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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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Here is a new book, just published in October, on the tragedy: The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by @johnubacon.bsky.social. A fresh and detailed retelling, including interviews with the families of the deceased. Buy here: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781324...
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These are the Faces & Names of the Edmund Fitzgerald that famously sank in Lake Superior during a storm on Nov. 10, 1975 resulting in the loss of all 29 crew members.
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
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November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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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 November 22nd, 2025: - Turns of Fate (An Isle of Wyrd Novel #1), by Anne Bishop - Some Bright Nowhere: A Novel, by Ann Packer - The Silver Book: A Novel, by Olivia Laing - The Merge: A Novel, by Grace Walker This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through November 22nd, 2025: - Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime, by Sarah Weinman - Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story, by Jeffrey Kluger - Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia, by Brian Barth - A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore, by Matthew Davis
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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🔥 Yesterday, a group called "14 Suburban Moms" do a civil disobedience protest by crossing the barricade at Broadview and sitting in a circle. ✊🏼

Watch as they get arrested one by one while protestors shout "Mother Power" and blow whistles the way it's done to warn that someone is being detained‼️
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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New book! Swifterature: A Love Story: English Literature and Taylor Swift, by Elly McCausland.
This literary fusion of pop culture and feminism shows the literary references to classic women authors in Taylor Swift's lyrics. Buy for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781639...
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Cover of the new book Swifterature: A Love Story: English Literature and Taylor Swift, by Elly McCausland. The book cover is surrounded by small portraits of eight 18th Century women authors: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley, and Kate Chopin. A daring literary fusion of pop culture and feminism, Swifterature captures the special connection between English literature and the worldwide phenomenon of Taylor Swift. "Swifterature captures a unique fusion of different elements: fandom, feminism, and a defense of both literature and popular culture. The narrative is split into thirteen chapters that use Swift's lyrics as departure points. The reader experiences the inspiring influence of English literature as Swift’s lens breathes new vitality and urgency into older texts. She argues that Swift, through her self-conscious engagement with classic works of literature and her extraordinary popularity, invites us to reflect not only on the culture of our past but also of our present."
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Happy #Caturday! This week's new book: Cats in Pop Culture
Stéphanie Chaptal and Claire-France Thévenon. 200 pages of cats from iconic movies, books, TV series, comics, and other works of art. Get your copy here: theliteratelizard.com/book/9798337...
Published by Insight Editions.
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Cover of the new book Cats in Pop Culture, by Stéphanie Chaptal and Claire-France Thévenon, published by Insight Editions. Background images show the hairless Mr. Bigglesworth from the Austin Powers movies; Jones, or Jonesy, from the Alien movies; Church, from the movie Pet Sematary; and Pyewacket, from the 1958 movie Bell, Book and Candle.
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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They can't hide from the Epstein files forever. I have some new information about them that I'll reveal on this Sunday's Breakdown over on @meidastouch.com at 3:30 PM PT.
macfarlanenews.bsky.social Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3d
And there it is…..

Announcement is made that the U.S. House will be out of session AGAIN next week

Two full months since their most recent vote
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else.

Republicans said no.

So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Thank you, Nancy Pelosi, for your powerful years as Speaker of the House.

If you haven't read her autobiography The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House, published last year, get your copy now for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781668...
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Cover of Nancy Pelosi's autobiography The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House, published in August of 2025. The background of the image is the photo of Nancy Pelosi standing up to a seated Trump across the table in a White House meeting. An inset in the upper right corner shows Nancy Pelosi in a red coat putting on sunglasses as she leaves the White House, cropped from a photo by Andrew Harnik/Associated Press.
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Power didn’t scare her, and neither does history.

Nancy Pelosi led when others hid, stood tall when others folded. She got us through the first Trump term fearlessly.

A fighter. A force. A first.
All the flowers for a leader who never blinked. 🌹
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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For many years @teenvogue.com has been a beacon of diversity and progressive politics for young people (and the articles were also edifying for older folks like me; I have shared many!) How terrible to see Condé Nast knuckle under to those who want to erase these important voices and ideas. SHAME!
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This is a week when our elder authors bring us their wisdom and insights, and we have all of these wonderful new books for 20% off. Anthony Hopkins is 87. Margaret Atwood is 86. Paul McCartney and John Irving are 83. Susan Cheever is 82. And Patti Smith is 78.
Links to buy below. 🧵
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Covers of six books being published on November 4th, 2025 written by elder authors. - We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir, by Sir Anthony Hopkins - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood - Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, by Paul McCartney, edited by Ted Widmer - Queen Esther: A Novel, by John Irving - When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever, by Susan Cheever - Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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RIP at age 100 Maria Riva, daughter of famed actress Marlene Dietrich. Ms. Riva is gone, but her bombshell biography of her mother, published in 1993, lives on.
Buy here: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781643...
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Cover of the biography Marlene Dietrich: A Life, written by her daughter Maria Riva. The book was published in 1993, one year after Dietrich's death. Maria Riva recently passed away at age 100.
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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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...
Titles/authors in alt-text.
Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comments
#Booksky
This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through November 15th, 2025: - Last Call at the Savoy: A Novel, by Brisa Carleton - Lightbreakers: A Novel, by Aja Gabel - Queen Esther: A Novel, by John Irving - The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel, by Kendra Coulter This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through November 15th, 2025: - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood - Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith - Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department, by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis - The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, by Michael Steinberger
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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With apologies to our beloved housecats, street cats, cafe and bookstore cats, this #Caturday we feature a book about the Siberian Tiger Project's efforts to rescue this Great Cat: Tigers Between Empires, by @jonathanslaght.com
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Alongside a picture of a Siberian tiger striding towards the viewer through the snow, we have the cover of the newly published book Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China, by Jonathan C. Slaght. By the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur River basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell, bringing catastrophe; without the careful oversight of a central authority, poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species. Just as these changes arrived, scientists came together to found the Siberian Tiger Project. Led by Dale Miquelle, a moose researcher, and Zhenya Smirnov, a mouse biologist, the team captured and released more than 114 tigers over three decades. They witnessed mating rituals and fights, hunting and feeding, the ceding and taking of territory, the creation of families. Within these pages, characters—both feline and human—come fully alive as we travel with them through the quiet and changing forests of Amur. We travel across time, too, as the fate of the species has been shaped by the history and politics of empires—such as the Qing dynasty’s Willow Palisade, which once slowed human settlement, or the later introduction of roads through Russian reserves. The Siberian Tiger Project became the longest-running tiger research initiative; its work continues to guide conservationists today.
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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And I wonder how many dogs she gleefully ran over in all those years of reckless driving.
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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RIP - a great woman whose courageous challenge in the courts gave to Irish women the first steps towards control of their own reproductive bodies. Rest in power, Mrs McGee #speirgorm
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Eight cop cars swarmed this Black teen, forced him to his knees and cuffed him behind his back after an oh-so-flawlessly-advanced AI detector mistook his bag of Doritos for a weapon. The cops downplayed their terrorizing the teen as simply a brief detainment and release. newsone.com/6559263/balt...
Black Baltimore County High School Student Handcuffed After AI Tech Mistook Bag Of Chips For Weapon
Taki Allen, a student at Kenwood High School in Baltimore County, was handcuffed after AI technology mistook his bag of chips for a weapon.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Do not obey in advance, as Timothy Snyder urges us.
Equally important is to not let a creeping despair and hopelessness dampen your will to fight back against the creeping fascism of Trump and his enablers. Here are three books to rekindle your hope and inspire you to fight on. Details below...🧵
Three books to inspire us with hope and the will to keep fighting for the future during these dark days of Trump. Set against a background photograph of the October 18th No Kings protest (featuring one sign that says "My favorite season is the Fall of Fascism" are the covers of - Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, edited by Kelly Hayes - Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, by Joyce Vance - The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Margaret Atwood's memoir is coming out next week, on November 4th, and we are offering preorders for 20% off, so lock in your discount now: theliteratelizard.com/book/9780385...
As we learn about the course of her life, much is revealed about how her writing connects to her real experiences
#BookSky
The cover of Margaret Atwood's memoir Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, coming out November 4th, and currently 20% off at The Literate Lizard. The background of this picture is the original cover of her novel The Handmaid's Tale.
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM