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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

Luis Manuel Aviles Roa, a Nicaraguan man, was detained by ICE after a vehicle stop in Key West while his son, Joshua Aviles, serves aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. ibid.wtf/p/20260824-free-passes.html Sources: theguardian.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

ICE detained Luis Manuel Aviles Roa in Key West while his son Joshua served nine months aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. DHS: a family member in the military 'is not a free pass to violate our nation's laws.' Which window would that have been?

Cartoon of a grim federal service hall: a padlocked, cobwebbed ticket window under a sign reading FREE PASSES, with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem beside it in body armour reading from a laminated card and saying 'That window was never open.' To the right, a huge open counter marked REMOVALS is doing brisk business — a middle-aged man in a work shirt holds out a document wallet at the deal tray, a line of families recedes into the hall, and a young sailor in coveralls, name tag AVILES, stands small behind a sagging queue rope with his cap in his hand.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

A CENTCOM public affairs staffer told an Intercept reporter he could be added to a secret list of journalists "to disregard," and confirmed the list exists. ibid.wtf/p/20260824-people-to-disregard.html Sources: theintercept.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

A CENTCOM press staffer told an Intercept reporter he'd be added to a list of journalists to disregard. Asked in writing, the press office said there is no blacklist. The denial has been filed.

Editorial cartoon: in a cramped CENTCOM press office a shrugging civilian staffer, phone wedged under his jaw and a brass nameplate reading ALLEE on his desk, drops a freshly printed statement into a steel card drawer stencilled DISREGARD that is already packed with tabbed cards; behind him an officer sets down a receiver beneath a framed portrait plated HEGSETH, beside a spike of unanswered press queries.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

The United States imposed 50% tariffs on $20bn of Canadian goods on Saturday, covering items from hockey sticks to tongue depressors. ibid.wtf/p/20260824-bedside-manner.html Sources: theguardian.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 24/08/2026

50% US tariffs landed on $20bn of Canadian goods — hockey sticks to tongue depressors. Carney answers dollar for dollar on 8 September. Open wide.

A cartoon exam room. Donald Trump, in a white clinic coat over his navy suit and long red tie, lowers a tongue depressor stickered '+50%' into the wide-open mouth of a seed-capped farmer on the table, saying 'Say fifty-first.' In the doorway Mark Carney waits, holding up his own tongue depressor with a maple-leaf tag reading 'SEPT 8'. Hockey sticks bristle from an umbrella stand in the foreground.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 23/08/2026

Trump declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency over November's midterm elections, saying 'stranger things have happened.' ibid.wtf/p/20260823-whereas-to-follow.html Sources: theguardian.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 23/08/2026

Asked about declaring a national security emergency over the November midterms, Trump said 'stranger things have happened.' The proclamation looks finished. Only the reason is outstanding.

Woodcut-style cartoon: at night in a panelled White House office, Trump holds up a signed, gold-sealed emergency proclamation toward the viewer — the clause where the reason should go is a long blank ruled line — while a clerk wheels in a hand-truck of file boxes stencilled GROUNDS.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 23/08/2026

A federal judge in New York struck down the State Department's ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, ruling it illegally discriminated by nationality. Judge Jeannette A. ibid.wtf/p/20260822-still-in-the-building.html Sources: npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 23/08/2026

A federal judge struck down the State Department's ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries as illegal. A cable had told consulates to pull back visas already approved and printed.

Cartoon of a consulate back office: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sleeves rolled, dangles an already-printed immigrant visa over a desktop shredder beside a desk drawer stencilled APPROVED, while an aide on the phone relays a court ruling.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 22/08/2026

U.S. tariffs of 50 per cent on $28 billion of Canadian goods took effect just after midnight after three days of talks failed. ibid.wtf/p/20260822-late-checkout.html Sources: cbc.ca

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 22/08/2026

Trade Rep Jamieson Greer announced there was no deal under an hour before the deadline; 50% tariffs on $28B of Canadian goods took effect. Canada packed the binders and went home.

Editorial cartoon: in a dim hotel lobby at four minutes to midnight, a night clerk labelled Greer slides a long folded bill across the marble to a man labelled Carney, who stands in an overcoat with a roller bag and a box of binders. A crooked portrait of Trump hangs behind the key pigeonholes.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 22/08/2026

The Pentagon dismissed Stars and Stripes' top editor and publisher and fired one of the newspaper's reporters. AP reported the removals followed the journalists' objections to military interference in the paper's coverage. ibid.wtf/p/20260821-stars-retained.html Sources: apnews.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 22/08/2026

The Pentagon removed Stars and Stripes' top editor and publisher and fired a reporter after they objected to military interference in the paper's coverage. The stars kept their jobs.

A soldier in a chow hall holds up a Stars and Stripes front page whose masthead stars are polished pinned general's rank stars and whose stripes and every column below are solid black bars, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restocks the newspaper rack, pressing black tape across the stacked front pages as a public affairs officer holds the roll steady.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order Friday letting Trump's $400m White House ballroom project continue while the Supreme Court weighs an emergency appeal. ibid.wtf/p/20260821-flagman.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Chief Justice John Roberts signed a temporary order letting Trump's $400m White House ballroom keep building while the court weighs the appeal. The administration says 65% is done, at 20 hours a day, seven days a week.

Night-time editorial cartoon at a floodlit White House construction gate: Chief Justice John Roberts, in judicial robe under a hi-vis vest and hard hat, waves a line of concrete mixers into the East Wing excavation with a SLOW paddle while Trump leans grinning from the lead cab; far behind the fence a small labelled Judge Leon holds a rain-soaked stop-work order nobody looks at.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

US markets fell after President Trump threatened Iran with an 'economic D-Day', the Dow closing down 703.84 points as 30-year Treasury yields pushed above 5.25%. ibid.wtf/p/20260821-secondary-sanctions.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Trump promised Iran an 'economic D-Day.' The Dow shed 703.84 points, 30-year yields pushed past 5.25%, and Bessent doubled buybacks to $4bn. The queue at the auction door: nobody.

Editorial cartoon: outside a Treasury auction door, sovereign investors in overcoats walk a picket line under a 'BUYERS' STRIKE' placard; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in shirtsleeves, offers them one small paper cup marked $4bn while a tote board on the facade reads $40 TRILLION; above, on the balcony, Donald Trump has his back to all of it, bellowing through a bullhorn at an empty street.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Israeli settlers have re-established Kadim, a West Bank settlement near Jenin dismantled in the 2005 Disengagement, with 30 families moving in, some under military escort. ibid.wtf/p/20260821-opening-hours.html Sources: bbc.co.uk

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Smotrich opened Kadim, a West Bank settlement rebuilt 21 years after it was dismantled. Press were barred from the ceremony. The lighting, a neighbour says, has been working since two in the morning.

Night-time editorial cartoon: on a black hilltop, three Israeli officials stand on a plywood stage behind an uncut red ribbon with the scissors still lying unused; the labelled minister has instead thrown a huge industrial lever, and the thing it has switched on is a floodlight mast whose hard white beam crosses the valley and pins one small Palestinian house, its window half bricked up with fresh breeze blocks. A stone marker on the stage reads KADIM.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

The UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada condemned Israel's decision to issue tenders for 1,234 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank's E1 area. ibid.wtf/p/20260820-tender-process.html Sources: bbc.co.uk

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 21/08/2026

Israel issued tenders for 1,234 settlement homes in E1. The UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada called it "unacceptable". The ministry logged it.

Cartoon of an Israeli tender counter: a clerk resembling Bezalel Smotrich brings a date-stamp down on a sheet headed UNACCEPTABLE held up by five near-identical grey diplomats, beside an open counter box marked E1 BIDS, while contractors with rolled blueprints queue behind them.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

U.S. federal debt topped $40 trillion for the first time this week, the Treasury Department reported — roughly double its 2017 level. ibid.wtf/p/20260820-groundskeeping.html Sources: npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Federal debt passed $40 trillion this week, with interest above $1 trillion a year. Treasury also moved to prop up the yen, so Japan wouldn't be tempted to sell its Treasurys.

Editorial cartoon: in the gravel service yard behind a huge Treasury building, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent kneels in rolled shirtsleeves misting a limp, wilting banknote marked with a yen sign that is tied to a bamboo garden stake, using a watering can marked with a dollar sign. Beside him a plain steel side door lettered CREDITOR is opening, a cuffed hand already on the handle. Caption below: Debt service.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

The U.S. national debt topped a record $40 trillion, according to Treasury Department figures, with spending expected to exceed revenue by more than $2 trillion this year. ibid.wtf/p/20260820-enumeration.html Sources: npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Treasury logged $40 trillion in debt the same week Trump waved a seven-page, unauthored Census report claiming 24,000 noncitizens voted. Same government. Same rigor.

Charcoal editorial cartoon: a weary Census Bureau enumerator with a blacked-out ID badge stands on the Treasury Building's doorstep, jamming a run of zeros into a tiny box on his household form while a perforated printout spills from the dark doorway past his shoes; behind him on the sidewalk Donald Trump holds a thin sheaf of seven pages up to a camera crew. His balloon reads '24,000 done. They sent me here next.'

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed at least nine people and wounded 33 on Thursday, collapsing a nine-storey residential block. ibid.wtf/p/20260820-the-electorate.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

Ukraine's parliament confirmed SBU Alpha veteran Yevhenii Khmara as defence minister, 312 to 2, hours after Russian missiles killed nine in Kyiv. Nobody in the country has voted in anything else since 2019.

Woodcut-style cartoon of Ukraine's parliament chamber: a huge electronic board glows 312 - 2 while rows of lawmakers applaud a stiff man in a badly fitting suit named on a desk plate, Zelenskyy speaks from the rostrum in an olive sweatshirt, and through tall blast-taped windows a nine-storey residential block burns over the rooftops.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

The U.S. federal debt topped $40 trillion on Wednesday, the Treasury Department reported, five months after it passed $39 trillion. ibid.wtf/p/20260819-regrets-only.html Sources: npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

The federal debt passed $40 trillion Wednesday, five months after $39 trillion. Interest is now the government's second-biggest expense — and the only guest at the cost-cutting meeting who doesn't have to show up.

A crowded White House cabinet meeting: Trump gestures from the head of the table saying everyone must cut five percent, secretaries lean in waving thin folders, and one chair on the far side sits empty with an untouched place setting behind a brass nameplate reading INTEREST, $1.1 TRILLION, which nobody looks at.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

In an Aug. 18 status report, the Kennedy Center's board told a federal judge it will not try to reattach President Trump's name to the building's facade before Sept. 8. The proposed signage would read "The John F. ibid.wtf/p/20260819-stretch-goal.html Sources: npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 20/08/2026

The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge the third line of gilt lettering — crediting the Trump Kennedy Center Fund — goes up only if the fund hits $100 million. Naming rights with stretch goals.

A marble concert-hall facade caged in scaffolding and a blue tarp: two rows of gilt capital letters are already bolted into the stone above a hairline crack, a third row is still sealed in a long crate swinging from a hoist chain, and a hand-painted plywood fundraising thermometer marked $100M is filled barely a fifth of the way. A rigger idles on a plank saying the marble is cracking under line two.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 19/08/2026

Israel's military confirmed for the first time that its troops fired on the car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab, killed with six relatives in Gaza City in January 2024. ibid.wtf/p/20260819-awards-season.html Sources: bbc.co.uk

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 19/08/2026

Israel's military confirmed its troops fired on the car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab, and opened a criminal probe two and a half years later. The World Central Kitchen and MSF files stayed shut: no grounds.

An editorial cartoon set in a cramped military screening room: a blank rectangle of projector light glares on the wall while an IDF officer slams a rubber stamp onto an open case file and a second officer lowers a trade paper to ask a question, beside a tray of two closed folders labelled NO GROUNDS.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 19/08/2026

Trump paused a threatened 50% tariff on Canada for three days, hours before it would have hit about $20bn of goods including wine and hockey sticks. ibid.wtf/p/20260818-grave-goods.html Sources: theguardian.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 19/08/2026

Trump paused his threatened 50% tariff on about $20bn of Canadian goods — wine, hockey sticks — for three days, and in the same post said Keystone XL "may be awoken from the grave." Bring a shovel and a term sheet.

Editorial cartoon: in a windswept prairie cemetery, Trump and a hard-hatted TC Energy man haul on straps to winch a huge rust-caked oil pipe out of an open grave beneath a headstone reading KEYSTONE XL 2008 - 2021, while Mark Carney stands graveside holding a crate of wine bottles and a bundle of hockey sticks.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

ABC and parent Walt Disney Co. sued the FCC in federal court on Aug. 18, 2026, alleging retaliation against its news coverage and late-night satire. ibid.wtf/p/20260818-the-easy-way.html Sources: npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

ABC and Disney have sued the FCC, alleging retaliation after chair Brendan Carr shoved all eight of their stations into early license renewal and told them they could do it the easy way or the hard way. Row three is under review.

Editorial cartoon: FCC chair Brendan Carr rides a slow theme-park boat marked CARR through an 'it's a small world' ride, eight fat folders marked EARLY RENEWAL jammed in the bow and a clipboard on his knees, pointing at a tier of animatronic children in folk costume and saying 'Too much inclusion in row three.' A second boat marked IGER drifts helplessly behind him.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Jared Kushner met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem for nearly four hours after Israel rejected the 15-point Gaza plan promoted by Trump's "Board of Peace." ibid.wtf/p/20260818-unless.html Sources: democracynow.org · democracynow.org · npr.org

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Kushner spent nearly four hours with Netanyahu in Jerusalem after Israel rejected the 15-point Gaza plan. Nothing in it was changed, he said — only the misunderstandings.

Editorial cartoon: in a bare Jerusalem meeting room, Benjamin Netanyahu leans over an easel chart headed BOARD OF PEACE listing fifteen ruled plan points, drawing one huge dripping red bracket around every one of them and writing a single red word, UNLESS, underneath, while a beaming Jared Kushner says nothing was changed.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

July 2026 was the deadliest month of Russia's war on Ukraine since May 2022, with 376 missiles, nearly 5,000 drones and hundreds of glide bombs launched. ibid.wtf/p/20260818-short-dated.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Ukraine is now soliciting Patriot interceptors from about 40 countries, some of them near expiry, after Trump redirected PAC-2 and PAC-3 supplies to Middle East allies and the US strategic stockpile. Kyiv holds roughly a tenth of what it needs.

In a cold military stockroom a small, exhausted Zelenskyy holds a wire supermarket basket with two missile-interceptor crates taken from a bottom shelf marked REDUCED, while a bored uniformed clerk crouches and presses an orange expiry sticker onto another crate, saying 'These expire in November.' At right, Trump stands in front of a padlocked steel cage of clean, unstickered crates, a key on a lanyard and a clipboard under his arm.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Donald Trump told Fox News that the United States will bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of ending the Iran war, his second threat against Muscat. ibid.wtf/p/20260818-days-since.html Sources: theguardian.com · aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

Trump again threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” — despite Oman being a U.S. strategic partner and Washington’s main channel to Tehran. Muscat’s safety board has no streak to protect.

An Omani mediator calmly holds two telephone handsets at a desk between U.S. and Iranian flags. A television shows Donald Trump issuing a bombing threat. Behind the mediator, a factory safety board marked “DAYS SINCE” displays a large zero.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

ibid.wtf/p/20260817-two-windows.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

One wall, two counters. The shells go out on schedule; the cement is holding for a 60-to-90-day review.

Cartoon of a long concrete depot wall with two service windows: the left one open and floodlit, a forklift hauling out crates stencilled US AID, and the right one padlocked with a card reading 60-90 DAYS, where a figure of Jared Kushner waits with a glossy rendering board of new towers.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

The US Supreme Court has refused for a second time to revisit Trump's appeal of the 2023 civil verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E Jean Carroll. ibid.wtf/p/20260817-returns-exchanges.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 18/08/2026

He took the verdict back to the store it came from. Denied a second time — one item on a 33-request August recess list.

Editorial cartoon: at a luxury department-store returns counter, Donald Trump leans over the marble pushing a stamped court verdict at an unmoved clerk who slides it back with one finger; behind him a woman holds up a cashed cheque marked $5.8M, and at the far end of the counter Chief Justice John Roberts rubber-stamps a tall stack of orders tagged 33 ITEMS.

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 17/08/2026

Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on a podcast episode that surfaced on Sunday that Israeli forces should "kill 30 or 40" people in Gaza every night, and said of Palestinians there: "There are people there who are not worthy of life... ibid.wtf/p/20260817-merch.html Sources: aljazeera.com

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Ibid. @ibid.wtf · 17/08/2026

Ben-Gvir told a podcast Israeli forces should kill "30 or 40" people a night in Gaza. His guest asked for a button. Israel votes 27 October. #Gaza

Cartoon of a podcast studio: a smirking Israeli minister leans across the table to pin a campaign badge printed with his own face onto the hoodie of a gaunt young former captive, who is saying into his microphone that he doesn't want a rope, he wants a button. A box of identical badges sits on the table.

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