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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi denied House Democrats requests to include amnesty for illegal immigrants who served as essential workers during the pandemic in President Joe Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.

President Biden proposed comprehensive immigration reform, which includes protections for frontline immigrant workers, separate from his Covid relief plan, and we expect that to therefore have separate consideration, a House Democratic leadership aide told Politico.

Pelosis brisk response follows a letter from 100 Democratic representatives urging the speaker and other House leaders to consider slipping in a faster path to citizenship for the more than 5 million Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status recipients, and undocumented immigrants who have helped keep Americans healthy and safe during the pandemic and are critical for our economic recovery.

As we continue to confront a public health and economic catastrophe that will soon have claimed the lives of more than 450,000 Americans [and] exacerbated deep racial, gender, and economic inequities, it is vital that we include protections for immigrant workers to secure the health of our nation and lay the foundation for a robust and dynamic economic recovery, the letter from the Hispanic Caucus read.

Just a month before the Hispanic Caucuss letter, hundreds of progressive immigration organizations issued a similar plea to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, asking the congressional leaders to offer permanent protection and a path to citizenship to all undocumented essential workers and delivering this provision to the presidents desk for his signature.

Last year, House Democrats recognized the important contributions and sacrifices of undocumented essential workers by including in both versions of the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act a provision offering temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to these individuals. The 117th Congress can and must do better, the letter stated.

Pelosis reluctance to include a path to citizenship for illegal immigrant essential workers, though, is not to be confused with a lack of eagerness to pass sweeping immigration reform. Since day one, the Biden administration, in conjunction with top congressional Democrats, has promised to reverse the Trump administrations actions and make it easier for undocumented migrants to take advantage of benefits reserved for U.S. citizens.

In addition to the new presidentssix executive orders concerning Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the addition of illegal immigrants in U.S. Census totals, immediate cessation of construction on the southern border wall, and the suggestion to replace the word alien with noncitizen in U.S. immigration laws, members in the blue chambers of Congress have begun to workshop legislation focused on carrying out Bidens goal to offer amnesty to approximately 11 million illegal immigrants.

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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The Real Greenhouse-Gas Polluter Isn’t The United States, It’s China – The Federalist

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With President Biden signing a series of executive orders aimed at combating climate, he appears more than willing to sacrifice both the economy and good-paying American jobs to theoretically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Bidens climate czar, John Kerry, seems to believe America must have Chinas cooperation to succeed in emissions reduction.

Yet, according to the latest United Nations Emissions Gap Report 2020, Biden and Kerry couldnt be more wrong. In truth, the United States has done more for reducing GHG emissions than China ever has, and China is neither a leader nor a reliable partner on this issue.

The United Nations Environment Programme releases the annual Emission Gap Report to assess the gap between projections of greenhouse emissions in 2030 and where they should be if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges. In a sense, the report yearly nags nations to move toward the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

The objective of the accord is to reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 degrees Celsius. Former President Obama committed the United States to the Paris Climate Accord in 2015, and regarded the Paris Climate Accord as one of his legacy projects, even refusing to issue a permit to the Keystone XL pipeline.

Obamas reasoning? That the pipeline would generate so many GHG emissions it would jeopardize Americas commitment to the Paris Accord, even though his own State Department found no evidence to support such a claim after conducting five studies in seven years.

The Heritage Foundation estimates the United States commitment to the Paris Accord would cost the average American family of four $20,000 and the national gross domestic product $2.5 trillion by 2035 while achieving an insignificant amount of reduction in global temperature.

In 2017, President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Accord, an action he explained to be both in Americas economic interest and wont matter much to the climate. He also vowed that under his administration, the United States would continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on Earth.

Needless to say that his decision was widely condemned by environmental activists, progressive groups, celebrities, corporate America, and many of our allies. Kerry called Trumps action an abdication of leadership and self-destructive.

Now, the verdict is in not from any right-wing source, but the latest climate report released by the United Nations. In combating GHG emissions, theres nothing but good news to report about the United States.

The United States overall GHG emissions have been in decline (0.4 percent per year) over the last decade, while those of China continue to spike up, growing at an average of 2.4 percent per year. Although the GHG emissions on a per capita basis in the United States is still the highest in the world, the number is coming down sharply while those of other major economies such as China and India are trending up.

Whats especially noticeable is GHG emissions in the United States continued to go down even after the Trump administration withdrew from the Paris Accord. The continued reduction came when the United States was experiencing a booming economy and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was underway.

The first lesson from the U.N. climate report is that the United States is on a good trajectory to address climate-related issues and has made consistent and meaningful progress. As a nation, the United States does not have to sacrifice its economy and the jobs of American workers to protect the environment. Unfortunately, however, President Biden has already ignored this lesson, with his Day One executive order directing the United States to rejoin the Paris Accord.

In contrast to the good news out of the United States, the U.N. report presented some glooming news for those who remain within the Paris Accord: global greenhouse gas emissions continued to grow for the third consecutive year in 2019. Although GHG emissions are expected to come down in 2020 mainly due to worldwide lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the EG report believes such a one-year reduction will have an insignificant impact on global temperature.

The main culprit of this worsening trend is China, a nation that emits more than one-quarter of global GHG emissions and has per capita emissions that are around 40 percent above the global average. Indeed, Chinas annual GHG emission is almost equivalent to the sum of those of the United States of America, EU27+UK, and India.

Despite all of the evidence indicating China is the biggest polluter of this planet, Chinas leader, Xi Jinping, knows how to talk the green talk to appeal to left-wingers in the west while doing nothing they actually want on this issue.

When the United States withdrew from the Paris Accord in 2017, Xi wasted no time in offering China as an alternative to the United States. He cast himself as the new leader on climate change. He said: The Paris agreement is a milestone in the history of climate governance. We must ensure this endeavor is not derailed China will continue to take steps to tackle climate change and fully honor its obligations.

The Global Energy Monitor estimates that China will need to reduce its coal power capacity by 40 percent over the next decade to meet its climate goal as stated in the Paris agreement. Yet the opposite happened. Since signing up for the Paris Accord, China has built more new coal plants inside China than any other country, just as its coal plant capacity is expected to increase 10 percent by 2025.

Additionally, the Chinese government made building coal-fired power plants abroad a top priority within its controversial global infrastructure program, Belt and Road. According to Edward Cunningham, a specialist on China at Harvard University, China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt, and the Philippines.

Some accuse China of exporting pollution to boost its economy. Besides environmental concerns, the National Public Radio reported that more than 25 percent of coal plants outside China that are under construction by Chinese contractors are financed by Chinese state-owned financial institutions. Poorer nations that cant pay back their Chinese loans may have to trade their strategic assets to China to pay off their debt.

While the facts on the ground contradict Xis lofty rhetoric, they havent prevented Xi from making an even loftier promise at last years U.N. gathering, Xi pledged that China would be carbon neutral by 2060.

Although todays Chinese government has a long history of making promises it has no intention of keeping, it hasnt stopped some leftists in the west from taking Xis empty promise at face value once again. In exchange for Chinas cooperation on climate change, some on the left are willing to pretend they do not notice the gross human rights violations the CCP has committed, such as the genocide of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.

When defending the controversial European Union-China investment agreement, which some critics say compromised the EUs human rights credibility, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU-Commission, specifically mentioned one of the motivations behind signing on this deal is to protect our climate under #ParisAgreement. She never mentioned Uighurs or Hong Kongers in her Twitter thread.

Unfortunately, Kerry seems to share Ursulas faith in China. Kerry reportedly believes cooperation with China is the key to progress on climate change and that climate is by far the most important issue in the relationship between the United States and China. This is the same belief he held as secretary of state under President Obama. He couldnt be more wrong.

The worst part is that Beijing is fully aware of Kerrys eagerness to strike a deal on climate change and will take advantage of it. Beijing certainly hopes a negotiation on climate change will distract the United States from focusing on other strategic areas that are far more important to the Communist regime, such as Beijings long-desired reunification with Taiwan. According to The Atlantic, even some of Kerrys liberal colleagues are worried: Chinas diplomacy is a constant search for leverage, and Kerry will deliver a load of it in a wheelbarrow right to their front door every day.

Lets hope President Biden will at least learn from this U.N. report that China is neither a leader nor a reliable partner in addressing climate-related issues because its lofty rhetoric is not supported by its actions. Therefore, the Biden administrations China policy should reflect facts on the ground rather than wishful thinking, and never sacrifice national security nor the U.S. economy for Chinas empty climate promises.

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It’s Time To Stop Feeding The Exalted Presidency Federalist #2 – The Federalist

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For more than a century, presidents have expanded the powers of the executive branch while Congress holds the door open. Compounding the problem, an increasing number of Americans see the person who occupies the presidency as an avatar with whom they should place their value, their hopes, and even their sense of purpose.The result has been disastrous.

Embracing a monarchical spirit in everything but name has pulled people away from tending to their local communities, fueled cults of personality, and done great harm to the checks and balances designed to protect our political system.

Borne by the overreaches of the Nixon administration, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. began referring to the executive branch of the American regime as the imperial presidency. Lamentably, despite a few brief interludes, weve witnessed the nations chief executive transform into something worse: The exalted presidency.

Leaders of the White House have become messianic figures to their political and media allies; their missteps and failures are explained away by a majority of their voters, and they receive more and more delegated power from a cowardly U.S. Congress that continues to shrink from its constitutional duties.

How we fix this will be an integral part of any attempt to restore balance to our republic. Indeed, reversing this trend is one of Americas best hopes to roll back the growing sense of disunity that plagues society. First, however, we need to know what we have to return to, and why we should.

Just as the ancient Romans overthrew their last king in favor of a republic in c. 509 B.C., the American Revolution was a denunciation of monarchy in total, not merely a rejection of King George III. Our Founders rightly identified monarchs as emblems of corruption, recognizing that one-man-rule as a way of governing was fundamentally wrong and incompatible with a society that values freedom.

As when Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was deposed, rule by kings was the normal state of affairs for the vast majority of the world when the Declaration was signed in the summer of 1776. One of the seminal characteristics of both the Roman and American republics was their courageous and firm understanding that they were choosing to be set apart from the ways of other nations.

The American government was designed to be representative of the will of the people and granted legitimacy via their enlightened consent. Safeguards, checks, balances, and divisions of power were established to deter both the dominance of a passionate, intemperate mob and of a single individual.

Although the esteemed Roman senator Cato the Elder spoke for the Roman Republic, his words apply all the more to our own American Republic two millennia later:

The reason for the superiority of the constitution of our city to that of other states is that the latter almost always had their laws and institutions from one legislator. But our Republic was not made by the genius of one man, but of many, nor in the life of one, but through many centuries and generations.

In republics both ancient and modern, reason and historical evidence repeatedly prove the greatest threat to liberty comes from concentrated power.

Americans used to hold tightly to a deep-rooted, enduring suspicion of concentrated power of any kind especially when it crept into the presidency. Unfortunately, that well-earned wisdom didnt last past the 19th century. By the 20th century, as George Reedy writes, the presidency had taken on all the regalia of monarchy except ermine robes, a scepter, and a crown.

In his work The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu rightly observes, There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person.Forty years later in Federalist No. 46, James Madison echoes his concern:

The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

With its origins dating back to Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt, the innocently named yet insidiously pernicious stewardship theory of presidential power threatens to further weaken the already eroded safeguards barely holding our republic together. In his 1913 autobiography, TR offers up his justification for the more hands-on Progressive approach he took while occupied the Oval Office:

I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.

For TR, the president was to be a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin.

Yet his successor, William Howard Taft, took up a position far more in line with the original intent of the Constitution and vision of the separation of powers desired by the Founders. In 1916, in the book Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers, Taft writes:

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power of justly implied and included within such express grant as proper and necessary to its exercise.

Unlike TR, who viewed the presidency as an office imbued with nearly limitless undelineated powers, Taft explains:

There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest. The mainspring of such a view is that the Executive is charged with responsibility for the welfare of all the people in a general way, that he is to play the part of a Universal Providence and set all things right the wide field of action that this would give to the Executive one can hardly limit.

Barely five years leaving office, TRs belief in a powerful presidency filled with a grandiose persona was the template exploited by arch-Progressive Woodrow Wilson.

During the span of just two administrations, the occupant of the Oval Office went from executing laws to writing them corralling the whole U.S. government to do his will.

Wilson expanded on TRs blank-check stewardship approach, believing America needed a leader who could arouse and harness lies waiting to be stirred. For Wilson, whole masses of men were to be like clay in the hands of a Great Leader:

The competent leader of men cares little for the interior niceties of other peoples characters: he cares much-everything for the external uses to which they may be put. His will seeks the lines of least resistance; but the whole question with him is a question of the application of force. They have no thought for occasion, no capacity for compromise.

As Charles Kesler has noted, in 12 of the 14 instances the Federalist Papers mention the word leader or leaders the word is used negatively associating leaders with demagoguery, factionalism, and vice.

Since the United States is, at its core, a nation founded on self-government and small-r republicanism, Wilsons insistence that the country ought to be led by a great Leader of Men is not only misguided but a complete departure from Americas philosophical and political moorings.

During the last century, weve allowed the presidency to be turned into precisely the entity that Wilson wanted it to be, a turn of events that should fill us with shame. Wilsons vision of the presidency was taken up by FDR in 1932 through his New Deal program, then further expanded by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

By the time of the election of Barack Obama, the presidency had not just assumed Johnsons Great Society manta of being the source of all future healing promising not just to end poverty, but abstractions like loneliness itself but had become a full-blown celebrity outfit catering to egotistical personalities surrounded by legions of adoring and undyingly loyal cheerleaders.

Oprah Winfrey dubbed Obama The One. Columnist Mark Morford called Obama a Lightworker, an attuned being to help usher in a new way of being on the planet.Ezra Klein couldnt contain himself after the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, saying of Obama, He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair.

Not to be outdone by his fawning admirers, Obama himself claimed to be able to repair this world and fundamentally transform the United States of America, and audaciously proclaimed his triumph marked the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

As for the successive administration, Hogan Gidley, the former national press secretary for Donald Trumps re-election campaign, referred to Trump as the most masculine man to ever hold the White House. Senior advisor Stephen Miller called Trump the most gifted politician of our time and the best orator to become president in generations. In his most recent book, writer Victor Davis Hanson goes so far as to liken Trump to Achilles, Augustus, Martin Luther, and Julius Caesar (meant as a compliment).

Trump himself asserted theres nobody bigger or better at the military than I am, maintainedat his 2016 Republican National Convention speech that only he could fix what ailed America, and proclaimed he was a Presbyterian Christian who never asked God for forgiveness.

The humility and grace of statesmen like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln is a tall order for anyone to emulate, but both Obama and Trump fell far short of the humble dignity the office of the presidency demands. Consequentially, the imperial presidency became an exalted one. With the levels of worshipful praise that weve witnessed during the last two presidencies, the detrimental nationalization of our politics shouldnt shock us one bit.

Criticisms of Obama or his policies, no matter how justified, were reflexively cited as proof of ones conscious (or unconscious) racism, essentially shielding Obama from tangible condemnation.

Plainly, any broad-brush insults or attacks on large, heterogeneous segments of the American population should be denounced. Yet, similar to the reflexive racism defense lobbied at Obamas detractors, in Trumps late-presidency and now ex-presidency periods, criticism of Trumps actions or policies is routinely cited by Trumps die-hard defenders as evidence of ones supposed disdain for the 74 million Americans who voted for him.

Like the Obama racism! retort, this has the effect intended or not of heading off any condemnation of Trump at the pass. Truly, if criticizing president X means you hate all those who voted for X becomes a permanent, reoccurring defense, then engaging in serious political debates or holding Americas chief executive to account will be nearly impossible.

Both catch-all, cover-all rebuttals Youre just racist! and You just hate his voters! are antithetical to the discourse intended by our Founders to keep our republic functioning. We have no kings here. Presidents, like any other politician, should be applauded when they do good and decried when they err. Indeed, as Lord Acton reminds us, There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

No one is supposed to be above the law or above criticism and reproach presidents least of all. Because of the immense power and influence they wield, the president should be the most critiqued and prodded citizen in the country, if for no other reason than it will make them better at the gravely serious job before them.

Regrettably, however, while were only in the second full week of Joe Bidens tenure, it looks like the exalted presidencyis set to continue with the 46th president.

Of course, the legislative branch needs to get back to the business of legislating rather than delegating its powers to the other branches. Congresss decades-long dereliction of its Constitutional duties have added to the bloated largess of the administrative state and enabled them to dodge taking stances on difficult but pressing issues while posing for photo ops and fishing for viral social media clips.

The executive branch needs to get back to taking care that the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the nation are being faithfully executed rather than abusing executive orders as a way to bypass Congress from the legislative process entirely.

Yes, in the final analysis, what we need is for the separate branches of our republic to re-assert and re-assume their proper roles as envisioned by the Founders and articulated in Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution. The brilliant political machinery of the American republic isnt broken. Whats broken is our capacity for self-rule.

Little by little, weve come to expect less of ourselves while placing more of our purpose and hopes with whoever resides in the White House.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.(Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III)

Even strong leg muscles will atrophy after decades of neglect, requiring crutches in order to walk. After surrendering the responsibility of self-government for so long, the presidency has become the crutch where we rest the burdens that used to be shouldered by our communities, our families, and our places of worship. The problem is, however, that the harder we lean on this crutch, the harder it is to get back up on our own two feet, and the more we sink into a posture that looks a whole lot like servitude.

As Schleisinger Jr. wrote back in 1973, When presidents begin to succumb to delusions of grandeur, when the checks and balances inside themselves stop operating, external checks and balances may well become necessary to save the republic. Realistically, however, as most such measures would require constitutional amendments, for the time being, it seems highly likely any sort of major reforms to the office of the presidency will continue to exist only in the realm of political what if fantasyland.

Instead, the solution must come from us.We the people must be the check on the presidency. We the people must demand Congress take back its role as the preeminent branch of government. We the people must starve presidents of the attention and absolute loyalty they now crave. We the people must roll back and curtail the unbridled reverence of the presidency that has warped the Oval Office.

Through the power of our collective voices and votes, we the people must begin to rescind the exalted presidency, and rediscover our quintessentially American antipathy towards monarchs no matter if their official title isnt king but president.

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How The Pandemic Raised The Stakes For School Choice – The Federalist

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, CEO-elect of the American Federation for Children Tommy Schultz joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how teachers unions are hurting childrens academic and social development by pushing to keep schools closed and why their anti-scientific demands highlight the importance of school choice.

Its just devastating what this is doing. Parents are trying to manage this awful situation on top of their own tragedies and issues and going on with their own work, Schultz said. Its a terrible time, and much of it is being driven by the politics of our K-12 political bureaucracy and the unions who are only serving the interests of their members and not students.

Support for school choice, Schultz said, has grown since the beginning of the pandemic, as more and more public school families, especially those with lower-income parents are increasingly frustrated with how politicized their childrens learning has become.

This is clearly a result of the teachers unions,frankly, being the best advocates for school choice just by doing everything that theyre doing here, Schultz said. They are an entirely political beast that is only interested in serving themselves rather than actually putting our students first in this education discussion.

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Troll Replaced ‘Trump’ With ‘Cuomo’ In Maxine Waters’ Call To Violence And Dems Lost It – The Federalist

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Blue checkmarks and Democrats took to Twitter on Thursday to condemn a call for violence against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the people in his administration.The quote in question, however, was actually a call to violence against former President Donald Trump and his supporters from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., that a Twitter troll account called Cuomo Watch satirically modified to say Cuomo.

If you see anybody from the Cuomo Administration in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them theyre not welcome anymore, anywhere. -Maxine CuomoWatch, the tweet reads.

Soon after the tweet was shared, prominent New York politicians, blue checkmarks, and Democrats in other states took to Twitter to condemn the call to action.

This is appalling and dangerous. Encouraging violence must never be tolerated. Shame on whoever is behind this kind of garbage, the speaker of the New York State Assembly wrote.

This is beyond outrageous, a state senator added in her retweet. Two weeks ago we saw what happened when arsonists throw gas around. Twitter should ban this dude now!

This is dangerous, reprehensible and has no place in any public discussion. Oh, and spare me the someone else did it too excuse. Someone else saying a variation of this doesnt change the fact that this is seeking to incite violence against a public official and their staff, another assemblyman shared.

@CuomoWatch We will not tolerate threats against public officials by radical extremists in this city or state. There is no room for violence or targeting against anyone, especially public servants. Not after what happened in D.C. I will be alerting appropriate authorities, the borough president of Manhattan tweeted.

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., even spoke out, saying he was appalled by the call to action after living through the insurrection against the US Congress.

We must all denounce in no uncertain terms any attempt at inciting political violence, he shared in a now-deleted tweet.

Cuomos senior adviser Rich Azzopardi also spread the misinformation, retweeting peoples condemnations and even accusing Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and her staff, without presenting evidence, of condoning violence against the governor.

When confronted about the legitimacy of the tweet and the true source of the quote, the legislators either deleted their tweets or attempted to defend their double-standard on political violence.

I see what they did, wrote state Sen. Diane Savino, but that was then and this is now, and 4 years of Trump has led to words becoming weapons. We cant just ignore them anymore, people take them as a call to violent actions.

Cuomos office did not respond to The Federalists request for clarification on whether they still condemn the comments now that they know who originally made them. Instead, in his press conference on Friday, Cuomo blamed the internet and the troll who created the post.

When you see the ugliness being fomented for selfish political reasons, everyone should condemn it. We all know who spreads the ugliness on the Internet, Cuomo says.

Many Democrats have a history of calling for violence against Trump and his supporters including Cuomo, who recently said that he wouldve decked Trump if he werent a governor.

The outrage over the modified quote also follows a report from the New York attorney generals office that found that Cuomo and his administration lied about the number of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes following his policy that sent infected patients into care facilities during the pandemic.

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, Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his dispatch from Rep. Matt Gaetzs anti-Liz Cheney rally and what it means for the future of the GOP.

He really branded Liz Cheney as emblematic of the old way of doing things and what the Republican Party had gotten away from under Donald Trump, and what the Republican Party needs to stay away from if theyre going to be successful in the future, and the crowd loved it, Justice said. Every single person I spoke to in the crowd, they complained about Liz Cheney, not necessarily because of her impeachment vote. A lot of them said that impeachment was just the last straw, they were already upset with Cheney. They really just attacked her for being a symbol of the past.

Cheneys battle, Justice said, is not an isolated one and signals the coming of more GOP splits after years of growing distrust in D.C. elites and politicians.

Liz Cheney is in trouble in her own state. Trumpism has gripped the party, and I dont think theres a lot of space for the Republican Party to go back to the old way of doing things, Justice concluded.

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Why It’s Unconstitutional To Impeach Someone After He Leaves Office – The Federalist

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On Jan. 22, the Wall Street Journal published Princeton University professor of politics Keith E. Whittingtons defense of the disqualification-from-future-office purpose of the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump scheduled to begin on Feb. 8. The day before, more than 100 legal scholars, including Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, released a statement making the same argument.

Whittingtonholds that for the Founders, a Senate trial merely to disqualify a former federal official was a traditionally understood principle imported to America from England. Likewise, thescholars argue that history, including English impeachment history as well as the intentions of the Framers of the Constitution, is the source of the alleged constitutional power to convict prior officeholders as well as current ones. What is more, a Constitution without an independent disqualification power would be a Constitution that could be easily undermined.

In support of their scholarship, neither the scholars nor the professor cites nor quotes the Federalist Papers. Yet the history and meaning of the American Constitution begins with and is dependent on those papers which, like the Constitution itself, are unique in all of human and political history. Impeachment is dealt with in eight of the 85 papers (numbers 39, 65, 66, 69, 77, 79, 81, 84). Nowhere in any of the Federalist Papers is there a discussion of or attempt to separate between the two impeachment punishments of removal and disqualification.

In Federalist No. 65, whose subject is the suitability of the Senate as the court of impeachment, disqualification is not separately considered. The subject of Federalist No. 66 is the argument that the impeachment provisions dangerously combine both legislative and judicial authority in the Congress.

Hamilton, the author, answers by pointing to the constitutional requirement that the House and Senate act separately and independently in the impeachment process. When Hamilton contends impeachment is properly assigned to the Congress, rather than the Supreme Court, disqualification is not mentioned at all. In neither paper is there a discussion distinguishing between removal from office and disqualification.

In Federalist No. 39, Madison says that the President of the United States is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office.In Federalist No. 66, Hamilton explains that the fundamental purpose of impeachment is to protect the Congress against encroachments of the executive. Obviously, there can be no such encroachments by a former executive.

It is inconceivable that the Federalist authors who were, of course, subject to the criticisms of and corrections by their fellow Founders would have left such a major constitutional power, the stand-alone power of disqualification, uncommented on. Both the assumption and the plain text of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers is that the two punishments, removal and disqualification, go together.

For Democrats intent on keeping their fierce pursuit of Trump in the public eye, the Constitution establishes more powerful means than simple removal and disqualification. Article I, 3 states that impeachment shall not extend further than than removal and disqualification, but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment, and Punishment, according to law. And he need not be convicted under impeachment.

In specifically discussing the presidency in Federalist No. 65 and Federalist No. 69, Hamilton points out that a former president would afterwards that is, after he is no longer president be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. Hamilton highlights this dramatic difference from English law concerning the person of the king, who is forever exempt from impeachment and prosecution.

During his term in office, a president may not be prosecuted in an outside court, only charged/impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Now that he is out of office, however, and for the rest of his life, Trump may be criminally indicted in any state or federal court for anything he ever did both during and outside his presidency.

InNixon v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court ruled that a president is forever immune fromcivilliability for his official acts while in office. Not so, however, for non-official civil acts. InClinton v. Jones, the Supreme Court held that a sitting president may be sued for his private, non-official pre-presidency conduct. Furthermore, in the 2020 decision of Trump v. Vance, the Supreme Court ruled that Trumps tax records could be subpoenaed by New York state prosecutor Cyrus Vance Jr. while he was still in office.

Both the scholars and the professor mention that a perfidious president or other officials could commit heinous acts against the country and the government and then avoid all consequences by resigning before an impeachment trial. As already pointed out and proven by the text of the Constitution and Hamiltons discussion of it, this contention is simply false.

Such a terminally criminal former president would continue to be liable to criminal prosecution for his in-office, terminally criminal acts. What is more, it is more than obvious that American popular and political opinion would never endure an attempt by such a person to regain public office. Finally, it is also refuted by American history insofar as no public figure has ever thought to commit such acts.

The scholars and Whittington bring up the impeachment and disqualification of resigned and no-longer-in-office Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876, who was acquitted in the Senate. But historical accounts are readily available with which to conclude that a significant number of those voting for acquittal had already decided that there was no impeachment jurisdiction over a former official. Also, of course, Belknap was an appointed official rather than an elected one, much less the president.

In a separatearticle in The New York Times, Calabresi along with Norman Eisen, one of the Democratss House 2020 impeachment counsels, have cited no authority for their unique claim that after the two-thirds impeachment vote, a disqualification vote only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate. Anyone is entitled to his or her opinion about the meaning of constitutional texts, of course. Scholarship, however, requires something more.

Since retiring as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Thomas R. Ascik has written about legal and constitutional issues on a variety of websites including The Federalist, The Imaginative Conservative, and Law & Liberty.

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Millennials Meet Mortality With The Death Of Dustin Diamond – The Federalist

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Actor Dustin Diamond passed away this week at the age of 44, just weeks after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Diamond was best known for his role as Screech Powers on Saved by the Bell, a character he portrayed for 13 years.

Diamond died just three weeks after his initial diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer, according to his publicist. As tragic as any death is, particularly at such a young age, articles dedicated to his memory and in honor of his body of work may be few and far between. A look at Diamonds career, shaped by a single role on a teen TV show that aired more than 30 years ago, would not be an obvious inspiration for entertainment writers.

But Screech Powers was not just a forgotten TV side character; he was a cultural touchstone for almost everyone born in the late 70s and early 80s. Ever youthful, nave, and optimistic for whatever the world may have for him, Screech represented the spirit of 90s kids. He got pushed around, he got teased. But his tenacity and love for life always kept him in the winners circle.

Saved by the Bell, however one may feel about the overall quality of the show, was definitive programming for my age group. We all dreamed of being beautiful like Kelly, or effortlessly cool like Zach. It was one of the first shows specifically aimed at young teens and its success was achieved by striking a perfect balance between kid-dom early adulthood themes.

Screech was the foil of the show who was seldom the center of a story but was required to make other characters look either good or bad, depending on how they treated him. He represented all of our little brothers and sisters: an annoying drag, but the person we loved the most in the world. And it was those character traits and Diamonds goofy, hopeful grin that kept him on the show, in every iteration, far longer than any other character.

Diamonds curly brown hair, wide toothy grin, and child-like wonder remained with him throughout his run on the show. His youthfulness was not by accident, he was several years younger than any of the other cast members, more likely to be the age of the kids watching the show.

Like Screech, we watched the show and admired the older, more adult characters. Co-star Mario Lopez referred to Diamond as a fun, goofy little brother. We wanted to emulate them, to impress them, to be accepted by them. But perhaps it was Screech we were relating to. We were the wide-eyed pre-teens ready for new experiences and Screechs willingness to embarrass himself in search of answers and friendship was admirable.

Many of us grew out of Saved by the Bell before the final version of the show, The New Class, went off the air in 2000, 12 years after first meeting Screech. Diamond remained in the role from age 11 to 23, returning post-college years to portray an assistant at the high school.

After the end of Screech, Diamond infrequently worked as an actor, finding himself in the news for less savory reasons. Like many child actors before him, Diamond slid in and out of obscurity, reaching for a comeback through professional wrestling, publishing a tell-all book, and even releasing a sex tape.

He spent time in jail after a violent bar altercation. Rumors of drug addiction and depression swirled, and Diamonds career was further pocked after being snubbed from a Saved by the Bell reboot that began airing last year. Diamond was supposedly in discussions about joining the reboot in its second season when his illness was revealed in early January. And, in just a matter of weeks, he was gone.

His passing is a watershed moment for millennials, who are now forced to accept the fact that we are not in our immortal youth any longer. Death came for one of us just as we prepare for middle age. Every generation meets a moment when they realize they are mortals, that they cant outrun death, and that eventually, they run out of chances.

Its now time for acceptance that, never again, will we be able to watch a Saved by the Bell rerun without a sense of sadness and loss not only for Diamond, but for our own youths. And as time marches on, none of our nostalgic culture will remain untouched.

For millennials, our moment of mortality has arrived.

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The Biden Administration Just Made Peter Strzok’s Wife A Top SEC Official – The Federalist

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President Joe Bidens Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it hired Melissa Hodgman to lead the agency as its acting director of the Division of Enforcement last week.

Melissas dedication to investor protection, broad experience in the Division, and proven track record of collaboration and creative problem solving make her ideally suited to this role, SEC Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee celebrated in a statement. As Associate Director, Melissa has overseen a wide range of complex and programmatically important matters, and has been a leading voice in the Division on critical issues of diversity, hiring, and labor-management relations.

Hodgman, according to the agency press release, has been with the SEC since 2008 as a longtime bureaucrat engaging in a wide range of litigation. Hodgman is also married to another, better-known longtime Washington bureaucrat, Peter Strzok, made famous for his role in the FBIs deep-state Crossfire Hurricane operation, which featured a witch hunt investigation that sought to incriminate President Donald Trump.

Before being fired from the FBI, Strzok rose to prominence when it was revealed that Strzok had conspired with an FBI colleague-turned-mistress over the course of the investigation, as they tried to oust the elected president. Text messages that emerged in the summer of 2018 from an Office of Inspector Generals report revealed the two began conspiring the summer before Trump even won the November election. Page resigned from the FBI, only to later be hired by MSNBC, while Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from the Russia investigation.

The pair had since become widely mocked by the president when railing against the Russia hoax and became the subject of the theatrical play FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers, which was performed at the Conservative Political Action Conference last year.

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With a major shakeup in Donald Trumps legal team this weekend, increasing attention is being paid to what defense the former president will mount in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial.

Conventional wisdom is that Republican senators would prefer Trump simply argue that it is unconstitutional to impeach a former president. Reportedly, they do not want him to argue he was not guilty of inciting a riot, and most certainly do not want him to argue that there was, in fact, widespread election fraud.

One can understand why these senators would rather rule only on the narrow issue of the constitutionality. It is far less contentious than the other two arguments, and why even bother with them if the first argument makes them moot?

But for Trump, who has already lost his largest platform on Twitter, the ability to lay out the case on why he didnt incite a riot and that there was widespread fraud may seem irresistible. It would be far riskier, but there is still a very good chance he would be acquitted, maybe by a closer margin possibly with some annoyed votes in his favor, but acquitted nonetheless.

On all three counts, Trump has very reasonable arguments to make. And given that so many in the media have already made up their mind that he is obviously guilty, he would have a very low bar to cast doubt on that guilt. So lets look at each defense on its own.

The constitutional question of whether you can convict a former president in the Senate appears to be a legal 50-50 ball. There are experts on each side of the question. Both make reasonable if contradictory arguments, and neither can really claim certainty. This makes it an easy out for Republican senators, and its why they dont want to look any further.

As far as the question of incitement, Ive made a longer argument in these pages, but it boils down to the idea that Trumps actions were way too broad and indirect to be considered an incitement. Now, those in favor of conviction point out that the legal standard, which almost everyone agrees Trump did not meet, doesnt matter here. Thats true. The Senate can define it anyway they want, but they still need a standard by which to do so, and more importantly they will setting that standard in an official capacity.

If Trumps speech was incitement to riot, then what is the limiting principle? Was Rep. Maxine Waters inciting people when she told them to get into Trump officials faces in 2018, all while she was pushing the big lie of Russian collusion?

American political discourse is replete with fighting metaphors and lying. We also now know that the rioting had started a mile away from Trumps speech before he finished speaking and that elements were pre-planned. The case for incitement is far weaker than the media would have you believe.

Finally comes the most controversial potential defense: that there really was massive voter fraud. To many this seems like a Kamikaze defense, but it might not be. Republican officials have been pressured since the riots to say that there was no widespread voter fraud. The idea seems to be that if they refuse they are also complicit. Its absurd, of course, as this past election was one of the sloppiest in recent memory. That happens when you change the rules on the fly.

There are plenty of important irregularities in the election that really do need investigation. That is why Sen. Josh Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz launched a symbolic effort to refuse certification in order to shine a spotlight on these irregularities. The problems were real. They exist. Are they enough to overturn the results? It appears not, but that really isnt the point, the point is we need to fix them anyway.

Too many Republicans are being shamed now into not making a very important argument about election security. It would be the most Trump thing in the world to show up at the Senate and fight the fight they refuse to. And again, Trumps bar would be low. We have been assured there was no fraud, no major problems in mail-in voting. Just a handful of examples would put the lie to that.

Trump seems poised to get a win when the votes are cast in his trial. The question is how big the win will be. I dont think you answer that question based on how many votes he gets. I think you answer it based on how broad the scope of his acquittal is. Trump doesnt want to win on a technicality; he wants to win on the merits. A fighter doesnt hide behind constitutional controversy, he says, You tried me. I won.

There is every reason Trump should press all three arguments. Together they represent his best possible case, a three-pronged attack on every element of the charges against him. Even he wins with a smaller margin, by fighting the whole thing and winning, he will emerge much stronger than choosing otherwise.

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The big question so far on WandaVision has been, What exactly are we watching? Well, in episode four, we began to get some answers. Granted, it is a Marvel show so we also got more questions, but we did get some answers too, along with the appearance of two Marvel Cinematic Universe sidekicks, and a better idea of what S.W.O.R.D. is.

Todays WandaVision, amusingly titled, We Interrupt This Program, gives us some of the backstory on what exactly is going on. The episode begins with a chaotic scene. In a hospital room, we see Monica Rambeau re-materialize after The Avengers bring her back from The Blip, the MCUs name for the 50 percent of living beings that disappeared with the snap of Thanoss fingers in Infinity War.

She runs around in a panic looking for her mother who was apparently about to be discharged from cancer treatment. After finding a doctor who recognizes her, Monica is informed that her mother died three years ago when the cancer came back, which was two years after Monica up and vanished along with half of the universe.

This is the first time weve seen the immediate aftermath of the heroic sacrifices The Avengers made at the end of the Infinity Saga. Now we see just how traumatizing it must have been for people to vanish from existence for five years only to return to a world they didnt necessarily recognize.

After Monica leaves the hospital, she makes her way back to the headquarters of S.W.O.R.D., where she works, only to find her key card doesnt function anymore. She encounters the director of the organization, a role that used to be held by her mother. He sends her on a mission to aid the FBI in a missing persons case in rural New Jersey.

At this point, Monica finds agent Jimmy Woo, played by Randall Park, who we last saw in Ant-Man and the Wasp as the FBI guy in charge of keeping an eye on Ant-Man. Woo is now trying to track down a source he had in witness protection who was hidden in Westview, New Jersey. Monica learns that no one in the town seems to be reachable, and the sheriff, who is stationed outside the towns city limits sign, denies the town even exists.

Monica and Woo send a S.W.O.R.D. drone into the town only to watch it disappear. Monica then walks up to the towns border and sees an energy field that looks a lot like an old-fashioned television screen did if you got too close. She touches it and gets sucked into the town.

Twenty-four hours later we see the next MCU sidekick join the party, Darcy Lewis, played by Kat Dennings. The last time we saw Darcy was in the first two Thor movies. Here shes being called in by S.W.O.R.D. to investigate the town. Upon examining it, she finds that the town is broadcasting an old television signal.

Darcy proceeds to have the government goons set up an old TV so she can see the broadcast a broadcast that happens to be what weve been watching through the first three episodes of WandaVision, and we learn that its Darcy whom we saw at the end of some of these episodes watching them with us on an old television set.

We then see Woo, Darcy, and the S.W.O.R.D. team investigate the anomaly and try to figure out whats going on. They begin to identify the people cast in Wandas delusion, and it turns out many of them are just normal citizens who somehow got dragged into this sitcom fantasy. Darcy also asks the question weve all been wondering about Vision since the first minute this show started, Isnt he dead?

In an earlier episode, we heard what sounded like Woo trying to talk to Wanda through the radio. Now in this episode, we get to see how that moment came about. Darcy and Woo cobble together a plan to try and talk to Wanda through the radios they can see on screen. They also send a man dressed in a biohazard suit through the sewer to try to reach Monica. Hes the one who appeared as a random beekeeper in the first episode. Thats what her delusion changed him into.

We also get to see the rest of the scene from the last episode where Wanda figured out that Monica was not who she appeared to be and ejected her from the town. It turns out she did that quite violently by sending Monica through the walls of her house, the fence in her yard, and flying through the air at breakneck speed. The thing is, the S.W.O.R.D. observers dont see that scene; they just see Monica disappear as we did in the previous episode. That leads Darcy to posit that someone is censoring the broadcast from them and not letting everyone see what is happening.

Then were left with the most disturbing of images as we approach the end of this episode. Wanda, slightly shaken from her delusion by Monicas mention of Ultron, but not entirely, sees Vision enter their home. Instead of the Vision weve seen who is miraculously alive, well, and remarkably human, we see the dead Vision we last saw in the fields of Wakanda after Thanos ripped an Infinity Stone straight from the sythezoids head. Hes still talking to her, but hes clearly not alive, with vacant eyes, and a large hole in his head.

Its a jarring, unnerving, and very disturbing break from the happy-go-lucky sitcom world weve been immersed in through the first few episodes.

Then, its gone.

Wanda returns to her world where she and Vision are alive and well in a 1970s sitcom with two bouncing baby boys. Then we get perhaps the most interesting exchange between the title characters weve had yet. Vision, seeing the upset nature of Wanda, says, We dont have to stay here. We can go wherever we want.

Wanda, beginning to piece together what is going on, with tears in her eyes, says, No we cant. This is our home. Vision says, Are you sure? and Wanda answers, Dont worry darling, I have everything under control.

Then we cut to Monica, who is on the grass outside Westview, exactly where we left her at the end of the last episode. She is surrounded by government agents. Darcy and Woo run up to Monica, who is still dazed on the ground, and ask if shes okay. Monica says, Its Wanda. Its all Wanda. The episode closes with Wanda and Vision cradling their babies while watching TV on their couch as Jimmy Hendrix sings Voodoo Child.

My working theory has been that Mephisto is the villain behind all this nonsense weve been seeing in WandaVision and that he would be the central villain of the next few Marvel movies, but the way this episode ends raises interesting questions.

Will Wanda herself move from being a hero, a member of The Avengers who saved the universe from the evils of Thanos, to a villain herself? Could her immense grief at the loss of her lover, Vision, drive her to become a crazed supervillain?

Could Wanda be the next big baddy of the MCU? Maybe well find out more next week on WandaVision.

Brad Jackson is a writer and radio personality whose work has appeared at ABC, CBS, Fox News, and multiple radio programs. He was the longtime host and producer of Coffee & Markets, an award-winning podcast and radio show with more than 1,500 episodes. Brad covers all things edible and cultural for The Federalist. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram at @bradwjackson.

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According to a source close to FightLine, reigning Bellator champion Cris Cyborg is scared of a potential showdown with Kayla HarrisonPFL Champion Kayla Harrison Returns To Action Once More.

At the end of 2020, Harrison stepped into the Invicta FC cage and moved up in weight to find a new challenge. Her readiness at any moment to compete continued before another planned fight was scrapped.

The reigning Professional Fighters League lightweight champion and Olympic gold medalist will return to the PFL cage in early 2021 when the new season begins.

However, she remained interested in a potential mega-bout with Cyborg if things could be worked out.

The source has indicated that Cyborg prefers to remain strictly in Bellator MMA and continue her dominance there instead of testing herself against Harrison.

Harrison has been willing to move from lightweight to featherweight to make things happen for herself in continued the climb to being the top female fighter the sport has to offer.

She is 8-0 including a recent finish of Courtney King. Harrison has won all seven of her fights under the PFL banner including a 2019 decision vs. Larissa Pacheco in the tournament final.

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Prior to embarking on her career in MMA, Harrison compiled a record of 45-7 in judo including gold at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games and 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

PFL officials allowed Harrison to step into the Invicta FC cage in November and were willing to do the same for a December match in Titan FC.

Cyborg signed with Bellator and made her promotional debut in 2020 with a finish of Julia Budd to win the featherweight title. She defended it last October over Arlene Blencowe.

Along with winning gold in Bellator, the Brazilian is also a former UFC and Strikeforce champion, sporting a career record of 23-2 overall with 18 wins by knockout.

Any showdown between Harrison and Cyborg now appears off the table as both move forward with their respective careers. We will continue to monitor and follow this situation on TheMix.

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NewsBytes Briefing: Musk’s army of gamer cyborg monkeys, and more | NewsBytes – NewsBytes

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There is never a dull moment with Elon Musk. At a recent Clubhouse interaction, the world's richest man revealed that his Neuralink start-up has monkeys with brain implants that allow them to play video games with one another.

Subsequently, his tweet revealed the long-term plans of the start-up: Human-AI symbiosis that is touted as species-level important.

Read on for more craziness that transpired today.

If there was ever a case against brain implants, WhatsApp's latest attempt to brainwash its users into conceding to its privacy policy trap makes a good one.

The messaging service has been sending story-like in-app messages reminding users that Facebook isn't an evil corporation that harvests and sells their private data to achieve everything ranging from manipulating your mood to manipulating elections.

Even as Big Tech has managed to de-platform who was once the most powerful person in the world and kill off competitors with zero consequences, the upside-down land of Australia isn't having any of it.

Australian premier Scott Morrison called out Google's bluff to pull its search engine from the country. Now, Microsoft has offered to fill the void with its Bing search engine.

Australia isn't the only one sticking it to the powers that be.

Reddit's WallStreetBets saga is an unprecedented case of how the internet facilitated people's burning desire to wrest the levers of economic power away from the clutches of a few chosen elites.

This silent revolution didn't involve peasants with pitchforks, but the working class weaponizing their stimulus checks to break Wall Street's back.

Now back to more boring stuff.

If you have bought the new M1-powered MacBooks this Christmas, you are in for a treat with NVIDIA bringing native M1 support to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service.

What's more, Apple's next M1 chips are rumored to include a 128-core GPU. It looks like proper gaming on the Mac might be an actual possibility in the future.

Don't you hate it when tech companies take a break from subverting democracy and sowing seeds of civil war to come up with products squarely targeted at the sort of people who answer Nigerian email scams?

Well, Xiaomi's latest patent seems to be an attempt to top yesterday's snake oil campaign featuring an improbable wireless charging system that was thoroughly debunked by EEVBlog.

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Outside the Wire director explains how Anthony Mackie was turned into a cyborg – CNET

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Pilou Asbk as Victor Koval (left) and Anthony Mackie as Capt. Leo in the Netflix film Outside the Wire.

Over his career, the Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hfstrm has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest stars, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Aniston, John Cusack and Anthony Hopkins. It's hard to imagine that he got his start as a writer for Swedish television shows. In 2004, his film Evil received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and that's when he went from directing films in Sweden to helming movies in Hollywood.

Hfstrm's newest film is Outside the Wire, on Netflix. It stars Anthony Mackie as a top secret android army officer who recruits a drone pilot, played by Damson Idris, to stop a nuclear attack. The sci-fi thriller delves into philosophical questions about humans and morality. The relationship between Mackie and Idris echoes the relationship Denzel Washington's and Ethan Hawke's characters had in the film Training Day.

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On CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast, Hfstrm explains the challenge of finding the perfect look on screen for Mackie's cyborg character, Captain Leo.

"He is a bio technical prototype. He looks like you and me," said Hfstrm. "One of the biggest jobs, obviously, was to try to figure out exactly what he looked like. What his interior looked like. I don't know how many versions we went through to find something that didn't feel overdone, but was also visually interesting. And hopefully it's something that we haven't seen in other movies."

During our conversation, we discussed the parallels between the way nuclear weapons are shown in popular culture and the way they are secretly present in all of our lives. Hfstrm also shares what it was like working with both Schwarzenegger and Stallone in the film Escape Plan.

"It was a good thing that they were both in the movie, because they were sort of competing at being the nicest guy on set," said Hfstrm with a laugh. "They were older, and their rivalry had passed. And now they were old friends sitting on set smoking cigars, telling war stories and it was just a good time."

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Break the Lockdown Blues and Create the Night of Your Dreams Without Leaving Your Room – Isolationist Nightclub Simulator Slated for Launch on Steam…

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[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]Create your own electronic music, play mini-games or just explore the various rooms of your nightclub in relaxing sandbox experience

Melbourne, Australia -- February 3, 2021 -- If lockdown is driving you stir crazy, escape to your very own nightclub in Isolationist Nightclub Simulator, coming to Steam next month. In a relaxing sandbox-meets-multimedia art experience, you can create, explore or simply relax in the lush vibes of this expansive virtual space all your own.

In a dark, yet all too familiar time, a plague has all but shut down life on Earths surface, driving you to the safety of your very own fallout shelter where you escape into the vivid simulation of a futuristic, neon lit and labyrinthine nightclub. Create your own music (no prior skill required!) using in-game instruments, including a synth keyboard, drum machine, bass loops and arpeggiator, or occupy yourself with an assortment of mini-games in your clubs Arcade. Feel like just relaxing instead? Explore a series of serpentine spaces, such as an art gallery, a forest-scale garden and a number of Chill Out rooms where you can sit back with a virtual drink and relax with soothing music - perhaps of your own making. You can also leave notes for other players with the in-game messaging system, which randomly populates items such as drink coasters or toilet wall graffiti with your messages.

Following on from a project I released last year called Neon Cyborg Cat Club, I felt compelled to create a new world that was much more expansive and interactive, said Edwin Montgomery, Composer and Developer. As we're all spending so much time at home these days, I wanted to build a virtual space that would offer a sense of discovery, play and creation. Isolationist Nightclub Simulator provides an experience that anyone can enter and make their own.

Isolationist Nightclub Simulator is supported by Creative Victorias Sustaining Creative Workers grant and is designed to provide a relaxingly creative experience that offers a little something for everyone, no matter what mood you are in. Isolationist Nightclub Simulator is expected to launch on Steam soon for the price of $5USD with a 10% sale at launch.

About Edwin MontgomeryWith a background in classical composition and a Masters Degree from AFTRS in composing for screen, Edwin Montgomery is a composer, musician and sound designer who works across film, games, immersive theatre, installations and mixed media artworks. Recently they scored the award-winning feature documentary Time, which won Best Documentary Directing at Sundance 2020, and created the cult hit game Sisyphus Reborn, as well as the unique sonic-driven interactive experience Neon Cyborg Cat Club.

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Superfight vs. Kayla Harrison Could Have Happened Already – Heavy.com

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Bellator MMA womens featherweight champion Cris Cyborg recently expressed interest in a superfight showdown with 2019 PFL womens lightweight champion Kayla Harrison, but according to a source the megafight could have already happened at 155 had Cyborg signed with the PFL in 2019.

In fact, Cyborg vs. Harrison was exactly the womens superfight the PFL had in mind two years ago when the company did its best to sign Cyborg after the legendary MMA champs contract with the UFC expired.

Instead, Cyborg decided to sign with Bellator MMA, presumedly so she could continue feasting on the 145-pound fighters to which shes grown accustomed to beating.

Meanwhile, Harrison went on to grab PFL gold at 155 pounds, as well as that companys $1 million-dollar prize for winning the womens lightweight tournament.

Cyborg vs. Harrison might be a future cross-promotional superfight between two of the biggest MMA superstars in the world today, but its also something that could have happened already.

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Cyborg signed with Bellator MMA in 2019, and the 35-year-old Brazilan went on to capture the womens featherweight championship for that organization.

That made Cybrog the first and only MMA fighter in history to win championships for UFC, Bellator MMA, Invicta FC, and Strikeforce. Its something Cyborg calls a Grand Slam, and shes been lauded by the likes of UFC superstar Conor McGregor and many others for having achieved it.

SoCyborg is considered by most MMA observers to be one of the most accomplished champions in MMA history.

In a combat sports world frequently way too quick to crown fighters as the greatest of all time, Cyborgs long history of excellence is one of the few cases that might actually warrant that kind of consideration.

Still, some have criticized Cyborg for refusing to move up in weight in the past, and sources stated that Cyborgs main contention about joining the PFLs growing roster of talent in 2019 was that she didnt want to face Harrison at 155.

Recently, Cyborg suggested that might no longer be an issue.

I believe this year shes gonna fight for PFL, shes gonna be in a tournament at 155, and if she becomes the champion of this tournament, for sure I would like to make a match with her that all the fans would like to watch, Cyborg told James Lynch on her YouTube channel.

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Cyborg received several lucrative offers back in 2019, but sources say the PFLs offer was very strong.

Regardless, Cyborg ultimately chose Bellator for what PFL president Ray Selfo described back then as competitive and personal reasons.

I think she wanted to stay in the 145-pound division, Sefo said per MMA Junkie.

Indeed, when Cyborg hit free agency after leaving the UFC, Harrison, the PFLs impressive womens lightweight prodigy, issued a bold challenge to Cyborg via TMZ Sports.

Hi Cris, I heard you lost your job, but if youre interested, the PFL has a very special place for you, and its second [place], Harrison told TMZ Sports.

But Cyborg didnt end up accepting the challenge, and Sefo told MMA Junkie after her decision that it was probably because she wanted to stay at featherweight as well as her relationship with Bellator MMA president Scott Coker.

I think she felt a little bit more comfortable because of that past history, said Sefo per MMA Junkie.

Harrison might not yet have the same length of time as a professional MMA fighter under her belt, but the two-time Olympic gold medalist in Judo has already risen to the top of the sport since starting her pro fighting career back in 2018.

The 30-year-old American has consistently stated she desires megafights against the best fighters in the sport, including Cyborg.

Of course, I would love to fight Cyborg, Harrison said per MMA Junkie in 2020. Shes one of the greats. I dont think itll happen before the PFL season, but Ill fight anybody.

Harrisons challenge to Cyborg in 2019 didnt end up getting her the superfight, but she remains hopeful the fight can happen in the future.

Thats the goal, the goal is to become the greatest of all time. But Cyborg is another female superstar legend. Shes a legend of the sport and I would jump at that opportunity, Harrison said per MMA Junkie.

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Producer Accused By Ray Fisher Revealed That the Actor Was Upset Because They Wanted Him to Say Cyborg’s Catchphrase – Epicstream

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Cyborg actor Ray Fisher asked why some fans are taking anissue as to why his character does not say the catchphrase, Booyah, in Zack Snyders Justice League. The actor asked fans on Twitter. This question isnt all too innocent if the basis will be producer Jon Berg who revealed that the actor didnt want to say the catchphrase when asked to do so.

On Twitter, Fisher asked fans with a serious reflective question to fans who are taking issue with Cyborg not saying the word booyah in Snyders cut. He added that are those fans just as upset when none of the other characters use their catchphrases.

He ended the question that if the fans are not bothered with the other characters not saying their catchphrases, why are they taking issue if Cyborg doesnt say it.

The actors fans flocked to the tweet to show support for him not wanting to say the catchphrase. However, his question might be loaded. In July 2020, Fisher accused Joss Whedon of engaging with gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable behavior during the reshoots for Justice League.

The actor added that producers Jon Berg and Geoff Johns enabled Whedons behavior. Berg responded that Fishers accusations were categorically untrue. The producer added that he remembered a time that Fisher was upset because they wanted him to say Booyaa.

The producer said that it was a famous catchphrase of Cyborg in the animated series. Berg said, "I remember [Fisher] being upset that we wanted him to say Booyaa, which is a well-known saying of Cyborg in the animated series."

Warner Bros launched an investigation into the allegations but was later followed by a third-party investigation due to Fishers request. In December 2020, Warner Media announced the investigation was completed and remedial action was done based on the investigations findings.

Fisher, later on, said that he will not take part in any projects on Warner Bros. if its overseen by DC Films Walter Hamada, calling him a dangerous enabler. Despite the fiasco, the actor said that he will promote Zack Snyders Justice League. The actor said, "There's no way you can stop me from doing press for Zack Snyder's Justice League."

Zack Snyders Justice League will be released on HBO Max on March 18, 2021.

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Exterior the Wire director explains how Anthony Mackie was became a cyborg – The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette

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Pilou Asbk as Victor Koval (left) and Anthony Mackie as Capt. Leo in the Netflix film Outside the Wire.

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Over his career, the Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hfstrm has worked with some of Hollywoods biggest stars, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Aniston, John Cusack and Anthony Hopkins. Its hard to imagine that he got his start as a writer for Swedish television shows. In 2004, his film Evil received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and thats when he went from directing films in Sweden to helming movies in Hollywood.

Hfstrms newest film is Outside the Wire, on Netflix. It stars Anthony Mackie as a top secret android army officer who recruits a drone pilot, played by Damson Idris, to stop a nuclear attack. The sci-fi thriller delves into philosophical questions about humans and morality. The relationship between Mackie and Idris echoes the relationship Denzel Washingtons and Ethan Hawkes characters had in the film Training Day.

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On CNETs Im So Obsessed podcast, Hfstrm explains the challenge of finding the perfect look on screen for Mackies cyborg character, Captain Leo.

He is a bio technical prototype. He looks like you and me, said Hfstrm. One of the biggest jobs, obviously, was to try to figure out exactly what he looked like. What his interior looked like. I dont know how many versions we went through to find something that didnt feel overdone, but was also visually interesting. And hopefully its something that we havent seen in other movies.

During our conversation, we discussed the parallels between the way nuclear weapons are shown in popular culture and the way they are secretly present in all of our lives. Hfstrm also shares what it was like working with both Schwarzenegger and Stallone in the film Escape Plan.

It was a good thing that they were both in the movie, because they were sort of competing at being the nicest guy on set, said Hfstrm with a laugh. They were older, and their rivalry had passed. And now they were old friends sitting on set smoking cigars, telling war stories and it was just a good time.

You can listen to my entire conversation with Hfstrm on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. You can watch Outside the Wire on Netflix. Also, you can subscribe to Im So Obsessed on your favorite podcast app. In each episode, Connie Guglielmo or I catch up with an artist, actor or creator to learn about work, career and current obsessions.

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I Correctly Guessed The Entire Plot Of The Mass Effect Trilogy From Looking At Ten Screenshots – TheGamer

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Today marks the start ofMass Effect Week here at TheGamer. If you're out of the loop, the team has been working tirelessly to bring you interviews, essays, and exclusive behind-the-scenes features to celebrate the upcoming release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. We're all very excited to show you what we've got planned this week, after all, Mass Effect is one of the greatest RPG games ever created. Or at least, that's what I'm told. I've never actually played any of the Mass Effect games.

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I am no slouch, however, so when the boss man says "Jump for Massive Effect, Eric" I say "How High, Sir?" I may not know Mass Effect, but I know a lot about plot structure and science fiction stories. What follows is my estimation of who the characters in Mass Effect are and what events unfold throughout the trilogy. As far as I know and I haven't asked a single person these guesses are 100% accurate and correct.

Starting off with the one everyone knows: this is Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, Commander of the SS Omaha. Sheppard is a veteran of the first Galactic Space War and he carries thebattle scars on his heart (and his face). He has a cold-blooded reputation and body count to back it up. Sheppard's "shoot first, ask questions never" attitude has been known to get him into trouble now and again, but his loyal crew of ne'er-do-wells can always be counted on to get him out of a jam. Morally flexible but emotionally rigid, John Sheppardstartsas a cold and distant spaceman with a chip on his shoulder and a big ol' slice, again, on his face. Sheppard eventually learns to be a more caring and compassionate leader. I guess you could say the love of his crew has a "Mass Effect" on him ;).

