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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky on the 13th anniversary of The Dark Knight to explain how the film is one of the centurys greatest pieces of art and analyze the parallels between situations in Gotham and the problems facing American society.

This is a real grounded, real city, a real universe in which Batman is a fantastical element. He stands out as being something thats very odd and uncharacteristic to the rest of the world, Domenech said.

I do not think it is an accident that some of the best superhero movies of the past two decades are movies that tend to shrink down in terms of their size and do not at any point have a shining blue beam of light coming from the skies thats going to destroy the planet. Instead, its much more grounded concerns about whether people live or die or crime that is happening within a cityscape. And thats something that I think Nolan really wanted to do and he did it with a number of different characters that actually make Batman less of the main character of this story.

I thought what grounded the movie in a way that I hadnt seen beforesomeone who is kind of caught between what they are allowed to do, what the law will allow them to do, and what they know they need to do. And thats a tension thats at the core of so many varieties of American film whether it be the Western or suspense movies or movies of the 70s and the like. And thats something that I think we really had not seen to this point within the realm of superhero films but I think weve seen it a lot since then, Domenech said.

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Facebook is killing people, misinformation is rampant, and the only people who can save us from ourselves are the all-wise executives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue whose judgment is infallible and whose motives are pure. Thats the message emanating from the White House and the corporate press.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced last week that, due to 12 unnamed people on social media posting what the Biden administration considers to be misinformation, the White House is actively flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation and helping to boost trusted content. Going even further, Psaki said nothing is off the table for using Big Tech to quiet opposing views.

Not only is the Biden administration effectively deputizing Facebook to be an extension of the federal governments communications office, but it also insists that if youre banned from one Big Tech site for questioning conventional wisdom, you should be banned from all of them.

Psaki maintains the government has a responsibility, as a public health matter, to raise that issue of people allegedly dying en masse because of uncensored Facebook posts that dont comport with the White Houses vaccine messaging. This isnt a caricature of the White Houses position either. When a reporter asked President Joe Biden directly last week what his message is to sites like Facebook, Biden replied, serious as a heart attack, Theyre killing people.

This push for censorship is interesting for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the same political stripe that ridiculously cried fascism for four years under Donald Trump is now taking concrete steps to suppress political opposition, one of the hallmarks of true fascism. Its also interesting because information changes so rapidly, as Psaki herself admitted.

Science evolves, information evolves, Psaki said during the same press conference in which she pledged her commitment to silencing vaccine dissidents online.If anyone should understand the reality of information evolving, its the Biden administration.

Last fall when the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story broke, then-candidate Joe Biden insisted it was Russian disinformation and a smear campaign. When Fox Newss Peter Doocy later asked Biden about the stories of his son, the then-president-elect hurled one of his bizarre insults at the reporter, saying, God love ya man. You are a one-horse pony. Psaki piled on in October, sharing a story to Twitter that claimed, Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo.

Tech giants Twitter and Facebook waged a war on the narrative, with one site spiking the stories about the Biden sons laptop from orbit and the other severely hamstringing them, under the guise of an unsubstantiated hunch that the materials were hacked and on the grounds that the stories might have been disinformation. In other words, based on Democrats narrative, tech monopolies throttled a timely story in the runup to the highly contested 2020 election, a story that directly applied to one of the candidates familial affairs and might have changed the outcome of the race and they did this with absolute impunity.

When U.S. intelligence agencies determined the Hunter Biden stories were not Russian disinformation, Big Tech shrugged. A week later, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg both admitted they had no evidence that The New York Posts reporting on Joe Bidens knowledge of his son Hunter Bidens foreign business deals was Russian disinformation. Whoops. The conventional wisdom on misinformation changed, but the story had already been conveniently censored.

Psaki likewise spread misinformation online just two months before the election when she pushed afake tale about Trump calling fallen troops losers and suckers and the Russian bounties story, two narratives the media ran with that turned out to be misinformation. In fact, her misinformation-peddling goes back further. Psaki was a frequent promoter of the Russia collusion hoax in 2017 and throughout the Trump presidency.

But even on the Wuhan virus, Bidens administration and the so-called public health experts he now demands we trust have a terribly tarnished track record. Note how readily Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris undermined the vaccine during their 2020 presidential campaign:

And what about flip-flopper-in-chief Anthony Fauci, who not only knew that COVID-19 likely came from the Wuhan lab and that it potentially looked engineered and tried to cover those things up, according to his released emails (which Facebook also censored and erroneously fact-checked), but knowingly spread misinformation about masks at the start of the pandemic?

Big Tech censored posts about the Wuhan lab leak theory, which Democrats and the corrupt media called a conspiracy theory, yet Faucis mask misinformation is still online. Doocy used this line of questioning with Psaki last week with regard to the administrations collusion with Big Tech to crack down on so-called misinformation. The exchange went like this:

There are videos of Dr. Fauci from 2020, before anybody had a vaccine, and he is out there saying theres no reason to be walking around with a mask, Doocy said. So is the administration going to contact Facebook and ask them to take that down?

Well, first, I think what Dr. Fauci has said himself, whos been quite public out there, is that science evolves, information evolves and we make that available in a public way to the American people, Psaki replied. I have never seen any data to suggest that the vaccines cause infertility. That is information that is irresponsibly traveling.

About the science evolving, Doocy pushed back. Facebook used to block people from posting that COVID may have originated from a lab. That is something this president now admits is a possibility. So is there any concern that things you are trying to block or have taken down might someday turn out to be

We dont take anything down. We dont block anything, Psaki snapped back, ignoring the fact that she admits the administration is using Big Tech to do its bidding to feign clean hands. Facebook and any private-sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform.

Doocy is right, and the White House knows it. Todays misinformation is tomorrows undeniable fact; it happens all the time, and that reality isnt lost on the Biden administration.

Whats going on here isnt really an attempt to save Americans from disease. Its a desperate attempt by the ruling class to save their own rear ends from information that threatens their ideological goals.

Democrats at the helm of the executive and legislative branches arent looking to squash so-called misinformation because its the only way to keep people from dying (which still wouldnt justify their authoritarianism, by the way). Biden, Psaki, and their friends in Congress and Silicon Valley are working to snuff out their opponents speech because not only do they think it will help them politically, as it likely did in the 2020 election, but because they believe they can get away with it again, as they did in the 2020 election.

President Ronald Reagan was right when he said, The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: Im from the government, and Im here to help. The Biden administration has gotten disturbingly more specific: Im from the government, and Im here to help Facebook silence you.

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Corrupt corporate media outlets that revolved their coverage around the quest to take down former President Donald Trump saw a significant decrease in traffic after he left office.

According to recently released data, The Atlantic, ABC News, Time all saw a more than 50 percent decrease in audience since summer 2020. Forbes saw the largest drop with more than 60 percent declining viewership while Vox and Politico experienced more than 40 percent in audience reduction.

The New York Times, CNN, NBC News, CNBC, The Guardian, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, and Axios, some of the other publications that capitalized on anti-Trump rhetoric and fake news reporting saw traffic fall more than 20 and sometimes even thirty percent compared to traffic in 2020.

The same trends occurred in cable news. Not only did corporate media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC see large declines in audience viewership during the second quarter of the year, but Fox News, a notably right-leaning network, topped ratings for the quarter and the month of June.

In total day, Fox News averaged 1.17 million in total viewers, down 35%; MSNBC posted 763,000, down 37% and CNN was at 580,000, down 49%. In the 25-54 demo, the numbers were 195,000 for Fox News, down 42%, 133,000 for CNN, falling 59% and 99,000 for MSNBC, dropping by 48%, Deadline reported.

In 2017, Trump predicted the corporate medias inability to capture viewers once he left office.

Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if Im not there, because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes, he said.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Bill McMorris, senior editor for the Washington Free Beacon, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his recent article, Unions Focus on Woke Over Work Rankles Rank and File and why union priorities are becoming increasingly jumbled.

Unions are increasingly getting involved in social issues that their members not only dont see as their own interests, [but] that oftentimes run against what these members believe. And I think this is going to have major implications for solidarity moving forward, for union support among the rank and file, and even more important, the ability of unions to actually marshal their support among their members, McMorris said.

McMorris said this shift in the union movement is not only ignoring the issues plaguing blue-collar workers but focusing on things that tend to divide people.

Instead of talking about the fact that their pensions have been slashed and their wages have been relatively stagnant, they are focusing on pronouns, McMorris said. Its a very funny thing to see how solidarity in the labor movement was split apart, totally fractured by a focus on identity politics.

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After the release of an explosive watchdog report on the FBIs handling of serial pedophile Larry Nassar, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing to examine the bureaus botched investigation.

The report, which confirms suspicions that the FBI gravely mishandled multiple sexual assault allegations against Nassar, details serious errors that allowed Nassar to abuse hundreds of women for years.

The FBIs gross mishandling of the reports of Nassers abuse led to more athletes suffering unimaginable pain. There must be accountability for this chilling failure to properly investigate and false statements potentially intended to cover-up that failure, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. [FBI] Director [Christopher] Wray must answer to the Judiciary Committee and the American people for the findings of this report, immediately terminate the agent involved, and explain in detail what steps are being taken to guarantee this never happens again.

Despite multiple allegations against Nassar that were reported numerous times to FBI field offices from 2015-2017, a formal FBI investigation wasnt opened until the Michigan State University Police Department found Nassars stash of child pornography after receiving a complaint of sexual abuse from an MSU athlete. Subsequently, the Indianapolis Field Office lied about its handling of the original reports. At least two field offices failed to notify state and local authorities of Nassars alleged wrongdoings.

During this time, Nassar kept his positions at MSU, childrens gymnastics club Twistars, and a high school athletic building for months before authorities caught on.

In a 2018 letter, committee leaders led the charge for details about the FBIs handling of the Nassar case. Now that the report confirmed expansive federal negligence and fundamental errors that led to 70 women being abused in the time period that the FBI knew about the abuse, yet failed to act, the Committees hearing will aim to hold the FBI accountable.

Last week, the FBI released a vague statement in response to the released report:

Prior to today, the FBI initiated improvements to make sure that serious allegations, such as these, are promptly shared with our law enforcement partners and within the FBI. As a continuation of these efforts, the FBI is fully committed to implementing all of the recommendations made by the Inspector General, the statement read. We will take all necessary steps to ensure that the failures of the employees outlined in the report do not happen again.

The FBI did not specify what measures it would take to ensure that young girls would not be exposed to alleged abusers under its watch again. The DOJs report included no evidence that FBI officers who failed to follow basic procedures were punished.

Recently, John Manly, the lead attorney for over 150 victims, insisted upon criminal charges against negligent FBI agents.

The FBI betrayed generations of Olympic champions. It betrayed the hundreds of children Nassar savaged, and it betrayed the American peoples trust, Manly said in a statement. Those responsible need to be held to account, with all the force the law can provide.

Nassar is sentenced to hundreds of years for his crimes, but federal agents who looked the other way currently face no criminal charges for their inaction.

The IG report confirms my fears that the FBI dropped the ball, allowing abuses to continue for months. The Judiciary Committees upcoming hearing is a continuation of our oversight to get to the bottom of this, Sen. Chuck Grassley said. The FBI owes the American people an accounting for its failure to protect these children, and explanation for how it plans to do better in the future.

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The Washington Post published an almost 7,000-word investigative story last week with the provocative title How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance. Far more interesting than the content of the article was the Posts flagrantly obvious attempt to discredit Carlson. Its become incredibly easy to tell who scares corporate media most.

You might not be surprised that the Posts remarkably expansive consideration of Carlson offers little discussion of his political opinions. Instead, it tracks down old contacts like his first-grade teacher and cites his ideological opponents like one Rev. Albert Sampson.

You likely also wouldnt be surprised that Carlson didnt respond to multiple attempts to reach him again. In a written statement, Carlson instead curtly declared: You want to make me shut up, so you call me a racist. Ive seen it before.

Is he wrong? A survey of the Washington Posts pages will find the paper hasnt offered similarly extensive hit pieces on the darlings of the leftist networks. Save the opinion page, reporting and commentary on MSNBCs Rachel Maddow, for example, has been almost unilaterally positive, despite her years-long coverage of the Trump-Russia collusion allegations that even Politico admits was disastrously wrong. The same is true for CNNs Don Lemon, and other leftist television commentators.

There is a reason for this, and typically its not because conservatives or Republicans are any more fallible than their opponents across the aisle. Its pretty easy to spot the people the corporate media most fear. Just look at who they are piling on to destroy, and youll be able to identify who these outlets see as the greatest threat to their progressivist political objectives.

Consider the other personalities the Post has invested similar resources in denigrating. In May, the Post published a 5,000-word attack on Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley titled Grievance, rebellion and burnt bridges: Tracing Josh Hawleys path to the insurrection (which The Federalist rightly called out).

The Post has likewiseattacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. These digs have accompanied CBS 60 Minutess false accusations of vaccine rollout corruption against the governor, while Politico maligned him for supposedly being mean to his staff and trusting his wife too much. Corporate media have likewise sought to impugn Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.

In comparison, how much critical reporting has corporate media conducted about California Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite his egregious mistakes and hypocrisy in reacting to COVID-19? How many Democrat governors do you ever hear called out in the news?

Meanwhile, corporate media persistently attempt to discredit not only DeSantis, but South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. It doesnt matter whether the issue is COVID-19, voting regulations, abortion, or transgenderism, corporate media are ever eager to pounce on any perceived vulnerabilities in conservatives or Republicans.

Of course, this trend serves as yet one more data point exposing the not-so-subtle prejudices in corporate media. (By this time we hardly require further evidence.) One could just as easily cite the corporate medias lie that the U.S. Park Police cleared peaceful protesters at Lafayette Square last summer.

Or their unjust attacks on anyone who suggested the coronavirus might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan. Or their coverage of police shootings. Or their worshipful reporting of President Biden. Or their refusal to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop controversy directly before last years presidential election.

Yet corporate media attacks on people like Carlson and DeSantis also offer reason for hope. Because the truth is, theyre scared. No political institution and thats essentially what the Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, and similar outlets are now invests energy in smearing the small and insignificant.

Theres no point in mercilessly (and fraudulently) attacking people you are already confident you will soundly defeat in the next election. When you are securely on top, you dont bother. Tom Brady doesnt troll Mitchell Trubisky. The Los Angeles Dodgers dont launch takedown campaigns against the Baltimore Orioles.

People go on the offensive against those they fear. If thats the case, it means corporate media truly do fear the likes of Carlson, Hawley, DeSantis, and Younkin. These men perceive the weak underbelly of progressivist ideology, from disingenuous attempts to downplay and defend critical race theory to excuses for the current administrations immigration crisis. So, having few (if any) scruples left, the corporate media serves as the attack dog of the Democratic Party.

Corporate medias fear means there is indeed hope of reversing the broader political and cultural trends that have intensified not only the border crisis, but the rising homicide rate, the spike in overdose deaths, Americans loss of faith in public education, and many other worrying trends. Conservatives must not be cowed by unjust and unprofessional smear campaigns against us and our leaders.

Conservatives must continue arguing for a coherent, cohesive vision of America that does not divide us vis-a-vis the blinkered thinking of identity politics, but unites us around the great, time-tested principles of our nation. Unlike the corporate media, conservatives need not fear. They have truth on our side.

Casey Chalk is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He has a bachelor's in history and master's in teaching from the University of Virginia and a master's in theology from Christendom College.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci took cues from the White House, which recently bragged about colluding with Big Tech to squash dissenters, to unleash a horde of COVID-19 propaganda from various bureaucrats and Democrat legislators that the corrupt corporate media proudly disseminated.

In an interview with CNNs far-left anchor Jim Acosta, the scandal-plagued Fauci expressed support for the Biden administrations campaign to ban people from social media sites. He also said that the disinformation and misinformation coming from conservative news outlets such as Fox News is really, really a problem.

If you look at the extraordinary, historic success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio from most of the world. And were on the brink of eradicating polio. If we had had the pushback, for vaccines, the way were seeing on certain media, I dont think it would have been possible, at all, to not only eradicate smallpox, Fauci said. We probably would still have smallpox. And we probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information thats being spread, now. If we had that back, decades ago, I would be certain that wed still have polio in this country.

Shortly after Faucis comments aired and President Joe Biden claimed that Facebook is killing people, CNN Anchor Dana Bash asked U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy whether he believes conservative media outlets airing dissenting COVID-19 rhetoric also play a role in killing people.

Dana, I think all of us, including the media, including individuals, health professionals, have a responsibility to share the truth about health as science dictates, as science informs us. And, you know, unless we do that unless we are honest about the consequences of our communication with people, unless we are rigorous about ensuring that what we communicate is actually sourced from science and not from an opinion on critical issues like the vaccine, then we are going to ultimately put people at risk, Murthy said after urging Big Tech to censor misinformation super-spreaders in his new report.

Not only did bureaucrats in the administration quickly work to amplify a pro-censorship and government-controlled information stream, but Democrat legislators also suggested that the White House didnt take its suppression campaign on vaccine-cautious users and posts far enough.

Social media has greatly contributed to this misinformation. Theres no doubt, Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota told Bash. I think we also should look at changing the liability standards when it comes to vaccine misinformation. When we have a public health crisis and people are dying every day, enough is enough. These are the richest companies in the world. They are, Dana. Theres absolutely no reason they shouldnt be able to monitor this better and take this crap off of their platforms that are basically telling people, oh, hey, theres problems, when we know science proves there isnt.

CNN was eager to push the narrative from the Biden administration that conservative media outlets deserve to be punished for airing vaccine-hesitancy but less than a year ago, when former President Donald Trump was still in office, the Democrat mouthpiece outlet and many others in corporate media were quick to amplify vaccine skepticism.

Headlines from leftist-led publications cast doubt on the vaccine timeline and amplified Biden and Vice President Kamala Harriss fears of a politicized approval process.

Biden, Seizing on Worries of a Rushed Vaccine, Warns Trump Cant Be Trusted, the New York Timeswrote.

Trump Vaccine Chief Casts Doubt on Coronavirus Vaccine by Election Day, was anotherNYTheadline.

Trump promises coronavirus vaccine by end of the year, but his own experts temper expectations, said anABC News headline in May 2o20.

HHS whistleblower says coronavirus vaccine wont be ready in 18 months: Weve never seen everything go perfectly, another May 2020 CNBCheadline reads.

Vaccines for Millions Ready This Year: The Impossible Dream? speculatedBloombergthat same month.

Contradicting The CDC, Trump Says COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready By End Of Year,NPRpublished.

Even Bash, a hungry accomplice in the Democrats attempts to boost censorship as necessary for the health of Americans, was quick to bring on and ask Harris if she would be willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine created under the Trump administration, setting up a narrative that reporters, anchors, and hosts at CNN carried for months.

Later that day, CNN replayed an excerpt of Harris interview and prefaced it by saying medical experts are skeptical of Trumps timeline, Fox News noted. CNN then enlisted medical contributor Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to explain Americans have a reason to be worried when it comes to Trumps vaccine.

When criticism of the manufactured skepticism arose, CNN talking heads defended Biden and Harris from accusations.

Trump is mischaracterizing Harris answer when asked if she would trust a vaccine touted by Trump Trump, who has repeatedly undermined public health experts and pressured government agencies to rush a vaccine, insisting Harris is playing politics, CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond said. Even as he continues to suggest, without any evidence, that a vaccine could be ready by Election Day.

Big Tech, now egged on by the White House, already displayed its loyalty to the Democrats by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, censoring valid claims about the 2020 election, and subjecting every user posting about COVID-19 to a myriad of labels, disclaimers, and fake fact-checks, all of which led back to government sites. Now, the crosshairs on conservatives and conservative media are clearer than ever.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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Fauci Unleashes His Propaganda Horde In War With The Free Press - The Federalist

U.S. Department of Justice officials deliberately delayed an investigation into Hunter Bidens potential tax law violations and sketchy overseas business dealings because of the effect it could have on the presidential election, according to a Politico report.

Delawares U.S. Attorney David Weiss allegedly postponed allowing prosecutors to obtain search warrants and issue grand jury subpoenas last summer, after facing pressure from other officials who feared the investigations influence on the 2020 presidential election and now-President Joe Bidens campaign.

They advised [him] to avoid taking any actions that could alert the public to the existence of the case in the middle of a presidential election, reported Politico, one of the many corporate media outlets that brushed off the possibility of any wrongdoing by Hunter despite the discovery of his incriminating laptop.

One person involved in the discussions told Politico that it was to [Weisss] credit, [that] he listened.

It was a close call, the person said. That case has way more credibility now.

Weiss first assumed his position as a U.S. attorney in 2017 after former President Donald Trump nominated him. As noted by Politico, the nomination was based on the recommendation of Delawares two Democratic senators, who both praised the choice. The attorney has deep ties, previously engaging and even leading a long list of investigations in President Bidens home state of Delaware and on the national level, even connected to the infamous Ukrainian energy firm Burisma with which Hunter Biden was involved.

Shortly after his nomination, Weiss began to explore Hunters roguish business dealings with Chinese businessmen possibly linked to the communist regime. The probe originally focused on possible money laundering and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, but later shifted to questioning whether [Hunter] had paid taxes on all of his income.

When the time came for more formal exploratory measures into Hunters dealings, however, Weiss declined to take any drastic actions that were likely to make the existence of the Hunter Biden probe public because he feared political scrutiny and giving many of then-President Donald Trumps supporters what they were looking for.

Concerns about affecting the presidential election loomed large when Weiss entertained arguments about advancing the probe, according to the person involved in the discussions. No matter what he did, the decision was sure to come under scrutiny for signs of politicization, Politico reported.

Shortly before Election Day, prosecutors and then-Attorney General Bill Barr worked together to keep the investigation from going fully public and decided not to appoint a special investigator for the case.

The probe did not gain widespread attention outside of the conservative media sphere until several weeks after the presidential election, when Hunter Biden released a statement saying Weisss office had notified him of it, noted Politico.

Hunter was quick to hire a defense attorney from legal firm Latham & Watkins in December, just one month before his dad appointed another partner from the same firm, Nicholas McQuaid, to temporarily run the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. Despite his previous work on cases with Hunters attorney, it is still unclear if McQuaid signed a waiver or recused himself from overseeing the investigation into Hunter.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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