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Freedom through Truth for Service. Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com. I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT Signal: alexip.718 Email: alex@thexylom.com Newsletter: newsletter.thexylom.com

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via fec.gov 5/29/26

Position
Placekicker
Personal information
Born
May 23, 1976 (age 50)
Odessa, Florida, U.S.
Listed height
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Listed weight
208 lb (94 kg)
Career information
High school
Jesuit (Tampa, Florida)
College
Michigan (1994–1998)
NFL draft
1999: undrafted
Career history
Florida Bobcats (1999)
Tampa Bay Storm (2000)
Atlanta Falcons (2001–2004)
New York Giants (2005–2006)
Miami Dolphins (2007)
Kansas City Chiefs (2008)*
New York Jets (2008–2009)
Arizona Cardinals (2010–2013)
Chicago Bears (2014)
* Offseason or practice squad member only

A majority of Americans are interested in news stories about topics related to global warming, including: how global warming is affecting the cost of living (76%), actions being taken by the U.S. government in response to global warming (75%), the causes of global warming (74%), the impacts of global warming on their local community (74%), the impacts of global warming around the world (74%), actions that are being taken by businesses in response to global warming (74%), the impacts of global warming elsewhere in the United States (73%), actions being taken that make global warming worse (73%), actions being taken in their local community in response to global warming (72%), actions being taken by foreign governments in response to global warming (71%), actions being taken to oppose solutions to global warming (69%), and whether global warming is or is not happening (66%).

31% of Americans say they discuss global warming with family and friends “occasionally” (27%) or “often” (4%). In contrast, 69% say they “rarely” (34%) or “never” (35%) discuss it.

After nearly five incredible years, The Journal's last remaining dedicated science reporter (that's me!) has left WSJ. Following the dissolution of the miraculous Health & Science Bureau last October, myself and a small numbers of others worked hard to continue our former team's legacy, but the time has finally come for me to move on.

I am deeply grateful for all of the opportunities this publication -- and the journalist community I met there -- has given me. From stories about T. rex lips to primate booze problems to shrinking brains, to Nobel Prize and NASA mission coverage, Jane Goodall's obituary, winter storm, volcano and wildfire smoke stories, I left no scientific stone unturned, working constantly to inspire curiosity and wonder in Journal readers during times of increasing turmoil and challenge. I met some of my closest friends, wrote for two of the most phenomenal editors I'll ever have the privilege of working with, saw Evan come home, and learned (in retrospect, naturally) the gift it is to be on a team of professional nerds who drive the cutting edge of health and science journalism in America while uplifting each other and their craft.

Well, this is your counterprogramming kid signing off. Not sure where I'll end up next, but don't be strangers y'all. In the meantime, I'll be coaching roller derby across the U.S., South America and Europe!

Hunter Biden: The single greatest mistake of my father's administration was the leadership of Merrick Garland.

Vince McMahon glowing eyes meme with the captions:

Acquired all-defensive Lu Dort
Got Ryan Nembhard as a throw-in
Sent Risacher packing
Without using a first round pick

The seven Americans are part of a disaster assistance response team with the evangelical Christian humanitarian group Samaritan’s Purse, said Franklin Graham, its president and CEO, in an emailed statement.

They don’t have any symptoms but are being quarantined by the Kenyan government for 21 days, he said.

Tanks filled with prawns and lobsters

“When Shah entered the race, the very first forum we had, he brought up the fact that the next governor has to be a lawyer,” Troy Jackson, a logger from Maine’s ultra-rural north and a former state Senate president, said at the time. “Well, I think that’s bullshit.”

He continued: “I actually don’t think lawyers have done us a whole lot of good over the years. I mean, I’m not against lawyers, but having a lawyer as governor has done shit for me and the people I care about.”

A 17-year-old Messi holds a baby Lamine Yamal in a UNICEF charity photoshoot

World Cup Family Guy cookie monster meme

Fighting erupted between Argentina fans in Atlanta ahead of the World Cup semi-final against England.⁠ ⁠ Police in Atlanta, Georgia, intervened as bins and tables were thrown.⁠ ⁠ The violence involved rival fans of clubs in Argentina, San Lorenzo and Huracan⁠ ⁠

Vanderbilt’s existing students seem ambivalent about their school’s new image. A few of them told me they liked or even admired the idea of institutional neutrality — “I’m a big Danny D. fan, as I call him,” said Matt DeAnzeris, a rising senior — but most said they didn’t think Vanderbilt was being very neutral. A recent academic report, commissioned by Diermeier and the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (another university rising in the rankings), fretted about the humanities sometimes openly embracing the ideals of “the progressive left” at the expense of scholarly understanding. That didn’t sound very neutral. Several students said Vanderbilt had cracked down much harder on protests than Diermeier’s Journal op-ed let on. “They kept coming up with new ‘rules’ for what was an approved form of protest, which is ludicrous,” said Sliman, who was president of the student government at the time. After the Kirkland sit-in, more than 120 Vanderbilt faculty members signed an open letter to the university administration, listing bureaucratic barriers the school had used to curb protests, from marking sections of the campus as protest-free zones to canceling a permit to display pro-Palestinian artwork and “confin[ing] student expression to a dwindling number of bulletin boards, locations, and approved time slots.”

