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theleahfiles

@leahfiles

about 8 hours ago

The US is bombing bridges, power plants, and desalination plants inside Iran. The Pentagon's legal justification is, if the military has ever used a piece of civilian infrastructure, it's a valid target. Before expanding the target list to civilian infrastructure, Hegseth gutted the Pentagon office responsible for flagging civilian harm from 200 employees to fewer than 40. They removed the people whose job it was to say "don't bomb that, civilians use it" and then started bombing things civilians use. This is their playbook for the past year and a half. Geneva Academy experts are warning this meets the threshold for war crimes prosecution. International humanitarian law requires the military advantage to be proportional to civilian harm. Destroying a city's water supply is not proportional. Nobody voted for this. In fact, we voted for the opposite of this. Congress, you gonna grow a spine and do anything about this before you go out on vacation?

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@leahfiles

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Part 3 of TPUSA's fraud playbook: Stacy Sheridan. And spoiler alert, she ranks higher than Bowyer or Kolvet. Stacy Sheridan is TPUSA's inside fundraising boss AND she owns the outside firm the charity pays to raise its money. She sits on both sides of the same check. More than $88 million in donations has run through her hands, and her private companies quietly kept ~$5+ million of it. She is the highest-scoring name in this series so far. Who is Sheridan? Stacy Sheridan spent two decades as a professional fundraiser at Pepperdine, the Reagan Foundation, and the Gary Sinise Foundation. Turning Point then hired her as its Senior Advancement Director on a salary north of $180,000. Her job was to raise the charity's money. So she did, into companies she owns. Three of them, GSM Strategy, then Lionrock Ventures, then Cloverstone Ventures. Each one billed the charity she already worked for. Each one traced back to her only through another state's corporate records and her own home address, never as the owner of those companies on the tax return itself. As each drew scrutiny, it went dark and the next one appeared. She turned a nonprofit's donor base into a private revenue stream, made herself almost invisible on paper, and made herself indispensable in person. Today she sits at the right hand of TPUSA's new CEO, Erika Kirk, closer to the money than she has ever been. What she is doing: the four signatures of an inside job This looks like an insider-controlled fundraiser, a specific and well-documented form of self-dealing. It has four signatures, and Sheridan hits all four. 1. Same hand on both sides: the employee who helps decide who gets hired to raise the money owns the firm that gets hired to raise it. She is the buyer and the seller of the same service, sitting on both sides of a table with no one across from her. 2. Custody and control: she does not just get paid, she holds the donations. The money lands in her company's account first, and she is the one who counts it and reports the number to the IRS and to the people who gave it. The insider who profits is also the one keeping the books. 3. The relay: not one company. Three, in a chain. Each terminated or gone dark the moment it drew a reporter, each reborn in a more sheltered state than the last. The entities keep changing names but the owner never changes. 4. Concealment: the return never says she owns the firm it pays. You only learn that in another state's records. In Minnesota, Cloverstone, whose sole officer is Sheridan, registered under oath as an independent outside professional fundraiser. Based on the record, it is not. Individually, each can have an explanation. But if I have taught you one thing, it's that stacked is where the real picture is and stacked, they are the textbook architecture of running a charity for the private benefit of an insider. Let's look deeper into Sheridan's red flags: 1) Stacy Sheridan is a salaried TPUSA employee, its Senior Advancement Director. She also owns Cloverstone Ventures, the charity's number-one outside fundraiser. Confirmed in state corporate records. WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: the cleanest way to take from a charity is to never take from it, just sell to it. You do not touch the donation. You own the company the charity hires to collect it, and you set the price. Buyer and seller are the same hand, and every "fee" is a check she writes to herself. 2) Cloverstone is a custody fundraiser. In FY2025 it held custody of $19.3 million in donations, forwarded $18.8 million to the charity, and kept $482,568. Sheridan is also listed personally as a custody fundraiser, another $3.1 million through her own name. Over five years her firm has had custody of more than $88 million in donor money. WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: custody is the whole game. A normal vendor sends an invoice. A custody fundraiser holds the account the money lands in before the cause ever sees it. She is not a vendor, she is a tollbooth on her own employer's donations, counting the cash and reporting the one number nobody else can see. 3) She is paid as a fundraiser three ways off the same donors: through Cloverstone, under her own name, and as a salaried employee. Across the years her private companies have kept roughly $5 million in fees (Lionrock ~ $1.4 million, Cloverstone ~ $3.5 million, GSM ~ $200,000), on top of a six-figure salary. WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: you never take one big number that trips an audit. You take modest cuts off many angles of the same transaction you also control. Salary for being staff, company fees for being the vendor, personal billing for the third straw in the same cup. Sliced up, each looks fine. Stacked, it is a faucet she controls. 4) It is a relay of shell companies. GSM Strategy, then Lionrock, then Cloverstone. California's records show Lionrock is now terminated, and Cloverstone never registered in California at all. WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: you retire the entity the second it gets named in a story and reopen another one in a more sheltered state. Each new shell resets the trail to zero and strips one more public record. The money never stops. Only the name on it changes. The constant across all three is her. 5) On the tax return, Cloverstone reads as an ordinary top contractor. The return never says its owner is the charity's own development director. WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: the trick is to make the insider read as an outsider. Book the payment to what looks like a third-party firm on the federal form, and keep the one document that exposes it, the ownership record, in a different agency in a different state. Two systems that never touch, so the conflict never surfaces in one place. 6) To raise from Minnesotans, Cloverstone had to register with the Minnesota Attorney General as a professional fundraiser, post a $20,000 bond because it takes custody of donations, and file reports certified UNDER OATH by both the fundraiser and the charity. Registration #02304, now lapsed. WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: pick the lie. Either the "independent fundraiser" she swore to the State of Minnesota is really the charity's own development director, or the federal return that treats it as arm's-length is the false one. Both cannot be true. She is on both. How a charity actually loses over this A 501(c)(3) has one iron rule: it must be run for the public, not the private profit of its own insiders. When an insider makes money off the charity through a company she owns, an examiner runs three questions. Was it disclosed on Schedule L, the section built for exactly these insider deals? Was it approved by an independent board with the conflicted person out of the room? Was the price fair, or did the firm charge more than a normal outsider would? Here is what it can cost them. First, the scalpel: excess-benefit taxes under IRC Section 4958, a 25% excise tax on Sheridan personally, rising to 200% if she does not pay it back, plus a tax on the board members who signed off. Then the real penalty: a 501(c)(3) is flatly barred from letting its earnings benefit an insider, which is private inurement, an absolute prohibition. If the IRS concludes the charity is run for the private enrichment of the people who control it, it can revoke the exemption outright. Donations stop being deductible. The custody detail is what turns a conflict of interest into an inurement case: the insider who profits is also the one holding and counting the money. Some CYA: A conflict of interest is not automatically a crime. An insider-owned fundraiser can be legal IF it was disclosed on Schedule L, approved by an independent board with the conflicted person recused, and priced at a true market rate. That was not on the 990s I saw, but that is exactly what a review would test. No government agency has publicly questioned, investigated, or charged Stacy Sheridan; the questions here are mine, drawn from public filings. And most of the money she had custody of did reach the charity; the issue is the structure and the fees, not a claim that she pocketed the $88 million. I am not saying she stole anything. I am saying this is the exact setup regulators are trained to look for, and donors deserve to know their money passes through an employee's private company before it reaches the cause.

