Senator Dave McCormick appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss a potential reprieve from sanctions on Russia.
President Trump wants to grant a reprieve from sanctions mainly because of the burden Americans are facing from high fuel costs, including diesel.
Senator McCormick said that a reprieve from sanctions is not something he would support, but he understood the President’s intentions to help the US economy and its struggle with fuel prices.
“Senator Dave McCormick, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Welcome back to the show, Senator,” Bream said.
“The letter urges the President to scrap the deal. What’s your position?” Bream asked regarding a bipartisan letter sent to President Trump.
“Let’s put this in perspective. I 100 percent support the President’s goal of ending the war in Ukraine and simultaneously bringing down fuel prices,” McCormick said.
“We made a lot of progress on that by opening up the Strait. About 65 percent of the volume through there by encouraging the Europeans to export more diesel,” McCormick continued.
“I think we also need to keep the pressure on Putin, so I would not be in favor of giving a reprieve on the sanctions,” McCormick said.
Bream asked Senator McCormick what the late Senator Lindsey Graham would think of the latest developments with Russia and Putin.
The late Senator had introduced a bill with sanctions against Russia that received bipartisan support.
“What do you think your friend Lindsey Graham would think of these developments?” Bream asked.
“Lindsey and the President have been very aligned from, you know, 12 months ago where the President laid out a vision for bringing peace to Ukraine and Russia,” McCormick said.
“The key to that in my opinion, among other things, is keeping the pressure on Putin, and that’s why is signed up to Lindsey’s bill,” McCormick said.
“This war started under Joe Biden, but it can end under President Trump if we keep the pressure on Putin,” McCormick said.
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WATCH: @SenMcCormickPA says he “would not be in favor of giving a reprieve on sanctions,” adding that the U.S. needs to keep the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin. https://t.co/DecLzOocK9
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has confirmed that the administration could denaturalize and deport Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) if federal investigators can prove she committed immigration fraud.
Federal agents raided her home in Washington, D.C. on October 12 as they seek to examine whether Omar or her relatives provided false information when entering the U.S. as alleged refugees from Somalia in the 1990s or during her subsequent naturalization process.
Omar, who became a naturalized American citizen in 2000, has described the investigation as based on “disgusting lies.”
Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress. I have always… https://t.co/0EJUJCHP5o
In an interview with Fox News host Tomi Lahren, Homan confirmed that she could be denaturalized and deported but warned that it would be a “long, tedious process.”
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
LAHREN: I think people were rather shocked to see this raid, and this has been something that many feel has been a long time coming, because there have been suspicions and allegations for a long time. What more can you tell us about it?”
HOMAN: Well, look, I said over a year ago the allegations were made clear, and it would be investigated. And they are investigating it.
I’m not going to get ahead of, you know, the bureau or agency, but, you know, I’ve been told they have a strong case, and we’ll let the evidence lead where it leads.
She’ll be held to the same standard you and I are held. If she violated law, then she will be held accountable.
But I don’t have the specifics of the evidence they have line by line, but we’ll see where it leads.
I think they’re doing a great investigation. I think they’re going to turn over every rock they’ve got with this.
LAHREN: Would this involve denaturalizing and then deporting her, if it does turn out there is some kind of immigration fraud?
HOMAN: Of course. If you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody.
We’ve done it before; it’s a long, tedious process, but it’s been done before. I’ve been involved with those investigations before, and certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen.
Watch the clip below:
Boarder Czar Tom Homan says investigators have a “strong case” against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
And, he’s making one thing clear: No one gets special treatment.
Photo of the Los Angeles Times Building. Credit: The Angels 2010/Wikimedia Commons
The corporate media consistently spreads so much misinformation that when they tell the truth, it’s often by accident. This was the case in a recent Los Angeles Times headline that was attempting to attack ICE.
On Friday, the far-left Los Angeles Times published an article bemoaning the possibility that ICE raids have the potential to impact voter turnout, citing so-called immigration advocates.
