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Nick Wagner

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Election reform nerd since understanding that ranked choice voting, proportional representation, and risk-limiting audits of election results are essential elements of democratic government.

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 19m
To earn public trust, the National Commission on Electoral Reform must be independent, open to every political viewpoint, and fair in how it works. That is how electoral reform lasts. buff.ly/qhZwBOe
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What does an independent commission on electoral reform need to succeed?
The idea of an independent commission on electoral reform has been gaining traction lately, with nearly 200 MPs calling for one [UPDATE: a Commission was announced on 29th September]. Bu
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FairVote @fairvote.bsky.social · 2h
This November, Alaska, Maine, 11 cities, & two counties will use ranked choice voting in their elections. Three more cities will vote on whether to adopt #RankedChocieVoting for future local elections. Learn more about RCV and the 2026 elections ⬇️
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Where will ranked choice voting be used in the 2026 elections? - FairVote
The 2026 elections are underway. This November, 11 cities, two counties, and two states will use ranked choice voting.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
Voters are still outraged that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion. If the Trump administration tries to impose a backdoor nationwide abortion ban on top of that, whether now or later, voters will remember. We’ll make sure of it.
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 2h
Before the Trump-GOP tax law, corporations paid a 35% rate. Now they pay 21%. For the first time in nearly a century, the average American family pays a HIGHER effective tax rate than corporations. They flipped the script on working people.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 2h
"Paid for by the U.S. Government"? By siphoning funds from agency budgets meant for border security and fallen officer memorials, the Trump admin is trying to build a massive propaganda apparatus ahead of the midterms. We're not buying it, Tova Kaplan explains: protdem.org/4hmADq8
It’s possible, though, that these ads could be meant for something broader than just driving support to Republicans. In the event of a win for the opposition in the 2026 midterms, the Trump administration might use these ads to question the results themselves. Trump could place ads, with the seeming endorsement “Paid for by the U.S. Government,” on news stations and broadcast shows to advance false claims about the election.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16h
At least 57 people have died in ICE detention since the start of President Trump's second term — more than double the number of deaths recorded from the previous four years combined. ICE must be held accountable before any more lives are lost.
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Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump
Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 21h
A requirement for EU membership is that representatives to the European Parliament must be elected using a proportional voting system. We should learn from them and adopt proportional voting in our legislatures as well.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20h
Students have a right to a comprehensive education of our nation's history, and Indigenous children deserve to have their culture reflected at school.
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Montanans are demanding better Indian education, setting an example for other Western states - High Country News
Experts say good education is about relationships – and a constitutional amendment doesn’t hurt.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 20h
Trump and Republicans want to make it harder for young people to vote. My Youth Voting Rights Act does the opposite: Pre-registration before 18. Polling places on college campuses. Young people getting a voice in their future.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 20h
Billionaires want you to think taxing their wealth "doesn't do anything." Massachusetts passed a millionaire tax and raised $3.1 BILLION. That money is funding bridges, buses, teachers, and free community college. Wealth taxes WORK. That's why the rich hate them. Tax the rich.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 02/10/2026
Wherever you look, first-past-the-post gives politicians total power without a majority vote to reshape key areas like education. Proportional representation adds a vita check on these powers, ensuring decisions about your child’s education require a true majority consensus.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 23h
Thank you to every worker and advocate who has fought for years to pass and strengthen Seattle’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23h
What would Time's sad and useless Trump interview have been like if I were in charge? On @ms.now: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Time magazine’s big interview with Trump was a huge missed opportunity
Dan Froomkin: This is not a normal president. To get useful answers out of him, journalists need to break out of their standard interviewing molds.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22h
Breaking News: The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage made its biggest weekly jump in four years, rising to 7.28%.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. Officers got retroactive paychecks that were as much as $32,000 too high. If the city wants to recover the money, they have to cut a deal with the police union. publicola.com/2026/10/01/s...
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SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. - PubliCola
. By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of more…
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2026
“I hope the judge sees I’m a person. I’m just a girl trying to have a life like everybody else.” Our client Dakota and all trans and intersex people in Kansas deserve to go about their days without this bill's punitive dehumanization.
