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"The bottom line is that the Grammys need diverse creators and audiences more than diverse creators and audiences need the Grammys," writes
@originalspin
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"As a 24-year-old Nigerian, I am part of one of the largest youth populations in the world," writes
@SavvyRinu
on why "politicians must understand that a new generation of active citizens has emerged."
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"We cannot allow another generation of women and children to grow up knowing their government and those acting in its name see us as less than human" --
@Alyssa_Milano
explains why
#Kavanaugh
and
#Trump
cannot be the face of America
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"The real news media needs to start covering Fox News for what it is -- a propaganda arm of the far right that creates rather than covers the news," writes
@joelockhart
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'She-Ra' is "hands down the best queer representation on television -- providing satisfying content through which kids can see people like us not just normalized but celebrated," writes Lindsey Mantoan.
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@originalspin
: The responsible way to talk about K-Pop is not to fetishize or condescend to it, but to acknowledge that Korean pop music shares the positive and negative traits common to every creative industry around the world.
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Annelle Sheline writes that she decided to resign from her position at the State Department given US policy toward Gaza. "Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began."
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#DemDebate
: What would
@katyperry
@aplusk
@shondarhimes
@TheRealBuzz
& others ask the presidential candidates?
http://t.co/wGkxhOn0L1
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"We face a seemingly never-ending onslaught of examples that, in the midst of that fight, women are perceived as rude, angry, manipulative, or petty" -
@DCampoamor
puts Taylor Swift's situation in context
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@BernieSanders
writes, "Amid so much economic suffering and despair... it is imperative that Democrats pass a bold and aggressive economic agenda within the first 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency."
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"By repeatedly chipping away at Oz’s legitimacy as a Pennsylvania resident, Fetterman has successfully shaped and controlled the narrative... It’s an inspired approach, and I really hope other Democrats are taking notes," writes
@karaalaimo
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This film "has achieved a historic victory for artistic integrity” - and is groundbreaking for other reasons as well, writes
@SherazFarooqi_
of
#ZackSnydersJusticeLeague
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@reedgalen
writes, "The Trump-Fox News-OANN-Bannon-Limbaugh-QAnon circle of death is designed to do nothing less than confuse, dispirit and depress individual American voters."
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@AndrewYang
: "Universal basic income -- a guaranteed, unconditional recurring payment for every American -- is our future, and one that the Democratic Party should embrace and champion."
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"Make no mistake: The people who planned and participated in this atrocity will get a knock on their doors from the FBI soon enough," writes
@AshaRangappa_
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"I was wrong. I think the teams were wrong for not signing him. Watching what's going on in Minnesota, I understand how badly wrong we were," writes
@joelockhart
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Michael Avenatti may have had a point when he rejected Michelle Obama’s famous words: “When they go low, we go high,” writes
@julianzelizer
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The GSA administrator "has single-handedly created chaos, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness, all while steadfastly refusing to respond to the American people, who, after all, have spoken through the ballot box." -
@JillFilipovic
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's lashing out NPR's Mary Louise Kelly is part of a pattern and will prevent him from successfully promoting freedom of the press abroad,
@sam_vinograd
writes.
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"This is a time for steely-eyed public servants who play no games and demand results. It's time for Sen. Kamala Harris to join Joe Biden's ticket and, God willing, help him actualize the next phase of this movement from the White House," writes Ben Crump
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@rickhasen
writes: "By repeating false and misleading statements about the potential for voter fraud and post-election violence... William Barr has stepped out of his role as the nation's chief law enforcement officer and marred the 2020 election."
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"An informed public strengthens the nation. The public has a right to know what its government is doing, and the government has a duty to explain what it is doing," write 13 former White House press secretaries, foreign service and military officials.
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@PeteButtigieg
: Someday soon I hope to have children. I want to look back and tell them that we beat the odds on climate change and built a healthier and more prosperous future before all was lost
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"Should I feel embarrassed about being a fangirl? Should I think of them as a guilty pleasure? The answer to both questions is absolutely not” -
@raneutill
says listening to
#BTS_Butter
over and over is a reminder of how
#BTS
became her 2021 lifeline
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"We learned the ugly truth that the United States is the only industrialized nation without a national paid family leave policy to help people balance care for older loved ones while working," write
@IamLaurenMiller
and
@Sethrogen
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"There is no chance that Trump doesn't know what he is doing. While he likes to play the implausible ignorance card on issues like QAnon, it's impossible that Trump doesn't know that he's helped Russia," writes CNN national security analyst
@sam_vinograd
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@MilesTaylorUSA
writes that he believes "Trump poses a greater risk to the integrity of the US election than America's foreign rivals do" -- and he shares one story to illustrate why.
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@berniesanders
writes, "What happens in Congress in the next few months will determine the future of our country -- and our planet."
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'If every major country on earth can guarantee health care to all and achieve better health outcomes, while spending substantially less per capita than we do, it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the US cannot do the same.'
@SenSanders
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"I know that these men were undeserving of pardons because I was a member of The FBI Evidence Response Team that traveled to Iraq and investigated the site of these killings," writes
@tfoconnor83
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"Censure, although almost unprecedented against a President, is the only and best remedy for holding him to account and putting his wrongdoing on the record forever," write
@RepCharlieDent
and
@joelockhart
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'There is a higher, more important value at stake here than loyalty to your boss: loyalty to your country.'
@JuleannaGlover
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"If he does not [step aside], it will be Biden’s age, and not Trump’s moral and ethical void, that will dominate the rest of this most important campaign and sully the president’s historic legacy," writes
@davidaxelrod
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@SenSanders
and
@ASlavitt
: "...we are urgently calling for a simple, common-sense, practical and inexpensive way to protect Americans during the coronavirus pandemic: Masks for All."
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"Here’s another unpleasant truth that the series makes plain – one that will be hard for some to stomach: The British royal family seems unlikely to survive as an institution in its current form," writes
@IAmSophiaNelson
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Everyone should be tuned in to what is happening in the Georgia gubernatorial race, writes
@VanJones68
. "It would be a stain on America's democracy to allow Jim-Crow style election-rigging to cost a qualified candidate a fair shot."
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"So here's my challenge to you: Don't wait for New Year's Resolutions. Don't wait for your own heart surgery or emergency. Start right now. And ask a friend to join you" -
@Schwarzenegger
shares his own fight back to fitness
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"Any Republican leader who stays silent in the face of Greene’s continued bigotry must be viewed as complicit." -
@DeanObeidallah
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"The fact that both the valet and Miller likely had sustained contact with numerous other staffers raises the real risk that personnel critical to undertaking key national security work could be sidelined and unable to do their jobs," writes
@sam_vinograd
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In her presidential weekly briefing,
@sam_vinograd
writes that if Trump wants a successful "third date" with Kim Jong Un, he should log out of his Twitter account long enough to listen to his North Korean experts.
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San Francisco police raided the home of journalist Bryan Carmody in an attempt to uncover the identity of his confidential source. The raid was a stunning intrusion on press freedom, similar to what we see in autocratic regimes, writes
@yashar
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#greenshirtguy
@Alex_Kack
writes, "If you had been there, wouldn't you laugh, too? Sitting inches away from people making fools of themselves, disrupting a public forum to spew hate and accomplish nothing, how else could you respond?"
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"The dishonesty from this President and his press secretaries -- all four of them -- has us where we are today. Truth now comes in two varieties: Republican and Democratic," writes
@joelockhart
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@MilesTaylorUSA
: "She put herself and her reputation, personally and professionally, by turning herself into the nation's body camera and bringing transparency to a White House that thrives on misdirection and deceit."
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Nothing is more essential to the durability of American democracy than the ability of the people to vote. "Protection of that right has only one champion empowered to make it so -- the US Congress," writes
@staceyabrams
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"I can tell you, the five presidential candidates I've worked for would have fired whoever was responsible for last night and apologized publicly to the city of Omaha. Don't hold your breath for Trump to do anything like that," writes
@joelockhart
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@Bakari_Sellers
: "The pain and sorrow of black Americans is not only real, but it has authored the true story of America. My father passed this story down to me, but I refuse to pass it down to my children."
