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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 19d

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 · 19d

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 · 13m

This increasingly looks like a United Front of Democratic constituencies (labor, young people, progressives) against geriatric Democratic leadership and AIPAC

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 2h

The UAW has waded into the Maine Senate race with an endorsement for oyster farmer (and former Tune Inn bartender!) Graham Platner

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4d

I'm sorry, I just had to grab that clip of @pablo.show and @minakimes.bsky.social doing smelling salts for the first time:

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 11h

The fence on Beach Street in front of the ICE Processing Facility in Broadview has been taken down.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 17h

If you're thinking about RSVPing to No Kings to help with the crowd counts...don't. Do this instead

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate.

We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 1d

This is fantastic and much needed. If you plan to attend or cover one of the many No Kings protests this Saturday, please consider joining this effort!

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 13h

I often cite stats like LA County having a larger population than 40 states.

Or being over 4,000 sq miles. (LA City alone is over 500 sq miles!)

But this one is pretty mindblowing ... just IMMIGRANTS in LA are a larger population than 17 states? Whoa.

Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

If the 3 million immigrants in LA County formed their own state, it would be more populous than 17 existing states.

This is why LA was top of mind for Trump & his ilk.

The County’s moved should be lauded - but this is too little & almost too late.

We need more $$$ and resources for our community.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13h

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Exactly two weeks after the Utah Republican Party endorsed map C in Utah’s court-stipulated redistricting process, the party has filed paperwork to run a referendum to repeal map C and an initiative to ask the legislature to repeal Proposition 4.

www.abc4.com/news/politic...

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 16h

"The Indiana Daily Student will continue fighting for our right to publish and report the hard stories, even if administrators want to stop us."

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 16h

@thexylom.com is a proud partner along with @grist.org in the Climate News Task Force.

We're learning a lot from how Grist brings together people from all walks of life to talk about climate issues that matter personally to them!

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CASW co-launches Climate News Task Force - CASW

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 16h

HAPPENING NOW: @grist.org's first event in Georgia, at my old stomping grounds (Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design), featuring panelists from Georgia Tech student groups, @selc.bsky.social, and @wabe.org!

Early voting begins today for two statewide Public Service Commission seats.

Panelists sit on stools at the front of an auditorium

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 16h

Thank you to @dailyyonder.bsky.social's Sarah Melotte for citing @alexip718.com's reporting!

Access our full dataset:
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17h

JUST IN: I got confirmation at the Memorial Drive Greenway Open House from a Pond representative that the skate park right across the Georgia State University soccer fields will break ground as early as next year because private funding has been fully secured

Urbanize Atlanta @urbanizeatl.bsky.social · 8d

First public forum on horizon for long-planned, connective greenspace; skate park now included

Memorial Drive Greenway dream to take step forward this month

First public forum on horizon for long-planned, connective greenspace; skate park now included

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18h

Can confirm one of the people who liked his response included the Mayor's Chief Comms Officer, Allison Fouche, and three other city employees

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 1d

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon

Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

The Pentagon’s new press policy bars journalists from reporting anything that hasn’t been approved by the Trump regime.

The NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, and NPR are refusing to sign the agreement.

Kudos to the media outlets standing up to this blatant authoritarianism.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21h

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h

Here's the update! bsky.app/profile/thex...

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h

These are not garden-variety, rank-and-file Republicans.

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.

“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22h

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22h

Doing science journalism is hard nowadays. I shared with @theopennotebook.bsky.social a day in my life not because I have everything figured out — far from it — but to show that our career trajectories are inherently messy, and the process of finding ourselves while making an impact is what matters.

The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 22h

@alexip718.com weaves deeply reported narratives on the future of cities and environmental justice with original photography and open-source intelligence. And that’s all before breakfast. Get to know @thexylom.com’s committed publisher and editor. 🧪

A Day in the Life of Alex Ip - The Open Notebook

Alex is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Xylom, the only Asian American-run news outlet that covers science, climate, and the environment. He weaves deeply reported narratives on the future o...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23h

Truly unhinged response from Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, who also has used his social media accounts to like a video justifying Israel's bombing of Iran to close off the Strait of Hormuz to establish American petroleum hegemony (yes, that is a real post)

Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. The Mayor of Atlanta's communications office sure knows how to do some off-the-rails ad hominem attack on Linked-In. Absolutely devoid of substantive response. (See reponse below)

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 23h

From 2011 to 2022, per the @kansasreflector.com, Kansas' DMV issued 9,316,937 driver's licenses.

During that same timeframe, 380 residents sought to change their gender marker—just 0.004% of all licenses.

The GOP is warning of a "flood" of such changes if they don't re-ban the practice.

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 1d

Holdouts are making it hard for the Kansas GOP to pass a new gerrymander, so party leaders are offering a new incentive: agree to convene a special session and we'll hold a vote on banning trans people from changing their gender on their driver's licenses.

We explain it all in today's Digest →

Morning Digest, sponsored by Campaign Legal Center: What's more important to the GOP than gerrymandering? Anti-trans laws

Kansas Republicans fear a "flood" of trans people wanting to change their driver's licenses

www.the-downballot.com

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