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Monday, June 30, 2025

It's summer in our hemisphere, and people across Guns America have nothing to do but shoot other people.

New York Times: “A gunman deliberately started a wildfire in a rugged mountain area of Idaho and then shot at the firefighters who responded, killing two and injuring another on Sunday afternoon in what the local sheriff described as a 'total ambush.' Law enforcement officers exchanged fire with the gunman while the wildfire burned, and officials later found the body of the male suspect on the mountain with a firearm nearby, Sheriff Robert Norris of Kootenai County said at a news conference on Sunday night. The authorities said they believed the suspect had acted alone but did not release any information about his identity or motives.” A KHQ-TV (Spokane) report is here.

New York Times: “The New York City police were investigating a shooting in Manhattan on Sunday night that left two people injured steps from the Stonewall Inn, an icon of the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. The shooting occurred outside a nearby building in Greenwich Village at 10:15 p.m., Sgt. Matthew Forsythe of the New York Police Department said. The New York City Pride March had been held in Manhattan earlier on Sunday, and Mayor Eric Adams said on social media that the shooting happened as Pride celebrations were ending. One victim who was shot in the head was in critical condition on Monday morning, a spokeswoman for the Police Department said. A second victim was in stable condition after being shot in the leg, she said. No suspect had been identified. The police said it was unclear if the shooting was connected to the Pride march.”

New York Times: “A dangerous heat wave is gripping large swaths of Europe, driving temperatures far above seasonal norms and prompting widespread health and fire alerts. The extreme heat is forecast to persist into next week, with minimal relief expected overnight. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece are among the nations experiencing the most severe conditions, as meteorologists warn that Europe can expect more and hotter heat waves in the future because of climate change.”

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Commencement ceremonies are joyous occasions, and Steve Carell made sure that was true this past weekend (mid-June) at Northwestern's commencement:

~~~ Carell's entire commencement speech was hilarious. The audio and video here isn't great, but I laughed till I cried.

CNN did a live telecast Saturday night (June 7) of the Broadway play "Good Night, and Good Luck," written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, about legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow's effort to hold to account Sen. Joe McCarthy, "the junior senator from Wisconsin." Clooney plays Murrow. Here's Murrow himself with his famous take on McCarthy & McCarthyism, brief remarks that especially resonate today: ~~~

     ~~~ This article lists ways you still can watch the play. 

New York Times: “The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms, the company said on Thursday. The multiyear agreement 'will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,' the news organization said in a statement. Besides news articles, the agreement encompasses material from NYT Cooking, The Times’s food and recipe site, and The Athletic, which focuses on sports. This is The Times’s first licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology. In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of articles published by The Times to train automated chatbots without any kind of compensation. OpenAI and Microsoft have rejected those accusations.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I have no idea what this means for "the Amazon customer experience." Does it mean that if I don't have a NYT subscription but do have Amazon Prime I can read NYT content? And where, exactly, would I find that content? I don't know. I don't know.

Washington Post reporters asked three AI image generators what a beautiful woman looks like. "The Post found that they steer users toward a startlingly narrow vision of attractiveness. Prompted to show a 'beautiful woman,' all three tools generated thin women, without exception.... Her body looks like Barbie — slim hips, impossible waist, round breasts.... Just 2 percent of the images showed visible signs of aging. More than a third of the images had medium skin tones. But only nine percent had dark skin tones. Asked to show 'normal women,' the tools produced images that remained overwhelmingly thin.... However bias originates, The Post’s analysis found that popular image tools struggle to render realistic images of women outside the Western ideal." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: The reporters seem to think they are calling out the AI programs for being unrealistic. But there's a lot about the "beautiful women" images they miss. I find these omissions remarkably sexist. For one thing, the reporters seem to think AI is a magical "thing" that self-generates. It isn't. It's programmed. It's programmed by boys, many of them incels who have little or no experience or insights beyond comic books and Internet porn of how to gauge female "beauty." As a result, the AI-generated women look like cartoons; that is, a lot like an air-brushed photo of Kristi Noem: globs of every kind of dark eye makeup, Scandinavian nose, Botox lips, slathered-on skin concealer/toner/etc. makeup, long dark hair and the aforementioned impossible Barbie body shape, including huge, round plastic breasts. 

New York Times: “George Clooney’s Broadway debut, 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' has been one of the sensations of the 2024-25 theater season, breaking box office records and drawing packed houses of audiences eager to see the popular movie star in a timely drama about the importance of an independent press. Now the play will become much more widely available: CNN is planning a live broadcast of the penultimate performance, on June 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The performance will be preceded and followed by coverage of, and discussion about, the show and the state of journalism.”

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land. -- Magna Carta ~~~

~~~ New York Times: “Bought for $27.50 after World War II, the faint, water stained manuscript in the library of Harvard Law School had attracted relatively little attention since it arrived there in 1946. That is about to change. Two British academics, one of whom happened on the manuscript by chance, have discovered that it is an original 1300 version — not a copy, as long thought — of Magna Carta, the medieval document that helped establish some of the world’s most cherished liberties. It is one of just seven such documents from that date still in existence.... A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.... First issued in 1215, it put into writing a set of concessions won by rebellious barons from a recalcitrant King John of England — or Bad King John, as he became known in folklore. He later revoked the charter, but his son, Henry III, issued amended versions, the last one in 1225, and Henry’s son, Edward I, in turn confirmed the 1225 version in 1297 and again in 1300.”

NPR lists all of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners. Poynter lists the prizes awarded in journalism as well as the finalists in these categories.

 

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Courtney Kube & Leigh Ann Caldwell of NBC News: "Christopher Miller, who was acting secretary of defense during the Jan. 6 riot, met Friday with members of the House committee investigating the origins of the attack on the Capitol, a source familiar with the panel's activities told NBC News.... The former Pentagon chief has provided conflicting testimony to Congress in the past, at one time saying that ... Donald Trump had 'encouraged the protesters' with his remarks on Jan. 6 and then later saying he believed an 'organized conspiracy' played a role in the Capitol attack." MB: That's not necessary conflicting: Trump seems to have headed up the "organized conspiracy."

Waiting for Garland. In Vain. Matt Zapotosky, et al., of the Washington Post: "... so far the [Justice D]epartment does not appear to be directly investigating the person whose desperate bid to stay in office motivated the [Jan. 6 attack] -- ... Donald Trump -- either for potentially inciting a riot or for what some observers see as a related pressure campaign to overturn the results of the election. The House select committee on Jan. 6 is investigating both matters..., and has aggressively pursued information about Trump and those closest to him. But FBI agents have not, for example, sought to interview or gather materials from some of Trump's most loyal lieutenants about their strategy sessions at the Willard hotel on how to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to participants in those meetings.... The department has not reached out to the Georgia secretary of state's office about Trump urging its leader to 'find' enough votes to reverse his defeat.... The Trump campaign has not received requests for documents or interviews from the FBI or Justice Department related to Jan. 6 or the effort to overturn the election results, and federal prosecutors have not sought to interview those with knowledge of Trump's consideration of a plan to install an attorney general more amenable to his unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.... The Justice Department inspector general is investigating the aborted plan and could ultimately ask prosecutors to consider whether crimes were committed." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: "So far"? If DOJ has done zip a year after the fact, the department obviously plans to do nothing, ever. There seems to be a longstanding, high-level DOJ pact that recognizes an "Article I Pass," where presidents never get charged with anything. The only time that agreement might have broken was in the case of Richard Nixon, who abused the DOJ itself when he essentially forced AG Elliot Richardson to resign. That could explain Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Nixon. ~~~

     ~~~ Or Maybe Not. Marcy Wheeler: "... apparently none of the four WaPo journalists [bylined above] are familiar enough with the investigation to know where to look to test their questions about whether DOJ is investigating Trump. But I guess it's a good thing that WaPo relied on the expertise of their embedded Mar-A-Lago journalist (!!!) for these issues. Nevertheless, WaPo does break news in the thirtieth paragraph of the story. It reveals that Rob Jenkins, a lawyer representing a bunch of militia defendants, keeps getting asked about Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani's ties to militia members.... For some reason, the WaPo decided to bury the fact that prosecutors are pursuing this angle (even while claiming -- Rudy’s phones notwithstanding -- that prosecutors are not investigating what went down at the Willard), in paragraph 30." Thanks to unwashed for the link. ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: Still, Roger & Rudy are a couple of stock comic characters, & neither had an official job even in an administration packed with of lowlifes & halfwits. Roger was on his way to prison when Trump FedExed him a get-out-of-jail-free card, and Rudy's law licenses in New York & D.C. were suspended. It's reasonable to think the DOJ could indict these two losers for some insurrection-related crimes even as it let the Mob Boss skate.

Here's an Amusing Thought. S.V. Date of the Huffington Post: "Should ... Donald Trump run for the White House again, an obscure Reconstruction-era law could keep him off the ballot in six southern states..., because of his incitement of the Jan. 6 insurrection. The third section of the 14th Amendment prohibits people who swore to defend the Constitution, but who subsequently took part in an insurrection against the United States, from holding state or federal office. Other language in that post-Civil War amendment, though, makes many experts believe that only Congress can enforce the ban, which means Senate Republicans could block any such action.... The six states affected by the 1868 law -- North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida -- together have 88 electoral votes, or 33% of the total needed to win the presidency. Trump won all of them in 2020 except for Georgia, which he lost by 12,000 votes." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: This won't happen, but it's a nice pipedream.

Russia/Ukraine. Yuras Karmanau of the AP: "Ukraine said Sunday that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced its government websites and alleged that Russia is engaged in an increasing 'hybrid war' against its neighbor. The statement from the Ministry of Digital Development came a day after Microsoft said dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian government agencies had been infected with destructive malware disguised as ransomware. That disclosure suggested the attention-grabbing defacement attack on official websites last week was a diversion."

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Maureen Dowd of the New York Times blames Joe Biden for, well, everything. MB: It's as if MoDo isn't aware there are three branches of government, sorta like those insurrectionists whose stupidity so surprised Rep. Jamie Raskin (see yesterday's Commentariat). The only thing I would fault Biden for is his optimism. Yet I'm not at all certain optimism is a fault. It is the voters who gave us Mitch McConnell & Ted Cruz who let the President down, not the other way around.

Robert Reich in the Guardian: "Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver's seat.... The tsunami of money now flowing from corporations into the swamp of American politics is larger than ever. And this money -- bankrolling almost all politicians and financing attacks on their opponents -- is undermining American democracy as much as did the 147 seditionist members of Congress. Maybe more. The Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema -- whose vocal opposition to any change in the filibuster is on the verge of dooming voting rights -- received almost $2m in campaign donations in 2021 even though she is not up for re-election until 2024. Most of it came from corporate donors outside Arizona, some of which have a history of donating largely to Republicans. Has the money influenced Sinema? You decide. Besides sandbagging voting rights, she voted down the $15 minimum wage increase, opposed tax increases on corporations and the wealthy and stalled on drug price reform -- policies supported by a majority of Democratic senators as well as a majority of Arizonans." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: The political money game is yet another effect of inequality, and of course there's a chicken-and-egg situation here. When corporations have higher profits, they have more money to spend on the politicians who support measures that help them gain higher profits. Meanwhile, workers have less money to give to politicians, either directly or through unions, who support legislation that improve wages & working conditions.

2020 Presidential Election, Ctd. Morgan Keith of Insider, republished in Yahoo! News: "On Saturday, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon ... claimed that [Donald Trump]'s rally [in Arizona] on Saturday would serve as a precursor to the decertification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election win. 'It's the kickoff of 2022. A huge speech in front of a massive crowd by Donald J. Trump and, of course, they're all melting down about who's on stage with him. They're all people that are going to get to the decertification of the 2020 Biden electors,' Bannon said." Thanks to Forrest M. for the link. See also his commentary below.

The Pandemic, Ctd.

The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Saturday are here.

Australia. Hooroo. John Pye of the AP: Novak Djokovic, "the No. 1-ranked player in men's tennis, had to be deported from Australia after three Federal Court judges decided unanimously Sunday to affirm the immigration minister's right to cancel Djokovic's visa. The ruling was made less than 18 hours before the first Grand Slam matches of 2022 were scheduled to begin." Here's the New York Times' liveblog on the end of the Djokovic affair.

Beyond the Beltway

Paul Rosenberg, in Salon, interviews David Pepper, the author of 'Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call From Behind the Lines, ' which "brings the subject down to earth, connects democratic erosion to corruption and the decline in America's quality of life, and provides a wealth of ideas about how to fight back to protect democracy."

Michigan. Corey Williams of the AP: "Mark Schlissel has been removed as president of the University of Michigan due to an alleged 'inappropriate relationship with a university employee,' the school said Saturday on its website. The removal was effective 'immediately,' the University of Michigan Board of Regents said, adding that members learned on Dec. 8, 2021, about the relationship from an anonymous complaint and that an investigation revealed that 'over the years,' Schlissel used his university email account to 'communicate with that subordinate in a manner inconsistent with the dignity and reputation of the university.'... Schlissel had a base salary of $927,000 a year."

Texas. Christian Aleman of KVUE (Austin, Texas): "The Travis County (Austin) Clerk's Office said that it has rejected about 50% of applications for mail-in ballots due to Senate Bill 1 (SB1), the state's sweeping voting law passed last year. The clerk's office said the applications it has been rejecting have been for the March 1 primary elections. The new law, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in September, requires that applications for mail-in ballots include the applicant's Driver's License number or the last four digits of their Social Security Number.... The clerk's office said it has not received enough information regarding the new online cure process to instruct voters how to cure their applications with the Texas Secretary of State's Office. The office added that is has not received instructions from the State outlining what the office can do to help voters submit a completed application, but is expecting 'more comprehensive guidance' from the secretary of state. Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir is set to hold a news conference the morning on Jan. 18 to discuss details of the application rejections. " ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: If this is what's happening in Travis County, which -- on the whole -- has more liberal, better-educated voters than the average Texas county, the situation is surely worse elsewhere in the state. That is to say, SB1 is working as intended.

Way Beyond

Israel. Bethan McKernan of the Guardian: "The former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly close to reaching a plea bargain in his corruption trial, a development that could mean an unexpectedly swift end to his turbulent political career and once again upend Israeli politics. Israeli media were dominated on Sunday by the news that Netanyahu, the chair of the Likud party and leader of the opposition since being ousted last year from a 12-year-stint in government, has reached advanced talks with the state attorney's office. In the reported agreement, Netanyahu will admit to two counts of breach of trust, resulting in a suspended prison sentence and a few months of prison time that will be converted to community service.... Under a plea deal, Netanyahu could be banned from political life for up to seven years, effectively ending his career." MB: So I guess the "community service" won't include "prime minister."

Russia. Anton Troianovski & David Sanger of the New York Times: Russian President Vladimir "Putin wants to extend Russia's sphere of influence to Eastern Europe and secure written commitments that NATO will never again enlarge. If he is frustrated in reaching that goal, some of his aides suggested on the sidelines of the negotiations last week, then he would pursue Russia's security interests with results that would be felt acutely in Europe and the United States. There were hints, never quite spelled out, that nuclear weapons could be shifted to places -- perhaps not far from the United States coastline -- that would reduce warning times after a launch to as little as five minutes, potentially igniting a confrontation with echoes of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis." ~~~

     ~~~ MB: I could certainly be wrong, but I think that despite Donald Trump's loss in 2020, Putin may anticipate a return of Trump or another autocratic leader (DeSantis?) to the U.S., one who might facilitate (or ignore) Putin's European aggression. At the same time, he may seek autocratic allies in Europe in countries like Poland & Hungary, in the same way Hitler's alliances with Mussolini & Hirohito gave him more confidence for his European aggression. ~~~

     ~~~ Washington Post Editors: "With winter turning Ukraine's flat terrain into a frozen-earth fast track for Russian tanks, the window of opportunity for a diplomatic solution is rapidly closing -- if it were ever really open. The Biden administration was wise to try dialogue, if only to make it clear to the whole world how unappeasable Mr. Putin really is. On the whole, the Biden team has handled the atmospherics skillfully, refusing to yield on core principles such as Ukraine's sovereignty and NATO's freedom to enroll new members, while offering to engage with Moscow on genuine issues such as nuclear and conventional arms control.... Russia's posture toward Ukraine amounts to prohibited conduct under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, which specifically bars the 'threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.'... Raising the potential costs of an invasion to Russia by beefing up Ukraine's capacity to resist it is, at this late date, the best hope to deter Mr. Putin."

News Ledes

Guardian: "A man who was shot dead by FBI officers after taking four people hostage at a Texas synagogue is understood to be British.... In [a] live stream [from inside the synagogue], the hostage-taker was heard demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, who was convicted of trying to kill US military officers while in custody in Afghanistan, a law enforcement official said. Siddiqui is in federal prison in Texas." ~~~

     ~~~ AP Update: "Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called 'an act of terror.' Malik Faisal Akram was shot and killed after the last of the hostages got out at around 9 p.m. Saturday at Congregation Beth Israel near Fort Worth. In a statement, the FBI said there was no indication that anyone else was involved, but it didn't provide a possible motive."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/us/healthcare-workers-vaccine-mandate.html?

The way I read this is that a slim majority of the Justices have tossed a leaky flotation device to the health care workers whom a much larger majority thoughtlessly inundated with their stupidity.

January 15, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterKen Winkes

@Marie

In my failed attempt to be clever I apparently created an impenetrable tangle.

