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Alex Ip 葉清霖
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Fernando Mendoza just did the LFG meme
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MEME
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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Posting this tonight for no particular reason.
Then-Oregon quarterback Bo Nix poses with Charlie Kirk
January 18, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Meme with the San Antonio Spurs logo first quarter: oh boy am i excited to watch my favorite team play\ rest of the game: im going to kill myself end of the game: nice we won
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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Don't gamble kids
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January 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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INBOX: ICE just joined Bluesky and was promptly verified.

Interestingly, here are the seven non-Bluesky accounts they are following:

@luisferre7.bsky.social
@ximenabustillo.bsky.social
@nickmiroff.bsky.social
@haleaziz.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com
@nytimes.com
@wsj.com
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 8 following Luis Ferré-Sadurní ‪@luisferre7.bsky.social‬ Follow Journalist at The New York Times covering immigration in the NY region Ximena Bustillo ‪@ximenabustillo.bsky.social‬ Follow 🎧NPR Politics Reporter covering DHS & Immigration policy in the beltway + beyond. Still some rural y ag 🖊️ 📲Signal/Cell: 240.935.0166 💃🏻Co-Founder of Voces Internship of Idaho. 📸IG: @ximena.bustillo Nick Miroff ‪@nickmiroff.bsky.social‬ Follow Staff writer @theatlantic.com covering immigration and the Department of Homeland Security. Tips? Signal: NickMiroff.78 Hamed Aleaziz ‪@haleaziz.bsky.social‬ Follow I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum The Washington Post ‪@washingtonpost.com‬ Follow Democracy Skies in Blueness The New York Times ‪@nytimes.com‬ Follow In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: nyti.ms/2FVHq9v The Wall Street Journal ‪@wsj.com‬ Follow Since 1889 🗞️ Sign up for our newsletters and alerts: wsj.com/newsletters
January 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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What a lede:
PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin stood before his players and began his final team meeting the same way he’d started so many others over the last decade. He told the players he was grateful for their hard work and sacrifice. Then, it took a turn. In the business of the NFL, there’s consequences for not doing your job. As a professional in this business, you have to live with those consequences. Some of us will be here next year; some of us won’t. Guys, I want you to hear this from me first … I just met with Art Rooney and Omar. I think it’s best for the organization for me to step down. The Athletic spoke with a half-dozen players, coaches and staff members in the room who described what they saw, heard and felt during Tomlin’s final moments as the Steelers head coach. “No,” star outside linebacker T.J. Watt said, sitting next to fellow defensive veterans Cameron Heyward and Alex Highsmith. “No. No. No. No. No,” he kept repeating over and over, his eyes welling with tears as Tomlin continued his speech. Watt has discussed his respect and admiration for Tomlin on numerous occasions in the past. That included two years ago, when he said publicly on locker clean out day, “It was huge in my contract talks. I don’t want to play for anyone other than Mike T.” As Tomlin spoke, Joey Porter Jr. was almost hyperventilating. The son of a Steelers legend, he has known the coach longer than almost anyone in the locker room and grew up with Tomlin’s son, Dino. In some ways, Tomlin is more like an uncle than a coach to Porter. I want it to be better for you guys, because I care so much about you guys. When Tomlin finished his speech, every player in the room rose for a standing ovation. They could tell it meant a lot to Tomlin that he had the opportunity to break the news directly to his team. He seemed to be at peace with the decision, multiple players said. Then, in one of his signature moves, Tomlin tipped his cap and went to the door. One-by-one, every player walked past Tomlin, excha…
January 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Specifically, David Shor is explicitly saying that AOC's message that "Republicans are cutting healthcare to fund ICE, and therefore Democrats should cut ICE funding" is the most popular message among voters
David Shor (@davidshor) on X: We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one Quote Acyn (@Acyn) · Jan 12 AOC: My position has always been clear that ICE funding should be cut. We’re seeing what they’re doing with this reckless explosion in funding, and I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this…
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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If you looked at The Hill's homepage, you would have no idea that the FBI raided a Washington Post reporter's home and seized her phone and laptops. You would be made aware that your kids could now drink whole milk at school though.

