Mira Rojanasakul
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Data and visual journalist, New York Times climate team
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Bellingcat
about 3 hours ago
On this week's Stage Talk
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spoke about uncovering wildlife traffickers selling protected animals⌠on Facebook. Not the dark web. Not hidden forums. In plain sightâusing coded language to avoid detection. Learn how by searching 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat':
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Daniel Pomarède
about 4 hours ago
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. đ§Şđ
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Bill McKibben
4 days ago
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/middleeast/us-precision-strike-missile-iran-lamerd.html
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The New York Times
8 days ago
The Trump administration is full of people who have questioned the legitimacy of elections. Here is a look at some of the election deniers President Trump has installed in the federal government and how they could play a role in undermining future elections.
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Where Trump Has Installed 2020 Election Deniers in Government
His administration is stocked with people who have questioned the legitimacy of elections, including some who have claimed that the 2020 presidential race was stolen.
https://nyti.ms/4uV5u1M
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Maxine Joselow
11 days ago
Confirming my scoop from last week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced this deal with TotalEnergies today. Story w/
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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
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Anthony Edwards
12 days ago
There is no precedent for this rate of March snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada. Many stations have lost more than 12 inches of snow water equivalent in 30 days, including
@cssl.bsky.social
. Half of that came in the past week. Statewide snowpack is at ~30% of normal, precisely when typically peaks.
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How the War in Iran Is Raising Concern About Water in the Middle East
Millions of people in the Persian Gulf depend on desalination plants for their water, but recent fighting has highlighted the system's vulnerability.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/14/climate/iran-war-water-supply-desalination.html
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
23 days ago
Americans with weaker credit histories, usually from missed payments or high amounts of debt, now pay significantly more for home insurance, regardless of where they live.
@nytimes.com
@hclairebrown.bsky.social
@rjnskl.bsky.social
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The Hidden Factor Behind Your Home Insurance Cost: Your Credit History (Gift Article)
In many states, homeowners with âexcellentâ credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/climate/home-insurance-credit-scores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.cXUx.yC__qQwrh1sa&smid=url-share
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Ben Keys
25 days ago
Great work by Claire Brown and
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@nytimes.com
in their deep dive on credit scoring and homeowners insurance! See more on our new paper in the thread belowâŚ
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The Upshot
25 days ago
Via Claire Brown and
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How Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Credit Scores (Gift Article)
In many states, homeowners with excellent credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/climate/home-insurance-credit-scores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R1A.HSOc.UZbQln9ezHZu&smid=url-share
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Marie Patino
about 1 month ago
We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two â sometimes three â adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.)
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The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion
In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New Yorkâs allure to the ultra-rich.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-nyc-billionaire-mansion-conversions/?srnd=homepage-americas
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Al Shaw
29 days ago
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/
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Our World in Data
about 1 month ago
A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?
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about 2 months ago
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate riskâdriving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
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Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries
A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.
https://www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-climate-supercomputer-plans-threaten-us-insurance-market-actuaries/
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Costa Samaras
about 2 months ago
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them.
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The end of DOEâs grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end-of-does-grid-work-in-puerto-rico/
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Oliver Darcy
about 2 months ago
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.
@passantino.bsky.social
has the details in his Saturday
@status.news
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www.status.news/p/washington...
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Tim Meko
about 2 months ago
News: I was cut yesterday in a newsroom-wide layoff affecting 300+ staff at The Washington Post. I spent the last decade leading and building the award-winning Graphics team. I'll miss them. I'm now exploring senior graphics, cartography, or leadership roles. Intros welcome.
timmeko.com
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Tim Meko - Visual Journalist & Graphics Editor - Tim Meko
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Simon Willison
about 2 months ago
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub
simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIAâs oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they âŚ
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
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Shannon Osaka
about 2 months ago
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington-post-climate-bezos?utm_source=substack&publication_id=2864955&post_id=186887322&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=26mpf&triedRedirect=true
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Maria Popova
about 2 months ago
We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read
www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
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Umberto Ecoâs Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an âantischolarâ in a culture that treats knowledge as âan ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.â
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
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Peter Baker
about 2 months ago
Trump calls on Republicans to "take over the voting" in 15 states, presumably those run by Democrats, an escalation in his effort to assert control over American elections.
