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Rob McColley 🇺🇦

@mccolley.bsky.social
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musician, bartender, attorney, Illini basketball writer, dishwasher, lawnmower, pastafarian

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 12h
So in the past few days Trump has taken sanctions off Russia’s energy, asked to buy diesel from Russia, restricted SpaceX Starlink, stopped sharing intel on incoming missiles, & asked Europe to unfreeze Russian assets to give to Russia. Hope Americans aren’t confused on who he works for
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US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks
European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump’s negotiators during meeting in Miami
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well, it wasn't an anomaly. I opened IHeartRadio at 3 pm, and it's played nothing but commercials for 13 minutes straight.
A smartphone screen shows that the IHeartRadio app is open to MSNow, and the time is 3:13
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026
This is a good thread and for some reason it unlocked something that's been brewing in the back of my head for a while.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have never underestimated Trump’s lying, or his ability to spew bullshit. But he has in fact lost substantial control of his mind. And his ability to distinguish truth from lies—which was never really strong or important to him—is, at this point, de minimis.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Video emerged online of the aftermath of Russian drone strike on civilian car in Kharkiv region ​Russian drone targeted a civilian vehicle carrying a man and a woman as they were driving toward their home village of Pytomnyk in the Kharkiv region.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Karpivka settlement in Donetsk region is back under Ukrainian control. It was liberated within Operation Vivaldi by border guards from the "Sribna Triika" unit of the "Pomsta" Brigade, together with the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. Glory!
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Footage of a Ukrainian Liutyi ("Furious") drone on its way to strike the LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Perm, Russia. ~1,550 km from Ukraine.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perm Oil Refinery (Permnefteorgsintez) in Russia is on fire today 🔥 Here are some of the best pictures circulating online:
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Sloviansk, Donetsk region. Russia is dropping aerial bombs on the cities, destroying everything in their path. Russia's goal is destruction and terror.
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Champaign Walmart has a great pharmacist named Rodney Burayidi. Heather & I went to see him today, and we each left with two new holes in our arms. #Novavax and #Flublok, both diligently administered by Pharmacy Assistant Connor (pictured). @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social @aetiology.bsky.social
Connor, the talented pharmacy assistant at Champaign's North Prospect Walmart, displays a vial of 2026-27 Novavax adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine.Connor, the pharmacy assistant at Champaign's North Prospect Walmart displays a vial of influenza vaccine. He's wearing a surgical mask, and has long brown hair and a beard.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Galea’s research, which is yet to be peer reviewed, found that the greater the background noise, the less likely gibbons were to call. The group living close to the highway called in 36% of recordings – far less than the seaside group (71.4%), and the hiking trail group (84.6%).”
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They’re the sopranos of the forest, so what’s silencing the gibbons’ morning chorus?
As human development and roads increasingly fragment their habitats, a study suggests traffic noise could be altering the animals’ wake-up call
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Abraham Lincoln once slept at 404 W. Illinois Street in Urbana, IL.
A picture of the house at 404 West Illinois Street in Urbana, Illinois shows a handful of erect, inflatable penises —perhaps four feet long and a foot wide, with testes at the base — tied to the posts supporting the roof of a covered porch. The porch floor is absent. A sign next to the front door shows a City of Urbana logo and the legend "The City of Urbana has made it a pain in the dick to repair this old rotting porch." Captured Saturday morning, September 19, 2026.A different view of the house at 404 West Illinois Street in Urbana, Illinois shows the front and side of the house. A handful of erect, inflatable penises —perhaps four feet long and a foot wide, with testes at the base — tied to the posts supporting the roof of a covered porch. The porch floor is absent. A sign next to the front door shows a City of Urbana logo and the legend "The City of Urbana has made it a pain in the dick to repair this old rotting porch." Captured Saturday morning, September 19, 2026.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two people visiting Cincinnati from out of state went to the ED at Children’s Hospital and spent 4 hours there. They were sick with measles. Those who were exposed have been notified. This is been happening repeatedly throughout the U.S. And is why vaccine choices affect everyone.
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Measles exposure reported at Cincinnati Children's Hospital emergency department
The Cincinnati Health Department said it was notified of a measles exposure at the Cincinnati Children’s Emergency Department.
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Menards sent my most recent rebate check disguised as a flyer, advertising vinyl windows. I predict that thousands of people will throw these away, and the customer backlash will be enormous.
