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Dan Hirschman

@asociologist.bsky.social
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Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11m
The US Commission on Civil Rights has formally rebuked the Trump administration's legal strategy for its "anti-antisemitism" on campus campaign, citing Jewish Studies scholars arguing that "Zionism is not an ethnic or ancestral trait." www.usccr.gov/reports/2026...
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The Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses
The Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses examines how institutions of higher education and the federal government have responded to allegations of antisemitism ...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28m
“Had it come into effect, someone found guilty of secretly recording others would have faced fines of up to $1,500 and/or a prison sentence. Companies making wearables without a recording indicator or tech designed to block such indicators would have faced fines of up to $2,500 per violation.”
engadget.com
Newsom vetoes smart glasses privacy bill - Engadget
The language of the bill was overbroad, in Newsom's opinion.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 22m
When non-violent protests happened at Cornell, Trump cancelled hundreds of millions in grants in the name of "student safety." Now that an actual student safety crisis has been fully revealed it's crickets from the Feds. We all know why
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16h
Took 21 years but @theonion.com once again predicted the future.
After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future
The U.S. military formally withdrew from Iraq, ending a presence that stoked years of bloodshed, and leaving behind a battered nation trapped between warring allies.Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'
Published March 9, 2005
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 3h
The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.
We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact. 

We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators. 

The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses.