This is how self-censorship works in 2026 America.
TheHill.com Sign Up Newsletters News Policy Business Health Opinion Events trending: Live updates: Trump-Greenland Mark Kelly Ford worker Trump Supreme Court sponsored: Content from Google Cloud Court Battles by Ella Lee / 4 hours ago Supreme Court rules House Republican can challenge mail ballot deadline Pause Unmute Seek to live, currently playing live LIVE Captions Fullscreen Share Watch live: Trump to sign bill allowing schools to serve whole milk Watch live: Carr, FCC officials testify before House on oversight of agency Trump lashes out at GOP senators in Detroit speech 02:00 Trump escalates message to Iran 01:16 Administration by The Hill Staff / 26 minutes ago Live updates: Vance, Rubio huddle with Greenland, Denmark officials ends; Senate eyes war powers vote Senate by Alexander Bolton / 28 minutes ago Hawley changes stance on war powers resolution after Trump backlash Administration by Ryan Mancini / 2 hours ago ICE officer who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis suffered internal bleeding, DHS says Senate by Amie Parnes / 8 hours ago Mark Kelly’s battle with Pete Hegseth prompts presidential talk House by Sudiksha Kochi and Mike Lillis / 18 minutes ago House tees up final vote on bills to fund financial services and national security news By Mac Bell and Alix Martichoux / 17 HOURS AGO Chocolate bars sold nationwide recalled for possible contamination administration By Ashleigh Fields / 3 HOURS AGO Trump ending federal funding to sanctuary cities, states administration By Sophie Brams / 12 MINS AGO UAW backs worker who yelled at Trump, condemns ‘vulgar’ behavior international By Rebecca Beitsch / 18 HOURS AGO Rubio argues US cannot return Venezuelans despite court order international By Sarah Davis / 19 MINS AGO State Department pauses visa processing from 75 countries state watch By Sarah Davis / 22 HOURS AGO Walz cries foul after lead fraud prosecutor in Minnesota resigns state watch By Andrew Foran / 2 HOURS AGO Remains that washed u…
January 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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This looks to me like a Junction electronic whistle used in rec sports leagues. You can get one for $9 at Walmart.

www.walmart.com/ip/UDIYO-Jun...
Junction electronic whistles in blue, red, grey, black, and yellow
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Here's the full list, according to a DOJ press release dated August.

In effect, every blue state except for Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, and Massachusetts (all except HI had Republican statewide electeds at some point since 2018) will have their funding withheld:

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
STATES: California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Illinois Minnesota Nevada New York Oregon Rhode Island Vermont Washington COUNTIES: Baltimore County, MD Cook County, IL San Diego County, CA San Francisco County, CA CITIES: Albuquerque, NM Berkeley, CA Boston, MA Chicago, IL Denver, CO East Lansing, MI Hoboken, NJ Jersey City, NJ Los Angeles, CA New Orleans, LA New York City, NY Newark, NJ Paterson, NJ Philadelphia, PA Portland, OR Rochester, NY Seattle, WA San Francisco City, CA
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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INBOX: Robb Pitts, Chairman of the Fulton County, Ga. Board of Commissioners, reiterated last week to Atlanta's NBC affiliate 11Alive that he will "absolutely" run for reelection.

Pitts was first elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1977, the same year when Jimmy Carter was sworn in as President.
January 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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"As the agency and those resisting mass deportations have increasingly clashed, many agents are seeking mental health services – to help them have a calmer mindset in their difficult work."

You've got to be kidding me. The Monitor's Editorial Board is unrecognizable from when I interned there.
Agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been connected to at least 14 shootings over the past 12 months. At the same time, the mental impact on these federal officers has also risen, perhaps causing many to be too quick to pull the trigger. Last year, ICE agents were assaulted 275 times, up from 19 the year before, as their work and their numbers expanded rapidly. They experienced 66 vehicular attacks in 2025 compared with only 2 in 2024. Such confrontations or scenes of death have led to a mental health crisis among many ICE agents as well as Border Patrol agents. This has pushed them to seek help from government chaplains, behavioral health experts, and other agents who offer volunteer “peer support.” The goal of these official programs is to treat fear and stress, so agents can bring a calmer, safer mentality to the difficult work of finding and detaining unauthorized migrants.
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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@bskycheck.com presents a different picture.

There is an unprecedented surge of verifications over the weekend, and their data shows that the vast majority of the newly verified are British, German, and Canadian elected officials/ political organizations, plus European agencies
New Blue Check, last 90 days:
January 12, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT BECAUSE HOOSIER DADDY
Alex inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Kathy Hochul giving Zohran Mamdani dating advice and Mamdani actually following through with it was not on my 2026 bingo card
The governor gave the mayor-to-be some personal advice, telling Mr. Mamdani, who is newly married, that he must make a concerted effort to block off time to spend with his wife, Rama Duwaji. Since then, Mr. Mamdani has taken to texting Ms. Hochul whenever he and Ms. Duwaji go out on a date, two people familiar with the matter said.
January 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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@howephil.bsky.social @mayorofmarta.bsky.social the PATH connector between the Westside BeltLine and James Brawley Dr appears to be complete and fully striped
Looking west at the PATH connector at Ashby marta station Looking east at the PATH connector at Ashby marta station
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Alt text version here, and Anderson buried the lede all the way to the last sentence:

"I took a picture of his desk and you will see an email printed out that is an exchange between Epstein and the Royal Government office concerning payment from the Duke and Duchess."
christopherandersonphoto Yes, that's Jeffrey Epstein. In 2015 I was assigned by @NYMag to make a portrait of Epstein to accompany an article by @michaelwolffnyc I didn't know much about him, other than the fact that he had heavy connections to powerful men. He wanted to meet me before the shoot to negotiate buying out the pictures after publication. A young woman with an Eastern European accent answered the door (I would later see the same girl setting up a massage table in a room just off one of his offices) followed quickly by his private secretary, Lesley Groff. When Epstein arrived, his eyes sized me up like someone always looking for the angles. He quizzed me about my pictures and how the shoot would go and how much I thought my pictures were worth. He said he didn't want anyone else to have the pictures after the magazine published them, and offered me $20k to own them after publication. It was all the money in the world to me at the time. I had a young family and lived basically month to month. He wrote a personal check and handed it to me. The magazine had already given me permission to make such an arrangement, and we made it clear that he wouldn't see any of the pictures until after publication. Several days later, he decided to pull out of the story and started calling me to demand the pictures. I reiterated that the pictures were not his until after publication. Then the threats started. He sent his bodyguard/ driver, Merwin, a massive guy in a long black overcoat and black, leather gloves, to my studio to intimidate me (it worked). Epstein succeeded in threatening the magazine, too, and they killed the story. I cashed the check and Merwin came by again to collect the hard drive and make sure I didn't have any more copies of the photos. Today, I found the copy on a very old hard drive. There is a portrait of Epstein and pictures of him working in two different offices in the house (yes, that's a stuffed tiger).
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Denver Nuggets forward Spencer Jones has an all-time inspirational LinkedIn post after an unlikely overtime win against the Sixers last night.

Jones graduated from Stanford in 2024 with a degree in Management Science and Engineering
Spencer Keith Jones on LinkedIn: NBA | Denver Nuggets | Stanford MS&E Graduate | ... 4h Some games you'll remember for the rest of your life. On paper, this one didn't make sense. Shorthanded by seven players. No starters available. With lineup made up almost entirely of guys who began their careers in the G League. We were on the road against a top team in the Eastern Conference with multiple NBA stars. Everything about it was unlikely, including my defensive matchup against a near 300-pound center. But nights like this remind you what teams are really built on. Effort carries. Belief compounds. And when everyone commits to the same goal, logic stops mattering. One of the most improbable wins, I've been apart of. And we did it in OT. Love this team!
January 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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This reel by podcaster Eric McLaughlin is the single best analogy of American politics since that fateful day when Trump rode down the golden escalator:
January 5, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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(h/t zachariah.dracoulis/IG)
The Maduro cycle: Maduro is in Venezuela. --> The U.S. military kidnaps Maduro. --> Maduro is in the U.S. illegally --> ICE kidnaps Maduro and deports him to Venezuela -->
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Yeah, Le Pen is going to win the next French election by a lot. Just look at this statement by French President Emmanuel Macron:
Emmanuel Macron on X: El pueblo venezolano está hoy liberado de la dictadura de Nicolás Maduro y no puede sino celebrarlo. Al confiscar el poder y pisotear las libertades fundamentales, Nicolás Maduro ha cometido una grave afrenta contra la dignidad de su propio pueblo. La transición que se abre debe ser pacífica, democrática y respetuosa de la voluntad del pueblo venezolano. Deseamos que el presidente Edmundo González Urrutia, elegido en 2024, pueda asegurar esta transición lo antes posible. En estos momentos, mantengo conversaciones con nuestros socios de la región. Francia está plenamente movilizada y vigilante, en particular para garantizar la seguridad de sus ciudadanos en estas horas de incertidumbre. Translation: The Venezuelan people are today liberated from the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and cannot but celebrate it. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms, Nicolás Maduro has committed a grave affront against the dignity of his own people. The transition that is now opening must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people. We hope that President Edmundo González Urrutia, elected in 2024, can ensure this transition as soon as possible. At this moment, I am holding conversations with our regional partners. France is fully mobilized and vigilant, particularly to guarantee the safety of its citizens in these hours of uncertainty.
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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As I was listening to Mamdani yesterday, I couldn't help but notice the same rhetorical devices he used as Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" speech at the 2004 DNC.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ke...
Now let me be clear. We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. John Kerry knows this. And just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure. John Kerry believes in America. And he knows it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. A belief that we are connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief - I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper - that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one. Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. The audacity of hope!
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Happy New Year from Atlanta!
Fireworks in Midtown Atlanta, as seen from the Oakland neighborhood
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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This is a wild tweet about Tyler Hendricks, a real college basketball player, from a fake college basketball reporter account
Scott Hughes (@ScottHughesCBB) There is a SNIPER on campus at Utah Valley University. UCF transfer Tyler Hendricks is shooting 50.7% from beyond the arc this season for the Wolverines. Utah Valley takes on Tarleton State tomorrow night. 1:00 PM · Dec 31, 2025 · 521K Views
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM