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@debm55.bsky.social
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Was blue dot in a red county in a blue state. Moved to downtown Chicago. I’m a partially retired RN & lawyer working part-time doing healthcare regulatory analysis for the company from which I retired. Love my two pups more than anything.

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 19h
Today marks the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Babyn Yar—one of last century’s most painful tragedies. In 1941, the Nazi regime began mass executions of civilians in Kyiv, murdering over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Roma. Never forget this heinous crime so that new ones don’t happen🕯️🧵
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A case that isn’t getting the headlines it deserves: an LSU student was raped by an LSU football player. He admitted it, but the school is still letting him play football. How multiple systems have failed this young woman & why she went public to get the help she needs: youtu.be/LihN7hsNKnw?...
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SHOCKING College SCANDAL EXPOSES Stakes Of Trump’s DANGEROUS AGENDA!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam Hoffman was convicted of raping his friend's young son. He should be in jail, but Paxton used his power to get him on a misdemeanor. That means he only served for 60 days, didn't have to register as a sex offender in Texas, and then left the state.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A reminder that Nazi Musk created a fake voter registration website called “Vote Safe.” It is far from safe as it was made to steal information from voters. Never go into that site, ever. Please let everyone know.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Her Death Was Avoidable Tierra Walker begged doctors for an abortion as she deteriorated. Over 100 doctors in Texas treated her. Not one mentioned the lifesaving treatment she needed. Her 14-year-old son cried, screaming "I need you!" She Died Anyway. jessica.substack.com/p/texas-tier...
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Texas Let Tierra Walker Die. Now Her Family Is Suing.
The suit is the first of its kind, and hopefully not the last
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
BREAKING 1. Two U.S. service members were killed in action in Jordan on July 17 as American and partner forces defended against Islamic Republic of Iran ballistic missile and drone attacks, CENTCOM says. One U.S. service member remains missing in action.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
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Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social Please sign up and share generalstrikeus.com
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The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
In text messages revealed by Karen Read, a #Massachusetts State Trooper praised Hitler and told a Canton police officer to let a Black motorist involved in an accident die, referring to the motorist with the n-word.
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New Karen Read lawsuit reveals shocking string of racist, obscene texts allegedly between cops
Karen Read filed a lawsuit alleging a string of obscene and racist texts between a former Massachusetts State Police trooper and Canton police reveals a “culture of bias and corruption that they built...
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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
There are three other choices. The big accounts not mentioning them are promoting that misogynistic Nazi because Platner is not a Progressive at all. The pod cast bros, etc. bsky.app/profile/char...
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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Bangor area friends! I'll be speaking at ACT UP Bangor's Candlelight Vigil tonight. Please join me tonight to shed light on this crisis, advocate for those in need, and demand action from our representatives.
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
JUNE 5th
8 pm
At the Steps of the BANGOR CITY HALL
In Memory of those Killed by OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE.
45 Years and 45 Million Dead by HIVIAIDS. June 5th 1981 was the date the first mortality report from a "new gay
cancer" was listed in the (U.S.) Mortality and Morbidity Report. As our current President seeks to eliminate HIV funding, we
protest.
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL: Speakers. Songs. Outrage and Planning.
ACT UP, FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS.
Sponsors: Act Up Bangor, Bangor Pride, Act Up Nation.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We're here, we're queer, get over it, Andy.
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MAGA Rep. Ripped After Claiming That 'Homosexuality Has No Place In America' In Vile Tweet
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Of course Trump wants to celebrate and now pay his Jan 6 terrorists who attacked Capitol to help him. It's exactly what Hitler did when he became Chancellor of Germany for those who waged his attempted coup in 1923. Trump is not original. Nazis before him did the exact same thing.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 19/05/2026
We FOIA’d the Department of Defense and after multiple follow ups, we finally heard back. The illegal militarization of Los Angeles and federalization of the Cal Guard cost taxpayers at least $111.2 MILLION — and that’s not including civilian costs.
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Goddammit! Enough is enough! Now Trump's claiming to have RESURRECTED THE DEAD with a drug here! READ THIS AGAIN. THEN LISTEN TO HIM. How much is enough?
