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Nikolai Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Writer & musician. Photo & film. Punjabi-Finnish American, Michigan man. Raised Sikh. Vegan. Learning to cope with autoimmune Addison’s disease & a spine injury. Trying to help create a better, more peaceful world.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A humanitarian catastrophe is cascading across Lebanon, where 700,000 people have been driven from their homes. (1/3)
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Nearly 700,000 Displaced by War in Lebanon, U.N. Says
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It feels so demoralizing that for decades Cuba would send their doctors all over the planet to help victims of western imperialism, natural disaster, etc, but now that they need help every nation on earth is silent. People clapped for a half time show, but nothing has changed. Pure evil is law.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16/02/2026
The Alabama Solution features footage shot on contraband cellphones wielded by men incarcerated by the fifth-largest state prison system in the U.S.
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“The Alabama Solution”: Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons
Three activists — Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates be...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/02/2026
"Everybody understands that this is a massive violation of human rights," Cuba's U.N. ambassador says of the U.S. oil blockade against the island.
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“Policy of Aggression”: Cuba’s U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government
Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba, which has been und...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know” Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
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Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/07/2025
NYT: Israeli military officials have admitted they never found evidence that Hamas systematically stole U.N. aid—despite using that claim to starve Gaza.
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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
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I Watched a Woman Nearly Die in a Cell Across From Mine. Texas Prisons Need Air Conditioning.
More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.
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Nikolai Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @nikolai-alexander.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
US contractors & IDF soldiers are shooting at and slaughtering starving people seeking aid. This is on all of us. We have the power to stop our governments from continuing this genocide, but we need more people to stand together, to create enough pressure, to force our governments to change.
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
WE ALREADY HAVE THESE. THEY ARE CALLED PRISONS. And it is directly the fault of the media for ignoring the deep injustice of our prison system for decades that led to these escalations. People have been calling for abolition for decades for a reason.
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Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
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Nikolai Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @nikolai-alexander.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This fascist nazi USA doesn’t care who dies. The USA gov, military, cbp, & ice are nazis. Not even criminal undocumented migrants deserve to be treated like this. And we are still funding a genocide, starving and bombing innocent people in Palestine. Nobody deserves to be treated this way.
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Nikolai Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @nikolai-alexander.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Sorry I’ve been inactive. My immune system has been attacking my body. I look and feel like shit. But, I’ve been doing my best to stay aware of what’s going on around the world.
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Nikolai Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @nikolai-alexander.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Peace is possible, but we need enough people to stand up together, enough people to make our governments listen to us to avoid escalation, to make our countries negotiate with each other instead of starting and perpetuating wars. Any leader who doesn’t listen to their people must be removed.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/05/2025
Gaza officials says killing children has ‘become a pastime’ for Israeli soldiers.
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Israeli raid kills Gaza doctor’s 9 children; another boy starves to death
Gaza officials says killing children has ‘become a pastime’ for Israeli soldiers.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/05/2025
Gaza Aid Flotilla Attacked by Drones in International Waters; Organizers Blame Israel
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Gaza Aid Flotilla Attacked by Drones in International Waters; Organizers Blame Israel
A ship carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip sent out a distress signal overnight after it was bombed by drones in international waters near Malta. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the organizer...
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Nayna Gupta @naynagupta.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Joined @democracynow.org this morning to make clear that the Trump admin is playing dangerous & cruel political games and violating the rule of law in refusing to bring home Mr. Abrego Garcia. They are lying when they say they cannot return him to the U.S.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
50,000. And we’ve never paused or stopped delivering weapons.
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Marc @chaoscontrolchaos.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Fellow Americans, please stand up for transgender Americans, immigrants and everyone this awful government attempts to dehumanize.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/03/2025
I had to compose myself before posting—because this breaks a part of my soul. If you’re a contractor with a segregation policy, say it loud—so non-white dollars don’t fund your business. It won’t go how you think. And if anyone uncovers businesses doing this, put them on blast. #NAACP #BlackSky
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/03/2025
Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
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Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit A Cornell University PhD student earlier this month sued the Trump administration seeking to stop the president’s order aimed at foreign students accused of “antisemitism”. Days later, the Department of Homeland Security emailed to request that the student “surrender” to immigration officials. Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, is one of three Cornell students who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the enforcement of Trump executive orders aimed at deporting foreign university students and staff involved in pro-Palestinian protest. Continue reading...
