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@kmontenegro.bsky.social
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How militarization of borders inevitably erodes domestic liberties www.piratewireservices.com/p/how-milita...
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How militarization of borders inevitably erodes domestic liberties
The US is a test-case in how “tough on migration” quickly evolves into criminalization of dissent
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CNN @cnn.com · 14/09/2026
States sue Trump administration to block a new DHS rule that would make it harder for some immigrants to get green cards. cnn.it/4rbR384
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
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Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran's Tour After 'Free Palestine' Speech
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Climate Mobilization Project @mobilizeclimate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Climate Survival Incubator is live on the Movement Memos podcast from Truthout. Check it out now here: bit.ly/climatesurvi... Keyante, Alice, and Brandon from the cohort share what it means to build communities that can weather catastrophe.
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NACDL @nacdl.org · 14/09/2026
AI-powered surveillance is spreading fast across Maine. License plate readers and AI cameras log where people go, often with no vote, no notice, and no warrant.👀 NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.NACDL.org senior litigator Sidney Thaxter⚖️ on the threat to privacy. 🧵
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
RAIA and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), jointly produced a fuller review of the many ways in which these police exchanges undermine the civil and human rights of vulnerable communities, including undue racial profiling and use of force www.amacad.org/daedalus/col...
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Colonialism Turned Inward: Importing U.S. Militarism into Local Police Departments
Policing in the United States has become increasingly militarized, partly due to the transfer of military equipment to local police departments. Many law enforcement agencies throughout the United…
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
...disconnect between the billionaires and ultra-millionaires running the government under Donald Trump’s administration and average day Americans has ripple effects throughout the government and across the entire nation. www.citizen.org/article/trum...
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Trump's Billionaire Boys Club: - Public Citizen
Report on billionaires in the Trump administration, their conflicts, and political donations.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Movements to reclaim power over technology are springing up, from Neo-Luddism to Permacomputing to Rewilding the Internet. rebeccawilliams.info/unwinding-th...
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Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab
Movements to reclaim power over technology are springing up, from Neo-Luddism to Permacomputing to Rewilding the Internet. Alongside these approaches, we must discuss how tech has atrophied the exact…
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Colonialism Turned Inward: Importing U.S. Militarism into Local Police Departments www.amacad.org/daedalus/col...
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Colonialism Turned Inward: Importing U.S. Militarism into Local Police Departments
Policing in the United States has become increasingly militarized, partly due to the transfer of military equipment to local police departments. Many law enforcement agencies throughout the United…
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Budgets are Values: How Public Libraries are Funded in the US www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots
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City Snapshots — For The People
Did you know that Las Cruces, New Mexico spends 870 times more on policing than libraries? Our new publication, Budgets Are Values, gives an overview of how 15 public library systems are funded,…
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
<<These 25 years have been amazing. It’s been an “incredible ride”. Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human.>> keepitfree.ai/announcement...
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A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free
We are not terrorists. Autistici.org is an infrastructure of dissent
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...
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Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? - Chicago Reader
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/08... The world is hungry for activist scholars (activists first, scholars second)
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Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition
Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka Purnell
Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There was a kind of extortionate demand made by police to the American public: Respect us, or we’re not going to keep you safe. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Origins of Police Power - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s no accident that surveillance is often imposed on marginalized populations — Black, poor, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, trans, indigenous people — while those who feel they are part of a powerful majority purchase surveillance tech as a luxury reallifemag.com/luxury-surve...
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Luxury Surveillance — Real Life
People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others
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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
TERFs aren't feminists. "Protecting women and girls" is not actually a feminist byline. Especially when it's protection they're not asking for, from people who aren't the problem. Sexist men also say and do this, all the time. All the time.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
La huelga de futbolistas: un derecho fundamental frente a un calendario imposible » Sports Law Institute sportslawinstitute.com/la-huelga-de...
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La huelga de futbolistas: un derecho fundamental frente a un calendario imposible » Sports Law Institute
En teoría, reconocer el derecho de huelga de los jugadores de fútbol no debería generar grandes debates. Son trabajadores por […]
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CNN @cnn.com · 19/07/2026
Google and Apple have a big leg up in the AI race: their control of billions of smartphones around the world. That’s according to the European Commission, which is now cracking down on what that means for AI assistants. cnn.it/4wau3I1
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
WSJ flatly declaring Trump administration is letting corporate criminals go free. "if you’re in the world of financial services or a large public company, you can breathe a lot easier.” Dems need to make "soft on crime" Trump administration major theme of midterms. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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The Justice Department Is Pulling Back on Prosecuting Corporate Crime
Prosecutors have declined to charge businesses in a number of recent cases—despite believing that senior employees were involved in wrongdoing.
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Jimmi Lotts @jimmilotts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A sign that tells it like it is. Minneapolis.
A street sign, in a diamond shape, in orange. It reads, "Be prepared to stop." Graffiti at the bottom transforms the sentence to, "Be prepared to stop I.C.E."
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I cannot recommend n95 and kn95 masks enough. I've covered enormous wildfires multiple times throughout my career (southern california reporter) and they have saved my ass time and again. Remember, burning houses also means burning household chemicals
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/07/2026
Tyrin Johnson’s killing is part of a larger militarization unfolding in Memphis, Tennessee, under Trump.
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Tyrin Johnson Is Dead. Memphis Is Occupied. This Is Militarized “Public Safety.”
Tyrin Johnson’s killing is part of a larger militarization unfolding in Memphis, Tennessee, under Trump.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/07/2026
"There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” Joseph Pollard replied, voice rising. “The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.”
BOISE, Idaho — After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her?

