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Katie Tibaldi

@katietibaldi.bsky.social
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Nomadic Writer/Director/Producer for 🎥📺. WGA Captain. Co-Founder of WGAStrikeUnite. Sundance Fellow Alum. Recents: Harlem, At Home With Amy Sedaris, Street Fighting Men, Community Patrol, others. Suspicious of people who don’t like the Great Lakes.

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Late Night Is NOT Dead! Join WGAE late night comedy writers (and friends) tomorrow, April 8, as they share the work that would have definitely gotten them taken off the air. Featuring live performances, readings, sketch and standup! Tickets and more details: www.tixr.com/groups/asylu...
"Late Night Is NOT Dead: A Comedy Extravaganza" on Wednesday, April 8 at 8:00PM at Asylum NYC. Presented by Sasha Stewart, Moujan Zolfaghari, and Jill Twiss, featuring late night writer all-stars including Sal Gentile, Josh Gondelman, Julia Young, Natasha Vaynblat, Dan Chamberlain, Pratima Mani, Liz Hynes, Felipe Torres Medina, Zhubin Parang, Taylor Kay Phillips, & more.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Netflix's $83 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery would mean more corporate consolidation. Netflix, by far the #1 streamer, would take over HBO Max, the #3 streaming service. This giant merger could violate antitrust law and hurt consumers.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/12/2025
Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to review a landmark dispute over the constitutionality of President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
A headline reads: "Supreme Court Will Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship." The Supreme Court building is shown largely covered in scaffolding. An individual walks on the sidewalk in the foreground. Photo by Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
When a few corporations dominate the economy, democracy is the first casualty. @matthewstoller.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to expose how monopolies—from banks to Big Tech—turn economic power into political control. 🎧 Listen here: pod.link/pitchforkeco...
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 16/11/2025
Home ownership is now out-of-reach for many Americans. @matthewstoller.bsky.social says that's because starter homes "don't exist anymore," and business and government have forgotten that "homes are for people to live in," not investments. #Velshi
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Matt Stoller: How 'oligarchs' and 'extraction' fueled America's housing crisis
Home ownership is now out-of-reach for many Americans. “Homes are for people to live in,” says Matt Stoller of the American Economic Liberties Project, but he warns big landlords are "building homes for money, not people." President Trump claims to care about home affordability, but Stoller insists his administration is actually "on the side of oligarchs." 
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The Lever @levernews.com · 03/12/2025
🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
SCOTUS is allowing Texas to redistrict early. Remember that California responded by passing Prop 50 last month. Other states must also counteract Trump's attempt to steal the 2026 midterms. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.
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Why I'm Voting YES On Prop 50
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Spam Ayres @squirlykat.eurosky.social · 04/12/2025
The Cold Supermoon tonight
This evening’s Super moon
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Who controls what IP isn't what's at play with this new merger: it's about who gets your attention & dollars. It means fewer shows & fewer movies as not to step on each other's dicks. 1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Committee for the First Amendment was formed to fight for our right to free expression. A WBD merger puts it at risk. Read more from @JaneFonda on @theankler. theankler.com/p/jane-fonda...
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TheWrap @thewrap.com · 05/12/2025
“A #Netflix-Warner Bros. would create one massive media giant with control of close to half of the streaming market,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said of the $83 billion deal. Read more: bit.ly/48x35zW
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Vulture @vulture.com · 05/12/2025
Netflix announced today it is buying Warner Bros. Discovery for $82.7 billion. The deal has the potential to reshape Hollywood and the wider media universe, if it can pass significant regulatory hurdles.
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Netflix Is Buying Warner Bros. Discovery for $83 Billion
Netflix announced today it is buying Warner Bros. Discovery for $82.7 billion. The deal has the potential to reshape Hollywood and the wider media universe, if it can pass significant regulatory hurdles.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/12/2025
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
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AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors and influencers directing viewers to Wellness Nest, a US-based supplements firm. Continue reading...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Unionized journalists across North America have come together to sound the alarm: Media companies are implementing AI in ways that damage the credibility of the journalism on which you rely. Stand with NewsGuild-CWA Journalists and Demand News, Not Slop!
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Stand with NewsGuild-CWA Journalists and Demand News, Not Slop!
Unionized journalists across North America have come together to sound the alarm: Media companies are implementing artificial intelligence in ways that damage the credibility of the journalism on…
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix

The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 05/12/2025
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. in a megadeal valued at $82.7 billion. The streaming giant's proposal includes a $5.8 billion breakup fee and promises to maintain Warner Bros. current operations, "including theatrical releases." Theater owners are already speaking out.
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It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
Netflix, run by chairman Reed Hastings and co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, has agreed to buy Warner Bros. in a megadeal valued at $82.7 billion.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Under Trump, the National Credit Union Association stopped sharing data on the income banks get from overdraft fees. Consumers paid billions in these fees in 2024. As the Trump administration continues rolling back protections for consumers, I’m pushing for answers.
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Exclusive: Sen. Warren presses credit unions on late fees
Democratic lawmakers, led by Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., press 21 institutions for fee data after a federal agency halted disclosure requirements.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/12/2025
At one point or another, we're all going to need to see a doctor. But our health care system remains unaffordable, inaccessible, and deeply dysfunctional. It is unacceptable. That’s why a strong majority of Americans agree: We need Medicare for All.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 03/12/2025
It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
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The Ankler @theankler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Jane Fonda writes in an exclusive op-ed that the stakes of the Warner Bros. Discovery sale reach far beyond one company. Consolidation could reshape who gets heard, who gets hired, and who gets silenced. Her message to Hollywood: speak now theankler.com/p/jane-fonda...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/12/2025
Don’t expect Elon to face similar hurdles in the US.
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EU fines Elon Musk $140 million for violations of online safety rules. Vance calls it "censorship."
Don’t expect him to face similar hurdles in the US.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This has lead to a bottleneck in which established voices can make their dream projects, while new & diverse voices are struggling to get noticed, read, or their writing sold. I've never seen anything like it in my 25 years in the business. If things were hard for you before, they're even harder now
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I haven't been very optimistic with y'all because I haven't been optimistic lately. 1/3 of shows, and thus writers rooms, are just gone. Because horror is one of the only things doing well, everyone is writing horror. But there's too much of it. Hollywood cannot make all the great scripts out there.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
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Sundance Institute @sundance.org · 18/09/2025
”[I] could see and feel that there were other voices out there and there were other stories to be told, but they weren’t being given a chance.” — Robert Redford Learn more about Redford’s journey, impact, and commitment to uplifting independent storytelling: sundance.org/redfordlegacy
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“Take care of your assistants.” #WeWereLiars co-developer co-showrunner Carina Adly MacKenzie gives advice to fellow showrunners. #WGAWPod
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
why are so many people willing to outsource thinking, learning, understanding & to just settle for believing the things that the llms / algorithms / screens output & flash their way?
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We're like a week away from him offering and claiming to have invented "sandwiches."
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The following is a statement from the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) on Paramount’s Decision to Cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.
On July 2nd, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against 60 Minutes and CBS News by President Trump for $16 million. On July 15, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on-air and called the settlement a “big fat bribe” in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydance, a charge currently under investigation in California.  

Less than 48 hours later, on July 17, Paramount canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its timeslot, giving vague references to the program’s “financial performance” as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services and across social media. Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to 
President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the 
Writers Guild of America has significant concerns that The Late Show’s cancelation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump Administration as the company looks for merger approval. 

Cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society. Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR. 
The Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at Paramount. We call on our elected leaders to hold those responsible to account, to demand answers about why this beloved program was canceled and to assure the public that Colbert and his writers were not censored due to their views or the whims of the President. 
 
In the meantime, the Writers Guild of America will support our members at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and across the late-night industry as they speak truth to power and we will explore all potential legal and political avenues to fight for our members in the aftermath of this decision.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Nationwide the average electric bill could rise by as much as $280 by 2035, thanks to the Republican's big bill. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/h...
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How much Trump's 'big beautiful' bill could raise electricity costs in every U.S. state over the next 10 years
President Donald Trump's 'big beautiful' bill could raise household electricity costs by $600 a year over the next decade, analysis finds.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The number of first-time homebuyers has plummeted, and is now just half the historical average.
Graph showing first time home buyers plummeting to below 1.3 million, after being around 2 million for years, and as high as 3.2 million in 2004
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity. Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Republican lawmakers are introducing legislation in Congress that would ban striking workers from receiving unemployment benefits. The bill seeks to override the laws of several states that give workers on strike unemployment.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“Writers are so used to being paid late that whenever it does happen, a lot of us don’t even notice. But in my case, Guild staff noticed and called me to initiate a claim. This process taught me to stand up for myself the next time I am paid late because I know that the Guild has my back.”
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 17/07/2025
Congress just defunded public media. Your support is critical to securing the future of public media: bit.ly/4nWz3wf
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Reminder: The nominations period for the 2025 WGAE Council Election closes at 5pm ET on Monday, July 21. Members can visit wgaeast.org/council-elections for sector nomination forms and directions.
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Council Elections | Writers Guild of America
2025 Council Election Information The timeline, call for nominations, candidate information, and directions for the election procedure for the 2025 WGAE Council Election are detailed below. If you…
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our members at @1010wins.bsky.social, the longest running news station in the country, are demanding a fair contract that improves salaries, benefits, and addresses growing concerns about worker safety. Our current contract expires July 22. Fair contract now @audacyinc.bsky.social!
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WGA East Journalists At NYC’S 1010 WINS Radio Station Petition Audacy To Address Worker Safety In Contract Talks As Deadline Looms
The journalists at NYC's 1010 WINS radio station are particularly aiming to address worker safety in the latest round of negotiations
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Is late night in financial trouble? Sure. Should you take Paramount’s word that that’s the reason Colbert is going? Give me a break. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a...
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CBS Says It’s Canceling Colbert Over Money, Not Politics. Is That Truthiness?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/07/2025
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
At the same time, employers are planning to shift more of the expense of health care to workers in 2026. www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/e...
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Here’s why you might be spending more on health care next year | CNN Business
Battered by multiple years of high health care costs, employers are planning to shift more of the expense to workers in 2026, a new survey released Wednesday found.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Health insurance companies are seeking to hike rates next year. Michigan insurers are seeking to raise premiums 17%, on average. In Colorado, health insurance for individuals could increase by 28% for 2026. Across the country, health care costs are likely to jump next year.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
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