T.H.A.T.
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Special Note about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

    It seems that back on January 1, 2026, and around January 1, 2026, a lot of news organizations failed purposely and out of laziness to report words spoken by newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a communist, in a public speech or even proclamation.  To right the wrong, I present in this document one of the hideous statements that Zohran Mamdani presented on the day to the public, and the statement shows the evilness of his mind.  Zohran Mamdani stated flatly and directly and clearly--"...We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism....".  The statement can be called a lie, but, to Zohran Mamdani, that is what he wants to do.  That means Zohran Mamdani wants you to become a non-individual--a person not with your own thoughts and goals and aspirations--or to become just another one of the group, under the umbrella of his arms and rules.  Zohran Mamdani does not want you to work on your own behalf to be better in this world and life and be better than what the lowest common denominator is, and he does not want you to gain through time the strength through trial and error and work to be strong enough to stand up to the nonsense that he is.  Zohran Mamdani wants to be your protector in life and provider in life--for his sake and ability to be free to do whatever he wants.  Incidentally, a "collective" (a word often used by communists and like people) is nothing more than a collection of people who are supposed to be the same and alike and even be passive to a leader.  In life, you have to gain stamina through your actions of doing things, and a person's being a individual and working for the self to make things and do things increases the strength of the person, but a person's relying on, for example, a government leader does not develop strength in the person over time.  It must be pointed out the "rugged individualism" is an American term used to describe persons with the ability to do for the self, and, certainly, when Zohran Mamdani used the term, Zohran Mamdani was consciously working to put down and discredit the United States of America and Americanism and anyone who would not follow his ways of life for the masses or his "collective."
 


- - - T.H.A.T., Edition No. 266 - - -

    I have paid attention to television since at least 1960 as a watcher and since 1972 as a historian.  Over the years, people have talked about how great it would be to have, for instance, 500 channels.  Well, that time is here, but it is not so great.  Although CATV began in about 1950, it was not till about the 1970s when true "cable" television began to take viewers away from local stations and the broadcast networks, and then satellite-delivered television showed up with "cable"-type channels and other channels.  Between the 1940s and the early 1980s, television-show makers made nice things as a rule and fun things as a rule, and then the generation of makers when from the older people to the younger, and the younger did not want to make nice and such.  In the 1980s and 1990s, television-show makers wanted to make more stuff like that which could be offered on cable, such as more sex-related stuff, and the younger generation did not have the capacity to make nice things--they lacked the mind-set.  Meanwhile, by the way, I was seeing that PBS was giving up on the average nice American and making more program that would be liked by socialists and such.  Since the start of the century (roughly), local stations it seems have been lacking more and more each year the money to pay for new syndicated programming [Note: Look at the type of commercials that are on television stations in the Detroit area today--the commercials are not often about grocery stores and such places and are often about slip-and-fall lawyers and betting entities, especially in newscasts).  Incidentally, the rise of ugly syndicated shows, such as The Jerry Springer Show, in the last two decades or so of the last century began to set to tone and change the tone for television stations--stations were taking on an ugly tone.  Since the start of the century, network news shows and late-night talk shows and prime-time shows have become more and more unlikeable and ugly, and political crap, such as from Stephen Colbert of CBS-TV, has helped push viewers to other sources of video stuff.  In the first two decades of this century, the amount of new syndicated programming has gone down, as I have noted in the past, and the heyday of syndication is over; for one, subchannel networks (though aired by television stations) are taking away or duplicating showings of what little is offered by holders of program libraries.  So far in 2026, a number of announcements have been made about syndicated programs in the marketplace.  Maybe you have heard that The Kelly Clarkson Show is ending soon, and NBCU (a distributor) is killing off Access Hollywood, Karmano, and The Steve Wilkos Show in first-run syndication at the end of the 2025-2026 season.  Look for more local filler on your local stations, such as more fluff local talk-like-shows, such as more things (like what is in Detroit) like Good Day Detroit (which got expanded earlier this year by WJBK-TV).  Yes, streaming of new product or repeated new product also seen on a broadcast network has been taking away viewers from local television stations.  Local television is going to get more useless every day, because the second generation of program makers and third generation and fourth generation have slowly done less and made less that is likeable, and they have killed television really, but, in the mean time, the television audience has a whole as become dumber and dumber, accepting ugly television as worthwhile, as it has with pop music (which has become junkier continually since the 1970s), and, basically, makers have abandoned "showmanship" for junkier stuff, and so-called television reviewer gave up on putting down the ever expanding ugliness.  So there are a bunch networks and such, and there is so much of the same thing--the same few things.  You may have 500 channels, but you have gained little since the 1970s, and, in addition, those that might have libraries of product are keeping that product locked up.

    At least you have another edition of Television History and Trivia.

    I do not use modern books to learn about television history; I look at old newspaper and magazine articles, and I look at television-program listings, and I look at YouTube for videos of old shows, such as those of the 1950s and 1960s.  When I do researching, I come across unexpected things, which you will never see, given you will not look for what I look for and then stumble on the unexpected stuff.  By the way, you often cannot call up what you do not know through Internet searches, and, by the way, the YouTube search feature if very weak, as I have tested in relation to my videos on YouTube.  In the edition of Broadcasting (Broadcasting/Telecasting) for May 29, 1950, I came across an article called "Real Takes: George Walter Tressel" in a recent search.  George Tressel was involved with, for instance, making puppet shows for television--such as at WBKB-TV in Chicago, Illinois--in the 1940s, such as his first in 1944, a presentation of A Christmas Carol.  In the 1940s, he was the inventor of a television system, which will go undiscussed here, called "Projectal."  In the article, I found a paragraph that was humorous, and I pass it along to you--"Television's rapid growth is traced easily by George Tressel.  When he started in the medium, lights were so hot that paint on the puppets' faces melted.  Now the casualty rate is zero."  Oh, the article noted that George Tressel recently competed a 15-minute series to be run over 13 weeks called a "burlesque western" that has 10 puppets, but the article did not report the name of the series, so I have no idea what the series is at the moment.  That "burlesque" term did not and does not refer to some nudie-type theme, as it probably would today.

    Okay, on Friday, May 22, 2026, the last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert showed up on CBS-TV, beginning at about 11:35 p.m..  I report that, over the previous weeks, the show--not surprising to me--had a parade of guests who were and are big supporters of communists and socialists and like people, and one guest was the ugly Robert De Niro.  The final episode of a series was a surprise to me, not that it did not run through a whole bunch of people who are big on pushing, for example, socialism on the country.  The episode had no females as guests.  However, it had a few females as secondary thought, such as a gal named Tig Notard, and I report that Tig Notard is a lesbian.  She was not a guest proper, as were not Tim Meadows, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Andy Cohen.  To me, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will never be missed--it was, in essence, rotten and ugly television.

    The airtime that has been used by Stephen Colbert for his The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for years on CBS-TV now has a new owner, and it is an odd piece of television--not that the replacement show is odd.  The contract arrangement is odd.  It reminds me of, for instance, how some shows on the old WGPR-TV (especially from 1975 to 1995) in Detroit and WHPS-TV (once called WHPR-TV) were and are set up for broadcast in a similar way.  Yes, it is odd.  The actual replacement show has been on the air on CBS-TV latenight for a little while, and that show is Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, and I note that Byron Allen since the 1970s evolved into a big-deal syndicator of half-hour shows.  The new CBS thing has been set up so that, in essence, Byron Allen buys the airtime from CBS-TV, and then Byron Allen sells many of the commercials that air in the program.  By the way, in the case of syndication, there have been four main ways in which a program distributor and a television-program buyer at a television station can come to an agreement about a show.  The show can been sold to the station for cash, and the station then comes up with commercials or public-service announcements or whatever to fill the commercial slots.  A show can be sold for cash and barter; in this case, the distributor gets some cash and gets some airtime space.  The third way in which a show can be bought is through "barter" only; in this case, no cash is involved, and the station gets some airtime for commercials and the distributor gets some airtime.  The fourth way in which a show can get on the air in relation to syndication has the idea that the show--having no commercial time--is simply given to the station to air, such as a documentary from some entity, maybe a government entity.  So the Byron Allen thing is odd, given the focus is on a broadcast network and not a television station.  And I note that the program that follows Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen (which must be a relatively inexpensive show to make, given a small bunch of comics just sit around and flap gums and probably only get scale (payment)) is Funny You Should Ask, which is also tied to Byron Allen.  Hey, get this!  Is Byron Allen working to take over a broadcast network or get control of a broadcast network?  I have reported in the past that Byron Allen supports bad politics.  Oh, let me get back to--at least--WGPR-TV.  Years ago, for example, a person could buy a block of time from WGPR-TV and do a show, and that person could sell all the commercials for the show, selling commercial airtime to sponsors, and, for instance, Fred Merle did that with his Auction Movie thing for a bunch of years.

