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MSW Media hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, June 23, 2025. Today. Today, the U.S. dropped twelve 30,000 pound bombs on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing Trump to maintain control of the National Guard. In California, a judge has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil. A federal appeals court rules Louisiana's law requiring schools display the Ten Commandments as unconstitutional. The Senate parliamentarian says the court bond provision in the billionaire bailout bill is against the rules. ICE agents scatter in San Diego during a Catholic bishop's visit to immigration court. The Dodgers are giving a million dollars to immigrant families in Los Angeles. And a Minnesota gender affirming care law is left untouched by the Supreme Court's recent ruling. I'm your host Alison Gill. Hey everybody, it's Monday and we're at war. We went to sleep on Friday. We had our weekend. We come back Monday and we have bombed Iran. This is something I feared since April, well, decades. But when they started moving B2 bombers to Diego Garcia in April, my ears perked up. Trump has caved to Netanyahu and has done what no president since 1982 would do, which is drop 30,000 pound bombs are bunker busters on Iran's nuclear sites. I discussed the implications with Wajahat Ali in the latest post you'll see on my substack@muellershiro.com. you may want to listen to that conversation. I go in to in depth with with Waj on a lot of these issues and a lot of what we saw in 2003 and a lot of what we saw in 1990. We get into some details also in the hot notes here. But I think it's important to note that our infrastructure to deal with any retaliation by Iran has been dismantled by Donald Trump. Our Department of Homeland Security is laser focused on kidnapping and disappearing our neighbors in a mass deportation effort. One third of the FBI's work has been tasked with the same. Our Joint Terrorism Task Force has been dismantled to also help with immigration along with cisa, cybersecurity and the National Security Council. The DNI Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, even though she's a Russian asset, has been sidelined. Our counterterrorism unit is headed by a 22 year old kid named Fugate. And we have abandoned our allies and NATO and our allied intelligence agencies that might be willing to help us. They're not there anymore. Also around Sunday at lunchtime, Trump called for a regime change in Iran on Truth Social with his new Acronym miga Make Iran Great again. We all know how regime changes go. I don't think we need to discuss that history. I think we all know it. But with that in mind, let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. First up from the Times. After overnight strikes on Iran, President Trump on Sunday declared the operation a, quote, success and said that Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities were, quote, completely and totally obliterated. But his early public pronouncements contrast with more cautious assessments by the US And Israeli militaries. The Israeli military in initial analysis believes the heavily fortified nuclear site at Fordo has sustained serious damage from the American strike on Sunday, but has not been completely destroyed. And that's according to two Israeli officials with knowledge. The official also said it appeared Iran had moved equipment, including the uranium, from that site. We talked about that last night on my substack. A senior US Official similarly acknowledged that the American strike on Fordo did not destroy the heavily fortified facility, but said the strike had severely damaged it, taking it, quote, off the table for a limited amount of time. Yes, the person noted that even 12 bunker busting bombs could not destroy that site. The damage assessments by Israel and the United States are ongoing and they have not made any final conclusions, although Trump has. He's hung the mission accomplished banner. Next up from Politico. Iran's parliament endorsed a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz. Something else I was concerned about, but not just me, everybody that this is what they want were going to do. That's a critical global transit choke point and they want to do that in response to the overnight airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites. That's according to Iranian state media. Iran's state owned broadcaster Press TV reported that the legislature had reached a consensus to close the strait. The final decision rests with Iran's Supreme National Security Council and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Now the channel, which operates in Iran and Oman, is a vital gateway for petroleum shipments from Persian Gulf countries. The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most critical oil choke points. About 30% of global seaborne oil shipments pass through this narrow passage, a vulnerability that has become a growing concern amid spiraling regional tensions. Now, I think Dow futures have slid 200 points or so. In response to this, the possible closing of the strait. AOC has called for Trump's impeachment over his unilateral strikes. Bereft of the constitutional requirement to consult