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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 6h
…an important development (inc. the sentence), also because changes sought in the facilitation package reform want to ensure that when authorities target activists with trumped-up charges they must stick even when they are untrue… aegeanboatreport.com/2026/09/30/n...
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NORWAY REFUSED TO SURRENDER ME TO GREECE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
On 16 March 2026, I was arrested at my home in Tromsø under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Greece. Greek authorities wanted Norway to surrender me so that I could be prosecuted in Greece. Two …
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While EU governments present falling migration figures as a political success, people continue to die in the Mediterranean. New figures from #Frontex reveal a sharp increase in information-sharing with #Libya, which hinders NGOs in rescuing the people: digit.site36.net/2026/09/29/s...
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Sea-Watch recovers drowned people in the Mediterranean and criticises EU for increasing cooperation with Libyan units | Matthias Monroy
While EU governments present falling migration figures as a political success, people continue to die in the Mediterranean. New figures from Frontex reveal a sharp increase in information-sharing…
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EU Commission 5 point plan on external border controls ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Commission proposes 5-point plan to strengthen resilience and security of EU external borders
Today, the Commission is proposing a 5-point plan to prevent, anticipate and respond to sudden, mass illegal arrivals. It will strengthen the resilience and security of EU external borders
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026
Our new “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast talks to the activists, lawyers and technologists who have fought for a better, more secure and private digital future – a future that’s still attainable. Episode 1, “Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries,” is our origin story.
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Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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Snacks @snacks59.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
flip.it/0_q_Qk. Better keep this shit growing al across the nation.
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The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum
As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hear immigrant children also have heartbeats.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
…appeal against gino extradition to hungary in witch hunt against antifascists case… www.osservatoriorepressione.info/difendere-la...
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Difendere l’antifascismo significa: nessuna estradizione per Gino
Appello congiunto di autori e autrici, artisti e artiste, scienziati e scienziate, e personalità politiche di Francia, Italia, Germania, Stati Uniti e altri paesi Quasi novant’anni fa, emigrati, lavor...
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
…italian constitutional court appears to be increasingly caving in to racism masquerading as migration policy… www.a-dif.org/2026/09/25/a...
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Ancora un cedimento della Consulta di fronte alla politica
di Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo Lo avevano già notato con le sentenze della Corte costituzionale in materia di detenzione amministrativa nei CPR (sentenza n. 96/2025) che non dichiarava la illegittimi…
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
…a very important looking resource…
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
…important clarifications…
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Slow marching being an obvious threat to public safety meriting prosecution, unlike blocking ports and knifing boats with someone still on board /s
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: The Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin over the weekend was taken to a hospital late Monday after experiencing paralysis on the left side of his body, according to his lawyer.
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Man shot and detained by ICE is hospitalized for partial paralysis, lawyer says
Wilber Garcés Pérez has been transferred to a hospital after his condition worsened, according to his attorney. He was shot and wounded by an ICE officer in Texas.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
…forceful defence of ceuta minors’ rights in a horrific context… siria rego on cadena ser (in spanish): most of them want to stay and they will stay cadenaser.com/nacional/202...
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Sira Rego: "Se está haciendo politiqueo con los niños. La mayoría quiere quedarse en España y se va a quedar"
La ministra de Juventud e Infancia llama en 'Hoy por Hoy' a la "autocrítica de todas las instituciones" ante la situación de los menores y condena el ataque de una turba contra el coche de una diputad...
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
…rights organisations criticise racism and violence vs migrants in ceuta by law enforcement andsecurity forces, as well as by private citizens… migreurop.org/article3623....
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Une centaine d'organisations dénoncent les violences contre les personnes migrantes à Ceuta – MIGREUROP
Migreurop est co-signataire de ce communiqué qui dénonce les violations de droits exercées par les États espagnol et marocain contre les personnes exilées à Ceuta. Le travail de documentation réalisé…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hard to find the words to express the evil that this is. Gay men deported to African countries where they are likely to be murdered. People ripped from their families and dumped in countries they know nothing of.
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/ice-sho... “ICE has been terrorizing our country for far too long,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, who represents the district where the shooting occurred….
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'This Violence Cannot Continue': ICE Shooting of Man in Austin Sparks Outrage | Common Dreams
"ICE has been terrorizing our country for far too long," said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, who represents the district where the shooting occurred.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 20/09/2026
Thousands march in Paris against bill granting police presumption of legitimate self defense
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Thousands march in Paris against bill granting police presumption of legitimate self defense
In July, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale approved the bill, which says that any law enforcement official who uses force is assumed to have acted legally in using their weapon. It now faces a vote in the Sénat.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Quando n aziende “perdono il controllo” di un loro prodotto — ammesso sia così — e ne risultano dei crimini, quelle n aziende dovrebbero risponderne di fronte alla giustizia, no? No, a quanto pare è ciò che conferisce loro il diritto di dirci che fare del nostro futuro 🤷‍♂️
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
…for the umpteenth time, plenty of britons & non-britons suffer coz of brexit & its implications that undermine freedom of movement… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position
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Netpol @netpol.org · 20/09/2026
Victims of intrusive police surveillance accused the government of seeking to cut short the #spycops public inquiry by holding a phoney and rigged consultation. When campaigners tried to deliver submissions in person this week, the Home Office went into lockdown www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Victims say Home Office attempt to curtail spycops inquiry will result in a ‘cover-up’
Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillance
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Easier to convict a victim than to live up to the UK’s obligations to refugees
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Chan Mathok Atak jailed over Channel boat with 165 migrants
Chan Mathok Atak has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison after piloting the boat.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.radiondadurto.org/2026/09/18/i... …one of the doctors targeted for not authorising detention who is under investigation: “it’s a political attempt to criminalise the medical category to distract from the degrading conditions in the centres”, which he also describes as “pathogenic”… (italy)
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INDAGINE MEDICI CPR, PARLA NICOLA COCCO: “UN TENTATIVO DI DISTOGLIERE LO SGUARDO DAL CUORE DELLA QUESTIONE, LE CONDIZIONI NEI CPR”
Intervista a Nicola Cocco, medico della società italiana di medicina delle migrazioni, indagato con l’accusa di associazione a delinquere. "L'inchiesta è un tentativo di distogliere lo sguardo dal cuo...
