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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
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INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Again, ~every poll on ~every policy issue is like this. We’re “polarized” in the same way the family Thanksgiving table is “polarized.” It’s a comfortable way to avoid talking about a deeply uncomfortable reality because hard family conversations about the relatives are hard.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AOC is propagating dangerous nonsense about MAHA: That it’s “not partisan,” driven by legitimate concerns. No. Stop it. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, channeling vague grievances into a radical project. I spelled this out here:
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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We’re stuck doing deep textual analysis on Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer, to discover if he said something offensive. Then the actual Secretary of Defense is gleefully picking out random Canadians and mocking them for being overweight, and it’s like “Well Trump will be Trump!”
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar who has two Doctorates (Medicine from Columbia and a PhD in Public Health from Oxford) who was a 16 year old high school student in suburban Detroit when 9/11 happened, and I'm curious what possible logic is behind this post other than abject racism.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Every oppo dump on Piker has the same format: A short, deceptively edited clip accompanied by a paraphrase even more incendiary than the words Piker says in the video.
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1Zach1 @1zach1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lunar #Eclipse from the west coast. Wasn't set up well as I expected clouds but thankfully only had light overcast. Shot on a Canon 70-200 f/4. Heavily cropped.
Picture of the partial lunar eclipse
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Obligatory nothing to see here gif
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Given the overwhelming demand (🤥), here are the editorials I've written on covid origins: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
SARS-CoV-2 is a natural virus that found its way into humans through mundane contact with infected wildlife that went on to cause the most consequential pandemic for over a century. While it is scholarly to entertain alternative hypotheses, particularly when evidence is scarce, these alternative hypotheses have been implausible for a long time and have only become more-so with increasing scrutiny. Those who eagerly peddle suggestions of laboratory involvement have consistently failed to present credible arguments to support their positions.
Take the time to reflect on the paragraph above and how many words were expended to make the simple point that COVID-19 had a natural origin. This is because there are many people, most notably in the USA, with disproportionate influence who are poised to seize on less explicit statements to undermine a simple, and pretty straightforward, truth. These are the same people who are willing to malign individuals—a topical example being former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci—who dedicated themselves to understanding and lessening the impact of the pandemic.
The sheer hubris needed to underpin alternative hypotheses was an early signal of their tenuousness, when we are intensely aware that the natural processes needed to bring about this sort of pandemic are constantly churning and testing the boundaries between animal and human populations. The most remarkable thing about the whole COVID-19 origin saga is the confected controversy over something that should not be controversial at all. The thing that should be controversial is how little of the energy expended over this discussion has been directed towards actual beneficial outcomes.
To be frank, the fanciful ideas put forward by self-described free thinkers are more in keeping with popular movies than the realities of working with pathogens. It is admirable to pursue curiosity wherever it might lead and to reject the constraints of…A year ago, August 2024, we addressed the state of discussions about COVID-19 origins in our Editorial COVID-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue. We did not lay out the evidence because the space we had available was not sufficient to address the points in detail. And the evidence was presented in a comprehensive and digestible fashion by the authors of the relevant research. Our focus was laying out the situation in a clear and uncluttered way, to counter the many commentators in the press who were giving their assessments based on what they wanted to believe (or what would make a more entertaining story) rather than what they could back up with evidence. Given the potential consequences, to pandemic prevention and public health in general, they were being irresponsible.
On June 27, 2025, WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) published their report Independent Assessment of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2. This report provides an update in the context of information that has emerged since their 2022 report. The report outlines the most prominent hypotheses and reflects on the supporting evidence for each of them. They stress that they did not have access to raw data when preparing this report, and SAGO and WHO have requested further information from governments, including those that have made assertions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2: China, Germany, and the USA. At the time of writing the report this information had not been provided. Meaning that this report is based on published literature, not so-called intelligence touted by some governments.
The report outlines four hypotheses but essentially two are based on zoonotic spillover and two are based on a laboratory accident. The assessment in the report from the outset discounts one hypothesis from each of these broad categories due to a lack of evidence, although SAGO remains open to reconsideration if more evidence is forthcoming. Despite giving one of the laboratory accident…
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨 Yet ANOTHER study finds "NO evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime." There has NEVER been evidence to support this racist BS❗ Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There's something ironic about the fact that AI slop is the primary method being used to spread misinformation about utility-scale solar projects
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In rural communities, fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper solar boom • Tennessee Lookout
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/08/2026
Third Way, a professedly "center left" group, is spending tens of millions of dollars to convince voters to vote for Republicans in November
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:
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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I could be wrong, but @theatlantic.com seems to have hidden my reply with this article. So here it is again.
