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Lucy Davies

@essexhousing.bsky.social
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Interested in Housing Law, legal aid, access to justice and other stuff. Legal advice at Essex Law Clinic, Lecturer at Essex Law School.

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Sander @sanderregter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Shelter @sheltercharity.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today’s report must be a wakeup call. Over 164,000 children are growing up homeless, because, for decades, we have failed to build anywhere near enough social homes. Tell the government to commit to ambitious investment at the June spending review 👉🏽 shltr.org.uk/ZfmeU
shltr.org.uk
Chancellor: invest in social housing this June and end the housing emergency
Sign our open letter in just one click Dear Chancellor Rachel Reeves, We the undersigned are writing to call on the government to commit to delivering 90, 000 social rent homes every year until 2029 a...
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Shelter @sheltercharity.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The verdict? Utterly shameful. Today the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee released a report highlighting the impact of growing up homeless in temporary accommodation, including the appalling conditions faced by thousands of children. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
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England’s Homeless Children – Government must tackle crisis in temporary accommodation, say MPs - Committees - UK Parliament
A crisis in temporary accommodation in England is leaving record high numbers of children without a permanent home. Many of these children are living in appalling conditions, with significant impacts ...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
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​​Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Terrific fun to be back on a podcast with @helenlewis.bsky.social, plus some guy, I think maybe he does some kind of art? Armando something?
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Strong Message Here - Seizing the Narrative (with Stephen Bush) - BBC Sounds
Armando and Helen are joined by Stephen Bush to see who's seizing the political narrative.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.
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Jennymaz🇨🇦☮️🌎🌸🐳🪸🏝️🌺☀️ @jennymaz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
time.com
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is just awful. Read it.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Clear diagnosis-capitalism & social media platforms exploit human weakness & we should do something. But instead of regulating social media, the answer here is to stop children having phones. No, we must target the content. Why are we giving up on regulation? www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
thetimes.com
We can’t ignore social media dangers any more
Capitalism incentivises tech to exploit human weakness — state intervention is the only answer
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Sexual & gender-based violence—which has risen in frequency & severity—is being perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a strategy of war for Israel to dominate and destroy the Palestinian people.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I see Chris Philp is now repeating Matt Goodwin's deliberate lie. The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Unis now have the perverse incentive to get you publishing loads of stuff, then sack you so they don't have to pay you, then get cash for you in 2029 that will last until 2037! Also, there's no point hiring you, cos your past work doesn't move with you. (2/2) englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Very few newspaper columnists can match @kenanmalik.bsky.social’s ability to address difficult issues. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Ignore the row: this Oscar-winning film offers a vision of a shared Palestine forged in solidarity | Kenan Malik
The documentary is both antisemitic and Israeli propaganda, according to critics. The truth is, it provides a rare glimpse of hope
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I guess the president of the United States is advertising Tesla at the White House today to help his top adviser Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, boost his stock price? What??? Again, you could be on 1960s acid and not see anything like this. BTW: Remember, Trump has slagged EVs for YEARS
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"The start of Trump’s second term has delivered a stunning reversal for many of those billionaires sitting behind Trump in the Capitol Rotunda, with five having lost a combined $209 billion in wealth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
bloomberg.com
Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $209 Billion
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The marketisation of our universities has a lot of answer for. And much more to come, sadly OfS says each university "making perfectly rational commercial decisions about its financial model". That's the problem in a nutshell www.politicshome.com/news/article...
politicshome.com
Universities Watchdog Braces For 'Cold Spots' As Courses Get Cut To Save Money
The university watchdog is beginning to look at potential 'cold spots' emerging as institutions make redundancies and close courses in a bid to bal...
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 02/03/2025
As a lawyer who does Equal Pay law it is interesting to note that the prospect of young men falling behind young women is causing a sense of societal crisis that the reverse position consistently failed to invoke.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
28 February 1914 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Roosje van Praag, was born in Rotterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 September 1942 in a transport of 610 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among the 454 people murdered in a gas chamber.
Black and white portrait of a young woman with an intense gaze.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Universities announcing staff layoffs in the last two weeks: *Arts Univ Bournemouth *Bangor *Birmingham City *Canterbury Christ Church *Cardiff *Univ for Creative Arts *Dundee *Durham *Edge Hill *Edinburgh *Kingston *Liverpool *Reading *Sheffield *South Wales *Wolverhampton *York
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 27/02/2025
Solar panels & chicken farms are contentious issues for East Anglia. Yet there may be a nature friendly farming win win solution... Chickens love to scratch underneath solar panels. As bottom of food chain, the panels provide protection & encourage them to roam further. Via @nffn.bsky.social
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How solar panels pay off for Cumbrian free-range egg farm | Nature Friendly Farming Network, NFFN
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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The mad merry-go-round of spending on stop-gap accommodation for homeless. Up 80% in a year. Huge waste of money that isn’t fixing the problem. New report out from LSE and @crisis-uk.bsky.social reported in @financialtimes.com w @amyborrett.ft.com @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social on.ft.com/43d3q9U
