The Literate Lizard

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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Daniel Aldrich
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Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

wired.comWhat the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From AbroadParis Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

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MeidasTouch
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This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

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Madelyne 🌴
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This is how we FLIP THE SENATE! Not one dramatic night — a slow build, state by state, neighbor by neighbor, until suddenly the map nobody believed in is ours to take. It's here. Finish it. Vote early. #BlueWaveIn10Days

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Trump is doing everything he can to undermine the election, and his best buddy and puppetmaster Putin is helping through a sophisticated disinformation campaign. Stay focused, don't fall for it, and VOTE BLUE to create a huge Blue Wave to overwhelm Trump and the GOP, and let's wash this stink away.

Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social

A social media video purporting to show a former student accusing Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of sexual misconduct is the latest example of how Russian groups are generating false information to influence U.S. elections, researchers say. politifact.com/factchecks/2...

politifact.comRussian group targets Talarico with fake AI-generated videoA Russian disinformation group targeted Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico with an AI-generated video making a baseless claim.
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Happy International Snow Leopard Day!

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Two new books featuring snow leopards, one fiction, one nonfiction: What's a Snow Leopard to You?, by Chen-Fu Hsu, and The Ghost of the Mountains, by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi. Both are 20% off for a limited time, so place your orders now! More info in alt-text, links to buy in reply.

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Well, Hegseth already broke the postwar global alliances that began with Eisenhower and World War Two. It's fitting that he broke Eisenhower's actual globe as well.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

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washingtonpost.comHegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

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Robert Reich
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Just 10 people have already poured over $1 BILLION into this year’s midterm elections. 90% has gone to Republicans. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

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On this day in 1968, the US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics. In the reply you'll find links to these three books.

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Angry
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This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

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'Meta reportedly admitted it made a “bad call."' Yes, blatantly displaying your fascist tendencies during such a visible event with a huge following could be called a "bad call."

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

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Good move, Tempe. Thank you for setting an example.

ACLU@aclu.org

NEW: Tempe just became the first city in Arizona to ban automatic license plate readers like Flock and Axon. Every city in Arizona and across the country should follow suit.

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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...

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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 comment. #Booksky

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The Tennessee Holler
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Due to a new GOP-backed law, Tennessee is revoking driver’s licenses for immigrant residents who have LEGAL STATUS to be in the U.S. People are just trying to get to work and provide for their families. GOP is sabotaging our economy b/c they want to torment immigrants. 🎥 @attorneymartinez

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
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Google searches for health disinformation plunged after Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers. How much “turbo cancer” & ivermectin nonsense is fueled by Russian bots, and how many Americans have they killed? Bots spread disinformation. Humans search for it. When bots go down, so do searches.

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Putin and his army of online bots is all in to help Trump, and Trump is all in to betray Ukraine to help Putin. Clearly, what Trump repeatedly calls the 'Russian Hoax' is in fact 100% reality. He is in Putin's pocket.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

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All good things must end someday. Such is the cycle of life. These four new books mark the end of their cycles, three by the choice of their authors, and one by the death of the author. More about Petrified Dreams, Dark Reading Matter, True North, and Backwater in the following thread 🧵1 of 5

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This final masterpiece from James Sallis (1944–2026) follows a jazz guitarist’s ruminative and disquieting homecoming when an old friend asks him to help investigate a suspicious death. Buy for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781641...

theliteratelizard.comBackwaterThis final masterpiece from James Sallis (1944–2026) follows a jazz guitarist’s ruminative and disquieting homecoming when an old friend asks him to help investigate a suspicious death.Perhaps best known for the neo-noir classic Drive, James Sallis explored the nature of violence, hope, and the strength of the human spirit in his existentialist crime and science fiction. Backwater places itself among these gritty themes with a complex, purposefully oblique work that honors Sallis’s origins in the rural Mississippi Delta. When an old friend from his days on the police force makes a plea for him to come and help with what seems to be a murder case, jazz guitarist Bishop steps back into a former life. Two major problems, though. The job’s in the town where he grew up, to which he vowed never to return. And his friend disappears, leaving Bishop with responsibilities he never anticipated or wanted. Not to mention a couple more murders.Bishop slips into his old role as easily as into well-worn, comfortable old clothes. Getting his bearings in the town’s close society and among his own memories is a different matter. As Bishop buoys the lives of the survivors around him, this police procedural becomes a poignant examination of human nature that ripples with hope and compassion of spirit in the face of indifference and despair. Backwater is the breathtaking swan song of James Sallis, an author who tirelessly invested dignity into all his characters—no matter how far on the edge of society they live, and no matter how unsolvable their inner mysteries may be.
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All good things must end someday. Such is the cycle of life. These four new books mark the end of their cycles, three by the choice of their authors, and one by the death of the author. More about Petrified Dreams, Dark Reading Matter, True North, and Backwater in the following thread 🧵1 of 5

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@jasperfforde.bsky.social’s Ex-Literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final fictional adventure, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are aware of it, too. Will she find a happy ending? Buy for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781641...

theliteratelizard.comDark Reading Matter: The Last Thursday Next Novel (A Thursday Next Novel #8)Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending? The outrageous, heartfelt conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series, which began with The Eyre Affair, will have you, Dear Reader, laughing out loud.Ex-Literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final fictional adventure, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are aware of it, too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make the last Thursday Next novel, Dark Reading Matter, not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can’t let that happen, and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists.It won’t be easy. The Martians have broken out of their H. G. Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the BookWorld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealized literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage’s Shakesmania, the nation’s second-worst Shakespeare theme park, and the cozy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked by ultra-right-wing nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a BookWorld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfying conclusion.It’s a tall order, but Thursday has several secret weapons: her own adaptability; her husband, Landen; a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon—her readers.
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Perhaps the darkest, funniest, and most intense of @joerlansdale.bsky.social’s Hap & Leonard mysteries, the revered series concludes as audaciously as one would expect from the mojo master of Southern crime and wit. Buy for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9780316...

theliteratelizard.comPetrified Dreams: A Hap and Leonard NovelWith women going missing across the Deep South, dynamic detective duo Hap and Leonard zero in on a horrific, chimerical villain protected and abetted by Texas’ most powerful figures in this thrilling conclusion to the beloved series. “Joe R. Lansdale is to crime fiction what Willie Nelson is to country music: . . . raw, gritty, soulful, and lastly, timeless.”—May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives The sun never sets on justice, but it may finally be setting on the beloved crime fighting duo of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. The two opposites—brothers from another mother—have called the detecting business quits, but when a prop plane holding the bodies of several kidnapped women crashes into their favorite watering hole, the boys know they’re in for one last effort. With the help of a victim’s sister, they learn that a network of men has stolen vulnerable young women on behalf of a horrifying, charismatic villain known as The Artist, a sculptor of living things, including his own body, and protected by the elite of the South. But the Artist refuses to be found, and every lead brings Hap and Leonard into the crosshairs of something even more dangerous. Finding The Artist is a long shot, and getting out alive is even less likely. Perhaps the darkest, funniest, and most intense of the Hap & Leonard mysteries, Petrified Dreams concludes the revered series as audaciously as one would expect from the mojo master of Southern crime and wit.
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Congratulations to Navi Pillay for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She's a South African human rights lawyer and international judge the Nobel committee says has been “instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted." www.reuters.com/world/navane...

reuters.comFormer ICC judge Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace PrizeNavi Pillay, who oversaw a UN report that concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, ‌won "for her efforts to promote peace and international law".