“And what about that compact with the Trump administration?” a rising sophomore named Sophia pointed out. She was referring to a letter the Trump administration sent to nine universities last year, including Vanderbilt, linking federal funding to a list of demands, including limiting the number of international students they admitted and offering free tuition to anyone who studied a “hard science.” None of the schools agreed to it, but Vanderbilt was one of only two that didn’t publicly reject it as well. “I can see how not saying anything is trying to be neutral, but I worry it was just appeasement,” Sophia said.

We're going to win so much. You're going to get tired of winning. you’re going to say, ‘Please Mr. President, I have a headache. Please, don't win so much. This is getting terrible.’ And I'm going to say, ‘No, we have to make America great again.’ You're gonna say, ‘Please.’ I said, ‘Nope, nope. We're gonna keep winning.

Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) on X:
the way Bluesky posts about Graham Platner is on a level of derangement only matched by Flat Earthers

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Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) · Apr 1
Interestingly, the WFP has posted its Platner endorsement on every one of its social media platforms — except Bluesky x.com/WorkingFamilie…

2:10 AM · Apr 1, 2026· 13.4K Views

OUR UNION IS COMPRISED OF MORE THAN 40 HARD-WORKING JOURNALISTS FACING RISING PRICES AND NEW TECHNOLOGY.

WE WANT FAIR PAY & STRONG AI POLICY

WE WANT REASONABLE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS, SO WE CAN SAVE FOR RETIREMENT, PAY OFF MEDICAL DEBT AND SUPPORT OUR FAMILIES.

WE WANT ADEQUATE CELL PHONE REIMBURSEMENTS. SOME REPORTERS DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS OR TECHNOLOGY TO KEEP UP WITH THE COMPANY'S PUSH TOWARD VERTICAL VIDEO.

USA TODAY CO. WANT US TO AGREE TO AN AI POLICY THAT COULD CHANGE AT ANY TIME. WE WANT A STRONG, ETHICAL AI POLICY THAT BOTH SIDES AGREE ON.

WE WANT TO AFFORD TO LIVE. USA TODAY CO. WANTS TO SET MINIMUM SALARIES THAT DO NOT ALIGN WITH THE VALUE OUR REPORTERS BRING, AND THEY WANT TO DRASTICALLY PARE DOWN GUARANTEED RAISES.

FIND US ON THE CIRCLE AT 11 AM ON TUESDAY, JULY 14

One of the most basic premises of historical materialism is that no society ever has shrunk or ever will voluntarily shrink its productive forces. This is unlikely to be the first case. The technology is here to stay, for better or worse. Our best shot at “for better” is collective option to seize hold of the machinery and operate it for the benefit of all.

If you believe that intellectual property works like property claims on objects in the physical world, then the use of the collective intellectual products of the human race as the foundation of large language models (LLMs) looks a great deal like Long’s village-created path to the lake. Trying to disentangle which individual intellectual property owners are owed how much of the product would be a fool’s errand. But if we aren’t going to rip out the toll booth, turning half of the tolls into a wealth fund for the whole village might be the beginning of justice.

If it turns out that tech executives are telling the truth about the devastating effects their products will have on the livelihoods of massive swaths of the American population, they can hardly turn around and complain that it’s unfair for their industry to be singled out for partial nationalization. If I build a robot that stomps around my neighborhood, destroying my neighbor’s houses and cars and workplaces, and then I sell the robot for hundreds of billions (or trillions) of dollars, I shouldn’t complain if a judge forces me to put half the profits into a fund to help those neighbors rebuild their lives. I should be grateful that he let me keep the other half.

His rationale is simple and compelling. “Since A.I. is built on the collective knowledge of humanity,” Senator Sanders writes, “the wealth it generates must benefit humanity.”

Last week Rodriguez announced a $1 million television ad campaign buy. But when the ads didn’t start running as she expected, Rodriguez said she began asking questions and discovered the problems in the campaign reports.

“I am hurt, angry and deeply disappointed by someone I trusted to run my campaign,” Rodriguez said of her fired campaign manager. “I was continually getting inaccurate reports from my campaign manager.”

