"The Intercept found a gulf between how the Colquitt County Sheriffโ€™s Office presented the operation to the public and what actually happened. Rather than serving existing criminal warrants, local authorities conducted traffic stops, arrested people without licenses, and sent information about the detainees to DHS. Only then, after the men were in custody, did the federal agency issue warrants for their arrest."

theintercept.com/2025/07/09/geโ€ฆ

Iโ€™m going to tell you a story that represents my best explanation for how America has fallen into this depressing condition. Itโ€™s a story that draws heavily on the thinking of Alasdair MacIntyre, the great moral philosopher, who died in May at age 94. Itโ€™s a story that tries to explain how Western culture evolved to the point where millions of usโ€”and not just Republicans and Trump supportersโ€”have been left unable to make basic moral judgments.

Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?

archive.ph/KX2gk#selection-659โ€ฆ

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I think I understand you, but that's not what the essay seems to be talking about.

The author seems to be trying to suggest that the Enlightenment brought about a form of secular thinking that "thinned" morality to the point where people don't have a strong enough guiding belief system to prevent them from doing bad things.

However it seems to me the average MAGA person is a "fundamental" "Christian" of some sort. (I use quotes around those words because there are many variations and they may not all mean the same thing as traditional Christianity). They claim to have extremely strong "god"-linked morals, right down to many being "right-to-lifers" and bible pushers.

Meanwhile what seems to have actually happened in the USA is that all these "fundamental" "Christian" MAGA people have chosen to ignore each and every immoral thing (based on their own "Christian" morals!) that Trump has done and continues to do.

So I think the essay misses the mark entirely. It doesn't answer the question at all.

I don't even think that they believe "Trump is Good" -- they just like the smarmy arse, as if he is one of them.

Now part of that is probably due to what some call "celebrity culture", which may actually be a fallout of the distant past Enlightenment.

How it's all connected, I'm not sure, but the essay doesn't answer that either.

#Chinaโ€™s #coal heartland fighting for a greener future | China | The Guardian


theguardian.com/world/2025/julโ€ฆ

#Environment #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #Remewables

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โ˜ ๏ธ Mardi 8 juillet : Jour noir pour la biodiversitรฉ avec le vote de la Loi Duplomb.

Par petites logiques รฉlectoralistes ou grandes ambitions dรฉmesurรฉes, une majoritรฉ de dรฉputรฉโ€ขeโ€ขs ont choisi un avenir bien sombre en rรฉ-introduisant des pratiques agricoles d'un autre temps...

Cherโ€ขeโ€ขs dรฉputรฉโ€ขeโ€ขs de "Renaissance", du RN, du Modem, d'Horizons et du groupe LIOT : on ne vous oublie pas !
#loiduplomb = #LoiPesticides

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โš ๏ธ Day 34 / The bunker.
Style is not a fitting room.
Not everything that looks good belongs to you.
Not every style will fit you like skin.
Because style isnโ€™t packaging โ€”
itโ€™s the expression of an inner rhythm.
Style demands honesty.
It doesnโ€™t tolerate imitation.
It wonโ€™t work if you take someone elseโ€™s
and hope it suddenly becomes your own.
True style isnโ€™t chosen โ€” itโ€™s assembled.
From fragments. From wounds. From memories.
Through searching. Through mistakes.
Thro . . . continue in istagram

๐Ÿ“ข A leading member of Israelโ€™s legal team in the #genocide case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice #ICJ has publicly condemned the Israeli militaryโ€™s latest operation in #gaza as a โ€œmanifest war crimeโ€

๐Ÿ”น Prof Eyal Benvenisti co-authored a scathing legal opinion warning that Israelโ€™s policy of forcibly โ€œconcentrating and movingโ€ Gazaโ€™s population amounts to a grave breach of int'l law

#palestine

Source: Haaretz

๐Ÿ“ฐ Report: MEMO JUL-09

middleeastmonitor.com/20250709โ€ฆ

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Good point! Maybe it's their guilty pleasure/kink then โ€” when no one's watching they bring some intricate shoes home, put them in a bowl on the table and sit there staring ใ˜ใƒผใƒผใƒผ

And they keep the TV on just in case. So if someone comes in suddenly they'd get distracted and not sound the alarm for the anti-shoe-at-home patrol ๐Ÿฅด

"If you don't start using AI you're going to be left behind."

