Texas A&M’s Woke President Finally Forced Out After Persistently Resisting Texas’ Ban on DEI / LGBT Indoctrination

Mark Welsh III is a left-wing proponent of DEI, LGBT indoctrination, and remedying “white privilege.” He also looks dashing in an Air Force officer’s uniform, and he previously served as the Air Force Chief of Staff. That military bearing was apparently enough to hoodwink Texas politicians and the regents at Texas A&M University into appointing him president of the university in 2023.

After persistently working to subvert the ban on DEI and LGBT indoctrination at taxpayer-funded Texas universities, and thanks to one brave student who caught him on tape defending his defiance, Mark Welsh was finally forced to step down last week. This is another important victory for the populist right in uprooting the woke rot that has captured so many institutions.

One Texas state representative, Brian Harrison, deserves huge credit for his unrelenting campaign to drive President Welsh out of the academic office he was unfit for.

“Texas A&M President Steps Down After LGBT Course Controversy” [Texas Scorecard – 9/18/2025]

Welsh’s resignation caps a period of public uproar sparked by his handling of a children’s literature course that included instruction on introducing LGBT and gender identity material to children as young as three.

The situation came under public scrutiny after State Rep. Brian Harrison (R–Midlothian) released audio of a student objecting to the curriculum and subsequent allegations that the student was kicked out of class for expressing concerns about transgender indoctrination. Initially, Welsh defended the professor involved but later reversed himself—firing the instructor and removing the department head and dean from their posts.

Further below is an embedded Twitter chain that includes the student’s hidden recording of both the professor who was pushing LGBT indoctrination for small children, as well as President Welsh’s strident defense of the professor, which also constituted a strident refusal to comply with the law and with the orders of the governor of Texas.

When the student met with President Welsh, he asked her: ”Tell me what exactly you want changed. I mean, you’re, you’re just trying to pick a fight here. What do you want.”

To which she replied, “No sir, I’m not trying to pick a fight.”

After a little more chatter, Welsh asked the student, “What do you expect us to do, fire her?”

The student replied, “Yes, absolutely, because it goes against…”

At which point President Welsh cut her off and scolded her, “Well that’s not happening.”

Regarding why a children’s literature class is providing training on LGBT indoctrination, President Welch told the student, there is a “professional reason” why A&M is using taxpayer funds to promote transgenderism for children.

Once Rep. Harrison released the audio, Mark Welsh went into CYA mode. Despite what he had told the student, Welsh did indeed have to ultimately fire the instructor and also the dean, hoping that action would be enough to take the heat off of him. But Aggie alumni were outraged, and soon Governor Abbott and the A&M regents were feeling the heat too. Welsh had to go.

Mark Welsh was a disastrous hire from the start. President Obama had previously appointed him as Air Force Chief of Staff in 2012 (which also put Welsh on the armed forces’ Joint Chiefs of Staff) for the purpose of injecting radical left wing identity politics into the military. How radical is Welsh? He advocated for the concept of “white privilege,” stating in 2020 that “While we could argue over the definition of ‘White Privilege,’ there is no question in my mind that it exists. I should know, I grew up with it. Not because I wanted it; not because I asked for it: not because my family or I agreed with it; not because I tried to take advantage of it; and not because I, or anyone else I knew, actively promoted it or even thought about it; but just because it was a reality in our country, and I was white .”

Rep. Harrison sent a widely distributed letter to Governor Abbott on September 8, 2025 that left Abbott and the university regents with little choice but to dismiss Welsh, it read:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Dwarf
Giacomo Ceruti

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The Morning Report — 9/22/25

Good morning kids. With everything going on I had meant to pause last week and recognize the 9th anniversary of the Morning Report. Wow, 9 years?!

The recognition is not about me, it's about all of you who come here each morning and weigh in with your thoughts about what's going on and on my observations about same. The running joke those who write "I've only read the comments," but more often than not, reading just the comments is enough to make the uninformed that much better for doing so! And for that I thank each and every one of you.

