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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Everyone involved with this from Steven Miller to line officials need to be tried in a court of law for these gross human rights abuses. www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
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Pregnant wife of ICE detainee leads standoff as tensions boil over at N.J.’s Delaney Hall
Activists and protesters stood and chanted on the third day of a hunger and labor strike launched by roughly 300 detainees at ICE jail in New Jersey.
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GIFFORDS @giffords.org · 25/05/2026
Today marks six years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. George was a beloved father, grandfather, brother, and friend. His life mattered and he should still be here.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 24/05/2026
Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.
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Cuba Announces That Its Fuel Reserves Have Been Depleted - Truthdig
The situation created by the U.S. blockade has been classified by the United Nations as a “humanitarian crisis” that affects the most vulnerable groups the hardest.
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Wensicia (Wendy C) @wensicia.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reporting of ICE activity in Waukegan and North Chicago: www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/05/20/i...
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ICE detains person with child as federal agents again spotted in Waukegan, North Chicago area
ICE detained a person who was driving with a child in North Chicago as the federal agents were again spotted making immigration arrests in the Lake County area on Wednesday.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/05/2026
Twin Cities residents also have been reporting a noticeable increase in surveillance ops in recent weeks:
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Is ICE ramping up? After slowdown, observers report more sightings across the Twin Cities
Observers report ICE agents watching neighborhoods and detaining inmates at county jails across the Twin Cities metro.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/05/2026
Another day of scattered ICE sightings in Chicagoland as feds continue surveilling neighborhoods + courthouses. The day started with an early morning detention in Carol Stream. This afternoon, video from Waukegan of agents surrounding a lone child in a car is circulating (guardian presumed taken).
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
ICE goons lied under oath about shooting a man in the leg and falsely charged their victims with assault instead. They refused to cooperate and covered for their agents. Without video, an innocent man would have been imprisoned. But now one goon will face justice with four 2nd degree felony charges.
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ICE Agent Charged in Shooting of a Venezuelan Immigrant in Minnesota
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.
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Yikes @farmerbae.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is disgusting
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Louise @louiseplease.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.
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Democrat-God @shamballa-warrior.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Felon Dump's Food Inflation Skyrockets - the highest in 4 years. Fresh produce is up 44% higher. That's what you call a Runaway Inflation. www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
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Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years
Fresh vegetables are over 44% more expensive today than they were three months ago, on an annualized basis.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...
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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.
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ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.
“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/05/2026
Bulldozers preparing an expansion of the U.S. border wall with Mexico caused extensive damage to the Las Playas intaglio 280-by-50-foot etching in the Sonoran Desert. The intaglio, a site sacred to the Indigenous Oʼodham peoples of the Sonora, is estimated to be at least 1,000 years old.
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“They Don’t Care”: Trump’s Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site
Construction crews in Arizona who are building President Trump’s expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 ...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 05/05/2026
The studies found serious side effects caused by the COVID and shingles vaccines were rare.
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FDA Blocked Studies That Found COVID, Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
The studies found serious side effects caused by the COVID and shingles vaccines were rare.
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 05/05/2026
A sea of people in red spread out, raising signs and chanting through the streets of downtown Grand Rapids on Tuesday to demand justice and honor victims as they marked Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day. From Erick Diaz Veliz
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Hundreds march in Grand Rapids to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people • Michigan Advance
Demanding justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people, hundreds march in Grand Rapids
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tennessee and countless other states have been speaking out against what is basically a Jim Crow session
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
HAPPENING NOW… marching on the Capitol…. #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/04/2026
Another story here with a first person sent to DRC to identify themselves: Colombian torture survivor Adriana Quiroz Zapata. Appears she may have been targeted for Congo removal in retaliation for filing a complaint against an ICE agent. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-deport...
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ICE Deports Colombian Torture Victim—to Africa
Last year, we broke the story of a woman ICE had repeatedly tried to send to Mexico or a third country. Things have gotten even worse.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/04/2026
Black text over a white page that reads: 

Today's Supreme Court decision is a direct assault on the promise of the Voting Rights Act. It risks disenfranchising millions of Americans along racial lines and weakening the very foundation of our democracy.

Democracy is not self-sustaining. We must build, preserve, and defend it together.

