Jesús Rodríguez
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these covid variants are like: omicron_final_THISONE.docx
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the hispanic urge to individually greet each guest at a social function
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This is Joshua Smith, a client of
@GeorgetownLaw
's Civil Rights Clinic. In May 2020, while visiting family in Virginia, his legs went numb. 911 was dialed.
12 hours later, he ended up face down in a jail cell, unconscious and permanently paralyzed. Let me tell you his story.🧵
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Kissinger actually outlived one of his obituary writers
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I am the first in my family to attend a U.S. university.
My floormates asked if I was an “illegal” and offered me money to iron shirts.
Now, I’m graduating with 5 internships, a 3.8 GPA, at least 100 published articles & a full ride to
@GeorgetownLaw
. I have a right to be here.
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Smith is bringing a federal lawsuit against the hospital, the medical staff, the cops, the judge and the jail for discrimination and multiple violations of his constitutional rights. You can view it here:
I hope you'll RT and share his story far and wide.
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I looked at the Spanish websites of the 2020 Dems and found typos, incomprehensible phrases, and whole paragraphs that match Google Translate. As my mother would say, it’s a 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦. Me in
@politico
:
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This is what's commonly known as a “rough ride.” If these facts sound familiar, it's because this is the same tactic Baltimore police used against Freddie Gray in 2015, resulting in a spinal cord injury and his death.
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Have they looked into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund?
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therapy isn’t enough i need my immigrant dad to go to therapy
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Although he was released from custody, Smith feels that the system “practically ended [his] life.” He can't sleep longer than a few hours a night and when he can, he dreams he's trapped in a jail cell. The financial strain has left him on the brink of homelessness.
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Some time later, a jail officer returns and asks him why he hasn't eaten his breakfast. He can't inhale enough air to respond.
A nurse notices him, and immediately calls for help. She may be the reason he's alive today.
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During the whole 40-minute ride, Smith cried out for medical help. At some point, he recalls hitting a particularly hard bump, feeling a wave of excruciating pain, and then nothing.
He had lost all feeling in his legs. He'd later learn that the spinal abscess had ruptured.
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He gets taken to a hospital in Roanoke, where he goes into emergency surgery. The doctors manage to save his life, but he'd lost all feeling from the chest down. He's now permanently paralyzed.
When he wakes up, a cop is posted in his room and he's shackled to the hospital bed.
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During the 40-minute ride, the officer drove erratically, hitting pot holes and taking sharp turns. Smith wasn't secured in any way—just lying on his back on the floor of the van. Every bump sent shock waves of pain through his body.
In his spine, an abscess was about to burst.
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The officers grabbed him from the floor and picked him up, only for his knees to buckle.
From his desk, the judge told Smith, “If you can stand up and talk to me like a man, you can go home.”
Smith was sobbing on the floor. He couldn't get his legs to work.
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After the 911 call, an ambulance took him to the ER of a local hospital in Galax, Virginia.
Noticing that Smith had previously been on opioid medication, the doctors and nurses assumed he was looking for drugs. They gave him a shot of Benadryl. Then they called the cops on him.
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If you’re wondering how the Mueller report is being covered in Spanish: Univision just translated Trump’s “I’m fucked” remark to “Estoy jodido”
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The officers arrived at the New River Valley Regional Jail, and then unloaded Smith, who is at this point unconscious, into a jail cell. It's the middle of the night.
They leave him there, face down, until they bring him breakfast the next morning.
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A few days later, while still sedated and intubated, the cop holds an iPad in front of him and requires him to appear in his own bond hearing. The judge asks him to respond simply by blinking his eyes or nodding his head.
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Since he couldn't walk, a sheriff's deputy wheeled Smith out of the ER, arrested him, and forced him into his police car. He took him to a local magistrate judge's office, all while calling him a “junkie” who just “shot up some bad dope.”
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The judge ordered he be held in jail. The officers shackled Smith's hands and legs, dragged him through the courthouse out into the parking lot, picked him up, swung him three times, and hurled him into the back of a police van.