leahfiles's tweet photo. Part 3 of TPUSA's fraud playbook: Stacy Sheridan. And spoiler alert, she ranks higher than Bowyer or Kolvet.

Stacy Sheridan is TPUSA's inside fundraising boss AND she owns the outside firm the charity pays to raise its money. She sits on both sides of the same check. More than $88 million in donations has run through her hands, and her private companies quietly kept ~$5+ million of it. She is the highest-scoring name in this series so far.

Who is Sheridan?
Stacy Sheridan spent two decades as a professional fundraiser at Pepperdine, the Reagan Foundation, and the Gary Sinise Foundation. Turning Point then hired her as its Senior Advancement Director on a salary north of $180,000. Her job was to raise the charity's money. So she did, into companies she owns.

Three of them, GSM Strategy, then Lionrock Ventures, then Cloverstone Ventures. Each one billed the charity she already worked for. Each one traced back to her only through another state's corporate records and her own home address, never as the owner of those companies on the tax return itself. As each drew scrutiny, it went dark and the next one appeared. She turned a nonprofit's donor base into a private revenue stream, made herself almost invisible on paper, and made herself indispensable in person.

Today she sits at the right hand of TPUSA's new CEO, Erika Kirk, closer to the money than she has ever been.

What she is doing: the four signatures of an inside job
This looks like an insider-controlled fundraiser, a specific and well-documented form of self-dealing. It has four signatures, and Sheridan hits all four.
1. Same hand on both sides: the employee who helps decide who gets hired to raise the money owns the firm that gets hired to raise it. She is the buyer and the seller of the same service, sitting on both sides of a table with no one across from her.
2. Custody and control: she does not just get paid, she holds the donations. The money lands in her company's account first, and she is the one who counts it and reports the number to the IRS and to the people who gave it. The insider who profits is also the one keeping the books.
3. The relay: not one company. Three, in a chain. Each terminated or gone dark the moment it drew a reporter, each reborn in a more sheltered state than the last. The entities keep changing names but the owner never changes.
4. Concealment: the return never says she owns the firm it pays. You only learn that in another state's records. In Minnesota, Cloverstone, whose sole officer is Sheridan, registered under oath as an independent outside professional fundraiser. Based on the record, it is not.

Individually, each can have an explanation. But if I have taught you one thing, it's that stacked is where the real picture is and stacked, they are the textbook architecture of running a charity for the private benefit of an insider.

Let's look deeper into Sheridan's red flags:

1) Stacy Sheridan is a salaried TPUSA employee, its Senior Advancement Director. She also owns Cloverstone Ventures, the charity's number-one outside fundraiser. Confirmed in state corporate records.
WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: the cleanest way to take from a charity is to never take from it, just sell to it. You do not touch the donation. You own the company the charity hires to collect it, and you set the price. Buyer and seller are the same hand, and every "fee" is a check she writes to herself.

2) Cloverstone is a custody fundraiser. In FY2025 it held custody of $19.3 million in donations, forwarded $18.8 million to the charity, and kept $482,568. Sheridan is also listed personally as a custody fundraiser, another $3.1 million through her own name. Over five years her firm has had custody of more than $88 million in donor money.
WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: custody is the whole game. A normal vendor sends an invoice. A custody fundraiser holds the account the money lands in before the cause ever sees it. She is not a vendor, she is a tollbooth on her own employer's donations, counting the cash and reporting the one number nobody else can see.

3) She is paid as a fundraiser three ways off the same donors: through Cloverstone, under her own name, and as a salaried employee. Across the years her private companies have kept roughly $5 million in fees (Lionrock ~ $1.4 million, Cloverstone ~ $3.5 million, GSM ~ $200,000), on top of a six-figure salary.
WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: you never take one big number that trips an audit. You take modest cuts off many angles of the same transaction you also control. Salary for being staff, company fees for being the vendor, personal billing for the third straw in the same cup. Sliced up, each looks fine. Stacked, it is a faucet she controls.

4) It is a relay of shell companies. GSM Strategy, then Lionrock, then Cloverstone. California's records show Lionrock is now terminated, and Cloverstone never registered in California at all.
WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: you retire the entity the second it gets named in a story and reopen another one in a more sheltered state. Each new shell resets the trail to zero and strips one more public record. The money never stops. Only the name on it changes. The constant across all three is her.

5) On the tax return, Cloverstone reads as an ordinary top contractor. The return never says its owner is the charity's own development director.
WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: the trick is to make the insider read as an outsider. Book the payment to what looks like a third-party firm on the federal form, and keep the one document that exposes it, the ownership record, in a different agency in a different state. Two systems that never touch, so the conflict never surfaces in one place.

6) To raise from Minnesotans, Cloverstone had to register with the Minnesota Attorney General as a professional fundraiser, post a $20,000 bond because it takes custody of donations, and file reports certified UNDER OATH by both the fundraiser and the charity. Registration #02304, now lapsed.
WHY BAD ACTORS DO EXACTLY THIS: pick the lie. Either the "independent fundraiser" she swore to the State of Minnesota is really the charity's own development director, or the federal return that treats it as arm's-length is the false one. Both cannot be true. She is on both.

How a charity actually loses over this
A 501(c)(3) has one iron rule: it must be run for the public, not the private profit of its own insiders. When an insider makes money off the charity through a company she owns, an examiner runs three questions. Was it disclosed on Schedule L, the section built for exactly these insider deals? Was it approved by an independent board with the conflicted person out of the room? Was the price fair, or did the firm charge more than a normal outsider would?

Here is what it can cost them. First, the scalpel: excess-benefit taxes under IRC Section 4958, a 25% excise tax on Sheridan personally, rising to 200% if she does not pay it back, plus a tax on the board members who signed off. Then the real penalty: a 501(c)(3) is flatly barred from letting its earnings benefit an insider, which is private inurement, an absolute prohibition.