Nope, we're going to leave your ass behind. We'll keep automating with testable, repeatable, infrastructure-as-code. Our repos will be well documented by engineers, well organized, and easy to understand. We'll keep honing our skills while you generate copious slop. Oh, and take your poorly veiled threat and and shove it way back up your ass where it belongs. </rant>

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Last night, eastern Gaza burned under endless fire.
Explosions shook the earth. Homes vanished.
The blood in the streets hasnโ€™t dried.

While the world talks politics and aid,
we bury a hundred loved ones a day.
Hundreds more lose limbs, families, hope.

This isnโ€™t war. Itโ€™s a massacre.

Enough. Stop the killing. Let Gaza live.

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:underheart: ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Stand with my family: chuffed.org/project/121561-urgโ€ฆ

#gaza #palestine #genocide

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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are crammed into a fraction of their land, living with โ€œless personal space than detainees at Guantanamo,โ€ according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Euro-Med Monitor said that โ€œeach person in Gaza now has just 24 mยฒ โ€“ about the space of a Guantanamo cell. But these arenโ€™t prisoners. Theyโ€™re civilians trapped in tents, rubble, and sewage, under siege and fire.โ€

qudsnen.co/palestinians-in-gazโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Fascism comes in many flavors; the German Nazi version of the 1930s is the worse.

Why would anyone expect that the American version of fascism would unfold like the German or the Italian? It is unfolding more like Austria under Orban as the Republican Party promised.

Smith makes the utilitarian argument that it's bad for social justice to call our system fascism. That may be true but it would be more beneficial to hear how whatever is happening to our country now can be reversed and defeated.

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๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ Just had a short conversation with a young man, who quit his service at the #berlin police to protest for #palestine, which is a pretty courageous step in today's #germany

He's now in front of the parliament with his smartphone recording events. Will keep you informed, what's gonna happen with the #protest.

Right now there are just a couple of tents. I hope they can give me any social links, they are not on mastodon yet.

๐Ÿ”” w/updates, if available

#civilsociety #law
#gaza #genocide

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I love how smart these AI technologies are. They understand that "bigger" for cities can be ambiguous, refer to either the population or the area. It's also great that it's showing the sources in the upper corner, and displaying the basic facts.

Small minus on consistency and correctness, but other than that, really a great answer.

#google #ai #googleaioverview

Shariah: The Scariest Thing You Don't Understand | Dr. Safiyyah Ally


youtu.be/0Fd3CKTmmvA?si=swpaymโ€ฆ

#Shariah #ShariahLaw #Islam #SafiyyahAlly

in reply to Sunyata โ˜ธ ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป โ˜ฎ

ุณูŽู„ูŽุงู…

This is a good post. She makes a lot of good points and clarifies some important things. The part about the actual translation of the term unveiled some details that I wasn't aware of previously.

Some things were off, however. The notion that legal interpretation 'evolves' isn't quite right. It is more the case that it adapts.

Unfortunately, she does make a significant error in stating that the Shari'ah and Islam are not a threat to democracy (Liberal Democracy, Republicanism, etc.). It most assuredly is. So in this, I agree more with Islam's apparent 'detractors' or critics than I do with the presenter here.

Overall, though, she does quite an adroit job of revealing Islamic jurisprudence and its ethical framework to those who are interested in the topic.

โ€œGive me a piece of breadโ€ฆ Iโ€™m hungry.โ€
In a heartbreaking scene that captures the suffering of children under the weight of war in Gaza, a little boy lying on the ground, soaked in his own blood turns to his injured sister and, with a faint, broken voice, whispers: โ€œGive me a piece of breadโ€ฆ Iโ€™m hungry.โ€
A wounded child, covered in blood, asking his wounded sister for bread because heโ€™s hungryโ€ฆ What kind of hell are we living in?
#gaza #israel #mastodon #Palestine
gofund.me/6d3bce17

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With a ceasefire yet to be achieved, the United Nations warns that Gazaโ€™s fuel shortage has reached a critical point, pushing hospitals already under strain to the brink.

The Israeli military has also intensified its bombardment of the enclave.

At least 29 Palestinians have been killed since early Wednesday.

youtube.com/watch?v=k8YNUztpo0โ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Another day, another story of toxic sludge cover upโ€ฆadmire the Guardianโ€™s tenacity on this story.

