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Van Badham

@vanbadham.bsky.social

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Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.

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@vanbadham.bsky.socialAug 5, 2026, 8:27 AM Pinned

Latest episode of our podcast The Week on Wednesday is a discussion with UK Labour activist and (unicorn) Labour gain in the recent UK council elections, Peter Marshall - about the terrifying parallels about what’s going there and in Australia. #auspol

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

@flyingrodent.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:50 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.

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@mayor.nyc.govOct 8, 2026, 11:10 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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@lucyham.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 5:02 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Is Crisafulli Gov stacking Qld bodies with Atlas Network figures? Jack McGuire works with Haycroft (Australian Institute for Progress AiP director) to scupper unions. James Power (ultracon Catholic) IPA board placed on Qld edu board…

@schooley.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:54 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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@vanbadham.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:09 AM

Here’s a question: how does everyone feel about P-Hans’ being “bloody good friends” with a Neo-Nazi?

#auspol

@gregsargent.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 10:55 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

SAsawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:51 PM

NEW via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/de-trumpif...

zeteo.com‘De-Trumpification’: America’s Ruler Is ‘Consumed’ by Fear His Self-Tributes Will Be ErasedAs Dems flirt with tearing it all down, Donald Trump is forcing administration officials to brainstorm novel legal arguments for institutionalizing his personality cult forever.
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@gregpak.netOct 4, 2026, 8:30 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Huge news! @comixaction.com & @handsoffnyc.bsky.social are throwing a NO KINGS COMIC-CON on Thursday, 10/15 to kick off the NK VOTE EARLY campaign! Awesome comics & pop culture guests! FREE! ONLINE! You don't wanna miss it! RSVP now! I'll be there - see ya soon!

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

@vanbadham.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:54 AM

Please sign and share this important petition to protect the right to abortion in Victoria: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pr...

@qldaah.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:22 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

News Corp used 6 of its own cadets in the anti-Labor "Home Front", taxation changes propaganda campaign. It advertises cadetships that pay $65k. News Australia Holdings, pays no corporate income tax. #auspol www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

@ninajankowicz.comOct 1, 2026, 1:20 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

My thoughts about the UK's new National Centre for Information Defence. I think it can survive the 'censorship' backlash; UK discourse isn't as infected by conspiratorial brain rot (yet). But it's incumbent on the Burnham gov to fill the info void.

www.thewayfinder.net/p/the-uk-get...

@qldaah.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:12 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Adani owes Queenslanders millions in royalties from the Carmichael coalmine. Premier David Crisafulli let them off the hook in Aug 2025 by abandoning the court case initiated in 2023. Adani donated thousands to the LNP prior to the Qld election. #qldpol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

@pollytics.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:44 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Because the Greens aren't the government and don't have demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating government policy. If we go down this route, we end up like Israel - where small parties dominate government policy and direction. Doesn't that work well eh. Time to grow up..

@saints-dragons.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:49 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Yep! What Van said!

@sherrodbrownoh.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 12:00 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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@atrupar.comSep 29, 2026, 1:24 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Enten unpacks how Trump has lost 27 points of net approval among white non-college voters over the last two years, and in fact now is "at the lowest of any previous Republican president at this point in his second term among white non-college voters"

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@erincook.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 11:27 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

The increasing collabs between Southeast Asia's governments in enforcing each other's authoritarian streaks looks like it may be coming home for Australians. One to watch here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@billfjquinn.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 12:09 PMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

And Angus Taylor has the gall to say that it's all the government's fault.

Which only goes to prove:

a) he thinks LNP supporters are complete and utter fucking morons, and

b) he's probably right.

#auspol

@kpellegr.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 11:57 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

Het is niet "AI hackt", alsof dat een passief ding is... OpenAI moet hier voor hun verantwoordelijkheid gesteld worden...

@vanbadham.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 8:36 AM

UOW is my alma mater and it destroys me to see what’s been happening there. In the 1990s, it was a young, ambitious institution that embraced a creative, lateral, inclusive and adaptable vision of education. It was on the up and up. All it took was one Tory VC to send it down and down. What a waste.

@news.abc.net.auSep 29, 2026, 6:23 AMReposted by @vanbadham.bsky.social

UOW labelled 'poster child' for governance failures as Labor MP pushes for reform

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