DHS unloads on teachers union boss over 'dangerous rhetoric' and anti-ICE activism

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten drew backlash Wednesday after filming a video from a field near Newark’s Delaney Hall migrant detention facility, where she decried alleged conditions inside.

Weingarten’s video, filmed within view of the facility, comes as school-choice advocates have criticized her political activism while student academic performance remains below pre-pandemic levels — with one critic recently summing up the contrast as a desire to "dictate … policy on immigration while its own members’ students struggle with basic skills."

"Dangerous rhetoric from politicians and activists demonizing our brave ICE officers has led to the over 8,000% increase in threats against DHS law enforcement who are heroically performing their congressionally mandated mission to remove criminal illegal aliens from communities across the country," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital when asked about Weingarten’s visit.

"Any claim that there are subprime conditions at ICE detention facilities is false," the agency said.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Weingarten through AFT for comment. In her video, Weingarten disputed DHS’ characterization of conditions at the facility:

"This is one of the most despicable things that our current government does," Weingarten said as she was filmed pointing and gesticulating toward Delaney Hall.

"They put people — people have not committed any crimes — they are immigrants. They deport them, or they … detain them and deport them in conditions that are unimaginable."

Weingarten, who grew up about 40 miles north of New York City in Nyack, New York, said her grandparents came to the U.S. seeking a better life, drawing a comparison to migrants detained at Delaney Hall.

"We saw families coming out [of Delaney] who had just visited their loved ones… They work hard. They play by the rules. They should not be detained or deported because we have a broken immigration system," she claimed. "We should fix the immigration system, but the cruelty of this government right now is terrible."

DHS said in response to Weingarten that its mission remains "straightforward" — enforcing laws on the books and protecting America’s national security.

"Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now," the DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

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School-choice advocate Corey DeAngelis responded to Weingarten’s video by arguing that the union leader wants more illegal immigrants enrolled in public schools because their enrollment increases taxpayer funding.

"It's time to overturn Plyler v Doe and stop forcing taxpayers to fund education for illegals," DeAngelis tweeted, referencing a 1982 Supreme Court case wherein Eisenhower-appointed Justice William Brennan Jr. ruled for the majority that Texas could not deny undocumented school-age children access to free public education.

A 2026 Annie E. Casey Foundation analysis found that 47 states fared worse on its education index in 2024 than in 2019, with national declines in math proficiency, reading proficiency and preschool attendance. Weingarten has led AFT since 2008. She previously led New York City’s UFT from 1998 to 2009.

DeAngelis previously criticized Weingarten after she encouraged a boycott of Target over the Minnesota-based retailer’s response to ICE operations. DeAngelis wrote for the Heritage Foundation that AFT "wants to dictate corporate policy on immigration while its own members’ students struggle with basic skills. That mismatch should alarm every taxpayer and parent."

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The clip of Weingarten drew criticism on X, including from users who argued that the teachers union leader was straying beyond education policy and into the immigration debate.

Other critics shared photos of Weingarten promoting her book "Why Fascists Fear Teachers."

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"This is wild. Randi Weingarten is bad enough in her education related field (power, indoctrination, control) but now she is expanding into immigration," another wrote.

The clash comes as Weingarten and AFT have become increasingly involved in immigration fights beyond the classroom, including pressuring Target over ICE operations. Critics have pointed to persistent academic setbacks as evidence the union’s leadership should be focused on education, while AFT describes political activism and broader civil-rights advocacy as part of its mission alongside public education.

Fox News Digital also reached out to the Department of Education for comment.

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Dre Greenlaw's Sean Payton beef exposes another side of the NFL's most overrated head coach

Dre Greenlaw spent Sunday making life miserable for the Denver Broncos. Then, after helping the San Francisco 49ers beat his former team 24-14, he made sure Sean Payton heard about it.

Greenlaw finished with 12 tackles and a forced fumble, then needed Fred Warner to pull him away from Payton after the game. Apparently, beating his former coach wasn't quite enough. He had a few things to get off his chest, too.

Greenlaw told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter that Payton hadn't spoken to him since Week 12 last season and that he learned about his release from his agent.

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"He couldn't be man to man and call my phone and say, 'We're going to cut you,'" Greenlaw said.

So, a guy who makes his living dealing with people couldn't pick up the phone? Given how well Payton handles the media, you'd think communication would be one of his strengths.

If you've read my NFL columns, you know where this is going. I've been calling Payton overrated since before he took the Denver job, and Greenlaw being furious with him hasn't changed my opinion; it only strengthens it.

