Ben Davison

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Trump’s Republicans expect air traffic controllers to work for free while they keep the government shut down

Air traffic controllers were already working excessive overtime, under staffed & struggle to get people to stay in the job

Seems dangerous to me…

If your company CEO is this politically naive then I hate to think how bad your products and service would be…another executive who needs proper board intervention

I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Shocked to learn that the screaming man waving a chainsaw who promised to smash the very government he wanted to be President over is having an economic crisis & that the orange coloured man who shut down the government he presides over is bailing him out.

Shocked.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Labor retains big lead in Newspoll and all other federal polls

The latest federal opinion polling has put Labor clearly ahead of the struggling Liberals. Support for One Nation is stronger than for the Greens in some results.

In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate | Van Badham Could courage be contagious? Let’s hope so, because in the absence of powerful regulation, the normalisation of awful blooms A man who posted non-consensual, pornified “deepfake” images of Australian women has been ordered to pay $343,500 in civil penalties for doing so by a federal court. Everyone, everywhere, should be thrilled by this decision. What Anthony Rotondo did by uploading these images was perpetrate “image-based abuse” against his victims. It’s a wanton, wilful act of cruelty intended to harm and humiliate its targets, and it is against Australian law. Continue reading...

In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate | Van Badham

FDR. Elected four times.

Proudly ANTIFA since at least 1933….

Australia news live: Labor sets new climate target to cut emissions between 62% and 70% on 2005 levels by 2035, sources say Follow live

Australia will aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions between 62% and 70% on 2005 levels by 2035 - press conference about to start - live updates here

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

For those playing along The USA is now at the Horst Wessel stage of rising fascism:
Autocratic regime is behind in polls
Institutions caving to financial threats
Idolatry of grifters
“Us” and “them” shifts to regime loyalists vs pro-democracy
Corporations start to suffer despite pledges of loyalty

This
"One fact we can all be sure of, however, is that whether the suspect was a groyper, a groupie, left, right, or a self-conceived banana person, a murder was committed because - in America - a kid disturbed enough to *fucking kill someone* faced no restrictions to obtaining a gun." Van Badham

Van Badham:
Australians, stick it on your fridge, give thanks every day.
This is why Australia will never have a Trump. While there is a trace of infectious MAGA-style extremism, as there is everywhere, it can never dominate. (Add in a strong union movement and The Labor Party). #democracyvaccine

Facebook post text - I received an honest question from an American reader: "Why do (Australians) care about the domestic politics of the USA?"; this is my answer: "We care because 521 of our sons died in Vietnam, following the US to war as your loyal ally - just as we followed in Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq (twice). "We care because the US has military bases on our soil that are nuclear targets. "We care because our retirement funds are heavily invested in American companies. "We care because America has set the terms of international trade that we, as a smaller power, have been obliged to heed. "We care because the United States communicates in English, and we mostly consume our news in English, and engage social media platforms in English, and watch movies and TV and read books in English, and get exposed to English-language propaganda. "We care because Americans built the internet as an expression of American values - and to be capable of retaining our own cultural sovereignty, it is crucial for us to interrogate those values... and consider where they may lead."

To Americans wondering why Australians and other Anglophone nations feel the need to comment on your domestic politics @vanbadham.bsky.social had a nice succinct post that covers it.

If you’re in “financial stress” don’t buy guns. Don’t “subscribe” to Twitter. Don’t speed. When you’re caught speeding pay the fine in instalments
Don’t wrack up more court costs by representing yourself against a valid charge. There’s so many other, better, ways to change than blaming everyone else

Relatives to thrive on a single income have been torn down and because they are “punch down” not up types of they blame people who look, sound & pray different to them while handing over their money, time & brains to grifters (including some billionaires) who feed them a high fructose diet of BS

Let’s remember that the VAST majority of Cookers, here and overseas, are not from the most disadvantaged demographics, they usually have had or been offered steady well paid work & they are often property owners. They are disgruntled because the systemic advantages that allowed their, often moronic,

If your the kind of person who wants to get out of a speeding fine using internet tips instead of calling the number to work out a payment plan you’re a problematic person for society
You place your own ego above justice & your own “wealth” above proper social services.

