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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 27/09/2026
Will Bunch is why I subscribe to the Philly Inquirer. Here he calls out the media for (once again) sane washing Trump, in probably the most egregious case of all – his profoundly and dangerously unhinged speech to the UN last week. It's a 5-alarm fire folks. But you wouldn't know it reading the NYT.
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026
More than 1.2 million children lost access to food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program between July 2025 and 2026, according to a new analysis. to.pbs.org/4dwuKEf
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More than 1.2 million children have lost SNAP benefits since last July. Experts explain why
Experts say that the drop is a cause for worry, and that it’s unlikely that the need for food assistance has dropped.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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US: Global Health Aid Tied to Harmful Conditions
The United States government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad access to surveillance data and extractive rights to pathogen samples and data for pharmaceutical development.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“We’re glad this settlement places limits on their ability to use federal workers as bargaining chips to push their extreme agenda during the next government shutdown, but the fight is far from over,” said one union leader. www.commondreams.org/news/federal...
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'Working People Won': Unions Score Deal to Shield Federal Workers From Government Shutdown Firings | Common Dreams
"We’re glad this settlement places limits on their ability to use federal workers as bargaining chips to push their extreme agenda during the next government shutdown, but the fight is far from over,"...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vought broke the law when he tried to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also made it easier for wealthy corporations to cheat average Americans. www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders... Time to impeach & convict. ImpeachVought.com
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Judge orders feds to restore consumer watchdog funding
Created from the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $20 billion to consumers since its inception, according to the plaintiff states.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 26/09/2026
Thank you @kim.senate.gov for actual intel and analysis. We're old enough to remember rational discussions of US interests
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For some of the accounts, it’s very clear they’re impounding them to death. Not just illegally cutting the programs, but illegally ending the activity altogether. Suffice it to say, the president is not legally allowed to simply not carry out laws he doesn’t support.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026
The "Office of Remigration" funnels tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to foreign governments—many of them authoritarian and riddled with human rights abuses—to serve as third-country destinations for deported refugees. Keep your ability to feel shock.
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The White House is the home of a criminal enterprise. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Some journalists still barred from White House after judge blocks Trump’s ban
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to temporarily restore the journalists' credentials and said the ban was likely unconstitutional.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 24/09/2026
Russ Vought is a monster
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Democrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aid
Top appropriators say the White House wants to use billions of dollars to shutter USAID. The rest would go unspent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 20/09/2026
From 1963 to 1971, USAID food kept orphaned Anne Ralte alive in Kolkata. She later joined the agency and led work on its first Title II emergency food aid strategy. America fed a child who became a lifetime public servant. Dismantling USAID destroys that promise.
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The Flag that Fed Me
As a child orphaned in India, Anne Ralte survived because of USAID food aid. She would later serve at the agency. She’s shared her story below. By Anne Ralte I began my USAID career in 1996 in the…
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can DC journalists use all that access they've been curating to learn what's going on here? We're 1.5 months from the elections and the mad king president who doesn't want to cede power is building military facilities across the Capitol. Maybe it's a joke, maybe not, Reporting would sure help. 2/
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Twice in a row: Trump tears up DC to build something he first calls ceremonial - a "ballroom", a "triumphal arch" - but then pivots to calling it a military facility with drone ports. Did we mention that the Trump-appointed chair of the commission approving these projects works mostly in Russia? 1/
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 20/09/2026
Everything he touches turns to sh-t. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump finds new DC landmark to trash
With Trump wrecking so much of Washington, D.C., you might have missed some of the smaller garbage.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 19/09/2026
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s son in law Luke Lindberg, 37, leads the World Food Programme. His Food for Peace restructuring left out Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Mali while weighing ‘the geopolitical interests of the United States.’ He takes over as 266 million people face acute food insecurity.
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UN appoints Trump nominee Lindberg to head World Food Programme
The UN's World Food Programme, the world's biggest ​humanitarian agency, on Friday ‌named U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee, Luke Lindberg, as its next executive ​director, a statement said.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Public service is still being hollowed out by Trump. The cavity left behind is being filled with petty vindictiveness and indifference towards Americans who need a hand.
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The Current Capacity Crisis | Revolving Door Project
Trump and company have decimated the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from Robber Barons running amok
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 19/09/2026
Profile of a USAID staffer, her work on monitoring and evaluation, and her reflections on life and purpose since USAID was dismantled. #USAIDforever
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“Everything is Possible, and Nothing is Safe”
Tania Alfonso’s Story
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 17/09/2026
Yes, we're salty that all the great PUBLIC spaces in our city are being demolished/trashed to please Dear Leader.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/09/2026
According to the NYT, $9.5 BILLION was spent paying federal employees not to work. Meanwhile, most of our colleagues on admin leave would rather be WORKING. 🙄 “Government efficiency,” apparently. Goodnight to everyone except the MAGAts who thought this math was mathing. 😑🌙
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was never the city’s most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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The Kennedy Center was part of DC life. Trump destroyed it.
It was never the city's most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 15/09/2026
Taxing billionaires could save nearly 30 million lives ➡️ l.euronews.com/Vytk
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 15/09/2026
Well written.
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What America lost when it shut down foreign aid | Opinion
A former USAID mission director reflects on decades of soft power diplomacy dismantled in months, and the human cost now surfacing worldwide.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
DOGE lies will come to light. www.washingtonsun.com/about-us/pre...
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Judge Rules Trump Administration Must Give The Washington Sun USAID Records
The ruling comes after The Washington Sun sued the government for not responding to a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
Important post from @nslforamerica.bsky.social - don't let our country become a dictatorship nsl4a.substack.com/p/national-s...
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National Security Leaders for America Calls on State Attorneys General to Prepare to Block Armed Federal Interference in the 2026 Elections
States should be prepared to seek emergency injunctive relief before military forces or massed federal law enforcement deployments can intimidate voters or interfere with state-run elections.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
@oneaid.bsky.social love this! How to engage, community by community: something all of us can do. oneaidcommunity.org/2026/09/12/g...
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Guest Blog: A Talk About USAID at My Library
Visit the post for more.
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OneAID @oneaid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OneAID supported Writers for Democratic Action’s call for stories from federal workers and contractors impacted by DOGE cuts. Their first-person accounts show what government cuts have cost our country & the world. 🔗 Read the stories & submit your own: www.writersfordemocraticaction.org/fws-2026
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Federal Workers Speak — Writers for Democratic Action
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 13/09/2026
We cannot abandon the Geneva Conventions and maintain our humanity. Listen to @chefjoseandres.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Seven of my colleagues were killed in Gaza. There and in Ukraine, aid workers are no longer safe | José Andrés
It seems the attack on World Central Kitchen workers was a deliberate IDF military tactic. The protections of the Geneva conventions are now paper thin, says World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 12/09/2026
Something to keep in mind as we head towards the midterms. Republicans (be they MAGA, MAHA, or traditional) have wasted our tax dollars in so many ways. And they could have stopped this waste, fraud and abuse. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but may capture some unrecognized waste. 🧵
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 11/09/2026
WIN: A federal court today blocked the Trump-Vance admin from using its unlawful “loyalty question” on federal civil service job applications. Today's decision protects the Constitution and reaffirms the importance of a nonpartisan federal workforce that serves the American people.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 11/09/2026
usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/why-usaid-.... Full video's up tomorrow too.
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Why USAID First?
A test that wasn't supposed to spread this far.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10/09/2026
Americans continue to flock to the national parks, with more than 320 million visitors in the last year alone. But that broad appeal is facing new political pressures, from orders to revise exhibits to President Donald Trump's construction projects. to.pbs.org/46vsl8Y
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National parks under strain from Trump's construction projects and political pressure
Americans continue to flock to the national parks, with more than 320 million visitors in the last year alone. But that broad appeal is facing new political pressures, from orders to revise exhibits t...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
"In an administration of amateurs, talk-show hosts, and relatives, CIA Director John Ratcliffe stands out by not standing out." That could be a good thing, but it's probably not. New from @johnsipher.bsky.social and @juliacurlee.bsky.social:
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The CIA Director Is a Failure
John Ratcliffe has mired the agency in politics—and possible illegality.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 09/09/2026
"Trump’s State Department . . . discovered that many of the people it eliminated were, unfortunately, pretty important all along—and desperately trying to refill their roles. “State is shopping for the expertise it threw away,” said one former officer."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 09/09/2026
Nailed it, @editorialboard.bsky.social . Folks, read this thread. From Idi Amin to Pol Pot, lots of examples of what happens when this goes unchecked. 👇
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
17. "Major media are afraid if they report the obvious fact that the president is crazy, he'll do something crazy to harm them," @markjacob.bsky.social, a former editor of the Chicago Tribune, wrote on Bluesky this morning. "That's one reason they're normalizing his craziness."
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 08/09/2026
Head of Smithsonian will step down amid President Trump’s fights to transform institution
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Head of Smithsonian will step down amid President Trump’s fights to transform institution
Lonnie G. Bunch III will step down as secretary of the Smithsonian by the end of the year amid President Donald Trump's efforts to transform the institution.
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