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Patrick Verel

@pverel.bsky.social
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Interests include, in no particular order, graffiti, running, writing, photography, urbanism, salamanders, Bob's Burgers, rye whiskey, and smashing fascism. More at patrickverel.com

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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If I restrict myself to Instagram posts and cover letters, I will lose my freakin' mind. So, without further ado, welcome to my Substack, a catch-all for thoughts, ideas, musings, ramblings, photography, reporting, and interesting ways to use words like zeitgeist and flaneur. Subscribe, won't you?
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Adventures in Sea Glass Foraging
The first thing you need to know is that I’m unemployed.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
Album cover photo of the Marina apartments in Chicago for Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Fuck yeah. Suck it, Donnie.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This guy gets it.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I feel seen!!!!!!!!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
They are saying Kid Rock handed his Grammy to lil’ Kyle Rittenhouse during the halftime show. (Not true. Kid Rock has never won a Grammy).
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/02/2026
They are currently hot Latinas on my television, I was told Mr. Trump would stop this
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/02/2026
The Obamas, some of the most impressive Americans we have been blessed with, were compared to animals.
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Amazing turnout for last nights Freedom Friday. Best part? At the end, a guy pulled up in a big delivery truck and just LAID on the horn over and over. Everyone whooped it up, and I gave him a high five. There really is something to this organizing thing. #freedomfriday #brooklynresisters #fuckice
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Mariah Carey is there because Long Island is technically part of Italy
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It's hard to be optimistic these days. I take heart in the fact that there is clearly a huge hunger for stories that push back against the xenophobia that is sweeping the globe. We've got them right here at Fordham, and the world is paying attention.
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Stories of Bronx African Americans Draw Worldwide Attention
Every day, countless people around the world hear up-close and personal stories of the residents of the Bronx, thanks to Fordham’s Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP). And interest in
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/02/2026
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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✶ MarcusD ✶ @marcusd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ice out
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thank you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social!
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It’s a balmy 17 in Brooklyn today and the call didn’t go out until 1 pm, but a good 30 or so of us turned out for an emergency “Freedom Friday.” Because, ya know, ICE can rot in hell for what it’s putting Minneapolis through right now. #FuckIce #ripalexpretti
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Masha Gessen recently dubbed Trump's invasion of Venezuela and the murder of an innocent American citizen by his paramilitary force "An Assault on Hope." To which we simply say, Get the fuck out of here, LOSER. We're Americans, and we take orders from no king. Not now, not ever. #NoKings #FuckICE
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Joined my first Freedom Friday protest this evening with the Brooklyn Resisters. 30 minutes of hanging around the entrance to the Prospect Expressway with some patriotic Brooklynites. Can’t begin to tell you how good it feels to be around decent people during these dark times. #FuckICE
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Also, I wonder if people get how strange it is that Bovino keeps showing up on all these raids. He's one of the top-most CBP officials there is. It'd be like if NYPD Commish Tisch kept putting on body armor to do small drug raids in NYC all the time. Lays bare that this is all about spectacle.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I know "nothing ever changes" is part psychological defence and part easiest hedge bet, because it is so often true, but people should think before sharing their "everything will always be awful" take. First, it adds to collective depression, but also it becomes a personally disempowering mantra.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil. TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports?
Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Here it is
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I never knew I could loathe Facebook more than I do. I feel like I’m being served up content from the deepest darkest corners of hell now.
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Filed under “not all heros wear capes.”
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Fuck Yea
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hey ChatGPT: Please generate an image of a man thoroughly devoid of any and all human empathy.
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza was built in 1899 to honor veterans of the Civil War. I can't think of a better place to march to defend this country from a new form of evil threatening to tear the country apart. #NoKings #Brooklyn
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Who's gonna get the Kickstarter going to make posters of this badboy? Let's plaster the land with them!
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Not sure about this new Andrew Cuomo ad
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I feel like this could be titled Effect and Cause. Cause? Penis rocket boy’s wedding. Effect? Democratic socialist mayor. Good job @nytimes.com, good job.
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
10/10 No notes.
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congratulations @shahanafrombk.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/n...
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Hanif Wins Re-election in Council Contest Defined by Israel and Gaza
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@danpfeiffer.bsky.social gets it. I don’t care who you vote for, as long as it’s not Cuomo open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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The Incredibly Stupid, Self-Defeating Democratic Panic about Zohran Mamdani
Whether you like him or not, the campaign to defeat Mamdani reeks of everything people hate about politics
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
More excellent snark: bsky.app/profile/gwyn...
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Reading this, I couldn't help but recall how the editorial board stated a few months ago that they'd be publishing fewer pieces, and devote more space to columns and op-eds. They really should have stuck to that plan.
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Was also thinking of "There's gonna be an even bigger parade when your big fat fascist ass is gone" and "This sign is too small to list all ways Trump is a pathetic weak little pansy boy." The kids had fun doing the crown though, so l've shelved those ideas for later. #nokings
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“Horseshoe crabs in New York City waters are experiencing a population bump, bucking the overall trend in the Atlantic Ocean.” Woo hoo!
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Brooklyn NY” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Brooklyn NY · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I'm attending Zellnor for NYC's event, “Text Voters with Team Zellnor” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/zellnorforny...
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Text Voters with Team Zellnor · Zellnor for NYC
Join us for a virtual event to help Zellnor Myrie bring real change to New York City by connecting with fellow Democrats! We will be using Scale to Win Text to reach out to voters across the city to h...
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Count me in!
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com Thought y’all would appreciate this. My birthday was yesterday, and my 13-year-old surprised me with this. I was floored when I opened it. 😁
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Patrick Verel @pverel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Yup
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