Congress. Mark Warner has called for the President to come before Congress and articulate strategic objectives. There's not much Dems in Congress can do besides call for things. As we know, they can hold hearings, but they're not official hearings. We've seen a couple being held. And dhs, by the way, has issued a heightened terror alert for Americans as a result of the strikes on Iran. Makes me wonder if they'll bring back the, you know, the, the heightened terror alert system. Although it does closely resemble a rainbow. Maybe they'll just make it shades of gray so it's not woke the peacetime president. Right. Donald Trump has not only failed to end two wars, he's gotten us into a third. And like I said, the sirens of history are singing. Wars in the Middle east are easy to start and they're hard to end. So we will keep you posted as this continues to unfold. In other news, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel, comprised of two Trump judges and one Biden judge, unanimously decided that Trump does have the power to deploy the National Guard on without consulting the governor of California. But they did not endorse Trump's view that he has the ability to do so without review of the courts. They say no, it's reviewable by the courts. The only thing I don't understand is that if his decisions are reviewable, how this instance is not one that requires the Guard to have been given back to the governor. What does Trump have to do with the National Guard? What does he have to do in order to get a court to not only review it like they have, but to stop it? What, what crosses the line if this does not? That's what I don't, that's what I'm not understanding. And it's not really explained. They try to explain it, but say that what's going on on the ground in Los Angeles could require National Guard. And that's up to Trump. Now, there was a hearing back in the lower court with Judge Breyer, that's the original district judge that ruled that Trump's deployment was wrong and gave control of the Guard back to Gavin Newsom. But that the judge, Judge Breyer asked for briefs from both parties, which are due today, Monday, explaining how he might have jurisdiction to hear an amended complaint that includes arguments that Trump violated the Posse Comitatus act, something that was not argued in the original case. So we'll keep you posted on that. So they're taking another swing at it. We'll see. Now in another court on the other side of the country, Mahmoud Khalil, the first pro Palestinian campus protester detained by the Trump administration, was released on bail on Friday, bringing to an end his months long imprisonment. This is according to the New York Times. Mr. Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and legal permanent US residential, had been held for 104 days watching as other students targeted by the administration won favorable rulings and were released on bail. He was denied the opportunity to be present when his wife gave birth to their son in April and he missed his own graduation from Columbia. But his lawyer slowly chipped away at the government's case and on Friday they convinced a judge, Michael E. Farbears, a federal district court in Newark, to release Mr. Khalil on Bailey, persuading him that there was reason to believe the Trump administration was retaliating against Mr. Khalil for his role in demonstrations on Columbia's Manhattan campus, thereby violating his First Amendment rights. Toward the end of the two hour hearing, Judge Farbear said there was at least something to the argument that there had been an effort to use the immigration charge to punish Mr. Kalil, quote, and of course that would be unconstitutional, he added. Now Mr. Khalil walked out of the detention center in Gina, Louisiana shortly before 7pm local time Friday at asked what he would do first when he returned home, he said, just hug my wife and son. He went on to say, no one is illegal, no human is illegal. Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try. And from the Washington Post in a court down south, federal appeals court on Friday blocked a Louisiana law requiring public school districts to display the Ten Commandments in all the classrooms, calling it unconstitutional and setting up a possible supreme court battle. The three judge panel on the very conservative U.S. court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit wrote in its ruling that if the law were allowed to stand, quote, impressionable students will confront a display of the Ten Commandments for nearly every hour of every school day in their public school education in the course of their regular activities, quote, we are grateful for this decision which honors the religious diversity and religious freedom rights of public school families across Louisiana. That's Reverend Darcy Roque, who sued to block the statute with her husband Adrian Van Young and other plaintiffs. That's what she said in a statement on Friday and went on to say, as an interfaith family, we believe that our children should receive their religious education at home and within our faith communities, not from government officials. And that that blows my mind. The Republicans want to teach this stuff in private school, right? But have you homeschool your public school