Democratic Sen. Padilla forcibly removed from DHS press conference in Los Angeles...
"I was there peacefully. At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question," he said. "I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained."
Video of Padilla's removal quickly spread online. Prominent Democrats from lawmakers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, posted a video of the incident:
Video of Padilla's removal quickly spread online. Prominent Democrats from lawmakers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, posted a video of the incident:
Trump Said: "Any Protest at My Super Duper Wonderful Birthday Parade will be Met with Overwhelming Farce!
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Trump warns that military parade protesters will face 'very heavy force' https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-warns-military-parade-protesters-will-face-heavy-force-rcna212136
One way of protesting Trump's Super Duper Wonderful Birthday Parade
would be there to set off a 140 decibels personal alarm... Louder than the marching band!
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Let's Make a Joyful Noise...
Remember: Today's LA riots are just a dress rehearsal for the June 14th mass arrests at Trump's birthday party parade... Be Aware... Be Ready for the Police to go Insane!
FYI: Trump's Idiot Immigration Policy Caused the LA Riots. Joe Biden never had to deploy the Marines & National Guard to keep order.
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In other news:
Confrontations between what appeared to be ICE officers and people in the streets of downtown L.A. could be seen in video aired on local television and shared on social media. https://laist.com/news/federal-agents-immigration-raids-across-la
But hey, those people in LA will do what they do... Watts riot, Rodney King...
Protesters clash with police at federal detention centre after LA Ice raids – video
What Can One Man Do to Prevent Trump's Birthday Parade? June 14th Could Be National Civil Disobedience Day...
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#DefendTheConstitution #DDAY
#TariffsAreTaxes #ArrestTrump #LockHimUP
ICE agents and LAPD turned the beautiful city of LA into a war zone Friday evening. Heavily armed masked ICE goons ransacked a vibrant immigrant community, but they certainly weren't expecting the neighborhood to stand their ground. Hundreds of community members, workers, and activists overwhelmed ICE agents and had them corralled around the federal building. That's when Homeland Security and LAPD reinforcements arrived and deployed unhinged brutal violence we haven't seen since they beat Rodney King to near death.
Here, you can see LAPD and Homeland Security smashing a woman's skull and ribcage with the butt of their shotguns and police shields. These scenes are reminiscent of the most brutal military dictatorships from Iran, Egypt, or North Korea.
To be clear, our communities are being terrorized because the chief White House Nazi Stephen Miller is demanding 3,000 arrests a day, a number that would not only tank the US economy but make life uninhabitable across vast swaths of America's cities and rural areas dependent on immigrant workers and their families. In short, there's no way to meet Stephen Miller's mass deportation agenda without obliterating our entire society.
LAPD pepper sprayed children and infants, brutalized countless women, and choke slammed one abuela so hard she lost consciousness while her family was screaming in tears. Dozens of innocents had to be rushed to hospital...The LA police department will be paying legal bills for this for years.
This is what MAGA Nazi scum have done to our nation. If you don't like to see your streets terrorized by masked Jan 6 rioters cosplaying as law enforcement, it's time to rise up and resist. It's time for every worker to go on strike, shut this country down until we depose this illegitimate regime.
Let's also point out the obvious. Stephen Miller is on a warpath because his wife is fucking Elon Musk. No reason to make this a national crisis. Stevie, fix your home, find a new mom for your kids who Mrs Miller abandoned to hang out with a fucking Ketamine crackhead. That's a YOU problem. Ask JD Vance for advice, he's got plenty of experience there. But don't bring your doomer Goebbels energy to our streets. Our side will return to power soon enough and we will throw you and your whole family in a federal superMAX prison.
Yesterday demonstrated that ICE, Homeland Security, and their enablers in DC are the real criminals and domestic terrorists threatening our safety and stability.
It's time we put a permanent end to this foolishness. It's time for all of us to stand up and be counted.
Thank You! to everyone who participated
in the June 6th event!
video of a recent protest March with
Creedence Clearwater singing Fortunate Son!
Laguna Beach, CA Protest!
The 50501 Movement
We’re proud to announce that, in collaboration with American Opposition and the Unite 4 Veterans Coalition, the 50501 Movement will participate in a nationwide protest on June 6, 2025, honoring the anniversary of D-Day.
The theme of this protest:
Defend the Constitution.
For those considering traveling, Washington, D.C. will be a key location with Dropkick Murphys performing live in support of our Veterans.
We support all of our 50501 groups. Please join us in supporting our 50501 Veterans as we recognize and appreciate the true meaning of a decentralized grassroots movement.
Mark your calendars.
#DefendTheConstitution #DDAY
If you are here to b!tch about our movement, Please. Stop. It. You are misinformed and making things worse...
I have seen a influx of posts lately of people saying our movement is useless and are either very pissed at us, or are spreading doomerism.If you don't know about the disabled people breaking into congress to demand they don't cut Medicaid, or if you don't know about people using riot shields to push back ICE, realize you are more of a spectator. You won't know much because. The media. Owned by Trump. Won't report this. Please stop either attacking us or spreading hopelessness.
Hell, they are saying we aren't even protesting despite there being a continuous one right outside of the capital right now.
Quite frankly any VISIBLE movement will be very pacifist. Part of it is optics for the public - remember Black Lives Matter? They died because of two main reasons. On the inside, it got corporatized (I don't want to get into it), and the public started seeing it as a violent riot. I know people who think that. The other part is dude best case scenario Reddit admins ban us. You really gonna organize anything technically violating the law, in a dictatorship, in a space public enough that people from other countries can access it? One that has a digital paper trail? I bet this sub is already on a watch-list somewhere.
You are actively hurting this movement by spreading doomerism and bad blood. You remind me of Americans pretending to know everything about foreign countries.
I had to smoke weed to make this post nicer because your words are hurting us.
Joe Blow on Faceborg said:
I have an idea... perhaps that Trump‘s birthday celebration when he rolls the tanks into Washington DC we have 20 million American Patriots real Patriots lovers of democracy in the republic lined up in front of those tanks just like that young man lined up in front of those tanks in China during their aborted revolution only let this revolution not be abortedwe shall overcome
Boycott rump’s birthday parade and join Americans nationwide instead!!
Check for events here Mobilize.us
Trump’s Birthday Parade Now Includes Thousands of Soldiers and Tanks...
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Trump is dead set on throwing a gigantic military parade to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary—which just happens to be on the same day as his birthday.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194764/trump-birthday-parade-thousands-soldiers-tanks
Plans for an expensive and frivolous military parade obviously fly in the face of the Trump administration’s supposedly necessary cost-cutting measures. In reality, the cuts are more punitive than actually thrifty.
I wonder if Trump's military style parade will be like the ones they have in Russia or more like the ones they have in North Korea?
Save Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog! Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't... Contact congress and tell them to Impeach Trump! BIG BIRD Not MAD DOGE!
Use the link above to Contact your Representative in the House... Find their Phone number, street address of the local office and email comment form... If you don't tell them what you think, they won't know!
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"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," the corporation wrote in a statement issued Friday morning. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."
The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."
Congress said that such funds "may be used at the discretion of the recipient" for producing or acquiring programs to put on the air.
I finally watched the video of Mad DOGE playing with the chainsaw and it appears that it was not running... There was no engine sound and no smoke coming out... His latest freak out is to attack Sesame Street... Because if you teach children to read it's very likely they will not become MAGA morons...
I wonder if Trump's military style parade will be like the ones they have in Russia or more like the ones they have in North Korea?
Save Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog! Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't... Contact congress and tell them to Impeach Trump! BIG BIRD Not MAD DOGE!
Use the link above to Contact your Representative in the House... Find their Phone number, street address of the local office and email comment form... If you don't tell them what you think, they won't know!
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"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," the corporation wrote in a statement issued Friday morning. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."
The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."
Congress said that such funds "may be used at the discretion of the recipient" for producing or acquiring programs to put on the air.
