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Ret. Bilingual Tutor #NHU Vegan, Aqua fitness, Bicycling, Bookworm, Feminist, Definitely paying attention Irish I Were Mexican No Lists #UpToTheBeatFitness #MejorSolaQueMalAcompañada #RightToLibrary

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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 12h
The Art of the Scam: Healthcare for Sale open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "...Rick Scott, who committed Medicaid fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and got away with it and got elected to the Senate. How about Donald? How about Kennedy? How about you, Oz? You quack."
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The Art of the Scam: Healthcare for Sale
Follow the money
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 12h
The Rot at the Top robertreich.substack.com/p/the-heart-... "The AI industry’s war chest for the 2026 midterms is projected to exceed $200 million, with almost all of it going to Republican candidates and Trump’s own super PAC."
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The Rot at the Top
The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 12h
Superintelligence open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "You can lie to people about a lot of things and convince them about things that are untrue. What you can’t do is consistently make them believe that they have more money and more spending power than they do."
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Superintelligence
Donald is losing control of the narrative
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 12h
Politics, Power, and the Courtroom: How Culture Wars Unmask Political Absurdity daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/politics-p... "The urge to enforce control over culture, sports, and private life is not a sign of political strength, but a symptom of institutional anxiety."
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Politics, Power, and the Courtroom: How Culture Wars Unmask Political Absurdity
From WNBA Arena Hostility to Capitol Hill Gaffes, How Cultural Proxies Reveal the Self-Inflicted Fractures in Right-Wing Politics
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Johnson says that growing public opposition to data centers, which are increasing water pollution and electricity bills, is a "Chinese psyop." He's out of touch with the American people. Watch.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Rituals of Power: How Systemic Violence and Moral Decay Threaten American Democracy daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-ritual... "...Real accountability has never been granted voluntarily by power structures; ..."
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The Rituals of Power: How Systemic Violence and Moral Decay Threaten American Democracy
Unmasking the Connective Tissue Between Institutional Impunity, Male Violence, and Political Decline
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Could “Poop Pills” Be the Future of Food Allergy Treatment? drrubin.substack.com/p/could-poop... "For someone who reacts to tiny amounts of peanut, increasing the amount necessary to trigger a reaction could theoretically provide additional protection against accidental exposure."
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Could “Poop Pills” Be the Future of Food Allergy Treatment?
How the future of food allergy treatment may come from an unexpected place
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How Power Protects the Monsters We Raise daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/how-power-... "The Horn Island Five and the Cornell 57 do not disappear after graduation. They become the CEOs, the corporate shareholders, the surgeons, the police chiefs, the judges, and the politicians of tomorrow...."
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How Power Protects the Monsters We Raise
From campus group chats to the Supreme Court, a toxic pattern of systemic enablement connects male violence, elite privilege, and the systemic erosion of accountability in American institutions.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No Shame. No Facts. No Problem. open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "...Mike Johnson is a walking bumper sticker: waste, fraud, and abuse. Nothing that man says is true, and nothing he presents corresponds to the reality the rest of us are dealing with."
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No Shame. No Facts. No Problem.
Welcome to Republican oversight
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m grieving. But AI slop isn’t going to fact-check itself. open.substack.com/pub/immunolo... The internet has always rewarded people who can produce enormous quantities of confident, emotionally compelling nonsense faster than someone with actual expertise can correct it.
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I’m grieving. But AI health slop isn’t going to fact-check itself.
I’ve been dealing with very real medical crises, but I'm [sort of] back with my latest fact-check with WIRED.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Flock denies adding facial recognition, but third-party vendors offer to integrate it with Flock's data.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Beautiful Girls open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "Stern said, “By the way, your daughter, she’s beautiful.” ...he asked whether he could call her “a piece of ass.” ...Donald simply agreed. At the time, Ivanka was 22 years old."
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Beautiful Girls
Donald, young women, and a familiar pattern
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is Trump airing taxpayer-funded ads for himself? robertreich.substack.com/p/why-is-tru... "All end with “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” According to the advertising-tracking company AdImpact, the ads have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1,700,000 so far."
