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\npledge amount! <\/em>Yes, his gang of suck-ups and hangers-on have scraped together $424 in pledges, while the noble, enlightened society here at DDtB have generously offered to give $427.<\/p>\nme<\/strike> my cause<\/a>, the EFF<\/a>.
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