Luke Russert
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Host & Creative Director of “ @MSNBC Live.” 🦚 Author of NYT/WSJ Bestseller “ @LookForMeThere .” 📕 Alum @SiriusXM STA’04/BC’08 #BillsMafia
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“It also forced out some hard truths about losing my dad, my relationship with my mom, grief, inadequacy and ignorance. Though it's my own unique story, the themes I touch on are universal. I hope somebody reads it and feels a little less lost."
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I cannot stop thinking about how close the 1-2-3 in the line of presidential succession, VP-Speaker-Pro tempore came to being physically harmed on Weds. The terrorists had operable bombs, killed an officer and ransacked difficult to access areas of the Capitol. We need answers.
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13 years ago today we lost my dad. We miss him. We miss Gwen too. MTP Heaven Edition!
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Good morning, the hypothetical Biden court packing scenario is getting more media attention than the POTUS & VP not commiting to a peaceful transfer of power shall they lose. That is wrong. Nothing else matters.
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Doing my service for my news brethren—after Biden entered his car and the traveling press corps left, he got back out and donated money to the parish coat drive after Saturday Mass.
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One last thing I can’t shake, had capable foreign actors been embedded with the terrorists, they could have killed half of Congress, held hostages for ransom/prisoner release and stolen countless hard drives etc. We were so damn vulnerable and so lucky it wasn’t even worse.
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The president is 73. His opponent is 77. The Speaker of the House is 80. The Senate Majority Leader is 78. The average age of the House is 58, in the Senate it is 62--one of the oldest Congresses in U.S. History. Stop thinking this isn't part of the problem.
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The day she retires, Nancy Pelosi goes down in history as the most powerful woman in the history of American politics. That is fact.
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Okay----real talk thread----this Nunes story is insane. In my 7 years covering the Hill, never saw something like this from Intel Chair
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If NYT reports are accurate, that some Capitol Police willfully gave the terrorists directions to Leader Schumer’s office, that is appalling. If WaPo report that off duty police were flashing their badges as they stormed the Capitol and let through is accurate, that is appalling.
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Few Capitol Police fired shots when the force was totally justified—why? National Guard was slow walked as Leader Hoyer called Gov Hogan of Maryland pleading for help-why? Why was the Capitol deliberately left so vulnerable? We were such important leaders left on their own?
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People writing “this is the most political
#SOTU
ever.” Donald Trump gave Rush Limbaugh The Presidential Medal of Freedom at his last State of the Union!
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Super Sky Point to Dad! Tim Russert would’ve turned 72 today. Go Bills!
#BillsMafia
#SuperBowl
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Too many of us are too conspiratorial these days but something is not right. VP-Speaker-Pro tempore should not have been so endangered, esp given how much was known about the intentions of the terrorists. We’re in a Constitutional crisis, thank God our line of succession lives.
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Feels good to say Merry Christmas all! Just like it felt in (mom says I spoke at 2) ‘87, ‘88, ‘89, ‘90, ‘91, ‘92, ‘93, ‘94, ‘95, ‘96, ‘97, ‘98, ‘99, ‘00, ‘01, ‘02, ‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘10, ‘11, ‘12, ‘13, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16 🙏🏽🎅🏽🇺🇸
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Oh boy-Kavanaugh is going full angry belittled marginalized white man. Tough sell for today.
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This isn’t just for
#Buffalo
it’s for every
#NFL
fan that had to endure the media fawning over Belichick, “The Patriot Way,” the cheating, the favorable refs, the Boston arrogance…this beat down is for you! We love you. Get on board.
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My father used to say “Go get ‘em!” It’s an Rust Belt Irish Catholic kind of way of saying, “Give ‘em hell!” It’s not meant to go after Putin, it’s more of a “let’s go forward, try hard and win America!”
#Sotu
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The President of the United States refused to condemn white supremacists and then told them to “stand back and stand by.” Please don’t forget that. Let it sink in. Feel that pain.
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“Buddy, if we’re ever separated, just look for me there,” he says, pointing at a hot dog stand with a big memorable Oriole bird logo. He pauses and looks me up and down. “But we won’t ever be separated.”
#FathersDay
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This picture has brought me so much joy over so many years. Thank you Kobe. You’ll never be forgotten.
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A black man from Georgia won a Senate seat today.
The new high-water mark of the Confederacy
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Guys, humbled excited to share this personal journey with all of you. Thank you
@HarperHorizon
for the chance. 📕
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I'll believe that right now
@gwenifill
and my father are grilling James Madison on the need for the Electoral College in '16. Love ya Gwen.
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Thanks for reading. As a recovering journalist who covered Capitol Hill for 7 years and saw all safeguards & norms eroded, I’ve been worried about this for awhile.
Why we should all be concerned about the peaceful transfer of power if Trump were to lose a close election in 2020. This isn't a tinfoil hat theory, the words and actions are backing it up.
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“You want courage
I'll show you courage you can understand.” I’ll never forget visiting Hỏa Lò Prison in Hanoi and seeing where John McCain endured for 5 and half years. Refused early release of this hellhole because his brothers deserved to go before him. God speed. 🇺🇸
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Happy 71st birthday to Tim Russert!Here’s a
#FlashbackFriday
gem, early 1970s looking fresh in his rec league baseball uniform. Either Buffalo or Cleveland. If you know the team sponsor on the front give a shout!
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2020 sucked. The
@BuffaloBills
were a bright spot that honestly carried me. This team is built well, coached well and loved well, we’ll be back.
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The stories coming out of Buffalo, of neighbors shoveling driveways and plowing roads so
#Bills
players can get to the airport…there is no bond, no community ethos like it in professional American sports. What a town. What a team.
#BillsMafia
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“I haven’t had this much fun since my last interrogation.”
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Happy to announce I’ve taken a position with the Washington Star as chief Senate Ways & Means Committee reporter. I’m now also an exclusive contributor to Current TV and developing digital shorts about the committee for Quibi. I’m back baby!
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Fly at 35,000ft and process the absurdity of this…historians in 50 years will go, “The party was so cultish that it even voted out the conservative daughter of the the country’s most conservative VP because she spoke out against an armed insurrection against the Capitol.”
Wyoming GOP votes to stop recognizing Cheney as a Republican
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6. Lastly, think of discipline Obama has had for 8 years to not just say publicly, "You race baiting motherf...." Looking forward to memoir
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“Still, time to start a new life in the palm trees
Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane
And if it doesn't work out, there'll never be any doubt
That the pleasure was worth all the pain” Thank you
#JimmyBuffett
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One month ago today, a murderous terrorist mob sacked the Capitol at the behest of the previous president & his Congressional allies. To date, not a SINGLE politician who encouraged violence against their colleagues and a coup against 🇺🇸 has faced any serious consequences.
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@LukeRussert
7. Lastly, who was the Trump Campaign talking to that got them swept up? Nunes might want to care about that...
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I’d like to tell a story about the Blizzard of 1977 that hit Buffalo. To date, still the worst the city has ever seen. It should serve as a reminder that when anybody says a “federal office holder can’t help re a state issue” that they’re full of BS.
#CruzToCancun
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Why we should all be concerned about the peaceful transfer of power if Trump were to lose a close election in 2020. This isn't a tinfoil hat theory, the words and actions are backing it up.
This is the second time Trump has suggested that the military, the police and Bikers for Trump could be mobilized to go after opponents of his. He also mentioned those three at a midterm rally in November while talking about Antifa.
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Imagine if Trump cared this much about victims when a white dude with bump stocks killed 59 folks in Las Vegas.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The old man loved Patty’s on a Sunday because he could enjoy himself after the show.
#slainte
☘️ 🍻
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If a woman or minority had an opening statement like that, they would be labeled hysterical and deranged. If you cannot see that as a white man--God love ya.
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No joke, when I traveled in the Middle East, these were the type of videos that played on loop on the Saudi/Qatar/UAE TV channels.