kids so they want reading, writing, arithmetic taught at home and religion taught in schools instead of the other way around. It's mind boggling. We'll keep an eye on the appeal. By the way, there will, I'm sure, be an appeal to the Supreme Court. We'll keep an eye on that for you. But the fifth Circuit kind of surprised. And some more good news, at least for now, from Huffington Post. A provision in the Republicans tax spending bill that would make it nearly impossible for anyone to sue the Trump administration for breaking laws is on track to be stripped from the bill after the Senate parliamentarian said violates the chamber's rules. This provision, which is in Senate Republicans version of the billionaire bailout bill, would require anyone seeking an emergency court order, meaning a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction against the federal government to first post a bond that covers all the costs and damages that would be sustained to the federal government. It used to be you have to post a bond. It's up to the judge. And so judges would always say $0. Then the language was, you have to post a bond. It can't be $0. And so judges like Boasberg started imposing a $1 bond, which I predicted they would do. And then after that they rewrote it and said, no, it has to be, it has to cover the costs of the government. You know, at the market rate, reasonable cost, which is could be millions of dollars. Now judges grant emergency orders to temporarily halt actions like deportations, bans on drilling and stuff like that while a case is being decided. They typically waive bond, like I said, in public interest cases. But under the Senate Republicans bill, public interest groups or even individual plaintiffs would have to cough up millions, if not billions of dollars in order to seek an emergency court order against the Trump administration, money they definitely don't have. I mean, imagine telling someone that in order to get a restraining order against an abusive spouse, you would have to put up the money that it could cost your spouse, your abuser, if they potentially win. So you have to put that bond up first. That means that in order to get a restraining order against an abusive spouse, not only would you have to take time off work and go to court and try to find a lawyer to help you, you'd have to put up the money it would cost your abusive spouse. It would make it impossible for most people to be able to get that restraining order. So in short, it would allow Trump to serve as a king, free to ignore the courts amid his lawlessness. Senate parliamentarian is the chamber's nonpartisan adviser on Senate rules. They determined Saturday she did that this provision is not related to budget matters, so it can't be in a budget reconciliation bill. Republicans are using a process called budget reconciliation, as you know, to expedite passage of their tax bill, which allows them to advance it with 51 votes instead of 60. But again, this process is only for budget related bills. So any language in the bill that the parliamentarian flags is unrelated to budgets is subject to 60 votes. When Democrats used budget reconciliation to pass some laws, they wanted to put voting rights in there. They wanted to put things that aren't budget related in there, and they were told they couldn't do it. That you need, you have to put, make that a different law. You need 60 votes. Filibuster, you got to go around the filibuster for that kind of thing. It's possible that the Senate Majority leader, John Thune, could choose to ignore the parliamentarians ruling and not allow Democrats the 51 vote threshold to take this language out of the bill. But that would be a major departure from the Senate's long history of abiding by the chamber's rule enforcer, the parliamentarian. I can't see why they would follow the rules here. It won't be clear what Thune's next step is until the bill hits the Senate floor, but we'll let you know what he does. He claims to be somebody who wants to stick to the rules and listen to the parliamentarian, which is why I'm glad he is the Senate majority leader and not Tommy Tuberville, for example. But is he going to cave, too? We'll find out. Also from the Times of San Diego, eight immigration courtrooms line the fourth floor hallway of the downtown Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building. On the wall, boot prints of ICE agents. But on World Refugee Day, masked immigration agents weren't leaning against the off white walls waiting to grab people. They scattered. Friday after seeing a clergy delegation led by bishop elect Michael Pham quote, like the story of Moses and Exodus, the Red Sea parted. That's what an observer, Scott Reed of the Immigrant Aiding San Diego Organization Project, said. Another person said, we've never seen the hallways clear out so quickly. The result? Nobody was detained as immigration lawyers said it would happen. Bishop Pham, himself a Vietnamese refugee as a child, said ICE agents were standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually, the agents kind of scattered and went away. No wonder people come in fear. Pham continued the mission of his predecessor, Cardinal Robert McElroy, also an outspoken advocate for immigrants, before leaving to be