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Bilyana Petrova

@bpetrova.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech. Inequality, redistribution, and political economy.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/09/2026
Trump to scrap Biden-era climate protections on power plant pollution ft.trib.al/FlzPtQu
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Trump to scrap Biden-era climate protections on power plant pollution
Move continues dismantling of environmental protections during the president’s second term as he boosts fossil-fuel industry
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When your students exceed your expectations and your TA does an outstanding job. ☺️🎊
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
65:3 🐟️ Sore losers? 😓 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social use survey experiments after major U.S. elections to test whether reminding people of a party's loss, and their reactions to it 🤬, impacts their supportability 📣
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Angry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Angry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes - Volume 65 Issue 3
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
7.65 GW - the equivalent of electricity for 5m Americans, or 10m Europeans, or 125m Africans newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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davidbroska.bsky.social @davidbroska.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Americans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it? New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Book challenges across the country have increased in recent years. The American Library Association reported 2025 as the second-highest year for book challenges recorded by the organization, with 92% coming from government officials or special interest groups." radio.kttz.org/2026-07-10/b...
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Book bans take center stage at Lubbock ISD budget meeting, Sen. Perry says state law revisions may be needed
Lubbock ISD’s school library advisory council first met in November to review books flagged as potentially inappropriate to be on the shelves, in compliance with state law. Lubbock-area state senator ...
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW 🧵: We mapped our 2024 presidential election data by congressional district for the 2026 map. Due to new GOP gerrymanders, the median seat went from AZ-01 at Trump+3.1 on the 2024 map to VA-01 at Trump+4.9, 3.5 points to the right of the country. Trump won a 235-200 majority, up by 5 from 2024
Map of the 2024 presidential election result margin by congressional district for the 2026 map. Red districts would have voted for Donald Trump and blue districts for Kamala Harris. Darker shades represent larger margins in increments of 10 percentage points.

Trump would have won a 235-to-200 majority of districts and carried the median district by 4.9 points, placing it 3.5 points to the right of his national margin of 1.5 points after rounding.
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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 01/07/2026
Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”
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In Massachusetts, parked EVs will start feeding the grid this summer
Three electric school buses will kick-start the state’s groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid pilot program once school's out, with more EVs to be added in the…
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This was truly one of the best - and best organized! - conferences I’ve ever attended. What a truly impressive start! (With huge thanks to everyone who made it happen, especially the organizers.)
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/06/2026
A new Gallup poll found Americans associate the American Dream with freedom, financial security and success. But more Americans say they feel financially worse off than before, while even more are worried about finding or keeping a job. wapo.st/4ezfUga
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
'When solar and wind power are combined with battery storage, they can undercut new gas power, challenging one of the fossil fuel industry’s arguments against renewables: that they cannot provide 24/7 electricity when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.' www.euronews.com/2026/05/08/r...
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Why batteries are changing the renewables debate
The cost of battery storage has dropped more than 90 per cent since 2010, bringing the cost of renewable energy down with it.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 20/06/2026
A Wall Street Journal poll finds that even the wealthiest worry about financial security for themselves and their children. on.wsj.com/4w1TriV
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Even wealthy Americans say the political and economic systems are stacked against them
A Wall Street Journal poll finds that even the wealthiest worry about financial security for themselves and their children.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Honestly… it’s a cultural experience. 😅 Especially when it comes to customer service.
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We have created a Bluesky account for the WhoGov project, which we will use for updates, sharing research on political elites, & data visualizations. We are working on many new projects, including a new webpage (will be launched in July), gathering more data, a R-package, and we even got a new logo
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NPR @npr.org · 03/06/2026
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. n.pr/3RK4U7X
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People with cancer or HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/IPwShlQ
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Introducing Dr. Noah Pruitt (@noahpruitt99.bsky.social)! I am incredibly proud of you, and I look forward to everything you will accomplish. Sincere thanks to a wonderful and supportive committee. (@fthames.bsky.social, Sayan Banerjee, and Austin McCrea)
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 25/05/2026
A survey of Midwestern lenders showed repayment rates are down while demand for loans was rising. on.wsj.com/4nWdSLq
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American farmers are taking out more debt—and some are struggling to keep up with repayments—as they contend with higher costs tied to the Iran war
A survey of Midwestern lenders showed repayment rates are down while demand for loans was rising.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
File under: stressful academic emails. (I’m not sure why Toronto decided that I should receive an email about teaching Canadian politics, but, even if it applied, the Spring semester literally JUST wrapped up. 😳)
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"All 22 members of the advisory board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Given the persistent disruptions from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, @cronco.bsky.social and I have written a substack article about how Europe’s fossil fuel dependence is now as much about macroeconomic resilience as climate. A 🧵. #Iran #Inflation #Energy open.substack.com/pub/outsampl...
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The Iran War, Energy Price Shocks, and the Green Transition
The Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz strengthens the economic case for accelerating decarbonisation and reducing exposure to fossil fuels.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Bulgaria’s former president claims ‘victory’ after projections show him winning parliamentary elections
Rumen Radev – an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia - looked set to top the polls in the country’s eighth election in five years
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism". There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Party ID “explains far more variation in elite climate beliefs than ideology, trust in science, or broader conspiratorial predispositions.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/04/2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a nationwide alert late last year to law enforcement agencies: Harassment of judges has surged, and the trend is likely to continue. The New York Times has identified thousands of threats targeting state judges in the past three years alone.
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State Judges Turn to Guns in New Era of Judicial Threats
A Times examination reveals thousands of threats against state judges, in addition to assaults and fatal attacks. Judges say local law enforcement agencies often can’t offer adequate protection.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Zach Dickson @zachdickson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A fascinating thread. (Also fantastic if you are teaching research design.)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It is out! We find that linked fate (or lack thereof) helps explain 2024 Trump support in young Latinos. @mattlamb.bsky.social @landgravephd.bsky.social spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Latinos have moved politically right in the last few years in United States elections, with the percentage of Latinos supporting the Republican presidential candidate at an all-time high in the 2024 ...
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Matt Lamb @mattlamb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Do the clothes make the candidate? In my paper with Steven Perry, we find candidates who dress more formally were perceived as more politically sophisticated, & indirectly had increased support. The text complexity of candidate messages had no effect. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece discusses the failures of Trump's strategy to create manufacturing jobs--but puts it in the broader context of the previous failures to achieve this goal and why it isn't the right goal to start with. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Every President Tries It. It Never Works.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is exceptionally interesting. "Each $1,000 increase in maximum EITC benefits cut voter turnout by 0.5 percentage points, reduced Democratic identification by 1.8 points, and raised Republican identification by 1.1 points." The mechanisms point toward the importance of environmental factors.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Those with an immigration background from established democracies are more likely to support green parties than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes. [...] immigrants build on experiences from their origin country when participating in politics in their host country."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/03/2026
Ukraine war briefing: Children ordered to leave key Ukrainian stronghold as Russians advance
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Ukraine war briefing: Children ordered to leave key Ukrainian stronghold as Russians advance
Compulsory evacuation of children begins in Sloviansk. Kyiv still expects first tranche of 90bn euro loan despite Hungary veto. What we know on day 1,487
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Harry Stevens @harrystevens.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have a new story with @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how Meta and others, seeking power for data centers, are building their own power plants. These projects have transformed places like New Albany, Ohio, where farmland has given way to industry. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
When you have nice colleagues. :)
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"AI is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world. For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products." www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Filip Kostelka @filipkostelka.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.
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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨New version of paper🚨 osf.io/preprints/os... How do oligarchs shape policy outcomes in developing democracies? I argue they do so through informal networks of legislators personally linked to them. Using unique quantitative & qualitative evidence from Ukraine, I show that:
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🌀 👣 @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social show that in Western Europe, generous #welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives more favourably inclined toward #immigrants. 💸Indeed, cutting benefits risks exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment 👇🏾
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How welfare policy affects immigration attitudes
Social policies shape public opinions on immigration. A study by Alina Vrânceanu and Bilyana Petrova shows that in Western Europe, generous welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives…
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Alexander F. Gazmararian @agazmararian.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing. Did these investments shift public opinion? We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden. Thread 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Left vs Right is becoming personal 🔴🔵 New cross-national evidence by N. Lin, L.P. Santoso & R.T. Stevenson shows voters in Western democracies are developing emotional attachments to the Left and Right as social groups, but how will this impact voting?
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Out-group homogeneity as evidence of left-right identification in multi-party democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Out-group homogeneity as evidence of left-right identification in multi-party democracies
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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In this Element, @fthames.bsky.social + @ladyprofessor.bsky.social takes a large-N approach to exploring whether inequality variation in states at conflict leads to variation in women's health outcomes. Free to download now! 2/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Conflict and Maternal Health
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Conflict and Maternal Health
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
William Shakespeare, 400 years ago. 👏
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Look at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!
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