        By the way, I have heard some people hint that replacing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen will be an improvement, given it will not be so political on CBS-TV in late night, but I report that Byron Allen is another man with a rotten and ugly mind, and I expect guests on his show to provide more attacks on anti-socialists and anti-communists and like people, and there will be a lot of black gutter people doing it.

 Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned).  I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph.  If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you.  In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now.   [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
    [Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness.  On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Chris Christie pushed out crap.  For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it.  Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election.  And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident.  He wanted the election to be overturned....".  That is bullshit!]

    Hey, let me throw in some commentary, and I present it, because in recent months or weeks or days, I have been exposed to stuff about Bob Barker and The Price is Right and lawsuits tied to Bob Barker and the series and lawsuits tied to some of the models, and to me, I think it is all overblown, especially since, in the case of the lawsuits, the stuff was happening in the rise of modern feminism and the idea of "toxic" environments (related to men).  A model (especially a gal model) is not a high-thought job, and, in the case of models, the life span of work can be well shortened by how a person ages and the like.  For instance, bikini models should well know that their years of work will usually not be long because there are young gals showing up to replace them all the time, and, over time, tastes change, and producers of, for example, entertainment things, like television shows, are always looking to keep things fresh, working to draw on new images and shapes, such as in breasts and whatever.  Since 1972, The Price is Right (and I am only talking about the CBS-TV-used weekday show) has had dozens and dozens of models.  When the series started out, it only had two--Anitra Ford and Janice Pennington; by the way, the show started out as The New Price is Right, the title to which was shortened in June 1973, when the "New" was dropped.  For much of the run in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the main models were Janice Pennington, Dian Parkinson, and Holly Hallstrom.  Holly came off as the somewhat ditzy girl next door, and Dian came off as the somewhat shallow (model type) voluptuous one, and Janice came off as the somewhat sophisticated gal.  Incidentally, for a while in about 1984, Holly left the show, working to try to do more acting stuff, and it was only a short escape, and, for one, a gal named Pat worked the show.  Katheen Bradley showed up in late 1990s, which resulted in a four-gal model team.  Bob Barker's wife (Dorothy Jo) died in 1981, and after that, it seems Bob Barker and Dian Parkinson had a fling, and it would lead to a lawsuit (sort of).  Holly Hallstrom was pushed off the show (after nearly two decades), and that event would lead to several lawsuits about hiring and firing.  By the way, to me--The makers of shows have the ultimate say about hiring and firing, but, in the late 1900s, the country seemed to get on the idea that the makers could not hire and fire at will (leaving the decision to courts or whatever), though the subject is about image and though models know things change, especially if a different producer or production company makes to a review of the bottom line (related to money) and the bottoms of models.  Recently, I went looking to see how the series aired over the years in Detroit, and, in Detroit, the schedule was sometimes different in the early years than what the regular feed times from CBS-TV were, and I went looking to see what models have been on the daytime series.  I probably do not have a complete list.  Between the 1990s and today, there have been a lot of gals and a few guys who have acted as models on the series, and, to me, the over-all look of the gal models has been a little too non-diverse.  Whether white or black or whatever in relation to gals, the gals just seem to be cookie-cutter standard models--cliché model types.  At least in the case of the Parkinson-Hallstrom-Pennington years, there was a clear distinction in the three styles (the three gals).  Here are other gals and guys who have been models on The Price is Right--Chantel Dubay, Gena Lee Nolan, Nikki Ziering, Heather Kozar, Claudia Jordan, Rachel Reynolds, Gwendolyn Osborne, Rob Wilson, Roberta Pribonic, Amanda Salas, Alexis Grubel, Devin Ford, James O'Hallordan, Manuela Arbelaez, Amber Lancaster, Rachel Reynolds, Brandi Cochran, Debbie James, Annette Marroquin, Theresa Ring, Michel Smith, Kyle Aletter, Irene Ferris, Mindy Alvarez, Tamiko Nash, Ashley Guerrero, Stephanie Leigh Schlund, Cynthia Brimhall, Cindy Margolis, Lisa Gleave, Jennifer England, Pat Gilbert, Chanel Lee, and Tami Donaldson.  In the early 2000s, the producers had on-air tryouts for models and had models work in rotation or had models work in several spurts, and I guess that was okay for the producers since all the models just seemed to be easily replaceable, having the same style--being clichés of the model.  I do note that Rachel Reynolds has had the longest tenure in the 2000s, and I note that so many others only have worked a few days or a few weeks.  I wonder--because of the lawsuits related to Bob Barker--the producers were scared of having models stay a long time, persons who might get big heads after a while and make a fuss upon being let go.  Recently, I came across articles and videos related to former models or staffers (such as producers) of the series, and people noted that the Bob Barker/Dian Parkinson thing was known and involved each party consenting.  But breakups happen!  So goes mating!  Emotions get flaky sometimes, if not often.  I have to report that I have seen Holly Hallstrom on 1970s edition of Match Game (on Buzzr), and Holly Hallstrom does come off in the shows as a bit shallow and dingy and a bit jackie-ass at times, and, I have seen Bob Barker on Match Game of the 1970s, and Bob sometimes comes off as a bit over-ego in nature.  I simply make a note of that for you.  I know not if there was a really big "toxic" atmosphere for the behind-the-scenes area of The Price is Right, but it seems very likely, for instance, gals were jealous of other gals and Bob was affected by all the so-called female hormones flying around each day and romances could have come and gone in close quarters.  So goes mating in the entertainment industry!  In the end, I think much of the lawsuit stuff was and is over-blown and exaggerated.  [Note: What is that theme about a "woman scorned"?]

    Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press.  One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link.  Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link.  And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link.  And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).

    Regularly, I present a recommendation in Television History and Trivia documents about movie for you to see, and, in this edition, I will again, but, first, I am going to present a television series or at least one episode of it to see through YouTube.  To get to the recommendation, I have to pass along some background information about television, given you may be a novice.  On June 8, 1948, a television series began to run on a weekly basis--at least on the East Coast of the country, where network connections existed so that live programming could be seen at the same time by a group of television stations.  The program was offered up by NBC-TV, and the program was called Texaco Star Theater, which took the title from an already existing network radio program.  The television program ran one hour, beginning at 8:00 p.m. (eastern time), and the host was Milton Berle.  Maybe, you are already aware of Milton Berle and aware Milton Berle became famous by hosting the television version of Texaco Star Theater usually.  Actually, Milton Berle hosted the first four episodes, and then others persons did some shows as host (or emcee), and some of them were Morey Amsterdam (who later would be a regular performer on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s) and Jack Carter.  My recent tracking work on the series led me to learn that some of the other emcees were William Gaxton and Peter Donald, both of whom I know little about, and you most likely have never heard their names.  It was on September 21, 1948, when Milton Berle became the regular emcee, and he hosted the show till it went off the air, and during the time it was on the air, the series was called Texaco Star Theater, The Buick Berle Show, and The Milton Berle Show.  By the way, a few episodes of the series--on kinescope--can be found on YouTube.  In essence, the series was like a take-off of what might be presented on a stage (in an auditorium or a theater) as a vaudeville show and maybe even a live circus.  In the early days, there were often few stage things, such as detailed sets, an example of which might be a bus station.  Incidentally, in the early days of television, the person in charge of designing sets for a television show was often said to have done the "settings" (as seen in credits).  It was commonplace for early variety shows to be done in theaters--on the stage--and it was commonplace to have much of the show done before a curtain.  Milton Berle's series had all types of acts, from dancers to singers and from comedians to jugglers.  In the 1940s and 1950s, live weekly series usually ran from the fall of one year to the late spring on the next year, and 39 episodes were the usual number of episodes presented--with no reruns.  In the summer, the stars of a series would take time off for vacations, and the summer time slots were filled with summer-replacement shows.  For the summer of 1949, the Texaco Star Theater was off the air for a while, and taking the time slot was Fireball Fun-for-All, which was hosted by then-famous guys known as Olsen and Johnson (John Olsen and Harold Johnson), and they were famous for having done, for instance, radio work and vaudeville work for years.  On October 27, 1949, the program had such additional performers as Marty May, J.C. Olsen, June Johnson, and Bill Hayes.  From 1970 to 2024, Bill Hayes did several stints as Doug Williams on the NBC-TV soap opera called Days of Our Lives; that is, about twenty years after being on live television in New York City while doing an NBC-TV show, Bill Hayes finally became really, really famous.  For fun, I am urging you to see the October 27, 1949, episode of Fireball Fun-for-All to see if you can spot Bill Hayes.  I will not tell you which person on the show is Bill Hayes.  You might have to look at photographs on the Internet and do some comparison work to come up with an answer for yourself.  You will notice how the episode of the series does look like a stage show or a circus show.  By the way, originally, Texaco Star Theater was done in studio 8-G of Radio City in New York City, but, in 1949, the show moved to the International Theater, New York City, which had more room for Milton Berle and all his associates and guests.

