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"A crucial first step to defunding UC police is figuring out how much money they have." Our in-depth look at the budgets of the University of California's own police departments, with shout-outs to @prisonculture , @cnewf , and @LoneberryWang .

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A new revolutionary icon

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One of the ways protesters have stopped sprinklers from spraying themselves They’re now chanting “water is life”

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NYT today

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This needs to spread across the US.

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Demonstrators protesting evictions have blocked off both enteranxes to first city court, which handles evictions on the east bank for rents less than $3000 (most New Orleans evictions)

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Tents can float

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the "antisemitism on campus" moral panic is successfully folding liberals into reactionary politics of the CRT/gender studies bans and the broader project to smash higher education

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it's an obvious point, but this is a good example of how the work of campus-based organizers to defund campus police depts can form part of a much broader project of abolition

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The National Guard are joined by University of Minnesota police and Minnesota State Patrol.

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People doing risky service work have no choice. Their self-sacrifice isn’t voluntary.

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So, maybe we can start to have that uncomfortable conversation about how universities are engines of class reproduction no matter how equitable access is.

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Big day for non-violence discourse from people who naturalize unbelievable amounts of violence

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JSTOR Makes Database Accessible to the Public – The University Times

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Kenosha

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The final chapter of so many scholarly books on the horrors of capitalist modernity where the author floats a few modest policy recommendations...

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"campus police 'as we know it' originated in the late 1960s 'to quell campus uprisings” of the civil rights movement.'" — @prisonculture

Activist Mariame Kaba talks abolition and mutual aid, condemns campus police in Dream Week keynote

Activist and prison-industrial complex abolitionist Mariame Kaba celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by praising NU Community Not Cops and speaking to the importance of mutual aid and...

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Whatever a million liberal think pieces try to tell you, political polarization is actually a good thing at times like this. The Civil Rights Movement was in its time incredibly confrontational, disruptive, & unpopular.

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"The modern American university is a strange beast, a monopolized leviathan that in many cases is simultaneously a hedge fund, landlord, sports franchise, real estate investor, research company, non-profit, police force, hospital, and healthcare provider."

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Alex Jones’ Locker

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Harvard shouldn’t exist but: Study on Harvard finds 43 percent of white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff

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Black Man Who Filmed Latino Workers Striking Is Fired from His Job, Regrets Nothing

For many viewers, watching a group of construction workers walk off a shop floor in protest might have been rousing enough. But when Antoine Dangerfield’s video of his Latino coworkers went viral...

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Jesus Christ this is sociopathic. Liability shields for corps and no support for individuals.

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Bipartisan Senate group to unveil $908B stimulus compromise. Details fluid but likely to include: -- $300/week UI -- $300B - PPP -- $250B - state & local -- Temporary liability shield -- $50B 4 health/vaccine distribution AND: -- NO stimulus checks 2.0

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It’s almost as if there’s some kind of systemic problem.

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National study of thousands of cops finds 1 in 5 have put racist/bigoted posts on Facebook. Others celebrated police violence. Nearly all kept their jobs after the posts were discovered. But tell us again that policing doesn’t have a race problem.

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CDC: Almost all of the US kids and teens who've died from COVID-19 were Hispanic or Black

Roughly 0.03% of coronavirus cases in kids and teens under 21 have been fatal so far in the US. Overwhelmingly, the deaths have been people of color.

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this is a good reminder that the war machine is tangled up with universities in multiple ways. calls for divestment address one of these circuits: endowment funds are invested in defense contractors. but research funding is another link/revenue stream…

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Duke University Press is not gonna be the vanguard of the revolution, no matter what elite academics think. Sorry.

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Blocked $1200 survival checks to everyone.

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) objects to a relief bill, saying stimulus bills don't stimulate the economy. He instead proposes “lower regulation” and “a competitive tax system.”

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The respectability police are being deployed across every major media platform. They’re fanning out.

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After strike, Instacart workers get masks, gloves

Retail sector companies turn to masks, gloves in coronavirus fight

Major U.S. retail sector companies on Thursday moved to allay health and safety concerns of staff working at warehouses and stores through the coronavirus pandemic by promising face masks, gloves and...

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Solidarity to Kenosha in the face of right wing vigilante terror

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Hearing that 212 UCSC STEM students are now refusing spring appointments in solidarity with the fired TAs.

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noting who gets the "allegedly" and who doesn't

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An off-duty UCPD sergeant allegedly shot and killed an armed robber Sunday morning at Nation’s Giant hamburgers in San Pablo

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We’re really not “all in it together.”

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Weird, another free speech exception

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Kentucky bill would make it a crime to insult a police officer

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let's not to reproduce the good protester/bad protester logics! that includes "peaceful"/"violent" and "real protesters"/"outside agitators." no matter how "good" we are, the "bad" will always be used against us. better not to legitimate these frameworks.

