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Marie Parrish

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Grandmother and retired educator. Worried about our democracy and the future of our country's children.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/10/2025
Europe’s leaders met in Copenhagen this week with security fears pressing in from every direction and a new determination to face down what they say is a mounting threat from the Kremlin.
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A 'drone wall'? Europe floats a high-tech response to Russian threats
Europe’s leaders gathered in Copenhagen this week after a wave of drone incursions above airports and sensitive sites across the continent.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2025
In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland
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In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland
This was a horror but with so much intolerance and antisemitism, no one can say it was a surprise. There are lessons to learn, and that must start now, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2025
Jane Fonda and hundreds of members of the entertainment industry have revived the Committee for the First Amendment, a free-expression group that was originally formed by Hollywood stars including her father, Henry Fonda, during the McCarthy era.
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Jane Fonda Revives Her Father’s McCarthy-Era Free Speech Group
The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/09/2025
As Britain’s royal family welcomed US President Donald Trump to Windsor Castle in a lavish ceremony on Wednesday, the British public gave the American leader their own – markedly less friendly – response to his presence in their country: cnn.it/3KqFB6Z
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/09/2025
Kennedy plans to change children's vaccine schedule, says former US CDC chief Monarez reut.rs/47NDq7j
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Kennedy plans to change children's vaccine schedule, says former US CDC chief Monarez
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told former CDC Director Susan Monarez two days before her August firing that the childhood vaccination schedule would change in September, Monarez told a Senate panel on Wednesday.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2025
Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades, until it was retired by the Trump administration this May.
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Senate Democrats want to revive a NOAA database that tracked billion-dollar natural disasters
NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid funding cuts by the Trump administration.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/09/2025
Charlie Kirk couldn’t have risen to prominence without robust free speech. Now MAGA leaders are seeking to use his death to silence debate, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily:
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The Irony of Using Charlie Kirk’s Murder to Silence Debate
The conservative activist couldn’t have risen to prominence without robust free speech.
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Axios @axios.com · 13/08/2025
SCOOP: Many Democrats left House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' annual California fundraising event last week convinced Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is running for president, according to 4 attendees.
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Scoop: Andy Beshear wows Democrats at big donor fundraiser
Beshear's biggest applause line came when he explained why he vetoed a transgender rights measure.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2025
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration and ICE to swiftly remedy conditions inside migrant holding cells in New York City where detainees have complained of squalid and overcrowded conditions.
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ICE Must Improve Conditions in N.Y.C. Migrant Holding Cells, Judge Rules
The immigration agency must hold fewer detainees and provide them with medical care and regular access to lawyers, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said.
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Axios @axios.com · 08/08/2025
Florida must pause construction at the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in the Everglades while an environmental lawsuit plays out, a federal judge ruled today.
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Judge pauses construction at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention center
A DHS spokesperson said the ruling "is another attempt to prevent" Trump "from fulfilling the American people's mandate."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/07/2025
Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim. And if she is pardoned, it won’t be for the sake of justice | Arwa Mahdawi
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Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim. And if she is pardoned, it won’t be for the sake of justice | Arwa Mahdawi
The Epstein files may never be released, but it’s increasingly likely that Epstein’s right-hand woman could be. The groundwork is already being done, says Arwa Mahdawi
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The sex trafficker Trump is considering pardoning repeatedly lied about her years-long role in Epstein’s pedophile operation and should not be trusted, according to an official U.S. report.
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Devastating Files That Could Blow Trump’s Epstein Escape Bid
Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out pardoning Jeffrey Epstein’s former accomplice.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/07/2025
NASA once projected America’s loftiest ideals, Franklin Foer writes. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk:
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NASA and the End of American Ambition
The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its future to Elon Musk.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/07/2025
“If the Epstein scandal teaches us anything, it is that America needs a dedicated and decently funded group of people whose job is not just to ask questions, but to find answers,” @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. “Let’s call them journalists.”
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‘Just Asking Questions’ Got No Answers About Epstein
Right-wing internet personalities have a lot to learn from the mainstream media that they decry.
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Jim Samuel @jimsamuel.com · 28/07/2025
It can also be done the way the Philadelphia Eagles did it, and use solar panels to provide cover for parking spaces.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 28/07/2025
Good news for Alex: there is a marvelous technology called “a tree” and unless you’re putting solar on high slopes you can effectively disappear its aesthetic impact (which unlike pig farms is exclusively visual if it exists at all) with a small strip of them. Most solar farms near me are invisible!
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@AshleyTheWriter💙🖊 @ashleythewriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
LFG LETS GO🔥 North Carolina Its Official Former governor Roy Cooper is running for United States Senate To help or join his campaign go to www.roycooper.com #royCooperForSenate2026 #Ncpol #DemcastNC #ProudBlue #Demvoice1 While you are at follow Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social
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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
REALLY AMERICAN BREAKING: Democrat Roy Cooper, an extremely popular North Carolina governor known for working in a bipartisan fashion, just announced he is running for U.S. Senate to replace Republican Thom Tillis, who quit in disgust. LET'S GO.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Big election news! 🗳 Former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper, a democrat, has just announced his run for Senate in 2026. This gives Democrats a proven statewide winner in an open-seat race.
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🚨NEW: Former Governor Roy Cooper has announced he is running for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina. RETWEET if you support Roy Cooper and donate below!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/07/2025
Two leading Israeli human rights groups said on Monday that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide. Read more: nyti.ms/3J4IfyE
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 28/07/2025
The Mississippi State Department of Health, like other state health departments, is concerned about the potential loss of federal funding. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/stat...
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State public health departments fear looming federal cuts in Trump’s next budget
Between 2016 and 2022, as congenital syphilis cases rose nationally and especially in the South, Mississippi saw a one thousand percent increase — from 10 to 110 — in the number of newborn babies who ...
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Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thank you, @annabower.bsky.social , for tracking this. What a crazy ride. It's also blatantly obvious that the system is completely stacked against anyone who is targeted by ICE/DHS for removal for any reason. There is no true due process anymore, and there is not actual justice.
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Rob O'Brien (she/her) @chicagosfdcrob.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Noodle this ⬇️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
youtube.com/shorts/UrXut... Shout Out to all my friends in Congressional District 07 That's you Tucson Your Vote Matters Last Day to request mail-in ballot is by 5pm tomorrow We have 5 DEMOCRATS on the ballot This is for the late great Raul Grijalva's seat
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Arizona CD-07 Special Election – Request Your Mail-In Ballot by July 7! #az07 #primary #votebymail
YouTube video by West Coast Women Forward
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
She’s right again, you know. She usually is.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
WATCH: Bessent accuses those against $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts of “infantilizing the poor”, and calls them “alarmists” (In Tennessee Medicaid is TENNCARE, and 1.6 Million are covered by it. 310,000 are projected to lose coverage. Most on it are working already 👇🏽)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2025
Khanna on why Trump's 2025 bill is worse than his 2017 bill: "In 2017, there was disproportionate benefits for the wealthy, but everyone got some break. Now, 40% of Americans are actually gonna be worse off, bc you're gonna lose healthcare & food assistance & the small tax cut won't make up for it"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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CNN @cnn.com · 06/07/2025
"Back-to-back retirement announcements last week from a Republican representative and senator represented a victory for President Donald Trump that could yet become a revealing liability for him and his party," writes Ronald Brownstein | Analysis
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Analysis: Why Trump’s hold on the GOP Congress may threaten its hold on power | CNN Politics
Back-to-back retirement announcements last week from a Republican representative and senator represented a victory for President Donald Trump that could yet become a revealing liability for him and hi...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/07/2025
US services sector rebounds but employment contracts again reut.rs/46wlrS2
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US services sector rebounds but employment contracts again
U.S. services sector activity picked up in June as orders rebounded, but employment contracted for the third time this year, underscoring the impact of policy uncertainty on businesses.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Murdoch paper shredded Trump for the “low move” of “using the government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn’t like.” Read more here: trib.al/3YHia4o
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/06/2025
Abrego Garcia ordered released pending trial on migrant smuggling charges reut.rs/44cFIto
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Abrego Garcia ordered released pending trial on migrant smuggling charges
A U.S. judge on Sunday ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. in early June after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, released on bail pending his criminal trial on migrant smuggling charges.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Republican Senator Mike Lee faced ridicule for calling the suspect of fatal shootings in Minnesota a “Marxist.”
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MAGA Sen. Mocked for Absurdly Calling Dem Assassin ‘Marxist’
Senator Mike Lee joined Elon Musk in portraying the suspect in attacks on Minnesota lawmakers as a leftist.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/06/2025
Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.
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The Senator Who Failed America on Vaccines
Bill Cassidy blew it.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Oh.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/06/2025
DHS Chief: ‘We Are A Nation Of Immigrants Who Came Here Between 1776 And 1943’
DHS Chief: ‘We Are A Nation Of Immigrants Who Came Here Between 1776 And 1943’
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
CATO Institute analysis suggests the Big Awful Bill for the budget will blow an additional $1T on deportation costs missed by the Congressional Budget Office while dramatically increasing the funding to immigration enforcement, which already dwarfs all other federal law enforcement in costs
Deportations to add $1T in costs to "Big Beautiful Bill " - CATO Institute headline Immigration and Border Enforcement Swamps all Other Law Enforcement Soending 

Bar chart shows $34B to Immigration enforcement in the current FY.  The FBI gets $4B, Secretary Service $3B, DEA $2.5B, Doj $2B
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"Properly considered, the actual cost of H.R. 1’s immigration enforcement spending is nearly $1 trillion more than the CBO estimates." "the bill will direct an astounding $168 billion of the budget to immigration and border law enforcement" www.cato.org/blog/deporta...
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Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
Properly considered, the actual cost of H.R. 1’s immigration enforcement spending is nearly $1 trillion more than the CBO estimates. When seen in the context of the overall costs of the bill, mass dep...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Speaker of the House is endorsing physical torture for the Governor of California.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
All, there's been a LOT going on, but this is something we should all be aware of too:
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Zelenskyy: US diverting 20,000 missiles promised for Ukraine to the Middle East
The Ukrainian president says he was informed the U.S. would divert key defensive weapons from Ukraine to the Middle East.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/06/2025
Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
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Mo Collins @mocollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Noem 2024…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
A federal judge in Northern California ordered the restoration of legal funds for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, temporarily reversing a Trump administration decision last month that had left children at risk of deportation.
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Federal Judge Orders Legal Funds for Solo Migrant Children to Be Restored
The order for the funds’ temporary restoration came after nonprofit groups challenged the government’s decision to cut funding for legal services for unaccompanied children arriving in the United Stat...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
Federal District Judge Dale E. Ho on Wednesday issued a 78-page ruling that dismissed the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. Here are five excerpts.
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Excerpts From Judge Dale Ho’s Order Dropping Charges Against Eric Adams
Although he granted the federal government’s request to drop the case, the judge harshly criticized its reasoning in seeking the dismissal.
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Axios @axios.com · 02/04/2025
Sen. Cory Booker spoke about policy for more than 25 hours — in contrast to past such speeches that relied on stunts to keep the timer ticking. He spent the session protesting Trump's policies and the effects of Elon Musk's and DOGE's federal cost-cutting efforts on agencies and people's jobs.
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Top moments from Booker's 25-hour speech
The former presidential candidate spoke about policy — in contrast to past such speeches.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The DOGE chief was noticeably missing from President Donald Trump’s big “Liberation Day” announcement.
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Elon Banished from Trump Tariffs Reveal after Poll Disaster
The DOGE chief was noticeably missing from President Donald Trump’s big “Liberation Day” announcement.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/04/2025
LATEST: Global markets react sharply and swiftly after President Trump revealed his much-anticipated tariff plans, with investors fleeing U.S. stock indexes and companies that rely on global supply chains seeing their stocks plummet.
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Investors flee U.S. stocks as markets react sharply to Trump's tariff plan
Initial market indications on early Wednesday evening were that many investors had expected Trump’s tariffs to be far less expansive.
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