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We're building a youth-led movement to repair past harms, remove ongoing barriers to equality, and realize a future where freedom is for all. 501(c)(4) www.getfreetogether.org/social-links

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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Before thousands in Florida’s Polk County, JD Vance said Florida’s Black candidate for Senate Angie Nixon doesn’t “belong in America.” “Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here,” Nixon responded. “This is my home."
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
California just became the first state to require corporations disclose slavery profits, a huge step towards making the wealthy pay what they owe and return what they stole from Black communities, thanks to pressure from the reparations movement! precinctreporter.com/2026/10/01/g...
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Gov. Signs Bill Requiring Corporations Disclose Slavery Profits - Precinct Reporter Group News
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell 7 are the norm, not the exception, on college campuses. Yet the Trump regime has frozen investigations into over 10,000 student complaints related to sexual and racial harassment since 2025. truthout.org/articles/dep...
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Dept. of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
More than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment are on hold.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An attack on Black and ethnic studies is an attack on Black students. It’s also an attack on our freedom to learn our country’s full history and reckon with the harms of the past. capitalbnews.org/black-studie...
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The Slow Disappearance of Black Studies on College Campuses
Northwestern is the latest university to restructure its program as the Trump administration continues to target DEI in higher education.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GOP Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana just threatened to call the police on one of our volunteer leaders for asking simple questions! MAGA Republicans are terrified of us unmasking the truth behind their Trump Crow agenda. They want to silence Black voters period. All so they can lock in white supremacy.
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starchildofjupiter.bsky.social @starchildofjupiter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump Crow Agenda. You coined a new term. It's perfect.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The elevator was with us 😂 GOP Sen Britt tried to ghost us after we started asking questions about her party erasing the Black vote & repeating Jim Crow era tactics. Together, we will defeat Trump Crow & realize a new era of truth, equality, and repair by fully reckoning with how we got here ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Do you support silencing the black vote? What would you say to MLK?” Sen John Kennedy (R-Louisiana): *Threatens to have @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social arrested*🤔 Racism is a helluva drug
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GOP Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana just threatened to call the police on one of our volunteer leaders for asking simple questions! MAGA Republicans are terrified of us unmasking the truth behind their Trump Crow agenda. They want to silence Black voters period. All so they can lock in white supremacy.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Follow us for more unmasking MAGA all week on Capitol Hill 👀
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔥 “Do you support Republican efforts to silence the Black vote? What would you say to MLK?” 🐔@MarshaBlackburn runs from @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social like she has been running from debates with @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social & town halls (none since 2017🤔)
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sen. Blackburn: were you silent or were you the one silencing? 👀 This week, we’re unmasking MAGA on Capitol Hill and espousing their Trump Crow playbook to erase the Black vote, sabotage our election & lock in white supremacy. It’s up to us to defend and finish the work of the civil rights mvmt.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sen. Blackburn: were you silent or were you the one silencing? 👀 This week, we’re unmasking MAGA on Capitol Hill and espousing their Trump Crow playbook to erase the Black vote, sabotage our election & lock in white supremacy. It’s up to us to defend and finish the work of the civil rights mvmt.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sen Josh Hawley wants to deny the truth of Trump Crow. But he can’t hide from Black voters. This week, we’re on Capitol Hill unmaking MAGA’s plot to erase the Black vote, sabotage this election and lock in white supremacy for another generation. Join our civil rights mvmt to win a future of repair
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sen Josh Hawley wants to deny the truth of Trump Crow. But he can’t hide from Black voters. This week, we’re on Capitol Hill unmaking MAGA’s plot to erase the Black vote, sabotage this election and lock in white supremacy for another generation. Join our civil rights mvmt to win a future of repair
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Black, brown, and indigenous communities whose water and air was polluted by greedy corporations are long overdue for repair. And that includes rewriting the rules to prohibit the white, wealthy few from poisoning these communities for profit in the future. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
These Black Los Angeles residents may soon receive environmental reparations
A $5 million pilot program could serve as a model for further efforts to compensate families harmed by toxic industrial practices.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The MAGA regime is attempting to use the IRS to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. But the public comment period for this proposal is now open, so we have chance to fight this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"You have to be able to write a detailed explanation of what took place, what the government did to create the harm. And in Evanston, you saw a city committed to doing that. Every city ought to be able to do the same thing, because these histories are national." www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...
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This city led the way on reparations for Black people. Trump is trying to stop it
Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Removing race and ethnicity data does not make health disparities go away. It merely makes them harder to find, harder to measure, and harder to fix.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millions
If adopted, the changes could exclude millions of residents from the decennial tally, reshaping congressional representation in the country.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The MAGA regime is attempting to use IRS to roll back civil rights progress and remove Black students and academics from our colleges and universities. Our schools must refuse to comply with these attacks on Black students’ freedom to learn. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
New IRS proposal threatens universities' tax-exempt status over diversity programs
The proposed regulations could affect up to 18,000 high schools, universities and trade schools, the agency said.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This white supremacist regime lynched Pierre Damas Bel. The MAGA regime has blood on their hands and is using the same tools as the enslavers of our past. This demands a mass reckoning to unshackle America. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“We are calling on state parties to take concrete and meaningful action. We want to affirm the dignity of those whose suffering was denied, whose suffering was minimised or forgotten.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Countries legally obliged to consider slavery reparations, says UN committee
Guidance says states must implement ‘comprehensive measures’ to address legacy of racial discrimination
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The people of Gary, Indiana deserve better. We cannot continue to allow the white supremacist oligarchy to plunder land and resources from Black and Native Americans all so they can hoard even more wealth and power. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Two weeks. No power. Gary, Indiana, failed Black citizens. | Opinion
As data centers overload grids across the country, power outages like the ones we're seeing now in Gary and Memphis will only become more frequent.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kyle Bassinga Julian Umba Nzita To'nea Nicole Miller Justice Kai James Jerard Jackson Tasia Fortune Demetrius Eugene Fleming A few of the recent Black lives ended without answers. We demand truth and repair. historycanthide.substack.com/p/black-peop...
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Black People Keep Being Found Hanging From Trees. Officials Keep Ruling It Suicide.
Police in Raleigh ruled another Black man’s hanging death a suicide this month. Officials across the country are closing these cases within days, sometimes without autopsies or basic investigation.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This marks a major first step towards repairing the harm done to the survivors & descendants of Black East Bay residents whose homes rich developers stole from them in the 1960's. www.kqed.org/news/1209393...
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Alameda County Approves $1.3 Million in Reparations for Displaced Black Hayward Families | KQED
Surviving homeowners of the East Bay neighborhood, whose property the county seized by eminent domain in the early 1960s, can receive up to $25,000 per household.
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NY Renews @nyrenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation has said a forceful NO! to the proposed data center near their Reservation Territory in Western NY.  Help our allies raise $75,000 to sustain the legal fight against the threat to their water, land, air, soundscape, and ways of life: bit.ly/Donate2StopS...
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In mid-august, a white supremacist media campaign lynched Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor to work at Cambridge University. This tragedy is the result of a deliberate strategy to undermine people and policies challenging and rectifying historic exclusion. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cambridge chancellor criticises 'racist feeding frenzy' around Jason Arday
Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, was found dead last week.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The failure to fully reckon with the legacies of enslavement and the Confederacy have led to MAGA and persistent racial inequality today. In order to overcome American fascism today, we need to reckon with the deep legacy of white supremacy at its core. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’ll be there and I’m bringing the cactus juice! #ATLA #Avatarthelastairbender
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
After Get Free’s Philly Pod and movement allies successfully defeated Trump’s first attempts to censor history at the President’s House in Philadelphia, the regime is striking back with a new whitewashed replacement of the site’s history exhibits. abcnews.com/US/trump-adm...
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Trump admin replaces slavery memorial at President's House in Philadelphia after court win
The National Park Service installed new panels at the slavery memorial at the President’s House in Philadelphia -- a move that drew criticism from advocates.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Make the 1% pay what they owe and return what they stole. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...
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Mamdani Leaves Door Open to Paying Reparations to Black New Yorkers
The mayor said in recent interviews that it was important to acknowledge the city’s role in slavery but that he could not commit to payouts before his racial equity commission completes its report.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I said what I said @nytimes.com Glad to see @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social continuing to back reparations and true equality after signing Get Free’s pledge during the primary.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is long overdue that the mayor of New York, the home of financial institutions like Citi Bank and New York Life Insurance that built their wealth off of enslavement, reckon with this history and pave the way for true equality for Black and Indigenous New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...