The actual Menards rebate check is hidden inside a flyer advertising vinyl windows.The back of the Menards mailer is mostly an ad, but a tiny message in the lower right borner suggests there's rebate information inside.The front of a piece of mail, sent by Menards to Rob McColley, appears to be a glossy ad for Performax vinyl windows.
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I upgraded my Unihertz Jelly Star to Android 16, and now neither Musicolet nor VLC can play more than 5 minutes of audio without crashing. Reddit suggests Alphabet is being more gatekeepy, and also requiring that these apps be written in Rust. Maybe Google only wants media players with ads?
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
.@chrislhayes.bsky.social just said "soory" to a Canadian, and the Canadian didn't get it.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs
Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
.@chrislhayes.bsky.social I'm glad you read your mentions, because I think there might be a correction for the 5th edition of Siren's Call. In the section about "bookish" people, the inference is that people have always read books in silence. I don't think that's true. #SirensCall
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Kherson. Russia deliberately attacked a man selling goods at a market. He tried to hide, but the Russian FPV drone followed him. The National Police posted that he survived but was injured. Russian human safari in Kherson never stops.
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I hate the new Alexa voices.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
58 days of relentless resistance. 🦩 Albanians are standing up against land grabs, corruption, and authoritarian overreach to defend their public lands and democratic rights. When the people unite, real change happens. Keep raising your voices, Albania! 🇦🇱
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
How Quebec became North America’s urban outlier (with @adammongrain.bsky.social and @jfrheault.bsky.social)
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How Quebec became North America’s urban outlier
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I would like to share with you an analysis of the current state of the war by Ukrainian analyst Vadym Denysenko. Strikes on an oil platform in the Caspian Sea, the suspension of Kazakh oil transshipment in Novorossiysk, the blockade of the Black Sea for #Ukraine,⤵️
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Rob McColley 🇺🇦 @mccolley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's been 35 years since Don Pardo introduced ZZ Top as "Elvis Costello," and I have finally recovered enough to give "Mighty Like A Rose" another chance. It's not bad.
Elvis Costello and G.E. Smith perform "The Other Side of Summer" during a 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Costello is wearing an enormous beard, sunglasses and a camouflage baseball cap.
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Mark Anderson (He/His/Him) 🍁 @cycletherapyham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Driver: Why did you take a picture of my car? Me: You are parked illegally! Driver: Delete the picture!!! Me: No, you are stopped in the bike lane, I am on a bike! Stopping in a bike lane is a $200 fine if caught.
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Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I am falling a little bit more in love with Jude Bellingham every day.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 3 types of driver that think it's OK to park in bike lanes in NYC
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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What is life like in wartime Moscow, especially now that Ukraine has finally brought the war home to Russians? I called my friend Nina Khrushcheva (Nikita's granddaughter) for a surreal report. My latest. puck.news/nina-khrusch...
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Behind Russian Lines
In a conversation from Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev’s granddaughter describes a society adjusting to shortages, tighter government surveillance, blocked cellphone service, and the realization that Putin’...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Shocking moment of today's Russian strike on Sumy, which killed 5 people‼️ Please do not look away! No mother should be forced to cover her children's bodies with her own like this. No child should have to live through such horrors!
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Todd Blanche's confirmation should be delayed until he releases Epstein Files. Please pass it on.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.
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Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 09/07/2026
you can't park there. 311-28165146 (supposedly, "the condition was corrected without the need to issue a summons" which means no one learned a lesson and this will happen again)
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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Drivers who yell at me to “move over”: this is why I don’t ride as far to the right as you wish I would. I’m riding safely, and you can chill the fuck out.
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Cyclist dies days after being hit by car door in St. Paul, police say
A cyclist died days after he was struck by an open car door in St. Paul, Minnesota, late last month, according to police.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.
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TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) @toderianuw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Yes "bikes!", because without our particular bikes and the dedicated infrastructure, we'd have been another car contributing to traffic for this particular errand.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 26/06/2026
I just signed an executive order to support faster, cheaper, and easier public transit across California. I'm directing state agencies to prioritize key local transit projects by enforcing clear deadlines, modernizing arrival data and payments, and expanding employee benefits.
Governor Newsom signs executive order accelerating new tech, services for California's local transit & passenger rail networks
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/06/2026
Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening
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