that comes out. This author writes about “queer, fat, geeky kids”.

But to be honest, so much of YA is explicit and never questioned. This one just happens to have an extra level of perversion.

You know it’s bad when even Kirkus Reviews changes the age group.

For girls ages 10-16. And don’t worry, trans women are included.

“Angry girls will get us through” aims to make kids mad about things like not being able to kill babies.

@TylerLeeConway @MinarchistKitty Key word “exploit”…which is what makes it toxic. She’s not arguing empathy rejects truth in general.

@MinarchistKitty It’s literally not. She represents compassion and love specifically as an alternative word (also not virtues btw) that are grounded in truth. Empathy does not reject truth. That is her caricature and rebrand.

One other thing about the dumb “toxic empathy” argument is this. Allie’s framing boils down to “this virtue can lead to something bad, and when it does, it’s toxic empathy.” But Aristotelian Virtue Ethics understands that virtue is the mean between excess and deficiency.