The headline strongly implies that illegal aliens do vote, because a citizen would have nothing to fear from ICE.
And we all know which party the illegals are voting for.
“Surge in ICE raids is aimed at discouraging voter turnout, immigration advocates say,” the LA Times headline reads.
LOOK:
Surge in ICE raids is aimed at discouraging voter turnout, immigration advocates say https://t.co/lc7MVTAASA
@latimes Oh and hey, what makes you think that matters? I mean after all, wouldn’t there be some republican illegals to? Ohhhh I forgot, they were allowed in as long as they voted Democrat, gotchas!!!
@latimes This is just AMAZING! LA TUMES is actually telling the truth!! Basically this caption means ” ILLEGALS are being forced not to vote bc of surge of ICE agents.
A Canadian woman living in the United States on a visa had both a reality check and a warning for Americans considering voting for Democrats in the midterms.
” I’m a Canadian who lives and works in the US,” she begins. “I’m here on a visa. It’s election time here in the US. Elections are coming up. It’s midterms.”
“I cannot sit here and stress enough how truly the left crumbles a nation, crumbles an economy, crumbles your lifestyle, crumbles your mental health.”
“I lived in Canada for the first 27 years of my life. I sat there and watched my homeland crumble under the liberals, the Democrats, whatever it’s— whatever you call it, okay? The left. And it’s, it’s, it’s really sad. It’s really, really sad, and it’s really heartbreaking. I didn’t want to grow up thinking that I would have to find a way out because life over there was so horrible. Drowning in taxes. Everything is so expensive.”
“Oh, free healthcare, blah blah blah. No, nothing in life is free, okay? Money does not fall from the sky. It does not, okay? Period. End of story. It does not. And I even will talk to my friends over here in the US, and I’m like, yeah, like, you know, oh, you bought your house for $200 grand? Guess what? Your house in my hometown, which is not even anything crazy, it’s a town of about 500,000 people, is minimum $600K.”
“Gas prices through the roof, taxes through the roof. You know, a lot of people pay over 50% in taxes, and that kicks in once you hit like $125 grand a year annually. If you make $125 grand a year, you are paying over 50% in tax. If you make $200 grand a year, you take home 85.”
“It’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible. And I, I didn’t grow up hoping that I would be begging one day to leave Canada into the US. And I am very thankful I have a visa, and I live in the US now. And life over here is much better. I can afford to buy groceries. I can afford my housing. I can afford gas. I can afford my insurance. I can afford a life, okay?”
“You do not, you do not, you do not want to be under a communist nation. And you know, anyone is going to be out here beefing with me like, oh no, no, no, like it’s not communist, blah blah blah. Guess what? It is. Because it’s a very, very, very slippery slope and it happens very slowly, but one second you’re gonna look back and say, oh my gosh.”
“You want to talk about rights? You want to talk about accessibility of things? In Canada, if you need to see a specialist, it’s at least a 9-month wait. At least a 9-month wait.”
“If you have some sort of like eye problem, for example, and you have to see a specialist to get eye surgery? Year and a half wait. You will go blind before you can see them. Blind.”
“See a doctor? Oh, give it 2 weeks. If you have like a sinister disease like strep throat, you are waiting for 12 hours in the emergency room or a walk-in clinic in hopes to see a physician to write you a prescription for amoxicillin to kill your strep throat.”
“Or what you do is you then have to resort to other resources. Like, there are different kind of like apps and stuff that are like $200 a month that you can like online chat with a doctor and say like, hey, I have strep throat. Please write me a prescription, and they, you know, trust you and they give you one, and then you send it to your pharmacy. It’s honestly unbelievable. Life in the US is way better than life in Canada.”
“Life in Canada is absolutely horrible. There is a reason why a lot of people are leaving Canada.”
“Do not let that same mentality get into power in the US. I swear, it’s not good. It’s not good.”
