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An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · Jan 27

Trump and his oligarchic cronies think we're just going to shrink away in the face of his onslaught of destructive executive orders and outright illegal acts
HELL NO! We're here to RESIST, with dozens of 20% discounted books for adults and kids to help fight back. theliteratelizard.com/resist-2025

Information about our RESIST! promotion of dozens of books for adults and kids to educate and inspire in the fight against the Trump administration and his fascist oligarch backers, all discounted 20% when you use the coupon code RESIST in checkout

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 8h

An important thread. It is increasingly difficult to detect AI-generated photos and videos. Be cautious and do some checking before you repost.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration is condemning people to death as it guts our health system.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 11h

It's time for the real police to do the job they're trained to do and sworn to do: protect the people by arresting these masked, unidentified thugs who are committing assault and battery and terrorizing the community. You have the power and you have the duty.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it's just me, but I think billionaire Christian Nationalist crazies like Peter Thiel are more likely to "usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule" than is Greta Thunberg, who Thiel warns about in this lunatic speech.
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 1d

I will put together a better list soon, weeding out the books for which he only wrote introductions. It will be found in the award winners section of our website. theliteratelizard.com/award-winners

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a preliminary search for the books available in the US by Nobel Prize for Literature László Krasznahorkai. Note that as always when a major prize is announced, the books immediately sell out, and it will ne a few weeks before they are available again.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

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USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 2d

"The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature reut.rs/3VX6lyE

Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that even if the GOP keeps refusing to release the #EpsteinFiles, in two weeks Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir comes out, describing how Epstein trafficked her and others to numerous prominent men. Preorder Nobody's Girl: theliteratelizard.com/book/9780593...

The cover of the book Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, coming out October 21st.

The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But her story has never been told in full, in her own words—until now.

In April 2025, Giuffre took her own life. She left behind a memoir written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published. Nobody’s Girl is the riveting and powerful story of an ordinary girl who would grow up to confront extraordinary adversity.

Here, Giuffre offers an unsparing and definitive account of her time with Epstein and Maxwell, who trafficked her and others to numerous prominent men. She also details the molestation she suffered as a child, as well as her daring escape from Epstein and Maxwell’s grasp at nineteen.

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy www.motherjones.com/politics/202... #ProudBlue. Trump Regime is disappearing deportees into a true “Hell Hole” prison in the country of Eswatini. They have no set sentence or release date. They simply cease to exist. This is murder

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 3d

They're shooting the dogs. The DHS people that came in. They're shooting the cats. They're shooting shooting the pets of the people that live there.
In fact, they're shooting the PEOPLE that live there.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 3d

This is just astoundingly pathetic. What a small, hateful mentality she must have for THIS to be her prep work for a Congressional hearing, and what profound incompetence it reveals about her. Maybe she thought she was appearing on a comedy roast special.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 3d

More candidates for prosecution for breaking the law. Fill those prisons with these grifting criminal Republicans. It isn't a witch hunt. They are openly breaking established law.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 4d

Very true.

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 4d

I and many others have said it over and over: local police need to start arresting ICE agents when they break the law. They are NOT above the law.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 4d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago is magnificent. The Trump Hotel in Chicago, however, is a shithole. I think maybe the Service Employees International Union needs to dispatch a few hundred workers to disinfect and fumigate the place. @seiu.org

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 4d

Reading a scary horror book helps fortify you for facing the even scarier reality of resisting the authoritarian takeover by the Trump gang. Our Scary!/Even Scarier!! 20% off promo has books for both. Check it out theliteratelizard.com/scary-horror...

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 8d

October, Halloween and the SCARY season! We're offering some horror books for all ages at 20% off, which will give you moments of respite from the EVEN SCARIER politics of Trump's ruinous rush to authoritarianism. We have 20% off books for that as well: theliteratelizard.com/scary-horror...
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Our annual October Scary Horror! And Even Scarier Politics!! promotions offers 20% off over 50 books of horror for all ages, as well as 20% off books on the horrible politics of Trump and the MAGA GOP.
The graphic for this promotion shows five of the horror books, with classic horror images like ghosts, skeletons and Frankenstein. The other half of the graphic shows five of the political books, along with even scarier images like Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Friends — I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-trauma

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 5d

Posted by @saraparetsky.bsky.social, author of the V.I. Warshawski mystery series, Chicago resident, and social justice advocate, on her Facebook page today.
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#BookSky
#RESIST

This morning I woke up to find my neighborhood completely barricaded so that I could not drive more than two blocks from my home. I assumed it was ice because yesterday, not far from my home, ice thugs wantonly fired on civilian vehicles, caused a major car crash, fired tear gas and pepper balls at civilian protestors. Six days ago, ice he-men dropped from Blackhawk helicopters onto the roof of an apartment building a mile from my home. They ripped the building apart, wrenched babies from their mothers arms and cuffed them, naked, then left them sitting for hours in the street.
As for me - it turned out someone had set up a race to be run through my neighborhood. The organizers hadn't put up any notices. This is life in the U.S. today - where my first thought is the worst thought because that's what's happening to my neighbors.
I'm joining a rapid response team. If you're in Illinois, look at the ICIRR website for info on how to find a team. If you're elsewhere in the country, look for your local immigrant and refugee organizations.
I was named for my two great-grandmothers who were murdered in the Shoah. This is how they died: ripped from their beds in the pre-dawn by armed goons, marched to their deaths. It is beyond bearing for me to be a citizen of a country treating my neighbors in this same way.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 5d

Publishers: @pegasus-books.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @flatironbooks.bsky.social @penguinpress.bsky.social @akashicbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 5d

Three of this week's authors are on Bluesky: @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy (Cory Doctorow)
(and RIP Richard Fortey this past March)
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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 5d

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through October 18th, 2025:
- Love, Sex, and Frankenstein: A Novel, by Caroline Lea
- Hole in the Sky: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson
- The Four Spent the Day Together: A Novel, by Chris Kraus
- Alchemy of Secrets: A Novel, by Stephanie Garber

This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through October 18th, 2025:
- Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, by Beth Macy
- Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles, by Danny Goldberg
- Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow
- Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms, by Richard Fortey

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