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I cant believe a wombat ate my face off!!!!
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"Bloodbath": Fox News ratings plummet after axing Tucker Carlson
It's not just Tucker's slot — Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham's ratings are falling too.
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Bwaahahaga
Dare we dream they go broke?
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No no no not like that :
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Earth is set to swallow Brazilian city of 70,000 due to deforestation
Huge craters in the city of 73,000 people, which can be as deep as 230ft (70m), threaten to wipe the city out within 30 to 40 years as deforestation ravages the region, made worse by poor urban planning.
Bit unfair this one as the people affected arent the people responsible directly. But brazil elected spaghettibolognese so funk em.
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He's full of shit lol
Are we certain this isn't a passage from American Psycho?
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Fox News parent Fox Corp. has sent a cease-and-desist order to Media Matters for America in an effort to stop leaked footage of Tucker Carlson, which shows the fired Fox News host making offensive and crude remarks. Media Matters The company claims the “proprietary material” was given to the media watchdog “without Fox’s authorization.”
“We write on behalf of Fox Corporation to clarify any misunderstandings Media Matters may have had regarding previously unaired footage that Media Matters has published in a series of articles headlined “Foxleaks,” legal counsel representing Fox wrote in the letter dated Friday. “That unaired footage is Fox’s confidential intellectual property; Fox did not consent to its distribution or publication; and Fox does not consent to its further distribution or publication. This proprietary material was given to you without Fox’s authorization. Fox demands that Media Matters cease and desist from distribution, publication, and misuse of Fox’s misappropriated proprietary footage, which you are now on notice was unlawfully obtained. We reserve all rights and remedies.” Read the letter here.
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone released the following statement to Deadline to “clarify any misunderstanding” after the organization received the letter.
“Reporting on newsworthy leaked material is a cornerstone of journalism. For Fox to argue otherwise is absurd and further dispels any pretense that they’re a news operation. Perhaps if I tell them that the footage came from a combination of WikiLeaks and Hunter Biden’s laptop, it will alleviate their concerns.”
Media Matters recently has published several videos of Carlson making offensive and crude remarks about women and complaining about the network. In one video, Carlson describes an unnamed woman as “yummy” and refers to his fans as “post-menopausal”.
With inquiring minds wondering where who is actually leaking the embarrassing footage of Carlson, today’s letter is partially protective for the Rupert Murdoch- owned outlet as they negotiate the payout and more for the now ex-host.
Carlson was fired by Fox News late last month, less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the election software company’s defamation claim. Carlson was to be among the witnesses to testify if the case had gone to trial.
“We write on behalf of Fox Corporation to clarify any misunderstandings Media Matters may have had regarding previously unaired footage that Media Matters has published in a series of articles headlined “Foxleaks,” legal counsel representing Fox wrote in the letter dated Friday. “That unaired footage is Fox’s confidential intellectual property; Fox did not consent to its distribution or publication; and Fox does not consent to its further distribution or publication. This proprietary material was given to you without Fox’s authorization. Fox demands that Media Matters cease and desist from distribution, publication, and misuse of Fox’s misappropriated proprietary footage, which you are now on notice was unlawfully obtained. We reserve all rights and remedies.” Read the letter here.
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone released the following statement to Deadline to “clarify any misunderstanding” after the organization received the letter.
“Reporting on newsworthy leaked material is a cornerstone of journalism. For Fox to argue otherwise is absurd and further dispels any pretense that they’re a news operation. Perhaps if I tell them that the footage came from a combination of WikiLeaks and Hunter Biden’s laptop, it will alleviate their concerns.”
Media Matters recently has published several videos of Carlson making offensive and crude remarks about women and complaining about the network. In one video, Carlson describes an unnamed woman as “yummy” and refers to his fans as “post-menopausal”.
With inquiring minds wondering where who is actually leaking the embarrassing footage of Carlson, today’s letter is partially protective for the Rupert Murdoch- owned outlet as they negotiate the payout and more for the now ex-host.
Carlson was fired by Fox News late last month, less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the election software company’s defamation claim. Carlson was to be among the witnesses to testify if the case had gone to trial.
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and modern libertarians as well
"Freedom from mask mandates! Freedom from vaccination mandates!"
"OMG ....please ... help me I.. can't... breathe.."
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well in the USA that fat middle aged woman could be carrying a gun... so I thought the police was being quite fair and reasonable
I doubt that a young male would get the same consideration
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I would bet the house he was chortling like a madman when he wrote that
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Bit strange they even bothered to put out the cease and desist. I mean yeah ideally they wouldn't want it out there but I was expecting the Tucker leaks to be a bit spicier than they were.
