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7 minutes ago, fuggled said:

Apparently the DFW lawyer who advised immigrants of their rights and was then harassed by law enforcement has been fired

 

The machinery of fascism always, and must, include corporatist allies.  The Regime necessarily includes those elements.

Remember all the "Free Speech ABSOLUTISTS!" we had around here pre-election?  Notice how not a single one of them has any issue with the Regime taking dead aim and anyone and everyone who dares utter a peep contrary to the desires of the Regime?  Huh.  Guess their internet is broken or something.

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3 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

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Blah blah blah -- SHUT UP, SUBJECT!  YOUR INSOLENCE AGAINST THE REGIME WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Hey white folks....when they dispense with things like "basic rights," "justice," and "common sense," the dumbest fucking thing that you could think is that they'll STOP at black and brown people, and not apply the new order to you as well.  

Ironclad rule here: while the Gestapo may START by coming for group X, or group Y....they ALWAYS end up coming for fucking EVERYONE.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

The machinery of fascism always, and must, include corporatist allies.  The Regime necessarily includes those elements.

Remember all the "Free Speech ABSOLUTISTS!" we had around here pre-election?  Notice how not a single one of them has any issue with the Regime taking dead aim and anyone and everyone who dares utter a peep contrary to the desires of the Regime?  Huh.  Guess their internet is broken or something.

I've been much happier avoiding CR, is Anal still both-siding everything in the universe? 

On second thought, nm I'm sure he/she is. 

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4 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

I've been much happier avoiding CR, is Anal still both-siding everything in the universe? 

On second thought, nm I'm sure he/she is. 

Interestingly enough, he's pivoted from that.  Ain't no "both sides" anymore.  Like all other self-declared libertarians and even libertarian-adjacent folks, he has a really hard time finding much at all to criticize about the Trump Regime.  A few things on the margin here and there, but sweeping immigration raids, disregard for basic constitutional principles, massive tariffs and trade wars....well, golly gee, those are just swell.  You know, all the things that libertarian-types love nowadays.

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Interestingly enough, he's pivoted from that.  Ain't no "both sides" anymore.  Like all other self-declared libertarians and even libertarian-adjacent folks, he has a really hard time finding much at all to criticize about the Trump Regime.  A few things on the margin here and there, but sweeping immigration raids, disregard for basic constitutional principles, massive tariffs and trade wars....well, golly gee, those are just swell.  You know, all the things that libertarian-types love nowadays.

Eliminating agencies and bureaucrats is worth the squeeze to these nihilists. Then, selectively bothsiding who’s responsible for all the bullshit.

American “intellectuals” glamorizing Russian politics or equating the US to Russia has been a bothsides tradition for over a century.
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Ozturk had her move held up for a week. The 1st is tomorrow, but 

 

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A federal appeals court has paused a judge's order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England this week so it can consider an emergency motion filed by the government.

The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled Monday that a three-judge panel would hear arguments on May 6 in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk. She's been detained for five weeks as of Tuesday.

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/g-s1-63289/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-immigration-detention

 

Hopefully reason wins out, but FUCK!!!

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If I had to pick two countries where trump would choose to locate his concentration camps, Libya and Rwanda would certainly make the final cut, since those two places certainly don't have a history of human rights violations.

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I voted for Trump

And it cost me immensely. 

16 years ago, I met a boy. We were in high school. He became my first love, my first boyfriend and the father of my first child. 

He was many things but at the top of the list was a superb father. That man would go to the ends of the earth to look for the last pencil if that’s what I told him our daughter needed. 

He wasn’t JUST the father of my child. He became my bestest friend. He was my family. 

His biggest fault? 

He wasn’t legal. 

👉🏼 Despite being here before he could even walk……..
👉🏼 Despite not having any criminal record……
👉🏼 Despite making multiple trips to DC (as an adult) to acquire the paperwork to be here the “right way”; papers his mother should have taken the responsibility to get for him when he was just a child…….
👉🏼 Despite hiring immigration lawyers……

The father of my oldest child is being extradited. 

My oldest child is loosing her father because of Trumps immigration policies. 

Do I feel like I made a mistake? Possibly. Ask me again when I’m not so emotional. 

What I do know is it has cost me (and my oldest daughter) GREATLY. I’m in a very dark place right now, reeling from this. 

I didn’t post this for sympathy. But yall need to know it’s not just “bad” people with a criminal record being deported. These people are fathers……providers. Head of the household. The enemy wins by destroying the family unit with this policy. 

And this is where it’s going to get controversial…..

The past few days as I’ve pleaded, begged, absolutely bawled my eyes out to the Lord to reveal to me the benefit in this, He told me one thing.

“My Hand isn’t in this daughter. When the Heavenlies are at war, there are going to be casualties. This is that.”

And here is where imma give y’all something to argue about. 

I don’t believe this immigration policy is in the Will of the Lord. I don’t believe in my heart that this is something Jesus would celebrate were He here. 

Now you may wanna say “He is the exception and not the norm Sara.” 

But he was everything to me and my daughter. And even though him and I together have overcome generational and family traumas so our child didn’t have to walk through them, the enemy has still won here. That’s not something I’m ever going to celebrate. EVER. 

So if you want to come post a comment about how the policies are necessary or “Biblical,” don’t do it on my wall. Seriously…..DONT. 

And if you’ve made it this far, please pray for us because my daughter and I are beside ourselves with grief. It’s hard to go through the days 😭

 

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Now you may wanna say “He is the exception and not the norm Sara.” 

He's not. They are just sweeping up whatever they can. It doesn't matter if they are good people who pay their taxes and contribute to society. They are all gang members and hence don't deserve to be treated like "the people" that are mentioned so many times in the Bill of Rights. 

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I voted for Trump
And it cost me immensely. 
16 years ago, I met a boy. We were in high school. He became my first love, my first boyfriend and the father of my first child. 
He was many things but at the top of the list was a superb father. That man would go to the ends of the earth to look for the last pencil if that’s what I told him our daughter needed. 
He wasn’t JUST the father of my child. He became my bestest friend. He was my family. 
His biggest fault? 
He wasn’t legal. 
Despite being here before he could even walk……..
Despite not having any criminal record……
Despite making multiple trips to DC (as an adult) to acquire the paperwork to be here the “right way”; papers his mother should have taken the responsibility to get for him when he was just a child…….
Despite hiring immigration lawyers……
The father of my oldest child is being extradited. 
My oldest child is loosing her father because of Trumps immigration policies. 
Do I feel like I made a mistake? Possibly. Ask me again when I’m not so emotional. 
What I do know is it has cost me (and my oldest daughter) GREATLY. I’m in a very dark place right now, reeling from this. 
I didn’t post this for sympathy. But yall need to know it’s not just “bad” people with a criminal record being deported. These people are fathers……providers. Head of the household. The enemy wins by destroying the family unit with this policy. 
And this is where it’s going to get controversial…..
The past few days as I’ve pleaded, begged, absolutely bawled my eyes out to the Lord to reveal to me the benefit in this, He told me one thing.
“My Hand isn’t in this daughter. When the Heavenlies are at war, there are going to be casualties. This is that.”
And here is where imma give y’all something to argue about. 
I don’t believe this immigration policy is in the Will of the Lord. I don’t believe in my heart that this is something Jesus would celebrate were He here. 
Now you may wanna say “He is the exception and not the norm Sara.” 
But he was everything to me and my daughter. And even though him and I together have overcome generational and family traumas so our child didn’t have to walk through them, the enemy has still won here. That’s not something I’m ever going to celebrate. EVER. 
So if you want to come post a comment about how the policies are necessary or “Biblical,” don’t do it on my wall. Seriously…..DONT. 
And if you’ve made it this far, please pray for us because my daughter and I are beside ourselves with grief. It’s hard to go through the days
 
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1 minute ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

No fucking shit.  Husband deported. Unsure if mistake was made.  Gtfo

And it's such a fucking "look at me" post.  But don't criticize her, she's very emotional right now. 