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Woman who escaped communism and is now living in America is begging Americans not to vote Democrat during midterms
“I’m here on a visa. It’s election time here in the US. Elections are coming up. It’s midterms. I cannot sit here and stress enough how truly the left crumbles a nation, crumbles an economy, crumbles your lifestyle, crumbles your mental health. I lived in Canada for the first 27 years of my life. I sat there and watched my homeland crumble under the liberals, the Democrats, The left. And it’s really sad. It’s really, really sad and it’s really heartbreaking”
“I didn’t want to grow up thinking that I would have to find a way out because life over there was so horrible. Drowning in taxes. Everything is so expensive, you know. Oh, free healthcare, blah blah blah.
No, nothing in life is free — a lot of people pay over 50% in taxes”
“I am very thankful I have a visa and I live in the US now. And life over here is much better. I can afford to buy groceries. I can afford my housing. I can afford gas. I can afford my insurance. I can afford a life. You do not, you do not, you do not want to be under a communist nation”
She also talks about how it’s like a 9 month wait just to see a specialist doctor. For something like an eye problem, she says the wait was about a year and a half
“It’s honestly unbelievable. Life in the US is way better than life in Canada. Life in Canada is absolutely horrible. There is a reason why a lot of people are leaving Canada. Do not let that same mentality get into power in the US. I swear it’s not good. It’s not good”
Americans need to understand how serious this is, here are the average wait time for doctors in Canada under universal healthcare
– Neurosurgery 49.9 weeks (nearly 1 year)
– Orthopaedic surgery 48.6 weeks
– Otolaryngology 43.8 weeks
– Overall elective specialist treatment is 7 months or longe. In some provinces it’s over 14 months
– Oral surgery is 16 weeks
– ENT, gynaecology and orthopaedics is over 1 year
– Rheumatology roughly 3 months
Of course Canada isn’t communist but many people call it communist because of the universal healthcare and extremely government policies. It’s actually a federal constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy
Abdul El-Sayed is having trouble with traditional Democrat voters – Screencap of Twitter/X video.
The Detroit News is Michigan’s second largest paper with a daily circulation of over 51,000 readers.
Lon Johnson, a former Michigan Democratic Party chair, and David Kramer, a longtime Democratic strategist who has previously helped elect Democrats to the Senate penned an Op-ed this week in the Detroit News telling Democrats to refrain from voting for El-Sayed and instead “leave it blank”.
Supporting a nominee after a hard-fought primary is an act of party unity, not a surrender of principle. Democrats asked to set aside their differences for U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed had every right to expect something in return: a commitment to earn their trust, address legitimate concerns and unite a party whose nomination he won with less than 50% of the vote.
“He has failed that test.”
The two added:
“Our gravest concerns involve El-Sayed’s associations with figures who have excused or minimized terrorism, his reluctance to unequivocally condemn dangerous rhetoric and his support of extreme policies.”
The Detroit News later reported on the Democrat defectors this year for Mike Rogers, including prominent Jewish leaders in the state.
“…Prominent Jewish Democrats have come out for Rogers. This week, Gary Torgow, head of the Jewish Federations of America, and Larry Deitch, a former University of Michigan regent, wrote letters to The Detroit News denouncing El-Sayed’s equivocation on Israel and backing the Republican.”
And there was a rally last week at Temple Israel in Michigan for Mike Rogers. Temple Israel in West Bloomfield was the scene of an Islamist terrorist attack. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, injuring a security guard in what authorities described as a targeted attack against Jews.
El-Sayed condemned the violence at the time, saying there was “never a justification for attacking innocent people,” but added that “violence is a cycle” and “hurt people hurt people.”
In a statement posted to Truth Social on Sunday, President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election bid. “Bibi Netanyahu has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister,” Trump wrote, “and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Trump went on to describe Netanyahu as “Strong, Brave, and Brilliant,” adding that he was “the kind of Partner that the United States of America is demanding of Israel, a Country for which it has done so much.”
The president also suggested that if Netanyahu did not win, the United States may rethink its military operations against Iran. “If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi,” he wrote, “America will have to do this work [i.e., fighting the Iran war] ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so.”
Israel will hold its parliamentary elections on October 27. Netanyahu, who is the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, is seeking to win enough seats for his Likud party and its parliamentary allies to continue his premiership. His closest rival is former IDF general Gadi Eisenkot, whose Yashar party holds a narrow lead in most polls.
Although U.S. presidents have historically avoided endorsing candidates in foreign elections, Trump has broken with precedent to back political allies in Poland, Argentina, Hungary, Japan, Honduras, Chile, Colombia, and now Israel.
Abdul el-Sayed during a recent interview on Fox News.
Islamo-Marxist Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once did a college research project so bizarre that it probably helps explain why he never got his doctor’s license.
J.D. Haltigan, PhD, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Heterodox Center and a developmental psychopathologist, uncovered a ‘scientific’ research project that El-Sayed conducted in medical school at Columbia University back in 2011.
The paper discusses “interethnic mating” with a particular focus on Arab mothers who engage in it. El-Sayed discovered that Arab mothers who participate in it have worse birth outcomes than those who mate with Arab men.
El-Sayed also discusses his findings on genetics and the Black race.
Why did he possess the urge to research this garbage?
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s scientific research is…odd.
Arab mothers who engage in “interethnic mating” have worse birth outcomes than those who mate with Arab men?
Also: Genetics, black race, and interracial mating?
Boy, does this sound racist. Abdul El-Sayed conducted a study to assess whether interethnic mating (Arab-American mother + non-Arab father) raises the risk of preterm birth (PTB), very PTB, or late PTB among Arab-American mothers.
Conclusion: Among Arab-American mothers in Michigan (2000–2005), a non-Arab father was associated with higher risk of PTB (OR 1.18) and late PTB (OR 1.24) versus an Arab father. No such association was found among non-Arab white mothers (used as controls). The authors noted the association but called for further work on causal mechanisms.
Y’all, whatever it is you are doing stop right now. This is the biggest news of the day. Sayed wrote a paper in 2011 saying any Arab woman who mates with a Black man will have a greatly increased chance of birth defects for their child.
Interestingly, El Sayed’s only known wife is not Arab. So he, an Arab man, can mate interracially, no problem, but Arab women, in his scientific opinion, it seems, are better off staying within their own tribes.
El Sayed exhibits great many third world attitudes that are repressive, violent, and incompatible with our way of life.
@JDHaltigan Bro, they call white men racist?? Actually publishing a theory on interracial relations that’s one step away from calling their offspring “mongrels” is INSANE
National Republican Senatorial Committee Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez later weighed in with a very apt observation:
“It’s ironic that a radical Muslim with documented ties to designated terrorist organizations is scared of interracial mating,” she told The Post Millennial. “Does Abdul El-Sayed stand by his racist fearmongering?”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday finally responded to the Islamo-Marxist riots.
Islamo-Marxist migrants continued to clash with police over the weekend as Macron partied.
‘Student’ protests erupted in Paris’s migrant-filled suburbs earlier this month over so-called crowded classrooms and teacher shortages.
The protests expanded to other cities and became violent as Muslim migrants used it as an excuse to take over the streets and assault law enforcement.
On Saturday evening, Macron was spotted at a Celine Dion concert as Paris burned.
Thousands of violent protesters on Saturday overturned cars, set buildings ablaze, and attacked police across the country. One of the most historic structures in the entire country, the 143-year-old Limoges Town Hall, burned to the ground as the police struggled control the crowds.
More than 1,800 rioters were arrested on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, Macron and his wife were enjoying a Celine Dion Concert.
Let them eat cake! Emanuel Macron and his wife spend their Friday night at a Celine Dion concert as Paris burns.
On Sunday, Macron addressed the nation and blamed French citizens for the uprising.
“Hundreds of police officers were injured,” Macron said in his opening statement to the nation.
“When we saw the images, we all thought, what was in their heads? How can French people do this to France?” Macron said in a week address. “Why would the Town Hall of Limoges burn down?”
