Patrick Verel

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

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

I feel seen!!!!!!!!

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).

They are currently hot Latinas on my television, I was told Mr. Trump would stop this

The Obamas, some of the most impressive Americans we have been blessed with, were compared to animals.

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

Mariah Carey is there because Long Island is technically part of Italy

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

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.

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.”

Ice out

Thank you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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Here it is

YouTube video by Phil Lewis WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

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.

Filed under “not all heros wear capes.”

Fuck Yea

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.

Did I see somewhere that this was on a Park Slope FB group? Can you share the link? I'm in Kensington, so not too far away.

Hey ChatGPT: Please generate an image of a man thoroughly devoid of any and all human empathy.

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

YouTube video by Sighchev Wasting Food

My God, the NY Post really is utter trash. Reminded me of this Simpson's clip.
youtu.be/bM8lIamjfaE