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Alex Ip 葉清霖
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Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.

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Fernando Mendoza just did the LFG meme
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Posting this tonight for no particular reason.
January 18, 2026 at 4:18 AM
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Don't gamble kids
January 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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
January 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM
What a lede:
January 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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.
January 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
January 14, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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...
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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...
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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
"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.
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
@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
January 12, 2026 at 5:13 AM
YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT BECAUSE HOOSIER DADDY
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Kathy Hochul giving Zohran Mamdani dating advice and Mamdani actually following through with it was not on my 2026 bingo card
January 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
@howephil.bsky.social @mayorofmarta.bsky.social the PATH connector between the Westside BeltLine and James Brawley Dr appears to be complete and fully striped
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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."
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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
January 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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
(h/t zachariah.dracoulis/IG)
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Yeah, Le Pen is going to win the next French election by a lot. Just look at this statement by French President Emmanuel Macron:
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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...
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Happy New Year from Atlanta!
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
This is a wild tweet about Tyler Hendricks, a real college basketball player, from a fake college basketball reporter account
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM