CAN'T BLAME EDUCATION! JUST LOOK AT THE MASS GOP!

                                                                                             

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To blame it on education goes back decades and decades. Do we educate racism out of children? Gullibility? Selfishness? Bigotry. Misogyny? Why do we constantly blame education, ie the teachers, for society's failures? Blame the parents or the voters themselves for their hatreds, their selfishness, their gullibility.

I live in an affluent, well educated community in liberal Massachusetts that votes 60% republican. Mass. has always been one of the leaders in quality public education, many time the best in the country. I know college educated who support trump: doctors, teachers, nurses. What is the excuse for these people? When will we blame them, make them responsible for their vote? We are all adults. The trumpers support these policies by choice. They choose to remain willfully ignorant, they choose to turn a blind eye to the atrocities, the corruption, the lies, the violence. They could educate themselves as easily as the rest of us do by reading Meidas, The New Republic, The Guardian, Heather Cox Richardson and more. Many of these publications are free. They choose to ignore the truth. Lack of education has nothing to do with it, just a willful blindness and a refusal to see that right before their eyes. 

In MASSACHUSETTS:

I've knocked on doors in "R" voting communities and received the response "WE ONLY VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS!"

They close their ears and eyes!

They ignore issues such as MEDICRE FOR ALL would save money and lives.

A woman who was on a local school committee opposed buying new SCIENCE TEXT BOOKS to replace 20 year old SCIENCE TEXT BOOKS because she stated that SCIENCE HASN'T CHANGED MUCH!

She ran for statewide office and REPUBLICANS voted for her. (She was defeated.)

A Brockton resident ran for MAYOR and was defeated. Next election, she ran for PLYMOUTH COUNTRY TREASUREER - no qualifications. PLYMOUTH COUNTY has the largest pension program (it's the largest county), the office cost alone is something like $10 MILLION. The incumbent has won awards, rave review, lots of financial credentials...

I listened to the DEBATE, she was fully unaware of the governing statutes...got a small number of "R" votes. (YES! It's boring to read the governing statutes, but you want the job? I looked them up!)

When SCOTT BROWN lost election against ELIZABETH WARREN, I was out and about running errands and encountered local REPUBLICANS in mourning. So I asked "Did you know he voted for XX?" The reply was invariably "NO" I asked "Did you know he voted against YYY?" Again the response was "NO" !

SCOTT BROWN'S votes are public record and I posted them.

(Remember that SCOTT BROWN filled Senator Kennedy's unexpired term, was elected because the democrat refused to campaign.)

In MASSACHUSETTS, consider TODAY!

We have 3 WEALTHY WANNABEE GOP FLUNKIES running for GOVERNOR who want to bring MAGA to MASSACHUSETTS!

They refuse to condemn tRump's ICE GESTAPO THUGS and MASS GOP CHAIR AMY CARNEVALE stated " WE SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT!"

In the aftermath of the MINNEAPOLIS KILLINGS of US CITIZENS, all 3 MAGA BOOBS indicated they would wait for the REPORT - the one DHS has obstructed.

REPUBLICANS alone generously funded tRUMP'S ICE GESTAPO THUGS and refuse to condemn their killings. And now they have ELECTRIC GLOVES? What could go wrong?

Too many people have yet to figure out that DEPORTING WORKERS will create massive voids.

And what of the MAGA BOOBS running for GOVERNOR?

You should be the headline of The Boston Globe. Keep up shouting and screaming…some of it will get thru to the “stone heads” that support MAGA politicians!

I am a firm believer that if REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE, NO ONE WOULD ELECT THEM! 

Look at what  the BRAIN DEAD MASS GOP DID: 

1. NOMINATED 3 WEALTHY MAGATS FOR GOVERNOR - including SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE who couldn't figure out that it was state law to get competitive bids for his BATHROOM/LUNCHROOM FIASCO that the WHITE TOOTHED GOVERNOR DEFENDED. This BOOB left the MBTA with TRACKS that were defective, a federal safety report ignored...that he uses his MBTA office on his resume defines STUPID! 

2. CARPETBAGGER, CRYPTO SCAMMER PERENNIAL LIAR JOHN DEATON? You're kidding? 

THE BOOB JOHN DEATON stood at the base of one of the CAPE COD CANAL BRIDGES,  surrounded by other BRAIN DEAD GOP, and blamed SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN for the lack of funding - ALL LIES! 

The CORPS OF ENGINEERS owns those BRIDGES and tRump SLASHED FUNDING! 

Did any single REPUBLICAN address the issue with tRump? NO! 

As we know, this was and continues to be a COMPLEX PROBLEM because no bridge can be shut pending construction - new bridges need to be erected while existing FAILED BRIDGES continue to operate because the CAPE cannot be isolated. 

PERENNIAL LIAR JOHN DEATON attended a SINGLE MEETING regrading the STEWARD BANKRUPTCY and pronounced an IRRATIONAL SOLUTION to a COMPLEX ISSUE that is not yet fully resolved to provide CARE to impacted areas. 

SLAP DASH BULL SH*T is not a solution! 

If you paid attention, you were aware that STEWARD collapsed at the same time COMPASS abruptly closed, abandoning 70,000 local residents. 

It required responsible elected officials to unite and find solutions. 

STEWARD's failures are not yet appropriately resolved and fail to provide EMERGENCY CARE in certain  areas, among other issues. 

How about the NORWOOD HOSPITAL? 

In addition, PERENNIAL LIAR JOHN DEATON voted 3 times in 20 years. 

There were CRIMINAL ASSAULT CHARGES filed against JOHN DEATON. 

Isn't that a DISBARRMENT QUALITIFICATION? He's been fighting it....what's the outcome? Just postponing it so no one would notice? 

When 2 US CITIZENS were shot and killed in MINNEAPOLIS that PUBLIC VIDEO evidence proves their innocence, 3 MASSGOP Gubernatorial candidates, in unison blabbered about WAITING FOR THE REPORT - you know? The report that DHS ICE THUGS are OBSTRUCTING? 

The best BRAIN DEAD AMY CARNEVALE could do was " WE SUPPORT LAAW ENFORCEMENT!"  KILLING INNOCENT US CITIZZENS is LAW ENFORCEMENT? 

It's easy to ignore all of the recent tRump's ICE GESTAPO KILLINGS apparently.  You hear SILENCE FROM REPUBLICANS! 

MAGA REPUBLICANS  alone (with 7 DEMS) generously funded tRump's ICE GESTAPO THUGS and a HIRING RAMPAGE BEGAN with seemingly unvetted THUGS, like these: 

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In this video (no longer available), Bill Clinton shares his honest political perspective on the growing crisis facing Senator Susan Collins after a fatal ICE shooting in Biddeford, Maine, left 26-year-old Colombian father Joan Sebastian Guerrero dead — a man who was NOT even the target of the federal operation. Hours after the shooting, hundreds of furious Maine residents marched to Collins' office chanting "Vote her out!" and "ICE out now!", demanding accountability from the senator who voted YES on the Republican-backed $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding package with no reform conditions attached.

Clinton breaks down how Collins' vote, the Biddeford shooting, the Houston killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo just days earlier, and a pattern of at least 10 fatal ICE shootings under the Trump administration are all converging into a political and moral reckoning — not just for Collins, but for the entire country. He examines what this means for the 2026 Maine Senate race, why the absence of body cameras keeps raising questions about federal accountability, and what happens to democratic institutions when the gap between a lawmaker's vote and its consequences closes to zero.

This is not partisan commentary. This is a thoughtful, experience-driven analysis from a former president who believes in institutional integrity, responsible governance, and the idea that in America, power must always answer to the people.

   

  

https://youtu.be/GPZUa1klYRY?si=Qbqyxa14XjzReI63

‘Disgusting’: Dem Senator Says ICE Threatened to Beat Seattle Business Owner Unless He Signed Deportation Form SPINELSS REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT!

                                                             

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THIS DESERVES TO STAND ALONE! 

REPUBLICANS...AND ONLY REPUBLICANS VOTED TO GENEROUSLY FUND  

ICE GESTAPO THUGS! 

ICE GESTAPO WENT ON A HIRING RAMPAGE AND SENT TRUMP'S ARMED AND 

ILL-TRAINED GESTAPO THUGS TO TERRORIZE COMMUNITIES.... 

BODY CAMS WERE FUNDED...BUT NOT PROVIDED OR WORN! 

TRUMP'S GESTAPO THUGS KILL AND THEN LIE! 

THOSE LIES ARE BEING DISPROVEN! 

IN MASSACHUSETTS, AFTER THE KILLINGS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS IN 

MINNEAPOLIS, THE SPINELESS GAGGLE OF WEALTHY REPUBLICANS  

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR  WERE "WAITING FOR THE REPORT" THAT 

DHS HAS OBSTRUCTED! 

MASS GOP CHAIR AMY CARNEVALE'S BRAIN DEAD COMMENT WAS: 

"WE SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT!" 

THE BEST AMY CARNEVALE CAN DO IS "GOTTCHA BLABBER" ! 

MOST RECENTLY DEFENDING SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE FROM UNSPECIFIED 

ATTACKS: : 

MassGOP Statement on Shortsleeve Accusations

 

MassGOP released the following statement from Chairwoman Amy Carnevale

 

“As Chair of the Party, it is my responsibility to stand up for and support Republican candidates, particularly when they are being unfairly attacked, misrepresented, or wronged.”

 

“In this case, fraud was perpetrated against our candidates. Brian Shortsleeve’s attempt to exploit that fraud for political advantage, while portraying himself as a champion of election integrity and disparaging fellow Republicans, is both misleading and deeply disappointing.”

 

“This kind of conduct does a disservice to the candidates, the Republican Party, and the voters whose trust we are working to earn.”

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MANY OF US WERE PAYING ATTENTION! 

THE WHITE TOOTHED GOVERNOR APPOINTED POLITICAL HACKS AND THE 

COMPLIANT MEDIA PROVIDED A FREE RIDE! 

SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE GRANTED A NO BID CONTRACT FOR A BATHROOM 

AND KITCHEN...EVEN IN BUSINESS, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 

ONE BID....BUT GOV. CHARLIE BAKER SPEWED AN EXCUSE! 

THERE WAS A DEFECTIVE MBTA RAIL THAT GOV. BAKER & SLOW ZONE 

SHORTSLEEVE WERE FULLY AWARE OF WHEN THEY LEFT OFFICE THAT REMAINED 

UNCORRECTED....FORCING PHILIP ENG TO ADDRESS. 

AND THE CHINESE RAIL CAR FIASCO? THE KEOLIS COMMUTER RAIL? 

SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE IGNORED THE FEDERAL SAFETY REPORT DIDN'T HE? 

YOU CAN PRETEND YOU DID A GREAT JOB, BUT REALITY INTRUDES! 

HOW ABOUT THE WELL PAID OUT-OF-STATE EXPERTS WHO NEVER TRAVELED 

TO THE COMMONWEALTH? WHAT DID THEY OFFER? 

NOW WE'RE CONFRONTED WITH THE LIFE-THREATENING CONSEQUENCES OF 

TRUMP'S GESTAPO THUGS....WHERE IS THE MASS GOP? ABSENT! 

THE GAGGLE OF MASS GOP IS CAMPAIGNING AS TRUMPERS AFTER THE 

BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER EXPLODED THE DEBT AND DEFICIT, DESTROYED 

HEALTH CARE, IGNORES HUNGRY AMERICANS WITH SNAP CUTS, DESTROYED 

FAMILY FARMERS WITH IRRATIONAL TARIFFS, FIGHTING AN IRRATIONAL WAR 

THAT'S EXPANDING IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHILE EXPLODING GAS PRICES.... 