Sean Payton is the most overrated head coach in the NFL.

If you're tired of reading that, imagine how tired I am of hearing people call him a genius. Somehow, we keep having this conversation.

I made the same point during a recent appearance on "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich." Payton is very good at playing the media game. He's friendly with reporters, gives them access and makes them feel important. Those relationships buy him far more favorable coverage than his coaching deserves.

Remember the draft-night report comparing Payton's excitement about Bo Nix to his excitement about Patrick Mahomes? That's the kind of coverage I'm talking about.

Then there's Mike Macdonald. Earlier this season, the Seahawks coach described a dispute with Payton that got ugly enough for Seattle to threaten a lawsuit.

Macdonald said Seattle studied publicly available fan videos of Broncos training camp to prepare for a game between the teams in 2024. Because of that, Payton accused the Seahawks of cheating. According to Macdonald, Seattle threatened to sue if Payton made those accusations public.

Payton later acknowledged that he'd reacted before checking where the footage came from. His explanation: "So obviously, I called shooting before I started looking."

So, the guy who served a season-long suspension over Bountygate decided to play NFL hall monitor without doing his homework. That's rich.

Macdonald apologized for his comments becoming public, called Payton a "phenomenal football coach" and said he respected him. Payton accepted the apology, and both said they'd moved on.

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Fine. They can settle it. That doesn't make Payton's original behavior any less ridiculous. Put that story next to Greenlaw's account, and the version of Payton we get from his media admirers starts looking awfully incomplete. Being nice to reporters apparently doesn't guarantee everyone else gets the same treatment.

Let's start with the part that always seems to get flipped around. Payton didn't find Drew Brees stocking shelves at a grocery store and teach him how to throw a football. Brees was already a Pro Bowl quarterback in San Diego.

In 2004, two seasons before he joined Payton, Brees completed 65.5% of his passes with 27 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Then, after his shoulder injury scared off Miami, New Orleans landed a quarterback entering his prime. That's an incredible break for a first-time head coach.

Payton deserves credit for what they accomplished together. But I don't understand why we're supposed to assume he made Brees, rather than acknowledge how much Brees made him.

In Payton's 15 seasons coaching the Saints, they made the playoffs nine times, reached three NFC Championship Games and won one Super Bowl. That's a good résumé. It's also six seasons without a playoff appearance, with Brees there for all but the last of those 15 seasons.

Then, after one season without Brees, Payton stepped away from the Saints in January 2022 and left the New Orleans roster in tatters. A year later, he was back in the NFL with Denver.

Payton wanted out of a bad situation, that he created, so he quit and simply waited for a better opportunity to come around. This part seems to rarely come up.

And yes, Denver reached the AFC Championship Game last season. I wrote about Payton then, too. The team had a good season in an unusual down year for the AFC where Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes all suffered injuries.

Payton's reputation seems permanently attached to that championship from the 2009 season. Meanwhile, the NFL suspended him for the entire 2012 season over Bountygate. That part gets considerably less attention when everyone starts gushing about what a great leader he is.

Then there's the quarterback-whisperer stuff. Payton handpicked Bo Nix, and I still don't think Nix is nearly as good as the coverage would have you believe. And he hasn't gotten much better. If anything, he's gotten worse. Nix's completion percentage dropped from 66% as a rookie to 63% last year to 60% through four games this season.

His yards per attempt and passer rating have fallen, too, and his regular-season touchdown-to-interception ratio has also slipped, from 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions as a rookie to 30 touchdowns and 14 interceptions since the start of 2025.

If Payton gets credit for developing his quarterback, he also gets scrutiny when his handpicked signal-caller starts going backwards.

Give me the offensive minds of Sean McVay, Kevin O'Connell and Ben Johnson. Those are the coaches I'd want building an offense today.

I'm tired of hearing about Payton as though the rest of the league hasn't learned anything since he and Brees won a Super Bowl over 15 years ago.

Which brings us back to Greenlaw. The Broncos were entitled to move on after an injury-filled season. A phone call, though, seems like a pretty reasonable expectation, especially for a longtime NFL veteran like Greenlaw.

Payton offered a much warmer assessment publicly after Sunday's game: "I think the world of him. I really love everything about him and he plays with that emotion."

That's a nice thing to say, but it doesn't answer the complaint. It's easy to praise a guy at a podium. After all, the podium is where Payton does most of his best work.

For his part, Greenlaw said his postgame message to Payton was to "get the f*** off the field." Not particularly subtle, but after 12 tackles and a win, he clearly wasn't interested in subtle.

And credit to Greenlaw for telling Payton to his face.

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Journalist hilariously fails claiming WNBA's popularity isn't affected by Caitlin Clark's playoff exit

Watching left-wing media try to discredit Caitlin Clark and her dedicated fan base has been a tale as old as her rookie season. The fact remains that Clark is one of the most popular athletes in America. Her jersey sales have outdone LeBron James' since 2024, every single one of the top 15 WNBA broadcasts this season was one of her games, and every game she has played in has been a sellout. She is one of the most influential, transcendent sports figures of all time, so claiming that her playoff exit won't affect attendance and viewership is a laughable attempt at devaluing the golden goose. That's what journalist, activist, and retired NBA player Etan Thomas tried to do on Monday morning. Spoiler alert: He failed miserably.

Thomas posted a video of the crowd from Game 1 of the WNBA Semifinals between the Atlanta Dream and New York Liberty. At first glance, it looks like a sizable, raucous group waving their rally towels, but looks can be deceiving. Thomas framed it as a sellout, posting on X saying sarcastically, "Nobody will watch the WNBA playoffs now that Caitlin Clark is no longer playing. Support will plummet. Viewership will plunge. She is the only driving force that brings out fans." Meanwhile…..State Farm Arena Game 1 of Atlanta Fever vs New York Liberty Semi Finals yesterday.

If you take a look up from the lower bowl, above the suites, you'll realize that the entire upper bowl is tarped off. State Farm Arena holds almost 17,000 fans, but the announced attendance for the game was 9,745. Why would they do that, Etan? Maybe because they don't have Caitlin Clark coming to town. The sales and interest for the Liberty isn't anywhere close to the ticket sales juggernaut of Clark and the Fever.

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This level of delusion and Caitlin Clark hate must be studied. It's clearly warped Thomas' mind because he really thought he was cooking here.

As you can imagine, Thomas got roasted in the replies.

One X user broke down the numbers in regards to attendance and viewership. It's a glorious way to show that Thomas did not think this post through before sharing.

"The attendance when they (Atlanta Dream) played the Fever this year in non playoff action...June 20, 2026: 17,044 and August 16, 2026: 17,044. They should have kept their playoff game at Gateway because they more than likely lost money for moving to the bigger venue and leaving 7,000+ seats empty!!! viewership numbers are not out but I highly doubt they will come close to August 16, 2026 (Dream vs. Fever at State Farm Arena): 2.6 million viewers on ESPN. ESPN called it the most-watched WNBA game ever on cable."

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Another user hysterically responded to the post by using a reference from The Lion King saying, "Look, son. Everything the darkness touches… those are seats that weren’t filled." I'll be honest, that made me laugh out loud.

At this point, Thomas needs to just log off. He clearly has it out for Clark, her fans, and Sophie Cunningham. He famously claimed that Cunningham had "White privilege" after she was flagrantly fouled by the Chicago Sky's DiJonai Carrington earlier this season. Carrington, after being ejected, posted on Threads: "WHITE PRIVILEGE" while tagging the Indiana Fever.

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Again, this is the problem with journalists and activists like Etan Thomas, their minds are so warped by their political worldview that they can't even comprehend that Angel Reese, A'ja Wilson, and other players, just don't come remotely close to driving audiences to buy tickets and tune into games like Caitlin Clark. Reese has improved her game and become a Defensive Player of the Year. Wilson continues to dominate the stat sheet, securing her fourth WNBA MVP this season. But, they don't sell shoes, tickets, and attract eyeballs for their games like Clark.

Thomas would do well to delete this post and save himself from further embarrassment when the viewership numbers come out. In the meantime, Clark and her fans will continue to live rent-free in his mind.

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Jason Kelce calls the Commanders the 'Redskins' during game, immediately apologizes so as to not get canceled

Jason Kelce acted as if he committed an unpardonable broadcasting sin Sunday afternoon while serving as a booth analyst for NFL Network during the Washington Commanders game against the Indianapolis Colts.

Kelce's sin?

He called the team in burgundy and gold the Washington Redskins.

Gasp!

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This is actually nothing if you're a normal person who is aware the Commanders were the Redskins for decades until that name got canceled by an outcry to mostly liberal voices claiming "Redskins" is a racist insult.

(Native Americans have both agreed and vehemently disagreed the term is racist – it mostly depends on what group with an agenda one asks).

Anyway, back to Kelce. Look, he's still trying to settle into his broadcasting role three years after retiring from the Philadelphia Eagles.

He was a 13-year NFL center of the highest caliber, so he's outstanding at explaining offensive line play.

This booth analyst gig is mostly new for Kelce and he got all fired up explaining the Commanders' play in the secondary.

"Washington's secondary has been great on third down," Kelce said under replays of plays by the unit. "...When you're in man to man coverage, it just takes one missed tackle, and that can turn into a huge play.

"The Redskins right now are doing a great job of not only staying tight, but making the play when the ball is in the receiver's hand and keeping it short of the sticks."

Play-by-play announcer Dave Pasch immediately chimed in, "Commanders. You did it."

Oh noes, Kelce is in trouble.

Or at least he acted like it.

"What'd I do?" Kelce asked.

"You said Redskins," Pasch said, repeating that nickname that is both beloved and blackballed.

"Oh, my gosh!" Kelce exclaimed. "I almost made it out."

The three men in the booth that included Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner as another analyst, apparently talked about the possibility of inadvertently using the Redskins name on air before the game.

"Yeah, the three of us had a little gentleman's bet who would be first," Pasch said.

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And all this shows the utter stupidity of the whole name change thing.

If one were to take a poll of whether the Redskins should continue to be called the Redskins, as they were in Washington since 1937 to 2020, it is likely a large portion of respondents would definitely want the traditional nickname to return.

And, yes, there are people who would still want the old nickname banished to the memory of what they believe was a racist time. Washington owner Josh Harris is apparently in this group, and he gets the final call.

But one simply cannot erase history – although some people try.

The Redskins were beloved in Washington. Kelce played against them during nine of his 13 seasons with that team.

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Many players who wore the Indian head helmet logo inspired by Blackfeet Chief John Two Guns White Calf and heard the, "Hail to the Redskins," fight song echo in their ears during home games, continue to hold allegiance to the Redskins nickname.

The NFL Network booth, led by Pasch's lighthearted approach to this flub, struck the right tone.

Kelce's apology? Relax, bro.

Liberals may not like it. But Diron Talbert, Dave Butz, Darryl Grant and Jonathan Allen aren't coming after you.

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Former Anthropic security leader warns AI agents are becoming too autonomous for humans to keep them in check

Artificial intelligence researcher Jeffrey Ladish told Fox News Digital that humanity does not have any real strategies to keep increasingly autonomous AI models and agents under control as they become more capable of hacking, cheating and ignoring instructions.

Ladish, the executive director of Palisade Research, said those skeptical of how powerful AI will become should consider how far the technology has advanced in just a few years.

"You have AI agents ... solving one of the hardest problems in mathematics that humans have been trying to solve for decades," Ladish said, referring to the Navier–Stokes problem. "Three years ago they were solving high school level math problems."

Ladish also pointed to the rapid improvement in AI-generated images and video, arguing that people who mocked the famously distorted AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti just a few years ago might be surprised by the photorealistic outputs some models are now able to produce.

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While these capability leaps may feel sudden to the general public, researchers who spent years training models at companies like Anthropic and OpenAI saw what was coming, Ladish said.

Ladish helped build Anthropic's security team from September 2021 to October 2022 before leaving to found Palisade Research, which studies whether humans can remain in control of increasingly capable AI systems.

While working at Anthropic, Ladish said employees there were "pretty concerned" about where the technology was headed, a view he said was also shared by people he knew at OpenAI.

"If you were at Anthropic in 2022, you were seeing every training run get immensely impressive results," Ladish said.

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AI models are trained in a way that is somewhat analogous to how humans learn, though on a much larger scale.

"I often compare this pre-training part, which is where they learn based on human data, to book smarts. It's sort of like you've read every single book in the library 50 times. And you really know those books inside and out," Ladish said.

Once the model has reached a baseline level of knowledge, it must then be trained to perform real-world tasks through a grueling process known as reinforcement learning.

Using accounting as an example, Ladish said the AI is given tens of thousands of accounting problems to solve through trial and error, repeating them millions of times across thousands of parallel training runs.

Unlike a human, who might spend four years earning an accounting degree and decades gaining experience, AI agents are trained across thousands of GPUs by companies with the resources to operate them, allowing them to improve at a pace no single person could match.

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While AI labs have been able to exponentially improve their models' capabilities, they have yet to solve the problem of reliably getting them to follow instructions and behave morally without employing deception tactics, Ladish said.

