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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡

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MDNI❌ Journalist and academic person - legal beagle @ AVN.com; columnista @ ThePitchKC.com, thehumanist.com; *opinions are my own*; linktr.ee/michaelmcgradyjr bisexual af❤️.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 29/09/2026
🇮🇩 Survivors face struggle after Indonesia quake Sahria Lelu and her family are still living in a tent outside a mosque six weeks after a powerful earthquake that killed dozens in Indonesia, demonstrating the hard road home for thousands of survivors.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 27/09/2026
For the 38 year old person with "Hogwarts Mom" and "45-47" on your Tesla, fuck off.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 27/09/2026
Penis.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
Two people were arrested at the City Council meeting, including one who was pulled away mid-sentence. trib.al/SzszpFM
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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Criticizing Flock at City Council
Two people were arrested at the City Council meeting, including one who was pulled away mid-sentence.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 24/09/2026
Just a reminder that Josh Hawley is an anti-LGBTQ+ bitch who gives off the vibes of a sub to a findom.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 17/09/2026
Shit is getting real
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/09/2026
Carney urges EU to cement trade deal as Ottawa seeks pivot from US ft.trib.al/2HIi1d5
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Carney urges EU to cement trade deal as Ottawa seeks pivot from US
Canada’s prime minister tells FT deeper ties with Europe will make both sides ‘more resilient’ amid Trump turmoil
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 13/09/2026
The credential economy has expanded as workplace autonomy has constricted. Employers have been building assembly lines in places that were once sold as career ladders. People are noticing. bit.ly/46bEv76
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The Making of the Millennial Working Class
A new book follows a new generation of labor organizers as they attempt to unionize their workplaces.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 13/09/2026
I typed "Penis" 100 times into an AI detector and it said it was AI.
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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest @ms.now column on the gerrymandering mess in Missouri & who created the constitutional crisis: www.ms.now/opinion/miss...
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Opinion | Missouri Republicans have unleashed pure chaos on us voters ahead of the midterm elections
Brian T. Kaylor: As the midterms approach,  the Missouri district I'll vote in has changed back and forth
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 12/09/2026
Your regularly scheduled reminder that HBO is siding with transphobic genocidist. Fuck them.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/09/2026
Iceland’s prime minister called the map, which showed a US flag covering Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Iceland and other nations, 'an insult to Icelanders, Canadians and Greenlanders'. ft.trib.al/fUS8yCJ
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 07/09/2026
Missouri AG trashes state Supreme Court ruling in federal filing #moleg #mogov
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Missouri AG trashes state Supreme Court ruling in federal filing • Missouri Independent
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s chief litigator on Sunday accused the state Supreme Court of adopting “a legal fiction” when it ruled that putting the state’s new congressional map to a referendu...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Operation Midway Blitz started one year ago yesterday. I wrote about what it was like to follow Greg Bovino and Border Patrol from Chicago to Charlotte, New Orleans, and Minneapolis.
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Notes From an ICE Chaser
I followed agents from Illinois to North Carolina to Minnesota. To my surprise, they loved my coverage.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 05/09/2026
Christian missionaries say Burning Man kicked them out “for being Christians.” The actual reasons? Filming people without consent, allegedly harassing attendees, and committing health-code violations. That’s not persecution. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
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Christian missionaries were not kicked out of Burning Man for preaching the Gospel
Shift the Atmosphere ignored repeated warnings about consent and privacy before accusing Burning Man of targeting Christians
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 06/09/2026
A new study from the Trump administration is sending alarm bells through pro-democracy groups for its potential to fuel a crackdown on Americans who support LGBTQ+ rights — or anyone with left-leaning views. 19thnews.org/2026/09... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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What Trump’s new study says about support for trans rights — and why experts are worried
Researchers who study authoritarianism and political violence have major concerns about the study and how the administration plans to use it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 04/09/2026
Derby High School yearbook faces backlash, but student press advocates defend free speech | #ksleg #ksed via Jacinda Hall kansasreflector.com/2026/09/04/d...
