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Solarina Ho

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Freelance writer. ✍️The Walrus, WebMD/Medscape, Globe and Mail, others.🎙️ NuVoices.com, 🖋️ NuoraGlobal.com. Ex-Reuters, -CTVNews.ca. She/Her. Follow≠Endorse | solarina.ca

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I cohosted a podcast with @solarina.ca featuring @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on science , China politics and why you can’t really do ‘apolitical academia ‘ nuvoices.com/podcast/a-co...
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Yangyang Cheng on Science and US-China Relations
An interview with Yangyang Cheng on science and technology development in China and US-China relations
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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As a longtime fan of NüVoices, I'm so honored to be on its podcast to talk about why science is always political, who needs "China" as a threat, and how to write against precarity and public pressures. Many thanks to hosts @solarina.ca @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social and the @nuvoices.bsky.social team!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/03/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Whatever short-term gain Mr. Trump thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world,” the editorial board writes.
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Opinion | Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran
Whatever short-term gain the president thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world.
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Nüora Global Advisors @nuoraglobal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW Q&A: @semafor.com's executive editor Gina Chua joins Nüora managing partner @joannachiu.bsky.social to discuss opportunities for global journalism and why Western firms are moving past China market "toothpaste dreams". Editor: @solarina.ca nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/how-compan...
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 21/03/2026
“Vitamin K is important for helping the blood clot and preventing dangerous bleeding in babies, like bleeding into the brain,” said Dr. Kristan Scott of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The unfathomable decline in trust in science and medicine feels like such a tragedy.
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It's not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies.
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Nüora Global Advisors @nuoraglobal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Skip the hotel restaurants and conference coffee lines. Use this guide to explore Vancouver like a local. Presented by Nüora and our friends at Skyrocket Digital. Connect with managing partner @joannachiu.bsky.social at #AAS2026 and ask about our Asia expert network. 🔗 tinyurl.com/56v9xj6y
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 11/03/2026
Attention early career journalists! The Local is a fantastic digital magazine that does great reporting on local Toronto issues, staffed by a really great team of journalists. Fellowships include one for an early career Two-Spirit, trans, or non-binary reporter and one for photography.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.
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Nüora Global Advisors @nuoraglobal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
China’s biotech sector has surpassed the EU to become the world’s second-largest new drug maker. For global firms, opportunity lies in treating China as a co-innovation hub while maintaining safeguards. From Lizzi Lee and Huiyan Li in our newsletter nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/chinas-bio...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Nüora Global Advisors @nuoraglobal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎 The Nüora Global team wishes everyone a year filled with success, happiness, peace, and good health! 春节快乐!祝大家万事如意,步步高升, 幸福安康 ! 新年快樂!祝大家萬事如意, 步步高升, 幸福安康 !
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 11/02/2026
Reading this after reading the @nytimes.com piece on Trump Allies nearing "total victory" in wiping out U.S. climate regulation.... (Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?) wapo.st/4abXa5w
A screen grab of a graphic from a Feb 11, 2026 Washington Post climate article that shows rising global temperatures and a steep curve in recent years. Image also shows The Washington Post masthead and slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" underneath.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/02/2026
"'We become their mother, their grandmother, their sister, their brother. We feed them, we clean them, we put them in the chair, we put them in bed. That’s awesome.'"
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Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma
It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 11/02/2026
The latest AI freelancer scam, caught by @soleilho.com. As the real Scott Nover says in this piece, credibility is everything for journalists: "When our credibility is undermined or eroded, our jobs — which require us to convey factual information — become much, much harder.”
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How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 04/02/2026
Great summary of one person's obscene wealth and the things they prioritize. Thinking about how much Melania made from this deal vs the WaPo reporter who was just fired in the middle of a warzone. Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 04/02/2026
It's unbelievable how many things still leave me speechless with anger and sadness during these unfathomable times. Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 28/01/2026
"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see." Devastating.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 28/01/2026
This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...
An updated flyer with 6pm CET/12pm EST timings
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This piece by @jonrauch.bsky.social is very much worth reading. (Yes, I know, even if your reaction to the title is, "Gee, you don't say!") He lays out the case more carefully, clearly, and systematically than I have seen elsewhere. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 25/01/2026
I'd rather not quote him, but moderates and the right need to hear his message and fury. "They are unprofessional pathetic COWARDS. Because if...an 18-year-old Marine did that in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court martialed, because it would be MURDER...You guys are criminal thugs."
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 25/01/2026
I can not even begin to overstate how gobsmackingly shocked I continue to be (despite everything that's happened over the past decade and especially this past year) at the complete and absolute depravity, corruption, and unequivocal lack of moral decency, integrity, and humanity we are witnessing.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem. (Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.) The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 25/01/2026
I actually find these figures incredibly depressing and deeply unsettling that it still has this much support.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 25/01/2026
I love this much-needed thread so much.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 13/01/2026
Wind energy for AI is devastating Taiwan’s coastal farming communities restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-gree…
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 15/01/2026
The EU has found a way to keep electric-vehicle makers happy without flooding the market with cheap Chinese cars restofworld.org/2026/why-the...
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Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs
Europe’s shift toward cooperation over protectionism on Chinese EVs is more political than business-driven.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 15/01/2026
We broke down BYD’s financials, innovations, and public image in five charts to show where the world’s biggest EV seller stands as it bets on global expansion: restofworld.org/2026/byd-pro...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/01/2026
Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully. A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.
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In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions
New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Leavitt needs to be grouped with Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Homas, Vance, and Trump himself as modern vehicles of the Klan. Listen to this.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14/01/2026
A big thing that was intensely evident while I was reporting this piece: In parts of Minneapolis, DHS/ICE is everywhere. And so, too, are the volunteers pushing back against them — standing on virtually every street corner.
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — As the Rev. Ashley Horan turned the corner onto a residential street, adjusting the heat in her small sedan to stave off cold air blustering in from the open windows, she pointed to a man strolling along the sidewalk. Dangling around his neck were a whistle and what appeared to be a small camera. He smiled warmly as she waved.