I finally watched the video of Mad DOGE playing with the chainsaw and it appears that it was not running... There was no engine sound and no smoke coming out... His latest freak out is to attack Sesame Street... Because if you teach children to read it's very likely they will not become MAGA morons...
Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment... Since we have millions of people that ignore facts... and do not Question Authority... Maybe we would do the world a favor if we taught this subject... before they dropped out of skool...
KEEP ABORTION LEGAL... I know another woman whose boyfriend did not want her to have his baby... so he kicked her in the belly and she miscarried... There ARE better surgical methods... Really...
KEEP ABORTION LEGAL... I remember that a friend of mine drove his girlfriend to Tijuana to get an abortion. Was that "Hospital" the highest quality? It is likely that Actual Doctors in the USA give better Health Care than TJ's Finest. In Olden Days abortions were often performed by random lawbreakers... Not a great system... This is important because BOTCHED abortions can leave the woman sterile. Maybe she doesn't want a baby at age 15 but at age 22 she does.. A Botched abortion removes that option. NO Choice.
GOP IS ANTI-CHOICE - KEEP ABORTION LEGAL
tRUMP IS ANTI-CHOICE
We Are Going to Force Girls to
Give Birth to Unwanted Babies!
To Republicans, Right and Wrong JUST DON'T MATTER. A Morality Free Life. My Mom taught me to Do Good and Avoid Evil. Well, Republicans don't do that.
They just ask Do We Win? Will it work? Will it give US an advantage? Total disregard for the Ten Commandments...
That's the Reason SO MANY REPUBLICANS END UP IN PRISON...
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HISTORY!
What this blog post looked like on May 2nd
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THANK YOU! Massive Rallies against Trump, Musk in nationwide May Day protests: #50501 50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement. Join us in the fight to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. #TariffsAreTaxes
LINK! https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
Protests against what organizers are calling a "billionaire takeover" are planned in every U.S. state.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/01/may-day-protests-trump-musk-billionaires/83362729007/
May 2, 2025https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/01/may-day-protests-trump-musk-billionaires/83362729007/
Heather Cox Richardson
Yesterday I identified incorrectly the messaging app newly fired national security advisor Michael Waltz was using at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as the unsecure Signal app. Joseph Cox of 404 Media identified the app as “an obscure and unofficial version of Signal” from “a company called TeleMessage which makes clones of popular messaging apps but adds an archiving capability to each of them.” As Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo notes, this third-party app introduces even more insecurity into those White House communications.
Today I spent time organizing the many tabs I had opened over the past six weeks. When they were grouped by topics, what emerged was the story of an administration that decided from the start to portray President Donald Trump as a king, creating an alternative social media ecosystem designed, as Drew Harwell and Sarah Ellison of the Washington Post noted in early March, “to sell the country on [Trump’s] expansionist approach to presidential power.”
The team set out not just to confront critics, but to drown them out with a constant barrage of sound bites, interviews with loyalists, memes slamming Democrats, and attack lines. “We’re here. We’re in your face,” said Kaelan Dorr, a deputy assistant to the president who runs the digital team. “It’s irreverent. It’s unapologetic.” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said their goal was “FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE.”
They are engaged in a marketing campaign to establish Trump’s false version of reality as truth. The White House has also brought into the press pool right-wing influencers, who are asking questions that tee up opportunities for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to push administration talking points, which the influencers then amplify on social media.
Trump’s aspirations to authoritarianism are showing today in the announcement that there will be a military parade on Trump’s 79th birthday, June 14, which coincides with the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress’s establishment of the Continental Army in 1775. About 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles, and 50 helicopters will proceed from near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, to the National Mall at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.
Trump’s attempt to empower loyalists showed today in the news that the Trump administration has reached a settlement in principle with the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Trump loyalist who was shot by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd as she tried to breach the House Speaker’s Lobby on January 6, 2021. The right-wing Judicial Watch organization had filed a $30 million civil suit on behalf of Babbitt’s estate. A 2021 internal review determined that Byrd saved lives.
The administration’s hunkering down in right-wing ideology showed as well in Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s public attack on U.S. ally Germany for declaring the German right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist party that goes against Germany’s “free democratic order.” That designation is the result of a three-year investigation. It allows the government more leeway in monitoring the AfD.
Both Vice President J.D. Vance and billionaire White House advisor Elon Musk supported the AfD and backed it in a recent election. Rubio took AfD’s side today, writing on social media that that new designation was “tyranny in disguise.” He attacked the current government and urged Germany to “reverse course.”
The German Foreign Office responded publicly. “This is democracy. The decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.”
It says something about the Trump administration that the German government is lecturing the U.S. government about the dangers of right-wing extremism.
Molly Beck of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan spoke to reporters yesterday, threatening Wisconsin governor Tony Evers with arrest after the governor issued a memo to state workers directing them to check with a lawyer before turning over documents or other items to officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Evers said Republicans were mischaracterizing his memo, which did not direct anyone to break the law.
"We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official, or even everyday American citizens who have broken no laws, committed no crimes and done nothing wrong," Evers said. "And as disgusted as I am about the continued actions of the Trump administration, I'm not afraid."
Yesterday, at an event for judges, jurists, and lawyers, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke out against the attacks on judges currently plaguing the country. Judge Esther Salas, whose son Daniel was murdered by a man who came to their house looking for her, has been calling out the recent tactic of sending pizzas to the homes of judges or their children, making the point that right-wing opponents know where they live. Furthering their attempt at intimidation, the perpetrators have been using the name of Judge Salas’s son.
Judge Jackson began her remarks yesterday by saying she wanted to address “the elephant in the room”: the attacks on our legal system. Such attacks are not just on individuals, she said, but undermine the system itself. “Attacks on judicial independence is how countries that are not free, not fair, and not rule of law oriented, operate,” she said, and she told her colleagues: “I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service.” According to Laura N. Pérez Sánchez of the New York Times, the audience gave her a standing ovation.
At least some of the administration’s intimidation is an attempt to cow opponents. It does not appear to be working.
Yesterday, about 1,500 lawyers and their allies packed the plaza outside Manhattan’s federal courthouse to defend the rule of law. According to Santul Nerkar of the New York Times, they held up pocket Constitutions, reaffirmed their oath to support and defend the Constitution, and chanted: “The rule of law protects us all. Without it we will surely fall.”
Speaking in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., constitutional law scholar and U.S. representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said, “The whole country needs a constitutional refresher.” He recited the Preamble of the Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
On March 6, Trump issued an executive order attacking the law firm Perkins Coie, which has represented high-profile Democratic individuals and causes, by barring the federal government from hiring the firm, suspending the security clearances of individuals working for it, barring its lawyers from entering federal office buildings, and preparing to end government contracts with any of its clients.
Rather than back down, as several other firms did, Perkins Coie sued the next day. Today, Judge Beryl Howell permanently barred any enforcement of Trump's executive order, saying it “violates the Constitution and is thus null and void.” In her opinion, Howell noted that “disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government.” Trump’s executive order violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to free speech, the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process, and the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of right to counsel.
She pointed out that the fair and impartial administration of justice has been part of the U.S. since John Adams “made the singularly unpopular decision to represent eight British soldiers charged with murder for their roles in the Boston Massacre.” “I had no hesitation,” Adams wrote in his diary, because “the Bar ought…to be independent and impartial at all Times And in every Circumstance.”
Today, Riley Board and Dylan Tusinski of the Portland Press Herald reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state of Maine reached a settlement in the state’s lawsuit against the Trump administration after it froze funding to Maine education. The administration claimed the state violates the law because it allows transgender girls to compete on girls’ sports teams. Governor Janet Mills said she was following state and federal law and that Trump could not change the law by fiat. Maine attorney general Aaron Frey said the state had no choice but to sue in order to force the USDA to follow the law. The settlement restores the funding and establishes that the administration will go through the legally required process to pursue its policy.
When Trump tried to bully Governor Mills over the issue at a White House meeting in February, she told him, “See you in court.” Today she commented: “It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi has launched a different lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education that would pull funding primarily from poorer students and students with disabilities. “That’s a separate complaint they filed a few weeks ago, it’s only a one-page complaint that cites no authority, no case, no law,” Mills said. “We’ll see them in court on that one as well.”
