Pam Spaulding
@pamspaulding.bsky.social
Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA.
PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
As an eyewitness (& hero herself) who recorded the execution of Alex Pretti by masked, armed agents of the Trump regime, this woman provides an affidavit of the events.
The fact she's afraid to go home shows you the terror that this govt wants people to feel.
Fear and compliance.
🦋 is.gd/ZD8y6s
The fact she's afraid to go home shows you the terror that this govt wants people to feel.
Fear and compliance.
🦋 is.gd/ZD8y6s
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
As an eyewitness (& hero herself) who recorded the execution of Alex Pretti by masked, armed agents of the Trump regime, this woman provides an affidavit of the events.
The fact she's afraid to go home shows you the terror that this govt wants people to feel.
Fear and compliance.
🦋 is.gd/ZD8y6s
The fact she's afraid to go home shows you the terror that this govt wants people to feel.
Fear and compliance.
🦋 is.gd/ZD8y6s
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Regime's sadist, Chief Ethnic Cleanser & Acting President Stephen Miller is fact-checked by Community Notes after saying:
"A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists."
🌐 twitter-thread.com/t/2015132322...
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"A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists."
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January 25, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Regime's sadist, Chief Ethnic Cleanser & Acting President Stephen Miller is fact-checked by Community Notes after saying:
"A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists."
🌐 twitter-thread.com/t/2015132322...
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"A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists."
🌐 twitter-thread.com/t/2015132322...
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Reposted by Pam Spaulding
The video pretty clearly shows the armed thugs taking the gun out of his waistband, throwing it to the side, then emptying a clip into his body. But you keep on licking those boots, Chip.
Chip Roy: "As someone who carries a weapon in TX, if I'm in front of law enforcement or if I get stopped, I tell them that. I tell them that I've got a concealed carry permit. I show them my ID. I tell them where the weapon is bc that's what we're supposed to do. That's not what I think I saw here"
January 24, 2026 at 11:52 PM
The video pretty clearly shows the armed thugs taking the gun out of his waistband, throwing it to the side, then emptying a clip into his body. But you keep on licking those boots, Chip.
I see a domestic terrorist standing up there lying like a rug.
Kristi Noem needs to be impeached and imprisoned (shackled to her bully boytoy Lewandowski).
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Kristi Noem needs to be impeached and imprisoned (shackled to her bully boytoy Lewandowski).
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January 25, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I see a domestic terrorist standing up there lying like a rug.
Kristi Noem needs to be impeached and imprisoned (shackled to her bully boytoy Lewandowski).
📺 bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Kristi Noem needs to be impeached and imprisoned (shackled to her bully boytoy Lewandowski).
📺 bsky.app/profile/acyn...
👀 Noem has zero evidence to portray Alex Pretti as an aggressor w/multiple vids out there.
Pretti had his 1stA right to be there, & his 2ndA right (w/permit) to carry a gun — *that was not drawn*.
Did Kyle Rittenhouse have the right to carry (& brandish)?
Comment from NRA yet? 🧐
📺 is.gd/cUrqkZ
Pretti had his 1stA right to be there, & his 2ndA right (w/permit) to carry a gun — *that was not drawn*.
Did Kyle Rittenhouse have the right to carry (& brandish)?
Comment from NRA yet? 🧐
📺 is.gd/cUrqkZ
January 25, 2026 at 1:04 AM
👀 Noem has zero evidence to portray Alex Pretti as an aggressor w/multiple vids out there.
Pretti had his 1stA right to be there, & his 2ndA right (w/permit) to carry a gun — *that was not drawn*.
Did Kyle Rittenhouse have the right to carry (& brandish)?
Comment from NRA yet? 🧐
📺 is.gd/cUrqkZ
Pretti had his 1stA right to be there, & his 2ndA right (w/permit) to carry a gun — *that was not drawn*.
Did Kyle Rittenhouse have the right to carry (& brandish)?
Comment from NRA yet? 🧐
📺 is.gd/cUrqkZ
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
The new conservative position on gun control is apparently that lawfully carrying a licensed handgun means you deserve to be executed in the street by masked federal agents
January 24, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The new conservative position on gun control is apparently that lawfully carrying a licensed handgun means you deserve to be executed in the street by masked federal agents
📣 Pls read this piece about Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
He worked long hours as a nurse; his neighbor said “he has a great heart.”
Pretti had no criminal record, & had a legal permit to carry.
Alex Pretti was executed by the Trump regime's ICE today, FALSELY painted as an aggressor.
🧾 is.gd/Mh1iRr
He worked long hours as a nurse; his neighbor said “he has a great heart.”
Pretti had no criminal record, & had a legal permit to carry.
Alex Pretti was executed by the Trump regime's ICE today, FALSELY painted as an aggressor.