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AMHotFlash @amhotflash.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
But…but…but…she doesn’t know Epstein…🔻
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
AI accused a grandma of robbing a bank. She was arrested at gunpoint, and spent five months in jail for a crime she didn’t commit.
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AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti. DHS has body-cam footage. They haven't released it. 66 days and counting. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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DHS says it has body-cam footage related to Pretti shooting in Minneapolis
The lawsuits aim to prevent federal officials from destroying evidence related to Alex Pretti’s killing and to end the surge of immigration officers in Minnesota.
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Jozef Imrich @jozefimrich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life."
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
2007: US DOJ Prosecutor Marie Villafaña Prepared 60 Counts Against Epstein, Her Bosses Stopped Her Villafaña interviewed teen girls. Drafted a 60-count indictment charging Epstein, and assistants with sex trafficking. Alex Acosta, Menchel and Filip killed it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sex-Crimes Prosecutor's Repeated Pleas for Epstein's Arrest Were Denied
A federal prosecutor was ready to charge Jeffrey Epstein with 60 counts of sex trafficking and other crimes in 2007. Her bosses’ reaction: What’s the rush?
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 10/03/2026
They are forcing hospitals to close. Kicking people off their insurance. Taking food away from hungry families. All while launching yet another war in the Middle East. It’s a disgrace.
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𝕋𝕪 𝕊𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕟 ☮️💟🕉️ @thetysullivan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
DHS killed a 23yo in Texas in March 2025 the same way they killed Renee Good www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months
No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026
I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
US Citizen, Ruben Ray Martinez, was shot 3 times through the driver's side window & killed on South Padre Island in Texas by Homeland Security Investigators while celebrating his 23rd birthday on March 15th, 2025. This DHS & #ICELawlessness must stop. Remember his name: Ruben Ray Martinez 💔
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list. Ruben Ray Martinez (23) www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 20/02/2026
Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
There’s only 1 person in Congress who doesn’t trade stocks, doesn’t take corporate PAC money, and has a public schedule. That’s me. And it should be the standard.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."
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Epstein survivor tells CBS News how she was trafficked, and assaulted
Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
😕🇺🇸💰
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Senator Kelly happy that a federal judge block Kegbreath from stripping away his rank & pay, saying the Regime trampled over his 1st Amendment Rights. The Regime is trying to take away all of our rights. youtu.be/2tVBlElZoUI?...
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WATCH: Sen. Kelly says Trump administration ‘out of control’ after judge blocks Pentagon punishment
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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rattgirrll 💫 @princesspabst.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
minnesota is still being terrorized by ICE. it hasn’t stopped and from local reports has gotten way worse. it isn’t making major headlines anymore and we know why. ABOLISH ICE !!!
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Scott #NAFO Army @stuggy58.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sad news out of Tumbler Ridge BC. A mass school shooting has taken 10 victims with 27 injured. This will devastate such a small community. This has to be the worst mass shooting ever in our Province. So sorry for the families, friends & entire community.
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debm55.bsky.social @debm55.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great to see this solidarity flip.it/MYNkxU
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Governors won't hold meeting with Trump after White House only invited Republicans, Stitt says
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, shared the cancellation in a letter to fellow governors on Monday.
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#Trump Fed Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, is in the #EpsteinFiles #Epstein This regime is going to ROB US BLIND!!!!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If anyone was laid off at The Washington Post and wants to promote their latest venture, newsletter, blog, etc, just let me know. I'll try to create a running thread here. Also, if you wanna hop on with me and promote it to our subscribers, let me know. I'll try my best.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
THIS IS HORRIFIC‼️ This administration has so much blood on their hands‼️
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Cindi-Be Kind (mostly) @cinian1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Face it. ICE HAS ALIENATED AMERICANS by slamming their victims faces into the ground, wearing mask, not identifying themselves and using aggressive “Gestapo” tactics on immigrants & citizens alike. Americans are resisting, as they should. It is time to defund ICE! Repost if you agree. #BlueCrew
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wow 👀 🤬 Former Sniper reviews ICE shooting and uncovers what ACTUALLY happened
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