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director of communications at @propublica. thinking about cities, music, celeb gossip and the 76ers

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Allen Tan @tealtan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tag yourself, I'm “Public Purse Preparatory Academy” projects.propublica.org/private-scho...
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It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. - It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Michael Levin @michaellevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
these are my very close friends
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here is Betsy Klein's account of how she found out the government had deactivated her White House press pass.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
This week, ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding festivities. Join our reporters on Sept. 23 for a behind-the-scenes conversation. 🗓️ RSVP: events.propublica.org/don-jr-weddi...
Graphic titled "Bankrolled: How a Russian Oligarch Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Wedding Weekend." Text below reads: The inside story of how ProPublica traced the lavish three-day party back to a secret benefactor. Wednesday, Sept. 23. 4 p.m. EST. An image shows dozens of people in a group wedding photo on a beach, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina; and Tiffany Trump. An arrow points to Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, labeled as "Don Jr.'s secret benefactor," in the back row.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎧It's ALIVE!🎧 Hear a little bit of BTS on the jaw-dropping reporting on Donald Trump Jr.'s secret wedding guest from the reporters themselves, @justinelliott.bsky.social and Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/podcast/dona...
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The Russian Benefactor Who Funded Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Federal prosecutors have reportedly opened a criminal investigation into allegations that the LA Clippers helped arrange secret sponsorship contracts for Kawhi Leonard that circumvented the salary cap www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that the Los Angeles Clippers helped arrange secret sponsorship contracts for the star player Kawhi Leonard that circumvented the salary cap, according to people briefed on the matter.

The investigation is in its earliest stages and is being conducted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, which has a long history of investigating the N.B.A. and professional sports, according to two of the people.
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our brand new episode of "Paper Trail" featuring @ggarciaroberts.bsky.social is here: "The Predatory Industry Behind MLB’s Dominican Superstar Pipeline" www.propublica.org/podcast/domi...
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The Predatory Industry Behind MLB’s Dominican Superstar Pipeline
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Around here, the police let a lot of things slide, especially when it involves people who have money or connections or whatever else” How a Pirates star’s parents brought in a fixer to make a deadly crash go away in the DR. www.propublica.org/article/onei...
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How Oneil Cruz Walked Away From a Deadly Crash With a Fixer's Help
When an accident involving top prospect Oneil Cruz left three dead on a darkened road in the Dominican Republic, secret payoffs helped rescue his career and launched a shadowy business empire.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some Postal Service facilities failed to properly handle ballots during this year’s primary elections, according to a new audit from the agency’s Office of Inspector General. New, @jenafifield.bsky.social @propublica.org
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U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
Federal prosecutors today charged an ICE agent with lying about the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant. Last night, we reported that the prosecutor had planned to bring more serious civil rights charges but was blocked by DOJ officials in D.C.
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026
NEW: Top USPS officials expressed concerns that new mail voting rules could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Another entry in the pantheon of Philly news clips 🏆
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The AAU promised to create a hotline for players and parents to report abuse. But calls to that number are redirected to the AAU’s general office line with no option to report abuse — though callers can press 5 to reach a department for “medal orders.” New @propublica.org
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This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ProPublica merch store just launched with a tips totebag www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Shouts to everyone who remembers Team WHOP
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Michael Levin @michaellevin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ahahahahaha it’s LeBron James
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am in shock
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026
We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: propub.li/4fiHDSF
Text: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Tuesday, July 21. 4 p.m. EST. Register at propublica.org/events. Events supported by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. Image: A woman walks a young boy down a dimly lit hallway with blue walls.
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You don’t need to tell me “It’s pickle season” twice.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: The FBI has explored using AI to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballots seized from Fulton County, Georgia, another push in the Trump administration’s continued reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
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FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots
As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fu...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
NEW: The remaining three members of the Election Assistance Commission have been pushed out, ProPublica has exclusively learned from sources familiar with the matter. The three members were Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, Democrats, and Christy McCormick, a Republican.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE agents under Trump have shot at least 20 people who were inside their cars They did it again today, killing a father ICE said he "weaponized his vehicle" -- a claim they've often made & that often has turned out to be BS. The FBI is investigating...the dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 01/07/2026
The Boston Celtics are trading 2024 Finals MVP Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for a package centered around Paul George, a source tells @byjayking.bsky.social.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 17/06/2026
me at kickoff of every world cup game: oh this is nice to put on in the background, maybe the team with cool jerseys will win me 90 minutes later, literally every time:
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Something worth mentioning since we're in the middle of our summer fundraising drive — this podcast, like everything on @propublica.org's site — is free! Currently we're running what we call "house ads" that help explain our nonprofit model — not ads to make $$$. For the public, not for profit.
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
👀 ProPublica merch is finally here (I'm partial to the crew neck): www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...
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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 27/05/2026
NEW: An investigation by @thecity.nyc, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.
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We Found 430 ICE Street Arrests in the NYC Area. More Than 93% Targeted Latinos.
An investigation by THE CITY, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented…
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Julia Longoria @hooliwho.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Imagine for a moment yr car is towed (facepalm). But then 15 days later the tower SELLS your car (what?!) And THEN 2 local reporters get wind of it & report on it for YEARS. That's the latest Paper Trail ep (produced by me!) @propublica.org. A satisfying listen. www.propublica.org/podcast/conn...
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How to Lose a Car in 15 Days
When two local reporters heard drivers were having their cars towed and then sold in as little as two weeks, they teamed up with ProPublica to investigate.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It’s happening! Tulsa screening of “Toxic Ground,” a @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social documentary, tonight! Featuring the Meredith family and other Oklahomans impacted by oil and gas pollution. www.propublica.org/article/okla...
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Delighted and shocked to learn last night that we won a National Magazine Award for some of our immigration reporting - including our story on how the Venezuelan men Trump sent to a Salvadoran prison were tortured, and on the dramatic midnight raid in Chicago. 😃 www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
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ProPublica Wins National Magazine Award for Public Interest
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...
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Bluesky is a record store
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Really we all should root for a Knicks-Sixers playoff series every year because it’s one of the few matchups where the teams commute back and forth via chartered Amtrak trains instead of chartered flights. Tons of C02 emissions saved (Sixers boarding train pics from 2024)
A 76ers social media post labeled “Playoff season 🚂” with pictures of the Sixers boarding an Amtrak at Union Station
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Makeover Day 💅 www.propublica.org/article/why-...
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A New Look for ProPublica
We’ve updated our logo, typefaces and homepage design. Here’s what changed and why.
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Sophie Chou @sophiechou.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
So proud to be a Pulitzer winner along with my friends @harucoryne.bsky.social and @ginnymonk.bsky.social who all worked so hard on this messy data together!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
HOLY SHIT @pablo.show CONGRATS!!!
Pulitzer for Audio Reporting

Audio Reporting
Awarded to the Staff of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for a pioneering and entertaining form of live podcast journalism that investigated how the Los Angeles Clippers seemingly evaded the NBA’s salary cap by funneling money to a star player through an environmental startup.
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Derek Bodner @derekbodner.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Final: Sixers hold on for a 109-100 win and will advance to face the Knicks in the second round. It's the first time the Sixers have beaten the Celtics in the playoffs since 1982. They had lost the previous six series against the Celtics, including 3 in the Joel Embiid era.
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alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My spirit watching this sixers game 🙏🏽
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