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The Literate Lizard

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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 · 14h

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 · 17h

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

The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 19h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Very true.

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

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 · 1d

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

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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 · 5d

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...
#BookSky

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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#Booksky

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

I offer it for 20% off but October 20th looks like the earliest it will be back in stock. You can buy the audiobook and support me via my affiliate with Libro: libro.fm/literatelizard. They have a special right now offering two free audiobooks when signing up for $14.99 monthly credit deal.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 3d

When I was a 5' 3" 130-pound psychiatrist working in ER settings, I routinely de-escalated much taller & much heavier psychotic people screaming bloody murder right in my face.

And once in a state hospital, I did the same with a man pointing a loaded gun at me, just three feet away.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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

Trump's ICE thugs should be arrested and facing local, state and federal charges.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 3d

People like teachers and doctors and nurses are expected to de-escalate tense situations every single day without throwing people on the ground.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.

This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

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

It's #Caturday! Here's Physics for Cats, by @tomgauld.bsky.social. True, not every cartoon features cats, but every science-based cartoon is hilarious. Math freaks can figure out the ratio of cat to non-cat cartoons in the book.
theliteratelizard.com/book/9781770...
#BookSky
@dandq.bsky.social

Cover of the new book of cartoons about science by Tom Gauld: Physics for Cats

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

Hey GOP reps! Ask your constituents about their skyrocketing insurance premiums!
"12 million Americans in Republican-held US House districts are covered by health plans purchased through Affordable Care Act exchanges versus 9 million living in Democratic-held districts."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d

While millions of Americans wait to see if their health care will be stripped and hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, Mike Johnson and his Republican colleagues have announced they're going on vacation. No votes until at least Oct. 14th.

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