Van Badham

Jesus is 22. Shot in the eye with a pepper-ball while standing nearby. Not protesting. Just existing. Congress is voting to fund weapons that blind people instead of healthcare that heals them. This is the choice on the floor today. #FundHealthcareOverICE

@hehimta on twitter quote tweet update: jk rowling has somehow (despite maritime law) wiped over a decade of port logs/etc, her boat is completely delisted. strange behaviour. @hehimta on twitter oh tweet BREAKING A just watched in realtime as jk rowling's superyacht samsara was completely removed from marinetraffic and other services, not just AIS off; the entire vessel...

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara.

What is she hiding?

@jk_rowling · Feb 2 This is beyond silly. Neither I, nor anybody on my team, ever met, communicated with or invited Jeffrey Epstein to anything. https://x.com/girlslasttourr/girlslasttourrr/status/2018093016548778327

Justice.gov Epstein Files official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play invite to Jeffrey Epstein

Peggy Siegal Company: "Hi just liet us know where you like to send the tickets. Rhys Kimmitt "the tickets are on their way to Peggy's office. Please deal with Lila to arrange pickup" CC Jeffrey Epstein "Rhys please deal with Jeffrey Epstein's assistant [redacted] She will send a messenger to pick up his two dinner tickets. Thanks so much! xoxo Peggy"

To Jeffrey Epstein Ryhs Kimmitt Marisa Frank and Lila Walker from Peggy "To whom this may concern Rhys...what was not clear?" "I was very explicit with my staff and you about TWO tickets for the DINNER for Jeffrey Epstein. What genius filled the ticket order? Why wasn't his name on the DINNER list at the door? What genius thought my friend would not have a plus one when we ordered TWO tickets. What robot at the door would not let him in? This has ruined what was a perfect everning for all of us. I am incredibly emarabassed by the rigid behavior of some child minded door guard. Jeffrey is a captain of international finance and a close personal friend of mine. I know this was not done on purpose but it still is terribly upsetting. Please find out who did this and send an apology note. Thank you so much. Peggy. Jeffrey...of all nights, I left my two phones home, I was actually looking for you all night, I was with Soon-Yi and she thought you were having dinner with her husband. I am so very sorry. What a screw up.

JK Rowling has not tweeted since openly denying that her team invited the world's most notorious child rapist to a kid's play despite evidence directly disproving her claims

Exclusive: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent After Elon Musk’s social media company X announced new curbs on Grok’s public output, Reuters reporters gave it a series of prompts to determine whether and under what circumstances the chatbot would ...

Meanwhile, according to Reuters, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even explicitly warned that the subjects don’t consent. www.reuters.com/business/des...

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit raids X’s French office The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office on Tuesday launched a search of the French offices of social media platform X. The raid was connected to an ongoing investigation launched in January…

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk's X as part of an ongoing investigation of algorithm manipulation and illicit data extraction that has expanded into alleged complicity in spreading child sex abuse materials and sexualizing deepfakes. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Q: What’s the difference between a suicide bomber and the National Party?
A: Suicide bomber only blows the joint up once.

So, can Fox/the GOP explain how they are protecting the innocence of children while they’re fine with a whole bunch of married dads party on with a convicted sex offender?

2024: Sullying children's innocence with The Bluest Eye will be met with the fullest powers of the government

2026:

Epstein files reveal Peter Mandelson supported campaign to undermine then-Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s mining super profits tax Former UK Labour minister wrote ‘pressure needs to be maintained’ against Australian Labor’s proposed tax in email sent two weeks before Rudd was replaced as PM

Peter Mandelson – sacked last year as the UK’s ambassador to the US over his Epstein links – supported a campaign to undermine then-Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s proposed mining super profits tax in 2010, a document in the Epstein files reveals.

I love it here.

From: Martin Zeman Sent: 9/25/2017 8:2111/ To: Paul Barre CC: Vahe Stepanian Xavier Avila ; Stewart Oldfield Joshua Shosha j; Davide-A Sferrazza [davideSubject: Global Macro + FX Blueprint with Trade Ideas Attached [C) Classification: Confidential Good morning, Paul, This weekend saw elections in Germany (Merkel kind of won) and New Zealand (also a Pyrrhic victory). We have Macron coming back to the forefront of the news cycle and the never-ending Brexit drama. We'd like to highlight the FX Blueprint just out this weekend with the main themes we see in the markets for the year end. Here are a few ideas on the back of the research piece: Theme 1+8: Buy a 15Dec AUDUSD 1% OTMS Put USDCAD 1% OTMS Put Dual for 8.6% Vanilla Digitals offered at 42% and 41.5% so zero corr offer of 17.4% (this means that if correlation was zero between AUDUSD and USDCAD, the offer would be 17.4% instead of 8.6%) Theme 1+9: Buy a 15Dec USDJPY 1% OTMS Call USDTRY 1% OTMS Put Dual for 9.3% Vanilla Digitals offered at 29.5% and 42.5% so zero corr offer of 12.55% Theme 3: Buy a 20Dec USDJPY 115 Dig Call with USDCNH 6.70 KO for 9.25% Spot 112.20 / 6.6050 Theme 4: Buy a 15Dec EURCHF 1.5% OTMS Call EURSEK 1.5% OTMS Put Dual for 7.9% Vanilla Digis offered at 33.5% and 32% so zero corr offer of 10.7% Macro Summary: 1. Politics dominate headlines and are driving price action this morning as we got the German and New Zealand election outcomes over the weekend, which both came in largely as expected. Angela Merkel saw a disappointing yet still overwhelming victory in yesterday's German election, which has her set for a fourth term as Chancellor. Merkel's CDU/SCU polled 33% (37% in final polls on Friday) against the SPD's 20.5% (22% in final polls). Combined these two parties saw their lowest share of the vote since World War II (since 1949 for Merkel's party). The AfD (Alternatives for Germany) came third with 12.6% of votes (11% expected on Friday) and will now be the first far right party in the Bunde…

Full Recap 2. In New Zealand, the National Party won the most votes but not enough to form a government. The final outcome now rests with NZ First leader Winston Peters who could support either side. While the most likely outcome remains a national/NZ first coalition the uncertainty around the upcoming coalition negotiations has weighed on the currency (-.7%). Volumes were lighter than what the price action suggests, however we have seen some unwinding of NZDUSD downside structures. Important dates to watch from here are October 7 (deadline for counting special votes —which will make up about 15% of the total) and October 12 — Writ day which formalizes the government's makeup. CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0093023 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00239207 EFTA01388

Couldn't help myself and searched for some NZ politicians in the Epstein files. Winston Peters is mentioned in passing, regarding the 2017 election.

Given the Epstein file revelations that Steve Bannon was familiar with Clive Palmer & claimed to be politically advising him, here’s me on FB in 2019 discussing the #auspol “death tax” hoax pushed by Palmer and its AMAZING SIMILARITIES to campaigns run for Trump: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DVU...

And here is me writing about Clive Palmer’s data-harvesting “game” back in 2019, after the “death tax” hoax and do you know who else pioneered backdoor data harvesting as an electoral tactic? Why, Steve Bannon! What an AMAZING coincidence, #auspol!

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Bill Shorten questions ‘forces at play’ after Steve Bannon’s claim he helped Clive Palmer, damaging Labor’s 2019 election chances Former opposition leader says Bannon’s purported claim, which Palmer has denied, would be a ‘badge of honour’ for him

The United States far right interfered in the 2019 election

Just as @vanbadham.bsky.social & I suggested during our podcasts

There were ads about “death taxes” taken from Bannon run Florida campaigns that only had the party or candidate names changed

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Clive Palmer denies Steve Bannon’s claim he was behind billionaire’s controversial 2019 Australian election ad strategy Bannon’s claim revealed in text messages in tranche of documents released by US authorities in connection with Jeffrey Epstein

So it was just a MASSIVE coincidence that the made up claims about a “death tax” that mysteriously appeared around the #auspol 2019 election JUST HAPPENED to use the exact same figures and techniques as made up “death tax” campaigns Bannon ran in the US? Crazy!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Trumpist gamble is that if they can get away with “palling around with child rapists is acceptable” they can get away with literally everything with the people who swallow it. MAGA will be offering their own children for Moloch to mutilate and devour in no time.

You know, maybe the mob is right when it comes to employing guys who pal around with sex offenders?

She's just an awful human being

I don't think people realize just how insane all these connections are I randomly clicked on a PDF and saw a chat between Epstein and Bannon talking about how Bolsonaro and Maduro were influencing Trump to ramp up his rhetoric and then discussed the Wall in Texas. Like this guy shaped so much policy

if you are in MN and hear of anyone in need of a flight home from detention please send them my way (contact@standwithminnesota.com)

Some local activists cautioned against overinterpreting Wambsganss’ loss as a national political signal, arguing instead that it reflected distinctly local fallout from her role in contentious school board fights that reshaped public education politics in North Texas. In 2020, Wambsganss co-founded Southlake Families PAC to back school board candidates who pledged to root out critical race theory, which centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions, and what they described as “woke” diversity initiatives in local schools. She later expanded that work as director of Patriot Mobile Action, the political arm of a right-wing Christian cellphone company, which poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into school board races across the region, helping elect slates of anti-DEI Republicans. Wambsganss’ campaign to put “God back in schools” helped elevate her to national prominence, with frequent appearances on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and other conservative media. But in more recent elections, opponents say, the policies she championed — including aggressive curriculum battles, book bans and public funding for private Christian schools — triggered resistance not just from Democrats, but also from independent and Republican parents who said the fights sowed division and instability in high-achieving suburban school systems. Laney Hawes, a parent of four in one of those districts and a co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, said many in Tarrant County had come to see Wambsganss as “the villain of public education.” While Hawes said she was energized by the outcome, she warned that the result was being read too broadly outside the region. “This win was about parents’ coming together from every notch on the political spectrum and trying to protect our children and our community,” Hawes said. “Even Republicans and moderates were pissed off at her.”

Some important context for anyone writing about that Texas special election shocker

DoJ Makes Appalling Mistakes in Release of New Epstein Files The government included nude photos and failed to redact the names of some victims in its latest document drop.

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Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You mean the same people who lie to us about what we see ICE doing on video with our own eyes *also* lie to ICE employees about how they're going to be rewarded for murdering innocent citizens and sending little kids to death camps? Inconceivable!

It's Trump's regime. These are federal crimes.

I wonder what we expected with the release of these Epstein files?

Has the wrecking ball started leveling Kennedy Center yet?

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

I know this is a weird take, but Trump is on the way out, physically and mentally, and I think the spell is broken when that happens.

Trump's kids may not have been the primary driver behind his crimes, but I'd be more than happy to see them asset-stripped back to nothing.

It's kind of funny for Trump to slam Massie as a "radical left flamethrower" when Massie's been the "Abolish the Department of Education!" guy in the GOP years before the rest of the party followed.