“This is a patroller,” Horan said. “There’s people all over the place.”

By way of example, Horan pointed out another observer on a different block, stopping to loan the person her whistle. Two more, young women, stood huddled together on the next. An older man in a yellow reflective vest stood on yet another corner, pacing back and forth as he took drags from a cigarette.All of them, she said, were keeping an eye out for any of the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that have flooded into the Twin Cities as part of “Operation Metro Surge,” one of the Trump administration’s targeted immigration enforcement campaigns. As she paused at an intersection, RNS asked how often she encounters federal agents in Minneapolis’ Central neighborhood — the same neighborhood where Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent less than a week before.

Horan started to answer — “They’re here, all the time, everywhere,” she began — but was almost immediately interrupted: A cacophony of honking and whistle bleats erupted from down the street, the telltale sound of volunteers signaling the presence of ICE to the community.

As a column of cars passed directly in front of Horan, she looped around the block to meet the caravan, revving the car’s tiny engine.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 15/01/2026
"It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home. A 1980 law generally bars search warrants for reporters’ work materials, unless the reporters themselves are suspected of committing a crime related to the materials."
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 15/01/2026
Unfathomable this is happening in the US: Immigration agents seem to increase their presence around student drop-off and pick-up times. "Students saw them and they are afraid," Penny said. "And they should be — these are strange, masked men showing up in their streets, pulling out their guns."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/01/2026
The utter disorganization, incompetence, ill discipline, and lack of training here is staggering. Being there at all is deliberate provocation. They're not protecting anything. ICE could lie low, or leave entirely. But no, they want to incite a violent response to justify further violence.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/01/2026
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 09/01/2026
A newspaper that's survived everything since **1786** A terrible loss for the community, but especially in this moment in history when journalism is more important and necessary than ever.
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Tom Grundy @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com · 08/01/2026
EXPLAINER: The Wang Fuk Court blaze, which killed at least 161 people, not only highlighted gaps in safety oversight but also laid bare corruption and bid-rigging in Hong Kong’s building renovation industry. hongkongfp.com/2026/01/01/e...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/01/2026
The end result is journalists who do want to say hard truths bluntly either learn to shut up (because journalism jobs are scarce) or they leave. And you're never going to see the byline of someone who refused to capitulate on a story like that. Internal opposition inherently becomes invisible.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
On the anniversary of the devastating Palisades & Eaton fires in Los Angeles, I wanted to share this @ichotiner.bsky.social Q&A published in the immediate aftermath. The lightly edited transcript reflects my initial reactions, but remains relevant even a year later.
newyorker.com
How Did the Los Angeles Fires Get So Out of Control?
A climate scientist discusses how to think about and weigh the variables that led to the current disaster.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
NEW: An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen. "[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20. Tonight, at Law Dork.
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An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
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Solarina Ho @solarina.ca · 07/01/2026
1. "...nothing in international law protects Canada that shouldn’t have protected Venezuela." 2. Could anyone have imagined such a headline 18 months ago, let alone one taken seriously? 3. The Alberta scenario outlined by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Adam Gordon seems shockingly plausible.
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Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada
After the capture of Venezuela’s president and Trump’s musing about Greenland, Canada must consider the worst-case scenario
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/01/2026
BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.
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Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US action in Venezuela
An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.
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