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Yeah but put it in the context that hes a very white white man and thinks that the mayonnaise at the buffet was a tad spicy….Smoked
Bit strange they even bothered to put out the cease and desist. I mean yeah ideally they wouldn't want it out there but I was expecting the Tucker leaks to be a bit spicier than they were.
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Now-former Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton introduced a bill barring children from attending drag shows
Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton — a Republican known for introducing far-right legislation, including an anti-“grooming” bill to ban children from attending drag shows — resigned on Monday after a panel found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old intern.
Slaton’s resignation comes a day before the state legislature was slated to vote on whether to expel him from the House of Representatives. On Saturday, the House Committee on General Investigating released a damning 16-page report detailing Slaton’s “grave and serious” misconduct, unanimously recommending he be kicked out of the legislature.
“It has been an honor to represent my friends, neighbors and the great people and communities of House District 2,” Slaton wrote in a statement on Monday. “They voted overwhelmingly to send me to the Capitol as their representative in two elections, and I worked daily to meet their expectations. My decision today is to ensure that their expectations will continue to be met by a new representative who will work hard on their behalf.”
Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton — a Republican known for introducing far-right legislation, including an anti-“grooming” bill to ban children from attending drag shows — resigned on Monday after a panel found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old intern.
Slaton’s resignation comes a day before the state legislature was slated to vote on whether to expel him from the House of Representatives. On Saturday, the House Committee on General Investigating released a damning 16-page report detailing Slaton’s “grave and serious” misconduct, unanimously recommending he be kicked out of the legislature.
“It has been an honor to represent my friends, neighbors and the great people and communities of House District 2,” Slaton wrote in a statement on Monday. “They voted overwhelmingly to send me to the Capitol as their representative in two elections, and I worked daily to meet their expectations. My decision today is to ensure that their expectations will continue to be met by a new representative who will work hard on their behalf.”
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Late last month, a bill that would have banned nearly all abortion (and likely would have been used to restrict hormonal birth control as well) was defeated in the South Carolina state senate, despite it being one of the most conservative legislatures in the country. The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion. At times, the Republican women sounded downright, well, feminist.
"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become the property of the state of South Carolina," state senator Katrina Shealy declared angrily during debate.
South Carolina is not some outlier state where the rare bird of the pro-choice Republican flourishes, to be clear. In the same speech denouncing abortion bans, Shealy insisted she is still "pro-life." It's just that these women are learning a hard lesson, as are many other Republican women, both leaders and voters. It was easy enough to be "pro-life" when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. That meant you could sit in judgment of other women, without ever worrying that you or your loved ones would lose access. Indeed, it was easy enough to pass restrictions that made it harder for poor women or young women to get abortions, so long as Republican women could be assured their privilege would smooth the way for their abortions.
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But outright bans on abortion, the kind that actually threaten the access not just of marginalized women, but well-to-do white ladies? That cannot stand! This phenomenon is joked about on social media as the "leopards eating people's faces party," due to a viral tweet by author Adrian Bott.
They can't yell at condescending husbands or abusive fathers, not without losing status in their communities. But that angst can be projected onto bogeymen. Bullying LGBTQ kids or banning books provides a socially acceptable outlet for that rage.
The humor of this tweet depends heavily on the imaginary sobber being female. For better or worse, people understand why white men are Republicans: Because the GOP is built around the preservation of white male domination over everyone else. But why so many women vote Republican is a question that causes great consternation, since the party is not exactly subtle about its hostility to women's rights. Their last president and current party leader bragged, on tape, about sexual assault! Is it that these women hate themselves?
The tweet gets closer to the real answer: Republican women, like Republican men, enjoy cruelty to others. They also assume their class and race privilege will shield them from the misogyny of their party. But when that assumption gets rattled, they often panic.
There's more to the situation than a mere love of punching down. Republican women understand that they live in a sexist society. They just tend to see feminism as a pipe dream not worth fighting for. A safer bet, to most of them, is to accept second-class status to men, and then try to leverage femininity and conservative politics to scratch out some level of status and power for themselves within a patriarchal system. That's how old school anti-feminists like Phyllis Schlafly played the game: By organizing against the Equal Rights Amendment, she and her army of housewives gained political power and a voice, without stepping on any male toes and risking backlash.