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When they arrived at the courthouse, three other cops joined in, put Smith on a rubber welcome mat, and dragged him on the ground to the judge's chambers. The judge noticed an old probation violation, and decided he should go to jail.
But first, he wanted Smith to stand up.
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A group of protesters confronts Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao with
@ProPublica
’s audio of children separated from their families at the border while leaving a
@Georgetown
event.
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We are at the point where the Auschwitz Museum has to fact-check and debunk ugly conspiracy theories.
@MichelleMayber8
This is a lie. The man in the picture is Oskar Gröning, a member of the SS garrison of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
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a lot of people are going to bed tonight with the privilege of not waking up to war tomorrow
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the first openly undocumented senior articles editor of a top law journal and the first openly undocumented editor-in-chief of a top law journal.
thank you,
@GeorgetownLJ
, for everything.
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Can we talk about the fact that courts in Colombia are holding actual judicial hearings in the Metaverse
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I just got out of therapy. I should turn around, right?
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In 10 years of living in America, I’ve talked a lot about immigrating here. But the story about how I’ve managed to stay is one I’ve never told in full.
For
@TheAtlantic
, I wrote about being — and becoming — undocumented.
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Late breaking: The attorney who has been coordinating immigration cases for the Venezuelans sent to Martha’s Vineyard,
@RachelMSelf1
, says she has obtained certifications for each migrant to apply for U visa status, which could eventually lead to green cards and citizenship.
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@JuanSaaa
the *terror* that i feel when i leave without saying goodbye to someone… like a tía is going to find me and ask why i didn’t
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some personal news:
I’m joining
@politicomag
as a staff writer! I’ll be writing long-form features about the law, American politics, and threats to democracy.
my first day is today, and I couldn’t be more excited to be writing full time.⚡️
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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the Washington Post as a political reporter writing features and profiles for Style! I cannot wait to get started working alongside a brilliant team
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Thread: Georgetown students vote today on raising their own tuition by $27.20 to compensate descendants of an 1838 slave sale, led by
@Students4GU272
. It could be the first actionable reparations plan for slavery in America.
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The final phrase in this tweet was inspired by this Max Ehrmann poem that my AP Literature teacher gave me in high school when I was going through a hard time. It’s been my guide ever since.
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Today is my last day as senior articles editor of
@GeorgetownLJ
, so I thought I would share some pointers for authors in
#lawtwitter
submitting to the spring cycle, which opens tomorrow for us! After poring over thousands of submissions last year, here's what has stood out to me:
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I can’t even fathom what this Whatsapp outage is doing to migrants and organizations doing legal defense work on both sides of the border
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i see your academic theory and raise you a single lived experience
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Not Ticketmaster telling me there's 2,000 people in front of me for Bad Bunny tickets and then kicking me out of the website like it's the U.S. immigration system
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👋🏼 it’s my first day at the
@washingtonpost
! i’ll be writing features about the most interesting stories & characters in politics. is there a trend in politics that has flown under the radar? is there a figure who needs to be profiled but hasn’t?
→ jesus.rodriguez
@washpost
.com
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New: I followed George Santos to get a glimpse of what life is like on the Hill for him. 16 hours, 27,000 steps, and several donuts later, it’s clear the political purgatory he’s gotten himself is a brutal place to inhabit — despite his defiance.
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New: I spent three days inside the country’s only vasectomy truck, traveling through ruby-red Missouri with a doctor who sterilized himself, to understand how Dobbs has shifted birth control toward men and unsettled centuries-old myths about masculinity.
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One of the things I knew I always wanted to do
@politico
was get them to publish an article in Spanish. Pa’ mi gente:
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👋🏼✨: wanted to let you all know that i'm now officially a contributing editor at
@politicomag
! looking forward to continue writing about politics, law, racial justice, immigration, young people — everything! send me your tips and ideas at jesusrodriguezab [at] gmail [dot] com
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folks it looks like it’s gonna come down to turnout
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
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The funds raised by the fee — $400,000 — in the first year, would be allocated by a board of five descendants and five students. Descendants could then apply for grants if they go to public-good initiatives (i.e. not checks)
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I find it mind-boggling that some people still tolerate surveillance just as long as it doesn’t “fall into the wrong hands.” The *collection itself* often puts it in the wrong hands.
