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@BrotherFlourish

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Plowing the road to freedom, from Jax Fl, #GoJags #GIRLDAD , all tweets are my own, RT and Favs arent endorsements, @jaxtakesaction , @naarpr

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Joined November 2008
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Heroes. All of them
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This is exactly how I imagined the Hamas supporters arrested at the violent protest at UF looked like
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Texas literally is rationing electricity yall. This the type of stuff that if it happened in Cuba, you’d hear so much anti-socialist rhetoric yet it’s happening in republicans dominated Texas and it’s not a huge story. Crazy!
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A black woman just won best ROCK performance Grammy. black history month is lit.
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Shutting down Union Station in DC singing We Gon be Alright #DMVProtest #BlackLivesMatter
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Lol the state department promoting protests with scheduled dates in another country is wild
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The United States is planning November 15th protests in Cuba 🇨🇺 and they’re not necessarily denying it. State Department spokesman Ned Price at today’s briefing:
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If you’re a socialist, people should know by your practice, the movements you lead or participate in, not your social media rhetoric. “Fewer pompous phrases, more plain, everyday work” - Lenin
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There exists objective truths about how to handle COVID that socialist nations have learned, truths that are debated as opinion in the US, even among the left. Vaccinations, mitigation measures like masks, social distancing etc they take as fact. The US treats it like opinion
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Cuba has vaccinated more than 90 percent of its population, surpassing the US, other wealthier nations
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💯 every year. Medicare for all frees up negotiations to address other things and takes power away from the boss who always use healthcare as a negotiating chip
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Union negotiators spend half their time arguing against cutbacks for the healthcare they already have. They forego wage increases bc of soaring healthcare costs. With #MedicareForAll unions can better negotiate higher wages, work conditions and pensions.
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Got off an interview with a ABC reporter in Australia who told be the aboriginal indigenous people are looking up to what black folks are doing here and thank us because they see themselves in us. Things will never be the same
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They’ve hating on Haitians in this country since even before even black folks in this country got free. The slavers feared Haitians revolutionary experiences inspiring American slaves
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@mmarlette @DavidMulugheta What makes it different is that Rudolph didn’t get hurt. The corner actually suffered bodily harm and a concussion
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Don't be demonizing the generation you raised especially now since they're doing exactly what you where scared to do when yall saw injustice
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@BreeNewsome Sis. I saw that and was just thinking it. It’s pretty wild to see them overtly move to a “we have to live with it” posture when that was what they used against the republicans. Very little daylight between a Biden administration’s stance on covid and Trumps.
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At 1:57am this morning after a 33 hour labor, our beautiful Lioness Atallah Monique Sampson arrived, weighing 7lbs 4 oz
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Racist white people: What about the Chicago kidnapping? Me: I don't see color.
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White men keep shooting at cops yet white men are not profiled as cop killers
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Rather deal with Biden’s DOJ and Biden’s NLRB then Trumps 🤷🏾‍♂️
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@democrat_savage @Bakari_Sellers Biden is gonna lose the election cause his only votes will be from democratic super voters, liberal boomers and no one else
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Peep Jalen and Andrew Luck relationship lmfao @AlfieBCC @biggamejames36 @E_Dilla
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The US literally had millions protesting against police brutality and state violence here in the US and you’ve yet to see one major piece of legislation addressing police violence pass out of DC.
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A lot of the same people saying a crowd of like 300 protesters in Cuba means the government must be overthrown strangely don't make that conclusion when tens of thousands of people protest in the US
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The legacy continues #PapaFlourish
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We know how bad it is in FLA. The point is to organize and fight back
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Dems wanna get those white voters back by going even whiter next election cycle
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@AnarchistPhilly @Wumao86 Study how drugs have been used historically in China to oppress people (see opium wars) then smoke your crack and then worry about forming your study group to read Kroptkin
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The theory that people once convinced of the true nature of the system will revolt is idealistic. People are aware of the hypocrisy in society everyday but people will do what they think they have to do to survive
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Being a great protester doesn’t make you a great organizer.
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They want #Assata . Just so y’all know
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Also in #Cuba are at least 12 fugitives including JoAnne Chesimard, a terrorist member of the Black Liberation Army convicted in the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973. #SOSCuba #PatriaYVida
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HRC praying for them blackvotes
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Comparing teachers to cops. A very bad take
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You have to be rooted in mass struggle to understand why you celebrate wins. They motivate others to take greater part in the struggle that is needed for actual revolution. Unprincipled cynism breeds political apathy and degeneration which practically serves the status quo
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Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts | Cuba | The Guardian
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@maxberger I don’t think her comments were anti-semetic. I don’t think AIPAC represents the interests of all Jewish people. AIPAC influence on politicians is a bad thing
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@noname @alygabriela_ socialist nations are attacked by the US and the west through economic sabatoge and media propaganda. They take a countries wings then accuse it of not knowing how to fly. Cuba is under economic embargo yet has universal healthcare and the same life expectancy as the US
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Like how tone deaf is that local election line when in Bmore you got all democrats who couldnt deliver justice to the family of #FreddieGray
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Which is why those who refuse to read but have college educations are forever silly to me
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@JulieD213 that's baltimore
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@AllKindsWeather Stick to sports
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Black woman mayor, black police officers, same white supremacist power structure killing black people #JusticeForFreddieGray
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Police have had their budgets increase for years and years yet crime has risen but wanna blame the defund movement that started really three months ago for rising crime lol sike!
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Chicago is like the worst example right wingers try and use against defunding the police. Their police budget is 1.8 billion and has gone up astronomically the past few years. All the places with crime issues all have huge police budgets that don’t do a thing
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@qaomene Legit Jacksonville Florida. The urban core was majority black. They added in the surrounding areas effectively putting power in the outskirts who then used the black tax base in the urban core to build their sides of town up while neglecting ours
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Fascinating
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And the crazy part is how republicans have embraced protests, for their causes, since. The anti lockdown rallies had a direct impact on dem led states opening back up.
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Biden campaign embraced protests in 2020 - remember the DNC? - and Dems have spent the time since apologizing for not condemning their messages, like "defund the police." They're back to the norm, parties distancing themselves from protests.
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Obama said we all the same team with Trump. Yea, he is. Hillary was. Not us.
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I just hate that she uses this to defend Khan but when there was debates about police accountability and confederate monuments being removed she was quiet. Criticizing Khan isn’t racist and this is just a lazy take
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Capitalism and police terrorism destroyed communities in Baltimore. Not a protestor #JusticeForFreddieGray
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Don’t threaten me with a good time
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Anyone who disrespects the National Anthem should be required to spend 14 days in Cuba.
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@E_Dilla We need more of this
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Funny how they can conceive of racism not existing but class definitely still existing
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tHeRE iS NO blaCK nAtion
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“Ultimately, the most important takeaway from the midterm election is that we can't wait for politicians to lead. Our power lies in realising that the progressive agenda is ours to set.”
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Read this piece by our co-director Rachel Gilmer. “Solidarity among working people in the US and around the world is our only way out.” @AJEnglish
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@RoryDiamond The speaker is literally Jewish bro
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I feel like we're in the 1960s. Black bodies murdered by white power. Different thoughts on how to deal with it. #BreloVerdict
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So much naked anti-Afghanistan chauvinism. “We can’t take care of them, they have to want it” bs rhetoric. They had a progressive govt and the US govt funded Islamists to overthrow it. That wasn’t passive intervention, it was aggressive intervention in Afghan internal affairs
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The best thing Americans can do for Afghanistan is tell it’s government to get out snd stay out
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@ananavarro @ZerlinaMaxwell He’s literally a chicken hawk who avoided Vietnam yet advocates for every war ever
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The fact that we led protests of thousands of people last summer and none of our organizers caught COVID-19 is a true testament to the fact that masks actually work and you can’t tell me any different
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They legit worked hard to clear a bear faster then black people locked up for crimes they didn’t commit
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HANK THE TANK IS EXONERATED
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Straight up McCarthyism. Uhuru has existed in St Pete for decades. They run a furniture shop. Run candidates. The issues they speak on have zero to do with “Russian interference” and everything to do with black people being subject to racism and white supremacy
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As predicted, Black radicals are targeted again for not falling in line with U.S. imperial agenda on Ukraine. The FBI raided headquarters of African Peoples' Socialist Party in two cities. The allegations? It seems spreading Russian "misinformation."
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Florida literally had hundreds of thousands combined protesting for #BlackLivesMatter last year and you saw not one tweet from @GovRonDeSantis yet he tweets the same day when hundreds protest in Cuba. Please. Should tell you all you need to know
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If Cuba had more markets and capitalism they’d be so much better off I mean look at how well the DR, Puerto Rico and Haiti are doing
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They essentially are tryna ban books, Tik tok, etc etc etc because they can’t understand why their all American blue eye kids are saying Black Lives Matter and Free Palestine
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A white person bringing a weapon and killing people at a racial justice protest constitutes an offense of white supremacy and it really isn’t that hard to understand that unless you’re colorblind and make your brand and money off owning the left
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Kyle Rittenhouse -- now free of all criminal liability -- did his first interview and said he believes systemic racism is a problem in the US and supports "BLM." If you think this will cause anyone to reevaluate their decree that he's a "white supremacist," you'd be incorrect.