First and foremost, I thank Ace for giving me the incredible opportunity to let me do my thing as it were each and every weekday morning. I also want to extend a big thank you to the Cobs for all their support and comradeship. The last couple of years have been challenging personally for me as I continue to deal with some serious health issues, which thankfully I seem to be handling well. I cannot thank you enough for all of your prayers and good wishes and despite all the insanity out there, the ability to do this every day actually has kept me sane.

And with that said, let us get right to the insanity, first up is the western world and one of the wellsprings from whence Western Civilization emerged from the barbarism and savagery of the Dark Ages – Britain and its former colonies continuing their mass surrender to Islam:

The United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia announced on Sunday they now recognize Palestine as a state, despite accusations that it would be rewarding the Islamist Hamas terrorists behind the October 7th terror attacks on Israel.

One day before the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year celebrations, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK would recognize Palestine statehood. The move pre-empted plans from France to back the measure this week at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. . .

While bestial savage Muslim hordes rampage across the UK and a number of European countries murdering and raping innocent women and children as they go, with governments imprisoning anyone for the more heinous crime of protesting it, Starmerbahnfuhrer has the fucking gall to reward a fictitious people, with a fictitious history – their actual history of bloody butchery of Jews and Christians in Israel and across the world in general, with statehood after conducting the bloodiest mass-slaughter of Jews since the end of the Second World War.

Two state solution my ass. The ultimate goal is to drive out or slaughter every Jew and every Christian that lives within the state of Israel. And in point of fact the ultimate goal of Islam is to convert/subjugate and or slaughter every non-Muslim on planet earth, which has been its goal for close to 1500 years and counting.

Palestine was born in a KGB conference room with Yasser Arafat, for the sole purpose of using the issue to drive America out of the Middle East and place the region and its oil in the Soviet sphere of influence.

. . . “So, today, to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis, and a two-state solution, the United Kingdom formally recognises the State of Palestine.” Starmer denied that this would represent a “reward” for Hamas, saying that his push for a two-state solution would be the “exact opposite of [Hamas’s] hateful vision,” as it would ultimately require the terror group to give up control of Gaza. Turning to Israel, the PM accused Jerusalem of conducting a “relentless and increasing bombardment of Gaza,” adding: “The starvation and devastation are utterly intolerable. Tens of thousands have been killed, including thousands as they tried to collect food and water. This death and destruction horrifies all of us. It must end.”

As colleague, co-blogger and co-podcastulator CBD and I have noted on the podcast and in our respective columns many times it is quite likely that Westminster Abbey will be turned into another Hagia Sophia perhaps some time in the next 20 years or so, ditto Notre Dame and perhaps every cathedral across Western Europe.

And as we await that nightmare scenario, we still must endure this right here in the US of A.

A Nashua country club where a wedding was taking place turned into a war zone when a gunman opened fire while declaring “Free Palestine”. One man is reportedly dead and a number of others are wounded in the attack that took place in the restaurant at the Sky Meadow Country Club. There was a wedding at the country club at the time and the couple did not appear to be Jewish. There’s no apparent reason why it would be the target of a terrorist attack, but that’s what happens when the ‘intifada’ gets globalized. The attack could have been worse, but one of the men on the scene smashed a chair over the shooter’s head.

Not that I want any kind of attack like this but if only it took place at the whites-only country club where US Senator Sheldon Whorehouse still maintains his VIP membership. If he had surrendered it, no doubt he dons boot black dresses up as a lawn jockey and only enters late at night when no one's looking.

Of course Islamophobia is defined as an irrational fear of Islam. So we better get our heads examined – before they get lopped off with a rusty hacksaw:

While we are busy fighting with each other in this country (Left and Right), you may not have noticed that one Muslim-dominant community in Michigan is trying to impose its values on its residents and destroy our own:

A street once named to honor a Revolutionary War hero has now been partly rebranded for a man critics link to Hezbollah. That culture clash came to a boil not just on the pavement but inside Dearborn’s city hall on Wednesday, September 10 – where the mayor stunned residents by telling a local taxpayer he wasn’t welcome in his own hometown after the man criticized the renaming of a portion of Warren Avenue to honor a controversial figure in Arab-American culture, Osama Siblani. (Michigan News Source.) . . . This is not the first controversy that Dearborn has experienced. And given the determination to bring in the Muslim influence, it probably won’t be the last.