    In my television files (which exist as a collection of index cards), I have information about when movies were shown on television stations in the Detroit area (listing information from such-and-such a date to another date) so that a person can see, for example, what a particular umbrella title for movies had during the run, and an example of an umbrella title for movies is Million Dollar Movie.  When I wrote this section, I was far way from my files, so to get a movie to talk about in this edition of Television History and Trivia under the feature called Looking at the Movies, I went to a database for newspapers, and, at random, I picked a day on which CKLW-TV was on the air (in the early days of the television station).  The day was Tuesday, February 5, 1957.  I discovered that CKLW-TV aired a movie on that day starting at 6:00 p.m.  The umbrella title for the presentation was Family Theatre, and the movie that was shown was indeed a "family friendly" film.  The film was Springtime in the Sierras (copyright 1947), and it was made in "Trucolor."  Since the movie was made originally on color film, a person can determine that the movie was a higher-quality western.  In the 1940s, a lot of movies were B-pictures, and they were usually on black-and-white film and ran about one hour.  The 1947 movie considered was shown on CKLW-TV during a two-hour block of time.  The main performer was the then famous Roy Rogers, and he appeared with his famous horse called Trigger ("The Smartest Horse in the Movies").  And some other performers were Andy Devine, Jane Frazee, Hank Patterson (who, years later, would be a regular performer on the television series called Green Acres, which is seen on television today), Roy Barcroft, and Chester Conklin (who had appeared in the days of silent films).  Go to YouTube and see a western of years ago that was no ugly stuff, and have fun with this movie that I present under Looking at the Movies.  I add that the movie can be found in color form and black-and-white form on YouTube, and, in 1957, television viewers saw the movie as a black-and-white presentation, since CKLW-TV was not yet regularly broadcasting in color.

    Hey, I have reported that I usually watch subchannel networks with fun and nice programming.  On Sunday, May 24, 2026, at 1:00 p.m., I was watching an old episode of To Tell the Truth on Buzzr, and the episode was a show from the 1974-1975 season of the series (while in syndication).  The host was Garry Moore, and the panel was made up of Peggy Cass, Nipsey Russell, Bill Cullen, and Kitty Carlisle.  The first subject that was under consideration was Harvey Schlossberg, and the second subject was Grace Sagona.  I was surprised when no member of the panel voted for contestant number one in the "Grace Sagona" game (who was the real Grace Sagona).  Grace Sagona was said to have been the host of the first children's program on television, and that was in 1945, and it was done at the Wanamaker Building in New York City and was on WABD-TV (which was related to DuMont Laboratories).  The 1945 series was called Aunt Grace's Birthday Party.  Well, 1945 was some 30 years ago (based on when the episode of To Tell the Truth was made, copyright 1974).  That means the true Grace Sagona had to be at least 50 years of age in about 1974, and contestant number two and contestant number three did not seem to fit the bill.   I guessed right.  I now report that Grace Sagona was really Grace Goie in 1945, and she was about 25 years of age in 1945; Grace Goie would marry a guy named Stu Sagona and would die in 2012 while in Florida, where, for one, she had been a teacher.

   Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.

 
Stay well!

Vic
 

    P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link.  I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man."  For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President.  I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.  Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.
 
 

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Date published: June 10, 2026

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