Anjali Dayal
@anjalikdayal.bsky.social
UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, joy, screwball comedy, international relations, custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
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Anjali Dayal
@anjalikdayal.bsky.social
· Jan 20
I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
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This is Dino. He is not just "going through a dinosaur phase." Obviously, it is a lifestyle. 12/10 (IG: dinoandluka)
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is Dino. He is not just "going through a dinosaur phase." Obviously, it is a lifestyle. 12/10 (IG: dinoandluka)
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Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
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Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
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New from @crisisgroup.org:
@fortid.crisisgroup.org, @maxji.bsky.social and I look at #UNSC debates over whether to endorse the U.S. peace plan for #Gaza.
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
@fortid.crisisgroup.org, @maxji.bsky.social and I look at #UNSC debates over whether to endorse the U.S. peace plan for #Gaza.
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
What to Look for as the Gaza Peace Plan Comes to the UN Security Council | International Crisis Group
The United States has proposed a UN Security Council resolution to back President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Daniel Forti, Richard Gowan and Max Rodenbeck analyse ...
www.crisisgroup.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New from @crisisgroup.org:
@fortid.crisisgroup.org, @maxji.bsky.social and I look at #UNSC debates over whether to endorse the U.S. peace plan for #Gaza.
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
@fortid.crisisgroup.org, @maxji.bsky.social and I look at #UNSC debates over whether to endorse the U.S. peace plan for #Gaza.
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
I love how they always look sequined and indignant
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I love how they always look sequined and indignant
ANY Mamdani. I guess someone really, really hated Citizen and Subject
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
ANY Mamdani. I guess someone really, really hated Citizen and Subject
even if she is lying (and we have no reason to think she’s stopped being racist or bigoted or antisemitic), the nature of her lie is notable: it shows us she thinks the permission structure for acceptable public behavior and rhetoric is changing. She’s never been dim, so she’s changing too.
I'm actually shocked. Good on Dana Bash for asking the question, and I genuinely would not have expected Greene to answer the way she did.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
even if she is lying (and we have no reason to think she’s stopped being racist or bigoted or antisemitic), the nature of her lie is notable: it shows us she thinks the permission structure for acceptable public behavior and rhetoric is changing. She’s never been dim, so she’s changing too.
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"you can do it out of spite"
🙏🏻
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I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"you can do it out of spite"
🙏🏻
🙏🏻
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Alice Wong created a feed about disability justice. We were lucky to be able to share this space with her.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Alice Wong created a feed about disability justice. We were lucky to be able to share this space with her.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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What we call health care is not only seen as a private privilege rather than a public good; it's seen as primarily a method of correction for defective bodies. It is neither. It is the prerequisite for all human rights and freedoms: expression, speech, religion, free movement, free association.
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
What we call health care is not only seen as a private privilege rather than a public good; it's seen as primarily a method of correction for defective bodies. It is neither. It is the prerequisite for all human rights and freedoms: expression, speech, religion, free movement, free association.
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It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
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It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Modi's demonetization but with food, what could go wrong
Brooke Rollins says on Newsmax SNAP participants will have to re-apply for the program.
Details are still unclear.
via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Details are still unclear.
via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
The move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the nation’s largest anti-hunger program and get rid of “fraud.”
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Modi's demonetization but with food, what could go wrong
Look because I was educated like a 19th century gentleman I actually did read the whole divine comedy for a class but because I’m not jackass I don’t leave it on my kitchen table when people come over
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Look because I was educated like a 19th century gentleman I actually did read the whole divine comedy for a class but because I’m not jackass I don’t leave it on my kitchen table when people come over
it’s really such insight into his character, that he neither understands others’ work separate from servility, nor how his own work is supposed to be service
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
it’s really such insight into his character, that he neither understands others’ work separate from servility, nor how his own work is supposed to be service
undergraduates today only remember the Obama era as children. but it's mostly not really the shift tone I have to explain, since most undergrads still clock that this is a strange way to speak--it's that pre-Trump, presidential speech was usually high signal, low noise
Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
undergraduates today only remember the Obama era as children. but it's mostly not really the shift tone I have to explain, since most undergrads still clock that this is a strange way to speak--it's that pre-Trump, presidential speech was usually high signal, low noise
why are his pants so short
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
why are his pants so short
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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"she needed money for braces"
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"she needed money for braces"
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
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[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.