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Daniel Wolfe

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Climate graphics reporter and columnist at the Washington post. www.sadbumblebee.buzz

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/09/2026
🌡️ Check out my new story, published today, about how intensifying marine heatwaves are threatening the future of local fisheries across Europe.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Several of my laid off Herald-Leader colleagues only joined our team in the last year or two and are facing limited severance as they begin the job hunt. Please consider helping them out if you can.
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Donate to Support laid off Lexington Herald-Leader journalists, organized by Ryan Hermens
On Thursday, Sept. 10, 13 journalists were laid off from the Lexin… Ryan Hermens needs your support for Support laid off Lexington Herald-Leader journalists
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Pablo Robles @pablorobles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week, I made a map for an amazing story about China launching a new shipping route along the Arctic to reach Europe. To build it, I used the GlobeBuilder QGIS plugin, which easily creates a world from space 3D globe. github.com/osgeosuomi/G...
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A lot of great new hires at 𝖭̶𝖮̶𝖳̶𝖴̶𝖲̶ @washingtonsun.bsky.social, but adding @andrewvandam.bsky.social’s wit, insights and data dexterity might be the best pickup of all.
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 21/08/2026
🥫 I'm happy to release geodataframe-to-pmtiles, an open-source Python utility that can help you map massive data files by quickly writing GeoPandas GeoDataFrames as a PMTiles archive. palewi.re/docs/geodataframe-to-pmti…
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 19/08/2026
🧅 Today, I'm happy to release isobands, an open-source library that makes it easier to present a dense dataset as a smoothed-out map.
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John Muyskens @johnmuyskens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The latest iteration of our El Niño forecast tracker is out today. The forecasts update every month, but the daily temperature data on the chart is updated every day. w/ @bennollweather.bsky.social Gift link: wapo.st/4wiMD08
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What will El Niño bring where you live? Maps show its wide-reaching impacts.
A key zone of the Pacific Ocean is already at record warmth. See how rising sea temperatures could impact global weather. These forecasts will be updated regularly.
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John Muyskens @johnmuyskens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Latest from me, mapping the damage from the Spokane fires: wapo.st/3RY4KKC
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These neighborhoods seemed safe from wildfire. Then they burned.
Images and maps show how the Old Trails Fire pushed beyond familiar danger zones in Washington.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our only recourse: spend vast amounts of money to defend the most important places, and retreat from or abandon the rest. A society-shaking mass migration of millions of Americans away from the coast is inevitable in future decades because of increased climate change-induced flood risk. 7/7
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When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? » Yale Climate Connections
Intensifying extreme weather events and an insurance crisis are likely to cause significant economic and political disruption in the U.S. sometime in the next 15 years.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 05/08/2026
“If built as planned, the gas burning plants — scattered across states including Texas, Ohio and Wyoming — could release as much planet-warming pollution in a year as roughly half of all the passenger vehicles in the United States”
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ohio has more than 240 injection wells for oil and gas waste, and the radioactive fracking wastewater that was supposed to remain forever underground in them is bubbling to the surface. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...
Not only was brine "regularly migrating to the surface," officials said, but seismic activity in Washington County had increased almost 20 times over since 2023, a
"clear indication" that underground rock formations holding billions of gallons of waste were "moving and likely fracturing"
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/07/2026
More than 200,000 people fled towns in central Spain and southern France overnight as uncontrolled wildfires moved ever closer to the cities of Madrid and Bordeaux
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Bordeaux Suburbs at Risk as 200,000 Flee Fires in France, Spain
More than 200,000 people fled towns in central Spain and southern France overnight as uncontrolled wildfires moved ever closer to the cities of Madrid and Bordeaux.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sea surface temperatures away from the poles are now clearly warmest on record, 0.07C above 2023 and almost 0.1 above 2024. And continuing to warm... pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Oakland University Archives and Special Collections has made available via JSTOR 23 oral history interviews that capture the history of Pontiac’s Black community and map the routes of the Great Migration. The post also includes a classroom activity for interpreting excerpts of the interviews! 🗃️
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The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration - JSTOR Daily
An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.
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Steve Merelman @smerelman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
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U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats" | Article for @reuters.com by Brad Brooks, Maria Tsvetkova and Andrew Hay references our recent (penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...) @pnas.org study: www.reuters.com/business/env...
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Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats
Wildfire smoke blanketed the eastern U.S. from the Great Lakes to Washington, D.C. on Friday, ​floodwaters tore through Texas's Hill Country for a third day, and new fires erupted in the Pacific North...
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 16/07/2026
More than 500 cooling towers across Manhattan are not in compliance with city regulations requiring monthly water sample tests to help combat the spread of the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria, records examined by The City Reporter show.
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Hundreds of Manhattan Cooling Towers Haven’t Submitted Tests to Detect Legionella
City regulations require buildings to self-report tests to the Department of Health, but many aren’t in compliance, including nine buildings on the UES that tested positive for the potentially deadly…
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...
yaleclimateconnections.org
15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections
Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A few very exciting jobs with The Guardian FIRST! We are looking for a graphics editor to manage our team of visual journalists workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
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Graphics Editor
The Guardian is a global news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations to in-depth coverage of technology, sports, film, culture...