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Trans people, anguished by Kansas driver's license law, go to court
Plaintiffs are expected to testify this week about the negative effects of carrying identification that doesn't match how they look and feel.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
Read more about the dangerous conditions the whistleblower exposed in Florida:
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Ranking Members Robert Garcia, Bennie Thompson, and Maxwell Frost Demand Answers From ICE on Dangerous Conditions in Florida Immigration Facilities
The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
They are the exact locations where human beings missing from official ICE databases are hidden, shuffled covertly between ICE flights, transit buses, and known detention camps to keep them off the public radar and out of judicial reach. This cannot be allowed to stand. Shut them all down now.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
DISCLAIMER: This post contains graphic photos. Men, women, and families are being abused in lawless, cramped, mold-choked facilities in Florida. A horrific new whistleblower report has pulled back the curtain on the dangerous and lawless practices operating inside two federal facilities in Florida.
Conditions inside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port where more than one hundred detainees are being detained for days and forced to sleep on the ground.Piles of trash have accumulated outside of the Miramar Holding FacilityHuman waste has overflowed onto the ground outside of the portable toilets placed outside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port.Detainees brushing their teeth using water from a hose attached to a jug outside
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heating oil costs are expected to jump 50% this winter. That's $878 MORE out of working families' pockets just to stay warm. We could do something to make things easier for working people. But instead we just give billionaires more tax breaks and expect it to "trickle down."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2026
The company doesn’t matter. Flock, Axon, and other automatic license plate readers have no place on our streets. Use the toolkit to fight against mass surveillance in your community at aclu.org/gtfo_
"Big Brother should just be reality TV — not our reality. Join us in getting automatic license plate readers out of our communities." ACLU logo. Red tinted photo of a big eye.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interim Police Chief Based Complaint Against Detective on Right-Wing Characterization of Anti-Trans Initiative In his interview with a city investigator, interim Chief Sayles said he still hadn’t read the initiative and appeared unfamiliar with SPD’s policy on political speech.
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Interim Police Chief Based Complaint Against Detective on Right-Wing Characterization of Anti-Trans Initiative - PubliCola
In his interview with a city investigator, interim Chief Sayles said he still hadn’t read the initiative and appeared unfamiliar…
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Tennessee’s attempted, but botched, execution of Christa Pike was an extreme display of cruelty and the latest reminder that the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment." I'm with @amnesty.org. www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...
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After Botched Execution Attempt, Tennessee Must Commute Christa Pike’s Death Sentence as a First Step
The death penalty is a violation of human rights, and no government should have the power to carry it out.
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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The National Commission could draw on the wealth of experience we have in the UK, which has had proportional systems for decades in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and London. buff.ly/mBZRACS
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Andy Burnham to fight next election on pledge to change voting system
The prime minister says he wants other parties to take part in a national commission on electoral reform.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
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POLITICO Pro: Pulte’s FHFA watchdog budget cuts will ‘eliminate’ criminal enforcement, inspector general says
The agency’s Inspector General told Congress it will have to cut up to 80% of its staff.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Bill Pulte has abused his position to cry wolf on mortgage fraud against Trump's perceived enemies. Now, Pulte is getting rid of the law enforcement personnel who investigate criminal mortgage fraud, leaving the US housing market at risk. All to protect himself.
Pulte’s FHFA watchdog budget cuts will ‘eliminate’ criminal enforcement, inspector general says.
The agency’s Inspector General told Congress it will have to cut up to 80% of its staff.
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FairVote @fairvote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"We're likely to see a narrow window to halt gerrymandering… One area where I see real opportunity is proportional representation, which could achieve elections that actually reflect the will of the people." – @democracyfund.bsky.social's Joe Goldman in @npquarterly.bsky.social
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Restoration or Reconstruction? A Window of Opportunity for Election Reform | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
If we are prepared and play our cards right, we may have a window of opportunity to build new election systems that reflect Americans’ choices.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 01/10/2026
Polling shows the PQ could win a majority with just 30%, the lowest vote share for a majority in Canadian history. First-past-the-post is broken. The PQ promises proportional representation in term one, but absolute power creates excuses. Holding them accountable starts now.
Text excerpt reading: "Just under a week out from the Oct. 5 election, Quebec's political landscape remains so divided that the PQ could nab a majority of the province's 127 seats with scarcely 30 per cent of the vote. It would be an unprecedented ending to an unusual campaign, in which none of the PQ's four opponents have been able to mount a compelling case against the sovereigntist party."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
What happened after Donald Trump took a wrecking ball to federal child care programs? 400+ day cares shut down in Oklahoma. 300+ programs shut down in Indiana. HUNDREDS more have closed nationwide. Our families deserve better.
