Paul Beecher

X with a hat on top, if you can picture the Roman numeral that marks this moment. Do Twitter users say "the magic ten thousand"? I don't know whether to feel pride or shame. time.com/3597351/aidy-b…

You’ll recall that any suggestion the press engage in highly political hate campaigns intended to damage people they don’t like is completely insane, tinfoil hat derangement, and often extremely racist.

Ireland should have a population of 30 million today. The island has fewer people now than 200 years ago! The only remotely similar national demographic event in modern European history is Poland before & after WW2. Yet we barely think about it in Britain.

From the way people speak about the French Revolution, you'd be forgiven for believing that it was a uniquely bloody and violent event. It was not. Around 30,000 people were killed over 2 years - in 1798, the British would kill 50,000 in Ireland in under 6 months

You really had to be there for the lunacy

This week Doctors Without Borders shared analysis on the impact of Israel’s DELIBERATE blocking of aid to Gaza. I can’t find a single headline in Western media. How is further proof of genocide—that is still ongoing—not newsworthy?

The vast majority of the world views America's war in Iraq as a major failure. It destabilized the region, spread radicalism, and gave birth to ISIS. But when John Bolton casts it as a success, he is not lying. He just has a different metric of success. It achieved the key thing Bolton and his ilk aimed for: Iraq was eliminated from the regional chessboard as a major player that could project power and challenge the US or Israel. We see evidence of that today, as Israel built a secret base in Iraq during the Iran war to attack Iran. That is, 20 years later, the Iraq war has still left Iraq in such a weak state that Israel can willy-nilly set up secret bases on its territory to attack other countries. It was never about human rights or democracy. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Sanctions are not an alternative to war; they are an even more deadly form of unconventional warfare. Western sanctions killed roughly 38 million people over 50 years. The US government has imposed sanctions on approximately one-third of the countries on Earth, including more than 60% of low-income nations, according to a 2024 report in the Washington Post. A peer-reviewed academic article published in 2025 in the leading medical journal The Lancet concluded “that sanctions do kill: economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths … annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths)”. geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/05/09/tru…

AOC refused to vote for my amendment to strip funding for Israel. She can run her mouth all she wants but votes are the only thing that matters, not a bunch of words and nasty name calling.

Hi Dave. I am a gay kid who went to gaza. Went for 9 weeks to do humanitarian work in 2025 with a medical organization. My life was threatened by Israeli bombs. Gazans knew I was gay. You’re full of shit. Cc: @mattxiv

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

In what kind of f*cking world is this considered “luxurious”? This is pure devilish journalism

So if they're using Aliens to distract us from the Epstein Files, is this technically Alien vs. Predator? 🤔 

Update: the 12 year old girl I mentioned in this story who was hunted down by an Israeli drone has died from her injuries.

Israeli drone chased and struck a man on a scooter with his 12 year old daughter, killing the father. The little girl ran, wounded, ran and was hunted by the drone and struck again. She has succumbed to her wounds.

When the USA invaded South East Asia the region became the largest heroin producer on earth. When the USA invaded Afghanistan it became the largest heroin producer on Earth. Probably a coincidence.

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic. sltrib.com/news/environme…

AOC will not team up with MTG to sanction Israel because of identity politics But she teamed up with Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to call for more sanctions on China

AOC is right that there are important differences between her and @mtgreenee: 1) AOC emphatically condemns policies only when Trump and the GOP do them, gets muted and deferential when Dems do. By contrast, MTG criticizes policies with equal fervor regardless of which party does them. 2) MTG condemns GOP leaders when they betray their purported values, even risking her political career to do so. By contrast, AOC lies to protect Dems who betray their supposed values (Kamala "is working tirelessly for a ceasefire" in Gaza!), and has supreme devotion to partisan advancement and self-interest above all. 3) MTG introduced a bill to cut all US financing of Israel's military. AOC voted NO, arguing Americans should pay for Israel's "defensive weapons." Big substantive difference. 4) MTG scorns the AIPAC/ADL tactic of accusing Israel critics of being racist and "anti-Semitic." AOC embraces and fortifies that accusatory smear campaign to justify why only liberal critics like her are compassionate and legitimate and everyone else is just racist. 5) MTG only cares about results and outcomes, and will thus work with anyone (left or right) to stop a policy she considers evil and wrong. AOC only cares about posturing and her political branding -- not outcomes -- and will thus reject the opportunity to form majorities to stop stop some policy evil if it means admitting that not only Dems have good ideas and can be good people. AOC is the embodiment of privilege: having no real urgency about stopping things that don't personally affect her (like Israeli wars and US financing of them). That's why she has harsher words for GOP critics of Israel than she does for Dem supporters of Israel. This, and more, is why MTG was pushed out of her own party, while AOC has fully morphed into Nancy Pelosi Jr. and is one of the Democratic Party's most valuable partisan tools, and why she's beloved by Dems as such.

Bloomberg: “The world has burned through oilinventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from the Persian Gulf… The rapidly shrinking stockpiles mean that the risk of even more extreme price spikes and shortages is getting ever-closer, leaving governments and industries with fewer options to cushion the impact of the loss of more than a billion barrels of supply, two months into the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz.” #economy #oil #markets #middleeastwar

MTG sacrificed her political career to stand against genocide, against Trump, against the Epstein Class, and to defend the survivors of Epstein’s trafficking. If that doesn’t earn credibility I don’t know what possibly could.