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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 18h
It’s like writing up an Epstein profile and ignoring his sex crimes
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h
“All Vladimir Putin has to do is tell his soldiers to stop fighting, and then the war is over. The Ukrainians cannot stop fighting because, if they do, their country will be conquered.” If our major news organizations understand that, they don’t care. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17h
All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16h
Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15h
UPDATE: The Trump administration apologized to a judge after DHS’ taxpayer-funded Trump ads aired in hundreds of ad spots after she blocked them. The excuse: DHS’ lawyers missed the email. The judge had flagged that the $20 million for the ads was approved in under two hours.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mike refused to explain to Georgia voters why he allows neo-Nazi propaganda to be disseminated from his own home. From his own home. This man wants to take charge over our national affairs when he can't even manage what's happening under his own roof.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
mainstream media too busy in midwestern diners asking elderly white trump supporters for the 10 millionth time if they still love and adore trump
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the right can coordinate and push a million fake stories and liberals won't get together to push out the truth.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23h
hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h
impeach tear down the ballroom imprison the crooks abolish ice restore funding
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 21h
No words better express Orwell’s argument about the deadening effects of political cliches than the repetition of “accountability”, “transparency”, and “raises questions” instead of calls for specific redress for particular harms
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h
From Lauren Sánchez to Susan Dell: see the Mar-a-Lago wives' then-and-now transformations over the years www.hellomagazine.com/us/928483/fr...
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From Lauren Sánchez to Susan Dell: see the Mar-a-Lago wives' then-and-now transformations over the years
See the then-and-now photographs of Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Susan Dell, Ivanka Trump and other women associated with Donald Trump's social and political circle.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Missed this story about Trump's efforts to elect his buddy Bolsonaro Jr in Brazil. The US is also heavily tampering in Bolivia right now. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Brazil briefed French, German officials on alleged US, Russian election interference
A French and German delegation travelled this month to Brasilia, where intelligence officials briefed them on alleged ​US and Russian interference before Brazil's election, according to sources and do...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brainstorm: How do we use this to taint everyone getting funding from Musk. "Backed by the guy demanding the right to disseminate fake pictures showing you naked"?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember how @dansavage.bsky.social Google bombed Rick Santorum's name so it came up as the definition for ""the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex." I think there's the ability to do something similar with Schmitt. www.thebulwark.com/p/eric-schmi...
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Eric Schmitts the Bed
Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
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V @vp511.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LMFAO
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I talked to some smart people and this is what they think Democratic Party leaders need to be prepared to do with their congressional majority come January if they want to accomplish much of anything: www.salon.com/2026/09/24/the-democr…
• No more cowering from veto threats. Democrats should dare Trump to veto
 popular legislation and make him own the consequences if he does.
 • Demand major concessions from Trump in return for passing a new debt limit and
 a defense spending bill, and shut down the government if necessary.
 • Drive a wedge between Republican legislators and their increasingly unpopular
 and irrational leader.
 • No more protecting "centrist" Democrats from tough votes.
 • Tell the lobbyists to take a hike.
 • Impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for malfeasance.
 • Impeach Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought for violating
 congressional spending directives.
 • Order the Capitol Police to arrest and jail administration officials if they refuse to
 honor congressional subpoenas.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congrats to liberal centrists for spending the last six weeks making hating Hasan Piker the top issue in American politics only to now have your viewpoint intrinsincly shared with the most hated man on the planet. Genius move. No notes. zeteo.com/p/netanyahu-...
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First Draft: Netanyahu Slams Mamdani and Piker Before Nearly Empty UN
The Israeli PM prompted a walkout then teed up his targets to show him up for the war criminal he is. The White House, meanwhile, pumped out pro-Trump ads of dubious sanity but also likely illegality.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
when you see these keep in mind that members of congress could be questioned like this every day, and its a choice of hill reporters to stay chummy with these people (d+r, idgaf)
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections, Human Rights Watch said today." www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
I kept walking to my seat a few rows behind him. His staff or security are not happy with me. But Oz holds a position of public trust and is using it to make life unlivable for human beings in America. I should be the least of his problems. If you see Oz, let him have it. Let them eat crudités.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
breaking weekend social media fast to note nyt's @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social gives ample space to rahm emanuel attacking bernie sanders and aoc but cant be bothered to mention anything about rahm's connection to police brutality vs black people. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jaso...
Chicago Protesters Demand Mayor’s Resignation Over Police Brutality
Hundreds of protesters took the streets in Chicago after Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday apologized for the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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sthendrix.bsky.social @sthendrix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wish some journo would do an investigative piece on the NYT to expose how they make decisions internally. Is the soft pedaling, sane washing not to mention false equivalencies deliberate policy from editors or just incompetance by individual writers? Enquiring minds would like to know.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My first take (from work with @abenewman.bsky.social on the EU-US privacy wars) is that this is likely very stupid. ECJ judges are absolutely political, but are relatively insulated from electoral politics and raison d'etat. US interference makes a strong ruling vs Musk more politically attractive.
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soundgood2 @soundgood2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can subscribe for $1 for 6 months. It is worth it to read this.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now would be a good time for @pallone.house.gov to send Fox a letter promising an investigation into why they accepted this ad and how much they got paid to run it.
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Papers sucking him off know how to cover foreign tyrants when denied access to the presidential palace This WH press proves readers are just better off when reporters are far away from all tire swings
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love it when WaPo readers call bullshit on WaPo’s lame, credulous, and normalizing Trump coverage. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
What readers are saying
The comments overwhelmingly express skepticism and disbelief regarding the notion that Donald Trump has accepted responsibility for any negative outcomes during his presidency. Many commenters criticize his leadership, describing him as incapable of taking responsibility and... Show more
This summary is Al-generated. Al can make mistakes and this summary is not a replacement for reading the comments.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump treats WH reporters like shit. They should respond in kind. No more deference. Talk back to him. Tell him he just lied, and didn’t answer the question. Correct him. Confront him with reality. Ask him why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Ask him if he’s lying or just crazy.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The WHCA is useless. They will never give up access, because it defines them. So they have no leverage. Individual news organizations and reporters could choose to boycott or get a spine and start pushing back on his lying, derangement, rudeness, racism, misogyny, and thin skin. 
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Omg this is for real: www.dha.mil/hhpo This is fucked up and should be a major news story. And we definitely need a political cartoon of Pete Hegseth inspecting troops for morning boners.
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The provider will document the presence or absence of each of the following symptoms, together with the risk factors listed below:
• Reduced sexual desire
• Loss of spontaneous morning erections
• Erectile dysfunction
• Diminished physical performance or endurance not explained by training status or injury
• Impaired concentration or memory
• Unexplained loss of muscle mass or gain in fat mass , Donresced mood low motivation or disturhod deen
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Putin's Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr emptywheel.net/2026/09/19/p...
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Putin's Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr - emptywheel
At the same time Don Jr was hitting it off with his benefactor Umar Kremlev. DOD was awarding a company partially owned by him a big natsec critical contract.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
you can do all the federal programs you like, if people dont know they exist you wont get credit. biden repaired and rebuilt things in all 50 states. they barely talked about it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i wrote about all these airport repairs and upgrades. millions of people pass through these places. they had NO IDEA biden is the one who got it done. michiganindependent.com/economy/fede...
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Federal Government Invests $5.7 billion for State Infrastructure Projects
Invest.gov details how $699 billion in federal manufacturing and public infrastructure funding is being allocated in different states. Oliver Willis The White House on Tuesday launched a new website, ...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two AI stories today for Whiskey Pete--this one, and the almost starting a nuclear world war over bad AI one.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Donors named in the Epstein files have given Mike Rogers and groups supporting him nearly $4.7 million. It's not a coincidence that he wanted to protect people named in the files from public exposure. It's corruption. #MISen
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Donors named in Epstein files gave nearly $4.7 million to Mike Rogers and groups backing him - Detroit Metro Times
A Metro Times review found that donors named in the Epstein files have given nearly $4.7 million to Mike Rogers’ campaigns and groups supporting him.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
👀"If we see that a candidate’s talking about something like democracy over cost of living, then like that’s when they should not expect to see help from us" JICYMI - House Majority Pac (HMP) the establishment super pac for House Dems - don't want Dems to be talking about threats to our democracy.
"HMP’s red line: Affordability
House Majority PAC President Mike Smith made a lot of news on our latest episode of “Fly Out Day.”