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 20/03/2025
it's also timed the day after HHS offically published their proposed rule banning trans care from ACA EHBS www.madycast.com/p/proposed-h... Nancy Mace was also recently calling RFKjr to... do something... about estrogen
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Proposed HHS Rule Would Ban Trans Healthcare From Essential Health Benefit Coverage In ACA Plans
Trump's most sweeping attack on trans healthcare so far could have devastating impacts on trans people of all ages on ACA plans, especially for those who don't live in trans sanctuary states.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/03/2025
Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses
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Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses
Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order * Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time. The Department of Justice removed 11 guidelines…
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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Some updates on our client: @immdef.bsky.social went to his imm court hearing Monday and received confirmation from ICE that he has been “removed” to El Salvador. The Judge asked “how has he been removed if there is no removal order?” And the ICE attorney responded that they did not know.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/03/2025
“Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+ www.democracynow.org/2025/3/18/ga...
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“Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+
Israel has shattered the Gaza ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching a massive wave of airstrikes overnight that killed hundreds of people across the Palestinian territory and wounded many others. ...
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 17/03/2025
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people right now.
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From Stonewall to now: LGBTQ+ elders on navigating fear in dark times
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people on taking action, even when they're afraid.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist on a valid visa, was heading to Brown University med school when she was detained at Logan. A judge ordered Trump provide 48 hours notice before deportation. The court’s order was ignored; she was deported without warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 14/03/2025
1. ‼️BREAKING: (w/ @ket.bsky.social) A proposed HHS rule threatens to exclude trans healthcare from the list of Essential Health Benefits in the most sweeping anti-trans attack yet. It targets trans care for all ages for people on ACA plans. Subscribe to support us! www.madycast.com/p/proposed-h...
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Proposed HHS Rule Would Ban Trans Healthcare From Essential Health Benefit Coverage In ACA Plans
An unpublished HHS rule on the Federal Register could have devastating impacts on trans healthcare, especially for trans people who don't live in trans sanctuary states.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/03/2025
If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.
Black graphic with text
“You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings.
When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.”
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Trapped O'Brien, Please Free Me From This Prison @radobrien.myatproto.social · 07/03/2025
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: The US Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the genocide in Gaza violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You’ve probably heard the FBI is accusing Habitat for Humanity of fraud. It’s actually even worse. It’s not just the FBI, it’s the DOJ, Treasury & the EPA accusing EVERYONE who received Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $ of fraud. #DemVoice1 Complete list of the accused…
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
They deported a 10 year old American citizen with brain cancer to deport her family. U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 09/03/2025
“This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.”
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ICE Arrests Palestinian Student Activist Who Helped Lead Columbia University Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, student activist, was detained by immigration enforcement on Saturday night. Agents said his student visa and green card were revoked.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 05/02/2025
Super excited to announce the LGBTQ Case bot! So excited to be working with team at @free.law to provide updates on cases relating the LGBTQ rights! Give the bot a follow! bsky.app/profile/lgbt...
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Anybody who is remotely okay with Trump saying the US "will take over" Gaza has fully dehumanized Palestinians. If China said they'll "take over" Alaska what would the reaction be? These are human beings with rights, they're talked about like mosquitos. Arrest the war criminals or humanity is doomed
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/01/2025
Seeing so many hospitals capitulate on trans youth care means that if Trump does a similar executive order for adult care, most trans people could immediately lose access. It doesn't matter if it's unlawful if these cowardly clinics cave to these bastards.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I feel confident enough to predict that things are going to get worse for trans people in the US and that eventually it’ll get better again - maybe even better than before - but I have no idea if “eventually” is 2 years from now or 2 centuries.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 30/01/2025
"The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 — money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks, the AP wrote in December. Parole numbers have also plummeted in recent years." Slavery by another name indeed.
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With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons
Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others
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Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
just for clarity this one will be a death camp and it is incumbent upon all of us to do literally whatever we can to stop this and gunk up the gears of this death machine
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/01/2025
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/01/2025
Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts are already going too far and have caused Native Americans to be questioned and detained.
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Trump’s Extreme Immigration Raids Now Sweeping Up Native Americans
Donald Trump’s immigration raids are rounding up the native inhabitants of this land.
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