The Republican Party has gotten downright crafty in creating opportunities for middle and upper class white women to feel powerful by punching down, while maintaining a submissive posture towards the men in their lives. Recently, David Gilbert of Vice published an in-depth look at how the new astroturf movement, Moms for Liberty, offers conservative women a chance to pull off that balancing act. The group focuses its efforts on banning books in schools and libraries, harassing organizations that advocate on behalf of LGBTQ kids, and bullying teachers and other school officials for offering real education instead of fact-free right-wing propaganda. Moms for Liberty has unleashed some deeply antisocial behavior in these women:
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"Women cling to irrational hatreds, focused particularly on the unfamiliar, so that they will not murder their fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, lovers, the men with whom they are intimate, those who do hurt them and cause them grief," Dworkin wrote. "Because women so displace their rage, they are easily controlled and manipulated haters."
They can't yell at condescending husbands or abusive fathers, not without losing status in their communities. But that angst can be projected onto bogeymen. Bullying LGBTQ kids or banning books provides a socially acceptable outlet for that rage. They can wallow in being domineering and mean, and get commended for it, because they're doing it in the name of "family values."
The face of this was neatly illustrated last week, when a bunch of Republican women in Montana decided to bully trans state representative Zooey Zephyr, by taking the only seat she could work at after the Republican majority barred her from the floor for speaking out about trans rights. The photo of these women, who are downright gleeful in their cruelty, speaks volumes.
It's no surprise it's all women. Transphobia gives them a chance to step out of the thankless role of being servile and deferential, letting them play the role of the bully. It's hard for most of us to imagine being so incredibly petty as to spend even one moment of your limited time on earth doing something like this, but it's safe to guess these women don't have a lot else going on in their lives.
Indeed, anti-abortion politics has long provided this outlet for a lot of Republican women. They could go to clinics and harass patients going in. They could work at anti-abortion centers, trying to trick vulnerable women into not getting an abortion. They could post lengthy diatribes on Facebook about how feminists are man-haters, and collect the accolades for their supposed Christian purity. It's all fun and games, as long as Roe stood and they knew they could quietly access abortion as needed.
Then Roe was overturned and that two-faced approach suddenly became less tenable. Abortion bans rub Republican women's noses in the fact that the men in their lives would rather they be dead than free. Most of these women are skilled enough at cognitive dissonance to find some excuse for ignoring that grim reality. They'll keep pretending that the "real" problem is feminists or queer people, instead of the men in their homes and beds who believe they don't deserve basic rights. But, as the South Carolina situation shows, some of them are feeling forced to resist, often for the first real time in their lives. >>>
Late last month, a bill that would have banned nearly all abortion (and likely would have been used to restrict hormonal birth control as well) was defeated in the South Carolina state senate, despite it being one of the most conservative legislatures in the country. The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion. At times, the Republican women sounded downright, well, feminist.
"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become the property of the state of South Carolina," state senator Katrina Shealy declared angrily during debate.
South Carolina is not some outlier state where the rare bird of the pro-choice Republican flourishes, to be clear. In the same speech denouncing abortion bans, Shealy insisted she is still "pro-life." It's just that these women are learning a hard lesson, as are many other Republican women, both leaders and voters. It was easy enough to be "pro-life" when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. That meant you could sit in judgment of other women, without ever worrying that you or your loved ones would lose access. Indeed, it was easy enough to pass restrictions that made it harder for poor women or young women to get abortions, so long as Republican women could be assured their privilege would smooth the way for their abortions.
Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics? Subscribe to her newsletter Standing Room Only.
But outright bans on abortion, the kind that actually threaten the access not just of marginalized women, but well-to-do white ladies? That cannot stand! This phenomenon is joked about on social media as the "leopards eating people's faces party," due to a viral tweet by author Adrian Bott.
They can't yell at condescending husbands or abusive fathers, not without losing status in their communities. But that angst can be projected onto bogeymen. Bullying LGBTQ kids or banning books provides a socially acceptable outlet for that rage.
The humor of this tweet depends heavily on the imaginary sobber being female. For better or worse, people understand why white men are Republicans: Because the GOP is built around the preservation of white male domination over everyone else. But why so many women vote Republican is a question that causes great consternation, since the party is not exactly subtle about its hostility to women's rights. Their last president and current party leader bragged, on tape, about sexual assault! Is it that these women hate themselves?
The tweet gets closer to the real answer: Republican women, like Republican men, enjoy cruelty to others. They also assume their class and race privilege will shield them from the misogyny of their party. But when that assumption gets rattled, they often panic.