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@DeanObeidallah
explains why Democrats should welcome Joe Walsh and Anthony Scaramucci's efforts to defeat Trump in
#2020Election
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The
#GRAMMYs
have work to do to represent cultural reality, says
@originalspin
– a point perhaps lost in the Billie Eilish sweep but made sharply by Lizzo, Diddy and the embattled former CEO.
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For Gaza peace, tell the truth about Hamas, write
@nikkihaley
,
@jaredkushner
,
@USAmbIsrael
and
@jdgreenblatt45
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An ad featuring a new mom was deemed "too graphic" to air at the Oscars, but by stifling images of what the postpartum experience is like we make women feel inadequate if they aren't well put together immediately after giving birth,
@soniamoghe
writes.
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Within one month of retaking the House, Democrats have managed to do something that proved to be almost impossible in the past two years -- they have constrained the President's ability to dominate the national conversation, writes
@julianzelizer
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“Republicans have struggled to find a clear line of defense that engages with the substance of the allegations against Trump, and have instead tried to distract from the main issue,” writes
@AshaRangappa_
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In Trump era, Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon welcomes immigrants in his hometown, by
@davidaxelrod
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"Democrats cannot...continue traveling down a failed road which will only lead to disaster. Now is the time for a major course correction," writes
@BernieSanders
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"A coup. That’s what Donald Trump Jr. was advocating for in a text message to his father’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows that laid out ways to subvert the Electoral College process and keep his father in power," writes
@DeanObeidallah
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If we gloss over the attack, January 6, 2021 may be seen in the rear view mirror as the worst day in our country's history. Moving on without holding the perpetrators accountable may very well sound the death knell of our democracy, writes
@joelockhart
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"There is plenty of fair criticism to level at the administration ... But calling for Biden's impeachment or resignation is a step too far, especially considering what the GOP was willing to defend with Trump," writes
@julianzelizer
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"Trump's groundless caterwauling this past week proves he's concerned about possible prosecution. He should be," write
@NormEisen
@AshaRangappa_
and Dennis Aftergut
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"The decision of the new attorney general, Merrick Garland, to appeal portions of Judge Jackson's ruling is a mistake, and marks a missed opportunity to break cleanly from the fundamental dishonesty that defined Barr's term in office." -
@eliehonig
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"It was the feckless, willfully dangerous actions of mask-eschewing Republicans in Congress that put the health of their own colleagues at risk, even as they hid together from a rampaging mob of terrorists." -
@JillFilipovic
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"If you go through all of American history, you can't find this many former administration officials warning against the reelection of the president they served." -
@JohnAvlon
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"Chopra -- again, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador -- should not be using her voice to legitimize a regime opposed to the values she claims to represent," writes Pakistani actress
@MehwishHayat
.
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@michael_steel
pays tribute to Anthony Bourdain: "I had no personal connection to Anthony Bourdain. He never bummed a smoke from me in a dark alley behind a restaurant or bought me a shot of local liquor in an exotic city. Yet, I feel his death keenly."
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"Facing another shortfall in campaign cash, Trump can't depend on the media to help him drive the narrative. His own record is defining the narrative and that's bad news for him, " writes CNN political analyst
@joelockhart
.
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Donald Trump's actions, particularly in Ukraine, prevent the American public and Congress from giving him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his decision to launch airstrikes in Iran,
@RepSwalwell
writes.
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Meghan Markle needs sisters, says
@IAmSophiaNelson
.
"By sisters, I mean in the African-American vernacular, women who will ... laugh with her and be there for her, as she confronts the most invidious challenges that anti-Black racism can throw her way."
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To protect the rule of law, the Senate must demand, as a condition of confirmation, that Barr agree to recuse himself from the special counsel investigation, writes
@waltshaub
.
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"If you have to update your social media posts to distance yourself from seditionist chaos at events you knowingly promoted, it's time to stop promoting such events. Or rethink your views," writes
@elliotcwilliams
.