We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 4h
there should be no university police forces. Cornell has failed in every way and every process, including the lack of regulation of greek life before this horrible rape even happened, the police, the title ix processes. it is disgusting.
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 4h
I’m old enough to remember when the msm wouldn’t treat politicians raising enormous amount of funding from special interests for a campaign as an admirable feat, a “record-shattering war chest.” They used to cast this as bad. Now they attach positive descriptors. Another sign of social decline.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 4h
The Cornell University Police Department “did not inform Mr. Van Houten’s office that Jane Doe had said she had been raped.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 16h
42 original cosponsors now. AOC signed on.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
This is a good list. The #1 biggest problem in Title IX is that there is no oversight and massive conflicts of interest. Schools can (and do) prioritize the institution over survivors, even when it requires breaking the law. Independent investigations would change that.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h
I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h
This is a free PDF to my article about trauma-informed, survivor-centered teaching. It's all about how to talk about sexual violence with the assumption your class is full of survivors who are eager to have that conversation--as long as you can do it without victim-blame or rape myths.
nicolebedera.com
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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Timely new paper in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: Does rising wealth concentration undermine American democracy? Using variation across the 50 U.S. states, results reveal a clear, negative effect of millionaire wealth concentration on democratic performance. doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag058
Wealth concentration in the United States has reached heights not seen since the Gilded Age, renewing fears that concentrated economic power may undermine democracy. Yet empirical research linking inequality to democratic erosion remains inconclusive, partly because most studies focus on cross-country comparison and examine income rather than wealth. This study exploits variation across fifty U.S. states; each
embedded in a common federal framework but differing in political and economic dynamics. To estimate the exogenous effect of rising wealth concentration on democratic backsliding, I develop a shift-share instrument of state-level millionaire wealth shares. Results reveal a clear, negative effect on democratic performance. Causal mediation analysis demonstrates that the effect is mediated by the share of seats held by
Republicans in state legislatures, pointing to a mechanism of elite influence through partisan channels. These findings demonstrate that subnational wealth disparities, and their convergence with partisan politics, actively erode American democratic institutions.
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧵My new column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social praises the US Civil Rights Comm'n report on campus antisemitism for calling out illegal & unhelpful Trump admin actions. I also rebut a claim that the Comm'n should have endorsed a definition of antisemitism, following up on my earlier testimony. /1
verdict.justia.com
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission Tackles Campus Antisemitism with Justified Nuance
Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf discusses the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s final report on the federal response to campus antisemitism, examining both its bipartisan findings and the separate....
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3. The Cornell Daily Sun! Need I say more? These fierce, courageous journalists -and Jane Doe herself- are heroes. www.cornellsun.com/page/donate May the students who graduate this year not find themselves 35 years later, as I do, feeling that nothing has changed. /end
cornellsun.com
Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2. Equimundo, an organization working to ensure a future where men, women, and individuals of all gender identities share power and care work more equally, and where all live free from violence. 3/ www.equimundo.org/donate/
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Donate | Equimundo
By giving today, you are contributing to a future where everyone shares power and care work more equally, and where all live free from violence.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Center of Tompkins County, where Cornell is based, offers FREE support to anyone impacted by domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, rape, child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. Services are also available to friends, intimate partners and family members of survivors. 2/ www.actompkins.org
actompkins.org
Advocacy Center – Provider of Domestic and Sexual Violence services in Tompkins County, NY
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Headed to Ithaca today for my lecture tomorrow on how the invisibility of gender based violence creates pathways to mass violence, & what we can do to prevent it and keep us all safer. I donated the Lectureship award to three organizations. Please consider supporting their work. 1-The Advocacy 1/
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Advocacy Center – Provider of Domestic and Sexual Violence services in Tompkins County, NY
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolute boss move. It's upthread, but Dr. Miller-Idriss is donating part of her honorarium from the University Lectureship to the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How the f- is any of this normal? Labour can choose to undo this immediately. Deproscribe Palestine Action. It was a disastrous decision by the Starmer admin and Burnham can undo it.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are no US forces in Iraq for the first time in two decades I need people to remember this when some folks say deploying troops to Iran or Yemen will be a six month op.
reuters.com
US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran
The departure is celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies ​who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 CfP: "Offshore Capitalism: Climate and Crisis", mini-conference at 2027 SASE in Glasgow 🚨 With @joseatiles.bsky.social, @andreabinder.bsky.social & Sabine Dörry, we welcome papers on 'the offshore' from a range of perspectives. DEADLINE: 1 Nov. Apply here: sase.org/conference-s...
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Back of the envelope, in my own life it is easily over 6 months.
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One time I estimated how many days of lost work and school were caused by sexual assault and stalking and the numbers were staggering.
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on X: NEW: I analyzed seven years of Cornell's sexual violence case data. Expulsions are very rare. 1,216 reports of sexual assault, DV and stalking, 2018-2024 162 formal investigations. 51 findings of fault. 14 suspensions. 7 expulsions or dismissals.
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is genuinely true. Epstein perpetrators had a heavy hand in developing today’s campus sexual violence response.
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Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Within a decade, I suspect that millennial calls for “consent training” will look just as out of touch as boomer calls for “rape whistles.” Both interventions were equally as successful. The rate of sexual assault has not changed on college campuses since we started measuring it 60 years ago.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Cornell philosophy prof @katemanne.bsky.social in The Cut:
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case it's useful to anyone, I put together a collection of links about a horrific 2024 sexual assault at Cornell and recent uproar about Cornell's response to that event. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/s...
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sexual assault at cornell
As most readers here likely know, Cornell has been in the spotlight this week as new details came out about a sexual assault that took place at a fraternity in 2024. This post contains a collection…
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While obviously not on the level of ordering war crimes, this policy change will do real and lasting harm of a different kind. The U.S. service academies have benefited tremendously by being able to attract and retain top academic talent to teach future leaders. That ends with this memo. 🤬
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Onion and McSweeney’s on the same day…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
All it's missing is: “Please note, no support for Palestinian rights shall be articulated. Discovery of human rights advocacy and opposition to genocide will result in immediate, nonnegotiable expulsion, and where applicable, deportation.”
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 29/09/2026
It is pretty wild how insanely close the current round of AI+sexuality+SF+rationalist discourse is to the plot of Terra Ignota. Ada Palmer is basically a prophet.
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“No student should ever be left wondering whether the institutions meant to protect them will listen and act,” Hochul wrote. “There are also serious questions about Cornell’s campus culture and its systems for prevention, reporting, and response.”
cornellsun.com
Gov. Kathy Hochul Requests ‘Independent Review’ of Cornell's Response to Alleged Chi Phi Gang Rape
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has called for a review by "outside counsel" of the University's response to allegations of sexual assault and rape at the Chi Phi house in 2024.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And I know this thread is already long, so I’m going to wrap it up with a link to Sara Ahmed’s beautiful essay about how it’s actually okay for perpetrators to face the consequences of their actions—including exclusion from the social spaces where they abused their power.
feministkilljoys.substack.com
The Complainer as Carceral Feminist
I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy pub day to @lindsayowens.bsky.social for her highly-anticipated book Gouged, about all the sophisticated strategies companies now use to separate you from your money. Hal Singer reviews: prospect.org/2026/09/29/o...
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Battling an Army of Price-Setters - The American Prospect
Lindsay Owens’s new book details all the ways that corporations seek to maximize profits at your expense.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"biology textbook authors describe plant reproduction through a set of habitually repeated stories that reliably draw on conventional gender stereotypes, reflecting those found in mainstream accounts of human reproduction. In doing so, they cast male plants and plant parts as active heroes..."
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is another attack on the so-called "feminization" of higher education, abetted by widespread ideology (also held by far too many uni leaders) that education has no value beyond a taxpayer-subsidized job training program for corporations. Also part of effort to resegregate higher education.
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Although young women still lag behind young men, particularly mothers, our findings show steady convergence and challenge the narrative of stalled progress." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember how the Feds and university sprung into action to expel non-violent protestors in 2024? That happened at precisely the same time these men were engaging in actual monstrous behavior against other students, with most getting a slight rap on the knuckles as punishment.
nytimes.com
Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened
After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Historically White, wealthy fraternities traffic in risk. They revel in recklessness. Violence and contagion are the same opportunity to consolidate their power and demonstrate their impunity. It won't stop; it's their currency.
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
... about student life during Covid, the university's wealthiest fraternities threw full-blown superspreader parties in mid-2020. To the tune of $25,000 per. It was *that* important to them. ...
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Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test | Lisa Wade, PhD
For half a century, Americans have been told that science and technology is the future. We invested in the so-called “hard sciences,” while casting the “soft sciences” as
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All the news about the Cornell 7 has inspired some folks, like the fantastic @jessicavalenti.bsky.social, to re-up their calls for banning historically White fraternities. 10 years ago I reviewed the history of these orgs, arguing they were un-reformable. I stand by my argument. In my new book...
time.com
Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good
'Reform is simply not possible'
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