Will Beaman

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Excellent thread. I agree with every word.

Hannah Spencer’s own words point toward a different story: “working hard should get you a nice life.” That’s not just a slogan – it’s a claim about capacities and needs that cuts across the scarcity logic. The question is whether it gets connected to a bolder account of how money actually works. 7/

In the tired mainstream debate, “credible” means reassuring the financial markets. But as @zackpolanski.bsky.social has said on Newsnight, focusing on these markets “is just a fundamental inaccuracy at the very beginning of this conversation.” It matters enormously that the Greens hold this line. 3/

If you like this topical thread by @robbhawkes.bsky.social, you'll love his piece showing how the Green Party is actually quite well-suited to advance key aspects of the proposal for "Democratic Public Finance" by @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/20/z...

Gorton and Denton is a moment of hope. What it opens up could be even bigger: a different conversation about money and what we owe each other. Hannah is right: those who work hard for their communities deserve more credit. Let’s give credit where it’s due. 🟢 10/

Gorton and Denton’s new MP is sure to face the “how do you pay for it?” question. The answer can’t just be defensive. It needs to be: we have the people, we have the needs – the question is whether we choose to design a system that brings them together. 9/

DPF – Democratic Public Finance, a framework developed by @moneyontheleft.bsky.social – asks: if commercial banks create money for profit, why can’t local authorities or NHS trusts do so for the public good? The Greens have policies pointing this way. DPF connects the dots. 8/

This isn’t abstract. Gorton and Denton has a large Muslim community and Reform ran an Islamophobic candidate. The scarcity story – that there is only enough for some of us – is what makes the politics of hate viable. Challenging it at the root matters. 6/

We saw this in Middlesbrough, where @robynollett.bsky.social and I are running the @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social project on money and ecosocial justice. The 2024 riots were fuelled by the idea there isn’t enough to go round and someone must be left out. Who decided that? And why do we accept it? 5/

Here’s why. The orthodox story – that governments must tax or borrow before spending, that there’s a fixed pot we’re all competing for – isn’t just economically questionable. It’s politically dangerous: the same scarcity logic that says we must choose between “our own people” and refugees. 4/

The trap is this: as soon as the left starts winning, the pressure mounts to prove it can produce “credible economic policy.” That pressure will now intensify dramatically. So what does “credible” actually mean? 2/

Huge congratulations to @greenparty.org.uk and to Hannah Spencer MP on a truly historic result in Gorton and Denton 🎉

As we build on momentum, all of us on the British left must now avoid falling into a very familiar trap. 🧵 1/

The Democratic Party wants you to think there’s nothing they can do as the minority party, something the GOP has proven false over and over and over again.

These Dems are complicit in fascism.

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

MS NOW: There is growing outrage today over the death of a blind father who was dropped off by Border Patrol agents miles away from home and in the cold. Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a Burmese refugee. He had been reported missing by his family and then found dead after a five-day search.

The phenomenon of Democrats like Gavin Newsom, Graham Platner, and Raja Krishnamoorthi flirting with MAGA is only going to intensify once Trump is gone. These bridges are relatively marginal now but they will become very dangerous very quickly.

For the first time in Gallup history —

More Americans sympathize with Palestinians in the “Middle East Situation” than with Israelis.

41% Palestinians (+8)
36% Israelis (-10)

Democrats: Palestinians +48
Independents: Palestinians +11
Ages 18-34: Palestinians +30
Ages 35-54: Palestinians +18

Gavin Newsom sweating like old dynamite watching Labour's 'transphobia & bigotry' strategy eat shit tonight lol

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

What a rare breath of deliciously fresh air. Congratulations Hannah, Zack, everyone involved in defeating Reform's naked xenophobic authoritarianism with authentic humanist hope, not with Starmer's authoritarianism-lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues.

Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

y’all should be nicemaxxing

Seismic

Holy shit

UK politics is upside down.

The Greens just won a special election for a longtime Labour seat. Labour fell to third, behind Reform. www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

Gorton and Denton by-election result

Grn 40.7% (+27 vs 2024)
Ref 28.7% (+15)
Lab 25.4% (-25)
Con 1.9% (-6)
LD 1.8% (-2)

Labour's 38th safest seat in 2024

The 1933 nazis didn't label trans people "not culturally normal🤡" They labeled trans people "not socially normal." asocial, or in German, "asozial."

People considered "Asozial" were driven from public life, and imprisoned and sent to concentration camps if they resisted forced gender conversion.

Yup.

In the nazis' own writing, both the 1936 and the 2026 kinds, they admit that Hitler based his fascism and antisemitic Nuremberg laws, on Jim Crow laws. But how do you get a nation ready to ignore atrocities to 2% of the population?

Start with a 1% group

Have them declared "socially abnormal"