🧾 is.gd/Mh1iRr
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
📣 Pls read this piece about Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
He worked long hours as a nurse; his neighbor said “he has a great heart.”
Pretti had no criminal record, & had a legal permit to carry.
Alex Pretti was executed by the Trump regime's ICE today, FALSELY painted as an aggressor.
🧾 is.gd/Mh1iRr
He worked long hours as a nurse; his neighbor said “he has a great heart.”
Pretti had no criminal record, & had a legal permit to carry.
Alex Pretti was executed by the Trump regime's ICE today, FALSELY painted as an aggressor.
🧾 is.gd/Mh1iRr
It's a sad state of affairs when it is 💯% this predictable re: Senate Ds.
Rs & Ds in the Beltway rot bubble live to back-slap in the Senate gym, & schmooze at the next cocktail mixer — & staffs blast disingenuous fundraising appeals to you.
It's Kabuki theatre; we pay/die for it.
🦋 is.gd/gbAFE1
Rs & Ds in the Beltway rot bubble live to back-slap in the Senate gym, & schmooze at the next cocktail mixer — & staffs blast disingenuous fundraising appeals to you.
It's Kabuki theatre; we pay/die for it.
🦋 is.gd/gbAFE1
Senate Democrat: I cannot abide this lawlessness and murder. I will oppose funding DHS and its secret police.
Senate Republican: What if we add a requirement for six more hours of online firearms training?
Senate Dem: SOLD.
[Bipartisan, back-slapping, smiling photos are taken]
Just watch.
Senate Republican: What if we add a requirement for six more hours of online firearms training?
Senate Dem: SOLD.
[Bipartisan, back-slapping, smiling photos are taken]
Just watch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
It's a sad state of affairs when it is 💯% this predictable re: Senate Ds.
Rs & Ds in the Beltway rot bubble live to back-slap in the Senate gym, & schmooze at the next cocktail mixer — & staffs blast disingenuous fundraising appeals to you.
It's Kabuki theatre; we pay/die for it.
🦋 is.gd/gbAFE1
Rs & Ds in the Beltway rot bubble live to back-slap in the Senate gym, & schmooze at the next cocktail mixer — & staffs blast disingenuous fundraising appeals to you.
It's Kabuki theatre; we pay/die for it.
🦋 is.gd/gbAFE1
📣🔥 If you're catching up to the latest execution by ICE, here's a breakdown by Tim, Sarah, & Andrew...including footage of the shooting, the bullsh*t out of the mouth of Greg Bovino, Trump's post, & more.
Apparently legal 2ndA carry only applies to MAGAts.
📺 www.youtube.com/live/BdLhbQN...
Apparently legal 2ndA carry only applies to MAGAts.
📺 www.youtube.com/live/BdLhbQN...
BREAKING: MN Shooting Victim IDed, New Video of Incident
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
📣🔥 If you're catching up to the latest execution by ICE, here's a breakdown by Tim, Sarah, & Andrew...including footage of the shooting, the bullsh*t out of the mouth of Greg Bovino, Trump's post, & more.
Apparently legal 2ndA carry only applies to MAGAts.
📺 www.youtube.com/live/BdLhbQN...
Apparently legal 2ndA carry only applies to MAGAts.
📺 www.youtube.com/live/BdLhbQN...
Reposting the Catherine Cortez Masto statement w/ALT...
January 24, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Reposting the Catherine Cortez Masto statement w/ALT...
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.
New: @cortezmasto.senate.gov is a no on the DHS funding bill.
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.
🚨 Here's your psychopath, dementia-ridden, disgusting, Decomposing Dictator on the execution of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti (right screencap).
Footage shows ICE removed Pretti's weapon & continued to open fire, not whatever Trump "hallucinated."
🧾 KARE: is.gd/hyKOh6
MORE: the footage. ⬇️⬇️
Footage shows ICE removed Pretti's weapon & continued to open fire, not whatever Trump "hallucinated."
🧾 KARE: is.gd/hyKOh6
MORE: the footage. ⬇️⬇️
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
🚨 Here's your psychopath, dementia-ridden, disgusting, Decomposing Dictator on the execution of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti (right screencap).
Footage shows ICE removed Pretti's weapon & continued to open fire, not whatever Trump "hallucinated."
🧾 KARE: is.gd/hyKOh6
MORE: the footage. ⬇️⬇️
Footage shows ICE removed Pretti's weapon & continued to open fire, not whatever Trump "hallucinated."
🧾 KARE: is.gd/hyKOh6
MORE: the footage. ⬇️⬇️
The whole ball game. Why does the DOJ need to access voter rolls in this moment?
It's all about the midterms. D electeds, are you not hearing the message loud & clear enough?!
Your hopes of regaining control of Congress are *wholly dependent* on Rs relinquishing it via elections.
📺 is.gd/NVvWBP
It's all about the midterms. D electeds, are you not hearing the message loud & clear enough?!
