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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 4h

Quadrivalent HPV vaccination before pregnancy & pregnancy outcomes: nationwide, population based case-control study “qHPV vaccination before pregnancy was associated with a lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, particularly among women vaccinated at earlier ages”

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Quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination before pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: nationwide, population based case-control study

Objective To evaluate the association between quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination before pregnancy and subsequent risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Design Nationwide, population based mat...

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21h

New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h

So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18h

“In some rural counties from Oregon to New Hampshire, older Americans shopping for private Medicare Advantage plans will find that options have vanished completely or are dwindling to just a few plans… as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans”

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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance

As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

> @cnn.com $SPCX www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/i...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

Green Day’s “American Idiot” LP hits #1 today in 2004 — an album Billie Joe Armstrong said he wrote after watching TV journalists broadcast live, as US tanks entered Iraq. “.. It felt like a cross between war & reality television,” he said. “I just felt .. like, someone needs to say something.”

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23h

JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23h

I really enjoyed doing this interview with Frances Haugen about how leaking to journalists works and why sources get caught, why Meta continues to he a disaster, and what it’s like to see yourself dramatized in a movie: youtu.be/oB3IxwCfP7M?...

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The Real Facebook Whistleblower Behind the Social Reckoning

YouTube video by 404 Media

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 09/10/2026

The president’s attacks on Abdul El-Sayed and Somali Americans are appalling and show the dangerous path he is on. A U.S. diplomat in Israel, meanwhile, was shown to be working in Israel’s interest. Read today's 'First Draft' by @martinpengelly.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/donald-tru...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h

These guys in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona think a judge's order is a suggestion. On the left is Judge Hinderaker's 10/6 order in the case of a gay man the Trump admin sent to Equatorial Guinea, where he has faced beatings and threats to his life. On the right is all that DOJ filed today.

10. Within three (3) days of the date of this Order, and every seven (7) days thereafter until Plaintif's return to the United States or further order of the Court, Defendants must file a status report, supported by a declaration from an official with personal knowledge, stating: (a) the information known to Defendants about Plaintiff's current location, custodial status, and physical condition; (6) the steps Defendants have taken since the prior report to comply with paragraph 5; and (c) the further steps Defendants intend to take and the anticipated timeline. Plaintiff may respond to each status report within three (3) days.

Pursuant to the Court's order issued on October 6, 2026 (Doc. 14), Respondents hereby inform the Court that Respondents are working collaboratively with Petitioner's counsel who shared valuable information to help Respondents attempt to locate and contact Petitioner.
Respondents had a conference with the relevant stakeholders within the government and are beginning the process to facilitate Petitioner's return.
Respondents will provide a more substantive update next week along with a declaration regarding specific steps that are being taken and the most recent updates on Respondent's efforts to facilitate Petitioner's return.
Case 2:26-cv-06601-JCH
Document 16 Filed 10/09/26 Page 2 of 2
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 9th day of October, 2026.
TIMOTHY COURCHAINE
United States Attorney
District of Arizona
s/Derek Faraldo
DEREK FARALDO
Assistant United States Attorney Attorneys for Respondents

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🏒🧛🏻‍♀️Ashley Harlequin🧛🏻‍♀️🏒 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“So they’re like if the Los Angeles Clippers were the Los Angeles Lakers” is a devastating quote from today’s episode of @pablo.show youtu.be/IBBrmyEXlF8?...

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Man City Charges, Explained: "Sham" Deals, Abu Dhabi & Possible Punishment | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

RBADVISERS: “.. While Wall Street and the Fed continue to use inertial breakevens to convince themselves that inflation is temporary, secular inflation expectations continue to accelerate and embed in the economy.”

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald Trump.

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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please read this closely- my opponent WOULD ban cancer treatments, and sounds very much like the political operative he’s been for a decade.

The image shows a news article about the Iowa governor's race affecting vaccine policy. A portrait of Zach Lahn, a Republican candidate for governor, is displayed at the bottom.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026

Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings

Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/10/2026

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is sending a message to Trump by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, judge of the International Criminal Court, and the Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION influencing the 2026 midterms. $1.2 BILLION of that is benefiting politicians they believe will give them MORE tax breaks. Let's be real. We CANNOT fix this economy until we stop letting billionaires warp it by buying our politics.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And she’s got it backward. People are asking about vaccines because of RFK Jr.’s relentless disinformation campaign. She’s a complete and utter disgrace and will be personally responsible for infants dying in Guinea-Bissau as she bows to every whim of RFK Jr.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“The secretary does represent the voices of a number of Americans who are asking questions about certain vaccines”. -Dr. Erica Schwartz, CDC Director, failure at public health, and collaborator with the worst people on earth.

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New CDC Director Is Eager to Change Its Culture

The country’s leading public-health organization needs less “paternalism” and more communication with Americans, Erica Schwartz says.