Read this by
@kenklippenstein
:
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i was talking to my mother recently, and she seemed *shocked* that covid was still around. then i started to think: she gets up at 4 am to work in a warehouse where no one masks up. comes home and makes empanadas to sell on the side. collapses on the bed around 9.
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A thread of 12 conversations the Latinx/o community in the U.S. needs to be ready to have in 2020:
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let your workers unionize <3
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Bolton just called Jair Bolsonaro a “likeminded” partner in Latin America whose election should be seen as a “positive sign”
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Excited to share that my first legal scholarship piece, “The Paper-Thin Constitutions,” is forthcoming in June's
@GeorgetownLJ
. It's an examination of how the more we uncritically convince ourselves that our Constitution is exceptional, the more at risk we are for another Jan. 6.
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working people, especially those without access to news or who don't speak english, rely on what they see to assess their safety and risk. how can they take the threat seriously when institutions think that masks are unnecessary at work or, most recently, on planes?
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In Georgia & Florida, you can’t have water while standing in line to vote. In the borderlands, water jugs get pierced. Law enforcement use water cannons on water protectors to keep them from protesting a pipeline.
Water is about who belongs in a democracy.
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some people think tasers should not be shaped like guns and other people think Black people shouldn’t be aimed at and that difference matters a lot
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This story started with a simple question:
Wouldn’t Feinstein and McConnell probably have it so good if they retired?
As one senator put it to me: “After a while, you got to say enough. Enough!”
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I got some really important papers today.
My TPS came in.
It feels like it defines so much of what I’ll be able to do, though it defines no aspect of who I am.
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.
@alexi
and
@julito77
point out that Julián Castro's picture on the
#SheThePeople
program is actually his brother Joaquin's. Here are the pictures side by side. (Note the blue tie!)
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president julián castro would have had bad bunny asking us to get vaccinated 😪
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Yes, black students would pay. Yes, descendants who now are on campus would pay. It’s a mixed bag for students on financial aid — some with limited aid probably would, but those on full scholarships probably won’t.
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DC PEOPLE: ever been at a party talking to someone and they do that thing where they look over your shoulder to see who's more important than you?
do you have stories about the weird etiquette of official Washington?
I want to talk to you about it! jesus.rodriguez
@washpost
.com
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my first piece for
@voxdotcom
(!) is an essay about how we wrongly measure loyalty to the constitution, and why we think that people born in the U.S. are automatically better stewards of our political institutions.
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.
@SandyDarity
, a leading reparations scholar, also said that what GU students need to be doing is creating a consortium with other universities with slaveholding pasts to advocate for a national solution from the federal government. Not “piecemeal” reparations, he said.
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left: me, undocumented, incredulous over my first tv hit, on
@msnbc
with
@aliciamenendez
right: my grandmother, who i saw this year for the first time in 10 years, crying with pride after watching me
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Some black students have been mortified with the strands of paternalism in this discussion. “A cultural imagination that blacks can’t manage their own resources,” a historian,
@DrMChatelain
, told me.
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I walked off the job today with 750+ of my Washington Post colleagues — we’re asking for higher salary floors, good-faith bargaining, and management decisions that won’t gut our local news coverage.
Keep avoiding Post content until tomorrow, in solidarity with
@PostGuild
.
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my stepmother, making me *weep* by sending this picture of her translating my Atlantic piece, chunk by chunk, so she could read it 😭
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my great grandpa in the 40s when he was invited to the US to discuss criminal justice reform 🇻🇪
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New: I went to Johnson City, Tenn., to speak to drag queens on the eve of a law banning public performances that was slated to take effect Saturday. For many of them, it’s about their livelihoods being taken away. (Also, Marianne Williamson was there.)
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You know what's a trope even more commonly wielded against minorities than "go back to where you came from"?
"You should be grateful"
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.