This is Sheppard's right-hand man, Big Glenn. Sheppard and Glenn fought side by side during the first Galactic Space War. Brothers-in-arms, Big Glenn was Sheppard's first recruit after the war. Big Glenn used to be a normal-looking human man like Sheppard but volunteered himself to be turned intoa hideous rock monster during the war (before the transformation he was known as Glenn). Big Glenn secretly resents Sheppard for looking like a normal man and eventually betrays Sheppard and the crew at the end of Mass Effect 2. Big Glenn later joins up with Sheppard's sworn enemy, Darth Cyborg.

Darth Cyborg is the sworn enemy ofLt. Colonel John Sheppard and the main antagonist throughout all three Mass Effect games. Cyborg and his legion of unmen threatened peace in the galaxy during the first war.When the war ended, Cyborg faked his death and went into hiding, but resurfaced at the beginning of Mass Effectto terrorize Sheppard and his crew throughout the trilogy. Driven by an insatiable lust for revenge, Darth Cyborg will stop at nothing to see Sheppard fall beneath his robot heel. He is voiced by David Schwimmer.

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Kortana is Sheppard's love interest and AI companion throughout all three games. After a particularly dangerous space heist, Sheppard is told by his client that he can't pay him the galactic credits he owes him, but offers him Kortana instead. Sheppard and Kortana quickly form a close bond, but given her incorporeal nature, there is an unresolvable barrier that keeps them at a distance. During Mass Effect 2, Sheppard acquires a synthetic body for Kortana so they can finally be together. Unfortunately, the end of Mass Effect 3 reveals that the entire series was just a fantasy created by Kortana so that she could simulate her life together with Sheppard. It's a sad ending, but this is why everyone hates Mass Effect 3.

These are just the Sentinels from The Matrix: Reloaded. Next.

This is Klerg the Pyromaniac. Klerg is a mercenary that Sheppard picks up during the first Mass Effect while investigating Darth Cyborg's whereabouts. Klerg is wanted by the galactic police on ten counts of arson, but unfortunately, Sheppard doesn't know this until the law comes looking for him. Ever the loyal leader, Sheppard distracts the police while Klerg sets their space ship on fire. This cements their bond, and Klerg the Pyromaniac becomes one of Sheppard's most loyal crew members throughout the rest of the series. Klerg can eventually learn pyromancy if you allow him to train at the School of Destruction on the planet Nirn.

This is Sheppard's pet gorpo, Spots. Gorpos are basically space dogs, but they live for 400 years and can speak simple English. Sheppard inherited Spots from Colonel Jacob Sanders, his commander in the space war. Spots is 375 years old and one of the last living beings that can still remember Earth That Was. He often makespop culture references and serves as the comic relief in Mass Effect. His catchphrase is, "What's a gorpo gotta do to get a Bud Light Lime around here?"

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Anexistential threat to the galaxy is introduced in Mass Effect 2. After being defeated by Sheppard and his crew in the first game, Darth Cyborg develops a parasite that spreads to all plant life throughout the galaxy. Left unchecked, the parasite attaches itself to the space flora and quickly transforms it into strange, shimmering creatures. At first, Sheppard and his crew don't understand what is happening to the space trees, which are uprooting themselves and attacking people all across the galaxy. He eventually traces the parasite back to Darth Cyborg and forces him to hand over the anti-parasite, rescuing the galaxy from certain doom.

These are Darth Cyborg's unmen, created at the end of Mass Effect 2 when Cyborg's parasite mixes with ultra-violent light (light created from two stars smashing into each other) and infects a human host. The unmen are fierce warriors that crave death and destruction. Darth Cyborg turns them loose on an unsuspecting galaxy in Mass Effect 3 and leads them in the second Galactic Space War, with Sheppard and his crew leading the resistance. The unmen are eventually defeated as all villains are with the power of love.

The Power of Love is a kick-ass laser beam capable of absolutely obliterating Darth Cyborg and his legion of unmen. Built-in secret by an ancient race of highly-advanced aliens called the Chozones, The Power of Love serves as the home base for Sheppard and his crew throughout most of Mass Effect 3. In the end, the heroes discover that the only thing that can power the Power of Love is Kortana. She sacrifices herself to defeat Darth Cyborg once and for all and save the galaxy. This would have been a powerful moment, but of course, it's then revealed the entire trilogy was a dream sequence/simulation in Kortana's artificial mind. Everyone hates this ending.

There you go, my 100% accurate and true summary of the Mass Effect trilogy, I think.

If you'd like to read more aboutMass Effect from the people that actually made the game, check out this interview with Courtenay Taylor, who plays Jack in Mass Effect 2. If you're interested in how Mass Effect 3 could have ended differently, read our interview with writer Chris Hepler. We've got more great articles about Mass Effect coming all week long. Stay tuned.

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Teen Titans: What Happened to Terra in the 2003 Cartoon? | CBR – CBR – Comic Book Resources

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An episode of 2003's Teen Titans suggests that Terra could be alive, but she has no interest in rejoining the team.

During the Teen Titans Season 2 finale, "Aftershock Part 2," former member Terra sacrifices herself and defeats the villain Slade,but turns into stone in the process.The character was thought to befrozen until the Season 5 series finale, "Things Change," when Beast Boy comes across a girl who looks exactly like Terra. Although the episode's conclusion doesn't verify whether this girl is Terra,Teen Titans provides a few possibilities on how she came back to life.

Beast Boy first comes across this girl while battling a White Monster alongside the Teen Titans in Jump City. The shapeshifter immediately tells the team about his discovery, butCyborg and Raven explain that they already tried reviving her with their powers without any success. This leads Beast Boy toreturn to the place of her statue, which he finds is missing. Helater discovers thatthe girl from the aforementioned battle is a student at a local high school and persuadesher to eat pizza with him. Unfortunately, their meet-up goes awry when the girl cannot remember any ofTerra's past adventures with the Teen Titans.

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The girlreluctantly agrees to go with Beast Boy to Titans Tower, but while there, she cannot remember any of its details, including her former room.She also denies liking Terra's favorite pizza or enjoying the outdoors. During their time in Terra's old room, she appears to slightly remember a tin heart-shaped box that Beast Boy made, but it causes her instant discomfort, and she asks to leave. Before her departure, Beast Boy throws mud in her face ina last-ditch attempt to trigger her powers, but this simply infuriates the girl who storms off. Beast Boy has one final encounter with the girl at her school,where she tells him that things were never the way he remembered and that the Terra he recalls was just a memory. He eventually accepts that whether the girl is Terra or not, she just wants to live a normal life, and they go their separate ways.

Several of the Teen Titans propose a few theories as to how Terra returned. Robin suggests that Terra freed herself, as she is capable of manipulating the earth and stones. Cyborgstates that an earthquake could've occurred while the team was absent from Jump City. Raven posits the possibilitythat the stone effect simplywore off, then explains that Terra did not return to the group as a result of their final encounter as enemies.While Beast Boysearches for Terra, he comes across a robot named Slade who implies that Terra simply chose to come back without her memory. Although this is possible, Slade is a known manipulator and was likely lying.

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Season 4's multi-part finale, "The End," offers a few possibilities regarding Terra's return. During "The End Part 2," Slade reveals that Trigon brought him back to life in return for his servitude,which means that the demon also had the power to revive Terra. The episode also sees the demon turn nearly all of the Earth's inhabitants, except the Teen Titans, into stone. Trigon's ultimate defeat at the hands of Raven during the following episode, "The End Part 3," reversed this action, which could've unfrozen Terra in the process.

The girl Beast Boy comes across shows no interest in crime-fighting, and any memories she had as Terra are likely buried due to her trauma.While it's possible that Terra came back to life, "Things Change" shows that her future does not lie with the Teen Titans.

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Aaron Grech is a writer, cinephile, Nintendo gamer, music addict and television nerd based out of Southern California. A graduate from the University of California, Riverside, Aaron has written for a variety of pop culture websites, where he's covered entertainment industry news, provoking think pieces and event reviews. When he's not busy writing, reading, watching movies or on Twitter, Aaron likes to play Pokmon, Among Us, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Classic Metroid, Animal Crossing, and Civilization 6. His favorite movie directors include Denis Villeneuve, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Singleton, The Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott and Guillermo Del Toro.

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