We need headโ€™s to rollโ€ฆthese obscenely powerful water company bosses, Environment Agency stooges and scientifically illiterate government ministers need to be held accountable for mass poisoning.

Itโ€™s time their actions were recognised as criminal. Otherwise what will change?

theguardian.com/environment/20โ€ฆ

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#Labour have created the legislation to criminalise these water company bosses for polluting our riversโ€ฆ

gov.uk/government/news/pollutiโ€ฆ

But did they bother to include provision for polluting our farmland?

And maybe bodies other than the Environment Agency and Ofwat need to be able to level charges at the senior management of water companiesโ€ฆbecause it looks like theyโ€™ve all been colluding for some time.

#WaterPollution
#ToxicSludge

In an address to the Human Rights Council on JUN17, Ms. Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry, condemned the ongoing and โ€œmost ruthless, prolonged, and widespread attack against the Palestinian people since 1948.โ€

The Commission accused Israel of weaponizing cultural heritage and urged the international community to fulfill its legal obligations under international law.

#warcrimes
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#palestine
#genocide
#un

๐Ÿ“ฒ Video: UnisPal JUL-09

youtube.com/watch?v=ucxyxynmd7โ€ฆ

UK in a changing Europe: Intergovernmental relations and UK-EU policy
ukandeu.ac.uk/intergovernmentaโ€ฆ

It's not surprising, but sobering and alarming:

After members of the new German gvmt cast doubts on ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช's climate target, claiming it is too strict, chancellor Merz was asked today in the Parliament's Questioning Time (by the Greens) whether he can unequivocally declare that ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช stands by it constitutionally mandated target of climate neutrality in 2045. Merz absolutely could not get himself to say that. Instead he gave answers that I cannot find satisfactory:

(cont'd)
1/2

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1) He declared that ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช stands behind intl. agreements but avoided the question on the ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช target
2) launched into the denialist trope that ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช has just 1% of ppl & 2% of emissions, so its efforts make barely a diff (wow - the EU, US & China cause half of all emissions)
3) welcomed reducing emissions abroad rather than at home (used for fake reductions)
4) promoted the trope that climate policies can't be allowed to cause "deindustrialization" (sugg. that's what it leads to; the opposite is true)

2/2

...รงa va bien se passer: du Covid 19 au Traitรฉ de l'OMS.

A 48 minutes, Corinne #Lalo donne des dรฉtails sur l'OMS et le nouveau traitรฉ pandรฉmique mouture 2 adoptรฉ

youtu.be/LnigBvAGMCw

#mรฉdecine #santรฉ #totalitarisme #OMS #RSI #pandรฉmie #couillonavirus #covid #covid-19 #pharmacovigilance #vaccinovigilance

phosh 0.48.0 is out ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ“ฑ:

We have some new features, quality of life improvements, under the hood work and ๐Ÿ› fixes, check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.48.0โ€ฆ for details or see ๐Ÿ‘‡ for a short ๐Ÿงต

๐Ÿ™ to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

in reply to Guido Gรผnther

I installed the latest postmarketOS and found it to be missing, which is why I asked in this release announcement.

I'm guessing that there has been no changes in this release to improve this?

I also really disliked not having navigation buttons on screen, so while discoverability may be forced, it seems inferior to having buttons in my experience.

On screen buttons are predictable and accessible - gesture navigation is invisible and hard to understand, given no affordances.

in reply to Guido Gรผnther

The tour is a good explainer that IMHO should be shipped in full in every distribution (e.g., IIRC @postmarketOS ship a shorter, customized one). But the accessibility issues for people with sensoric or motoric difficulties remain. IIRC, old Phosh was all taps to get to the launcher/multitasking view (swipe up) or quick actions/notifications (swipe down) and if we attach a pointing device, we still have the close buttons on apps. This old way could be all @yoasif wants. @phosh
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@postmarketOS I've seen many people praise the early Phosh interface for everything being an obvious tap away and that there's no need for performing swipes to use it. At the same time lots of people (perhaps more) complained that they couldn't swipe ๐Ÿซฉ
Swipes solve some issues and we're in much better place now than we were without them, but I think it may be worth contemplating on how to bring back the possibility of swipeless operation, even if behind an a11y flag
in reply to 1peter10

That said, I recognize that one can't just bring the old stuff back (and come up with a visual design that makes clear what to tap for what just like that), and that an additional mode also requires extra testing on every change/release etc. Still, it's IMHO really worth considering (accessibility always is!), and it may even get some use by people who don't strictly need it (just like high contrast themes do). I don't want to put stuff on your plate or make demands though! @yoasif @phosh
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Wollen Sie die Welt wirklich brennen sehen, Herr Merz? CDU & SPD verstรคndigen sich auf Rรผckschritte beim Klimaschutz. Sind wir Grรผnen die Einzigen, die fรผr eine lebenswerte Zukunft auf unserem Planeten kรคmpfen? @katdro bei ihrer heutigen Rede im #Bundestag ๐Ÿ‘‡

#Bundestag #Klimaschutz #Merz

in reply to Grรผne im Bundestag ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

What do you are? Your participation in the government was to increase military spending. Your participation was to fuel the war. Your representative, Baerbok, is a hardcore nazi which led your govs relationships to the point of collapse. Your Capital loves your party because you are the best whitewash for the damage it creates in social relationships and in the climate.
Yes, you are the ones!
@katdro

#Sudan
"Die grรถรŸte Migrationskrise, รผber die niemand spricht"

volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/miโ€ฆ

Due to government staffing cuts, the USDA team were unable to analyse pesticides in the hives and asked bee experts at Cornell University to carry out the research, with the results still to be published.
Experts are concerned that successive loss of honeybee colonies could affect food security as the insects pollinate more than 100 commercial crops across North America
theguardian.com/environment/20โ€ฆ
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I had Windows on a 4 Tb hard drive in my old Mac Pro and I could use only 2 Tb โ€” because Apple's early EFI can't boot Windows natively, only with BIOS emulation โ€” so MBR it is. Having half the space wasted is very annoying. And yes, there is GPT with protective MBR, but in practice this configuration is very frail โ€” Windows updates could ruin the partition table, they usually create a recovery partition at the end of the disk so if system in your main partition stops booting you could boot off the recovery one. And software updates update not only the system in the main partition, but the recovery one too and if that partition isn't big enough to accommodate the updateโ€ฆ A new bigger one gets created! ๐Ÿคฆ
I had to keep the partition table backed up and a few times I had to restore it by hand because the newly created recovery partition wasn't in the backed up GPT table ๐Ÿ˜ฉ
in reply to mirabilos

It's not as bad when it works. I really enjoy being able to just copy the bootloader as EFI binary โ€” as a file, instead of having to write into a specially defined sector, being able to have multiple binaries in one partition, so I can boot several operating systems without having to use a separate bootloader for it โ€” yes, booting particular operating systems requires their own extras, but it can all happily reside in the same small partition.
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I was messing with x86 real mode assembly programming in my teens, but I've never went that far. And when it comes to MBRโ€ฆ I once wanted to change the order of partitions in the partition table โ€” most don't care what order they have, so I didn't know where to look, nowadays you can easily export the partition table with gdisk, edit the file and recreate the partition table with different order โ€” again with gdisk. But at the time partitioning software was very limited so I wrote a C program that rearranged them ๐Ÿ˜…

It's not that it's complex, but why bother? Sure, UEFI has its shortcomings, but having this higher level of abstraction โ€” at least having a concept of partitions at this boot stage, being able to work with filesโ€ฆ I think it's good!

I recently received an email that at first glance appeared to be a well-crafted phishing message, warning that my Microsoft Entra ID was going to expire in a month if I didn't make a purchase. The only piece of information in the message was my supposed Entra ID.

After checking with Microsoft it appears this automated message is legitimate, and it is in reference to a Microsoft Teams trial account I created for a day and then abandoned. But apart from the Entra ID, which isn't mentioned in any prior communications from Microsoft, there is zero context for the user.

How hard would it be for Microsoft to include just a tiny bit more information in each message? Like, "Hey, this message is about an account created 5 years ago, for Teams" or something. Otherwise these marketing messages train users to fall for phishing scams.

