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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think part of the liberal outrage is that it doesn't put non-Palestinian voices, specifically the other side, front and centre on the question of Palestine. From British empire one, it's been considered the right of the coloniser to decide the terms of decolonisation.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why is it never "legitimate concerns" when it's about the climate collapsing or our government being complicit in a genocide?
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The continuing claims by the police that all this is the work of a "rogue unit" or a "few bad apples" are yet more lies piled on top of 50 years of lying. The state surveillance, state rape and state cover-ups are institutional and systemic. It's not over. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Labour lost nearly four times as many voters to the Greens as Reform. Yet all you hear about is Reform's threat to Labour. Why? Because a) the left aren't treated as legitimate political actors b) Labour's masters prefer bashing migrants to challenging wealth and power
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Andy Burnham never saw an illegal invasion of Iraq that he didn't like
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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No one should get a free pass on antisemitism – so why does the right?
There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It turns out almost everyone is in favour of wealth redistribution to create better public services. People want to live in places that are nice to live in. Only sociopaths support widening inequality. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds
Despite concerns super-rich are leaving due to tax burdens, 88% of those surveyed were proud to live in UK and would pay more to fund public services
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It took a two-year screaming all-channels hate campaign and a secret internal wrecking operation funded via illegal donations from a zillionaire, to hammer Sir Keir’s predecessor to a far better position than the one these geniuses achieved just by being themselves and doing what they think is good.
ANALYSIS | PATRICK MAGUIRE
Labour's heartlands lie in ruins and the worst may be to come
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As Nigel Farage breaks through the 'red wall, Sir Keir Starmer faces the reality that his party has lost its cultural and electoral bedrock
Patrick Maguire Chief Political Commentator Friday May 08 2026, 5.48am BST, The Times
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he Labour Party is losing to everyone, everywhere.
There is nothing to redeem Sir Keir Starmer in the results from England overnight, nor any plausible consoling fiction left to cling to. At best, Labour MPs are being taught a hard lesson about the fantastical unpopularity of their leader. At worst, they are witnessing - and frankly are complicit in - Labour's demise as a national party.
It really is that simple. It really is that fundamental.
Starmer is doing worse than Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage is going farther than Boris Johnson ever did in what cliché usually dictates we call Labour's historic heartlands.
This isn't Ukip. It isn't the SDP. This challenge to Labour is qualitatively and quantitatively different to any insurgency that's disrupted the party system before.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/04/2026
Imagine the headlines if – in somewhere like Russia or China – a senior lawyer faced a secret trial and potentially imprisonment for expertly representing a client and, against the odds, aiding in their acquittal for serious criminal charges. This secret trial is happening at 10.30 today in London.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Woke up to one of the largest ever British animal tasting exposés, while at the same time, over in the US, hundreds of activists have been tear gassed, pepper sprayed, and shot with rubber bullets for attempting to rescue dogs bred for the same fate.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hannah added: “I get offended when I hear the argument made that it is working class. Working-class people are fed up with gambling companies being able to wreak havoc in people’s lives.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing
Hannah Spencer says minister ‘continuously offends people by saying working-class people don’t care about dogs’
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I remember first hearing about the idea of a maximum wage, based on this kind of multiplier, at a Mark Thomas "People's Manifesto" show in 2009. It was referred to as an idea whose time had come. Finally in 2026 we have a party with the political courage to push it forward. @greenparty.org.uk
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Labour party's obsession with crushing protest reminds of a quote from JFK: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds
The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
All is not as it seems with the Filton re-trial. The UK press have a court order not to report on this: youtu.be/rkzxhQU6QIM Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth.