Finally, tonight, Trump’s apparent determination to dominate the news and to project an image of leadership is overlapping with his increasingly erratic behavior. After suggesting on Tuesday that he’d like to be Pope, tonight the president of the United States posted on his social media site an AI-generated image of himself wearing papal robes and a miter.
Notes:
https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-signal-scandal-somehow-just-managed-to-get-much-worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/06/trump-white-house-media-social-influencers/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/02/white-house-influencers-propaganda-leavitt/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-army-military-parade-birthday-2f5cd12c8ccd4efddc29bfa3cf8f2705
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-settlement-family-ashli-babbitt-rioter-killed-on-jan-6-2021/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vz9jed5lo
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g-s1-64037/afd-germany-extremist-alternative
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/02/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-warns-gov-tony-evers-over-ice-guidance/83408495007/
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/judges-courts-lawyers-attacks-shapiro-violence-salas-rcna201146
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/supreme-court-justice-jackson.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/nyregion/national-law-day-courthouse-protests.html?smid=bs-share
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.185.0.pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-strikes-trump-order-targeting-perkins-coie-law-firm-rcna204564
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/ketanji-brown-jackson-sharply-condemns-trumps-attacks-on-judges-00323010
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/05/02/maine-settles-case-over-frozen-usda-school-funds/
Donald J. Trump, Truth Social post, May 2, 2025, 10:29 p.m.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/30/donald-trump-pope-catholic-conclave-lindsay-graham/83363390007/
Bluesky:
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Instead of Hannity, Try Sanity!
The average cost of one pound of ground beef reached a record-high of $5.80 in April, according to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is up nearly 50% from five years ago.
"We are very, very conscious of how high the prices are in the meat case," said rancher Stephen Kirkland, owner of the Z Bar Cattle Company.
Kirkland said he has been trying to absorb the price increases at the two butcher shops he owns near Fort Worth, Texas.
Kirkland says that a year ago, he could buy cattle for about $1,500 per steer. Now, he says the price has risen to nearly $2,400.
"$2,400 for one steer going into the feed yard, and then feed and everything else, transportation, everything else that gets involved in that," Kirkland said of the cost.
The current Republican tax bill could cut $500 billion from Medicare — ‘This bill just gets more and more cruel’
This is because Congress is bound by the statutory Pay-As-You-Go (“PAYGO”) Act, which requires any spending to be offset by automatic cuts, to avoid deficit spending. The automatic Medicare reductions are capped at 4% of its yearly budget. Therefore, the cuts to Medicare would total about $45 billion in 2026 and $490 billion between 2027 and 2034, according to the CBO letter. Unless lawmakers otherwise offset the deficit impact of the Republican bill or agree to waive the PAYGO requirements, the cuts would be automatically triggered.
Overall, the Republican tax bill, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, would add $2.3 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, according to the CBO.
What is habeas corpus and why might Donald Trump want to suspend it?
Has habeas corpus been suspended before?
Abraham Lincoln became the first US president to suspend habeas corpus in 1861, during the American Civil War.
That led to a showdown with Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who said it was Congress - not the executive branch of government - that had the power to suspend the writ.
Lincoln continued to suspend habeas corpus in specific incidences, according to the National Constitution Center, and in 1863 Congress approved suspending it for the duration of the war when "the public safety may require it".
It was also suspended several times in the years following the Civil War, during the Reconstruction period, to quash rebellions by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese in World War Two, habeas corpus was suspended in Hawaii, which paved the way for the arrest of Japanese Americans on the island.
New standards for Oklahoma high school students promote misinformation about the 2020 election.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma high school students studying U.S. history learn about the Industrial Revolution, women’s suffrage and America’s expanding role in international affairs.
Beginning next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. As if they were facts...
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I’m glad Carney pointed out that we are their biggest customer. Can Trump really not know this?
NPR sues Trump, says funding cut violates First Amendment...
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