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@akveton.bsky.social
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Videographer, photog, writer. He/him. Free Palestine🍉

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
From photographer Evan Stone: a member of Lang's crew inside a silly string covered car waved what appears to be a gun at the crowd this afternoon. A Bridgeview police officer can be seen peering inside the vehicle. He then swipes its side mirror back into position:
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill Read full article: unicornriot.ninja/2026/canadia...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Complicated week for Canadian geographers.
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An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/07/2026
‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
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‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her, according to interviews and a criminal complaint filed in Israel. She described hearing male guards laughing during the attack, which she believes they watched and may have filmed. It took place in an area separated from the prison hallway by a partially drawn curtain that her attackers had left open. Continue reading...
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CNN @cnn.com · 09/07/2026
Palestinians in Gaza have had the opportunity to collectively watch the World Cup, but the man who had been organizing the watch parties was killed by an Israeli strike ahead of the event.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat
Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The abject horror of realising that the Gisèle Pelicot case might be the tip of an iceberg. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape uncovered by UK crime agency
NCA says offenders arrange to sexually assault and film victims via online networks with crimes often taking place in trusting relationships
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 28/06/2026
Some Sunday Black Boy Joy
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Trump regime continues its campaign to crack down on free speech and protest. Today, 9 anti-ICE activists were convicted to terrorism charges with lengthy sentences ranging from 50-100 years in prison. For comparison, the longest prison sentence for a J6 insurrectionist was 22 years.
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
A huge lift in fossil industry earning in the first quarter of this year. We cannot co-exist with an industry that (a) sells a dangerous product and needs us reliant on it and (b) makes even more money from those sales when war, conflict and crisis breaks out static1.squarespace.com/static/64eef...
a chart showing rising earnings for the fossil industry
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 07/06/2026
I’m so proud of this powerful speech exposing the bigot and fake academic, Michael Foran. He has no place in our communities.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A new group of ICE agents showed up to Delaney Park tonight. The crowd largely dispersed after this.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚨 “THE BATONS ARE OUT!" 🚨 ICE agents can be seen spraying pepper spray directly into a protester’s face — and into the air toward the crowd — during chaos outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. “They’re assaulting protesters in the middle of the street!” WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
90% of those held at Delaney Hall have no criminal history. People detained at Delaney Hall were being paid $1/day to work — then the facility suspended that pay while keeping up demand for the work. Trump’s mass deportation machine is not about crime reduction. It is about prison labor camps.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our @jordanchariton.bsky.social leaves ICE speechless. ICE: Really? JC: Really what? JC: When the microphone's in your face you lose your voice? Tell us why you're here. ICE: You tell us why you're here? JC: I'm covering your stupidity. I'm covering you guys attacking unarmed protesters. More...
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Immigration Coalition @immigcoalition.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
From inside Delaney Hall, "We are hundreds inside demanding our freedom." Shouting, "¡Libertad! Freedom!", they are calling for the governor. They send their gratitude to everyone outside Delaney. To them, their detention is nothing less than state-sanctioned kidnapping. #FreeThemAll
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!
Screenshot of an article by Althia Raj: “Opinion | Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment:
'It's worse than what Harper did'”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads:

“Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways and risk human health, all in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects.
For a prime minister who dismissed progressive Liberal MPs concerns over spending on child care, health care and pharmacare during a caucus meeting this week, Friday's announcement on streamlining infrastructure project approvals is a further indication the party is moving to the right, further than anything Liberals have seen, and a giant call to action to all Canadians who care about the environment.”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads:

“"It's shocking," Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, told the Star. "This would represent by far the worst evisceration of environmental law in Canadian history, far worse than what happened under Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper's government in 2012."
"It's worse than what Harper did, I agree," said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. "This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that's true"
If the federal government's proposed changes go ahead, Guilbeault said it will mean "we will have no way of evaluating or understanding what are the human health and environment impacts of projects we are approving - and that the main criteria to evaluate projects moving forward, if this is adopted, is going to be economic development and nothing else will matter."
Phil Pothen, a land-use, planning, environmental and administrative lawyer at Environmental Defence, said the government's proposal would "grant any company or project the government chooses a blank cheque to just drive entire species to extinction or extirpation.”
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 02/05/2026
People who let cops do this have no problem with criminality or violence, they have a problem with the wrong people being allowed to do it.
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 30/04/2026
This story is fucking wild and damning, and yet the most insane part is that they were trying to go after her for documenting racist abuse THAT WAS DIRECTED AT HER PERSONALLY
On 13 March 2021, Buzzard-Quashie was arrested at her home in Ealing, west London, on suspicion of sending malicious communications after posting on Instagram some racist messages she had received from former acquaintances.
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akveton.bsky.social @akveton.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is so fucked. Crooked government in Ontario. But we knew that. Would have been good to know in what specific ways it's crooked currently, though.https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/ford-government-passes-budget-that-lets-premier-and-ministers-keep-office-records-secret/
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akveton.bsky.social @akveton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
So that crazy Alberta separatist YouTube channel you're pissed about? Might be made by scammers from the Netherlands www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views | CBC News
A number of accounts creating misleading YouTube videos about Alberta separatism with millions of views appear to have their origins in a Dutch digital marketing course, a CBC/Radio-Canada investigati...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/04/2026
A group of trans youth in Boston have organized a letter writing campaign urging the pediatric conference to remove the panel. They've reached almost 11,000 letters sent so far. Add your voice to the effort. Please share. actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
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Send a Letter to Tell Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting to Remove Hate Group-Affiliated Panel
The Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, a major U.S. pediatric conference, is hosting a panel on transgender youth healthcare. The conference's sole panel on trans health is affiliated with Society...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
ICE loves hurting and killing women.
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.   Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
TODAY: Iranians are forming human chains around civilian infrastructure (bridges, power plants) as Trump threatens to kill them all
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What was normalized in Gaza will have lasting effects on the entire world. It was a signal to the worst of humanity that they can get away with even livestreamed genocide. And we see that very genocide expanding today, and Trump joining in not under cover like Biden, but front & center.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2026
Trump on his military advisers: "I was told this is a very dangerous mission. They didn't say it's a foolish mission, they said 'We're gonna be sacrificing hundreds of people to do this.' I just felt it was worth it."
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If Eby wasn't NDP premier he would be getting WAY more push back. dude is literally blaming courts for stating the obvious: obligations to Indigenous rights are legally enforceable. And now, with Conservative support, he is fast tracking roll backs DRIPA and Indigenous rights BC NDP are shit.
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How did B.C.’s historic Indigenous Rights law, DRIPA, become so controversial? | The Narwhal
Unanimously passed and once celebrated, B.C.’s Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act is now facing rushed amendments
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/03/2026
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court just struck down Colorado's conversion therapy ban. They have now legalized the systematic torture of LGBTQ youth and invalidated the laws that protect them from this abuse. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/03/2026
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Flaming Rump exhibit debut in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Capitol. No matter how many times the admin takes these displays of resistance down, there will always be artists and resisters who will be ready to put one right back up again. Credit @backbonecampaign.bsky.social
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement
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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
CBP doesn’t deport the worst of the worst. They hire them. Very long thread below.
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akveton.bsky.social @akveton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Says the guy who directed some of the most pseudo-therapy films in existence. The existence is LGBTQ+ people in film is not "therapy", it's reality Source: The Guardian share.google/PDgqv5LH3PIo...
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Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is ‘not making therapy’
Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gay
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Once again.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This guy gets it.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/02/2026
INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.
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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash
Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 14/02/2026
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
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