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Derby High School yearbook faces backlash, but student press advocates defend free speech • Kansas Reflector
When the Derby High School yearbook from the 2025-2026 school year was distributed, students, parents and politicians were quick to react.
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Engadget @engadget.com · 04/09/2026
Tetris knockoff 'Build the Wall' is one of six new games hosted on the White House website, and The Tetris Company is not happy.
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The Tetris Company wants nothing to do with the White House's new copycat game - Engadget
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Politico @politico.com · 03/09/2026
An ICE officer has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI as it investigated a shooting in Minneapolis that left a Venezuelan man wounded.
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ICE agent indicted for lying about Minnesota shooting
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A flawed HHS study is building the case for treating the transgender community as a national security threat. Using unvalidated measures and politically loaded assumptions, the report gives new ammunition to an administration already seeking to link the transgender community to political violence.
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How a Flawed HHS Study Could Pave the Way for Declaring Transgender People "Domestic Terrorists"
A flawed HHS study is helping lay the groundwork for portraying the transgender community as a national security threat. Built on unvalidated measures and politically biased assumptions, the study com...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/09/2026
Missouri Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed map from November’s midterms aje.news/ojx6um
Missouri Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed map from November’s midterms
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wiley cope @wileycope.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Punk venues cancel The SoapGirls over racist lyrics and conspiracy posts. Band says tweets were faked; the Internet Archive says otherwise. Then the band’s booking agent came for the critics. My latest for @lcrw.news with words from @katmabu.bsky.social leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/soa...
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MEET THE SOUTH AFRICAN PUNK BAND THAT CANCELED ITSELF | Left Coast Right Watch
Punk venues cancel The SoapGirls over racist lyrics and conspiracy posts. Band says tweets were faked; the Internet Archive says otherwise. Then the band’s booking agent came for the critics.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So the guy who accuses us, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @zeteo.com of being "anti-American" pretended to be sick to avoid meeting with paralyzed veterans, and dodged a PA lawmaker who came down to DC to talk with him about working and homeless people all to… focus on Israel, a foreign country, instead.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 03/09/2026
Just like when someone is a rookie police detective, old timers tell cub investigative journalists never to make promises of results or anything they can't keep. Well, after nearly five years, a divorce, family deaths, crippling student loans, and legal threats, I'll be able to keep such a promise.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 03/09/2026
That bitch Rep. Jeff Crank represents my parents' district in Colorado. He wants to push another red scare against DSA and democratic socialists like me? Wrong move. www.cpr.org/2026/09/01/j...
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Rep. Jeff Crank's resolution condemning socialism passes House
The resolution, the second of its kind in Congress since last fall, comes after members of the Democratic Socialists of America win primary races across the country.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026
I wrote about the garbage “study” HHS just released, attempting to link support for trans people and left-wing political violence, a kind of remixed Stephen Miller screed with some additional citations:
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Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence
A bogus new HHS report argues that support for transgender rights pushes people toward political violence. It’s just the latest chilling installment in a larger project of bigoted propaganda.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites
Under federal law, an official who orders, brings or keeps “troops or armed men” at a location where a general or special election is taking place can face up to five years in prison and disqualificat...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The fact that the party leadership cannot manage to keep its people united against this assault on democracy is why the Democrats need new leadership—and why a left-wing takeover is so necessary.
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So Moderate Democrats Are Just Going to Let MAGA Rig the Midterms, Huh?
All we needed was two months without self-sabotage. Instead, some Democratic Congresscritters have decided to sign onto a provision supporting the SAVE Act.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you read one story today, I hope it's this one by @stahlidarity.bsky.social for @prismreports.org about the life and legacy of Louise Vincent, the force once behind the U.S. drug user human rights movement:
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One year after drug use activist Louise Vincent’s death, the movement she sparked struggles to pick up the pieces
Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue
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Forbes @forbes.com · 29/08/2026
The long-delayed effects of tariffs are finally hitting consumer prices, but the AI investment boom is pushing inflation just as hard.
