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a human being • 👩🏽‍💻 deputy campaign editor @washingtonpost • ‘22 @maynardinst Fellow • @wabjdc @nabj @UTJSchool alum • openly Black • opinions mine

Washington, DC
Joined October 2009
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See what happens when you leave the aux to millennials? Bangers. Hits. Classics.
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The pets of Petworth are (naturally) understanding the assignment this morning
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✨some professional news✨ Excited to be part of The Post's initiative to reach younger, diverse audiences and shape political news coverage on your phones, feeds, and screens. 💥DM/email for tips, introductions + stories! brianna(dot)tucker @washpost .com
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Bruce Castor talking in circles hoping we eventually forget what day it is #ImpeachmentTrial
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Don Lemon had us joyfully shaking ass to Juvenile and accidentally missed the countdown in New Orleans 💀 #CNNNYE
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1 year
BIG news: Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches historic settlement, wins compensation for her stolen cells. Her cells, capable of regenerating outside the body, helped develop polio and COVID-19 vaccines, and the world’s most common fertility treatment.
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The @washingtonpost does, and other songs we heard at the #DNC 👀
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...is this 50 states playlist on @Spotify
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9 years
When they found the tomb empty 😊 #HappyEaster #HeIsRisen
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5 years
It’s 2019. My jeans from high school strangely fit me again (but better). I’m eating fruit and drinking water at every meal. I’m running 4x a week. My skin is glowing, my least favorite ex is prematurely balding before 30. All is well as we enter 25.
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“Do your little thing, like that!” —Jenifer Lewis hypes up Rep. Maxine Waters as she poses for pictures.
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“This Barbie is a journalist” #NABJ24
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5 years
I just closed on my first home today. I am a DC homeowner. Me! That’s it. That’s the whole tweet.
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2 years
A new D.C. exhibit is elevating Ella Baker and other Black feminists to "their rightful place in our collective psyches," tracing their journey through the city of Washington. A look at "We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC," by @iamalexispaige :
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8 years
On the University of Texas at Austin campus. Let's not forget, Campus Carry will begin this fall.
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✨some ~very big~ personal news✨
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Washington Post PR
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. @BriannaATucker joins the 202 newsletter team as a deputy editor
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This is the journalism I want/need today. @washingtonpost sought out rappers, producers and on-air hosts to share 50 hip-hop songs they love. 👇🏾 Take our quiz to guess what other songs they love! I’ll say this: @TooShort knows a HIT when he hears one 🤪
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2 years
Big big PSA: anyone interested in covering politics, opportunities at @washingtonpost (we’re hiring for lotssss of jobs 👀), student journalists, etc please find me! Happy to talk and help make intros to our WaPo team here — that’s what NABJ fam does. #NABJNAHJ22
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First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff have arrived
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2 years
🚨PSA: The biggest media story of the year is unfolding *right now* in a Delaware courtroom, away from TV cameras. Get daily insights and explosive moments on the Dominion v. Fox trial delivered to you in this *free* newsletter w/ @sarahellison 👇🏾
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In some University of Wisconsin precincts, turnout for the 2023 judicial election was near last November’s midterms. Democrats exceeded the vote share from the 2022 gubernatorial race, contributing to Protasiewicz’s victory. #scowi (Graphic: @KevinUhrm )
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5 years
Less “wyd” and more “dywmtgyste” - thanks, management
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2 years
Day 2 at #NABJNAHJ22 — always good to catch up with my first politics editor (and fellow 🐝 stan) @TiffanyDCross
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Anderson Clayton, 25, the new chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party (and youngest state Dem chair in the country), hopes to show that it's people like her — young, from rural parts of the state — who are key to flipping N.C. blue. By @sabrod123
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EXCLUSIVE: Democrats want Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from future cases involving the Jan. 6 attack or efforts to overturn the 2020 election, along with a "written explanation for his failure" to do so. @JaxAlemany @theodoricmeyer @tobiaraji
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2 years
Saying ‘good morning’ or ‘have a good night’ to the security guards, maintenance folks, parking attendants, etc doing their jobs to help us do ours — you know, bare minimum social decorum 🙄
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2 years
What are rules that would be on your DC etiquette list?
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“do you want to be in a relationship or do you want to be right?” WOW a 2-minute therapy session on #Insecure just read me for filth
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4 years
thinking about all the white women who spent their summer “reading, listening, and learning” and posted their little black squares on Instagram and then decided they actually still love racism and sexism 🧾
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52% of white women voted for Trump in 2016 and New York Times exit polls predict this to be 55% in 2020.
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The #DNC roll call songs are truly an ode to my 2010 iPod nano
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baby’s first #WHCD
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@cmclymer *me scrolling and seeing this tweet with no context whatsoever*: CORRECT.
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3 years
for $900 you can have no fridge and an outdoor table set INSIDE the house, yes I see the appeal
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3 years
People talk shit about the Midwest but this is what $900 a month gets you in Kansas City.
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Working from a coffee shop and I am pretty sure I am witnessing a "coming to you as woman" conversation happening in front of me. Will report back shortly.
