The Literate Lizard
@theliteratelizard.bsky.social
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
apnews.com/article/usai... #USAIDCuts #Nepal #ChildDeaths This is on you Musk, DOGE boys, Rubio and our spineless legislators
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Our weekly @dailykos.com post about nonfiction looks at two recent books by @nenrich.bsky.social and by @tomlevenson.bsky.social detailing how Trump's undermining of USAID and vaccines will likely cause a multitude of deaths, plus capsule reviews of 7 more new books: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Waiting for the grift to be revealed here. Who in Trump's circle is making money off this deal?
The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · 3d agoThey are never not motherfuckers. If there is a chance to be a motherfucker, they will be motherfuckers. weartv.com/news/local/p...
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 comment. #Booksky
Happy National Book Lovers Day! At the Literate Lizard, we love to offer curated selections of books available at 20% off. Our discounts and promotions change regularly, so buy now and keep checking back for new choices. Every book shown in these 8 pics is currently 20% off: theliteratelizard.com
Trump inherited one of the strongest economies in the world, yet 33% of Americans still think he inherited a disaster. The power of right wing propaganda. #BlueWaveIn90Days
In these stressful political times, don't you wish you could just time-travel away from it all? Well, that isn't possible yet, but here are four recent time-travel novels, plus the upcoming new novel by @audreyniffenegger.bsky.social, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, all 20% off! Link in reply🧵⬇️
For #Caturday, Tashi, Alfie and Grace would like to present Kitten: A Novel, by Stacey Yu, about a young woman whose growing obsession with her boyfriend’s cat opens new possibilities for her life—but not without threatening to unravel it. Buy for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9798217...
In my weekly Nonfiction Views post on @dailykos.com this week, I looked at the grift of RFK,Jr. and Rand Paul boosting sales of their books by persecuting Fauci, and shared info about 14 notable nonfiction books published this week: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Authors on Bluesky in comment🧵⬇️
Nonfiction Views: The grift behind Fauci’s persecution, plus this week’s notable new nonfiction
Good evening, everyone. Back in June in Nonfiction Views, I wrote about the publishing houses that put out Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) propaganda of Health and Human Services anti-vax…
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It's the meme we all live by every day, like it or not, and now its creator @kcg.bsky.social has a brand-new book out, so come and get it! We strongly recommend also getting the miniature desktop collectible version, so you can gaze upon it and mutter to yourself all day long. Links in comment 🧵⬇️
I fully expect Donald Trump to make a Truth Social post claiming that "everybody is saying that I should be named the new James Bond." www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s going to be really different’
‘We are being really, really methodical,’ Bond producer said of finding next 007
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Happy Publication Day to our eight 20% off new release book picks of the week. And remember, these discounts last two weeks, so you can still get 20% off last week's picks as well: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
The Literate Lizard@theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 2w agoYour 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 comment. #Booksky
Happy birthday to President Barack Obama. Thank you for your eight productive years in the White House, thank you for the magnificent Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, thank you for helping us oppose the malignant ignorant grifter currently in power, and thank you for your reading lists!
The Literate Lizard@theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 2w agoBarack Obama has announced his Summer Reading List, and as always, The Literate Lizard discounts his picks 20%: theliteratelizard.com/barack-obama... Obama loves to read, is well-informed, curious, engaged, and eager to learn. Sad to now have the uninformed, incurious, and willfully ignorant Trump.
As millions of Americans lose their healthcare and food aid and struggle to deal with surging gas and grocery prices, what are Senate Republicans focused on? Protecting Trump's sweetheart IRS immunity deal. Priorities.
'Corruption on Steroids': Republicans Kill Effort to Prevent Trump Tax Audit Immunity | Common Dreams
"Trump’s sweetheart audit immunity deal is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt action taken by a president in American his
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Most of the corruption perpetrated by the Trump admin would not be possible without the complicit enabling of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate. The only way to put any check and balance on this out of control regime is to vote them out in November.
Hey, get in line behind *millions* of people, including Native Americans driven from their land and slaughtered, kidnapped Africans who were enslaved and lynched, women treated like property, LGBTQ people demeaned and treated like they didn’t matter, you crybaby, self-indulgent loser.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
There's been a lot of spirited discussion about The Odyssey ever since the movie came out, and that's a good thing. A new book, Homer Haunted, by Henry Power, discusses how Homer's writings have affected us over the centuries. And here is @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social's translation. Links in reply 🧵⬇️
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 comment. #Booksky
Why isn’t it a much bigger story that the regime leader was willing to jail an Olympian for ten years rather than admit he fucked up the reflecting pool? And that he still is claiming vandals?!?! I guess part of me is glad I still have the capacity to be appalled by this mofo.
July was fun with the World Cup and America's 250th birthday, but Summer is still in full swing. We have dozens of great reads for 20% off to help you chill out now, before autumn puts our focus on that final Blue Wave push in November's mid-terms. Come browse: theliteratelizard.com/beach-reads-...
Samantha says Happy #Caturday as she poses on a leopard print chair surrounded by books, the Buddha, a basket, and a plush javelina
Oh, what a surprise. The US Justice Depaertment DROPS its case against the man accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. They now admit the problems were caused by the shoddy botched installation by Trump's crony contractor. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Prosecutors Drop Case Against Olympic Canoeist Charged With Vandalizing Reflecting Pool
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. said new information showed the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.
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Barack Obama has announced his Summer Reading List, and as always, The Literate Lizard discounts his picks 20%: theliteratelizard.com/barack-obama... Obama loves to read, is well-informed, curious, engaged, and eager to learn. Sad to now have the uninformed, incurious, and willfully ignorant Trump.
Happy Publication Day to our eight 20% off new release book picks of the week. And remember, these discounts last two weeks, so you can still get 20% off last week's picks as well: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
The Literate Lizard@theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 3w agoYour 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 comment. #Booksky
An interesting and very disturbing thread.
Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 3w ago1/ A Philly retiree, 67, emailed DHS asking mercy for an Afghan man facing deportation. Hours later they subpoenaed his Google account. Weeks later, agents showed up at his door. This is the crackdown, for ordinary people. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Biden was just absentmindedly walking around dropping our military stockpiles into Goodwill donation boxes. That's the GOP story, and they're sticking to it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
Read about the real-life data center heist that inspired Nathaniel Rich's new novel Cloudthief here: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m... And then come to us to get this timely and exciting novel for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9780374...
How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (Gift Article)
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.
nytimes.com
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 comment. #Booksky