“A lot of America,” her mother answered.

Less than an hour earlier, Elyse Thorpe had found her daughter’s body inside their home, called 911 and sobbed as she tried to revive her. May, an avid poet and gamer, had been struggling and increasingly withdrawn.

Now, at 16, she was gone. And the detective, from the Boise Police Department, wanted to know what Elyse meant.

May’s father answered instead.

“There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” Joseph Pollard replied, voice rising. “The whole f-----g country. The whole f-----g administration, every single f-----g day.”
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Beelzebubby @raylapse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
History is rarely as inevitable as it's remembered. Another future was offered. One that was largely erased. While the Bund lost, this is a reminder that victors often build our future by disassembling the past. Thank you for your work @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and thank you for the gift!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Posting for no particular reason newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/26/m...
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Meet our new U.S. attorney, a 'big fan' of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate • New Jersey Monitor
Alina Habba, our new U.S. attorney, recently told accused sex trafficker and rapist Andrew Tate she's a "big fan" of his. Heaven help us.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"In this episode, the crime is not only murder. It is also language—language that refuses to behave, language that has been assigned criminal intent: “Intifada,” “from the river to the sea,” “Palestine,” “justice,” “resistance,” “liberation.” Ultimately, the crime of language remains unsolved."
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 19/07/2026
One of the most useful things I've read here in a long while (perhaps ever) is @prisonculture.bsky.social's 6-point outline—from a PIC (prison industrial complex) abolitionist perspective, of course—of what accountability for ICE should look like. If you haven't yet read it, I highly recommend it.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
theguardian.com
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/07/2026
The resistance offers lessons for workers elsewhere to disrupt the relentless onslaught of surveillance capitalism.
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Indian Workers Are Resisting Efforts to Train Their AI Robot Replacements
The resistance offers lessons for workers elsewhere to disrupt the relentless onslaught of surveillance capitalism.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The thing that is ignored is how much the Democratic Party benefitted from the free labor of young Black activists and organizers during that election cycle. When some of us pointed out how disaffected those organizers were in 24, we were called wreckers and yelled at, lol.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My friend @atenaoyadi.bsky.social has been helping people protect their lungs during the air quality emergency.
A sign with Spanish translations says: "Outside for a while? Air quality is very bad. Please protect your lungs. Wear a mask." Next to the sign, a box of masks is held off the ground by a rod.A sign has a thumbs-up next to a masked face and a thumbs-down next to an ill-looking unmasked face. There are squiggly lines on the drawing, which represent the poor air quality. This sign is next to a box of KN95 masks, which is being held off the ground by a rod.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.
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nikomo @nikomo.fi · 19/07/2026
This is basically the cornerstone of modern casual conservatism. One person imagines something has happened, then tells their friends that it actually happened, and a week later you have Fox News talking about schools having litter in bathrooms.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/07/2026
The body of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was laid in an open casket. His sons stood by it for hours, greeting mourners who wore different shades of blue at the family’s request.
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Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing
Hundreds of community members gathered in Houston on Thursday evening for a public viewing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7. His sons stood by their father's casket for hours greeting mour...
