David Palumbo-Liu
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
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It’s up to the People to push the Democrats to the Left, and beyond. This is how bad things have become. Democrats had huge momentum. But no, it’s time to squander everything. Contribute to every progressive candidate you can. Screw the rest. And support independent media.
Want to see his appearances in the Epstein files.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Want to see his appearances in the Epstein files.
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Montgomery County is one of the richest counties in the country, yet it too has a large number of people needing help (some of which were federal contractors who didn't get backpay when the government reopened).
‘It’s important for me to stay alive for other people’: Nonprofit helps feed 35,000 Montgomery Co. households this Thanksgiving - WTOP News
Over 35,000 Montgomery County, Maryland, households will have food on the table this Thanksgiving, thanks to So What Else.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Montgomery County is one of the richest counties in the country, yet it too has a large number of people needing help (some of which were federal contractors who didn't get backpay when the government reopened).
We’ve lived this far without it just fine.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We’ve lived this far without it just fine.
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Ayman Soliman was a beloved children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area.
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
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The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ayman Soliman was a beloved children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area.
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
Sign up:
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The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
Sign up:
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Capitalist tech and Zionist settler colonialism attempt to erase Palestinian voices nevertheless, Palestinians have found ways to appropriate, repurpose, and deploy technology in ingenious, creative, and subversive ways that keep the movement alive and growing globally.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Capitalist tech and Zionist settler colonialism attempt to erase Palestinian voices nevertheless, Palestinians have found ways to appropriate, repurpose, and deploy technology in ingenious, creative, and subversive ways that keep the movement alive and growing globally.
Actually this would not surprise me at all.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Actually this would not surprise me at all.
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Among other things, taking joy in simple, free things each day is a way to flip off capitalism.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Among other things, taking joy in simple, free things each day is a way to flip off capitalism.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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Not a drill, folks. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog
RFK Jr. promised to change vaccine policy. This new website shows he has.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Not a drill, folks. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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In case this wasn't.... matchlessly clear... RFK Jr. told the New York Times he's personally responsible for the new CDC website page claiming that vaccines may cause autism. This is a lie and Kennedy employed tortured logic to try to justify it to the paper. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants you to know he’s personally responsible for anti-vax misinformation on CDC website
He told the New York Times there’s no proof that vaccines don’t cause autism, which is a lie.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In case this wasn't.... matchlessly clear... RFK Jr. told the New York Times he's personally responsible for the new CDC website page claiming that vaccines may cause autism. This is a lie and Kennedy employed tortured logic to try to justify it to the paper. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“Our demand is clear and our resolve is firm: No war on Venezuela."
Read more from Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Manon Aubry and others in Maktoob Media.
Read more from Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Manon Aubry and others in Maktoob Media.
European lawmakers warn of “prelude to invasion” as U.S. military buildup around Venezuela grows
More than 60 political leaders from across Europe have issued an urgent warning against what they describe as a “prelude to invasion” of Venezuela, citing US invasion, Venezuela More than 60…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
“Our demand is clear and our resolve is firm: No war on Venezuela."
Read more from Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Manon Aubry and others in Maktoob Media.
Read more from Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Manon Aubry and others in Maktoob Media.
truthout.org/articles/is-.... This is extremely important!
Is the Tide Starting to Turn Against AIPAC?
Backing AIPAC may now be a political liability for candidates facing progressive challengers in Democratic primaries.
truthout.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
truthout.org/articles/is-.... This is extremely important!
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One Small Guardrail Finally Held Up Against Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/linds...
One Small Guardrail Finally Held Up Against Trump
For almost a decade now, we’ve watched as Trump plowed through guardrails...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
One Small Guardrail Finally Held Up Against Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/linds...
Yes but my faith in Democrats to screw things up has not diminished one iota.
Democrats Could Take The House Next Year As Fed-Up Republicans Say They Will Resign
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Democrats Could Take The House Next Year As Fed-Up Republicans Say They Will Resign
Several House Republicans are threatening to follow Marjorie Taylor Greene and immediately resign, which would give the House majority to Democrats.
www.politicususa.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Yes but my faith in Democrats to screw things up has not diminished one iota.
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I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Nice. I had forgotten him. Thanks for the memories.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Nice. I had forgotten him. Thanks for the memories.
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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You went into a coma in 2017.
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You went into a coma in 2017.
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
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"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
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Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
Yet something more to thank AI for.
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Yet something more to thank AI for.
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
After being celebrated by US media, right??
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
After being celebrated by US media, right??