There's more to the situation than a mere love of punching down. Republican women understand that they live in a sexist society. They just tend to see feminism as a pipe dream not worth fighting for. A safer bet, to most of them, is to accept second-class status to men, and then try to leverage femininity and conservative politics to scratch out some level of status and power for themselves within a patriarchal system. That's how old school anti-feminists like Phyllis Schlafly played the game: By organizing against the Equal Rights Amendment, she and her army of housewives gained political power and a voice, without stepping on any male toes and risking backlash.
The Republican Party has gotten downright crafty in creating opportunities for middle and upper class white women to feel powerful by punching down, while maintaining a submissive posture towards the men in their lives. Recently, David Gilbert of Vice published an in-depth look at how the new astroturf movement, Moms for Liberty, offers conservative women a chance to pull off that balancing act. The group focuses its efforts on banning books in schools and libraries, harassing organizations that advocate on behalf of LGBTQ kids, and bullying teachers and other school officials for offering real education instead of fact-free right-wing propaganda. Moms for Liberty has unleashed some deeply antisocial behavior in these women:
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Hat tip to Natalie Wynn at Contrapoints for reminding me of the 1983 book "Right Wing Women" by Andrea Dworkin. Dworkin was a feminist polemicist who had a lot of ideas that don't age well, but in this book, she's got conservative women dead to rights.
"Women cling to irrational hatreds, focused particularly on the unfamiliar, so that they will not murder their fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, lovers, the men with whom they are intimate, those who do hurt them and cause them grief," Dworkin wrote. "Because women so displace their rage, they are easily controlled and manipulated haters."
They can't yell at condescending husbands or abusive fathers, not without losing status in their communities. But that angst can be projected onto bogeymen. Bullying LGBTQ kids or banning books provides a socially acceptable outlet for that rage. They can wallow in being domineering and mean, and get commended for it, because they're doing it in the name of "family values."
The face of this was neatly illustrated last week, when a bunch of Republican women in Montana decided to bully trans state representative Zooey Zephyr, by taking the only seat she could work at after the Republican majority barred her from the floor for speaking out about trans rights. The photo of these women, who are downright gleeful in their cruelty, speaks volumes.
It's no surprise it's all women. Transphobia gives them a chance to step out of the thankless role of being servile and deferential, letting them play the role of the bully. It's hard for most of us to imagine being so incredibly petty as to spend even one moment of your limited time on earth doing something like this, but it's safe to guess these women don't have a lot else going on in their lives.
Indeed, anti-abortion politics has long provided this outlet for a lot of Republican women. They could go to clinics and harass patients going in. They could work at anti-abortion centers, trying to trick vulnerable women into not getting an abortion. They could post lengthy diatribes on Facebook about how feminists are man-haters, and collect the accolades for their supposed Christian purity. It's all fun and games, as long as Roe stood and they knew they could quietly access abortion as needed.
Then Roe was overturned and that two-faced approach suddenly became less tenable. Abortion bans rub Republican women's noses in the fact that the men in their lives would rather they be dead than free. Most of these women are skilled enough at cognitive dissonance to find some excuse for ignoring that grim reality. They'll keep pretending that the "real" problem is feminists or queer people, instead of the men in their homes and beds who believe they don't deserve basic rights. But, as the South Carolina situation shows, some of them are feeling forced to resist, often for the first real time in their lives. >>>
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New York GOP Rep. George Santos was indicted on 13 criminal counts this Wednesday, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
Santos was taken into custody in Long Island, New York, and pleaded not guilty to all counts at his arraignment. He was later released on bond. Addressing reporters outside the courthouse after his arraignment, Santos said his case is an example of being “innocent until proven guilty.”
“I have my right to fight to prove my innocence,” he said.
During a press conference today, Republicans talked about their bill that would clamp down on fraud in the nation’s unemployment insurance program — a bill that Santos was a co-sponsor of. But as the presser was going on, Santos’ arrest was making news.
As Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) took questions, one reporter pointed out that one of Santos’ indictments is for unemployment benefit fraud. “Does that undermine the message you’re trying to send with that bill?” the reporter asked.
Scalise replied that Santos was “already removed from all of his committees” and will have to go through the “legal process.”
“But we’re gonna continue to root out fraud,” Scalise said.>>>
Dose wombats….