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UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout
YouTube video by The Grayzone
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Having already defeated the charges once, the Starmer regime ordered a retrial and was linking ordinary criminal charges to terrorism, without informing the jury, to allow for longer sentences. Had they been convicted, they could have faced up to 20 years in prison.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We voted for this Labour government (albeit fewer than under Corbyn) on a promise of change for the many. Instead we've had continued scandals, widening inequality, and assisting genocide. Never again. LET THIS RADICALISE YOU.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Another Labour manifesto promise broken, with tortured animals paying the price. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Labour to back down on foie gras and fur bans to ease EU trade deal
Exclusive: Animal welfare charities ‘bitterly disappointed’ UK government plans to backtrack on manifesto promises
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
UK power generation today. Less than 5% fossil fuels. Another world is not only possible, it's so so close.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Factory farms are deeply unpopular, morally abhorrent, and the biggest cause of our water pollution crisis (tied with privatised water firms). Of course Labour wants to make it easier to build them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
With #RescueNotRetail in Nottingham today, asking the new @petsathome.bsky.social CEO to end the sale of live animals in their stores.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Communities Against Factory Farming (CAFF) just stopped a new factory farm going ahead in Devon! animalrising.substack.com/p/huge-win-t...
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HUGE WIN. Thousands of Calves Spared. The System Is Breaking.
We’ve overturned three intensive farm approvals in a system designed to protect them and saved thousands of calves. Here’s how we did it.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Greater Manchester Police are refusing to classify attacks on Manchester mosques as hate crime - this is plainly Islamophobia By @skwawkbox.org
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Police refuse to class another Manchester mosque race attack as hate crime
Greater Manchester Police are refusing to classify attacks on Manchester mosques as hate crime - this is plainly Islamophobia
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"We will end rip-off Britain" -- @zackpolanski.bsky.social today, setting out clear policies targeting the most urgent problems we face
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Whenever you hear a news report about the mass killing of children, you already know, without looking, which two countries are responsible.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Warmonger rebukes warmonger over failure to back warmonger's war.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So proud to have been a tiny part of this wonderful, hopeful @greenparty.org.uk campaign. Well done @greenpartyhan.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social and anyone who contributed in any way to make this happen. WE'RE BRINGING BACK HOPE! 💚💚💚
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Starmer project death spiral 🥰🥰🥰
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The BBC’s decision to cut this section of Akinola Davies Jr’s speech when the Baftas was broadcast later in the day is shameful.
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Patrick McAllister 🌱 @patdbmcallister.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Labour's policing minister backed overdose prevention centres in opposition. Bristol MP @carladenyer.bsky.social wrote to her asking for permission for Bristol Council to set one up. She refused. Labour knows that drug reform is needed but won't act; instead they smear the people who do want to.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
HUGE news for @greenparty.org.uk ! Labour voters need to understand *they* are the ones risking a reform win. Let's get behind @greenpartyhan.bsky.social 💚💚💚
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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The incredible, narcissistic whiteness of drinking bovine breastmilk.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 10/02/2026
Animal rights protesters targeted by a Labour government…again blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Labour targets animal rights protestors| LSE British Politics
Having criticised the previous Government's anti-protest legislation, Labour recently passed an amendment in Parliament targeting animal rights protesters.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
British politics is so incredibly out of touch with younger people.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I can tell you personally from listening to dozens of conversations on the doorsteps of Gorton and Denton today, Lucy Powell is talking out of her hoop -- residents are furious with Labour! Only @greenparty.org.uk can beat Reform. If anyone should stand down there it's her own ignominious party.
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Sam (he/they) @saminalrights.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Out campaigning for @greenpartyhan.bsky.social in Gorton and Denton today 💚💚💚
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Netpol @netpol.org · 07/01/2026
It's horrifying but grimly believable that the British government, including 'prison reformer' Lord Timpson, is willing to allow young people (who have not been convicted of an offence) to die of starvation rather than talk to them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/12/2025
Britons support a ban on trail hunting by 50% to 29% Support by 2024 vote Green: 64% Labour: 62% Lib Dem: 50% (net +22) Reform UK: 45% (net +5) Con: 34% (net -13) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/12/2025
The government has proposed to add 'life sciences' to the list of "key national infrastructure" that have their own offences for disrupting under the Public Order Act 2023. This risks further criminalising already heavily policed protests against animal testing www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/governm...
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Government move could criminalise protests against animal testing, warns Camp Beagle - News for Peterborough and Cambridgeshire
Camp Beagle has raised the alarm over a proposed change to the Public Order Act 2023, warning it could criminalise peaceful protests against animal testing
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