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our synthesis on the effects of wildfire on spotted owls is now live in Wildlife Monographs. Which is cool but can we talk about this cover???? 🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉 @kate-mcginn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wmon...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social
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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 10/07/2026
🌡️ A twist on our Reuters Climate Monitor: This new homepage embed and standalone page tracking Western Europe's heatwave. It debuts real-time country rankings, which I suspect is a worldwide first. reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AUTOMA…
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Audiences want and need climate news. The real challenge is to find sustainable pathways for climate journalists to work and thrive. Our collective future relies on the presence of climate journalists throughout the media ecosystem." niemanreports.org/climate-jour...
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What Is Happening to Climate Journalism? - Nieman Reports
Amid layoffs and industry belt-tightening, quality of coverage, not quantity, becomes even more important
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
NEW from @propublica.org: climate models rely on "carbon capture and sequestration" -- sucking carbon out of the air and injecting it underground -- but our reporting found that there is no conceivable way that it can work at scale. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Follow Mountain West News Bureau member @kuer.org for the latest on the breakout of serious fires in Utah. Fire behaviour from the Cottonwood has been EXTREME www.kuer.org/wildfires
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Utah Wildfires | KUER
Keep up with the latest news about wildfires in Utah.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Worth remembering that the data center energy story is mainly a US story this decade. It's also, as a share of total power capacity added globally, not the main story. From BNEF's 2026 New Energy Outlook:
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the start of a potentially historic season, federal wildland firefighters report widespread understaffing, low morale, inadequate prioritization of prescribed fire and other serious issues. Add this to the long and growing list of reasons to be worried. (Survey: Grassroots Wildland Firefighters)
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C.J. Robinson @cj-robinson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The SpaceX IPO is a big deal. How big? We built a calculator to see how SpaceX might impact your index funds in the coming days: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/u...
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How Much SpaceX Are You About to Own?
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Breaking: El Niño is officially here, and it could break records. NOAA is giving it a 63% chance of becoming one of the “largest El Niño events in the historical record going back to 1950.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/w...
Map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical Pacific Ocean on June 10, 2026. Credit: CNN Weather
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What happens when energy security is threatened? In the 2020s, it means speeding up deployment of renewables and electric devices. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
the only depths to which they will not sink are the ones that would give us useful data www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
June could get busy folks. And it could stay busy. www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/p...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/05/2026
Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat? | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3ZND907
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 25/05/2026
"No one is without responsibility. We all have our own areas for action." www.reuters.com/business/media-tele…
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15/05/2026
"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone....hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars." arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.” www.404media.co/software-dev...
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Time for all the real wage think pieces.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/05/2026
Really looking forward to this. If you're on the @bellingcat.com discord server, hope to see you there.
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.
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Sophie Chou @sophiechou.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
4/ I’m no longer at ProPublica and am looking for what’s next — open to journalism, data science, or research/consulting roles (NYC/hybrid/remote). prioritizing good management + fair pay. read the full series @ctmirror.org (it’s their first Pulitzer!!): ctmirror.org/series/on-th...
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On the Hook | CT Mirror
An investigation into how Connecticut's towing laws have come to favor tow companies at the expense of low-income residents.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 04/05/2026
The Chronicle was honored for revealing how companies drastically underpay wildfire survivors. Gabrielle Lurie and an investigation of for-profit psychiatric hospitals were named finalists.
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San Francisco Chronicle wins Pulitzer Prize for home insurance investigation
The Chronicle was honored for revealing how companies drastically underpay wildfire survivors. Gabrielle Lurie and an investigation of for-profit psychiatric hospitals were named finalists.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Looks good looks nice www.npr.org/2026/05/03/n...
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Why this tribe is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it
The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal is to turn farmland into wetlands with the hopes of restoring Chinook salmon...
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CarbonPlan @carbonplan.org · 22/04/2026
To build Open Climate Risk, and its 30 m raster wildfire risk dataset, we needed a data processing pipeline that could scale alongside our developing science methodology. We wrote about the challenges, and our solutions, in a new blog post.
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Designing a data pipeline for our highest-resolution dataset yet – CarbonPlan
We reached for new tools to build a flexible and scalable data pipeline.
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Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Dan Eggen was the best editor of polling stories I've ever known. He had great ideas for questions, wasn't afraid of numbers and always found ways to elevate the most important results. Horrible loss for journalism www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Dan Eggen, who shaped politics coverage at The Post, dies at 60
He helped guide Pulitzer Prize-winning projects, including coverage of Russian election interference in 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2026
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8
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She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.
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María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The most useful tips, data, quotes and projects from Perugia @journalismfestival.com. By the great editorial team @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #ijf26 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/interna... Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 14/04/2026
The former president of Neuralink's new company, Science Corp., is preparing for the first US trials of its brain-computer interface technology with Yale's neurosurgery department: techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/m...
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Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain | TechCrunch
The device could help address multiple neurological conditions if it proves successful. One early use could be delivering gentle electrical stimulation to damaged brain or spinal cord cells to encoura...
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