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Ashley Ocean

@ashleyocean.bsky.social
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Artist|Entreprenuer|Humanitarian 🌞 Serve Most in Darkness 📣 T/W: Advocate for Survivors 📱 seekthanspeak.app

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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Incredible offering by Showing Up for Racial Justice for all to tune into this Monday night, September 28th. Looking forward to hearing @ibramxk.bsky.social speak at such a time in this moment and movement. There are still seats to register! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi · Showing Up for Racial Justice
How are authoritarians able to win over so many white people? And convince them that they’re better off with fewer rights and economic instability? And what will it take to beat them at their own game...
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What we allow, persists. Sexist, racist, and anti-semetic. Incredibly dangerous to continue to allow. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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University of Texas at Austin Cuts Women’s and Gender Studies Courses From Graduation Requirements
All women’s and gender studies courses at the University of Texas at Austin have been cut from the school’s core curriculum. The move was announced to faculty members on Tuesday, September 22 by facul...
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope we see volunteerism show up to meet this moment and correct the issue in its entirety by all established deadlines. We need to be mindful of how we can help locally and remotely in any way. The power is ours. www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Error means unknown number of Texas voter registrations haven’t been processed yet
It’s unknown how many prospective voters have been affected.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you! @thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social #GetReadyToVote #VoteBlue #Blues
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2026
The theme of Trump’s second term is his using the power of the presidency as though it’s his own. That manifests in tantrums booting media outlets from the White House. More harmfully, it also manifests in blocking federal funding to states that didn’t vote for him. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@troyjackson207.bsky.social needs to speak on this every single day until November 3rd. Campaign finance fraud by Sen. Collins, 1/26 female Senators, in the name of Women and Girls in STEM by a party that banned DEI while cutting STEM research & education funding is about as diabolical as it gets.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“When the theatre sought an explanation, it was told that references to civil rights, feminism and social reform, all central to Woolf’s work, could be classified as social issues by Meta’s automated system.”
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Meta bans Virginia Woolf ad over feminism
Meta blocked a Barcelona theatre’s ad for Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own after its algorithm flagged feminism as EU political content.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A growing number of Black boys and young men have stepped into the role of caregiver. Most don’t know or consider themselves “youth caregivers.” They’re just “good” sons and grandchildren. bit.ly/4xCDiAF
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Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“When you could be doing anything else, you chose this—the fight. You chose the truth. You chose to be the person who keeps showing up. In the end, that’s who is going to save our country—us.”
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Magician #texas
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 13/12/2025
When I first introduced my bill to ban stock trading in Congress 5 years ago, only a handful joined us. Since then, we’ve built a movement of bipartisan reformers committed to ending the corruption once and for all. The time is now Speaker Johnson. Put the bill on the floor.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Fox wants to buy Roku — yes, the same Fox as Fox News. This could let Fox steer their content to 80 MILLION U.S. households. We can’t let this happen.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Just received the most heartfelt note under my car windshield 🖤🖤
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Redacted Reading Room brings the Epstein Files to cities across the country. In Dallas, Katie Phang walked the space with Epstein survivors, Dani Bensky & Liz Stein. 3,437 volumes & 3.5 million pages of investigative leads that haven't been followed by the DOJ & FBI. youtu.be/czHgHNGxO3o?...
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Epstein Survivors REACT As DAMNING Trump-Epstein Details EMERGE!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 14/09/2026
Women’s freedoms can feel ordinary, but none came without a fight. To learn, work, earn, choose, say no & build lives of our own. We honour those who fought before us by protecting these freedoms for every woman. None of us is truly free until all of us are free💜 #SheShed #WomenSupportingWomen
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We can organize AND vote, agitate AND vote, protest AND vote. Check your status at the link below: www.sec.state.ma.us/voterregistr...
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Dominic Gwinn @dominicgwinn.com · 11/09/2026
A group of neo-Nazis are staging a counter-protest to white supremacist Jake Lang's planned march at the World Trade Center memorial. The neo Nazis claim Jake Lang is not a true neo Nazi bc he's Jewish. Email for licensing.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
💗 Laughter is the best medicine. I hope rest and restore finds all of us at some point throughout this weekend. www.instagram.com/reel/DdI7EYG...
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣✅ IT IS TIME TO FUND AND VOTE IN NEW NATIONAL LEADERSHIP! 💗🌞 📣 ✅🚨JOIN US AT THE NATIONAL 🍊COOKOUT TONIGHT FOR Angie Nixon! 💗🌞 RSVP: bit.ly/Cookout4Angie GIVE: bit.ly/Donate2Angie We will be able to hear about Angie’s ideas along with other leaders charting our future as a nation!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The National Cookout for Angie Nixon. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Everybody’s Invited: The National Cookout for Angie Nixon Thursday, September 10 · 8:30–10:00 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT Hosted by NOW Federal PAC and Fund Black Host Committee: Holli Holliday, Hala Ayala, ...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/09/2026
Ridership on the nation's metro systems continues to improve steadily, if slowly. Best-performers Miami and New York are about 86% of pre-pandemic ridership levels. LA got a small boost in ridership when the D Line extension opened in May—but not much. www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...