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"Harris's story is the story of a changing, inclusive America," writes
@NeilMakhija
. "Her vice-presidential candidacy would be historic and inspiring, not only for Black Americans, but for millions of voters of South Asian descent -- like me."
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"He did everything right to achieve the American dream. And he died on April 1st -- leaving his three children orphaned.... But his story is not simply a tragedy. It is a triumph that he only got to see the start of," writes
@JohnAvlon
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Pandemics, climate change, & environmental degradation are all related, write three scientists w/
@TheWCS
-- but so are their solutions
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“The manifest tragedy of the life of Texas’ junior US Senator Ted Cruz is what he might have accomplished had he not wasted a fine intellect to serve his craven political ambitions,” writes James Moore
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"Only a person whose ancestors or family members bore no risk of being lynched themselves would dismiss as ‘ridiculous' objections to making hanging into a public political joke in Mississippi” -
@ProfKori
weighs in on Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments
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@GenMhayden
: It is humbling to face these challenges that were once so routine. To dress. To eat. To walk. To read. To recall the names of loved ones
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"McEnany failed on an epic scale in her response. She did not provide context for Trump's statements. Instead, she perpetuated the lies even the President himself admitted to Woodward on tape," writes CNN political analyst
@joelockhart
.
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@AshaRangappa_
writes that Ukraine's investigation of the alleged surveillance of former Ambassador Yovanovitch could "pick up where the Senate trial leaves off, and that should worry the President."
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"For a short moment in history, the shining city on the hill disappeared under a dark cloud, but I know it's still there." -
@olex_scherba
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"...the suggestion that Sanders should stand down...because of a health condition that many Americans live and work with is not only callous, but carries a bitter flavor of discrimination," writes
@AdamKassamMD
and
@BenEschenheimer
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"Ukraine’s position is grave, but if Kyiv and its American and European allies act decisively now, Ukraine can still win — and this means besting Russia on the battlefield," write Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
and Gen. Ben Hodges
@general_ben
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@JohnAvlon
writes, "Trump is a big spending, Constitution-disregarding, dictator-coddling, traditional values-disdaining, identity politics-embracing, cancel culture-advocating craver of safe spaces."
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“I don't think Trump radicalized the base -- rather he simply gave people permission to be who they always wanted to be,” writes
@DeanObeidallah
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"I used to be libertarian. I used to be atheist. I used to want America to be more atheist libertarian...none of that matters any more. I no longer care.
All I want out of America now is kindness. That's all," argues
@pennjillette
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"Republican election sabotage, in which GOP officials refuse to certify the winners, has started," write legal scholars
@tribelaw
and Dennis Aftergut.
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@PreetBharara
to Georgia Rep. Collins: "Americans can, in good faith, differ about the legality or efficacy of killing Soleimani. That doesn't make them unpatriotic or lovers of terrorists. It is hostility to differences of opinion that is un-American."
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We should empower women in Africa, and their sisters, to unleash even greater economic prosperity and peace for the people of Africa, for our country, and for the world, writes
@IvankaTrump
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"Trump's Senate picks are floundering, and McConnell is laying the blame at the former President's door," writes
@DeanObeidallah
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@VanJones68
writes that influential African American leaders need to unite and overcorrect for the misinformation running rampant about black people being immune to
#Covid_19
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"Lilly Singh's show is more than just another late-night talk show. It's a tangible, visual reminder of why representation matters," says
@AnushayHossain
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@benwikler
writes that
#Wisconsin
's purge of voters is not just an attack on Democrats -- it's an attack on American democracy.
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"There has been far too little discussion of Sanders' 50-year record, nor have we seen a real view of how he would defend that record against a Republican onslaught," writes
@joelockhart
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"If Republicans are going to reverse their fortunes in these suburban counties, they’re going to have to settle the abortion issue," writes
@jwigderson
. "But Republicans are also going to have to end the blood contract with Trump."
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"Being a Republican today is more synonymous with White nationalism, anti-science, and conspiracy theories than any clear set of principles or policies," writes
@secupp
.
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