TRUMPERS? 

NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THE GAGGLE HAS DONE ANYTHING FOR THEIR 

COMMUNITIES BEYOND CONTINUING TO COLLECT EXPENSIVE PROPERTIES! 

HAVE THEY FUNDED A FOOD BANK? HAVE THEY ADDRESSED THE HEALTH 

CARE CRISIS? 

CHILDREN ARE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, EUPHEMISTICALLY CALLED 

'DETENTION CENTERS.' DO YOU HEAR THESE MAGA CLOWNS SPEAK OUT?

HAS A SINGLE ONE BEEN TO A 'DETENTION CENTER' ? NO! 

A masked US Customs and Border Protection agent is seen as residents confront law enforcement in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on on October 4, 2025.

(Photo by Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Disgusting’: Dem Senator Says ICE Threatened to Beat Seattle Business Owner Unless He Signed Deportation Form

“What ICE is doing is illegal and disturbing.”

Sen. Patty Murray on Wednesday accused federal immigration enforcement officials of attempting to coerce a longtime Seattle resident to sign a voluntary deportation form using threats of violence.

In a video posted on social media, Murray (D-Wash.) delivered an update on Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents last week.

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The senator said that Aguirre Esparza, whom she described as “a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history” and the husband of a US citizen, was taken to an ICE office in Tukwila, Washington, where he was held in a room for 10 hours.

“He was surrounded by 20 ICE agents, who were pressuring him to sign a voluntary departure,” said Murray. “They physically pushed him and threatened to beat him up if he didn’t sign it. This is disgusting.”

Murray said that she has learned that there are security cameras in the room where Aguirre Esparza was being held, and she demanded that ICE hand over any footage in its possession.

“What ICE is doing is illegal and disturbing,” Murray emphasized. “Eduardo is now being held in Texas, away from his family and his lawyers. I am demanding that [the US Department of Homeland Security] return Eduardo to Washington state now so he can get the due process everyone should expect in America.”

In a separate statement, Murray said that Aguirre Esparza has “deep ties to our local community” and “was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, commented that Murray’s account of Aguirre Esparza’s detention “is a good reminder that some ‘voluntary’ departures people sign while detained by ICE are the product of coercion.”

“The worst incidents I’ve heard of over the years involve agents grabbing a person’s hands and forcing them to sign a piece of paper they can’t read,” Reichlin-Melnick added. “It’s a ‘voluntary’ removal.”

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Trump's GOP Is Ripping This Nation Apart. The Question Is: Why? THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DEFINED!

                                                     

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THOM HARTMANN'S LENGTHY LIST NEEDS TO STAND BY ITSELF FOR 

SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THE 

REPUBLICAN PARTY...REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT...INCLUDING THE 

MASS GOP!

Trump’s GOP Is Ripping This Nation Apart. The Question Is: Why?

The morality of today’s Republican Party has been laid bare. But it boggles the mind the depth of this destruction and cruelty.

Thom Hartmann

Jul 14, 2026Common Dreams

President Donald Trump is destroying the nation like a crazed maniac. Does anyone really understand what motivates him or the party he controls.

(Cartoon: AI generated via The Hartmann Report)

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill — which gave the top 1% fully $118 billion this year in tax cuts — turns a year old this week and Republicans in Congress actually celebrated the largest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid in American history.

They told us it was about fraud, about lazy people gaming the system, about restoring the dignity of work. Exactly a year later we can now see what it was really about in a line of cars outside a food bank in Phoenix.

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That’s where ProPublica found Ana Alvarez on a recent morning, a single mother of five who works at a restaurant and lost her family’s SNAP benefits last September. She reapplied in December and the government still hasn’t processed her application.

