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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The mixture of smugness and near-insanity Cartwright nails with her delivery gets me every time.

A still from "The Simpsons" episode "Bart of Darkness" where Bart is reading an excerpt of his horrible play to Lisa. He has a cast on his left leg and is in green pajamas and seated in a swivel chair. Lisa is seated on his bed facing him. There is a telescope poking outside of Bart's window between them both.

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

filmmakermagazine.com/133330-amir-... Beyond honored that I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Amir Naderi about his legendary career. His rarely-screened MANHATTAN BY NUMBERS will be screening this week on 35mm at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social.

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The Passion of Amir Naderi

Nick Kouhi profiles Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi, touching on his current efforts as a lecturer, his initial foray into filmmaking and much more.

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If this is indeed the bestseller Criterion is hoping for, please let it herald physical media releases for ATLANTICS and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND at long last.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

So Savannah Guthrie had to cancel travelling to Italy to cover the Olympics for NBC because of her mom’s kidnapping and the director of the FBI, who hasn’t solved the case, went to Italy to party with the U.S. hockey team. Concerning!

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026

The Supreme Court:

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

WTF?! The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which consistently marks citizens as noncitizens, per this report by ProPublica & Texas Tribune. The Act imposes *no penalty* 4 faulty purges. 1/

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Eli Sherman @elitalksmpls.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

There’s a vote in DC tomorrow that would give DHS $11 billion more in funding. Schumer and Jeffries have already walked back any “demands” they had for DHS. I, for one, do not think this timing is just a coincidence. Turn down the temp for the vote. Turn it right back up when the bag is secured.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in Minneapolis is 5 days away!!!!!!! 🎞️📽️🎊🎶❤️‼️ Join us Feb 12-15 (Thurs-Sun) at the MSP Film Society & Walker Art Center for new restorations of long unseen, beautiful, and fiercely political films!! Brought to you by @archivesonscreen.org ❤️🎞️ mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri...

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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

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Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE

Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Catherine O'Hara's brilliance was found in how she made inhabiting whatever character she played seem like a mere extension of her presence. Which seems so deceptively modest until you take a moment to consider how her mastery of that illusion made her one of the major talents of her generation.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Greg Bovino tonight

Rudolf Hoss leaving the building in The Zone of Interest

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They will not win to write the histories of this moment and when that history is written, the people of Minneapolis will occupy a position heretofore reserved for the most rarefied of Americans.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People are nervous about watching video, but this one is not of the murder, it's of the lead up, and people need to see it before the spin takes over.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

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Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park

Following last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site.

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

For my debut piece in Vogue, I wrote about a selection of films that I argue provide a loose narrative thread that courses through Iran's modern history, from the twilight of the Qajar Dynasty to the current uprisings. www.vogue.com/article/iran...

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What Can Iran’s Cinema Tell Us About the Current Unrest? Quite a Lot, in Fact

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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This entire thread is horrifying but essential reading. Losing to these people isn't an option.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

in the past week more than 400 people have cumulatively donated more than $23,500 to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! it would be *amazing* to hit $26,000 by the time the video drops tomorrow 👀 www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

No. Absolutely not. Every Dem on the ground in MN actually fighting these monsters are linking to important local causes and people/families in need. If you're out of state and want to help, click the link below for any number of more needed areas, or donate to the local union's strike fund!

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Stand With Minnesota

A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/01/2026

it is functionally impossible to watch this video and not be incredibly proud of everyone standing up to the invaders, the people of minneapolis are extraordinary it isn’t going to be easy but we are going to win

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

GOP: We are sending armed perverts to assault families. Even babies. We are in open warfare against all things good. Schumer: People call him TACO, but these days it's getting hard to afford one! Can you chip in $5 today to help us hold Mr. Trump accountable for these soft shell economic policies?

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

FEED: Minneapolis OTG Coverage on the ground in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Journalists, independent & local, live updates. Created Jan 10, 2026 during anti-ICE protests. Reply if I need to add someone. 📌 bsky.app/profile/murp...

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Despite Internet blackout, reportedly with aid of Starlink, lots of videos coming out tonight showing large scale protests continuing in Iran. This is one of them x.com/bbcpersian/s...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/01/2026

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Minneapolis, I love you.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026

This is the video.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is monstrous. He wants to turn the residents of the state against Walz and against the Somali-American population.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

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Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71

Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., known for his roles in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, passed away Dec. 30.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

LeMonde said, not on our watch

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 25/12/2025

Did you know that Christmas Day is one of the biggest filmgoing days of the year? If you’re headed to a matinee today, remember that theater operators are working extra hard to make the movies magical for you and yours. Be sure to thank them and to treat them and your fellow filmgoers kindly!

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Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

One of my professional and personal highlights of the past year was condensing hours of AI slop into a series of semi-coherent videos for Ryan. You should show your love for GD so they can keep bringing you nothing but the best in reporting on this bizarre tech dystopia we're all living through now.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

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iRamona @iramona.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

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