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If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“Why can’t Democrats be like Republicans?” gives Ezra Klein’s game away. He doesn’t understand at a fundamental level what pluralism and democracy are
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just a reminder that the whole "#MeToo has gone too far" social media backlash wasn't organic. (More on that later in this thread.) Leaving aside men *convicted of crimes* (e.g. Weinstein), it's hard to find any men who actually lost their careers over allegations. www.avclub.com/mark-twain-p...
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At Mark Twain Prize, Louis C.K. recalls Bill Maher's friendship after becoming an "outcast"
At Mark Twain Prize, Louis C.K. recalls Bill Maher's friendship after becoming an "outcast"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
But existing elites can't see these modest efforts to redress inequality for what they are. So they resort to hysterical pronouncements about the "threat of socialism" like it's 1953. Stop whining! If progressive taxation to pay for services is socialist then we're socialist already.
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David Becker @beckerdavidj.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Tina Peters stole an innocent person's identity, turned off the cameras, and stole election technology. She was found guilty by a jury of her peers, prosecuted by a GOP DA. Her conviction was upheld by the courts. She has ZERO remorse, and Gov. Polis knew that when he commuted her sentence.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
There has been over a year’s worth of polling showing that Gaza didn’t break the top 10 issues people voted on but people are surprised the DNC autopsy didn’t include Gaza? No really…over a year’s worth of polling. I lot of people are upset they can’t use the issue as leverage but won’t admit it.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Some of the people interviewed are three-time Trump voters who nonetheless consider themselves political independents who distrust both parties, in case you needed another reminder of what that actually means
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Biden presided over likely the greatest expansion in US manufacturing in history and our public intellectuals decided not to notice it. People's lives were materially getting better. Wages rose because labor was in such short supply.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Part of the core thesis of the book is that you should not talk about your trauma! You should suppress your feelings and pursue things like dance and equine therapy to get at the "root cause" of your symptoms. It's 1950s garbage repackaged as New Age forbidden wisdom.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.
There’s no clean way to hive off terms like “fascism” or “authoritarianism” from Trump’s policies.  Even if you disagree that the words apply, their use is backed up by a genuine attempt at intellectual justification for it. The use of these terms just is deeply linked to assessments of Trump’s actual policies, from the lawless renditions to foreign gulags to the unleashing of heavily-armed militias in American cities to the naked intimidation of large swaths of civil society.

By contrast, when Trump and MAGA media figures call Democrats “communists” or “antifa,” all of that is entirely disconnected from any policy realities. Many press figures would like it if there were an Archimedean midpoint between the two parties on all these matters. But there isn’t. At the most basic level, one party continues to function as an actor in a liberal democracy, whereas Trump and much of his movement, with the eager participation of many Republicans, simply do not. Dispensing with harsh but accurate descriptions of his real goals would whitewash them.
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Emma @altimeter3835.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Like this....? m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs2...
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All the Times Trump Has Called for Violence at His Rallies
YouTube video by Mashable Deals
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It's an understudied element of our media environment that Republicans can insult Democrats in any way they see fit, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. There was also the small matter of Jan. 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
And the national media will eagerly play along, in ways they never do when regularly quoting Truth Social posts from the president & X The Everything App posts from the Nazi saluting billionaire.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.
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The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was. 
I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away. 
Because the Washington Hilton's hotel and other public spaces were open for other functions, the entire building wasn't secured by the Secret Service, just the specific areas where the WHCA dinner was held, law enforcement officials told @CBSNews
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New details emerge about armed man shot and killed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Austin Tucker Martin, 21, was killed by Secret Service after entering Trump’s Florida resort with a shotgun on Sunday
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/04/2026
kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Increasingly convinced that American Evangelicalism is just the right-wing version of Oberlin Wicca: The lifestyle brand for a political identity, invoking the aesthetic of, but otherwise fundamentally unrelated to, a real historical religion.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/04/2026
Already annoyed about the coming books full of anonymous senior officials telling every ugly behind-the-scenes detail about the effort to hide Trump’s dementia like it is some fucking revelation when it seems like most of the planet already knows and legacy media are the ones not saying it.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Again, aside from the performative public lying here, it is important to not allow “this is still Biden’s inflation” to become part of the National Conversation™️, because the inflation was entirely over & done with when Joe left office, & price levels are not inflation: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And yet more major media normalization of an erratic and internally incoherent speech full of lies.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
No one has content-neutral beliefs on things like "purity politics," chapter one million
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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