Your hopes of regaining control of Congress are *wholly dependent* on Rs relinquishing it via elections.
📺 is.gd/NVvWBP
Fox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The whole ball game. Why does the DOJ need to access voter rolls in this moment?
It's all about the midterms. D electeds, are you not hearing the message loud & clear enough?!
Your hopes of regaining control of Congress are *wholly dependent* on Rs relinquishing it via elections.
📺 is.gd/NVvWBP
It's all about the midterms. D electeds, are you not hearing the message loud & clear enough?!
Your hopes of regaining control of Congress are *wholly dependent* on Rs relinquishing it via elections.
📺 is.gd/NVvWBP
ICE is itching to explode more violence...in Maine.
WHERE'S SUSAN COLLINS? 🦗
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WHERE'S SUSAN COLLINS? 🦗
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January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
ICE is itching to explode more violence...in Maine.
WHERE'S SUSAN COLLINS? 🦗
📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
WHERE'S SUSAN COLLINS? 🦗
📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
This is the regime's response to peaceful protest:
- don't have any printed signs;
- don't get any gas masks to protect yourself from ICE & BP casually gassing anyone in the area.
Pam Bondi says:
"We're not going to have it." 👀
Think a D stern letter will help at this point?
📺 is.gd/Wp0TET
- don't have any printed signs;
- don't get any gas masks to protect yourself from ICE & BP casually gassing anyone in the area.
Pam Bondi says:
"We're not going to have it." 👀
Think a D stern letter will help at this point?
📺 is.gd/Wp0TET
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 24, 2026 at 8:12 PM
This is the regime's response to peaceful protest:
- don't have any printed signs;
- don't get any gas masks to protect yourself from ICE & BP casually gassing anyone in the area.
Pam Bondi says:
"We're not going to have it." 👀
Think a D stern letter will help at this point?
📺 is.gd/Wp0TET
- don't have any printed signs;
- don't get any gas masks to protect yourself from ICE & BP casually gassing anyone in the area.
Pam Bondi says:
"We're not going to have it." 👀
Think a D stern letter will help at this point?
📺 is.gd/Wp0TET
🚨 👀 Critical footage is now out. Miller/Noem/MAGA will try justify this public execution.
Terror is the point, regardless of the lies & gaslighting.
Goal: crush dissent.
What Ds still think ICE can be "reformed"?
BTW, Rs have seen Ds are conflict-averse to point of failure.
📺 is.gd/5b3t8K
Terror is the point, regardless of the lies & gaslighting.
Goal: crush dissent.
What Ds still think ICE can be "reformed"?
BTW, Rs have seen Ds are conflict-averse to point of failure.
📺 is.gd/5b3t8K
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
🚨 👀 Critical footage is now out. Miller/Noem/MAGA will try justify this public execution.
Terror is the point, regardless of the lies & gaslighting.
Goal: crush dissent.
What Ds still think ICE can be "reformed"?
BTW, Rs have seen Ds are conflict-averse to point of failure.
📺 is.gd/5b3t8K
Terror is the point, regardless of the lies & gaslighting.
Goal: crush dissent.
What Ds still think ICE can be "reformed"?
BTW, Rs have seen Ds are conflict-averse to point of failure.
📺 is.gd/5b3t8K
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
Oh just checking in on soulless hacks and grifters in DC who have been advising Dems to be MAGA Republican light (comfortable for corporate donors).
They are seeing writing on the wall.
How it started and how it is going version … these people need to fuck off.
They are seeing writing on the wall.
How it started and how it is going version … these people need to fuck off.
January 24, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Oh just checking in on soulless hacks and grifters in DC who have been advising Dems to be MAGA Republican light (comfortable for corporate donors).
They are seeing writing on the wall.
How it started and how it is going version … these people need to fuck off.
They are seeing writing on the wall.
How it started and how it is going version … these people need to fuck off.
We, the people out there, are watching our govt execute & terrorize our peers.
You know who else is watching? Our electeds, R & D, that either approve it or do nothing. They see it & are "paralyzed" by politics, & honestly, *it's not happening to them*.
So they look away...
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🧵 is.gd/zZLBEb
You know who else is watching? Our electeds, R & D, that either approve it or do nothing. They see it & are "paralyzed" by politics, & honestly, *it's not happening to them*.
So they look away...
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We need to stop using normal language for what is happening.
They are not murdering people. They are EXECUTING them. That is what paramilitary forces do.
They are not doing "immigration enforcement." They are terrorizing communities on purpose.
They are NOT "enforcement." They are breaking laws.
They are not murdering people. They are EXECUTING them. That is what paramilitary forces do.
They are not doing "immigration enforcement." They are terrorizing communities on purpose.
They are NOT "enforcement." They are breaking laws.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
We, the people out there, are watching our govt execute & terrorize our peers.