“Financial stress” and “frustration” are present in everyone’s life.
Cookers create financial stress for themselves and other people because, for the most part, they are less financially successful than others in their family. Even relatively well off cookers are usually less so than their parents.

Saturday, SEP 6th, 12pm--10:30pm Sovereign Day Out Camp Sovereignty Naarm (Kings Domain, Melbourne) Always was, always will be Aboriginal land The day will comprise of live music, workshops, stalls, food, speakers, dance performances ... An attack on one of us is an attack on us all Free family event (donations welcome) No alcohol or drugs

Following the nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty, this Sat SEP 6 there's a community gathering w live music, workshops, stalls, food, speakers, dance performances ...

Always was, always will be / An attack on one of us is an attack on us all
Free family event (donations welcome) / No alcohol or drugs

Shooting police & kidnapping judges isn’t free speech. It’s anti democratic terrorism.

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I did an interview about “Sovereign Citizens” on ABC Riverina last week and people complained that I “went too far”. Friends, given the alleged circumstances of events in Porepunkah today, I don’t think I went far enough. Interview starts at 3:06 - www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

“Sovereign Citizens” are dangerous to democracy & physically dangerous to citizens in democratic nations

Giving their conspiracies a platform to wrap their delusions in a false equivalence to free speech is disgraceful

The Americanisation of Australia must end before more Aussies needlessly suffer

The idea of inflicting a 90s summer on children makes me anxious. Mainly because I was there | Van Badham It’s easy to see why some on TikTok are yearning for this kind of nostalgia. But as someone who lived through it, here’s why that’s a bad idea A recent piece in US publication the Cut has picked up on a curious sentiment seen floating around TikTok; public yearning to recreate a “90s summer”. One can see the temptation of nostalgia for Americans, given the present they’re trapped in – and, perhaps, the El Salvadoran gulag they’re trapped in – is hardly so rosy. But as bombers fly over Tehran and their out-of-his-depth president handles a fragile situation by swearing at Benjamin Netanyahu on TV, it’s worth asking if the promptings of nostalgia may be what got us all into this mess in the first place. Continue reading...

The idea of inflicting a 90s summer on children makes me anxious. Mainly because I was there | Van Badham

Parts of Australia are suffering another devastating drought, but you wouldn’t know it in the cities | Van Badham It’s not so much that rural and metro communities hold different opinions about climate change but rather they are holding completely different conversations • Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here We got some rain in rural Victoria over the weekend, and that’s headline-worthy news. There’s been a record-breaking drought that’s been afflicting the states of Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and parts of New South Wales for over a year, but depending where you live – and how you get your news – you may not know much about it. Van Badham is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

Parts of Australia are suffering another devastating drought, but you wouldn’t know it in the cities | Van Badham

If you're in Melbourne this show by Badham and McCartney is the one to see!

Van Badham QVWC SHOP! is a curated marketplace by the Queen Victoria Women's Centre, showcasing locally sourced products by some of Victoria's finest women & non-binary artists, designers & makers. QVWC SHOP! st...

Hello! In case you are around Melbourne’s QV building this week (hint, to see my art exhibition Girl Masters: Badham/McCartney), I have set miniatures for sale in the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre SHOP! And YES!!! You *can* buy online! —> shop.qvwc.org.au/collections/...

Our obsession with spoiling pets has gone too far: your dog doesn’t care if its collar is from Burberry | Van Badham From luxury pet-friendly accommodation to chartering a private plane for your pooch, the indulgences of late-stage capitalism are extreme

Our obsession with spoiling pets has gone too far: your dog doesn’t care if its collar is from Burberry | Van Badham

We should tax billionaires the same way they become “billionaires”

By taxing the unrealised gains that make up their vast “wealth”

If you can use it for leverage to borrow more & become mega rich then we can tax it to redistribute resources where they are needed

Unless you’re already a billionaire, supporting public policy ideas from billionaires will not make you a billionaire.

It’ll just keep you poor & billionaires rich.

You think Musk, Bezos, Murdoch & Gina are engaged in policy issues for the benefit of others?
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