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Mueller, She Wrote
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I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it!
#NoKings
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Mark Hamill
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Robert Reich
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.
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Democracy Docket
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The 7th Circuit unanimously upheld a temporary block on Trump’s attempt to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. While the president cannot deploy troops to the Windy City, the panel allowed him to call Illinois troops into active-duty military service.
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Appeals Court Keeps Block on Trump's Chicago Military Takeover
Read more here.
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Rachel Maddow
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“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”
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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'
A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/12/ice-chicago-albany-park-tear-gas
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital cited rising costs and national health care funding reductions for the cuts.
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Stanford Children’s Hospital to lay off dozens, citing ‘economic uncertainty in 2025’
Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital cited rising costs and national health care funding reductions for the cuts.
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Democracy Forward
9 days ago
We’re suing the Social Security Administration for refusing to release records on widespread disruptions to essential benefits. The gov't must be held accountable for degrading access to resources that 74 million Americans, especially seniors and people with disabilities, are entitled to.
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Robert Reich
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We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
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From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
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https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=lxWHnrrfnSaga6O-
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Kelly
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The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery. She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting” She had to return to the hospital. These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill. They must be held accountable.
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Kelly
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“You don’t look sick”. Chronic illness is often invisible Many disabilities are invisible People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion Don’t judge a book by its cover
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Union of Concerned Scientists
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🌪️ Nor’easters, hurricanes, subtropical storms: what’s the difference between the types of storms that impact the US? How do they form, and how is climate change making them stronger and wetter? Read
@marc-alessi.bsky.social
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#ClimateChange
#ExtremeWeather
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Hurricanes, Nor’easters, Subtropical Storms! What’s the Difference?
Different types of storms explained.
https://blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/hurricanes-noreasters-subtropical-storms-whats-the-difference/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bs
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NPR
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
https://n.pr/4q87Jwb
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Aaron Rupar
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Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents? MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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Amy Klobuchar
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The expiration of health tax credits is raising premiums for cancer patients. 86% say it will make it harder for them to access critical care. That’s wrong. Republicans in Congress should not make it harder for people battling for their lives.
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Hitting Where It Hurts: Expiring Health Care Tax Credit Means Price Hikes for Americans with Cancer
For more than 18 million Americans living with cancer, access to health care and health coverage is more than just financial security. It connects them to
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/hitting-where-it-hurts-expiring-health-care-tax-credit-means-price-hikes-for-americans-with-cancer/
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Marc Elias
9 days ago
The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
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Jessica Lussenhop
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A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/
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Kelly
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Marjorie Taylor Greene just realized her adult children’s insurance premiums would double if the Republican cuts to ACA go through. She’s broken party lines and is siding with the Dems. How many more MAGA people are out there like her? Who don’t realize these cuts will financially devastate them?
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes
Greene said she's "not a fan" of Obamacare but complained that her "own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE" if Congress ignores the issue.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop-obamacare-premium-hikes-rcna236068
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
16 days ago
This from the guy whose Citizens United decision did more to degrade democracy than any other. Please.
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Retired US supreme court justice fears ‘democracy is not guaranteed to survive’
Anthony Kennedy told NPR ‘partisanship is becoming ... more prevalent and more bitter’ in the high court’s opinions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/anthony-kennedy-supreme-court-democracy
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Roosevelt Institute
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The gender wage gap is widening again, and showing “worrying trends.” Top of the list of reasons, to no one’s surprise: soaring child care costs. Important read from
@kedseconomist.com
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Roosevelt Institute
21 days ago
NEW📝: A flood of billionaire money in elections started after the SCOTUS
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Roosevelt Institute
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Since early 2024, women’s employment has declined relative to men, and rising costs—from groceries to childcare—have hit them hardest. As Mike told the
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Roosevelt Institute
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Lost in last week’s shutdown news: The Department of Energy is undermining the well-established truth of the impacts of climate change. Tackling climate change and building a resilient, sustainable, and worker-centered economy go hand in hand.
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AFT
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Teachers do more than teaching reading, writing, and 'rithmatic. They open students' eyes to what's possible, and give them the tools they need to thrive. Thank you to all of our educators for all you do for students, families, and communities!
#WorldTeachersDay
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Jon Cooper
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It’s simple really.
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Seth Abramson
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There was a time when a President of the United States who falsely said a perfectly peaceful city was "burning to the ground" would be immediately 25th'ed as a crazy person
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
17 days ago
The Trump/MAGA Project 2025 plan: Destroy the Affordable Care Act Defund Medicaid Eliminate the federal workforce And give tax breaks to billionaires They don’t care if 17 million people lose insurance Or if millions more will see their premiums double And that thousands of Americans will die
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Welp.
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Gov. Newsom says Trump administration has deployed California National Guard troops to Oregon
The move comes one day after a federal judge blocked the president's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/california-newsom-trump-administration-national-guard-deployment-rcna235726
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CalMatters
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is vowing to sue after Trump sends 300 California Guard troops to Portland, saying Trump is using the military as a “political weapon.” https://cal.news/4mS22Qm 📝
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Jon Cooper
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Ted Lieu
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Donald Trump posted this video. Trump and Republicans are literally TAKING PLEASURE at their deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA. Trump and Republicans are GLEEFULLY CELEBRATING their assault on healthcare. Think of this video when your health care costs increase.