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Mamdani is only popular because NY is so progressive. He'd NEVER win in rural Kansas." —Someone whose choice to win rural Kansas always loses
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yup
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The World Cup ends Sunday, but the increased surveillance won't, write Ranking Digital Rights’ Tayrine dos Santos Dias and Leandro Ucciferri. Their investigation maps the companies behind the data harvesting, predictive policing, and aerial surveillance installed across 16 host cities.
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The Silent World Cup Winners are the Companies Normalizing Surveillance
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) released an investigation into the companies supporting surveillance and policing in the 16 host cities of the 2026 World Cup.
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.peoplenewspapers.com/news/2026/07... Reminder that Tuesday is International Zine Library Day. Bring your zine librarian vegan doughnuts. It's tradition. I don't make the rules.* *okay but me and my friends did invent the day
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Preston Royal Library to Host Zines Workshop
`On Tuesday, July 21, from 2-3 p.m., the Preston Royal Branch of the Dallas Public Library will host a workshop about the history of zines and how to create them.` What are zines? Zines (pronounced ze...
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
like 1/3 of the country can't breathe and we've had a parasite outbreak, we're in a perma-war with Iran, but resenting what other people get and policing kids sports teams seems like a top strategy to deal with that
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Digital technologies did not flatten music production; they replaced labels and studios with platforms, algorithms, and a punishing demand for self-branding. Our article of the week examines the economics of private music production. By Marian Lux & Jan-Peter Herbst buff.ly/WCl7fWJ
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History Today @historytoday.com · 17/06/2026
With the passing of Jürgen Habermas in March 2026, we return to the book that established his reputation: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962). ✍️ Joad Raymond Wren www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
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‘The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere’ review
With the passing of Jürgen Habermas in March 2026, we return to the book that established his reputation: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962).
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There are about 50 sandwiches in this cooler made from ingredients that cost less than $20. They were assembled in under 2 hours at a relatively leisurely pace. One of the really interesting things about food rescue/redistribution is that once you start there are so many places you can take it.
An open 22 can Coleman cooler with bagged and foil wrapped sandwiches in it
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote
Colombians will choose on Sunday between two men whose lives have been very differently shaped by the militias, and whose visions for the country are poles apart
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
De la Espriella has called for the right-wing “chainsaw” approach, including a 40% reduction in the size of government and cutting 70,000 jobs. This is not going to reduce poverty or raise most Colombians’ living standards. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #Colombia
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Contributor: Colombia's flirtation with the Trump alliance could prove disastrous
The right-wing candidate in Sunday's coming election has signaled he would impoverish millions and join the mass incarceration movement led by the U.S. and El Salvador.
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Ken @kmontenegro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The most generous way of describing leaders like Trump and De la Espriella is to say that they have lost most of their humanity. Hence the threat to Colombia of joining their alliance. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Colombia's flirtation with the Trump alliance could prove disastrous
The right-wing candidate in Sunday's coming election has signaled he would impoverish millions and join the mass incarceration movement led by the U.S. and El Salvador.
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