An AI-generated ad of two fishermen catching a fish with James Fishback's face spewing real antisemitic quotes, prompting the terrified fisherman to attempt to throw the fish back into the swamp (pun intended)

Capital One Shopping, a discount shopping tool previously known as Wikibuy that was bought by Capital One Financial Corp. in 2018, highlighted similar findings from its own testing in an email sent Tuesday to retailers that raised concerns about what it said were Phia’s fake clicks or “cookie stuffing.” It attached videos that it said showed Phia’s extension silently opening a background tab linking the retailer’s website with its own affiliate code to ensure its cookie was set.

“Publishers like us are having material revenue taken,” said the email, which was seen by Bloomberg. “And advertisers like you are losing money to fake clicks.”

Capital One confirmed the authenticity of the email to Bloomberg, but declined to comment on Phia. “We view it as our responsibility” to disclose any “technical anomalies or concerning practices” identified within the affiliate marketing ecosystem, a spokesperson said.

A Phia spokesperson acknowledged the issue and said it has been fixed.

“Within the last 24 hours, we were made aware that in a recent release our codebase was causing misattributions from a subset of users,” the spokesperson said. “As soon as we were notified, our team worked overnight to identify, mitigate, and has since resolved the issue.”

Bloomberg retested Phia’s browser extension after reaching out to the company on July 7 and found it had stopped automatically claiming a referral click in all the cases where it previously had been.

Zohran Mamdani with a Shenna Bellows for Senate laptop sticker

If you had to take a broad view, I think Roberts has moved somewhat to the left of where he was when he was nominated back in 2005. You could probably say Barrett has slid to the left, just if you were evaluating their outcomes, right? It’s silly, and it’s over the top, and it’s inflammatory, but there’s a reason why so many conservatives and Trump supporters are so outraged at Amy Coney Barrett in particular. They feel betrayed. They don’t have a right to feel like she owes them anything, especially given my view that, for the most part, she’s trying to apply the law and live with whatever the result is.

I’m sure John Roberts thinks tariffs are a stupid economic policy.

I don’t know, but I guess here’s what I would say. I have no doubt that John Roberts is animated by institutional concerns on top of everything else, right? John Roberts plainly does not want to go down as the Chief Justice under whom this Supreme Court became hopelessly divided, with the automatic 6–3, the automatic pro-conservative outcome. And he has gone out of his way to broker outcomes within the Court to wheel and deal.

Aren’t you describing politics?

George Bush learns of 9/11 meme

im still pinching myself I can’t believe the queen herself listened to Asleep Talking!!! Crazy im so grateful 🕺🌧️💤🪩 #newmusic #bedroompop #imopodcast #michelleobama #willferrell

Johan Sandoval, a 22-year-old from the Dominican Republic, was detained by ICE in Clifton Park, New York. Sandoval was staying with his girlfriend, U.S. citizen Adriana Wade.

Sandoval was leaving the apartment complex for the gym when ICE agents stopped him and blocked his car, Wade, 21, told The Current GA. When Sandoval ran back inside to tell Wade and her mother what was happening, ICE agents followed him to the front door.

Although Sandoval presented the immigration agents all his documents, Wade said the scene was heated. Sandoval lost his state ID, she said.

“They were very angry and loud about his detainment and had broken his phone completely in the process,” Wade said.

Jim Downey asks to clarify meme

Comments

markmichel2015 6h
We know it's all heritage foundation members making this shit up. We stand with you. We will win.

russ8825 5h
AIPC is going hard against you, but fuk em keep going

griffin.franzese 5h
Graham Platner do not drop out

audenbotel 5h
We stand with you. They are only doing this because you are anti Israel

jeffus_levesqueus 5h
Lol... the Billionaires won't go down easy. We knew this.

prettymarshhome 5h
Whole lot of people with "private profiles" are urging to drop out.

Corruption is not bad. Corruption is only bad if I'm not involved. But if I'm part of the corruption I'LL DEFEND IT

The absurdity of building an isolation facility in Kenya for American citizens who might hypothetically contract Ebola — even though Kenya has no cases and the outbreak is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two countries away — cannot be overstated. As an American passport holder, it's another addition to a growing list of things I find embarrassing.

Not only does this reinforce the monolithic “Africa is a country” mindset, but it also reveals how out of touch the American government is. I cannot imagine a scenario in which any American citizen would want to be quarantined in Kenya — not just Nairobi, but Nanyuki — a town not exactly known for cutting-edge healthcare or technology.

angela_nikolau on Instagram:

Hey guys, huge thank you to everyone for the support and for waiting for us. We're finally home.❤❤❤

Court date is set for August 24th.