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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No party is polling above 30%. Our September average has Labour leading party on 27%, four parties above 10% and the Lib Dems very close on 9.9%. Britain votes multi-party. Our voting system doesn't.
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Looking back on the last 20 months of UK political polls
This month’s polling breakdown is being written shortly after Andy Burnham’s big speech to Labour’s annual conference. One of the cornerstones of which was his announcement of a Na
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026
President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally change Title IX. LGBTQ students continue to be protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law. With the administration's continued cruel anti-trans actions, schools must not waver in their commitment to protecting queer students.
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Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law
“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026
Seattle is a growing city, and we can’t just keep adding more cars to the road. That’s why I was so excited to welcome the newest addition to the system this week, the Pinehurst station in North Seattle.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 29/09/2026
Many of us who live in Seattle don't have a ton of personal space. That's why the public spaces we all share are so important. My proposed budget includes $1.4 million for 12 new public restrooms across Seattle so everyone can explore our beautiful city with comfort and confidence.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: Today, Florida Governor DeSantis and other state officials voted to designate two leading Muslim civil rights nonprofits as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The state's actions are baseless and unconstitutional.
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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: The same real estate firm that's tried to buy sooooo many Seattle elections just dumped $175,000 to make sure they can keep fucking over Tacoma tenants. Anyway, vote yes on Safe Homes For All! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...
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Seattle Real Estate Firm Tries To Buy Tacoma’s Election To Stop City From Enforcing Renter Protections
Goodman Real Estate, the same Seattle-based real estate company that’s tried to buy the Mayor’s office and a corporate majority on the Seattle City Council every cycle in recent memory, just threw dow...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Warren on data centers: Republicans are with the big tech guys and those boys want to be able to come in and build whatever they want to build, and they don't want to pay for the consequences.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trump corporate tax cut will cost $600 BILLION in lost federal revenue. For every $100 of it, $75 went straight to the wealthiest 5% of households and foreign investors. The bottom 80% of Americans got $10. That is not trickle down. That is a heist.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m disgusted by today’s press coverage, which mostly just regurgitates the DOJ press release. The story should be that a) they indicted the guy who got shot, not the guy who shot him and b) previous attempts by ICE to blame shooting victims have all been lies, so no reason to believe this. Shame.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A big failure. The argument about streaming the traffic cameras into the real-time crime center was that all the feeds were publicly available anyway, a fact that we now know to be untrue. That this happened at all erodes public trust in city government, and in surveillance cameras specifically.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What’s it going to take to stop the media both-sidesing? I would have thought over taxpayer-paid Trumpian propaganda. But WRONG. So I imagined how these guys would cover Trump actually shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. The first 3: presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-...
The New York Times, under the headline: “A Shooting on Fifth Avenue, This One By the President,” reports four paragraphs down: “Some ethics experts have argued that the shooting could violate laws against assault with a deadly weapon.”
The Washington Post reports: “Democratic members of Congress and former prosecutors say it was done by a person using a gun against someone else, and therefore a potential violation of state law.”
The Wall Street Journal, calling the shooting “unusual” in a subhead, reports: “On Saturday night, a local CBS News reporter in New York City noticed something unusual on Fifth Avenue: Donald Trump shooting someone.” Then, a few paragraphs down: “the shooting could violate state law, ethics experts said.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
We demand Wilber’s immediate release so he can receive emergency medical care and recover safely with his family. ICE must be held accountable for this violence.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.
DOORDASH IS ABANDONING ITS DRIVERS
URGENT UPDATE:
8 days after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back while he was making a DoorDash delivery, the bullet remains in his body. Wilber is in agonizing pain inside a TX concentration camp, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. A photo of Wilber smiling, before ICE shot him, is shown.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In fact, Wilson proposed eliminating two (2!) vacant administrative positions that don't do encampment-related or programmatic work.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this morning's Seattle council budget meeting, Maritza Rivera is complaining that the city's 116-member encampment sweeps team isn't GROWING in the mayor's proposed budget, inaccurately claiming the city is "taking money away from that to put that toward homelessness shelter."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
Why is so much untraceable dark money flooding elections? Because the Supreme Court demolished campaign finance laws. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
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$1 Billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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