Archbishop of Washington, D.C. now there could be plans in the works for the church to do this everywhere. Show up in your collar, in your bishop garb to protect these immigrants. They ran away. The ICE agents ran away. Next up from KABC in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Friday that the organization will donate a million dollars to families impacted by recent immigration raids. Quote in partnership with the city of Los Angeles, the dodgers have committed $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigran impacted by recent events in the region. Additional community efforts to be announced in the coming days. Good. I hope you add $50 million to that amount. That's what the team announced on on Twitter and I, I pushed them to to give more money but I thank them for their million dollars. The announcement comes after growing pressure from community groups for the Dodgers to be more vocal about their support for immigrant communities. Quote what's happening in Los Angeles has reverberated among thousands upon thousands of people. And we've heard the calls for us to take a leading role on behalf of those affected. That's and CEO Stan Kasten went on to say, we believe that by committing resources and taking action, we will continue to support and uplift the communities of greater Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass praised the Dodgers in the team's news release. She said, I want to thank the Dodgers for leading with this action to support the immigrant community of Los Angeles. These last weeks have seen shock waves of fear rippling through every neighborhood and have had a direct impact on our economy. My message to all Angelenos is clear. We will stick together during this time and we will not turn our backs on one another. That's what makes this the greatest city in the world. Next up from MPR. The U.S. supreme Court ruled, as we know, to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for transgender adolescents under the age of 18. But the ruling does not have an impact on Minnesota law. Gender affirming care remains legal and protected in the state. In that 6:3 decision issued in the United States vs. Scarmetti, the court's conservative majority I don't think I would use the word conservative, but the court's conservative majority concluded that Tennessee law does not violate equal protection principles allowing states to regulate gender affirming medical care for transgender minors. Brittany Stewart, senior staff attorney at Gender justice, said that while this ruling does not affect Minnesota law now, it could influence federal policy in the future. Quote it leaves this decision up to the states like Minnesota and does not change our law immediately, she said. So states rights when they want it and not when they don't. Everybody. The good trouble section is going to be in the good news section today. So we'll get right to that after this break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Thanks to Daily look, the number one personal styling service for women for sponsoring us. Make sure you use my promo code, Daily Beans. All one word so they know I sent you. And go to dailylook.com for 50% off. Between work, travel and everything else life throws at me, shopping for clothes is so far down at the bottom of the list, it seems to, like, just take up too much time. So this season I decided it was time to refresh. 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You'll be glad you did. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news? Everyone? Then good news, everyone. Good news. Good news. And if you have any good news stories at all, please send them to us. We need them. Any good news? Any corrections that you have, especially pronunciation corrections. If you have a shout out, you want to send to a loved one or yourself, maybe a small business in your area or let us know what you're making and creating what your small business is. We would love to hear about that. Any shout out to a government program that you love that's helped you or a loved one or somebody you know in your community, anything like that. Maybe some great activism that's happening. Send us your photos and your stories about the no Kings marches that you went to or that you saw or heard about any of your favorite signs. We would love to see that. 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Here's another Good Trouble idea. The Angry Yam will be giving opening remarks at the America 250 celebration, A New Era of American Greatness on July 3rd. Tickets are available to reserve now. Here's a link. We'll have a link in the show notes. You know what to do from my pod pet, Tara. Here's a combination protest slash bird watching photo from our no Kings rally in Palatine, Illinois on June 14th. Thanks for all you do to keep us sane and laughing during these crazy times. This is wonderful. It is a Trump chicken balloon flipping the bird. This is fantastic, Katie. Thank you so much. Yeah, so go reserve your tickets and don't show up to the new era of American greatness. Trump remarks on July 3rd. We'll have a link in the show notes and we appreciate you. Thanks for that good trouble. Next up from Max pronouns, he and him hello beantastic you thank leguminaceous queens. First of