Police took everything we had on us at the Empire State Building-including our phones and a ring-we're now enjoying some quality time completely off the grid.

story was posted by assistant

American Pride Falls to Record Low

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, just over half of U.S. adults say they are extremely or very proud to be American the lowest reading in Gallup's trend dating back to 2001. →

A few hours and counting for MARTA. At noon Saturday, as a shimmering MARTA train glides out of the Avondale transit station on an historic 15-minute journey, Atlanta will become the first city in the Southeast to operate a modern rail rapid-transit system. Passengers are expected to crowd the seven stations along MARTA’s initial 6.7-mile east line for a ride on opening day, which comes exactly seven years, seven months and 21 days after local voters gave the system a referendum go-ahead in 1971.

Beyond that, I’m struck by how few rulings we saw with weird splits: There were 24 total rulings in cases argued this term that split the court 5-4 or 6-3, and the Democratic appointees were all on the same side in 23 of them. That’s not a coincidence. That one or two Republican appointees sometimes crossed over doesn’t prove a lack of ideology so much as it suggests that there are some lines even they wouldn’t cross.

“If you get a wild hair and want to snatch up some folks just let me know.”

“Yeah, I’ll come out.”

“Work vans or trucks with multiple occupants are the general target. If you get one stopped holler at me and I’ll have them (ICE) en route.”

“Yeah, white work van and a ladder rack is like a 90% chance lol. Where do y’all go?”

“I generally sit in front of Waffle House and catch them coming off the interstate.”

That’s part of a text message exchange between Jefferson Police Officers Jordan Redman and Nick Hobbs.

DR Congo superfan Lumumba Vea poses with a can of Rexona deodorant in a yellow suit

Norfolk and Western Railway caboose next to the train depot at Danville, VA

Map of Beijing

A strawberry and pistachio half moon dessert shaped like a taco with guacamole

A four-panel comic:

1. A boy and a girl is about to have sex. The girl asks, "¿Tienes protección? (do you have protection?)"

2. The boy takes out what appears to be a condom

3. The "condom" is in fact a tiny portrait of Cape Verde goalie Vozhina, whose magnificent saves against Spain, Uruguay, and Saudi Arabia has sent the debutantes to the Round of 32

4. The boy puts the frame on the nightstand and says "No te preocupes (Don't worry)"

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic angrily states at Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jaylin Williams

Precinct map of Intown and Southwest Atlanta

Scientists are exploring animal and human trials of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies — lab-made antibodies that mimic the natural immune system — to reduce overdose deaths. The plan is to train the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to fentanyl in the bloodstream. By preventing fentanyl from crossing into the brain, scientists hope to reduce its effects and lower the risk of overdose.

My friend and I pose with Atlanta Hawks player Mo Gueye in a preseason event at State Farm Arena

We're going to win so much. You're going to get tired of winning. you're going to say, 'Please Mr. President, I have a headache. Please, don't win so much. This is getting terrible. And I'm going to say, 'No, we have to make America great again.' You're gonna say, 'Please.' I said, 'Nope, nope. We're gonna keep winning.

Hunter Biden on X:

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT
I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

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Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime · 5h
I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination.

Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Focus on building the party you actually support.

Political parties aren’t perfect, but they’re built by millions of people who knock doors, make calls, organize meetings, and fight for the values they believe in. If you don’t believe in the party, then don’t ask its members to carry you across the finish line.

12:16 PM · Jun 24, 2026 · 49K Views

And yet I’m not satisfied for two reasons. One is because I want Israel, Israel’s Army, to be the most moral army in the world, and I do believe it’s doing its best to be.

You think the Israeli Army is doing its best right now to be the most moral army in the world?

Yes.

I think–

Just a second, just a second. And I think Israel is treated unfairly on that issue, because I’ve seen other armies, and I’ve been part of the I.D.F., and I can tell you, Israel’s I.D.F. is an army that tries its best in very hard actions to do its best to be a moral army.

With 99.99% of ballots counted in the preliminary vote tally, De la Espriella had secured 12.96m votes, or 49.66%, just 250,830 more than Cepeda, who received 12.7m votes, or 48.7%. A further 1.6% of ballots were cast blank.

Although he said during the campaign that he would “disembowel” the left – a remark he later described as merely a figure of speech – he said that he will be the president of “all Colombians”.

“I want to speak especially to those who did not vote for me … Your rights, even if you did not vote for me, will be respected. Your opinions will be heard. You will never have to fear thinking differently,” he said from behind bulletproof glass, as he had throughout the campaign.

Glad to goon Politics East Midlands this morning & stand up for our Prime Minister.

If you are the silent majority that watches but doesn’t comment, and want calm over chaos, please choose RIGHT NOW to take action now and sign up to Hold the Line Campaign:

➡️ https://holdtheline.org.uk

AND email your MP.