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Magnus Lehnsherr @i-magnus.bsky.social · 4h
Let's go, #Ballhalla! #GSV #Valkyries
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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 11h
"One takeaway for Democrats is that they must not fall for the fantasy that there is a constructive relationship to have with either Trump or the Republican Party over the next two years." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/o...
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Opinion | If Democrats Win the Senate, They Cannot Mess Around (Gift Article)
The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 5h
I'm thinking Amihere will have a role too with her potential distance shooting along with the shot blocking and rebounds. Double big is probably needed.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 6h
She experienced every emotion imaginable in just a few seconds [📹 elena_tipelius] Original post
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 6h
According to advanced analytics they won this game (words immortalized by Kenny Atkinson as the Cavs got swept aside by the Knickers.)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
andrew sullivan getting the facts wrong while regurgitating braindead racist memes? crazy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
“Let him talk!” Watch how @abdulelsayed.bsky.social handles this heckler and then think about how Trump mocked that woman’s weight as his supporters punched her in the face👇🏽 “You can pray how you pray, I’ll pray how I pray — The book that matters is the 🇺🇸 constitution.” 🔥
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 12h
We are going to finally see a test of whether you can out organize hyper-extreme voter suppression & hyper-extreme gerrymandering.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h
The other premise of The Edge of Space-Time is that a healthy democratic society sustains cultural workers who ask big questions about how the universe works because that is part of our ancestral inheritance and who we are as a species, cosmic storytellers.
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos “With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstei...
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 13h
As I've written before, & I"m sure I'll write again, both here & at the mothership Elon is the biggest insider threat. In August 2023 Ronan Farrow reported how Biden's senior natsec treated him as equivalent to a head of state. 1/ (Link in next post).
Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts and colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. Kahl had returned to his room, with its heavy drapery and distant view of the Eiffel Tower, after a day of meetings with officials from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. A senior defense official told me that Kahl was surprised by whom he was about to contact: “He was, like, ‘Why am I calling Elon Musk?’ ”

The reason soon became apparent. “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,” Kahl told me. SpaceX, Musk’s space-exploration company, had for months been providing Internet access across Ukraine, allowing the country’s forces to plan attacks and to defend themselves. But, in recent days, the forces had found their connectivity severed as they entered territory contested by Russia. More alarmingly, SpaceX had recently given the Pentagon an ultimatum: if it didn’t assume the cost of providing service in Ukraine, which the company calculated at some four hundred million dollars annually, it would cut off access. “We started to get a little panicked,” the senior defense official, one of four who described the standoff to me, recalled. Musk “could turn it off at any given moment. And that would have real operational impact for the Ukrainians.”
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
hi I’m your new press secretary and this is my first time reading words out loud www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Hi, I’m Your New Press Secretary, and It’s My First Time Reading Words Out Loud
A very uncomfortable 14 minutes
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There may be periods where this country was more brutal, racist or even evil, but when it comes to pure, unadulterated meanness, this might be the greatest America has ever been
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Meanest Country Ever
Public executions, concentration camps and outright racism are just byproducts of America’s “mean girl era.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!
www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org
Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices
Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The largest single Republican donor owns the platform X and uses it to spread false rumors about Democratic candidates. Here's why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Legalized Bribery. (H/T @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ) (Core Civic is based in Brentwood, TN)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Opinion | As a principled Republican who came of age in the Reagan/Bush era, I find myself agreeing more with Democrats than Trump’s Republicans on the most fundamental issues of our democracy. Here’s why I’ll still be voting straight ticket Republican.
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is 🔥
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The real important take away here is that Green & the other elected & appointed officials, especially the Republicans, know that Trump is the source of a lot of the threats & he could stop the bulk of them. Which is why she asked him to stop & he said no. 1/
Her breaking point came after the president called her a “traitor.” Of the torrent of threats that followed, one stood out. It was aimed at her son.

“That’s the one that bothers me on a visceral level,” she said.

Ms. Greene reached out to Mr. Trump, hoping for compassion from a president she had stood by for years. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks.

She got a five-word reply from the president: “Your fault, you deserve it.”
Weeks later, Ms. Greene announced her retirement from Congress.

“I looked at what are the risks and what is the reward,” she said. “And for me, it was, I’m not going to be treated that way, and I’m not going to have my children’s lives threatened.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026
As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL
500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amid ballooning inflation and corruption, it's getting harder and harder to find MAGA diehards in the diners of Trump country. But after much effort, we did. Here are their personal stories, their opinions, and what Democrats must do to understand them.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We need a guy with red yarn and a lot of stickies to figure out the connections between the weirdo fanatics in Silicon Valley and the think tanks.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We used to make shit, build shit in this country. Now we put our hand in the next guy's pocket. Or so I was once told. This shit is going to make the mortgage-backed securities scandal look like a time of modulated economic growth and sober investment opportunity.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
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Along Came Poly-4-The-W @alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Everyone saw in HD how upset Gabby Williams was aft the 2026 fibawwc gold medal game Loss to the mighty usabwnt.. There are representatives on these wnba teams - the lv aces of the highest priority among said Olympians & legendary Winners... Gabby faced them head on & is winning us these games✌️💜
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Gabby Williams Flex
ALT: Gabby Williams Flex
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The emergence of Black Plague in Russia can be blamed on the provocative good health of neighboring European societies. by John Mearsheimer
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
the thing about this guy is we do have one thing in common and it's our opinion of his fans
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Now pronouncing the "thu" part ....
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
no seriously, if the only reason you use a website is "everyone else is there" then what you need to do is log off and ask your parents what to do because you're not old enough to be making your own decisions
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
called it a week ago
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Take your own advice cornholio
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And now we begin to see what Putin gets out of his deal with Trump. We'll see more details leaked out over the next several days.
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But not for mangoes - I absolutely do not trust that everything they go through in transit helps them ripen properly. Buy green and ripen at home to that beautiful aromatic yellow/orange/red shade with that exact softness for blissful heavenly flavorful taste.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
I’ve seen Black people across social media platforms talking about picnics at lynchings and so many white people are in our mentions insisting that the last public execution was 1936 and that lynchings were “mob murder” not state sanctioned. So confidently loud and incredibly wrong.
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Everything A Border @bordered-lands.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The perfect post about Wallingford doesn't exi-
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 09/10/2026
Trauma endures in Paris suburb after police grenade shatters teenager's jaw: 'They maim a student, leave, and then what? How are we supposed to pick up the pieces?'
lemonde.fr
Trauma endures in Paris suburb after police grenade shatters teenager's jaw: 'They maim a student, leave, and then what? How are we supposed to pick up the pieces?'
On September 28, 14-year-old Eden suffered a fractured jaw and lost most of his teeth after he was struck in the face by a tear-gas grenade fired at close range, just a few meters from his high school, where a protest was taking place. Students, teachers and parents spoke of their fear, anger and sense of helplessness.
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buddhacant @buddhacant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's right at the age he likes. When you're a star they let you do it. Etc.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).
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