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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 · 16d

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:

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 16d

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Vaxxed?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28m

Boooooooo

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30m

It's Haynes King time

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

HAYNES KING

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

HAYNES KING

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 44m

Yikes! A blocked kick

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1h

Good shirt

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY SHIRT with Georgia Tech, UGA, and Clemson superimposed, respectively

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1h

Jordan Mason is on the Flats!

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1h

That is an ugly defensive lapse by the Jackets

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1h

BOOOOOOOOO

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1h

Good shirt

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d

It's so exciting to have Saugat write for us again!

The next 25 people to subscribe to @thexylom.com's FREE newsletter will be personally invited to our next Office Hours with our staff, which is usually reserved for our paying sustainers and supporters, next Wednesday at 1 pm ET.

See you there:

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

The loudest YELLOW JACKETS chant I've ever been part of

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

ANOTHER ONE

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 4h

Penn State needs to start astroturfing a “Well I guess UCLA is *quite* competitive” campaign

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

A FAKE PUNT RECEPTION? What is this offense?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

HAYNES KING

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

TRICK PLAY FOR TWO

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

We have never left

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

Look at all the bandwagon Georgia Tech fans. They don't know the pain of watching Geoff Collins and Jeff Sims game after game during COVID

Georgia Tech fans outside Bobby Dodd Stadium

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

Check out the latest edition of our newsletter, featuring a guest column from our very own @scigat.bsky.social. He wrote about his observations on how his home country of Nepal has navigated climate action amidst massive protests that overthrew its previous government.

One Battle After Another — From Geopolitics to the Planet

Dear Reader, This week, we have a guest column from Saugat Bolakhe, our Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow. His essay on what he saw during a...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4h

Electric cars are still cars, and they are being built through the deadly exploitation of vulnerable workers and landscapes in the Global South.

Excellent, haunting reporting by @wufeiyu.bsky.social for @grist.org, with the support of @pulitzercenter.org @uprootproject.bsky.social

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 9h

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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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 21h

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17h

Can we have a new episode of The History of the Seattle Mariners pls jon

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 17h

mariners won

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