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
…what happens when wrecking as many people’s lives as possible becomes a goal asserted and implemented through state procedures that are increasingly automated…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.fanpage.it/attualita/fa... doctors under investigation for certificates vs detaining people in law-defying, pathogenic sites for the denial of freedom
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Netpol @netpol.org · 16/09/2026
Lots of people still need to wear a mask in 2026. Lara Wong, of Clinically Vulnerable Families, writes for Netpol on why new police powers to create mask-free zones at protests (and arrest everyone for wearing one) is a public health issue, not just a public order one netpol.org/2026/09/15/w...
Campaigners from the Clinically Vulnerable Families, all wearing a face mask, with a purple and blue banner that says "we demand the right to breathe safe air"
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The huge sums people must pay in order to apply to stay in the UK are expressly designed to subsidise the immigration system, which means they’re contributing to stuff like this
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You couldn’t ask for clearer proof of how the right basically hate the country they claim to love, and would rather be rid of it
bbc.co.uk
Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?
Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
arun kundnani on british politics enabling islamophobia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Islamophobia is rising – and Britain’s politicians have been dangerously complacent in tackling it | Arun Kundnani
Mainstream figures have been enabling anti-Muslim racism, creating the ideal conditions for the rise of hard-right political parties, says Arun Kundnani, editorial director of Monthly Review Press
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good that the Guardian got @trillingual.bsky.social to review @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
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End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and progressive toolkit for repairing it
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Olivier Cyran @oliviercyran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
L'Europe et le régime Trump bras dessus croix dessous. Une fois signé, leur "partenariat de sécurité améliorée aux frontières" donnera la possibilité aux escadrons de la mort ICE et Border Patrol "d'accéder aux fichiers de police de presque tous les pays membres de l'UE".
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 11/09/2026
The Anthropic AI Misuse report is *wild*. Houthis using Claude for ballistic missile guidance. Automated Russian phishing/hacking operations . Malian national security coding mass interception software. Tons of influence operations. Political profiling of users & targeting for recruitment!
www-cdn.anthropic.com
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
…things you won’t see the nazties complain about… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men
Women say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their claims refused
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
…which is why AI destroys souls.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
The fall of the Twin Towers, one expert said, became the point when national security swallowed the world.
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The religion of national security
After 9/11, national security meant everything. Today, it means nothing at all.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our immigrant neighbors are raising families, struggling to survive, running businesses, and revitalizing neighborhoods. We won't stand by while politicians use #ICE to tear our communities apart. #SpringfieldOH #Ohio
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
italy condemned in ecthr sentence on detention of minors (well done asgi) www.asgi.it/allontamento...
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Detenzione di fatto di minori a Restinco (Brindisi): nuova condanna della Corte EDU contro l’Italia - Asgi
Con la decisione del 3 settembre 2026 (Caso B.C. vs Italia, Application no. 42909/23),  la Corte Europea per i Diritti Umani ha condannato l’Italia per l’illegittima detenzione di un ragazzo della Costa d’Avorio dell’età di 15 anni all’interno del Centro di accoglienza di Restinco, nella provincia di Brindisi, e al conseguente risarcimento del danno.
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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Many surveillance powers #Germany introduced after 9/11 were meant to be temporary. Twenty-five years on, they have become the rule rather than the exception: digit.site36.net/2026/09/10/2...
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25 years of anti-terror laws: Germany and the EU responded to 9/11 with a new era of "pre-emptive" policing | Matthias Monroy
The surveillance powers Germany introduced after 9/11 were meant to be temporary. Twenty-five years on, they have become the rule rather than the exception – from a database exempt from…
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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Framework Agreement between the EU and US on an "Enhanced Border Security Partnership" is negotiated: home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/pro... Once signed, it opens the doors for bilateral #EBSP agreements which allow ICE and CBP to access police databases in nearly all EU States.
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Proposal for Council decision on concluding a Framework Agreement between the EU and US on an Enhanced Border Security Partnership
Proposal for Council decision on concluding a Framework Agreement between the EU and US on an Enhanced Border Security Partnership
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There are several things which made my blood boil about this rancid Hurrah for the Blackshirts piece, but probably the worst is the attempt to enlist the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as supporting the idea that people are widely being falsely granted asylum.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Proposed EU/US treaty on screening people for visa or travel authorisation purposes: ec.europa.eu/transparency...
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Register of Commission Documents
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 08/09/2026
What can we learn from civil resistance and community solidarity movements in Minnesota and elsewhere? Join the Quaker Peacebuilding Network at their next webinar to explore this more www.quaker.org.uk/blog/whistle...
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Whistles, not guns: learning from civilian-based defence in Minnesota
Rebecca Bellamy reflects on what we can learn from civil resistance and community solidarity movements in Minnesota and elsewhere
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
…it turns out that the numpties’ long list of “legitimate concerns” to protest about now includes the embarrassment of losing a local election to the greens…
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