We shall see who gets the last word in Dearborn, and indeed in America and who gets their tongues carved out.

In a not unrelated note, yesterday saw the most amazing memorial service for Charlie Kirk. He was and is indeed a martyr for the cause of liberty and the American way.

God bless his memory and may millions more be inspired by his life and beliefs to save this nation and lead to our revival and ultimately, the revival of Western civilization itself, the founding of this nation being the crowning achievement in the advancement of human development over the course of thousands of years.

Beautiful, gracious, courageous, and good Erika Kirk gave the most powerful, bravest speech we will ever witness at the memorial service to her husband in a packed stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
We see clearly why Charlie Kirk chose her to be his wife.
“My husband Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life. 
“On the Cross, our Savior said: ‘Father forgive them for they not know what they do.’ ” Looking up at a giant image of her husband overhead, through sobs, and swallowed anger, Erika Kirk said: “That young man, I forgive him.” 
The crowd rose to its feet and roared its admiration for the widow standing in front of them in a white pantsuit, her long blonde hair shining like a Viking warrior woman.
“I forgive him because it is what Christ did,” she said. “It is what Charlie would do. 
“The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”

. . . Kirk’s organization has been flooded with tens of thousands of requests from schools and universities to start a new chapter or join an existing one.
“The blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church, and Charlie’s message has been heard by millions and millions who would otherwise never have heard of it,” says Kirk’s right-hand man and Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet.
Kolvet revealed that Kirk’s surgeon said it was an “absolute miracle” that the bullet that killed [Kirk] got lodged in his spine and didn’t exit his body and kill someone else. [His] bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel.

God bless and keep Erika Kirk and the Kirk children.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Anyway . . . Have a good day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• History shows words can kill—what began as insults and accusations can end in blood, just as it did for Thomas Becket in 1170.
  “Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest?”

• Victor Davis Hanson: When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin.
  Why Our Systems Collapse

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Daily Tech News 22 September 2025

Top Story

• 40,000 year old symbols found in caves worldwide may be the earliest written language, according to a bunch of idiots. (Open Culture)

  And what's more, it may be possible, suggests paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger, that those prehistoric forms of writing, which include the earliest known hashtag marks, consisted of symbols nearly as universal as emoji.

  #coughbullshitcough
  
  Yes, they're directly conflating decorative art with actual writing. They're obviously directly conflating decorative art with actual writing, and it's all being reported seriously.
  
  Welcome to my TED Talk. Check under your seats as you leave the venue.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 21, 2025 [Doof]

Timely Mystery Click

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Today is the last full day of summer. Autumn arrives tomorrow afternoon. How do you feel about that? What else is on your mind? As always, there is no off-topic on the ONT. Step on in and get to commenting!

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Gun Thread: 3rd September Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the 3rd September edition?! The October 17th & 18th TXMoMe is getting closer! More on that below.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Corny But Good!

One of the things we missed during our Lutetian sojourn was corn. Good old American summer corn. For the last several years it has been particularly good around here, for reasons that are completely opaque. My guess is that most of it comes from Pennsylvania, or maybe even closer, since it has been wonderfully fresh and sweet. Not "picked from an Iowa cornfield" fresh, but excellent nonetheless.

Sadly, the Frogs don't eat corn...they feed it to their livestock. That is their loss, because a good ear of corn is a wondrous thing. It is one of their many flaws as a culture, but we should be kind and not make too much fun of them.

Anyway, we have been eating a lot of corn, since it is the end of the season! And a few days ago I noticed that one of the ears was curiously twisted, unlike it's brother right next to it! Odd, maybe strange, certainly disturbing, and very possibly demonic.

But it sure tasted good, so All's Well That Ends Well!

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First World Problems...

What kind of pathetic quality control is this?

One balloon is merrily floating high in the sky family room, while the other one is lollygagging around on the floor, and has been for days!

I would be sympathetic if one was slightly..SLIGHTLY...more buoyant than the other, but this is ridiculous.

Where is President Trump when we need him?