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When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine

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Of course he did. Tell us again about the violence of antifascists while the far right’s body count keeps increasing.

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The Gilroy Garlic Fest shooter, who killed 3 people on Sunday, plugged a white power manifesto on Instagram

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PGE recently spent $79 million on lobbying, got $1 billion in tax rebates, made a profit of $4.8 billion and hiked executive pay 94%

PG&E diverted safety money for profit, bonuses

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. diverted more than $100 million in gas safety and operations...

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Bay Area high school students walk out of class in protest of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza

Bay Area high school students walk out of class in protest of Israel-Hamas War

High school students in San Francisco joined the calls for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas War, staging mass walkouts Wednesday in protest.

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holy shit this is snowballing

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#BREAKING : A group of Dining employees will stage a walkout Friday evening, the latest in a series of work stoppages across campus demanding increased safety measures from the University.

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Big business rent strike.

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Big national retailers plan to stop paying rent to offset coronavirus closures

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Man wearing swastika armband beat up, clothes stolen at the University of Florida

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Lake Mead, once the largest water reservoir in the US, now little more than a graveyard - ABC News

Lake Mead, once the largest water reservoir in the US, now little more than a graveyard

Stranded boats, old bones and suffocated fish: This is all that remains of what was once a year-round paradise.

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David Graeber was a rare figure, an academic who not only consistently supported radical movements but participated in them as well.

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Thread on the far right shooter in Portland.

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Nearly 30 detained by North Carolina police after surrounding ICE van to protect undocumented man

More than two dozen people were detained last week while trying to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from leaving with Samuel Oliver–Bruno.

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Yes, it’s aggressive counterinsurgent propaganda. And it totally exploits “stay in your lane” politics.

A. Marmot 🌱Underground🌱

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Has anybody noticed a sharp upswing in the Portland "white anarchists" / "protests center whiteness" narratives this last week? I'm suddenly seeing it everywhere, in articles and posts, with similar messaging. It seems like a coordinated effort to erode support and solidarity. -

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That McCain funeral was among other things a brutal demonstration of how much violence, death, and human suffering civility discourse can normalize.

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may 2, 1992: UC berkeley and berkeley high students occupy bay bridge after acquittal of cops who beat rodney king http://t.co/KTwx6LVOyr

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Heartfelt.

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California businessman Joel Freedman owns a shuttered hospital bldg in Philadelphia that the city would like to use for quarantined patients. His price? $1 million. A month. His spokesperson calls it “a very reasonable, heartfelt offer”.

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"defund the police" is a pretty good slogan, actually

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Saw this circulating.

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I’m Confused Why All These People Are Quitting Jobs That Pay No Money and Make Them Want to Die

As a business owner who’s lobbied hard to strip rights and privileges away from workers, I am confused and frankly disturbed by the number of peopl...

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Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show

An attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation called automated license plate readers ‘a growing threat to everyone’s privacy.’

www.sacbee.com

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“According to a new report…incarcerated people in the U.S. collectively organized at least 106 COVID-19 related rebellions from March 17 to June 15.”

Report Finds Over 100 Rebellions in Jails and Prisons Over COVID Conditions

Demands for baseline safety measures by incarcerated people have been met with brutal repression and punishment.

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Here is a thread with the University of California's police expenditures at each campus, according to the most recent available data (2018-19). With budget crises on the horizon, it's worth considering what else we could do with so many millions of dollars. #DefundThePolice

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Prepare for mass eviction defense.

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Discovers the lake.

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BREAKING: A statue of Christopher Columbus in Byrd Park has been removed by protesters and dragged into the lake. This is a developing story.

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student loans make up 50.6% of the federal government's total financial assets:

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"At least two department deans have called the police on striking workers. Administrators in the life sciences department emailed student workers admonishing them to consider themselves students, not workers, and get back to work."

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i wrote about the biggest strike of the year

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Solidarity to the blockade at the Six Grandfathers in the black hills

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some really good news for a change

No More Deaths | No Más Muertes

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BREAKING: Dr. Scott Warren found NOT GUILTY on all charges for providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to two undocumented men. Yet again, No More Deaths has withstood the government’s attempts to criminalize basic human compassion.

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Releasing a vaccine against Covid is unfair to all the people who already died from Covid. Clearly.

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Boulders to deter homeless people on SF streets get rolled off the sidewalk

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Old news to veterans but PSA that activist subcultures are lousy with cliques, entrepreneurial microcelebrities, minor despots, cults of personality, & petty scene warfare dressed up in the language of social and transformative justice. Doesn’t discredit work but watch out.

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Everyone should be paying attention to what’s happening in Portland right now. A model of things to come.

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Minneapolis St Paul Los Angeles San Jose Louisville NYC Bakersfield Houston Columbus Washington D.C. Detroit Atlanta Cincinnati Las Vegas Charlotte Knoxville Milwaukee Austin Oakland Denver Dallas Chicago Boston New Orleans Kansas City

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The university is a miserable space for so many people who work in it. These labor actions, & the risky and carefully constructed broad-based solidarities that make these actions possible, completely change the texture of higher ed at a basic visceral level. It’s transformative.

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Mass action to stop this is possible.

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Straightforward.

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Someone is going to have to write something about how in the midst of this catastrophic “American carnage” like half the electorate decided to deny the existence of Covid, stigmatize mask wearing as weakness, and triple down on barely disguised white power nationalism.

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Totally dystopian: Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don’t Survive to Become Seniors

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Wait does the right want to “reopen” or does it want curfews?

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'It's a slaughter,' doctors say of new coronavirus wave

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Yup.

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Btw “Q shaman” has a Valknut, an Yggdrasil, and a Mjolnir tattoo- Nordic pagan symbols frequently appropriated by far right racists and Neo-Nazis. Other folks in this shot are from the TWP. These are literally Neo-Nazis. It’s not an exaggeration or rhetoric- it’s who they are.

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“I immediately noticed that almost all of the reforms that liberals suggest will save Black lives were present in Tyre’s death.”

What would have saved Tyre Nichols’ life? | Derecka Purnell

All of the reforms that liberals suggest will save Black lives were present in Tyre’s death. So what works?

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No comment.

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Heroes: Dozens of Residents Try to Stop ICE Arrest in Queens

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every time feinstein comes up, it feels important to add that she's married to richard blum, perhaps the single most corrupt member of the UC board of regents

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Also worth mentioning that Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, is a University of California regent and investment banker, who has played a huge role in privatizing the UC system

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Aaron Swartz was his name

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“Students at Johns Hopkins University…are currently occupying the university administration building on campus, demanding an immediate end to the university’s push for an armed private police force and its contracts with ICE.”

The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend

Students are currently occupying the university administration building over issues of policing.

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"Carceral ideology, like all dogmas, cannot be disproven: It cannot fail, it can only be failed."

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ICYMI this is incredible: Minneapolis residents commandeered a hotel for homeless - Minnesota Reformer

Minneapolis residents commandeered a hotel for homeless • Minnesota Reformer

Abu Bakr arrived at the former Sheraton hotel in south Minneapolis on Saturday after learning the community had taken it over for people who had nowhere else to go.

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This Black Mirror episode is pretty great actually. Hopeful.

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Protestors in Hong Kong are cutting down facial recognition towers.

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Also, maybe don’t take the political advice of a bunch of people whose strategies and centrist worldview consistently delivered the far right to power first in Congress then the Presidency.

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So one question would be why are they allowed to do that in the first place

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Illinois has become the first state to bar police from lying to minors during interrogations.

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This isn’t some bullshit feel good story about choosing to serve the public. It’s an indictment of a system that renders some people completely expendable.

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CUNY Faculty On Verge of Wildcat Strike

CUNY Faculty On Verge of Wildcat Strike - Left Voice

After several hundred adjuncts were laid off at John Jay College, CUNY faculty --- rank and file members of the PSC --- have organized a wildcat strike to withhold spring grades.

www.leftvoice.org

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"A note at the bottom of a Feb. 16 email from the [Vanderbilt U.] Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion regarding the recent shooting at Michigan State University stated that the message had been written using ChatGPT, an AI text generator."

Peabody EDI Office responds to MSU shooting with email written using ChatGPT - The Vanderbilt...

UPDATED: This piece was updated on Feb. 17, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. CST to include an apology from the EDI Office. It was further updated on Feb. 17, 2023, at 9:05 p.m. CST to include a statement from the...

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That ship in the Suez is costing the global capitalist economy half a billion dollars an hour apparently.

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it's always a good to be reminded that UC administrators think the correct response to students organizing is violence. look at these assholes with their batons out.

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Cops are already congregating across from our picket to police students protesting poverty wages. Day 2 of #UCSCstrike #cola4all

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"the only way to reinstate our comrades at UCSC, combat the preemptive disciplinary measures of an increasingly intransigent UC administration, and win a COLA, is concerted strike action on a mass scale. We are hereby calling for the strike to spread…to every UC campus."

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Call to Action From UCSC Strikers! #UCSCstrike #spreadthestrike #cola4all @cola4all @payusmoreucsc @payusmoreucb @ucsb4cola @ucd4cola @UCR4COLA @UCM4COLA @uci4cola @ColaUcsd @ucla4cola

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