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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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US regulators ‘taking seriously’ allegations of bankers’ support for Epstein
Exclusive: It follows calls from US senator Elizabeth Warren to investigate bank executives including ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley
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November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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How the Hong Kong fire unfolded – visual guide
Fire in densely packed group of 31-storey tower blocks that is home to thousands quickly spread via bamboo scaffolding
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November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years
Some think leader John Lee’s focus on blaming bamboo scaffolding deflects from actual cause
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November 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128
Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people still missing, according to officials
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November 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The Rot by Evelyn Araluen review – headlong language and bitter truths imbued with tenderness
Award-winning poet offers seductive beauty, deadly analyses, desolations and joys in the follow-up to her acclaimed debut Dropbear
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November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prisoners spending entire jail term in police cells as Victoria’s justice system buckles
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
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November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Police can now search anyone without a warrant in inner Melbourne. How? – video
Guardian Australia's Victorian state correspondent Benita Kolovos explains the new powers being used by the police chief commissioner for the first time
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November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
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November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Australia’s ‘protestival’: kayaks, music, a push for climate change action – and the risk of arrest
Fossil fuel protesters are making their annual pilgrimage to the NSW city of Newcastle to draw attention to climate policy failure. Police will be there too, with a ‘zero tolerance approach’
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November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Florida professor may have solved mystery of Peru’s Band of Holes
Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system
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November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Amid ‘instability and fear’ in Trump’s economy, Americans are cutting holiday spending
In addition to rising prices and tariffs, readers cite growing unemployment as a reason not to exchange gifts this year
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November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
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November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
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November 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row
US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
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November 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#GoodChristianPeople

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Alabama priest leaves clergy after woman alleges ‘private companionship’ beginning when she was 17
Robert Sullivan’s self-imposed removal comes after accusations he provided financial support in exchange for arrangement which included sex
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November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Belfast youth football coach expelled after posting cocaine prices on league group chat
List detailed times and costs for ‘proper pure bags’ and specified cash payment
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November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
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November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Prior to 1998, when they were instituted by the Labour government of Tony the Poodle Blair, UK colleges and unis charged no tuition. There are more thing to hate him for than the Iraq War.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Freeze on student loan repayment threshold could leave graduates struggling, NUS warns
Graduates in relatively low-paid jobs earning close to minimum wage will have to repay ‘more, much sooner’
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November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge
Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle
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November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Girl, 12, killed herself after medical staff failed to spot brain disorder, inquest finds
Mia Lucas, who died in Sheffield after being sectioned, had undiagnosed condition causing ‘acute psychosis’
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November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Victorian man jailed after homemade gun misfires and kills his pregnant partner
Kiara Ferguson died following confrontation with Adam Winmar over weapon found by their daughter, four, in 2023
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November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Police sergeant found guilty of causing death of 16-year-old Indigenous teenager Jai Wright
Benedict Bryant convicted of dangerous driving occasioning death after placing police car in path of 16-year-old’s trail bike in Sydney in 2022
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November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Canada minister resigns from cabinet over Carney’s controversial oil pipeline deal
Minister Steven Guilbeault says Indigenous nations were not consulted and the pipeline would have ‘major environmental impacts’
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November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Peru’s ousted ‘president of the poor’ gets 11-year sentence for rebellion
Pedro Castillo was sentenced by the supreme court for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in 2022
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November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM