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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Our members are out knocking on doors today for our National APALA endorsed candidate Connie Chan! We need Connie's strength and voice in Washington D.C. representing us! ❤️✊️🔥 Vote for Connie Chan for Congress by June 2nd! 🗳 @conniechansf.bsky.social @kaygenn.bsky.social
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
APALA SF was at the SFO action and the SF Labor Council march for May Day & the first day of AANHPI Heritage Month! ✊️ #WorkersOverBillionaires #ICEout #MayDay #AANHPI #AANHPIHeritageMonth
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"...The birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court is not some isolated policy debate. It’s part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to put an end to multiracial democracy as we know it, by making it harder for communities of color..." #BirthrightCitizenship @stopaapihate.org
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Birthright citizenship made me American. We can't lose it. | Opinion
As a U.S. citizen, I grew up with freedoms and opportunities that my parents never had. I grew up with a sense of belonging no one could take away.
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
APALA SF Members at #NoKings in Boston & SF. ✊️
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conniechansf.bsky.social @conniechansf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
From SF to DC, we’ve got to fund our schools and our teachers.
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
IFPTE Local 21 members are standing in solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) on STRIKE DAY 4 by honoring their picket lines. ✊🪧 You can support educators on strike by writing a letter to the school board or taking other actions here: wecantwait.info/parents/uesf
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 14/02/2026
The San Francisco teachers union and SFUSD agreed to a $183 million deal early Friday that ends the strike after four days on the picket line. Here’s what you should know about the two-year contract → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s... 📸: Lizzy Montana Myers/For the S.F. Chronicle
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AFT @aft.org · 09/02/2026
We're at Mission High School this morning as SF educators stand up for fully staffed schools and the supports students deserve. Our members are fighting for the schools their communities deserve, and to get back to their classrooms with a fair contract. ✊ @cftunion.bsky.social
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AFT @aft.org · 13/02/2026
After their first strike in nearly 50 years, educators in San Francisco won a tentative agreement that strengthens staffing, improves special education supports & secures fully funded family healthcare! @cftunion.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u... #PublicSchoolProud
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 12/02/2026
San Francisco can’t wait any longer for the schools their students deserve. Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco who are on strike fighting to fix the staffing crisis, improve special education, and better wages and health benefits. One day longer, one day stronger!
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General Kat @kaygenn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Get your No ICE cookies at Devil's Teeth Baking Company in San Francisco! All proceeds from cookies go to Community Action Netork Minnesota. Also, buy other goodies available from this small business. #NoICE www.devilsteethbakingcompany.com/visit
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Stop AAPI Hate Action @stopaapihateaction.org · 30/01/2026
“I’ll never forget my government treating me like this. I really hope this will never happen to anybody else because of the way they look, if they look like the enemy of our country.” - Fred Korematsu
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Stop AAPI Hate Action @stopaapihateaction.org · 29/01/2026
UPDATE: The U.S. Senate just voted NO on a bill that would've given ICE and DHS $370 million in new funding — a clear response to the public outcry against ICE's terror campaign in Minnesota. This is a step in the right direction, but the fight is not over yet.
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A message from our union’s president, Bianca Polovina, of solidarity with our immigrant communities and the everyday people who are bravely standing up to the brutality and injustices of ICE. We must keep showing up to observe, to document, to protest. An injury to one is an injury to all.
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Stop AAPI Hate Action @stopaapihateaction.org · 26/01/2026
The Senate will soon vote on a bill that will pump millions in new funding into ICE and DHS – allowing them to expand detention and deportation efforts and increase violence against everyday people. We cannot let this bill pass. The vote could happen as soon as tomorrow, so take action with us now ⬇️
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No More Funding for ICE - Stop AAPI Hate
Congress should not give ICE and DHS one more dollar without implementing real oversight measures and ending the terror campaign on our communities. Take action now by telling your Senators to hold IC...
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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are witnessing a federal occupation of an American city, carried out through intimidation, fear, and violence at the expense of our children, students, and families. ICE does not belong in our schools or communities. #IceOutSchools
An image featuring five-year-old Liam Ramos boarding an ICE vehicle, overlaid with the text 'Children should be at school, not detention centers.' Logo of National Education Association visible in the corner. Image courtesy of Columbia Heights Public Schools.
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
👀 Our San Francisco union hall has a new banner out front! We’re taking the Overpaid CEO Act into our street and hoping this gets everyone’s attention walking by. Will you standupforsf.com?
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conniechansf.bsky.social @conniechansf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We tried to post a video to TikTok in solidarity with immigrants. After receiving multiple errors while attempting to post the video, it’s still not being shown to users. And we are not alone. This is a dangerous time for our democracy and we can’t allow our social media apps to silence us.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/01/2026
America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti. We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. bit.ly/4pVTpFO
AFL-CIO Mourns Killing of Minneapolis Union Member, Reiterates Calls for ICE to Leave Minnesota:

The AFL-CIO mourns the senseless killing of another Minneapolis resident by federal agents. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a VA intensive care unit nurse and a member of AFGE Local 3669—a brother in our union family. Our thoughts are with Alex’s loved ones, his union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis at this devastating time. 

As tens of thousands of Minnesotans made clear peacefully and powerfully yesterday, the Trump administration’s horrific operation—and their actions aimed at stoking violence and chaos—must end. America’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. We demand local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability for this tragic and violent act, and for Congress to use its power to hold ICE accountable.
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We had a great time at the 23rd Annual SF Parol Lantern Festival - “MAKIBAKA: Ignite the Fight, Light Up Our Legacy” presented by the Filipino-American Development Foundation with support of SOMA Pilipinas! Isang Bagsak! 👏 @kaygenn.bsky.social @pinoyamerican.bsky.social #parollaternfestival
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We stand in solidarity with the members of United Teachers of Richmond and Teamsters 856 on strike today! Tomorrow, IFPTE Local 21 joins you on the line. ✊ #1u 📷 Photos by Brooke Anderson
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
IFPTE Local 21 members are on sympathy STRIKE for the schools our students deserve! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ We’re proud to join our union siblings on the UTR and Teamsters 856 strike lines! Public school employee working conditions are student learning conditions. Solidarity forever! 💙✊ 📸: Brooke Anderson
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Union Jobs @unionjobs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO) seeks an Executive Director. Location is flexible (work can be performed from anywhere in the continental United States). Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @apalasf.bsky.social
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Stop AAPI Hate Action @stopaapihateaction.org · 14/11/2025
For South Asian and Muslim Americans nationwide, Zohran Mamdani's historic win for Mayor of New York City is a huge milestone in political representation. Sadly, it has also triggered a backlash of anti-South Asian hate and Islamophobia. Here’s what you need to know. ⬇️🧵
Graph titled "Online slurs against Mamdani surged leading up to and following his NYC Mayoral Win."
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
On the final day of #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, we share the history of Isang Bagsak, otherwise known as the Unity Clap. IFPTE Local 21 is proud to carry this legacy forward. When one of us rises, we all rise! Voice-over performed by IFPTE Local 21 member JR Santos.
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Today we honor #LarryItliong, a fearless Filipino American labor leader whose vision and courage helped ignite the farmworker movement. His story reminds us of what is possible when communities come together for fairness and dignity on the job.
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It's #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth ☀️✊️ and it is a critical time for the AANHPI community to participate in our democracy. We joined the SF Labor Council the last couple weekends to get out the vote for #YESon50 in California! 🗳 @californialabor.bsky.social
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"Whether this Administration likes it or not, immigrants in this country are entitled to due process. When they don't get a fair shake from an independent judge in immigration court, they're being denied due process." — Matt Biggs, President of IFPTE @ifpte.bsky.social
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Video Firings of immigration judges are 'politically motivated': Union president
IFPTE union president Matt Biggs discusses the impact that the Trump administration's firing of immigration judges is having on the court system.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
UFW mourns the passing of our brother Kent Wong. Please watch Kent speak in beautiful short video connecting his time with UFW to his view of the importance of solidary across labor and race and cultural backgrounds.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkU...
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Kent Wong on Solidarity: action
YouTube video by W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
October is Filipino American History Month! ✊ We’re proud to call the Filipino Cultural Heritage District home for our San Francisco union hall. We encourage you to check out a new exhibit at YBCA titled "MAKIBAKA: A Living Legacy" ybca.org/event/makibaka-a-living-legacy
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🚨 @coveredca.bsky.social enrollees: Your premiums are about to DOUBLE in 2026 without Congressional action. And Trump & Republicans’ H.R. 1 bill is only going to make accessing care harder. Here are some upcoming changes that @coveredca.bsky.social for enrollees should be aware of:
Health Policy Changes for Covered California Enrollees
- End of enhanced financial help for enrollees to afford coverage, doubling or even tripling premium costs: December 31, 2025
- Shorter open enrollment period: 2027 Open Enrollment Period, which begins November 1, 2026 
- End of auto-renewals, requiring enrollees to submit more verification information: December 31, 2027
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
#WorkersOverBillionaires It's #LaborDay and we marched with thousands of people on the streets of San Francisco united on the following demands:
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
"In many ways, we felt like America had turned their back on us. We don't want to be a part of that again. So we are showing up where we can. We're raising our voices. We're protesting. We're getting the grannies and the grandpas out to tell their stories." #ICEOutOfDublin
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Japanese American internment survivors protest possible ICE detention center at former Dublin prison
With the rhythmic pounding of taiko drums echoing through Don Biddle Community Park, a large group of Japanese Americans and their allies gathered Saturday afternoon to voice opposition to the propose...
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“The Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West asked the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate Paramount over ‘potential wrongdoing’ after the company announced the cancellation of the Late Show on Thursday.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Writers’ union urges investigation into Paramount move to cancel Colbert show
Writers Guild of America requests New York attorney general investigate ‘potential wrongdoing’ after shock cancellation
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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 20/07/2025
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Behind the Masks: Who Are the People Rounding Up Immigrants in California?
The presence of masked federal agents is an unnerving part of life in Southern California this summer. Here’s a look at who’s carrying out the immigration raids.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Mass detention and tent camps? How can we be talking about this in America? We should strive to lead the world in freedom, not in cruelty. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US races to build migrant tent camps after $45 billion funding boost, WSJ reports
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to build migrant tent camps nationwide after receiving $45 billion in new funding, aiming to expand detention capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 beds by year-end, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
APALA SF & Alameda Chapters unite! ✊️ ICE melts under resistance! 🧊🔥 We joined Tsuru for Solidarity -- drawing on the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during WWII to resist its repetition today.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our coalition of 149 ideologically diverse and distinctive national organizations collectively representing tens of millions of people will remember who turned their backs on working families—and who we can count on to fight for us. www.aft.org/they-betraye...
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They betrayed us.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans promised to make life better for working families. Instead, they passed the so-called big, beautiful bill—a massive transfer of wealth from working...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 08/07/2025
The Supreme Court has given Trump and DOGE permission to throw federal workers out of their jobs and cleared the way for even more mass firings. We’ll keep working and organizing to ensure federal workers know how to exercise their rights. This isn't over. aflcio.org/press/releas...
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to a Supreme Court order allowing the Trump administration to move forward with Reduction in Force (RIF) plans to fire hundreds of thousands of federal workers while litigation continues:

The Trump administration and its unaccountable DOGE have created chaos in hundreds of thousands of federal workers’ lives, and the Supreme Court just heaped on more pain. These are the workers who care for our veterans, make sure our food is safe to eat, protect our health and safety on the job and deliver the essential services we all rely on daily. They track and respond to natural disasters, support our public school educators and ensure our water is clean. Now, the Supreme Court has given the Trump-appointed authors of Project 2025 permission to throw these workers out of their jobs and cleared the way for even more mass firings while litigation proceeds.

The American people do not support this. By a 2-1 margin, people oppose the reckless firing of federal workers. And when 85% of federal workers live outside of D.C and 30% of federal workers are veterans, it’s working families across the country who will be harmed by allowing these firings to move forward—in ways we can’t even know yet. 

This decision is a blow, but the litigation in this case—and the fight for federal workers and the essential services they provide—is far from over. We will continue to work with unions and allies to ensure all federal workers know how to exercise their rights. And we will continue to organize and support federal worker unions in their vital work, because it’s clear that a union contract is more important now than ever.
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congrats to IFPTE Local 21 Field Director Kat General (@kaygenn.bsky.social), newly elected 1st Vice President of APALA! Kat's served on the APALA National Executive Board since 2019, the same year she won the Art Takei Leadership Award. 🧵(1/3)
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Kat's 20+ years in the labor movement are defined by winning for the people. Even when the odds are against us Kat charts and implements a path to victory. (2/3)
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Whether on the picket line, in civil disobedience, or organizing majority action, Kat has done it all and taught others how to do the same. Local 21 is proud and excited to support Kat General in her new role at APALA.
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IFPTE Local 21 @ifpte21.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
At the APALA Convention opening panel "Resistance: Labor Leading the Way" our Local 21 delegation and SPEEA members heard from unions presidents from AFGE, AFSCME, AFT and IFPTE union President Matt Biggs, on how we are fighting attacks on workers, unions and our democracy.
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
SF Chapter members had a blast at the APALA 18th Biennial Convention- Solidarity. Resistance. Unity. this last weekend. Congratulations to our SF Chapter President Kat General who was elected to serve as the APALA National 1st Vice President! 👏
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Ilanit (illy) @imanor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
All power to the people, no human is illegal! APALA SF crew out at the #NoKings SF action today! Members Natalie Gee (IFPTE 21) & Cassondra Curiel (UESF) rallied the crowd from the stage. 📣✊️ @itsnataliegee.bsky.social @pinoyamerican.bsky.social @kaygenn.bsky.social
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APALA SF Chapter @apalasf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Emergency Press Conference today on Trump's attack on immigrants and racist travel ban. ⚡End the Travel Ban ⚡Stop the ICE raids and deportations ⚡Defend immigrant communities #BayAreaResists #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders #NoBan #StopTheRaids #RepealTheBan @itsnataliegee.bsky.social @kaygenn.bsky.social
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 10/06/2025
A judge set David Huerta free today after ICE attacked, injured, and unjustly detained him for standing up for immigrant workers. But this fight isn’t over. Thousands are still detained. We won’t stop until ALL our people are free. #FreeDavidEndRaids seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | STATEMENT: SEIU President April Verrett on David Huerta’s Release from Federal Custody
David Huerta was arrested while standing up for immigrants’ rights. Today, a judge set him free after federal authorities attacked, injured, and unjustly detained him since Friday.
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 08/06/2025
You don’t need to be in LA to fight back. Rapid response rallies are happening across the nation to demand David Huerta’s release and an end to ICE raids. actionnetwork.org/event_campai... #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemALL
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#FreeDavidEndRaids
On Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocat...
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