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other nation, and despite not having socialized medicine, the vast majority of Americans are covered by either employer-sponsored plans or government programs. Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
With the Nov. 3 midterm elections less than three weeks away, healthcare has become a central Democratic campaign issue. An Associated Press analysis of AdImpact data found that healthcare was the most common issue in Democratic House and Senate ads since Sept. 1.
Democrats have made four claims: that Washington spends more on war than on healthcare, that most Americans lack health insurance, that Trump’s Medicaid changes take coverage away from poor Americans, and that socialized medicine provides better care. All four claims are false, as the spending figures, insurance coverage data, Medicaid provisions and international comparisons below demonstrate.
U.S. national health spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, or $15,474 per person, according to CMS data. That spending was equal to 18.0 percent of GDP. The federal government paid for 31 percent of total health spending, and state and local governments paid for 16 percent. Combined, government at all levels paid roughly $2.5 trillion.
That figure is nearly double the entire health budget of China, the world’s second-largest economy. According to China’s National Health Commission, China’s total health spending in 2024 was an estimated 9.09 trillion yuan, about $1.27 trillion in public and private spending combined, with the government paying 24.9 percent. Per person, the OECD’s health division head told the Senate Special Committee on Aging that U.S. government health spending per capita was greater than in all other OECD countries.
That spending funds coverage for more than a third of Americans. The Census Bureau found that 92.0 percent of Americans, 310 million people, had health insurance in 2024. Employer coverage was the most common type at 53.8 percent, followed by Medicare at 19.1 percent and Medicaid at 17.6 percent. Overall, 66.1 percent of Americans had private coverage and 35.5 percent had public coverage. Government coverage is concentrated among low-income Americans. Public coverage rates fall as income rises: Census figures show 77.0 percent of children and 50.7 percent of adults in poverty had public coverage, compared with 6.7 percent and 5.7 percent of those at or above 400 percent of the poverty line.
Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4, 2025, and Democrats have since described its Medicaid provisions as taking healthcare away from vulnerable Americans. In a May 2025 press release, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the bill “the largest healthcare cut in our country’s history” and said millions would lose Medicaid coverage. A statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders said the law takes healthcare and food assistance from millions of people to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. Rep. Bobby Scott, ranking member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said Republicans would strip healthcare from the Americans most in need.
The law does not kick poor people off Medicaid, and it does not raise the income eligibility threshold, which remains 138 percent of the federal poverty line. It simply requires able-bodied adults to work, study or volunteer 80 hours a month.
The 138 percent limit equals about $21,597 a year for an individual in 2025, and adults who qualified on income before the law still qualify on income. What changes is how often eligibility is checked: beginning Jan. 1, 2027, states must verify the income test every six months instead of once a year.
A frequently repeated claim holds that the United States is the only industrialized nation without socialized medicine. Under socialized medicine, the government owns the hospitals and employs the doctors, as in Britain’s National Health Service. Many industrialized countries do not use that model. Switzerland and the Netherlands achieve universal coverage through a mandate that every individual buy a basic plan from regulated private insurers.
Germany, France and Japan use statutory insurance systems with largely private providers. The United States, meanwhile, operates its own government-run system: the Veterans Health Administration runs 170 medical centers and 1,193 outpatient sites serving more than 9.1 million enrolled veterans. Nor is the United States the only OECD country without universal coverage: the OECD reports that coverage for core services remained below 95 percent in four member countries in 2024.
In many countries with government-run systems, a private medical sector operates alongside the public one because patients cannot get timely public care. Among 29 OECD countries with comparable data, nine had private insurance covering more than half the population in 2024. In Britain, NHS waiting lists grew from 4.24 million in March 2020 to 7.37 million in June 2025, and concern about NHS waiting times was the leading reason consumers gave for buying private insurance.
In Ireland, 2.55 million people, about 46 percent of the population, held private health insurance at the end of 2025. The main reasons Irish policyholders gave in the state regulator’s survey were lack of access to public services and longer waiting lists. In Spain, private coverage rose from 23 percent of the population in 2020 to 26 percent in 2025, nearly 13 million people, driven largely by waiting times in the public system.