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7 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

No fucking shit.  Husband deported. Unsure if mistake was made.  Gtfo

I mean, if my spouse was deported, I'd be conflicted, too.

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15 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

More guitars!  Less questions!

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Ever notice how the ports went empty as soon as I quit buying guitars?  Everyone is trying to placate Trump, they should be placating me.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=url-share
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The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate.

The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately clear, but a flight to Libya carrying the deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.

The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration’s effort to not only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally but also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions. Reuters earlier reported the possibility of a U.S. deportation flight to Libya.

The planning for the flight to Libya has been tightly held, and could still be derailed by logistical, legal or diplomatic obstacles.

The White House declined to comment. The State Department and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The potential use of Libya as a destination comes after the administration set off an earlier furor by deporting a group of Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they are being held in a maximum-security prison designed for terrorists.

President Trump and his aides labeled those men violent gang members and cited a rarely used wartime law in their expulsions, a move that has been challenged in the courts.

The State Department warns against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” The country remains divided after years of civil war following the 2011 overthrow of its longtime dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. A United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli rules western Libya, and another in Benghazi, led by the warlord Khalifa Haftar, controls the east.

The United States has formal relations only with the Tripoli government. But Mr. Haftar’s son, Saddam, was in Washington last week, and met with several Trump administration officials. Mr. Trump had friendly dealings in his first term with Mr. Haftar, who controls most of Libya’s lucrative oil fields.

A major transit point for Europe-bound migrants, Libya operates numerous detention facilities for refugees and migrants. Amnesty International branded those sites “horrific” and “a hellscape” in a 2021 report, which found evidence of “sexual violence, against men, women and children.” The Global Detention Project says detained migrants in Libya endure “physical mistreatment and torture,” forced labor and even slavery.

In its annual report on human rights practices last year, the State Department cited “harsh and life-threatening” conditions in Libya’s detention centers and found that migrants in those facilities, including children, had “no access to immigration courts or due process.”

Human rights groups say that European governments have been complicit in such treatment by working with Libya to intercept migrants bound for the continent and send them to the detention centers.

“I have been in those migrant prisons and it’s no place for migrants,” said Frederic Wehrey, a Libya expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It’s just a horrific place to dump any vulnerable person.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported several hundred people to Panama from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran and China. The migrants, who said they did not know where they were going, were detained in a hotel for several days before being taken to a camp near the jungle. Some of the migrants were later released from Panamanian custody.

Around the same time, U.S. officials also deported a group of around 200 migrants to Costa Rica from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran. A lawsuit filed against the country argued that the deportations and subsequent detention in Costa Rica “could cause irreparable harm” for a group of children sent to the country.

After the United States struck a deal with El Salvador to take Venezuelan migrants and imprison them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was working to secure similar agreements with additional nations.

“I intend to continue to try and identify other countries willing to accept and jail as many gang members as we can send them,” Mr. Rubio told The New York Times.

The planned use of a military plane for the flight to Libya comes after the Defense Department has assisted in transporting migrants to locations such as India, Guatemala and Ecuador.

In late March, Defense Department officials flew a group of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador without any staff from the Department of Homeland Security on the plane, according to court records. The flight took off from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to El Salvador and included four Venezuelans. A government filing indicated that the Department of Homeland Security did not “direct” the plane to take off for El Salvador.

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12 minutes ago, bolverk said:

The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

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46 minutes ago, bolverk said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=url-share
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The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate.

The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately clear, but a flight to Libya carrying the deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.

The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration’s effort to not only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally but also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions. Reuters earlier reported the possibility of a U.S. deportation flight to Libya.