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AI Is Driving Up Prices As Much As Tariffs, Fed Analysis Reveals
The long-delayed effects of tariffs are finally hitting consumer prices, but the AI investment boom is pushing inflation just as hard.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 29/08/2026
www.thepitchkc.com/our-current-...
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Our current wave of 'historical negationism' makes democracy a joke, with America as the punchline
Illustration by Teddy Rosen Historical denial is a product of generational societal traumas that often culminate in reactionary or revolutionary political and social beliefs. It is a form of “negative...
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In MO, the right wing is bundling a measure to codify transphobic bigotry with its effort to undo the voters' will on abortion. Voters adopted protections to reproductive rights two years ago. Now, extremists believe that injecting anti-trans bias will lift an anti-women measure in Nov.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026
PinkNews faced a choice: serve the community or chase mass-produced, uncontroversial content. Its decision to cave to the algorithm has left it in reputational and financial tatters.
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Metric anxiety is fueling a dangerous decline in quality queer journalism
Why so many articles about queer people focus on celebs, rely on pics of hypermasculine guys and use rage-bait misinformation
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The word “Cambridge" appears 45 times in the $17 billion Meta child-harms settlement, notes Jason Kint. Buried inside: a $459,293,017.80 payment resolving Cambridge Analytica claims across at least 46 states and two territories.
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The $459 Million Cambridge Analytica Reckoning Buried in Meta's Teen Safety Settlement
Tucked inside the landmark settlement is another settlement, writes Jason Kint.
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 27/08/2026
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Extreme Misogyny Is an Endemic Social and Political Crisis - TheHumanist.com
A social and political force with consequences that extend so far beyond immediate life.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 25/08/2026
US Senate map trending toward Democrats, though GOP retains slim advantage minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/24/r...
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US Senate map trending toward Democrats, though GOP retains slim advantage • Minnesota Reformer
Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas could be won by either candidate, according to a top elections forecaster.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Defending Cofnas, who had written outrageously racist stuff for years (e.g., that in a meritocracy there would be next to no Black professors because they have lower IQs), is an odd hill to die on. Yet the 100-plus academics who signed this letter are clearly willing to die on it :/
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CNN @cnn.com · 20/08/2026
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. cnn.it/4hFq6a6
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/08/2026
Oh cool if wildfires weren't already bad enough.
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Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster
Waste from the Soviet nuclear program is stored across the country’s vast interior — the same area most threatened by increasingly intense blazes
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19/08/2026
The HHS released a report on gender affirming care last week that attacks providers and is steeped in anti-trans rhetoric. Read the story here, produced in partnership with @accountabilityji.bsky.social, written by @walkerbragman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social
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New HHS Report on Gender-Affirming Care Rife With False Information - Assigned Media
“As soon as you politicize any sort of healthcare it's a really slippery slope.”
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 19/08/2026
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Ninth Circuit Defies FOSTA in Recent Section 230 Ruling AVN
A panel for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling last week affirming an adult tube website's immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 in a lawsuit t...
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 19/08/2026
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Missouri’s out-of-touch Republican politicians keep going to war against Missouri—including their own voters
State Sen. Rick Brattin, a Republican from Harrisonville, and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins speak to reporters outside Hoskins’s office in the Missouri State Capitol. // Photo by Annelise Hanshaw/M...
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Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 15/08/2026
It's dark days in our country when the Iranian government appears more credible than the Trump administration.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Palantir is actively working to build a future of total surveillance that is fundamentally incompatible with a free press and human rights, as their tools enable state surveillance and violence both at home and abroad." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @objectivejournos.bsky.social
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Hundreds of journalists demand USA Today Co. end Palantir partnership
Palantir's products have been used by the U.S. government to support immigration raids.
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