@Georgetown
President John J. DeGioia in the back
.
@SenGillibrand
says she won't vote for end of year spending bill without vote on
#DreamAct
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George Santos dropped off Chick-fil-a for reporters camped outside his office
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Time to say goodbye to a dope internship and start freelancing while at
@GeorgetownLaw
. Forever grateful for the skills I learned
@politico
(and special shoutout to PJI)! Send your scoops and Cuban coffee recs → jesusrodriguezab
@gmail
.com
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10. Lastly: don't write Twitter threads trashing the unpaid work of law review editors. We notice when you do, and it doesn't help your credibility.
Good luck with this cycle!
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The fee’s opponents on campus say it shouldn’t be the students paying, but the university. Some say $27.20 — roughly 6 iced coffees — is too much of a burden. Others are leery of how the board will manage the funds, comparing it to ICE:
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if you remember reading this
@propublica
story, you will be glad to know the judge at the center of it just announced she will not seek re-election
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I know things are wild lately, but I never expected to see Salt Bae serving a feast to Nicolas Maduro
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😭😭😭 still in disbelief, but I’m so thrilled to be working with
@rgay
to launch a newsletter for
@substackinc
— can’t wait to get started!
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The question that Black student activists posed was never whether he violated Georgetown policy, but whether he should be allowed to teach there when his views were incompatible with the school’s commitment to educating Black women
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The Menu but it's the White House Correspondents Dinner
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NEW: I spoke with Colombia's first Black VP
@FranciaMarquezM
on racism in LatAm, the 15lbs of explosives found near her home, and why the US should pay climate reparations.
“I have a dream that one day our children won’t be murdered for picking sugarcane.”
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Ok hear me out: Networking, but instead of "grabbing coffee," (never happens) we go get our nails done
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life update: I am so in awe to have been selected as a 2022
@PeriplusCollect
fellow, working with the brilliant
@JonathanBlitzer
. can't wait to keep writing, thinking, imagining, dissenting this year 💫
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“And remind them that you, that I—
we are worthy of every poem.
Here.” —Elizabeth Acevedo
Georgetown Law J.D., Class of 2022
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The muted volume of our public outrage for Griner is directly correlated to our perception of her citizenship. My latest newsletter for Alienhood:
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I wrote about how people you and me call “Dreamers” have been shedding that term and the unspoken assumptions it carries with it. It all started ~40 years ago, when one SCOTUS justice said undocumented adults were “guilty of a crime” but children were their “innocent victims”:
For more than 20 years, undocumented youth have been the poster children of immigration reform. Now, they are questioning the narratives that got them here in the first place — and whom they left behind
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A little-known fact about the building where the RNC is happening is that Georgetown students hold an open-bar gala there and yearly the staff threatens to take away the deposit money because of how much vomit they have to scrub off the floors
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Probably no other word has captured immigration politics like “Dreamer.”
I wanted to know how we became so fixated on undocumented youth like me — and whether it has stifled our political imagination.
The answer starts before the Dream Act even existed:
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“Racism makes a liar of God. It says not everyone is made in his image. What a horrible lie from the pit of hell.”
This is really well-done from my former professor
@ebruenig
:
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Two elections ago, this idea was barely talked about, considered impractical. Right now, camera crews are setting up at Georgetown’s front gates.
No matter how the vote goes, America is earnestly talking about reparations. [End]
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what if i told you that statutes that enact paths to citizenship and give people the right to asylum are indeed… laws
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I did actually. I came here legally, under my family’s visa. But should that matter?
“Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?” —Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor
@jesusrodriguezb
@GeorgetownLaw
Glad you graduated with high honors but you didn't answer your floormates question though, If you're here illegally no you don't have the right to be here, doesn't matter if your educated or not "illegal is illegal" no way to avoid it.
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Hearing
@Sifill_LDF
deliver the Commencement address at
@GeorgetownLaw
made clear to me that learning about the law while undocumented would have been impossible without Black lawyers and luminaries: Marshall, Baker Motley, Baldwin, Murray, Hamilton Houston, and so many more.
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