She calls the agency every week and gets told to keep waiting, so she clips coupons, her kids don’t go to the zoo anymore, and as the summer heat bears down she’s doing grim arithmetic on rent, the car payment, and the electric bill that keeps the air conditioning running. She’s one reason Arizona has lost more than half of its SNAP recipients in a single year.

In Michigan, a widow named Sarah works two food service jobs to raise her 9-year-old daughter on $219 a month in food assistance, help she’s needed since her husband died suddenly six years ago. Last Christmas one of her employers wrote a single number wrong on her renewal paperwork, one missing zero, and the state cut her off.

And in Atlanta, Human Rights Watch documented a 36-year-old supermarket cashier who was working and meeting every requirement until she gave birth in late 2025, at which point Georgia shut off both her Medicaid and her food stamps, claiming she’d failed to report the job she was standing at every day. She’s spent the months since trying to get her coverage back while the medical bills pile up. In the party of family values, apparently, having a baby is now a firing offense.

None of these women are cheats or freeloaders. They’re workers, mothers, widows: exactly the people these cynical Republicans swear they’re protecting. But the numbers tell the story: more than 4 million Americans have been pushed off SNAP since the bill passed, the steepest drop since Clinton’s 1996 welfare cuts, and in just the 13 states that publish the data, roughly 808,000 children have lost food assistance.

The Congressional Budget Office projects millions more will lose Medicaid as the work requirement paperwork machine grinds through the states, even though more than nine in ten of the people targeted are already working, in school, caring for family, or disabled.

The cruelty built into the bill isn’t a side effect: it’s the whole reason for the “enhanced” paperwork requirements. Every mother who gives up in frustration, every widow tripped up by a typo, every application left to rot in a backlog is a line item of savings that can translate into a larger tax cut for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg while the poorest households actually see their taxes go up.

That’s the morality of today’s GOP laid bare. They looked at Ana Alvarez’s five kids and Sarah’s daughter and that new mother in Atlanta, and they decided the billionaires needed the money more.

Every day, it seems, we see or hear about another way in which Trump and his lickspittles in Congress and the various federal agencies are tearing down our country, weakening our defenses, pitting Americans against each other, looting our government, and making life harder for everybody except the morbidly rich.

The question nobody seems to have an answer to is, “Why?”

— Is it that, as Craig Unger seems to suggest, that Trump’s been a Russian agent for decades and is setting us up to lose to the newly-forming Axis of Russia and China?

— Is it that he spent so many years burning with rage and embarrassment at not being accepted by New York high society that he’s just come to hate America?

— Could it be that American-values-hating foreign powers that have poured literally billions of dollars into the Trump family are paying him to tear us apart so they’ll never again have to endure the humiliation of having their human, civil, and women’s rights records called out by a future administration?

— Is it possible it’s all just to pay for tax cuts for billionaires?

— Or are his, Vance’s, and Musk’s white supremacist, Christian nationalist, libertarian, and/or neo-Nazi ideologies so intense that they’re willing to essentially burn the country down just to expel immigrants, deny benefits to people of color, elevate the rich, crush unions, and re-subordinate women?

These are serious questions for which I can’t find credible answers that explain the entire spectrum of their behavior. Why would Trump and the GOP:

— Condemn 12 million Americans to sickness and early death by gutting Medicaid (and the biggest cuts don’t even kick in until right after this fall’s election)?

— Destroy American soft power by killing USAID, thus condemning millions to death?

— Fire so many workers at the Social Security Administration that just getting through to sign up or get help has turned into a multi-day slog?

— Gut the State Department at a time diplomacy is most needed for world peace?

— End food assistance (SNAP) for millions when one-in-five American children experience hunger?

— Refuse to enforce laws and rules that allow workers to form unions in their workplaces?

— Propose forcing all new Medicare recipients onto Medicare “Advantage” corporate scam plans?

— Refuse military aid to Ukraine for over a year to give Russia time to finish off their genocidal job?