The planning for the flight to Libya has been tightly held, and could still be derailed by logistical, legal or diplomatic obstacles.

The White House declined to comment. The State Department and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The potential use of Libya as a destination comes after the administration set off an earlier furor by deporting a group of Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they are being held in a maximum-security prison designed for terrorists.

President Trump and his aides labeled those men violent gang members and cited a rarely used wartime law in their expulsions, a move that has been challenged in the courts.

The State Department warns against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” The country remains divided after years of civil war following the 2011 overthrow of its longtime dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. A United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli rules western Libya, and another in Benghazi, led by the warlord Khalifa Haftar, controls the east.

The United States has formal relations only with the Tripoli government. But Mr. Haftar’s son, Saddam, was in Washington last week, and met with several Trump administration officials. Mr. Trump had friendly dealings in his first term with Mr. Haftar, who controls most of Libya’s lucrative oil fields.

A major transit point for Europe-bound migrants, Libya operates numerous detention facilities for refugees and migrants. Amnesty International branded those sites “horrific” and “a hellscape” in a 2021 report, which found evidence of “sexual violence, against men, women and children.” The Global Detention Project says detained migrants in Libya endure “physical mistreatment and torture,” forced labor and even slavery.

In its annual report on human rights practices last year, the State Department cited “harsh and life-threatening” conditions in Libya’s detention centers and found that migrants in those facilities, including children, had “no access to immigration courts or due process.”

Human rights groups say that European governments have been complicit in such treatment by working with Libya to intercept migrants bound for the continent and send them to the detention centers.

“I have been in those migrant prisons and it’s no place for migrants,” said Frederic Wehrey, a Libya expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It’s just a horrific place to dump any vulnerable person.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported several hundred people to Panama from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran and China. The migrants, who said they did not know where they were going, were detained in a hotel for several days before being taken to a camp near the jungle. Some of the migrants were later released from Panamanian custody.

Around the same time, U.S. officials also deported a group of around 200 migrants to Costa Rica from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran. A lawsuit filed against the country argued that the deportations and subsequent detention in Costa Rica “could cause irreparable harm” for a group of children sent to the country.

After the United States struck a deal with El Salvador to take Venezuelan migrants and imprison them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was working to secure similar agreements with additional nations.

“I intend to continue to try and identify other countries willing to accept and jail as many gang members as we can send them,” Mr. Rubio told The New York Times.

The planned use of a military plane for the flight to Libya comes after the Defense Department has assisted in transporting migrants to locations such as India, Guatemala and Ecuador.

In late March, Defense Department officials flew a group of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador without any staff from the Department of Homeland Security on the plane, according to court records. The flight took off from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to El Salvador and included four Venezuelans. A government filing indicated that the Department of Homeland Security did not “direct” the plane to take off for El Salvador.

You know, putting the abject cruelty and stupidity of this aside, the logic of it is what kills me.  No one coming to the US says to themselves, "Hey, I might wind up in Libya because of this."  People willing to cross the Durian Gap or any of a series of hazards to get to the US are only thinking "Anything is better than where I am, and America is top on the list."  Once again, those are the people we WANT here.  They're going to succeed, even if their measure for success is just getting here and becoming a productive citizen.  And here's the rub - so long as the US is the greatest economic engine in the world, that will continue to be true no matter how cruel these Nazis are to the immigrants they can catch.  

What they're really doing, is making sure that we are no longer the kind of economic engine that people aspire to emigrate to.  Which is the greatest idiocy of all.  

Anyhoo, morning rant over.  Back to my coffee while I can still afford it. 

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Rumeysa Ozturk case was in NY yesterday on appeal by the government. It was promising for people who believe in the rule of law.

 

https://www.wcvb.com/article/hearing-tufts-graduate-student-vermont/64684929

 

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In one exchange, a judge summarized the circumstances of Ozturk's apprehension with apparent skepticism about the government's arguments.