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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Frances Haugen, the data engineer and Facebook whistleblower who risked everything to expose one of the most powerful companies in the world joins The Group Chat to discuss how it all went down, and the new film that's based on her story: "The Social Reckoning."

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callook67 @callook67.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not only that, BMW is still owned by the Quandt family who trace their lineage by blood to a Nazi-supporting wealthy industrialist *and* by marriage to Joseph Goebbels and they are still pointedly less Nazi than Tesla.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Randy Villegas @villegas4congress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As the son of Mexican immigrants, I know firsthand how terrifying reports of masked federal agents in unmarked cars can be for our families here in the Valley. Please know your rights & contact a rapid response network when you see ICE in our communities. faithinthevalley.org

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the dynamics of the Maine senate debates is how deftly Jackson is baiting Collins to go headfirst into affronted victimhood mode. Her incredibly thin skin is something I wrote about in my profile of her in 2020:

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The Immoderate Susan Collins

After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can someone explain this to me in simple terms? You have AI company experts saying "We expect to cause some kind of catastrophe next year." Whatever happened to Lloyds of London? Do these Masters of the Universe have insurance? www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...

$What we're watching: Many AI industry insiders told Axios they believe a major event will occur in the next six to 12 months. Even with Democrats in control of the House and Senate, the companies see fractured politics as the norm, including within the Democratic Party. Some of the most heavy-handed Democratic proposals include banning superintelligence or pausing advanced AI development. Others have bipartisan support and even some industry buy-in, including a required kill switch on advanced AI. But experts have questioned the viability of trying to turn off all AI systems. The bottom line: In a real crisis, Washington can set partisan differences aside. One Democratic aide pointed to cooperation during COVID and the 2008 financial crisis.$

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026

“We are enforcing the nation’s laws. Why is that controversial?” The Fugitive Slave Act. The Three-Fifths Compromise. The Nuremberg Laws. Dred Scott. The Indian Removal Act. The Law for Protection of German Blood. Anti-miscegenation laws. The Defense of Marriage Act. The Reichstag Fire Decree.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect

A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: The feds' petition has been made public in unredacted form. Here's the full filing (with signature blocks below): cst.brightspotcdn.com/58/76/38fc5d...

Signature block for Chicago Civil Chief Thomas Walsh and Suzanne Drouet, deputy counsel for the Justice Department.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes. It's Suzanne Drouet, deputy counsel at the Justice Department in Washington. I'm told she works for the Office of Professional Responsibility.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

UPDATE: Judge April Perry denies the government's bid to keep all of this under seal — including the attorney's signature block. "The government has also publicly disclosed … that there is an OPR investigation in this case."

MINUTE entry before the Honorable April M. Perry: The Government's motion to seal 275 is denied. As already noted, the grand jury transcripts in this matter have already been made public - without any opposition from the Government. The Government has also publicly disclosed - in both court filings and open court - the fact that there is an OPR investigation in this case involving the prosecutors who were in the grand jury. See, e.g., Doc. 247 at 48-49. In addition to those two matters, the Government has also asked to seal the "Legal Principles" section of its motion, which sets forth basic principles of law, and the signature block of one of its attorneys. There is a presumption that materials that underpin a judicial decision are open to public inspection unless they meet very specific criteria. See Baxter Intern., Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, 297 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2002). No such criteria are present here. The Clerk of Court is directed to unseal 272 . Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/09/2026)

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why can’t we have a decent life working 40-50 hours a week? As soon as you figure out a way to make a dollar more, they’re going to take it away from you.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 09/10/2026

The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board MUST produce financial information for its 2026 fiscal year, a federal judge rules. Judge Cooper "highly doubts that the Center has operated without core financial reporting over the past year." Doc buff.ly/3CFYynC

As for burden, the Court highly
doubts that the Center has operated without core financial reporting over the past year. Surely the Center has ready access to periodic income statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports, and budget documents that reflect actual financial performance over FY 2026, not just projections.
The Center should be able to gather these materials from existing sources without having to query its “updated” financial system for bespoke reports. If that is not the case, standardized
reports will do. So, although Plaintiff’s exhaustive requests are unduly broad given the expedited timetable, the Court hereby orders Defendants to produce FY 2026 financial statements of the nature noted above sufficient to show the Center’s financial performance and condition over FY 2026.

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 09/10/2026

The pro-life party who argued that violent movies were corrupting the youth now wants to live stream a public execution. Got it.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Since the Chester County Health Department doesn’t have measles immunity information for all staff members at the school, the health department ordered Oxford Area High School to complete that verification process, which will require classes to be canceled on Oct. 9” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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Chester County high school closed Friday due to confirmed measles case

There were 86 cases of measles reported in Chester County as of Oct. 7.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026

Yesterday in New York City, an ICE officer shot a man during an arrest while a 5-year-old sat in the back seat. That’s the world the Trump administration is enabling.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When they go low, and they have never done otherwise, we bury them.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, massively overreaching for someone with tiny arms: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. “And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC, and that rely on American service members for their defence, to rein in this rogue court.

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