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Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to âNationalizeâ Elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Isaac Chotiner
2 months ago
New Interview:
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Elise Cutts
2 months ago
New planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a đ˘temperamental little shit M-dwarf đ˘but is instead a đ§Ą good orange boi đ§Ą Me for
@science.org
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Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit
Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look
https://www.science.org/content/article/earth-size-planet-spotted-yearlong-orbit
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A $17 billion backlog in FEMA aid. Delays stem from a directive issued by Noem in June that said any expenditure of $100,000 or more must be approved by her office:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/c...
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Extra Scrutiny of FEMA Aid to States Has Created a $17 Billion Bottleneck
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/climate/fema-aid-kristi-noem.html
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New York Blood Center
2 months ago
After yesterday's winter storm caused widespread cancellations and the loss of nearly 2,000 donations, NYBC has reissued a blood emergency. If itâs safe for you to travel and youâre eligible, please donate in the days ahead.
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A $17 billion backlog in FEMA aid. Delays stem from a directive issued by Noem in June that said any expenditure of $100,000 or more must be approved by her office:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/c...
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Extra Scrutiny of FEMA Aid to States Has Created a $17 Billion Bottleneck
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/climate/fema-aid-kristi-noem.html
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Keyah đŚŹ
2 months ago
ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the OÄhĂŠthi Ĺ akĂłwinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:
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The New York Times
2 months ago
Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.
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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.
https://nyti.ms/4sZEOMm
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Eliot Higgins
2 months ago
As I've written before, people donât trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated.
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Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britainâs leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
https://demos.co.uk/research/verification-deliberation-accountability-a-new-framework-for-tackling-epistemic-collapse-and-renewing-democracy/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
2 months ago
đ¨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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David Dayen
2 months ago
The labor share of GDP is lower today than it has been at any time since records began being kept in 1947. The share of the nationâs income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount.
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A New Low for American Workers
The share of American income going to labor is at its lowest level since measurements began.
https://prospect.org/2026/01/19/american-workers-labor-bureau-labor-statistics-gdp-redistribution-wealth/
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Maxine Joselow
3 months ago
Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A._oBq.f7lv_siyuiie&smid=url-share
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No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time đ (with a big assist from
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Linda Holmes
3 months ago
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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John Schwartz
4 months ago
Heâs like, âI think I did see your house. It was the blue one, right? Yeah, itâs floating down Route 35. Itâs on fire.ââ A brilliant
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story on New Jersey's endless cycle of rebuilding the shore. And yes, there is a climate angle.
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Floods and Storms Are Ravaging the Jersey Shore. Why Do We Keep Building It Back?
Floods, storms and rising seas at the Jersey Shore prompt continual beach replenishment and rebuilding. Experts say more dramatic change is needed.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/floods-storms-jersey-shore-beach-rebuilding-1235477927/
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Ingrid Burrington
4 months ago
Are you an AmeriCAN or an AmeriCANTO
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Ian James
4 months ago
Acting on an order from President Trump, the federal government has adopted a plan to pump more water to Central Valley farmlands from the Delta. The Newsom administration objects, saying Trump is âcatering to big donors instead of doing whatâs right for Californiansâ
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Trump administration adopts plan to pump more water in California over state objections
The federal government plans to pump more water to Central Valley farmlands from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, possibly reducing available water for millions of people.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-04/trump-california-water-pumping-plan
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Aatish Bhatia
4 months ago
While the administration has said it is cutting âwoke programsâ that âpoison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. âThey brought everything to a stop,â said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.âs National Cancer Institute
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.LHMw.KXiHgMec73l1&smid=url-share
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Marco HernĂĄndez
4 months ago
Extreme weather transformed rivers into lakes in Sri Lanka this weekend. Deaths Surpass 350 now. One of the most challenging natural disaster in the island nationâs history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
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Zillow stopped showing First Street risk scores after complaints from the California MLS. âDisplaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that propertyâ
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/zillow-climate-risk-scores-homes.html
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
NYT: â.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..â
@nytimes.com
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Jesse M. Keenan
5 months ago
See my commentary in
@nytimes.com
in re climatic & non-climatic factors pushing down home prices (always excellent work of
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Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article)
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeownersâ finances to the breaking point.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/19/climate/home-insurance-costs-real-estate-market.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.nJN5.PMOqInshuXsk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Brian Merchant
5 months ago
How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs
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Whatâs really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ai
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Katharine Hayhoe
5 months ago
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely
@nunderwood6.bsky.social
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New York Is Going to Flood. Hereâs What the City Can Do to Survive.
Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/nyregion/new-york-climate-flooding-solutions.html
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