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Kevin Kent

@kevinkent.bsky.social
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No newsletter or substack to promote. Residing in the southwest, but in the pine treed, temperate, snowy part.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18h
Did Ukrainian drone strikes really silence Russia's social media bots? (No) A real Cloudflare chart fueled a viral story ab MAGA and AfD accounts going quiet. But the evidence doesn't support the rumor. I wrote about bots, vibes, & what we've lost as platforms have shut down tools & data access.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
ugh, can't believe the woke bluesky mob is scared of bold political thinking, just because it comes from a money launderer who keeps moving headquarters to stay ahead of basic financial regulations
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Humorous error in NYT print
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
A federal grand jury indicted a Tennessee Bluesky user for allegedly threatening ICE agents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FBI warns ICE agents not to trust any women willing to date them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are 535 members of Congress. Total all of their stock transactions since January 2025, and that sum (22,300) still won’t match how many trades Trump has made in the same period (28,700). www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this is more fucked up than I was expecting it to be and I was expecting it to be pretty fucked up
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kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Unbelievable corruption top to bottom. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A good chronicle of things we already know but this little tidbit was new to me. Ht @rparloff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Opinion | In Russia, Nobody Knows Where the Lines Are Anymore (Gift Article)
The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Let’s see what the paramilitary secret police is up to these days… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 01/09/2026
If I say what I feel I will get a visit from guys in tac vests.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
JD Vance should never be able to wash the stench of the blood libel he leveled at Haitian immigrants for as long as he lives. One can practically pin the center of the moral rot of this country on the Vice President himself.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
extremely alarming the people we give unfettered access to powerful surveillance tools: www.404media.co/florida-depu...
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is Trump shipping Iranian dissidents back to Iran while coordinating this with the Iranians? Yes. Trump worked with Iran to deport more than 100 Iranians to Iran in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship between them despite tensions mounting at the time.
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ICE, Iran quietly worked together on deporting Iranians to Iran, emails show
U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport more than 100 Iranians to Iran in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship between them despite tensions mounting at the...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mysterious murderous attacks on boats off the coast of Ecuador suggest that "Trump’s boat strike program could be more secretive, larger, and more resistant to oversight than previously known." These are extrajudicial executions as a form of entertainment for the MAGA base.
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Unclaimed Boat Strikes in Ecuador: Has Trump’s Operation Southern Spear Opened a Hidden Front? | Council on Foreign Relations
New reporting indicates that Trump’s boat strike program could be more secretive, larger, and more resistant to oversight than previously known.
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Quick search of Courtlistener's Caselaw archive shows this is the first time Veracrypt has ever been mentioned in a published appellate decision in any federal or state court.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Federal court concludes that Colorado was the target of a Trump-directed extortion scheme to force the released of a convicted felon, Tina Peters, whom Trump deemed essential to his criminal plots. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Jackson said of the email, according to the transcript. “I’ve
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Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows
The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
SCOOP: People on the airport catering truck used to secretly move President Trump off an Air Force One 747 in Turkey included: - Dan Scavino - Walt Nauta - Natalie Harp No Cabinet-level officials were on that truck. wapo.st/3S47ztG
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Close Trump aides — but no Cabinet officials — made secret catering truck move
The president was accompanied by some of his most loyal aides but no top administration officials as he made the clandestine move to a different plane to leave Turkey last month.
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"when we decided to make the difficult decision to asked to be allowed to voluntarily leave the US—the place we consider our country and our home—the government not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 12/08/2026
Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...
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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras
The QB used an LLC to shield his identity.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/08/2026
Champion of America's grief and resilience
Giuliani jerking off
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They don't believe in law. They don't believe in duty. They sure don't believe in public service. All Republicans believe in under Trump is the grift. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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‘Is she even allowed to be doing this?’: Inside a federal judge’s side gig running a PR firm
Jennifer Mascott’s tenure at public affairs firm Adfero sparked questions around conflicts of interest and partisanship.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The only witness that Jeanine Pirro produced before the DC grand jury admitted that the feds' case against an Olympic canoeist was bogus because the damage he is charged with was there before he arrived on the scene. But Pirro secured her indictment just the same. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Witness in Reflecting Pool case conceded damage before canoeist touched water
David “Davey” Hearn was indicted this month and accused of damaging the pool. He has pleaded not guilty.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mitch McConnell being absent and safe-R seat being empty is a GOOD thing I feel like I’m losing my mind here with people furious at Andy Beshear
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)
First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/07/2026
So the next day, during their lunch break at school, the students lawyered up. Find out what happened next here: www.wired.com/story/epstei...
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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I have an idea how we could have saved $37 billion in government spending in the last 5 months! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (Gift Article)
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' 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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
There were 11 people working at the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora. Now there are 3 thanks to DOGE
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Paxton was born in modest circumstances and has spent his entire career in public service with a modest salary. During this time he has amassed spectacular wealth, largely through murky real estate dealings with people who have business with the state. The corruption meter is flashing red.
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Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio
The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The slush fund administration
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Kevin Kent @kevinkent.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If they are cooking the books about this, hard to imagine any government statistic we can trust from these buffoons.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Ronaldo Salgado, the eldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, said he recognized his dad's voice as he bled out after being shot by an immigration officer in Houston."
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