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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 30/09/2026
Reports are that TSA is feeding passenger data to ICE, leading to more than 31,000 travelers referred, and over 800 arrests. We're paying for cruelty twice.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
As Ukraine’s defenses struggle to keep up with Russia’s technological advances, its capital is fast becoming a frontline city. Russian drones struck Kyiv, hitting a science academy and a medical center, killing at least two, authorities said.
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Russia’s jet-powered drones are turning Kyiv into a daytime war zone
As Ukraine’s defenses struggle to keep up with Russia’s technological advances, its capital is fast becoming a frontline city.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I read about the White House airing campaign ads with taxpayer money, I immediately thought about an exhibition I saw last year in NYC about how Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me
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The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This administration is making up reasons for banning certain news groups while being sources for their reporting. JD Vance will lie about being a source, of course.
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Embarrassing
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
A powerful storm that is expected to move up the East Coast this weekend was still organizing itself off the Carolinas on Wednesday. While the storm is expected to intensify between Thursday and Friday, forecasters warned that there was significant uncertainty about its path and potential impacts.
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A Powerful Nor’easter Is Taking Shape. How It Could Affect Your Forecast.
The forecast for this weekend became a lot clearer on Wednesday, but meteorologists warned that the storm’s exact path was still uncertain.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A deal that changes nothing but okay
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" & added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get 5 vaccine shots instead of 1, and rambled incoherently in response to basic Qs Here's a supercut:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Everyone should look at the haunting photos of bombed out US bases hit by Iran that were leaked by service-members. They are Trump's "American carnage." On the pod @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is so good on the war, US decline, and Trump/Hegseth's imploding fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Trump’s Iran Fiasco Takes Humiliating Turn as Leaks Grow More Damning
As jarring revelations make Trump’s handling of the Iran debacle look even worse, a foreign policy expert explains how the president’s deranged conception of “strength” is making us weaker.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
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Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
More money in our wallets according to Senator McCormick (R, PA), right?
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The @nytimes.com still hasn't called Trump's lie about his activity on 9/11 a lie and today they have Erika Kirk as a columnist talking about her grief. I genuinely don't know why the NYT thinks they have any integrity left
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SCOOP @telliotter.bsky.social and I identified the authors of the bogus noncitizen voting Census report and how they used bad data to make faulty conclusions They include a former DOGE guy (of course) and two people from AFPI, a Trump-aligned think tank www.wired.com/story/a-us-c...
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Unearthed footage of Ken Paxton caught on camera fleeing to Utah to go on vacation during Texas’ deadly winter storms in 2021
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NPR @npr.org · 31/08/2026
A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction. n.pr/4ciNsyT
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Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't have
A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Agnifilo: What you are saying is that you and others have information about other people who have committed sexual assault and that this DOJ also has that information… Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: Yes.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tons of bad news for Trump/GOP this week: *He's at new low in Reuters poll (33-64) *New low in NYT averages (37-59) *Ds flip PA seat he won by 18 *Peltola +6 in Alaska *Ds lead big w/most enthusiastic voters On the pod, @speechboy71.bsky.social breaks it all down: newrepublic.com/article/2145...
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Trump Hits Brutal New Polling Low as Dems Win Stunner in MAGA Country
As Trump’s numbers keep cratering and a Pennsylvania special election shocks both parties, the author of a piece on GOP extremism runs through all the reasons for cautious optimism about the fall.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/08/2026
NEW: Congress appropriated $1 trillion for defense this year, more than twice as much as the combined budget for agencies overseeing health, veterans affairs, education, housing, agriculture and justice. We’re setting out to report on how this public money is being spent.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 12/08/2026
Our tax dollars are paying for torture. @kim.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/08/2026
Exclusive: The Trump administration plans to spend at least $900 million on White House grounds construction, a significantly larger price tag than previously reported. Taxpayers would cover most of the cost, according to records reviewed by The Post.
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Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction
The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/08/2026
The search for life in the rubble of Colombia's powerful earthquake is growing more desperate as search teams push up against a key time threshold to locate survivors before it's too late.
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Earthquake response strains Colombia's new government and rescuers as they race against the clock
The search for life in the rubble of Colombia’s powerful earthquake is growing more desperate as search teams push up against a key time threshold to locate survivors before it's too late.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
While everyone was asleep, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a 50–49 vote.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is diabolical. Trump appears ready to just start drilling for oil in an allied country, despite explicitly being told not to.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/08/2026
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
She thinks it's funny to hide a Senator's status - why is she even there or getting paid as a communication director?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Minnesota’s Superior National Forest received a $10 million grant in 2024 to cover wildfire prevention efforts, then DOGE delayed funding. now, parts of that area are burning. I spoke with a former wildland firefighter who says the cuts made the fire worse. youtu.be/0cbI9_CNZmM?...
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Fmr. fire ranger: DOGE DELAYED a $10 million wildfire grant. It ‘would’ve really helped us’
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
On Tuesday, the Trump Admin announced they were ending the Medicare Part D subsidy program. Touching the third rail of politics is a heckuva strategy going into midterms (part D open enrollment starts 10/15). My latest analysis for @msnowreports.bsky.social. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump’s Medicare change comes at a curious time
Less than three weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Weather forecasters are warning that it looks like the most powerful El Niño in recorded history is coming soon. Climate change is not going to wait for America or any other country to sort out its political dysfunctions. We can confront climate reality or be run over by it." – @ryanlcooper.com
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The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. - The American Prospect
Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Last month, SCOTUS told the Trump admin it could end temporary protected status immigration programs. Today 350,000 people, mostly Haitians lose status & elderly & disabled Americans they are caregivers for will suffer along with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/b...
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Protected No More
We look at the end of Temporary Protected Status.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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AnnM @geektalk51.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Neither of these people have the slightest insight or interest in what happens in any classroom.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/07/2026
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/07/2026
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company.
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OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/07/2026
About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
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Staying in a job for the health insurance? About 1 in 4 Americans do, a survey says
About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Army is scaling back the legal resources it offers soldiers going through the disability evaluation process, limiting the support they'll receive as review boards determine whether they are fit to serve or should receive medical retirement benefits. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:
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Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process
The disability evaluation process determines whether soldiers can continue to serve or whether they should receive medical retirement benefits.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip
The plans come as the U.S. and Russia have failed to come to terms on ending the war in Ukraine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
Trump on US troops who were just killed: “We feel very badly, but … “
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/07/2026
Despite their oversight role, FCC members have accepted pricey gala tickets from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. Seven of the 10 commissioners who served since 2016 accepted tickets worth more than $260,000, ProPublica found.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/07/2026
Congrats to Spain on winning the World Cup! Trump cut off trade to Spain a few weeks ago. He also gave $20 billion to his fascist buddy Javier Millei who runs Argentina. Everything he touches turns to crap.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
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