Brian Colligan

Brian Colligan

@colligan.bsky.social

Opinion editor for The Virginian-Pilot & Daily Press in Hampton Roads, Va. Virginia Tech and East Carolina alum. Mostly NUFC and Phish nonsense. Life is heavy; try to keep it light.

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Brian Colligan
@colligan.bsky.social

"The only trade that comes in here now is the bummers and the drovers, just the dregs."

Reuters@reuters.com

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro left the country for the US after losing the presidential election and refusing to comply with ‌a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said reut.rs/4yPS0Fp

reut.rsBrazil's Flavio Bolsonaro headed to US, sources sayBrazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the ​United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with ‌a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports...
Brian Colligan
@colligan.bsky.social

This is a pretty damning indictment of The Ohio State University and Yale Law School.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

Brian Colligan
@colligan.bsky.social

This story is bananas

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Rodger Sherman
@rodger.bsky.social

I used to be able to spend one night every couple of years looking at posts about election results in random corners of the country with commentary like "wow, big turnout in Smith County, could be good or bad for the Dems" but now thanks to early voting I can spend 2 weeks looking at those posts

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Matt Ufford
@mattufford.bsky.social

I missed this one last week, but as always @davidjroth.bsky.social on Trump is the only way I willingly learn about something the president has said or done defector.com/what-is-the-...

defector.comWhat Is The Mob Movie Donald Trump Saw With A Gangster Named "Alan Jones" In It? | DefectorThe model of Donald Trump currently on display is fussy and sour, poached to glossy and unappetizing gumminess in his own luxurious bathwater; he is also, to all appearances, miserable. It is hard to ...
Brian Colligan
@colligan.bsky.social

It’s funny to me that the announcers praised Cash for keeping Booser in for a second inning because “sometimes you can just tell how a pitcher is” and praised Vogt for pulling Sabrowski after he had a solid (0r/1h/1k) B6.

Brian Colligan
@colligan.bsky.social

Super strange that the vice president has never met the president.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Vance: Our job is to make sure elites in DC don’t get richer by having access to the President of the United States. But I don’t think that’s a concern with Trump.