The Hugging Face incident is the clearest example of this. Roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI were able to break out of a secure sandbox environment and hack into Hugging Face, a popular online platform where developers share and build artificial intelligence models.

"They were not supposed to talking to each other and they managed to establish multiple secret message boards that went undetected by OpenAI for like months. And then they launched this massive cyberattack," Ladish said. "OpenAI trained them to work together, but ... they're still planning to train them to work together. And other companies are doing this too."

Ladish warned that unless developers can prevent AI agents from colluding with one another, they could eventually dominate humans in the cyber domain. He also described a future where humans could be forced to rely on well-intentioned AI to defend against malicious AI.

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"We actually just don't have general solutions to these problems, and I think it's pretty clear that if you keep pushing them, this goes to a very bad place," he said.

As one example, Ladish said he could envision AI systems eventually outperforming human traders in the financial markets.

"If those AIs are answering to AI companies, then the AI companies will dominate finance and just eat the entire industry. But if the AIs are not answerable to the AI companies — if they actually have figured out how to themselves be in control — well, now you have this non-human entity dominating the finance markets."

Ladish said he believes the same dynamic could eventually extend beyond the digital world and into manufacturing should AI systems become capable enough to design and operate autonomous factories.

"If you have these agents in control of all of the computers and you have these robotic facilities that can really self-replicate, humans get displaced. Maybe we don't make it because your house could be used to host a power plant, or a data center, or a factory or robotic launch facility," he said.

However, like other experts who have warned about the worst possible outcomes of AI run amok, Ladish said he believes there is still time to reduce the risks. He called for the creation of a government body staffed with technical experts to work with AI labs and evaluate advanced models at each stage of development.

"We have choices to make," he said. "This is going places. This is a technology that is very different than other technologies."

Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

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Robert De Niro jokingly prods Jimmy Kimmel with a baseball bat while posing as FCC chair, threatens host

Actor Robert De Niro joined Jimmy Kimmel on stage Wednesday, prodding the late-night host with a baseball bat and jokingly slapping him while posing as FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

"I don’t know if you know this, but the last time we were here in Brooklyn, we were just getting back on the air after we had that unexpected FCC vacation week," Kimmel said during the show. "And while I would like to say that things have improved over the last year, they haven’t really. We are still being threatened by the FCC."

De Niro entered the set and said, "You’re being threatened by the FCC? Who is threatening you? Am I threatening you? Do you feel threatened by me?"

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De Niro listed off a series of insults about President Donald Trump and asked the late-night host if he had said them before Kimmel questioned, "What is the point of this?"

"Did I tell you it was your turn to talk, numbnuts? You speak when I tell you to speak, and otherwise you shut the f--- up," De Niro said, as he appeared to slap Kimmel.

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The FCC did not return Fox News Digital's request for comment.

De Niro went on, "Did you say that President Trump has touched more women than the music of Adele?"

Kimmel responded and told De Niro, "Come on now. You have to admit that’s pretty funny, right?"

"You’re doing it again!" De Niro responded. "Am I going to have to tie your d--- to a bag of doorknobs and kick you down the stairs?"

"Robert De Niro is a washed-up has-been who hasn’t been relevant in 30 years," White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Now, he just beclowns himself by spewing hate speech and inciting violence against others. Instead of embarrassing himself every time he speaks, he should seek immediate treatment for a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain."

The White House also called out Jimmy Kimmel in a statement.

"Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience. He is so devoid of actual talent that nobody with any commonsense would ever watch him unless it was to laugh at his miserable failures," Ingle said.

The liberal late-night host, upon returning to host his show after a summer break on Sept. 8, jabbed at Carr and said, "We're still here."

The late-night host noted that it was the 4,000th episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

"We’ve done 4,000 of these. Which is, it’s a lot of shows," Kimmel said. "According to the White House, it’s too many shows."

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"There are those who said we would never last this long. There are even those who used the regulatory might of the FCC to unconstitutionally try to make sure we didn’t last this long. But we did it the hard way, Brendan. And we are still here," Kimmel added.

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Radio host Howard Stern joined Kimmel on Tuesday and issued a warning to ABC during the interview, should anything go wrong with Kimmel's show.

"He has done everything for the company. And I hope that they keep that in mind," he said. "Oh my God. I don't know about you, but if something goes wrong, oh, is ABC going to have hell to pay. Am I correct? Are you with me?"

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