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Conviction vs. Convenience (scampydog)

What are the limits of your/their resolve? This is beyond politics. It is a fight for what is moral and what is worth preserving and building upon.

The murder of Charlie Kirk and the left's grotesque reactions to it on social media have shocked more than just political/policy partisan junkies. The "normals" are wide awake and are pissed off.

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Reading Thread [09/21/2025]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a young dildo found a list of 100 great books that everyone should read to consider themselves at least minimally well-educated. It was heavy on the Greeks and Romans, and conspicuously light on modern work. Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Caesar, (Gibbon of course). The Bible, Homer, Virgil, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, come to mind. Then Augustine, Beowulf, Chaucer, Thomas More, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Cervantes, Dante, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke... I don't remember them all, but you get the idea.

That article stayed with me for years. I remember seeing it folded up in a suitcase when moving during college, but that might have been my last sighting. There are current lists available, but a quick check of the internet yields lots of lists that are heavy on modern works, and conspicuously light on what until recently were considered The Great Books. I looked at more than a few, and too many had the immediate disqualifier of anything by Tony Morrison or Kurt Vonnegut or Burroughs or, well, you get the picture. We can have a discussion of whether some of those books are "great," but they are certainly not top-100 great! And the explicit criticism of Western Culture in most of the books of that ilk should be immediately disqualifying anyway.

Here are a couple of lists with some promise. The Good Books is actually a review of a book discussing 13 works of fiction that conservatives might like but probably haven't read! Sounds like fun, even though it isn't quite what I had in mind. St. John's Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum is exactly what I had in mind, and is a famous Great Books curriculum. I love the breadth of the list... there's music and art, natural science and physics as well as the usual suspects. Good stuff, and I will forgive them for sneaking in a few from my proscribed list!

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Anyway... Below the fold is a book I am currently reading, by an author I have enjoyed for a very long time. I discovered him by chance, when he published a short story in Commentary magazine, back when it was a solid conservative institution.
Perfection: A Story, by Mark Helprin, is an odd but endearing peek into the confluence of baseball, the Holocaust, and the sometimes unfathomable intricacies of Orthodox Judaism, with a glimpse of 1950s NYC tossed in for color.

That short story introduced me to the author (I have a soft spot for good short fiction), and I have read several more of his works.

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Daily Tech News 21 September 2025

Top Story

• There isn't an AI bubble. There are three separate and distinct AI bubbles all happening at the same time. (Fast Company)
  
  As the article explains, there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and while they all interact and reinforce each other, you need to examine them separately to try to figure out what is really going on.
  
  Yes, generative AI CEOs are all lying to you, but how much does that matter if you're not an investor?
  
  As to how much value will remain when the bubbles burst, I don't know. If I knew that I'd still be rich from the last bubble.
  
  
  

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" September 20, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

There is always one Ford guy.
Tractor races at dawn. Loser cleans the Club.

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Breaking News: Management says no subscriptions - as long as you use turn signals while in the Club. Management lies.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 9/20/2025

John Hughes

Pop culture voices that are intimately tied to a particular generation are common enough, but those with cultural staying power well past their prime moment are rare. John Hughes is one of those, I think. A writer/director/producer who became famous for writing and directing a small series of films about teenagers and Gen-X, Hughes captured the voice, anti-authoritarianism, and general desire to make something of oneself by one's own rules perhaps better than anyone else trying it through the 1980s.

Now, I come to the filmography of John Hughes with surprisingly little previous exposure. I'm a Millennial, and I was about six years old when Hughes released his final, directed feature, Curly Sue. My parents aren't Gen-X, and the only Hughes movie I had access to growing up with, of all things, Weird Science. I ended up seeing Ferris Bueller's Day Off more than once through high school, but aside from those two, I was unexposed to Hughes until now. I'd never seen Sixteen Candles. I had seen snippets of The Breakfast Club on television. I think I saw Uncle Buck once on television when I was about thirteen, so I come to this with fresh eyes.

And what did I find? I found a writer/director/producer who had a real voice, who could write realistic sounding teenaged characters, who was shockingly goofy, and whose dance of writing, directing, and editing was a dance on the edge of a knife, a dance that could only last so long before he fell off.

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Hobby Thread - Sept 20, 2025 [Harry Winston Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on jewelry making and metal casting.

Even if you are tempted to say "I don't make jewelry or do metal casting or do modeling or pay attention to photography or space, so there is nothing here for me," let the thought pass. No Moron could possibly say such a thing. The world is your oyster. You might be entertained or learn something. You might enjoy seeing what others are hobbying.

I have faith that you can find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.

[Top: The Vanderbilt Sapphire, Tiffany & Co., Up for auction on November 10, 2025 along with other Vanderbilt family jewelry]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 20

Courtesy Terry Glenn

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sept. 20

Rose 'Don Juan'

I was gone for a while in the spring, and missed a lot of spring flowers from Don in Kansas. Here are a few from Prime Time in his garden. More at the link.

The garden is at its most colorful now. Here are some recent snapshots.

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How did the center-left decide it wanted THESE heroes?

We continue to learn more about how different the right and left are at present, and perhaps how small the center is becoming. I have been trying to read a little more deeply.

Neo has a post up this morning on Speech as incitement. (h/t Skip)

Ace covers a few examples on the left here.

I suggest you go to the link and read it. It’s impossible to summarize.

But here’s one instance [emphasis mine]:

Meanwhile: the left has been promoting Cenk Uygur’s nephew …

… [H]e’s been celebrated by all the organs of leftist propaganda: Politico, CNN, the New York Times. He’s the Bro Whisperer for the left, and they want to make him famous.

What they don’t tell their readers, of course, is that he has been calling for the murder of Republicans (including Tom Cotton) and celebrating terrorist violence for years.

This is no fringe nobody. He is the biggest political streamer in the world, making millions of dollars, feted by the Democrat Party as the guy who is going to deliver them the young male vote again.

He urges his listeners to “gut” Republians and “shank” them: “You have to shank these motherf***ers so that their intestines writhe upon the stage! Slice ’em up! Slice ’em and f***in’ dice ’em!”

He also urges his followers to murder property owners, shouting “Kill them! Kill those motherf***ers! Murder those motherf***ers in the street! Let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood, dude!”

Bloodcurdling.

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Music H/T: Sock Monkey]
[Desired Coffee Mug H/T:Quarter Twenty]

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are a number of housekeeping matters to go over today. (Rulz for those of you in Grantsburg)

1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. A frightening story about the evils of coffee.
3. Be kind, be nice. Even douchebags troubled souls need warmth.
4. No. Are you nuts? No! You can't run with sharp objects here!!!!
5. Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 20 September 2025

Top Story

• AMD silently launched the Radeon 7700 non-XT - a missing model in the previous generation of graphics cards. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The earlier 6700 non-XT slotted in neatly between the 8GB 128-bit 6600 XT and the 12GB 192-bit 6700 XT, with 10GB of RAM and a 160-bit bus. Since it was price to match, that was just fine.
  
  We don't have a price on the 7700 yet, but we do have specs, and they're... Odd.
  
  The 7800 XT (which I have) had 60 GPU cores and 16GB of VRAM on a 256-bit bus. The 7700 XT cut the cores by only 10% to 54, but the memory down to 12GB on a 192-bit bus.
  
  The new, non-XT 7700 model cuts the cores all the way down to 40, but leaves the memory size at 16GB on a 256-bit bus. A lot of memory and a lot of memory bandwidth for a relatively modest GPU configuration.
  
  AMD hasn't issued a press release yet so right now all of this is supported by just one link and one web page. Admittedly those are both on AMD's own site, but an actual product launch would be welcome confirmation.
  
  
  
• ASRock has launched the Radeon RX 7700 Challenger. (WCCFTech)
  
  Compared with the 32 core 7600 XT from the same range, it is clocked 20% lower, so compute performance is almost identical, but it has twice the memory and memory bandwidth.
  
  Might be interesting to see the benchmarks on this - it would highlight which games and applications really need that bandwidth.

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Yond ONT Has A Lean And Hungry Look

Hello Morons! We open this ONT with a word of warning about a sinister trend:

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