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Why is Trump airing taxpayer-funded ads for himself?
Not because they’ll help Republican candidates
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Ivory Tower’s Teflon Shield: How Elite Institutions Fail Up the Powerful daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-ivory-... "When wealthy or well-connected men learn early in life that their futures will be guarded at all costs, they carry that impunity directly into governance."
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The Ivory Tower’s Teflon Shield: How Elite Institutions Fail Up the Powerful
From Ivy League Greek life to the halls of government, a dual-track justice system routinely shields high-status perpetrators while criminalizing dissent.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunday thought: Nauseous Optimism robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho... "On Friday, for example, the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on a federal voter database pushed by Trump. Even worse, his regime refuses to rule out sending ICE agents to polling places."
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Sunday thought: Nauseous Optimism
Looking toward November 3
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, but, "I love animals!" they say. Or "Cruelty to animals is illegal!" they also say.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Rahm Bomb robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b... "In posturing as the advocate of commonsense pragmatic governing, he is always representing a boardroom-first vision of politics."
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The Rahm Bomb
He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump Trolls Trump open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... " "To the victor belong the spoils." That’s his justification for America stealing Venezuela’s oil. At the United Nations. In front of the world."
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Trump Trolls Trump
Week 88
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Architecture of Autocracy open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "This is a deeply, deeply damaged and depraved little man, and we should just contain him, not allow him to spread his toxin everywhere.”
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The Architecture of Autocracy
In Conversation with Zerlina Maxwell
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Puds
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In Conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor robertreich.substack.com/p/in-convers... "...neofascist groups — religious extremists, right-wing nativists, and techno billionaires — are planning for and seeking to bring an end to civilization, while they alone survive."
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In Conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
And their new book “End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World”
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Speaking Into the Void open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "Permanent tax cuts for the rich, which people are not even prepared for, will arrive in roughly a month and a half and extract one trillion dollars from Medicaid."
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Speaking Into the Void
What Happens When a Narcissist Loses His Microphone
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What to plan for in the U.S. if you’re a foreign leader? robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-pl... "...there’s something troublesome about your nation that transcends Trump.” "your extreme inequality will make it difficult to achieve any longer-term consensus.”
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What to plan for in the U.S. if you’re a foreign leader?
Here’s what I’m hearing
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We've watched billions of our tax dollars get spent to do a genocide in Gaza — money that could have been spent to put glasses on kids, rebuild schools, and provide healthcare.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The American Mask Fits Loose daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-americ... "...a country where empathy is distributed by race and class, accountability is treated as optional for the powerful, and the legal system routinely protects the guilty while criminalizing the victimized."
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The American Mask Fits Loose
On Selective Empathy, State Violence, and the Stolen Youth of Black Children
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Anatomy of Exhaustion daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-anatom... "We should not desire a return to the old “normal.” That baseline was built on hidden suffering, quiet exploitation, and systemic neglect. "
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The Anatomy of Exhaustion
How the Myth of Normalcy Collapsed
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How does someone sleep standing up?
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GenXer-71 @genxer-71.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These people are sick.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
10 Steps To Fix What Trump Has Broken robertreich.substack.com/p/10-steps-t... "If we want to clean up the mayhem Trump and his regime have created ..." Hold up! Why do we have to fix what trumpeto did. Make him fix it himself!
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10 Steps To Fix What Trump Has Broken
And mend everything thereafter
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Concierge of Our Downfall daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-concie... "The instruction to the electorate is always the same: Settle. Lower your expectations. Take the crumbs, and be grateful we handed them to you on a silver platter."
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The Concierge of Our Downfall
Why the Democratic Party’s Middle Ground Is a Dead End
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week’s anniversary of the Wall Street bailout robertreich.substack.com/p/this-weeks... "You’ll recall that the bailout of Wall Street brought on the Tea Party movement on the right and the Occupy movement on the left..."
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This week’s anniversary of the Wall Street bailout
It marked the beginning of the public’s distrust of government and big business
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How to know whether a candidate is on your side robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-kno... "Big Crypto is going all out to stop Brown once again, because Brown hasn’t changed his views about the dangers of crypto."