— Stop the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from going after fraudsters and banks when they rip people off?

— Eliminate a major NOAA program designed to warn communities about the dangers of flooding and other extreme weather crises?

— Politicize the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Election Commission?

— End net neutrality so none of us are safe online?

— Shut down anti-cyber-warfare operations in the federal government?

— Defund university research that leads to innovation and saves lives?

— Cut unemployment insurance benefits across Red states?

— Terminate support for people with student loans and gut scholarship programs?

— Slash Affordable Care Act outreach budgets and allow junk insurance plans?

— Reverse over 100 environmental rules, including those on clean air, clean water, and chemical safety?

— Weaken Dodd-Frank, including gutting oversight of “too big to fail” banks and stress tests for mid-size financial institutions?

— Dial back OSHA workplace safety standards and inspections?

— Cut taxes to rich people while raising them via tariffs on working class folks?

— Change the Federal Trade Commission to allow more monopolistic, rip-off corporate behavior?

— Make it harder to vote and harass Blue states by demanding their voter information?

— Work to prosecute women who have miscarriages or abortions?

— Make it harder to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?

— End auto emission standards and increase our reliance on fossil fuels?


— Pack the courts with judges the American Bar Association says are “unqualified”?

— Destroy our faith in our elections and set up election workers for harassment?

— Fire the Inspectors General (who find waste, fraud, and abuse) across multiple federal agencies?

— Weaken whistleblower protections?

— Put the military on the streets of our cities in violation of Posse Comitatus?

— Use state power to punish political opponents and those who’ve investigated Trump’s crimes, alleged Russian collusion, and corruption?

— Create a network of concentration camps across America?

— Allow a shadow cabinet of billionaires and theocrats via Project 2025?

— Attack judges and prosecutors, leading to violence and threats of violence?

— Foment violence (like on January 6th) as a political strategy?

— Destroy our asylum and refugee systems?

— Pardon insurrectionists, rapists, cybercriminals, and other wealthy criminals?

— Defund the IRS so they can no longer audit the morbidly rich, leading to the loss of hundreds of billions in federal revenues?

— Ban books and censor libraries?

— Criminalize trans and queer people?

— Roll back gun safety measures?

— Defund the arts, humanities, and public media?

— Gut vaccine and other programs that keep Americans healthy?

— Nakedly politicize the military?

— Expand federal surveillance powers while kneecapping oversight?

— Criminalize free speech, particularly on college campuses?

— Attempt to revoke birthright citizenship?

— Attack press freedom and bar the Associated Press from the White House?

— Sabotage the US Postal Service?

— Undermine the census?

— Scale back civil and women’s rights enforcement?

— Normalize autocratic language like “vermin,” “scum,” and calling immigrants “animals”?

— Expel millions of brown-skinned immigrants who’ve already gone through the legal process to get work permits and are on a path toward citizenship?

— Create international fiscal chaos with an on-again, off-again TACO tariff policy?

— Cancel the suicide hotline for queer kids?

— Gut our national parks and sell off our federal lands to wealthy friends of the administration?

— Create a vast, secret, unaccountable police force with masked officers whose identity is concealed?

— Allow the president to accept hundreds of millions in obvious bribes from foreign powers in violation of the Constitution?

— Work so hard to conceal the crimes of a notorious sexual predator?

And this, of course, is just a partial list of the ways Trump and the GOP have weakened our nation, reduced our standing and prestige in the world, corrupted our government, and immiserated working class families.

Many of the theories about why Trump and the GOP would enthusiastically do so much damage to our people, our military, and our democracy contradict others.

For example, why would billionaires want tax cuts at the expense of damaging the economy that made them rich? Why would we promote a muscular military policy like bombing Iran while simultaneously destroying morale within the ranks of our military and kneecapping our intelligence agencies?

“Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is,” sang Bob Dylan back in the 1960s.

Today, we’re there.

Why do you think Trump and the GOP are working so hard to ruin our country?

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