"Does the government contest that the speech in both cases was protected speech?" Judge Barrington Parker asked.

"Your honor, we have not taken a position on that," said Drew Ensign, who represented the Department of Justice at the hearing.

"Help my thinking along. Take a position," the judge said.

"Your honor, I don't have authority to take a position on that right now," Ensign said.

Friday Ozturk has a bail hearing in Vermont, her lawyers would like a ruling before then if possible.

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2 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Rumeysa Ozturk case was in NY yesterday on appeal by the government. It was promising for people who believe in the rule of law.

 

https://www.wcvb.com/article/hearing-tufts-graduate-student-vermont/64684929

 

Friday Ozturk has a bail hearing in Vermont, her lawyers would like a ruling before then if possible.

It's exchanges like these that have the Judiciary giving a healthy side eye to DOJ attorneys.  Which is a big deal in the legal field.  The speed with which this admin has enshittened the DOJ and is running off anyone of quality who is working there, has been breathtaking.  

Just think about the thought process that had to happen there for this DOJ lawyer to say, in essence, "I can't take a position to support the Constitution that a first year law student would see as obvious because I fear personal retribution by my superiors."  That is fucking insane. 

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3 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

It's exchanges like these that have the Judiciary giving a healthy side eye to DOJ attorneys.  Which is a big deal in the legal field.  The speed with which this admin has enshittened the DOJ and is running off anyone of quality who is working there, has been breathtaking.  

Yeah, I have been kind of tracking the government lawyers in a lot of these cases.  It seems that the political hacks are avoiding ethical jackpots by being studiously ignorant of actual administration positions, like the above.

Ensign seems to be the hack du jour on immigration-related cases.  Richard Lawson more on the general civil side, defending EOs and such.

The good news for us is that by doing this, they're virtually guaranteeing losses in the district court, and hopefully "building a record" (or lack thereof) that won't favor them on appeal.

I have seen a couple of others worked by what appear to be actual civil servants and things seem messy for them.  Notably that gal from Texas that had to defend contempt by claiming DoD deported people and wasn't a party to the case.

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The appeals court orders that Ozturk be returned to Vermont

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/07/nation/trump-presidency-live-updates/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

 

Federal appeals court orders Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont. 

A federal appeals court ordered that Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont from Louisiana, where she has been held since being taken into custody by ICE agents in March.

“The District of Vermont is likely the proper venue to adjudicate Öztürk’s habeas petition because, at the time she filed, she was physically in Vermont and her immediate custodian was unknown,” the court ruled.

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26 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

The appeals court orders that Ozturk be returned to Vermont

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/07/nation/trump-presidency-live-updates/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

 

Federal appeals court orders Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont. 

A federal appeals court ordered that Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont from Louisiana, where she has been held since being taken into custody by ICE agents in March.

“The District of Vermont is likely the proper venue to adjudicate Öztürk’s habeas petition because, at the time she filed, she was physically in Vermont and her immediate custodian was unknown,” the court ruled.

nice thorough pre-made opinion where they just add in the excoriation of the oral argument and hit print.

ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/cd184457-25de-4158-8178-e16298a614d4/1/doc/25-1019_opn.pdf

 

At oral argument before this Court, the government first stated that it does not know who Öztürk’s immediate custodian was while she was in transit at approximately 10:01pm and then took the novel position that Öztürk’s immediate custodian at that time was the warden of the Vermont facility to which she had not yet arrived.  The government cited no authority for this contention, and it is at odds with the straightforward rule set out in Padilla that the proper respondent to a habeas petition is “’the person with the ability to produce the prisoner’s body before the habeas court.”  542 U.S. at 435 (quotation marks omitted).  As the Supreme Court instructed in Padilla, “the default rule is that the proper respondent is the warden of the facility where the prisoner is being held,” id. (emphasis added), not the person who will at some unspecified future time have the ability to produce the prisoner’s body or the warden of a facility where the prisoner is not yet being held.

 

 

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