Here in New York City, we will always lead a government of, by, and for the people — all of the people.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 28/04/2026
"The valuable evidence that could be contained in Renee and Becca Good’s Honda Pilot needs to be released to those who are working to get to the bottom of what happened on January 7,” family attorney Antonio Romanucci said in a Monday statement to MPR News.
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Good's widow seeks return of SUV after feds decline to investigate ICE killing
The widow of Renee Good is asking a judge to force the federal government to return the vehicle Good was driving when an ICE agent fatally shot her.
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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today, hundreds of Utahns came to the Governor’s mansion to say NO to an ICE warehouse detention center in Salt Lake City. No Topaz 2.0! No concentration camp! Not now. Not EVER! #ICEout #ICEwarehouseResistance #GTFOICE
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
DoJ's national security division has lost nearly 38% of its staff, internal records show, leading to “unprecedented personnel constraints” in the unit that handles cases involving espionage and the export of sensitive military ​technology. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Yellow police cordon is placed by Metropolitan Police officers in Washington, D.C. U.S., September 8, 2025. 

Photo credit: REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Our country is so fucked. Thank Christ we have people like Rep. Stansbury trying to fight her hardest for our nation.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 22/04/2026
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/04/2026
“Democracy is bad, actually“ — WaPo
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026
Overnight, one of these ICE charters landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a likely third-country removal. The second plane has landed in Guinea and Burkina Faso and may have more stops. Migrant passengers were shackled for at least 16 hours.
A FR24 map showing a Journey Aviation plane landing in Kinshasa. An FR24 map showing a Journey Aviation plane going from Guinea to Burkina Faso.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
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LibsLikeMe @danihere.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Mass shooting in Winston Salem NC kills 2 kids and 8 injured Schools nearby all went on lockdown all day! Not even a blip on the radar really. 😔🤷🏻‍♀️ #NC #NCpol wlos.com/news/local/m...
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2 dead, 5 hurt after planned fight leads to mass shooting at Winston-Salem park
Two people have been confirmed dead after a mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation announced.
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 21/04/2026
Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution. This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians. The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
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Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion
In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/04/2026
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust. We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Haunted by ‘Dark Thoughts,’ Louisiana Father Kills 8 Children
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404 Media @404media.co · 20/04/2026
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer. Now, on a story about about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children, they’re asking you to predict if Congress will do anything about it.
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Forbes Prediction Market Gamifies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/04/2026
Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.
An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands
Deportation Fleet With High-End JetsMy headline from April 15 reading:
Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under MarkwayneThe hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS
Noem's luxury
'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg
Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Phone access has a real effect on whether or not someone gets deported. But "Alligator Alcatraz" guards are using physical violence to obstruct that basic right. truthout.org/articles/all...
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“Alligator Alcatraz” Guards Allegedly Beat Prisoners for Requesting Phone Access
The ACLU told a judge that guards were obstructing her March order to provide phone access in the jail.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
ast month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case. She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide, where she’s contracted to help people making their way through the immigration court system, just as she did for herself 35 years ago when she immigrated from India to New Jersey before settling in Texas.

She planned to meet with her adult children in Austin after the Wisconsin trip, the only difference she foresaw in an otherwise typical trip. Her routine for years included flying from either Harlingen or Brownsville to far-flung parts of the country where South Asian immigrants needed language access. For this trip, the flight was out of Harlingen.

But, around 5 p.m. on March 17, Batra was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after passing through security at Harlingen International Airport. In a sworn deposition that was filed as part of a petition for habeas corpus—a legal request to be released on the grounds that the detention is unlawful—Batra said the people who arrested her did not have visible badges nor were they wearing uniforms. One of those agents had asked Batra if she knew she was in the country illegally and that she had a deportation order. She replied that her work authorization status, which she applied for regularly after being granted a legal status called withholding of removal by a New Jersey immigration judge decades ago, was good for another four years.

“That doesn’t mean you can be here forever,” the agent replied. Two more plainclothes agents would join the two that detained her, bringing her down the escalator and to the front of the airport.
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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Money for Medicare? Cut Money for Medicaid? Cut Money for SNAP? Cut Money for WIC? Cut Money for Child Care? Denied Cost of Housing? Unaffordable Cost of Groceries? On The Rise Cost of Gas? Way Up Cost of Energy bills? Off The Charts Cost Of Iran War? $50 Billion And Counting!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I am hearing Amazon just fucked up a sports broadcast. Boo! They also worked a guy to death in a warehouse last week and then told a tearful worker who wanted to help give CPR to look away and keep working.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting.
She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said.
ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities.
After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
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