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Anjali Dayal
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UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, joy, screwball comedy, international relations, custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
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ANY Mamdani. I guess someone really, really hated Citizen and Subject
A cropped photo of a sheet of white printer paper taped to the base of a lamppost over some sticker graffifi. The visible part of the sign says “save Columbus” and “no to any Mamdani” in all caps black-and-white after arrow bullet points. The M, a, and d of Mamdani are underlined, while the whole name except the I is italicized
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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the bunniest of bunny rabbits
Tiny perfect little fluffy yellow dog laying with her head between a little stuffed light brown dog that looks like her and a small pink lamb chop stuffed animal. Her head is on the diagonal; her eyes are closed; her nose is by lambchop’s head and her dog’s ears; her own ears are soft and down; and she is on a yellow sofa with two patterned blankets on top of it
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Pupdate
Tiny perfect little fluffy yellow dog laying with her head between a little stuffed light brown dog that looks like her and a small pink lamb chop stuffed animal. Her eyes are big, brown, and open; her ears are soft and down; and she is on a yellow sofa with two patterned blankets
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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There’s a historical echo here too—pluralism not as something utopian, but as something demonstrated. E.B. White’s 1949 Here is New York calls it the peace of cosmopolitan intercourse, the inviolate truce—an argument from necessity. The Mamdani campaign frames the argument from empathy & cooperation
Photo of a book page that reads “The collision and the intermingling of these millions of foreign-born people representing so many races and creeds make New York a permanent exhibit of the phenomenon of one world. The citizens of New York are tolerant not only from disposition but from necessity. The city has to be tolerant, otherwise it would explode in a radioactive cloud of hate and rancor and bigotry. If the people were to depart even briefly from the peace of cosmopolitan intercourse, the town would blow up higher than a kite. In New York smolders every race problem there is, but the noticeable thing is not the problem but the inviolate truce.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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boo.
photo of a tiny perfect fluffy yellow dog with a fox-style face and pointy-floppy ears, one of which is up, one of which is half down. She is wearing a black-and-orange halloween sweater with long sleeves and sitting so her back leg is casually and glamorously out to the side (technically a turkey leg pose, but no turkey ever sat like this). She is looking very seriously at the camera with her leash to the side behind her, and she is standing in front of a painted fall backdrop of leaves, plaid blankets, hay bales, fairly lights, and pumpkins.
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p... this is unbelievably funny
Screenshot of an article that says “"My question is, how can you, Zohran Mamdani, convince New Yorkers to go and vote for you when you just said you lied?" said Carlos Molina, one of the hosts on Latino radio station La Mega 97.9's "El Vacilón de la Mañana." "It's not a lie," Mamdani responded. "My father's cousin is my aunt. That is how I referred to her all my life."”
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Paul very precisely lays out the situation, the stakes, and how analytic clarity can help us find a way out musgrave.substack.com/p/dual-colla...
Screenshot that reads: "The dismantling of U.S. hegemony, then, is something that is logically distinct from authoritarian consoidation domestically. The turn toward a naked grab for a great power division of the world — one in which the United States will pursue hemispheric exclusion and domination — represents a particularly bizarre caricature of the U.S. public’s potential acceptance of some form of retrenchment after the “forever wars”. Grasping that Trumpism involves a simultaneous assault on both pillars of post-1945 liberalism — a large policy abroad to keep the world safe for democracy, and an expansive set of institutions designed to extend and make meaningful popular participation in governance at home — and that these are separate assaults — will help you keep the stakes clear—and to imagine ways back from it. In particular, something I think that my earlier writing can help us with is the realization that we should be clear that there’s nothing “natural” or “inevitable” about the previous system. Franklin Roosevelt himself was not an inevitable president, and subsequent administrations faced choices in modifying and reaffirming parts of the general system laid down in the 1940s. To put it another way, there does not have to be a rallying cry to go back to the world as it is and the Constitution as it was. We can and must think about creative ways to address distinct problems."
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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dispatch
A tiny perfect fluffy yellow dog sits smiling with a pink mini lamb chop stuffed animal under her chin and between her paws. The lamb chop is sitting like people.
October 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I have now picked up her medication and it specifies she should be careful operating any vehicles after taking it
Small perfect fluffy yellow dog inside a car. She is sitting in the backseat and looking out a window that’s off camera.