all, thank you so much to the whole MSW family and the Leguminati, you're all just fucking awesome. And the turnout at the no Kings rallies has begun to kindle hope in my heart that the autocratic period of the US may be coming to an end soon. This is in response to the listener who asked for cancer survivor stories. It's a bit long, so bear with me. Right after Christmas 2021, my mom started having digestive issues. At first, doctors checked for gallbladder stones but found nothing. So they ordered an MRI, which in February of 2022 revealed a tumor on her pancreas that was terrifying. Pancreatic cancer is notoriously brutal and survival odds are very low. The months that followed were filled with uncertainty and dread. And the worst part, waiting for test results and being stuck in a different country during a global pandemic made it even harder for me to cope with the helplessness. By the end of March 2022, she had surgery. I've included a schematic of the procedure, so trigger warning. It went really well. Then came another round of agonizing, waiting for biopsy results. Eventually we were told it was cancer. But the tumor hadn't spread. Surgeons had already removed many nearby lymph nodes as a precaution. That small mercy gave us hope. Honestly, those gallbladder like symptoms may have saved her life. That and the fact that she was in great shape for her 70 years. Fit, active and resilient. Once she'd been healed from surgery, she started chemo. 12 rounds over six months. And let me tell you, chemo is fucking tough. But she powered through it. After the six month test came back clear cancer free. Oh, nice. Two years later, they even took her off the high risk follow up list because as the doctors put it, if you make it past these two years, you'll probably not die of this cancer. As brutal as those months were, there were bright spots. Like my mother's amazing husband, whom she shares a deep spiritual bond with. Together they found renewed strength in their faith, A faith that still carries them today. And meditation helped them a lot in times of distress. Brother and his family lived just around the corner, so they were always nearby when help was needed. Digital check ins held us all together despite the distance. And as a family, we grew tighter than ever. Oh, and the Danish healthcare system? Fan fucking tastic. It's single payer, state owned and comes without co pays or deductibles. So we only had to fight the cancer and not the bills. During those long, awful stretches of waiting, I also found comfort in an online form for relatives of cancer patients. Total strangers offering fierce support. So this is a shout out to my incredible mom and to the Danish healthcare system that helped her kick cancer's ass. From that moment on, all the additional time we have together is a gift. As Podpet Terrif, I give you Freya the whippet puppy. She's four months old. Oh, four months old. She's pretty adorable. Thanks again for all you do, Max. Thank you, Max, so much for that cancer survivor story. Really appreciate it. If you have one you want to send to us, you can do so dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. Next up from Jeanette Pronoun. She and her hi amazing fam. I heard Friday's message from the listener who just had a mastectomy and I'm here to say you can do this. People do recover from cancer. I am one of them. I was diagnosed with bilateral stage 3 triple negative breast cancer in 2019 after a totally normal mammogram. The year before, I had two rounds of chemo, full mastectomy and 30 doses of radiation. Here I am more than five years later with no evidence of disease. Breast cancer treatment has become so effective in recent years and more people are able to survive it and thrive. This is also a story of triumph, thanks to, yes, Medicaid. My husband was sick and out of work, and my freelance work wasn't bringing in enough to get us health care, even on the ACA Marketplace. Thank all the deities we qualified for Medicaid. Medicaid meant I could continue to get preventative screenings like the mammograms that unexpectedly revealed breast cancer. And Medicaid paid for my oncology specialists, my chemo, my surgery and my radiation. It paid for the genetic screening that revealed that I have the BRCA1 mutation, which helped me determine my treatment options. I would quite simply be dead today without Medicaid. My child would not have a mother today without Medicaid. And now that we have a stable income and health insurance again, I'm happy to pay it forward through my taxes to ensure that others have Medicaid when they so desperately need it. For my pod pet tariff, I'm submitting photos of our kittens, of our kitten Flames, who we rescued at about five weeks old by literally stopping traffic when I spotted him dashing through cars in rush hour. He's now eight months old and is the caddest cat that ever catted. His current passions are sink drains and any open door. And his goal in life is to finally get into the back of the dishwasher where he hopes I won't be able to retrieve him. He is best buds with our standard poodle, Zuzu, also pictured, who has played gently with him from day one despite being about 40 times his size. Flames is not best buds with our other two rescue kitties, but thankfully he