New York GOP Rep. George Santos was indicted on 13 criminal counts this Wednesday, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
Santos was taken into custody in Long Island, New York, and pleaded not guilty to all counts at his arraignment. He was later released on bond. Addressing reporters outside the courthouse after his arraignment, Santos said his case is an example of being “innocent until proven guilty.”
“I have my right to fight to prove my innocence,” he said.
During a press conference today, Republicans talked about their bill that would clamp down on fraud in the nation’s unemployment insurance program — a bill that Santos was a co-sponsor of. But as the presser was going on, Santos’ arrest was making news.
As Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) took questions, one reporter pointed out that one of Santos’ indictments is for unemployment benefit fraud. “Does that undermine the message you’re trying to send with that bill?” the reporter asked.
Scalise replied that Santos was “already removed from all of his committees” and will have to go through the “legal process.”
“But we’re gonna continue to root out fraud,” Scalise said.>>>
Dose wombats….
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Molon Labe” is an ancient Spartan saying that roughly translates to “come and take them.” The phrase has been a favorite of enthusiastic gun owners for years, and many have it plastered on their homes, clothes, and cars.
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But now, firearms are being stolen at record rates, specifically from vehicles adorned with the defiant Greek expression, and gun owners are furious. It would seem that they never actually expected anyone to take them up on their offer.
A March 25, a New York Times article titled “The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars,” documented this increase in vehicular firearm theft.
“A decade ago, less than a quarter of all gun thefts were from cars; in 2020, over half of them were,” the article says. That theft “is occasionally made easier by motorists who advertise their right to bear arms with car window stickers.”
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But now, firearms are being stolen at record rates, specifically from vehicles adorned with the defiant Greek expression, and gun owners are furious. It would seem that they never actually expected anyone to take them up on their offer.
A March 25, a New York Times article titled “The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars,” documented this increase in vehicular firearm theft.
“A decade ago, less than a quarter of all gun thefts were from cars; in 2020, over half of them were,” the article says. That theft “is occasionally made easier by motorists who advertise their right to bear arms with car window stickers.”
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Kansas Republicans are moving closer to kicking groups representing women, Black, Hispanic and young Republicans off the state party’s executive board, a move that would consolidate the power of its new hard-right chairman.
The Kansas Republican Party’s rules committee advanced a proposal this week that would change the party bylaws to remove constituency groups aimed at broadening the reach of the party. It would also oust state and federal GOP elected officials from the board, which oversees party operations and budgetary decisions.
The full party state committee is expected to vote on the proposal this summer, as well as a separate proposal to change the party constitution to remove those individual’s seats on the state committee. The change to the executive committee needs a simple majority while the change to the state committee would require two-thirds support.
If either proposal passes, it would amount to lost representation for key groups Kansas and national Republicans spent years working to bring into the fold. At the same time, it would enhance the power of chairman Mike Brown, who won his position by just two votes earlier this year.
Representatives of the Kansas Young Republicans, Black Republican Council and Hispanic Assembly said they are hopeful the party would reject the changes or that the issue never receives a vote. But if not, they said the party leadership will lose key voices at the table.
“We’re deeply disappointed in the decision to eliminate Black leadership representation from the Kansas GOP and trust that State delegates reject this action and commit to unifying and strengthening the party,” Michael Austin, the chair of the Kansas Black Republican Council, said in a statement calling the proposed rule “short-sighted.”
The Kansas Republican Party’s rules committee advanced a proposal this week that would change the party bylaws to remove constituency groups aimed at broadening the reach of the party. It would also oust state and federal GOP elected officials from the board, which oversees party operations and budgetary decisions.
The full party state committee is expected to vote on the proposal this summer, as well as a separate proposal to change the party constitution to remove those individual’s seats on the state committee. The change to the executive committee needs a simple majority while the change to the state committee would require two-thirds support.
If either proposal passes, it would amount to lost representation for key groups Kansas and national Republicans spent years working to bring into the fold. At the same time, it would enhance the power of chairman Mike Brown, who won his position by just two votes earlier this year.
Representatives of the Kansas Young Republicans, Black Republican Council and Hispanic Assembly said they are hopeful the party would reject the changes or that the issue never receives a vote. But if not, they said the party leadership will lose key voices at the table.
“We’re deeply disappointed in the decision to eliminate Black leadership representation from the Kansas GOP and trust that State delegates reject this action and commit to unifying and strengthening the party,” Michael Austin, the chair of the Kansas Black Republican Council, said in a statement calling the proposed rule “short-sighted.”
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