this video is bullshit this kike is ranting about mostly just people supporting trans rights and then one, ONE guy who is a convicted sex offender which sure call it bad but he was convicted he served his time i dont see how its relevant here it's just more kike chud grifter bullshit complaining about "degeneracy" of shit like, grouped among pedos, anybody lgbt, or shit like that, fucking nazi and he's ending the video by implying that anybody who disagrees with him or criticizes him for saying the linux community is a degenerate disgusting criminal haven for pedophilic sex crime must be a pedophile child rapist themselves i wish i could bash this fucking kikes jew skull in go back to talking about linux you hebrew piece of shit 109 countries just wasn't enough expelling wasn't enough i hope you die you probably hate autistic people too not just trannies fuck you nigger ๐Ÿ–•

youtu.be/zFXlvrjzYE0

After years of dominance in #ESETโ€™s top #infostealer statistics, the era of #AgentTesla has come to an end. It finished H1 2025 in fourth place, its numbers having decreased by 57%. The reason? It is no longer under active development.
The threat actors behind Agent Tesla have reportedly lost access to the servers with the malwareโ€™s source code. A successor appeared almost immediately โ€“ another #MaaS threat, known as #SnakeStealer or #SnakeKeylogger, has claimed the number one spot.
Recommended as a suitable replacement directly in Agent Teslaโ€™s Telegram channel, SnakeStealer now takes up almost a fifth of all infostealer detections registered by ESET telemetry. Between H2 2024 and H1 2025, its detections more than doubled.
If you want to find out more information about this changing of the guard in the infostealer threat landscape, head on over to #ESETThreatReport: welivesecurity.com/en/eset-resโ€ฆ

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) guarantees the right to life for individuals, not for states.

The Nuremberg Trials' adjudicated that no group can deny another's right to life and self-determination.

farid.ps/articles/israel_does_โ€ฆ

@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@a.gup.pe
#Palestine #Gaza

today i learned that the average person has no clue what is going on on their computer and just clicks on stuff until it works, no understanding of how an operating system works whatsoever

i thought they would at least know what a driver or a binary is

Via @blub
social.bund.de/@destatis/11482โ€ฆ

Der Unfallatlas zeigt auf der Stadtautobahn Warnemรผnde stadtauswรคrts keinen Unfallschwerpunkt.
Komischerweise steht da aber stadtauswรคrts gerne mal ein Blitzer.

Karma has a sense of humor...

"โ€˜Defund the policeโ€™ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: โ€˜The cops didnโ€™t do sโ€”!โ€™"

nypost.com/2024/12/08/us-news/โ€ฆ

'Israeli Massacres Of Starving Palestinians Seeking Food Aid โ€“ Comparing The BBC And Haaretz. Remarkably, in the aftermath of the Haaretz report, the BBC website has simply stopped reporting Israelโ€™s food aid massacres...Bโ€™Tselem reported 130 killed in Gaza on 3 July, 104 killed on 4 July, 86 killed on 5 July, 120 killed on 6 July and 89 killed on 7 July. None of this could be guessed from BBC page.'
open.substack.com/pub/medialenโ€ฆ
#gaza #palestine #zionist @BBCNews #warcrimes #genocide #murder

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โ€œAt the end of this process, I prepared a โ€œManifesto for Democratic Societyโ€, which has to be evaluated as a historical transformation. [โ€ฆ] I have no doubt that it will epitomize the historical tradition of manifestos.โ€

Weird flex but OK.

bianet.org/haber/pkk-leader-ocโ€ฆ

At least 20 Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Wednesday following two separate airstrikes carried out by Israeli warplanes in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis and al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, according to Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal.

Basal said, "Paramedics recovered at least 20 martyrs, including at least six children and two women, along with dozens of injuries."

english.almayadeen.net/news/poโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Heads up #Sharkey #admins! If you're not #caching #remote #media (a'la #mastodon) be sure to go into your Files Management page and clear out your remotely cached files anyway!

Holy crap I cleared up over 500GB of remotely cached media across all my #instances in doing so.

I guess at one point I inadvertently enabled remote media caching and forgot to turn it off or something happened and it still continued to cache for a while?
#SharkeyAdmin #FediAdmin

An Israeli military court judge proposed on Monday that five reservist soldiers, accused of raping and abusing a Palestinian detainee from Gaza, enter a mediation process, one year after their arrest at the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility.

Last year, a vidoe emerged of a gang rape of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert.

qudsnen.co/israeli-judge-propoโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ•Ž ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ โ˜ฎ๏ธ
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza โ€“ and planning to force Palestinians into โ€œa mass concentration campโ€, a leading legal expert has said.

Baroness Helena Kennedy, a KC and director of the International Bar Associationโ€™s Human Rights Institute, was questioned on her use of the term to describe Israelโ€™s plans by BBC presenter Sarah Montague.

thenational.scot/news/25300487โ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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