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2025
Can’t say too much about this one, as I was involved in earlier stages, but delighted to see Andrew Dymond and Mary Ward Legal Centre completely exonerated of professional negligence for advice to a defendant facing forfeiture. The claim was wholly misconceived. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
bailii.org
Christie v Mary Ward Legal Centre & Anor (Rev1) [2025] EWHC 330 (KB) (17 February 2025)
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"I am the law." Hitler, 1942 "There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me." Gaddafi, 1975 "We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival." Bashar Al-Assad, 2011 Trump, 2025:
A post by Trump which says;
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law
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Justin Bates KC @justinbates.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This looks excellent. A great afternoon treat this half term week. The only way it could be better if it were about housing law, 'tho I suspect that is a yet another minority opinion of mine.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
V interesting thread. I wonder if one reason for UK’s outlier status is that we have experienced the clarifying experience of the Litvineko poisoning, Skripals, consequences of London laudromat, etc that other big western European states have not.
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rebeccafront @rebeccafront.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Hey lovely people. Something exciting to announce. I’m launching my own podcast. It’s called 3 People with Rebecca Front. My guest each time tells me about 3 people who changed their lives. I’ve got a terrific lineup. Coming soon (March, I think) wherever you get your podcasts.
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George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The German saying is, if you sit at a table with 9 nazis there are 10 nazis at the table.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Some news, team! 🎙️ I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week. ‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system. Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Poor coverage of Gaza at the BBC: failure of journalism A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect.
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Poor coverage of Gaza at the BBC: failures of journalism
A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
theguardian.com
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
By the fundamental construction of LLMs, they will give you either: Some words somebody once wrote on the Internet (plagiarism, source not identified) Or: A statistical remix of words several people once wrote on the Internet (same problem PLUS introduces errors and contradictions).
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it." An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:
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Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/02/2025
Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk to get Mayors, though fewer councils, fewer councillors. Meanwhile county council elections are postponed. Is this local government reform, or a undemocratic sidestep? @stephenmcnair.bsky.social unpacks the upheaval ahead and asks are the big questions still unanswered?
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Decision time: local government to be overhauled in the East
The government has announced arrangements for local government reorganisation in most of the East of England
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Masha Gessen on the rather short window of refusal … and its own unique rationalities. (gift so everyone can read it)
nytimes.com
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Former Swansea and Brecon bishop admits indecent assault on child
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Former Swansea and Brecon bishop admits indecent assault on child
Anthony Pierce, who was bishop between 1999 and 2008, appeared in Swansea Crown Court.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/02/2025
Homelessness. 160,000 children in temporary accommodation. Lack of permanent home contributing factor in death of 74 (if not many more) kids since 2019. 39,000 families & pensioners placed out of borough. All @privateeyenews.bsky.social figures. The St Albans exhibition is a timely reminder...
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Outsiders exposed: powerful photos reveal the ruthless reality of homelessness
A striking exhibition in St Albans reveals the harsh realities of homelessness through powerful black-and-white photography
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/02/2025
Homelessness - "There’s little self-pity here, rather a sense of determination. "There’s the loyalty in refusing to give up a dog in order to get a home. "There’s resilience and kindness, but many of the faces are old before their time." @gardeningkate.bsky.social views a profound exhibition
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Outsiders exposed: powerful photos reveal the ruthless reality of homelessness
A striking exhibition in St Albans reveals the harsh realities of homelessness through powerful black-and-white photography
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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 07/02/2025
Whatever decision was made would deeply upset some people, this was unavoidable. The legacy of that terrible night runs deep, and no-one has yet been held fully accountable. But an unsafe structure can't remain. A memorial in which all affected are involved should follow.
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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 07/02/2025
It is a pity that the story came out before this official release on the decision on the future of Grenfell Tower. This is measured, empathetic and clear. I fully understand how strongly felt views are on this, in different directions, but this at least explains why. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Update on the future of Grenfell Tower
The Deputy Prime Minister has met bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, and written to both them and residents in the immediate community, to share her decision that Grenfell ...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is ghoulish from Labour. Using people's suffering to try and appease Reform, which is something no-one will ever go far enough for. Labour has the potential to actually be doing something to reduce hostility. Instead they are stoking anti-migrant attitudes just like the Conservatives did.
Starmer takes the fight to Reform with videos of migrant deportations

Labour is deporting migrants in numbers not seen since 2017 but cannot shift public opinion - and discontent is brewing over the Chagos Islands and benefit cuts

Sir Keir Starmer hopes that videos showing the detention and deportation of migrants will convince voters that Labour is acting upon their concerns
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
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