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Mamdani Leaves Door Open to Paying Reparations to Black New Yorkers
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has a history of pushing progressive policy during his time in politics, and his possible support for reparations would continue this trend.” thehill.com/homenews/rac...
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Mamdani signals he is open to slavery reparations
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in a recently released interview signaled an openness to reparations for slavery in the city. “We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as b…
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klaudia @kaludiasays.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
a worthwhile endeavor instead of getting into shipping discourse!!!
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Are you a fan of Avatar the Last Airbender? Join us and other fans on discord to stream some of our favorite episodes and discuss how we fight back against MAGA billionaires' plot to whitewash culture & stop future groundbreaking stories from ATLA and beyond. RSVP: discord.gg/d5AY9MMEX?ev...
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
American democracy and American authoritarianism were built together. Hear the full story on First America—the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our current political moment is 250 years in the making. The full season is out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The MAGA regime is quietly protecting discrimination by taking away our ability to measure it, making it undetectable and therefore unable to be remedied. But we have the power to stop this attempt to erase vital information for rectifying harm. apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Dessner @mikedessner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Whites-only quotas” and, “slave patrol 2.0” sound perfectly trumpian. Today’s GOP.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A new report from the MAGA-run State Dept confirms they only admitted White South Africans to enter the U.S. in June. Their “welcome” literature included whitewashed U.S. history and a manifesto against civil rights. Whites-only quotas + ICE acting as slave patrol 2.0 is part of one agenda.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Any moment where we've advanced as a country, where we’ve deepened democracy, where we've unwound white supremacy & advanced equality, there have been massive protest movements coming from the public & pushing politicians forward to push America to live up to its promises - @nacarty.bsky.social
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America’s 250-Year History Has Plenty Of Protests. We're Looking Back At A Few Of The Most Significant.
“Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, told HuffPost.
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Ms. Geek is fed up. @msgeek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's the Fourth, and it's hitting way different this time. @getfree_mvmt @50501movement #ReckoningFor250
Keith Scott Boundy and Sari Michelle Klein-Hass. Michelle is holding an upside down "distress signal" 50-star US flag, and a California State Flag
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
JOAN SEBASTIAN GUERRERO SHOULD BE ALIVE ICE officers in Maine k*lled him in front of his wife and 3 year old daughter. This is the reality of the MAGA regime’s campaign to whiten America. We must refuse to comply & free America from slave patrol 2.0 and white supremacy.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Couldn't ask for a better metaphor for: When Black people get free, we all get free.
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This 4th of July, we’re turning the flag upside down and #ReckoningFor250 @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This July 4: Turn the flag upside down. We’re calling on people of conscience to turn the flag upside down this Independence day for reckoning and repair, and to claim the mantle for defining the story of America. bit.ly/ReckoningFor...
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TURN THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN - JULY 4
TURN THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN THRU JULY 4TH Coming out of our national All of U.S. 250 day of action, we will have a bigger megaphone to define how people understand the past, present, and future of Ameri...
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS just ruled against the MAGA regime’s attack on birthright citizenship Thanks to pressure from our movement, we’ve protected this freedom that our ancestors fought for, but this fight is far from over. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
nbcnews.com
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship
The Trump administration sought to upend the historical understanding of the 14th Amendment, which has long been interpreted to extend birthright citizenship broadly.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In one week, this country turns 250. Today I was at Foley Square for the All of U.S. 250 mobilization. The ask for Governor Hochul: reinstate the reparations commission and return lands stolen from Indigenous peoples. #AllOfUs250 youtube.com/shorts/gazQv...
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I Went to the All of U.S. 250 Mobilization in NYC—Here's What's Actually Happening
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The rain didn't stop Get Free NYC from showing up to KICK WHITE SUPREMACY TO THE CURB. That's what it's going to take if we want freedom, equality, and reckoning these next 250 years. #AllOfUS250 @50501movement.bsky.social
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#AllOfUs250 event in Oakland to demand that our leader repair our history, not whitewash it. @50501movement.bsky.social
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