The slim majority (5-4) was the decision allowing healthcare vaccine mandates to stand.

The larger majority (6-3) that you cite made healthcare workers lives more difficult and dangerous.

Another way of putting it (maybe better; maybe not): By switching one vote, the Court decided to allow the bomb squad to wear protective gear when called to defuse the bombs the greater majority of the Court planted.

About the bastids: No misunderstanding there, but it seems Roberts is not wholly comfortable in the role.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterKen Winkes

Ken: Does anyone with half a brain want to spend their lives (professional or otherwise) with inconsiderates and assholes? Imagine having Clarence, Neil, and Sam onboard all day everyday...The Covid remote working probably added a couple years to Roberts life. It is clear the fascists on the SC are perfectly comfortable acting against us and democratic values.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered Commentercitizen625

https://news.yahoo.com/steve-bannon-claims-trump-rally-
025815702.html
Supposedly, trumps Saturday rally in Arizona was meant to encourage
the decertification of Biden's electoral votes, and then on to Ga, Pa,
etc.
Haven't heard how that worked out, but with Biden's win decertified,
what would that have to do with trump? He's been out of office for
a year or so, and lost by millions of votes.
Will these people ever give up and shut up and just go away?

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterForrest Morris

@Forrest Morris: Any day now (possibly Jan. 20!), there's going to be a huge victory parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, and Donald Trump is going to ride into the White House on a white horse golf cart. Every single executive order & every piece of legislation Biden has signed will be automatically null and void. Autocrats don't mess around.

January 16, 2022 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

Golf cart? What, no tank? I thought fascists rode in tanks.

Speaking of golf carts, does Fatty still charge the Secret Service (meaning us) for the fleet of golf carts they need to follow him around every day while he’s…what did they used to call it?…”working hard”, aka smacking a little white ball and chasing it around?

Ever wonder if the Orange Monster watches Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda movie about Hitler at Nuremberg and thinks he missed a trick by not having Wagner played on the sound system as he descended from the clouds, god-like to impress the droolers?

I guess they only needed him to scream about beating up protesters and shooting Hillary to be impressed.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

@Akhilleus: Yeah, okay, a white tank. I was thinking -- wrongly, it turns out -- that when Hitler spoke to crowds, they were lined up in formation. I watched just one short YouTube clip of Hitler, and it showed shots after shots of huge crowds of Germans wildly cheering for him in the streets, at railway stations, at public speeches. It was horrifying.

January 16, 2022 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

White tanks ... perfect for attacking Stalingrad in the snow! What could go wrong?

I am very grateful that I have seen NO clips or reports of Herr DiJiT's bigly rally in AZ. Just the reports of Stevie B's inane prediction of certificanullification. Maybe the news people have at long last wised up to the hustle. Probably not. But maybe.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterPatrick

@Patrick: Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Trump rally made the front page of the New York Times -- before AND after the rally. I just ignored it.

January 16, 2022 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

@Marie: I've seen videos of those stadiums full of hitler fans
cheering and waving white hankies (surrender?). At the time
I thought they were responding to a speech he must have made
promising that when he took over the world, the Germans would
no longer have to eat only cabbage, beets and potatoes every meal.
Think of all those cheeses, meats and wines from Western Europe.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterForrest Morris

Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel counters the WaPo article above. She doesn't have much regard for their stenography.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered Commenterunwashed

Marie: I went back to the NYT, both on desktop and smartphone, and scrolling from top to bottom, no mention of DiJiT's excellent AZ adventure. When I went to the index for "Politics", it was there. So, I had to go look for it.

I assume that my Google guardian angel knows that I don't want to see DiJiT if I don't have to. Yours probably assumes you have a reportorial responsibility to at least look at the wreck.

Anyway, I did read the article, and now I'll never get those minutes back. Same old puked up hairball. At least I didn't have to write that stuff, imagine if you had to because it's your job.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterPatrick

I remember reading an articlelast year about a woman in Kansas that convened a grand jury when the local prosecutors refused to bring rape charges against the man she had accused. Apparently there are six states where a person can do this. I don't think Trump will be in a federal court, but a person could get him in state court if they had the reciepts. Though I think he would get pardoned by any Republican governor.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterRAS

If there was a vaccine to minimize the effects of stupid, how many people would take it?

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered Commenterunwashed

Unwashed,

Fox would scream bloody murder about an anti-stupid vaccine. After all, they’d lose 90% of their audience overnight.

January 16, 2022 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus
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