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Joshua Basseches
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I must've missed how public safety became "woke":
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DOT purge of ‘woke’ programs halts safety studies
Trump administration efforts to cull equity and climate initiatives have spurred cuts in other areas, including a study of bridge construction.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/dot-purge-of-woke-programs-halts-safety-studies/
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The Steady State
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AFGE, federal workers’ union, has filed a lawsuit against the the Department of Education for altering employees' out-of-office emails to include partisan language.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Lawsuit filed over the Education Department's manipulation of employees' email messages
NBC News reported that Education Department employees found their nonpartisan out-of-office messages were automatically changed to ones criticizing Democrats for the shutdown.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/lawsuit-education-department-manipulation-employee-email-rcna235518
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Aaron Rupar
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Comer: "We care about the people that are gonna lose -- ah, that could potentially lose healthcare. But there are people that can't afford healthcare. We've gotta get people off Medicaid and into the workforce and into private healthcare."
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JJ in DC
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…
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Newsweek
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“The safety and well-being of our students, families, and community are our highest priority,” Superintendent John Price said.
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Chicago Schools Issue ‘Safety Alert’ After New ICE Activity
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-schools-safety-alert-ice-10824889?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759532632
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Thom Hartmann
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As I was saying:
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Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
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No patient should have to worry how they’re going to get the medication or the treatment they need because the president is abandoning them and shutting the government down. Trump & the GOP are keeping folks from the care they depend on.
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"Stop the Medicaid cuts"
YouTube video by AFT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdhSaQjWwic
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Chicago Tribune
20 days ago
Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier, not least because President Trump is threatening to use the standoff to permanently eliminate thousands of government jobs.
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Federal shutdowns usually don’t do much economic damage. But there are reasons to worry about this one.
For now, financial markets are shrugging off the impasse as just the latest failure of Republicans and Democrats to agree on a budget.
https://trib.al/BpjPXm9
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Ron Filipkowski
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Yes, the Project 2025 agenda that was wildly unpopular in every opinion poll during the campaign is 100% the policy blueprint of the Trump admin, which was obvious then to people who paid attention and obvious now to everyone else.
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Bloomberg News
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Japan has delayed indefinitely an auction to set government funding levels for offshore wind projects pending a review of the investment climate, the latest blow to the country’s push to expand renewable energy supplies
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Japan Delays Offshore Wind Pricing Bid in Green Push Setback
Japan has delayed indefinitely an auction to set government funding levels for offshore wind projects pending a review of the investment climate, the latest blow to the country’s push to expand renewable energy supplies.
https://bloom.bg/4gV4S5x
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
20 days ago
Trump & the GOP control the White House & both houses of Congress. But while Democrats have a plan to lower costs, Trump & Republicans are shutting the government down & gutting the care we depend on. That’s not a plan - that’s abandoning working families.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzmq...
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Reject the Trump Shutdown
YouTube video by AFT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzmqx0O9dFo
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
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@AFT.org
has filed suit against the Trump administration because this
#TrumpShutdown
risks exacerbating the current student loan crisis for borrowers - and the Education Department is denying borrowers the rights to which they’re legally entitled.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/g...
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Government shutdown blocks student loan borrowers from forgiveness, repayment plans
The shutdown of the federal government could worsen the problems student loan borrowers are facing.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/government-shutdown-student-loan-borrowers.html
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
20 days ago
This
#TrumpShutdown
makes an already interminable situation much worse for student loan borrowers. It means less oversight of loan servicers, no help for borrowers when they need it, and 1 million borrowers in limbo waiting for answers.
triblive.com/news/world/w...
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What happens to student loans when the government shuts down?
The Department of Education, alongside other agencies, is preparing for a possible government shutdown as Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked over the 2026 federal budget. Democrats want to ex...
https://triblive.com/news/world/what-happens-to-student-loans-when-the-government-shuts-down/
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
20 days ago
Workers deserve a real voice in every great institution — and that should be true at Kaiser too. It’s time for Kaiser to respect its caregivers and agree to a fair contract that puts patients first. ✊
@ofnhp.bsky.social
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Harry Dunn
21 days ago
"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves" Rest easy Jane 🫶🏽
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Marc Elias
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP and the NAACP New York State Conference, my law firm has filed to intervene as defendants in a DOJ lawsuit seeking access to New York state's voter registration data.
www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...
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🚨 United States of America v. Board of Elections of the State of New York
Learn more.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-york-doj-voter-data-access-challenge/
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Assemblymember Dawn Addis
21 days ago
As of today, October 1, the federal government is shut down, leaving millions of Americans without pay. Here in California, we’re still open for business. Did you know you may still qualify for Unemployment Insurance in California if you’re impacted by the shutdown? 📃
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Phil Lewis
21 days ago
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
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MD Gov. Wes Moore says troops don't need to follow Trump's orders if they are unlawful. "I think this becomes a really challenging moment for the members of our military when you usually have the ability to trust the orders that you are getting are lawful."
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