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5 years
Let me remind y’all that a 2.89 on a +/- scale is between an 83 and 86 in percentage (roughly a B- or B). Some of you could not earn that in your time as student, let alone as a student athlete. Congrats to @TexasFootball , seriously.
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More than football. Highest semester GPA in team history. #ThisIsTexas #HookEm
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Sad that my alma mater (with a fight song born at a minstrel show, with one of the last football teams to desegregate, in a state with over 100 incidents of police shooting unarmed Black people) thought they were doing good with this tone-deaf “colorblind/all lives” rhetorical BS
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Discuss goals and chill?
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quick Gridiron dinner face card
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@TiffanyDCross Can confirm. Tiffany is the hardest working person I know.
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TODAY! 🎉 Join me for a conversation with New York Attorney General Letitia James on achieving gender and racial equity within the justice system. #19thRepresents 📆 Friday, May 19th at 1PM CT Register here to watch:
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. @KateBennett_DC can we find @AyannaPressley 's swearing-in ensemble? This outfit did not get the attention it deserves.
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🚨 What happens next if Trump is indicted? Could a potential TikTok ban sting the Gen Z electorate, which with millennials will become the largest share of voters in 2024? 📲 @dylanewells and I will answer your politics questions TODAY at 12pm ET. 👇🏾
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1 year
I showed @roywoodjr one of my jokes/memes tonight for WHCD and he loved it lol🥺🤣
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. @washingtonpost ’s NextGen Politics team is laser-focused on the needs of young, diverse audiences. @dylanewells + @cdechalus are always reporting what you need to know — we’re also reporting (and brilliantly producing @jillianbanner ) what’s useful, interesting, or fun, too. 👇🏾
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Should Congress be able to wear sneakers to work if they’d like?
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On Veterans Day, former president Donald Trump vowed to “root out” his political opponents, describing them as "vermin" who pose a domestic threat. Historians warn his rhetoric is reminiscent of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini. By @marianne_levine
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5 years
Some man offered to buy me an Hermés bag yesterday simply because it went with my outfit but of course I’m over here being respectable and unbought. Yeah Brianna, that will teach him.
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2 years
@alextoussaint25 Ok I hear that but I would have a blast: • Every Little Step • Children’s Story • Candy • Forget Me Nots • Encore for the outro? This is could be “the cookout” ride
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I feel like @meenaharris would appreciate this (yes, I make memes to de-stress)
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6 years
The @OfficialCBC released 10 ‘must do’ policies for first 100 days should Democrats gain control of the House and Senate -- criminal justice reform, decriminalizing marijuana, educational equity, and more. CC: @RepRichmond
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Every time Meechum & Francis get a moment alone I'm just like... #HouseOfCardsSeason4
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Brianna Tucker
1 year
OKAY SO... appears that X, or formerly Twitter, has removed the headline and previews of articles on the mobile app — i.e. clicking a photo will take you straight to whatever that link is, and those could either be legitimates, clickbait, spammy, or out of context.
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HAPPENING NOW: @sabrod123 and I are answering your politics questions! From the elaborate youth organizing effort in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race to Chicago's win to host the 2024 DNC convention, there's a lot to discuss. Send your question in now!:
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5 years
Celebrating my grandpa’s 99th birthday today and apparently someone overheard us while waiting and paid ahead for his meal. There are truly some kind people in this world. ❤️ (and the staff at @IHOP at the Inner Harbor were incredibly sweet!)
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1 year
@AsteadWH honestly
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🚨Calling all #GenZ and #millennials ! What's one issue you want political candidates to be talking about in 2024? 🔥 Send us a selfie-style 10-15 sec. video on what issue you care about the most when deciding how to vote. Full instructions here:
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*~ re: “personal news” 🎉~* So excited to join the @supermajority team and build the collective power of women of all backgrounds, races, and generations. #MajorityRules
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my sister built a custom PC (?¿?!) in the few hours she’s been home and tbh that is my Roman Empire for the foreseeable future
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Me if I ever got hit by a car while reporting on live television
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2 years
Happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day! 🎶 #September21
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The amazing @dylanewells is everywhere. If you haven't followed her reporting on the Iowa caucuses via Tiktok, what are you doing!?
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Who hurt her lol http://t.co/WCcKi0Sspb
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the. best. day. 🎂
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"What is a Queen without a King? ...a Queen."
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4 years
Disappointing, FRUSTRATING, but not surprising that "economic fallout and job cuts fall hardest on women of color."
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2 years
President Biden is weighing declaring a national climate emergency as his climate agenda falters in Congress. And there's already a variety of emergency authorities that Democratic senators and allies want Biden to consider: @dino_grandoni @vanessamontzz
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We talked to Michigan secretary of state @JocelynBenson about the Republicans running for secretary of state with Trump's backing, what she's reading and what it might take for the Senate to pass voting legislation. @theodoricmeyer @JaxAlemany @tobiaraji
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Just realized I’m 30 in 30 days, excuse l me as I go in the bathroom and cry
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👀❓Have a politics question? Ask a politics editor! 🗓️: Tuesday, April 18th @ 12-1pm ET! Congressional reporter @cdechalus will join and with Congress back in Washington, there’s a lot on the agenda! #politics #campaign2024 #congress
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The Washington Post
2 years
Politics editor Brianna Tucker and a campaign reporter will answer your questions on Tuesday, April 18 at 12 p.m. Eastern time.
