Van Badham
@vanbadham
Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
Me and @leigh-chantelle.bsky.social the EV Queen being dags at the back of the room at Something Digital Brisbane 2026. Thank fuck she’s here or i would totally be in the wrong room. #SD26
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...
I believe it is relevant to the discussion that all these dudes are unfuckable monsters.
I recorded a punk single with Brisbane band The Dog Trackers and it’s about a night in Japan that my life went completely to shit. It is $20 on vinyl, get in. bit.ly/4bHAmL1
If Agent Orange here had ever attended university, she’d may have gained the experience of a) HELPING other students to learn English and b) learning HOW to learn a language, which helps *them* later on. This is in addition to powerful cultural relationships formed (Meme: @tomredmemes.bsky.social)
Last episode of our podcast The Week on Wednesday, in which Emma Dawson from Chifley Research and I go holus bolus on the “economic policy” of a political party that thinks one is a 9 minute video, not even joking, #auspol: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
By popular demand, we absolutely DID do an episode of The Week on Wednesday about this week at the National Press Club: Listen here on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4SGJ...
Some personal news: somehow, I am releasing a punk EP called “Sendai Gold” with Aboriginal-fronted, PROUDLY MULTICULTURAL Brisbane punk rock / boss reggae band, The Dog Trackers. It’s being released by Splurt records on gorgeous vinyl, stay very tuned for Brisbane and maybe even Melbourne launch…
Credit where it’s due: this slogan came from a commenter on a previous post. It was too good not to give the full graphic treatment and release into the world.
It’s why punishment must come. It must come hard, with pain, and humiliation, and loss. We must break him before all humanity, as a warning, as a lesson, as a moral for the world.
I am past the point of “suspecting” that leftists insisting that Democrats are somehow do-nothing-cowards when AGAIN AND AGAIN you have Dems like Andy Kim on the pickets, at the protests, being gassed, assaulted and arrested: I CONVINCED anyone running Dems down is a weaponised moron for Trumpism.
In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.
You know how Trump could escape the allegation that he was barred from entering the Bahamas because he’s a sex offender? By releasing the full, unredacted Epstein files and clearing his name. He could not that right now.
Omg, you guys! The Bosses’ Pamphlet hates the Budget SO IT MUST BE GREAT! #auspol
This image REALLY WAS posted from Trump’s “Truth Social” account and, fortunately, the bible itself reminds everyone that when a “man of lawlessness” drunk on earthly power declares himself a god, he is defeated by the combined force of everyone who sticks with the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2, nerds.
To everyone who is heralding the AMAZING victory over Orban in Hungary tonight; dare Magyar ever start to backslide into Orbanism, I made this handy tool to predict his fate: it maps the fascist collapse of Orban’s FACE onto Magyar’s, as a warning. Good luck, beautiful DEMOCRATIC, EUROPEAN Hungary.
This is an extraordinarily cut-through comment in the wake of the BRS charges that appeared on my Facebook page and I urge every Australian to read it. #auspol
I particularly love this pissed off blonde woman in linen slacks. If she is hitting the streets, Trumpism is toast.