If the IRS concludes the charity is run for the private enrichment of the people who control it, it can revoke the exemption outright. Donations stop being deductible. The custody detail is what turns a conflict of interest into an inurement case: the insider who profits is also the one holding and counting the money.

Some CYA:
A conflict of interest is not automatically a crime. An insider-owned fundraiser can be legal IF it was disclosed on Schedule L, approved by an independent board with the conflicted person recused, and priced at a true market rate. That was not on the 990s I saw, but that is exactly what a review would test. No government agency has publicly questioned, investigated, or charged Stacy Sheridan; the questions here are mine, drawn from public filings. And most of the money she had custody of did reach the charity; the issue is the structure and the fees, not a claim that she pocketed the $88 million. I am not saying she stole anything. I am saying this is the exact setup regulators are trained to look for, and donors deserve to know their money passes through an employee's private company before it reaches the cause.

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@Orophus https://t.co/cSqx0YOoa5

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@chilloclock420 https://t.co/YJ7QIMP5qB

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

2 days ago

🇨🇳 China just torched the U.S. AI lead in a single afternoon. Moonshot AI, a little-known Beijing startup, dropped Kimi K3 on Thursday and it instantly kicked into the top tier of global models. It beat Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on coding tests, then edged out Opus 4.8 on a broader ranking while costing 40% less. Now the knockout blow. On July 27, Moonshot is giving Kimi away as open-weight, so any company or government on Earth can download it and run it on their own machines. No subscription, no permission slip. For months U.S. labs slept fine telling themselves China was 6 to 12 months behind. That head start just evaporated. And Kimi doesn't even need to be the best model to win. Near the top, 40% cheaper, and yours to keep is what most buyers actually want. That's the nightmare in Silicon Valley. The trillion-dollar valuations and hundred-billion-dollar data centers all rest on one bet: U.S. stays ahead. Kimi just kicked that out from under them. Source: The AI Rankings, Axios / Writer: Daniyal

MarioNawfal's tweet photo. 🇨🇳 China just torched the U.S. AI lead in a single afternoon.

Moonshot AI, a little-known Beijing startup, dropped Kimi K3 on Thursday and it instantly kicked into the top tier of global models.

It beat Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on coding tests, then edged out Opus 4.8 on a broader ranking while costing 40% less.

Now the knockout blow. On July 27, Moonshot is giving Kimi away as open-weight, so any company or government on Earth can download it and run it on their own machines. No subscription, no permission slip.

For months U.S. labs slept fine telling themselves China was 6 to 12 months behind. That head start just evaporated.

And Kimi doesn't even need to be the best model to win. Near the top, 40% cheaper, and yours to keep is what most buyers actually want.

That's the nightmare in Silicon Valley. The trillion-dollar valuations and hundred-billion-dollar data centers all rest on one bet: U.S. stays ahead.

Kimi just kicked that out from under them.

Source: The AI Rankings, Axios / Writer: Daniyal

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Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹

@angeloinchina

about 17 hours ago

The UK hailed China’s Jingye as a “white knight” in 2020 for rescuing British Steel with £1.2B+ investment & saving jobs. Now they’ve nationalized it via emergency powers, offering pennies on the pound in compensation. This isn’t “national security”—it’s classic bait-and-switch: welcome Chinese capital when convenient, seize it when not. Undermines trust for all investors. Hypocrisy exposed.

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Bas642654743206 retweeted

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BREAKING THE TIMELINE Please encourage people to join me with their, questions or observations tomorrow (Sunday, July 19, 9.30pm UK time) when we will look at all the anomalies in more detail and look at things I've likely missed 👀 The SPACE will be hosted by @TheLFLounge including @MuppetMasher @matt82704417 @AimeeLizB

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Israel Exposed

@xIsraelExposedx

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Children are being shredded by Israeli strikes. They bombed a residential area on Al-Nasr Street in western Gaza City, leaving a high number of casualties, with children making up the majority of the victims. Share & let people see this.

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@Sweet_T1471 @baroncoleman @researcherdaisy @alleytopfiles 👀

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Zatęsknią za Orbanem

Mario ZNA

@MarioBojic

1 day ago

🚨🇭🇺Chaos in Hungary after new government led by Peter Magyar rewrote the constitution and ousted the country's legitimate president. Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok was removed from office despite his mandate from the Hungarian people. Viktor Orbán wrote on his official X account: "If they can do this to the President of the Republic, they can do it to anyone."

