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Alex Ip 葉清霖
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Freedom through Truth for Service. Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com. Signal: alexip.718 Email: [email protected]
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17d
Here we go!

Over 13,000 H-1B workers have joined 200+ land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions so far this fiscal year.

I also found that public institutions in large, Republican states are disproportionately affected by Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee.

Find your state or your school:
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 17d
EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.
The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions
A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 8h
Y'know, Baker Mayfield reminds me of a stronger and faster Haynes King
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14h
well damn, Baker
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h
in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
Speculating on Republican motivations, Dougherty said at his Chestnut Hill event that he expects the court to continue playing a major role in election law: “The theory is that we have to deal with a congressional election in 2026, and there’s preparation regarding gerrymandering for the next presidential election—should there be one.”
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 8h
Sun Shangwu, former deputy editor-in-chief at the state-run news outlet China Daily, has been appointed deputy director of Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong. In full: buff.ly/iEEF2s5
Beijing appoints ex-China Daily senior editor as Liaison Office deputy chief
Sun Shangwu, former deputy editor-in-chief at the state-run news outlet China Daily, has been appointed deputy director of Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h
I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h
Harrison Butker going far left for a change
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h
Booooooooo No Fun League in Kansas City. Jared Goff should get that receiving TD credited to him just for the style points
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2d
Almost one year ago, a service collapse during Atlanta Pride 2024 saw trains come every 42 minutes, creating mass confusion and delay. This led to @thexylom.com's investigation on marta's weekend service crisis, prompting the agency to increase service for the first time in two decades.
Atlanta Takes No Pride in MARTA’s Weekend “Special Schedules”
Tracking-related service cuts have affected Atlanta almost 80% of the weekends since Oct. 2023, taking nearly 5,500 trains out of service.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h
To give you how much of a threat this poses to Boston, the distance between Boston City Hall and Everett City Hall is shorter between the distance between New York's City Hall and Time Square
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d
Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed
Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h
And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 18h
A modest proposal
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18h
All-time ratio with 3 likes, 204 quotes, and 477 replies
Post Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social Follow This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics. www.theatlantic.com October 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM Everybody can reply 1 repost 204 quotes 3 likes 12 saves 477 replies Write your reply Q
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18h
marta has passed its first major test in the Jonathan Hunt era with flying colors. Period.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2d
Good news for Atlanta transit riders: marta will be running *expanded* service this weekend as part of @atlantapride.bsky.social, with trains every six minutes.

This is the first time they have ever done such an arrangement outside of Labor Day Weekend, according to data gathered by @thexylom.com.
MARTA Weekend Service Dashboard
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h
*rehabilitated by substack
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 20h
Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 19h
Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d
NEW: Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s deadly nickel industry.

This story by @wufeiyu.bsky.social was produced by @grist.org, supported by @pulitzercenter.org @uprootproject.bsky.social.
Your Electric Vehicle, Powered By Dead Chinese Migrant Workers
A commercial street frequented by Chinese and Indonesian workers near the entrance of the industrial compound in Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia. (Wufei Yu/Grist)
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
Oh goodness not Maverick City!
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 3d
Maverick City Music is mired in chaos amid the exodus of two members and a lawsuit claiming the CEO engaged in fraud.
Maverick City Music faces scandal amid artist exodus, lawsuit
Maverick City Music is mired in chaos amid the exodus of two members and a lawsuit claiming the CEO engaged in fraud.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 1d
Striking milestone in the Trent Dilfer era at UAB:
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
Hell yeah
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
Hell yeah
Banner outside frat house showing Buzz the mascot aiming a shotgun against a hokie with the caption GONE BIRD HUNTING Frat house banner depicting Buzz the mascot choking out a hokie, with the caption CHOKIE THE HOKIE Frat house banner depicting Buzz the mascot in a GMC truck running over a hokie with the caption WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
Ran into the undefeated football team TikTok guy!
Caleb Braydon Green and Alex at Bobby Dodd Stadium
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d
NORTHWESTERN TAKES DOWN PENN STATE
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
LET'S GO BOWLING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
LET'S GO BOWLING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
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