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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20h
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 16h
Starbucks workers have organized and won over 700 union elections. Why? Because working people know companies CAN do better, but choose not to. We know it's time to push back against corporate greed! CONGRATS to partners who recently won unions in ✊Ponca City, OK ✊Jasper, IN
9 people smile and celebrate their Starbucks union election victory in a parking lot.6 Starbucks workers smile and celebrate their union victory with signs that say "Our voice, our choice, our vote, stronger together" and "Espresso your rights"
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EPA workers' union sues the federal agency over the termination of its union contract www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract
Federal workers’ union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissent
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new report from the Government Accountability Office found key data is missing in the effort to combat child labor violations, including for more than half of the child workplace fatalities in the US from 2013 to 2023 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shining a spotlight on this never ending crime: Three deaths, three states, 24 hours www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Alpha School she is talking about www.the74million.org/article/insi...
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Inside Alpha School’s ‘Bootcamp’: Heart Monitors, Unpaid Labor & Many, Many Tweets
Students at the AI-powered private school are chronicling grueling tests of composure, endurance and grit.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ep 327 - Real Unions Don't Need AI Signs www.patreon.com/posts/170902... tinyurl.com/WSEP327 Mass General B, Prime Healthcare, Henry Ford Genesys Hospital, Sam Adams Brewery, AutoZone, Canadian Taft Hartley, AFA, Colombia, surveillance, company unions
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/09/2026
Hats off to 150 Allina hospital doctors who won a tentative agreement on their first labor contract that ensures pay increases and better benefits!
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Unionized doctors reach deal with Allina Health after strike
The union representing about 150 Allina hospital doctors announced on Wednesday a tentative agreement on a first labor contract covering wages and benefits.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks,
While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and _some are welcoming the move_, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary. Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
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This seems like a reasonable idea with precedent from
Obama's education department.
The government shouldn't be in the business of encouraging
people to take loans they won't be able to repay.
(IN The New Republic © @newrepublic • 18h
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don't make
enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social
work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit
the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 28/09/2026
ICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything.
therealnews.com
'Like the Gestapo': ICE brings terror and violence to Maryland
ICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. We speak with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
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Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 26/09/2026
Starbucks is ending their DEI initiatives nationwide. If you’re a customer, BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. If you’re a Starbucks worker, organize your union to protect you and your coworkers before things get even worse.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Amir Khafagy @amirkhafagy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop 🚨 Why is one of New York's most notorious union-busters forming independent unions? Cesar Alarcón, an anti-union consultant, showed up at Golden Krust with a new union, Local 311. Was it a sham? New investigation for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/09/23/u...
documentedny.com
Cesar Alarcón Dismantles Unions — Why Is He Now Creating Them?
Golden Krust workers had issues with their union. Then a seasoned anti-union consultant showed up.
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Cathy Otten @cathyotten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en
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EU Crimes Against Humanity
Exposing Crimes Against Humanity of European Officials
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly 190,000 home health workers in New York could unionize in one of the biggest U.S. labor drives in decades. SEIU Local 1199 says they've gotten almost 70,000 signatures, enough to trigger a union vote, and now the union has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election.
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University of Oklahoma AAUP @uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.oudaily.com/news/aaup-su... "A log of responses from Oklahoma professors shows 64% of respondents reported they would not recommend working in Oklahoma to colleagues or graduate students."
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AAUP survey reveals growing concerns of political influence in higher education among instructors
An American Association of University Professors survey of faculty in southern states, now including Oklahoma, reveals growing concerns about political influence in university curriculum.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 22/09/2026
A “forensic method” scientists call unreliable helped convict Moira Akers of killing her newborn. Prosecutors planned to use it again—even though the Maryland Department of Health has officially disavowed the practice.
therealnews.com
Maryland used discredited “science” to convict a woman of murdering her fetus. Reproductive rights groups are raising alarms.
A “forensic method” scientists call unreliable helped convict Moira Akers of killing her newborn. Prosecutors planned to use it again—even though the Maryland Department of Health has officially disav...
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Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ep 326 - Lawless Lawmen www.patreon.com/posts/170260... tinyurl.com/WSE326 Amazon, Samsung, Howard House Manufacturing, the entire French economy, Bradford White, CharterCARE, Allina Health, CVS looming strike, beverage distribution union busting, class struggle against ICE
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/09/2026
"The elimination of entire departments to achieve relatively modest short-term savings risks long-term damage to research capacity, student enrollment, and institutional reputation." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Faculty group urges AAU to deny UNL readmission over budget cuts
The American Association of University Professors called the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's push to gain readmission to the AAU into question following last year's program and position eliminations.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"
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Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And we can do without this company running anything to do with our NHS in the UK, too!
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.
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Amberger @naughtynocturn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Democracy is when people ignore marginalized groups having their rights ripped from them and instead do whatever the fuck this is to defend a building
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Starbucks workers are reporting being priced out of Starbucks' health insurance coverage, with premiums more than doubling in some cases www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Starbucks baristas reel from surges in health insurance costs: ‘I’m considering a second job’
Several workers say they’re opting to go without health coverage due to premium costs soaring this year
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/09/2026
Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants you to know he has spent “decades” supporting the Palestinian people. But The Intercept dug into his claim and found that he actually has spent years donating to.... Friends of the IDF and AIPAC? buff.ly/0Msn7t7
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Most of the point of this shit is to render monstrous choices more easily and less accountably available to institutional authorities so we should expect this kind of thing, and if left to their own devices the people developing and pushing it will never ever course correct.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is eugenics
Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Canada succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant labornotes.org/2026/09/cana...
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Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract
Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics g...
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Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Everyone hyperventilating about the uncontroversial fact that the US has slaughtered orders of magnitude more people than every non-state actor in history are just doing genocide denial. Even leaving out the 10 million+ killed violently in US wars, whole generations have been killed by sanctions.
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lumie's dad @classhuggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
But why set aside the actual merits? They matter! Like, the argument against what Piker said depends on you not having eyes or a functioning brain. If you have either of those things, then you can clearly see what's happening every day on your television.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 14/09/2026
“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”
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‘Actively malevolent’: Trump EPA to eviscerate rules on planet-heating pollution from power plants
“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lou Leon Guerrero is the Governor of Guam, a US territory. But she and the rest of the people there have no say in who mines its waters. Modern-day colonialism is enabling Trump's deep-sea mining ambitions in the Pacific. grist.org/energy/deep-...
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She governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.
Modern-day colonialism is enabling Trump's deep sea mining ambitions in the Pacific.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Robert Kraft's PR vs Robert Kraft's on-the-ground agenda:

Variety
@Variety
Robert Kraft Says Ed Sheeran Is Donating $2 Million to 'Fight This Humanitarian Crisis' in Gaza, and Kraft Is Matching Him: 'All Lives Are Worth Protecting'
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@TimesofIsrael
Israel will ‘finish the job’ in Gaza and seek Palestinians’ migration — defense minister
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New from me. Union nurses warn 🚨 Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system, which was already in crisis. I speak with a panel of @nationalnurses.bsky.social from Maine, Missouri, and Illinois. This is a must-listen! @therealnews.com therealnews.com/palantir-nur...
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'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“At a time when a major party nominee for statewide office can look at a diverse crowd of young Texans and see an invasion, students need more opportunities to understand one another. UT is giving them fewer.” 💯
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How workers died last week: Skid loader incidents, airplane crash, lawn mower, explosions, industrial incidents, firefighting, drowning, heat, shootings, and vehicular collisions: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Those Who Didn't Come Home: The Weekly Toll - Confined Space
On average, 100 workers die every week from traumatic injuries on the job in the United States. Here are how a few died last week.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In a Los Angeles courtroom this winter, after a back-and-forth with a judge about estimating the number of people likely to die from exposure to silica, Hyundai L&C lawyer Rey Yang mused, “You could live life without any risk, and then where would you be?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At this vital time in understanding propaganda and authoritarianism, a reminder that we have free copies of Copaganda for teachers, students, and anyone who sends books to people in prison. If you want copies, link is in next post! My grandma says the book is amazing.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was overtly racist. He couldn't be anymore racist. It wasn't even trying to hide the racism. Bo French posted a photo of college kids and whined that they weren't white enough. Here is the Wall Street Journal trying to launder it as "tests boundaries" of political speech.
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Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Convincing people is important, it's the bedrock of political change, but we also have to take a stark look and recognize that there are millions of Americans who actively support, even love, this. They love concentration/death camps and they are going to have to be *defeated*, not convinced.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ep 325 - Organizing Orgrimmar www.patreon.com/posts/169608... tinyurl.com/WSEP325 Prime Healthcare nurses, Boston Medical Center, RI Amazon drivers, Brazilian postal workers, Dutch transit workers, Kenyan healthcare workers, Frontier flight attendants, McClatchy, Blizzard, MOWP
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is a spineless coward. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage 'Free Palestine' Statements
Macklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after several venues allegedly said they would not allow a concert with the rapper to take place.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/09/2026
“You have people who are furthest from the classroom, curriculum design, and the subject area of a subject saying all students must take this thing. How is that good for students? How does that suggest they will get the best education?” #academicsky
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Protesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senate
Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Late last year we were shocked to learn that a 10-lb tumor was strangulating my partner's heart. One Sat morning in early January, at 7am, as he sat in a hospital bed waiting for the oncologist, his insurance co called to inform him that they'd be denying his scans + hospital stay. America! 🇺🇸
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