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How to know whether a candidate is on your side
Follow the money
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Anesthetic of Empire daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-anesth... "To live in this country with open eyes is to be confronted by a terrifying proposition: that the core project of our culture is not the expansion of human freedom, but the systematic conditioning of human apathy."
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The Anesthetic of Empire
On Grief, Convenience, and the Radical Work of Feeling
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Breakdown open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "...was like North Carolina. ...was beautiful. ...was apple pie. ...now it’s one of the worst, most violent and one of the worst in the whole nation... it all started with Cooper. And you have a lousy governor right now too, ...it started with Cooper."
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The Breakdown
Dumbocrat? Or Dumocrat?
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now, CNN robertreich.substack.com/p/now-cnn?r=... "Bonta caved presumably because the Ellisons threatened to begin moving Paramount’s operations out of California starting in October if Bonta refused to settle his antitrust lawsuit against them." 👺
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Now, CNN
Democracy dies in the darkness
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reimagining Economics open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "It’s become unmistakably clear that the manner in which the economy is structured to benefit the oligarchs is fundamentally opposed to what constitutes a healthy functioning democracy."
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Reimagining Economics
A Conversation with Nick Hanauer
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mississippi Goddamn: The Endless Cycle of State-Sanctioned Violence and White Comfort daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/mississipp... "...the comments filled with a predictable chorus: “Not all white people!!!” "
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Mississippi Goddamn: The Endless Cycle of State-Sanctioned Violence and White Comfort
Why the Refusal to Face Systemic Racism Keeps America Trapped in Generational Trauma
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What Does a President Cost? open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "Donald and his useless children benefited financially to the tune of almost $2 billion in exchange for giving away something that belongs to the American people."
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What Does a President Cost?
Less Than You'd Think
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Xi and the Dilemma of AI robertreich.substack.com/p/xi-and-the... "Keep your expectations low for this week’s visit of XI to the United States. But be aware of how high are the stakes for humanity."
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Xi and the Dilemma of AI
The central issue isn’t which nation will dominate AI. It’s whether we will both maintain human control over it.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
God's Politicians: Christian Nationalism open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "We can revoke the social license we’ve given to right-wing extremists to jam their religion into our government."
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God's Politicians: Christian Nationalism
In Conversation with Rep. Jared Huffman
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scuba Diving in the Sewer: How Oligarchs and Access Media Broke America daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/scuba-divi... "...if we don’t start paying attention now, we won’t just miss boredom—we will miss freedom."
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Scuba Diving in the Sewer: How Oligarchs and Access Media Broke America
Consolidation has rendered our politics a sham, our newsroom anchors stenographers, and our choices completely fake.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Citizens United: Dark Money open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "It is impossible to overstate the damage John Roberts has done to this country across the board, but Citizens United will go down in history as one of the most corrupt, democracy-destroying decisions he was a part of."
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Citizens United: Dark Money
Democracy for Sale
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Media Did Something Important Today robertreich.substack.com/p/the-media-... "In a commendable show of media solidarity, Fox News Media, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News then suspended their television coverage of Trump today..."
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The Media Did Something Important Today
Solidarity
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The 29% Collapse Nobody in Power Cares About daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-29-col... "For decades, figures within the techno-oligarchy have openly posited that when capitalism and democracy come into conflict, democracy must be set aside."
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The 29% Collapse Nobody in Power Cares About
Donald Trump’s approval hit a historic low—and the ruling class isn't blinking. Here is why the illusion of choice is finally crumbling.
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sick fucks 🤢🤬 #vegan
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Rise of AI Populism robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rise-o... "On the eve of his 1936 reelection, FDR: " ... We now know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government organized by the mob.” "
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The Rise of AI Populism
Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power?
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Turribul @turribul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump Trolls Trump open.substack.com/pub/marytrum... "... I don’t know about you, but I think it’s absolutely hysterical to joke about bankrupting an entire industry and everybody who works in it just to play a joke on an obscenely wealthy friend of yours."
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Trump Trolls Trump
Week 87
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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