In Canada, patients leave the country and pay for treatment themselves, overwhelmingly choosing the United States. Long waits and unavailable treatment were leading reasons for seeking care outside Canada. More recently, the Fraser Institute estimated that 105,529 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment abroad in 2025.
That is ironic given the Canadian criticism that America lacks socialized medicine: Canadians cross the border to pay for American healthcare because they can obtain treatment sooner or access care unavailable at home.
While liberals believe that pointing out America’s lack of socialized medicine is a dig at Republicans, it actually underscores a strength of the U.S. system, where the average salary is higher and the average tax rate is lower than in Canada, Germany, and all but a few countries in the world.
And one sentence stayed with me: “My older sister was proud of me.”
Jim remembered the sister who welcomed him into her home in Tuba City, Arizona, when he was young and needed help. He wrote about differences that had put distance between them, and the closeness they later found again. Beneath the public life and political disagreements was a brother who loved his sister. This week, he lost her.
To Jim, Joe, and the entire Hoft family: Please accept my heartfelt condolences on Lynne’s passing. May God comfort you in the quiet hours when her absence is hardest to bear. May the memories you share bring you warmth, and may you find strength in one another as you grieve. Grieving Is Such Quiet Sorrow…
A loss like this makes me think about the people we keep meaning to call. The sister whose familiar voice we expect to hear again. The friend whose message we put aside because the afternoon got busy. We go about our days with so much left to say, assuming there will be another opportunity.
And sometimes there isn’t…
So, please tell your loved ones that you love them. Tell your extended family, too. Say it on an ordinary afternoon, when nobody is leaving for a long journey and there is no special occasion. Let them hear it while they can still answer you.
“I Love You More Today Than Yesterday,
But Not as Much as Tomorrow.”
What a beautiful thing to give someone to carry through the day.
Jim’s account of finding his way back to his sister also reminds me that an estranged relationship may still have a future. If there is someone you hope to reconnect with, perhaps today is the day to reach out. We cannot know how a conversation will go. But we can always make room for one.
That same care for the people we love also gives me a reason to care deeply about our Country, and why we must vote to preserve it.
THIS IS OUR COUNTRY. We live here with its blessings and its troubles. Our children will make their lives here. The neighbors we wave to, the families we pray for, and the people we will never meet all need a Nation where they can live securely; and build a future.
I love God, and I love America. My faith calls me to consider how I treat people, especially when I am angry or afraid. My love for this Country calls me to take responsibility for the part of its future I can influence.
Both Deserve More Than a Place in Something I Write.
They Deserve a Place in How I Live.
There is enough political noise to fill every hour we have. We can become so absorbed in the latest insult that we lose sight of the lives behind the issues. A school-board decision reaches a child in a classroom. A question about public safety reaches a family coming home at night. Decisions made by people we elect become part of our daily lives.
That is why I keep asking you to VOTE!
So, when you sit down with your ballot:
THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE whose lives you hope will be better because you took the time.
READ THE CHOICES before you.
BRING YOUR CONSCIENCE and YOUR CONVICTIONS to the task.
Then FOLLOW THROUGH and CAST THAT BALLOT.
Our voices belong in the decisions that shape our communities. Voting is one of the the ways we use them. It is a practical act of care for the country we share and for the generations who will inherit it.
I want our children and grandchildren to know that we cared enough to participate. When they ask what we did with the responsibilities handed to us, I want us to have an answer.
Tonight, call someone you love. You do not need a perfect speech. Tell them they matter to you. Listen to their voice. Give that conversation the time it deserves, and…
Help them make their plan TO VOTE.
And make your own plan TO VOTE, too.
To the Hoft family, my prayers are with you. Your love for Lynne, and hers for you, came through in Jim’s words. Thank you for sharing a little of her life with us.
May we remember to express our love for others, while it can still be heard; and to care for Our Country while its Future is Ours to Help Shape.
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