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5. History should show the racist repugnant disgusting thing that is birtherism, is not just Trump-it's ALL
#GOP
who stood by & did nothing
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Cassidy Hutchinson is a patriot. She showed more bravery in the last hour than any of the men she worked on the Hill or in the WH. Pray for her safety.
#January6thHearings
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Happy birthday to the dark skinned refugee who told us to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, care for the sick & visit those in prison. “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Merry Christmas.
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Nunes, briefs Ryan, then runs to the WH to brief Trump. Then speaks to reporters without briefing the Intel Comt!?!?!?
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Yup.
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2. Trump was carnival barker re birtherism but in fact the entire
#GOP
was behind it by staying silent and letting belief grow among base
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Reading about this bogus Roy Moore challenge, my biggest fear is that in 2020 a losing Trump actively attacks & delegitimizes the peaceful transfer of power, the most positive and fragile enduring aspect of our democracy.
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"What really shook me was the fact that if Clarence agreed with or was even aware of his wife's efforts, all three branches of government would be tied to the stop the steal movement. All three branches."
Riggleman: Meadows' text trove revealed a "roadmap to an attempted coup" - 60 Minutes - CBS News
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Justice Ginsburg’s letter to Tim Russert thanking him for his help with her nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980.
#RBG
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5. Nunes acting on a "source" seems to have used his extremely important position to give Trump light cover on a manic tweet.
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This just warms my heart-35 degrees in DC and the line to pay respects to President Bush 41 is over 3.5 hours long per security. It keeps growing. This is America. 🇺🇸
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6. This is very dangerous. I have trouble seeing somebody like Mike Rogers doing this. Intel Chairmen don't act like this.
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Young people cannot end or fix racism overnight. But I promise you, we can do a much better job than these elderly leaders that don't understand the moment, weigh us down with their baggage and won't get the hell off the stage.
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Today my dad would have turned 67. In '99 he interviewed Trump for MTP. He'd be honored if you gave it 20 min. Thx.
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@LukeRussert
1. This week every intel agency worth a damn has told Congress that Obama absolutely did NOT spy/tap Trump's phone
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For real change in America, we need a MASSIVE generational shift. The younger generations cannot continue to be pawns in the culture wars of old folks.
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Still true.
#GRAMMYs
Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” is never rated high enough on top 500 songs of all time lists. That is all.
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Amanda Gorman just delivered the finest American prose spoken in public in a quite a long while. 🇺🇸
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Working on a project and had a free afternoon. I think I’m the first Russert at a
#MLB
game in Cleveland since my old man was here for 10 cent beer night in 1974. They’re $9.50 now but vibe remains. Cleveland rocks! 🎸
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Same analysis as the DNC speech night in 2020.
#SOTU
Never doubt an Irish Catholic with a chip on their shoulder.
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Sen. Katie Britt is delivering this speech with the cadence and theatrics of a TikTok video. Looks like it’s written to be chopped up into 100 different social media quips.
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It’s really cool that 2 billion people around the world saw a biracial baptized Catholic American woman become a princess and make the apotheosis of white nobility so much better by her presence and by the customs of her own family & country. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🙌🏽
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I’ll support “extreme vetting” after we have “mild vetting” that would’ve allowed cops to ask LV shooter why he bought 33 rifles in 1 yr 🇺🇸
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This is beautiful. This is brilliant. This is Irish Catholic excellence. Tonight I will have a few creamers at a proper pub and watch this 10x. ☘️
#RipShaneMacGowan
Plus: Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform ‘Fairytale of New York’ as a reflection after Communion.
Can honestly say this is the first time I’ve ever seen dancing in the aisles at a funeral…
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Maybe I’ve been out of the game too long but why go to the mat so hard for Kavanaugh? Wouldn’t sidelining him and picking 46 year old Amy Coney Barrett be easier at this point? There’s enough white dudes from Prep on the SCOTUS.
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Amen. Onto September 2021.
#BillsMafia
As my hero Tim Russert says in this clip: one day it’s going to happen. One day, the
@BuffaloBills
are gonna win the damn Super Bowl. If not in his lifetime, then in
@LukeRussert
‘s. “We’re gonna get it.”
