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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1h

“accompanying faith in future technological salvation provides another crutch: a way of postponing difficult choices today by placing hope in solutions that may arrive tomorrow” - @kevinclimate.bsky.social

theguardian.com

Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Writing centers should be championed, not dissolved... Colleges are racing to outspend each other with new AI-focused programming. But individualized, human support for student learning should not be sacrificed on the altar of these ambitions." (by Lizzie Hutton, Miami U Ohio's WC director)

cincinnati.com

AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

latimes.com

Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level

Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist" by Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Watch the interview and then preorder the book! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

simonandschuster.com

Deep Unlearning

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The mainstream is discovering that trans people are innocent despite being targeted, that those targeting us are unreasonable, irrational, dangerous, and extreme, that the purges will not end with us. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

theatlantic.com

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”

nytimes.com

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Michael Kapp @michaelkapp.com · 15/08/2026

BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

nature.com

NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/07/2026

‘“I thought about Alex Pretti because he was a nurse. He was helping someone up off the ground that had been shoved,” Bowe said.’

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Republican members of Congress—all of whom have sworn loyalty to a man, Trump, who scientific journals confirm caused at least 400,000 needless deaths during the pandemic—are today calling for prison for a man who *saved* millions of lives in the same period. A *disgusting* day.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

docs.google.com

CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The University Press of Colorado / Utah State University Press wholeheartedly supports #CCCC and our #writingstudies and #teamrhetoric scholars in their endeavor to maintain this important association for the field.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Politicians usually show up at the border to demonize & fear-monger. We just drove 750 miles from El Paso to the Valley to show off the beauty & potential of our border communities. We’re showing up for Texans along the border who've been left behind by both political parties.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

To people in Ontario, if you have a car, check on disabled and aging neighbors to be part of their escape plan. I wrote this for @motherjones.com due to LA wildifres, but it's applicable everywhere. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

motherjones.com

Your local government isn't ready to evacuate disabled people

California's fire-prone counties left people to die. Other communities don't have to.

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

An interview with @agawande.bsky.social in the @newyorker.com on the global human costs of DOGE's destruction of USAID. "When J.F.K. argued for U.S.A.I.D., he was arguing that assistance abroad, first and foremost, was also assistance to the United States itself." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

newyorker.com

The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Paris turns the Seine into a giant air conditioner. 100 km of pipes now channel river water through heat exchangers to cool 800 buildings. The way the system works is by transferring heat through closed loops, room by room, until it disperses back into the Seine. buff.ly/mosFlsz #ShareGoodNewsToo

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‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con

City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 01/07/2026

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #HigherEd · #Redundancies · “Leading writers, broadcasters, academics and theologians have thrown their weight behind a campaign to save 150 jobs at the University of Exeter, amid growing outrage at a sector-wide hollowing out of the humanities.”

theguardian.com

Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Springfield, a city including more than 10,000 Haitians, “could become the target of a major enforcement operation. American residents are preparing to protect Haitians, with some making plans to care for their Haitian neighbors’ native-born children & even to hide and shelter immigrants who remain”

nytimes.com

The Ohio City Revived by Haitian Immigration Sees an Uncertain Future

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/06/2026

Incredible - dramatic improvements in air quality in London are linked to a measurable impact on Londoners' health: 9.3% drop in heart-related emergency admissions 5.1% drop in hospital admissions of all illnesses and health conditions Cleaning up our air protects our future.

theguardian.com

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship

The History of Medicine Section in the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester is pleased to announce its first annual Edward C. Atwater Visiting Scholar Grant for the study of materials in the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform.
In the autumn of 1994, Edward C. Atwater, M.D. made the Miner Library the repository for his personal collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, almanacs, trade cards, printed ephemera and manuscript material pertaining to American "popular medicine." Materials in the Atwater Collection represent the full range of medical self-help among Americans throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. For a full description of the collection and how to search it, visit the History of Medicine’s website.
The Atwater Visiting Scholar Grant provides support to scholars or graduate students to cover the cost of their travel to Rochester, accommodation, and expenses during their time of stay. The award is up to $2,000 for one week of research in any given year.
We welcome applications from all interested researchers currently residing in the United States or Canada, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographical research are encouraged as are applications from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research using the Edward C. Atwater Collection.

A complete grant application includes:
A research proposal (2 pages, single-spaced, maximum)
Two references
Budget, including proposed dates for research trip
A successful applicant will be expected to share their findings after their visit.
Please submit your proposals and any questions to Anna Smith, Head of History of Medicine Section, anna_smith1@urmc.rochester.edu

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

advocate.com

Gay CECOT survivor rebuilds his life in Spain while speaking up for voiceless immigrants in America

The Venezuelan makeup artist who became the face of a controversial deportation case discusses life after release, lingering trauma, and the men whose stories he believes the world has forgotten.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

fnl.mit.edu

Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 04/04/2026

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

science.org

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities

Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

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University of Minnesota School of Nursing @umnnursing.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

nytimes.com

Syracuse Drops 84 Programs Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Several people in my life have Long Covid; one, a physician, had to take very early retirement due to severe disabling long term multi-organ illness

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

politico.eu

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 23/02/2026

“These are repeated acts of dehumanization.” I am demanding that ICE immediately review Rodney Taylor’s request for release. What he and others are experiencing in detention is absolutely horrifying.

theguardian.com

US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention

Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern' over detention of Georgia barber Rodney Taylor

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Source is former Washington Post climate reporter @chrismooney.bsky.social's devastating account of the decline of climate coverage. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin...

reportearth.substack.com

The Washington Post and the tragic decline of newspapers

And, just maybe, of climate journalism.

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’m relieved Kelly Yu is back with her family. This administration is burning enforcement resources on people like her instead of violent criminals. I visited Kelly in July and pressed ICE on her case, and we are continuing to work with her family following her release.

fox10phoenix.com

Arizona restaurant owner released from ICE custody after months in detention

"They say they're only after criminals, and that's not true," Kelly Yu said. "We're not criminals."

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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Minneapolis patroller was handed this note yesterday. The United States of Minnesota

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Luis Ferré-Sadurní @luisferre7.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

NEW: Carlos García, a Venezuelan politician opposed to Maduro, fled Venezuela in 2017 to escape charges from the Maduro regime. He rebuilt a life in Ohio, delivering Amazon packages until he was detained by ICE. His family fears for his safety in Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

nytimes.com

A Politician in Exile, Detained by ICE, Fears Deportation to Venezuela

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Say their names. Remember their names. Two American citizens who were murdered in cold blood by ICE and are now being dehumanized by Republicans as "domestic terrorists for peacefully standing up for their neighbors.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 14/01/2026

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way." - Becca Good www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

mprnews.org

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm sickened and heartbroken by ICE shooting an unarmed woman in the head in Minneapolis. We can never accept this violence as normal or accept anything short of justice for these victims. We will continue to show up — together — to protect each other.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The FDA under charlatans Prasad, Makary, and Hoeg wants to put a black box warning on COVID19 vaccines in order to please their anti-vax audience. There is no reason to assume that RFK Jr. will not force COVID19 vaccines off the market in the US. And then he will just keep going down the list.

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FDA intends to put most serious warning on COVID vaccines, CNN reports

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to put a "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccines, CNN reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the agency's plans.

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