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🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Chuck Hamilton (he/him/his) 🏴‍☠️🍸
@natty4bumpo.bsky.social
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Activist, researcher, worker communist, queer (pan), atheist, antifa #TeamFreeWill

I post a lot of news, and have since 2009 (starting w/ Iran's Green Movement), first on Facebook (till summer 2020), then on Twitter (until week of Nov 10, '24), now here.
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🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Chuck Hamilton (he/him/his) 🏴‍☠️🍸 @natty4bumpo.bsky.social · Aug 6
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Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges
More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs were recorded in hedgerows near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline
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January 30, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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First female archbishop of Canterbury vows to call out misogyny
Sarah Mullally confirmed as 106th person to take up post as some African church leaders express dismay at appointment
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January 30, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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The Guardian view on the new archbishop of Canterbury: how to heal a divided church and nation? | Editorial
Editorial: The worrying rise of Christian nationalism should be top of a crowded in-tray for Sarah Mullally as she takes up her role
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January 30, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Sarah Mullally confirmed as first female archbishop of Canterbury – video
Sarah Mullally was officially confirmed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England and the 106th person to assume the role
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January 30, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Archbishop of York cleared of misconduct over handling of sexual abuse case
Stephen Cottrell was criticised for renewing contract of David Tudor, despite being aware of his past abuse
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January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade
In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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‘The LED of heating’: cheap geothermal energy system makes US comeback
Minnesota housing project to draw energy from water stored deep underground, 45 years on from city’s initial research
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January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Weather tracker: Winter storms cause death and outages across eastern north America
Millions told to stay home in US and more than a million are left without power, while Australia faces record heatwave
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January 30, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Minneapolis mayor warns others to ‘speak up’ against Trump or ‘your city is next’
Jacob Frey accused the Trump administration of pursuing a ‘might is right’ policy and staging an ‘invasion’ of his city
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January 30, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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ICE ends surge in Maine as border czar pledges to keep operation in Minnesota
Tom Homan acknowledges immigration enforcement needs ‘certain improvements’, without offering any details
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January 30, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department
Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened efforts
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January 30, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Trump pardon already in the works, no doubt.

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Justice department charges man accused of attacking Ilhan Omar at town hall
Anthony Kazmierczak faces federal assault charges after he appeared to spray the congresswoman with liquid from a syringe
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January 30, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Critics aghast as White House displays framed photo of Trump with Putin
Lawmaker from Estonia says photo celebrates ‘the greatest war criminal of the 21st century’
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January 30, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Venezuela approves bill to open oil sector to foreign investment after US pressure
Law will give private companies more control but experts unsure whether changes go far enough for US
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January 30, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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A takeover which Biden and his ilk paved the way for.

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What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship | Paolo Gerbaudo
It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm, says academic Paolo Gerbaudo
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January 30, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka
In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Countries supplying oil to Cuba threatened with US tariffs
Trump signs executive order ramping up pressure on Havana's oil supplies in wake of US abduction of Venezuela's Maduro.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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UNRWA staff cuts deepen in Gaza as Israel restricts critical aid access
Forced austerity: 600 staff laid off, Gaza salaries cut 20%, aid access blocked amid worsening humanitarian crisis.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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‘No one power’ can solve global problems, says UN chief as US veers away
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres appears to point at Trump as critics say his 'Board of Peace' aims to replace UN.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Lawsuit was brought before court in 2025 as US threatened to seize control of strategic waterway – Trump’s first step under plan to reassert hegemony over Western hemisphere.

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Panama court rules Chinese control of canal ports unconstitutional
Lawsuit was brought before court in 2025 as US threatened to seize control of strategic waterway.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Kurdish-led SDF agrees integration with Syrian government forces
Agreement comes after SDF lost control of swaths of territory amid offensive by government forces.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Chronicle of a mass kidnapping: The day Nigeria’s Kurmin Wali changed
After gunmen abducted a quarter of the people in a village in Kaduna State, many who remain are now leaving for good.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Are Trump officials driving Alberta’s separatist movement in Canada?
Alberta separatists seek funding from the Trump administration after three reported meetings.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Amedspor football club in Turkiye fined for pro-Kurdish ‘propaganda’
Turkish Football Federation fines second-tier title favourites Amedspor and suspends president for social media video.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Italian court opens trial over deadly migrant shipwreck
Police, coastguard officials accused of involuntary manslaughter; case shines light on policies of far-right government.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:23 PM