But here’s something that stuck out to us the most: the House Democratic super PAC won’t spend a dime to elect Democrats who aren’t speaking about the economy or rising costs. This comes as HMP and other political organizations are beginning to make “cold-blooded decisions about when and where [they] actually spend.”

“We’ve been very clear to our candidates,” Smith said. “Anyone that’s not hyper-focused on cost of living and the economy as their No. 1 issue, don’t expect to see any support from House Majority PAC.”

Here’s an interesting quote from Smith aimed at candidates running on saving democracy:

“Democracy is a really important issue at the end of the day. If we see that a candidate’s talking about something like democracy over cost of living, then like that’s when they should not expect to see help from us because we want them laser focused on the thing that matters most to voters, which is the economy.”

This is a pretty extraordinary position coming from the largest outside group spending for House Democrats. HMP is demanding message discipline and is prepared to use that as a litmus test to decide how to use its limited resources on an expanding map.

The super PAC has booked more than $280 million in ads across 70-plus markets."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DHS ordered agents to pose as individual voters to illegally access their records on state websites using highly personal data from a massive federal database in their deranged quest to find “unlawful voters”. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Also exceptional in its use of unnamed sources. There are legions of them, and I think only one Kushner critic has an actual name.
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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FTC rescinds policy requiring health apps to notify customers after a breach cyberscoop.com/ftc-rescinds...
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FTC rescinds policy requiring health apps to notify customers after a breach
The FTC has unanimously rescinded a Biden-era policy statement that required health and fitness apps to comply with federal data breach notification regulations.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the most inept Trump articles the NYT has pubbed lately (low bar). It’s like all this stuff just happened to Trump. Passive construction over and over. And if your first paragraph transmits a Trump lie and your second doesn’t call it a lie, you are a propagandist, not a journalist. 1/2
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