MarioBojic's tweet photo. 🚨🇭🇺Chaos in Hungary after new government led by Peter Magyar rewrote the constitution and ousted the country's legitimate president.

Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok was removed from office despite his mandate from the Hungarian people.

Viktor Orbán wrote on his official X account:

"If they can do this to the President of the Republic, they can do it to anyone."

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Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman

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@BlakeSNeff You are a joke

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Bas642654743206 retweeted

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER SPOX ESMAIL BAGHAEI ✅ The Truth About The MOU ✅ Lebanon & Gaza ✅ Strait of Hormuz Plans ✅ Iran’s Planned Response This interview reveals Iran’s position and plans. Watch Now:

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BREAKING THE TIMELINE Please encourage people to join me with their, questions or observations tomorrow (Sunday, July 19, 9.30pm UK time) when we will look at all the anomalies in more detail and look at things I've likely missed 👀 The SPACE will be hosted by @TheLFLounge including @MuppetMasher @matt82704417 @AimeeLizB

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@nietzsche258918 Dear David Please stop by 🛑

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BREAKING THE TIMELINE Please encourage people to join me with their, questions or observations tomorrow (Sunday, July 19, 9.30pm UK time) when we will look at all the anomalies in more detail and look at things I've likely missed 👀 The SPACE will be hosted by @TheLFLounge including @MuppetMasher @matt82704417 @AimeeLizB

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BREAKING THE TIMELINE Please encourage people to join me with their, questions or observations tomorrow (Sunday, July 19, 9.30pm UK time) when we will look at all the anomalies in more detail and look at things I've likely missed 👀 The SPACE will be hosted by @TheLFLounge including @MuppetMasher @matt82704417 @AimeeLizB

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Bas642654743206 retweeted

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BREAKING THE TIMELINE Please encourage people to join me with their, questions or observations tomorrow (Sunday, July 19, 9.30pm UK time) when we will look at all the anomalies in more detail and look at things I've likely missed 👀 The SPACE will be hosted by @TheLFLounge including @MuppetMasher @matt82704417 @AimeeLizB

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Nazywali Viktora Orbána dyktatorem. Gdy tylko w końcu wygrali wybory, zainstalowali dyktaturę. Nigdy nie zapominaj: lewica zawsze jest tym, w czym oskarża prawicę, ale gorzej.

Balázs Orbán

@BalazsOrban_HU

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Today, the President of Hungary released a dramatic video message announcing that the democratic rule of law in Hungary has come to an end because he was unlawfully removed from office. Nothing like this has happened in modern European history. A puppet will now be installed in his place, but that person’s mandate will be illegitimate from the very beginning. At the same time, the governing parties have barred their political opponents from standing in future elections. These are the very people who spent decades calling Viktor Orbán a dictator. Yet the moment they won a democratic election, they turned against both him and democracy itself. They did not act on their own. They did it with the support and at the direction of Brussels. The European Union is increasingly behaving like a liberal authoritarian empire, determined to tell people what they may say, what they must do, and even whom they are allowed to vote for. No person who truly values freedom can accept this.

BalazsOrban_HU's tweet photo. Today, the President of Hungary released a dramatic video message announcing that the democratic rule of law in Hungary has come to an end because he was unlawfully removed from office. Nothing like this has happened in modern European history.

A puppet will now be installed in his place, but that person’s mandate will be illegitimate from the very beginning. At the same time, the governing parties have barred their political opponents from standing in future elections.

These are the very people who spent decades calling Viktor Orbán a dictator. Yet the moment they won a democratic election, they turned against both him and democracy itself. They did not act on their own. They did it with the support and at the direction of Brussels.

The European Union is increasingly behaving like a liberal authoritarian empire, determined to tell people what they may say, what they must do, and even whom they are allowed to vote for.

No person who truly values freedom can accept this.

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Geo_monitor @colonelhomsi

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Terrorystki Ukraińskie 🧵🧵🧵👇

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Do you know what these women have in common? On the right is Anastasia Berezovskaya, who carried out the terrorist attack and blew up Ukrainian oligarch Yermolayev in Monaco.

colonelhomsi's tweet photo. Do you know what these women have in common?

On the right is Anastasia Berezovskaya, who carried out the terrorist attack and blew up Ukrainian oligarch Yermolayev in Monaco. https://t.co/yYlWAm9nJ0

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