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“Buttigieg was a Rhodes Scholar, Mayor of a small city... he’s basically a white, gay version of Cory Booker” - @DrJasonJohnson where is your chill today?! 🤣 @amjoyshow
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📱NEW: After President Biden announced his 2024 bid, the Republican National Committee countered with a video of its own — built entirely from #AI imagery. Congressional reporter @cdechalus spoke with an AI expert on the risks in political messaging.
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Your 2022 #Maynard200 Frontline Editors and Managers just graduated from their fellowship! 🎉🎉🎉
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🚨 TODAY @ 12p ET: Join the @washingtonpost Campaign 2024 Live Chat! 📲 We'll answer your questions about politics, 2024, and share the inside scoop from our reporters on the campaign trail. ✨ @KnowlesHannah joins our first Q&A — drop your questions!👇🏾
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Btw I do get anxiety filming myself, but I decide not to care if I look silly or “if it’s cringe.” You can decide! Nobody ever died of silliness/cringe. Most people will love it. Some ignore it. It takes confidence to put yourself out there so create/post, and clap for yourself.
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Another #NABJ24 in the books! From the newsy start and interview of the Republican nominee, to overflowing panels and industry discussions, NABJ is a long-awaited homecoming and restorative week for Black journalists — I’m glad to have been part of it once again.
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Me, but damn this was quick lol this guy was at Potomac Mills
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7 months
General reminder to subscribe to the incredible journalism coming from the @washingtonpost :
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3 years
Absolutely this.
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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦
3 years
I read Colin Powell's autobiography "My American Journey" three or four times in high school. His earnestness and dedication to public service captivated me. He seemed larger-than-life to us kids who grew up in military families in the late '90s/early '00s. (1/3)
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Mothers, fathers and siblings of Black people killed by police will attend President Biden’s #SOTU address as guests of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has ramped up a push for police reform since Tyre Nichols’s killing. By @MerylKornfield
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Why are you as a man named Daystar
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🚨 TODAY @ 12pm ET: Join the @washingtonpost Campaign 2024 Live Chat! 📲 We'll answer your questions about politics, 2024, and share the inside scoop from reporters on the campaign trail. ✨ @michaelscherer joins this Q&A — get your questions in early!👇🏾
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Love her lack of energy, go girl, give us nothing
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Three times I’ve seen my dad cry—my acceptance to UT, my graduation from UT, and when I closed on my first home at 25. 🥺
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🚨 TOMORROW: National correspondent @mbrownsir and I will answer your questions around politics and 2024 @ 12pm ET. And it's a busy one — from Trump's arraignment to WI's state Supreme Court race and Chicago's mayoral election. Send your questions early:
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🚨 some personal news: After an amazing + wild year with @tiffanydcross and @thebeatdc , I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be starting a new adventure in DC next month! To the readers/supporters — thank you. This platform is so special and I’m proud to have been a part of it✨
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2 years
Renaissance tickets start at $600+… and that’s in the NOSEBLEEDS
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3 years
didn’t see our streets swept much but did see plenty of tickets, how convenient is that 😒
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"Happy last week of street sweeping, DC!"
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Such a necessary (and useful) graphic illustrating the common steps in an indictment case, from investigation to sentencing. By @nckmourt
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4 years
Two gifts came in the mail this week: 1. some @supermajority swag (feeling extra official now) 2. my D.C. voter card (now I’m a RESIDENT resident, okay!?) #Election2020
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Just realized this week marks my 6 month work anniversary at @washingtonpost . 🥳 Thankful for such a great team and of course to our 202 readers, for trusting us with the news you need/letting us slide in your inbox every morning M-F. (I’m celebrating with 6 naps this weekend)
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🗓️ March 14th @ 12p ET: The Campaign 2024 live chat is back with @michaelscherer ! Do Dem voters want Biden to run again? Does Marianne Williamson have a shot at the presidency? What does “woke” even mean (and where did it come from)? Send your Q's early:
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4 years
My pop pop turned 100 today! 🎉 #Centenarian #WWIIveteran
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5 years
@EricLMcDaniel My 99 y/o grandfather is still making grocery store runs, we really can’t tell him anything
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We asked @SenJeffMerkley , a self-proclaimed “chief filibuster antagonist,” about his frustrations with the 60-vote threshold, his apparent lack of Republican friends and whether he'll ever run for president. via @jaxalemany @theodoricmeyer @tobiaraji
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📱SCOOP: Biden’s team plots TikTok, WhatsApp and expanded social strategy for likely 2024 reelection campaign, turning volunteers’ into content producers and sharers. Planning has been going on for months, by @michaelscherer
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