You know who else is watching? Our electeds, R & D, that either approve it or do nothing. They see it & are "paralyzed" by politics, & honestly, *it's not happening to them*.
So they look away...
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🧵 is.gd/zZLBEb
You know who else is watching? Our electeds, R & D, that either approve it or do nothing. They see it & are "paralyzed" by politics, & honestly, *it's not happening to them*.
So they look away...
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🧵 is.gd/zZLBEb
And if you look at the footage there are what, five or six thugs on top of the shooting victim? He was already subdued.
DHS by putting out the narrative leaked to Fox automatically raises questions about validity of its statements.
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DHS by putting out the narrative leaked to Fox automatically raises questions about validity of its statements.
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Fox News already pushing the self defense narrative on the latest ICE killing in Minnesota
As of now the victim has not been ID'd and the provenance of the supposed concealed weapon that was leaked to Fox by DHS has not been independently confirmed.
As of now the victim has not been ID'd and the provenance of the supposed concealed weapon that was leaked to Fox by DHS has not been independently confirmed.
January 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
And if you look at the footage there are what, five or six thugs on top of the shooting victim? He was already subdued.
DHS by putting out the narrative leaked to Fox automatically raises questions about validity of its statements.
📺 bsky.app/profile/nikk...
DHS by putting out the narrative leaked to Fox automatically raises questions about validity of its statements.
📺 bsky.app/profile/nikk...
It's pretty clear that Grandpa Chaos wants to collapse the economy of both nations 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 just because of his insatiable need to exact punishment against people or countries that won't submit.
The ball is in the slow, cowardly court of SCOTUS to rule on his "tariff powers."
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The ball is in the slow, cowardly court of SCOTUS to rule on his "tariff powers."
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Trump one week ago: "It's a good thing for him [Carney] to sign a trade deal. If he can get a deal with China, he should do that."
Trump today: "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products".
🎥 Credit AdamJSchwarz via 𝕏
Trump today: "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products".
🎥 Credit AdamJSchwarz via 𝕏
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
It's pretty clear that Grandpa Chaos wants to collapse the economy of both nations 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 just because of his insatiable need to exact punishment against people or countries that won't submit.
The ball is in the slow, cowardly court of SCOTUS to rule on his "tariff powers."
📺 bsky.app/profile/team...
The ball is in the slow, cowardly court of SCOTUS to rule on his "tariff powers."
📺 bsky.app/profile/team...
The regime's Gestapo *will* continue to kill The People.
Angry letters, social media posts, bad polls, even courts — have not stopped the Trump/Miller terror campaign.
A one-sided war, funded by our tax dollars (incl D votes!).
This is a war against The People. Who will stop it?
📺 is.gd/cIgClq
Angry letters, social media posts, bad polls, even courts — have not stopped the Trump/Miller terror campaign.
A one-sided war, funded by our tax dollars (incl D votes!).
This is a war against The People. Who will stop it?
📺 is.gd/cIgClq
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The regime's Gestapo *will* continue to kill The People.
Angry letters, social media posts, bad polls, even courts — have not stopped the Trump/Miller terror campaign.
A one-sided war, funded by our tax dollars (incl D votes!).
This is a war against The People. Who will stop it?
📺 is.gd/cIgClq
Angry letters, social media posts, bad polls, even courts — have not stopped the Trump/Miller terror campaign.
A one-sided war, funded by our tax dollars (incl D votes!).
This is a war against The People. Who will stop it?
📺 is.gd/cIgClq
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
I'd only add, if you vote to fund ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You're also complicit
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I'd only add, if you vote to fund ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You're also complicit
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🚨 "A man was shot & killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis early Sat morning, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. Witnesses say the man was struck multiple times in the chest & taken to hospital after CPR was performed at the scene."
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🚨 "A man was shot & killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis early Sat morning, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. Witnesses say the man was struck multiple times in the chest & taken to hospital after CPR was performed at the scene."
🧾 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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🚨 "A man was shot & killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis early Sat morning, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. Witnesses say the man was struck multiple times in the chest & taken to hospital after CPR was performed at the scene."
🧾 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
🚨 "A man was shot & killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis early Sat morning, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. Witnesses say the man was struck multiple times in the chest & taken to hospital after CPR was performed at the scene."
🧾 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
🔥 "At no time during his detention was he allowed to speak with an attorney, [Army vet William] Vermie told ABC News, even though he said that he later learned that his wife had contacted one for him, who had been attempting to speak with him."
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🧾 abcnews.go.com/US/army-vet-...
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 AM
🔥 "At no time during his detention was he allowed to speak with an attorney, [Army vet William] Vermie told ABC News, even though he said that he later learned that his wife had contacted one for him, who had been attempting to speak with him."
🧾 abcnews.go.com/US/army-vet-...
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