seems to be growing out of annoying them or they've batted him on the nose enough that he's finally gotten a hint. He does not take no for an answer. The cat distribution system brought him to us almost one year after our previous big fat ginger cat, Harold, suddenly passed away. And my kiddo believes Harold sent flames. Regardless, both the kid and the kitten are living the dream. He's adorable. So is the poodle. Oh, thank you so much for this. And thank you for that wonderful story, Jeanette. Seriously appreciate you. Next up from Susan Pronoun. She and her hello. My good news is being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. A lot of life changes occurred after that diagnosis. I made a decision that I would survive this. I found my why and I trudged that path toward wellness. I was working on year 30 with the federal government as a GS12 substance abuse psychologist. Three of those years as a veteran, I had hit 60 years and retired early to make living in wellness a full time job. Medically, I chose a full mastectomy with no reconstruction. Cancer runs in our family, so I'd been vigilant with yearly exams, but sometimes it just sneaks up on you. The cancer had spread to my lymph nodes, which is not a good sign, but I had other markers that gave me a positive outlook during my healing. I wrote two books. Wow. One on that cancer journey and one for my granddaughter, who was my why. I wrote my experience with cancer in a simple manner that anyone could grasp in a short sitting, in part because when I went to look for information on breast cancer, the manuals were huge and daunting. It was not all rainbows and butterflies. Six months into my cancer diagnosis, one of my brothers was diagnosed with lung cancer. Died within three months. As I was healing, he died. He was another reason for me to live my life fully. My cancer awakening was amazing and I've continued to push my boundaries of wellness further than I could have ever imagined. Pet Tax is my cat, Pumpkin. I have eight cats, but the others took off after morning chow. Susan eight. Here's the amazing books. Ooh, got a five star review there honoring my cancer journey. And then Sassy sue, also five stars. I love it. She wrote two books. Oh my God Susan. That's amazing. The kitty. Absolutely adorable Pumpkin. One of eight. So fantastic. Thank you so much for that story. Next up from Rihanna. She and they I wrote in recently but heard a call for cancer survivor stories. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. It was like a white cloud in my left breast. It actually made it ache. The UW health system helped me get signed up for Medicaid and through chemo, radiation and a single mastectomy added and I'm four years cancer free this summer. Congratulations. My husband and I still refer to 2021 as fucking cancer year. I'm on track to get a reconstruction this December. I'll never forget the friends, family and total strangers who helped me conquer this. Enclosed is D. Wren being a total goober in the Wisconsin heat. Don't blame him one bit for splaying out. Here's a kitty on his back trying to stay cool. Thank you so much. So many amazing cancer survivor stories. Appreciate you all. Next up and finally from Anonymous Pronoun she and her Just passing along a good story for the anonymous cancer survivor. Last week my mom will be celebrating her 34th cancer anniversary this August. She had a double mastectomy and underwent chemo. She retired from teaching and conducting a choir about 11 years ago and currently plays violin with a community orchestra. Oh and when they had Dress Like a Teacher Day as part of Spirit Week at my school, I wore her short brown chemo wig. I had long blonde hair at the time and freaked everyone out who thought I had cut and dyed my hair. So there's my happy story. Happies in quotes. Also hashtag cancer. Adding a bird watching pic of a crane near the school I graduated from. That's my pod pet tariff. Beautiful bird. Thank you Anonymous. I appreciate you everybody. I had cervical cancer in 1996. Been cancer free ever since after elite procedure. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much for these amazing stories. Please send your good news into us dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. Please check out my substack conversation with Wajaha Ali about bombing Iran illegally and unconstitutionally. By the way, that's muellershirote.com you can subscribe for free. It would really help me out if you did and just I appreciate all of you. Dana will be back tomorrow. I promise. I did have a little bit of a hard day yesterday. The Siamese cat that I had adopted, I took him in for some testing with his new vet and he has fiv so I had to return him to the shelter so he can find a single cat home. He is out of his cast and out of his cone and he has healed. And I have every assurance from the Humane Society that they will keep him on the adoption floor until he finds a forever home. And I can keep tabs on him and that was really hard and I miss him. So I just thought I should tell you all that and it's you guys and your good news and just this whole Illuminati family that really helps me keep going. So thank you and Dana and I will see you tomorrow. 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