#billsmafia
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Joe Buck is rightfully saying flat out that nothing else matters besides the condition of Damar Hamlin and that playing is unfathomable. Hope the NFL listens.
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Something I truly believe after seeing it in action around the world. A lot of 🇺🇸 problems would get better with compulsory national service. At 18 you’re required to give 2 years to military, Peace Corps, Americorps, JobCorps etc. It’d be an equalizer, give people purpose & help
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Never doubt an Irish Catholic with a chip on their shoulder.
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It’s 2nd & 10. 2 timeouts. Down by 3. No need for endzone shots. You dump down to Motor here, he likely gets first down and gets it inside the 10. Take what’s given.
#BillsMafia
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Lastly, I’m all for dialogue. We don’t need any more millennials dying in pointless conflicts. However, if you called Obama Satanic for dealing with Iran & going to Cuba you aren’t allowed to slurp Trump for his bromance with North Korea. 🇺🇸
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@LukeRussert
2. So Trump WH looks terrible because he lied and implied his predecessor committed a crime.
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Merry Christmas! Now let me torch your savings in 140 characters or less.
The only problem our economy has is the Fed. They don’t have a feel for the Market, they don’t understand necessary Trade Wars or Strong Dollars or even Democrat Shutdowns over Borders. The Fed is like a powerful golfer who can’t score because he has no touch - he can’t putt!
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Chain of command issues slowing National Guard response!? What the hell is the point of a trillion dollar a year military if we can’t protect our own Capitol?
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Josh Allen threw a pick! But guess what happened on the play before? Oh right
@NFLOfficiating
missed a blatant hold/PI that would’ve set up the Bills first and goal at the 1. Every week—fix this
@nflcommish
use an 👁️ in the sky 🛰️
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Came across this in the universe today. May they be free, fair and non-violent. 🙌🏽
#ElectionDay
🇺🇸
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Just saw victims of gun violence who were in the gallery weeping in Senate lobby after gun control amendments failed.
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"So get this Barry, they call for a vote at 3:30pm...and then yank the thing at 3:35pm!"
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True story-
@joekennedy
once tracked me down in the Capitol and confronted me re some Twitter comments about Brady & the Pats, said to me, “Brady is a constituent and I protect my constituents!”
#RealFan
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Seems like an appropriate time to tweet out a picture of the serving board I picked up at a Moscow souvenir shop during the World Cup.
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Just left a signed copy of
@LookForMeThere
inside Tim Russert’s favorite NYC bar. Free to a good home 😉
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@LukeRussert
3. So Nunes, gets a call from a "source" that claims intel agencies got "incidentally" picked up some stuff on Trump campaign?
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Brady gets shut out. Belichick gets rolled by Frank Reich. Merry Christmas America! 🎅🏽 🕺🏽 🎄
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If you came of age in the 90s/early00s nothing compared to a fresh EastBay catalog.
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My face lights up when I see old clips like this.
#FathersDay
can be tough, we don’t have to move on, but we can move forward—and know they’d want us to smile more than cry.
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You all doubted us. National media tried to anoint Miami every week. Refs screwed us routinely. But we prevailed! Remember who we are!!! It’s always substance over style in this life. Go Bills.
#BillsMafia
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Great line by the best
@miketirico
“If you want to text a Lions fan congrats on the playoff win. Do it, it’ll be the first they’ve ever gotten, texting wasn’t around the last time the Lions won a playoff game.”
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Reading how precise the intel has been for this Iranian attack really reinforces how much Oct 7th was a colossal intelligence failure that warrants way more examination than has been made public.
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If you’re that close and you miss this, you need to take medical leave or be fired because something is wrong with you. Cc
@NFLOfficiating
@nflcommish
And hi
@DOJCrimDiv
please review that ref’s financial transactions.
A pretty blatant horse-collar penalty missed here.
Josh Allen's jersey is ripped...
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The game is secondary at this point. It shouldn’t go on. Announcers, coaches, players and fans have never experienced something like this. We love you Damar.
#BillsMafia
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