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Capitalism 101. Raise pay for millions and it may hurts others jobs according to employers. Sounds like a pretty crappy economic system there buddy
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#BREAKING : $15 minimum wage would boost pay for 17 million people but threaten over 1 million jobs: CBO
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They’re radicalizing a whole generation
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ut austin, where texas state troopers are barring students from accessing the other side of the campus. please look at this, i have never seen anything like this
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Identity politics without socialist politics is just representative/tokenism politics
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Phillip Agnew: “It seems as if too often we conflate a version of identity politics with what identity politics is and where it came from- Barbara Smith, the Combahee River Collective, Audre Lorde."
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Folks talking bout the dangers of remote learning don’t teach in Florida. COVID is so bad that at my wife’s school so many teachers are out due to COVID that they’re sending classrooms of kids out to the football field for multiple class periods with maybe two adults supervising
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@BrendonLeslie @MayorDeegan No public funds being used. Parks and rec under the mayors authority much like any park. She doesn’t need council approval for that
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My wife is going viral 🥰
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#WeWillShootBack is taking off on Twitter right now. Self defense is a constitutional right
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@yiskaschwizzle @AnarchistPhilly @Wumao86 Being pro white people dealing meth to historically oppressed people is a weird take lmao
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Stop listening to people with no organization and no base tell you how to build organization and a base. The blue check marks arent building for revolution and op-Ed’s isn’t a revolution
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I don’t get the obsession with discrediting AOC. We know what she is and what she isn’t. Focus on the movement because that’s what produced her and that is what will produce what we want to see. Her politics represent exactly where the left is right now, for better or worse
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If you’re entrusting leadership of people’s movements to progressive politicians then that’s an error on you. Mass struggle must be lead by the people’s organizations, not those elected to Congress, state capitals and city halls
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We killed the bill 🙏🏾
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Florida population 21.9 million. Cuba population 11.3 million. Florida COVID cases 2.36 million. Cuba COVID cases 238,000. Florida COVID deaths 38,157. Cuba COVID deaths 1537
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My hot take. Organizing over group message amplifies the voices of those who don’t do shit and sets up orgs easily to be wrecked by bad actors
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We organized a rally of 3500 in the streets today. Biggest march in Duval in forever. We in a whirlwind moment
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My solidarity with Cuba, the Cuban people and my comrades there is non negotiable and the folks who surrender to political expediency and right wing narratives being pushed but the same tyrants here in the US who repress us will be remembered. Trust.
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@DrJasonJohnson @BreeNewsome They ain’t losing no black voters fam. Anybody upset already wasn’t voting for him anyways
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Too many times, minor squabbles get in the way of political unity when unity is necessary. Too much at stake for egoism aka liberalism
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I think leftists not taking Jan 6th seriously is the dumbest, cynical shit ever. Like if they’re willing to storm the Capitol to prevent a centrist dem from taking office, imagine the response if a legit left candidate actually, somehow, won any major office
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Congratulations to the Jax Starbucks workers at San Jose and Ricky drive who won their union election! Solidarity forever
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Last time I was at Congress protesting lol totally different response
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Lot of activists go wayward because they lose confidence in the strategy and direction of leadership and its leadership’s job to create an organizational structure to that inspires that confidence with a plan to win that people can identity with.
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The fact that even the mere mention of a Free Palestine slogan upsets people should show you what Zionism is. It’s for the pure political and practical erasure of Palestine. The total attempted liquidation of the Palestinian national struggle is at play
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Yesterday, flea market in Fort Myers Florida. Anti-Palestinian, islamophobic sentiment is on full display. A Palestinian man operating as a vendor at the flea market was targeted & harassed in front of his kids by this fascist Zionist for a “free Palestine tshirt”. Zionist Karen.
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We should all be striving for excellence in all our endeavors as we build on this road to freedom. We are all fellow travelers.
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Wedding vibes on Juneteenth
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Honestly in talking to elders of the movement, where we are at now surpasses anything they’ve seen in regards to referencing the late 60s, early 70s
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The Grassroots did this
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Joe Biden is the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win Duval County (Jacksonville). If Trump won every outstanding vote, he'd still fall short.
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Black women getting equal pay and maternity leave is nice and great. They still getting killed by cops tho #SOTU #SOBU
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The US still has an embargo on Cuba for no reason but to starve the country to make them become capitalist again.
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What good is free community college if a segment of our population is incarcerated before the age of 18? #School2Prison #SOTU #SOBU
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Stop letting people come to your action and grabbing the mic. They can organize they own shit
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Saw the legend @E_Dilla
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@SpiritofHo Happy you’re here bro . The fight is here in the belly of the beast
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Brother out here waving the Palestinian flag #freegaza #Ferguson @DiplomatEsq http://t.co/CwXVWDTp3F
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