Change in transit ridership from 2020, rolling 12-month totals, US metro systems.Change in transit ridership from 2020, monthly totals, Los Angeles metro system.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Runaway Ashley doesn’t want to debate. Wonder why. Maybe it’s the corporate donors. Maybe it’s the $10 million healthcare scandal. Maybe she just doesn’t want to answer to working people. Either way, if you’re too scared to debate, you’re too scared to lead.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/09/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
NOKINGS.ORG
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
My book, which is currently on sale for $1.99 (ebook), is the @newscientist.com September book club selection! Some thoughts on the work I hope the book does: “Given the crises we face – genocides, climate change, attacks on transgender people – we need our critical faculties now more than ever.” 🧪
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'Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world' | New Scientist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much
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WNBA @wnba.com · 30/08/2026
🚨 HISTORY MADE 🚨 Angel Reese has recorded her 29th double-double this year, setting a new WNBA record for the most in a single season! #WNBASeason30
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Olivia Miles sets the franchise record for points as a rookie which moves her to 2nd in WNBA history behind Caitlin
ROOKIE POINTS
WNBA ALL-TIME LEADERS
C. Clark 2024 769
O. Miles 2026 745
S. Augustus 2006 744
P. Bueckers 2025 692
A. Wilson 2018 682
S. Citron 2025 657
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you are not yet familiar with the disappearance and death of Nolan Wells, it’s time, because this case is only getting started and it smells as bad as it gets.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... After my attempted murder by a serial rapist I was warned by a sex crimes prosecutor that I could be killed and they would make it look like a suicide for speaking the truth. Professionals know this happens. Virginia told us that she would not do this. Believe her.
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Police to review case of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
The interactions Jeffery Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre had with Australian police before her death will be reviewed, WA's police commissioner confirms.
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50501 San Diego @50501sd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Tonight, support #HourOfAction to help feed America's children dependent upon SNAP. Don't sleep while America's children go hungry! With tonight's time change, put your extra hour to good use: help USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins see the light and release SNAP funding!!
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#Florida lawmakers took orders from the lobbyist for a shady landowner, and now the taxpayers are paying $83 million for 4 acres in Destin that do NOT need to be preserved. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-la... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
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Florida lawmakers took instructions from a landowner's lobbyist. Now Florida taxpayers will pay $83 million for four acres.
Records show a lobbyist wrote a law enabling a controversial land deal in which Florida will pay more than $20 million an acre to buy a tiny parcel of property from a politically connected seller.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thank you for speaking for the voiceless and this courageous level of exposure @sho-walter.bsky.social ❤️ There is so much work to do and speaking the truth is how we get to a future where such human torture doesn’t exist. This is now happening in mental health programs bookshop.org/p/books/reha...
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Rehab: An American Scandal
An American Scandal
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Mitch Ryals @mitchryals.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A Homeland Security Investigations agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop on Oct. 17. But a @dcpolicedept.bsky.social officer omitted any mention of the shooting from his reports, apparently under instruction from a "team leader." washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7732...
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A Federal Agent Shot at a Driver in D.C. An MPD Officer Was Told To Omit the Shooting from His Report.
An HSI agent fired three times into a vehicle police claimed was trying to flee. The charges were dismissed during a preliminary hearing.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
50 yrs ago, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike. No cooking, cleaning or childcare. Schools closed. Flights grounded. Men stayed home or took kids to work. Today Iceland has smallest gender pay gap in the world & tough equal pay laws. @josiecox.bsky.social www.thepersistent.com/50-years-ice...
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50 Years Ago, Iceland's Women Went on Strike. It Changed Everything.
They stopped cleaning and cooking; they stopped doing laundry and they stopped looking after their children. They’d had enough.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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How Democracies Die
Check out How Democracies Die - <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER &bull; The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe&mdash;forces running rampant...
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
May we display survivor stories proudly on every shelf we can. Any way we can speak to survivors and say: I believe you. I am a safe space. It’s okay to tell. We must continue to identify who is for this and who is against it. bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Make sure you know your rights!
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“In The Double Tax, Harvard researcher Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman summarizes the disparities that women face as they navigate life's biggest moments.” A juggernaut in what should be required reading in intersectional education. #doubletax expertly outlines the pain points and gives us action plans.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
NoKings.org | October 18
Artwork of diverse set of hands holding a No Kings protest sign together.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“They’ve taken eight months to assiduously attack our nation now, but they’ve been planning this for 60 years. Our job is to make sure we are fighting back just as hard.” @staceyabrams.com explains the ten steps to autocracy and how the Trump administration has fulfilled all of them.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Just dropped... On what would have been her 42nd birthday, I'm thinking of Virginia and wondering how joyful her life might have been, "had she not been forced to slay demons." www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering Virginia Giuffre
Daughter, Sister, Mother, Survivor, and Fierce Advocate
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
“An experimental mRNA vaccine boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy in a mouse-model study, bringing researchers one step closer to their goal of developing a universal vaccine to “wake up” the immune system against cancer.”
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Surprising finding could pave way for universal cancer vaccine - UF Health
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An experimental mRNA vaccine boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy in a mouse-model study, bringing researchers one step…
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/08/2025
Public schools receive billions each year in reimbursements for services such as counseling and speech therapy — and those programs are at risk following President Trump's cuts to Medicaid.
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Schools brace for potential cuts to special education funding
Medicaid cuts could impact special education services in public schools, leaving districts to find alternative funding sources.
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Ashley Ocean @ashleyocean.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Solidarity FOREVER. 💔 Refusal to accept today’s news is the ONLY answer. Donate to survivor Org’s in defiance, volunteer to support community in any way right now while we are asked to hold a line deep in the trenches. They will not break us. Reach out if you need support. KEEP GOING! 🌞 #metoo
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