October 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect
A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” and “statue of liberty chicken.” Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek. They have tags around their necks that say “squeeze me to hear me scream”
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Just walked by this midtown vet’s office doing its best
A whiteboard outside a brick building is that says “September” and “vaccine awareness month” in decorative handwritten pink and orange marker. The whiteboard is illustrated with handrawn cartoon dogs and cats and flowers and waterbowls and bottles. The dog is holding an umbrella with flowers on it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I mean
Screenshot of a New York Times article that reads “The New Work Eimes What's With All the Beards? More and more men seem to be putting down the razor and letting their whiskers grow. Our critic examines the history of the trend and what it might mean.” The article is illustrated by a photo of a beaming Zohran Mamdani
September 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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zeitgeist
Photo of “The Birdcage” playing on a tv. Agador Spartacus and Armand are in the kitchen. Agador is surrounded by a meal he’s in the midst of preparing and looks distressed. The caption, spoken by Armand, reads, “It's like riding a psychotic horse towards a burning stable.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Just ran across this button in my childhood bedroom. I think I made this exact emoji face 😫
A photo of a Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign button on a WWF calendar featuring a red panda’s adorable whiskered face
August 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I mean
Photo of a door in a dark room with a single line of light coming from the hallway under the door. A giant UN flag that i bought by accident when i was trying to get a small UN flag hangs next to the door. A blue automatic light shines under the flag. A trash can is under the flag. A “pleas clean this office” tag is on the door handle.
August 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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we hear it's international dog day. Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night, from Mary Oliver
photo of a page that says "He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I’m awake, or awake enough he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. “Tell me you love me,” he says. “Tell me again.” Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask. I get to tell." (“Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night” by Mary Oliver, from Dog Songs)
August 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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moving past this moment in US politics is going to require credible promises to prosecute the authors of all this human disaster. peoples interested in countering US authoritarianism can draw on international tools in this process, including joining the ICC internationalpolicy.org/publications...
screenshot of a text box with the header: "SOLUTIONS, DISTILLED: El Salvador's actions show Human Rights law matters" and bullet point below that read " • Pressure governments to sanction or isolate El Salvador, the US, or both • Call for investigations by multilateral human rights bodies, building a body of evidence that might later help move the levers of international justice. • Demand signatories refer El Salvador to the International Criminal Court • American opposition leaders can and should credibly signal that there will be accountability and consequences for the Trump administration's human rights abuses • Democratic presidential contenders should promise to join the ICC it they come to power
August 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The UN has a little informational update for us this evening, also useful to anyone currently threatening to invade New York
Screenshot of UN’s instagram account, with a photo of UNHQ as seen from the east river on a mackerel-sky day. The caption reads: “unitednations Along the East River in #NYC stands #UnitedNations Headquarters. Passing through its gates means entering international territory. This 18-acre site does not belong to any single country, but to all 193 Member States of the Organization. Every day at the UN, representatives from around the world come together to find common ground on global challenges and to take action on issues no country can resolve alone. 47 minutes ago”
August 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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and all over town:
A yellow wheat pasted sign that says: “1. You have the right to film the police. 2. Ask: "Am I free to go?" 3. Say: "I do not consent to a search." 4. If you are stopped, remain silent * FREE DC,” with DC under the stars and bars of its flag
August 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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www.nps.gov/linc/learn/h...
screenshot of national park service page on Lincoln's second inaugural address that reads ". Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
August 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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here’s Daisy at Union Station, that complete nest of vipers
a photo of Daisy, a small perfect fluffy yellow dog wearing a pink hoodie, standing in the Beaux-Arts/neoclassical foyer of Union station in Washington DC with a huge arched window above her and reflected in the marble floor below her.
August 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I keep seeing things like this & while they’re well-intentioned I wonder if they’re a blinder, not a spur. We don’t have a narrowing window to stop Trump; he’s here & the constitutional order we knew is gone. This is not the end of anything: now people of good faith need to help make a better order
Screenshot of a post that reads “"We have a narrowing window when Trump can still be stopped and constitutional democracy restored.”
August 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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spotted in the neighborhood
a sticker on the sidewalk that said "you again? in red retro cursive in the top right and "stop the "alt-right"" and "we beat 'em before * we'll beat 'em now" in two lines, all caps, sans serif, in two lines across the bottom. the center of the the photo is a hatless Uncle Sam, Stars and Stripes vest and trousers over a white shirt, rolling up his sleeves while he wields what looks like a silver dumbell in his hand. in the mid-right of the image, men in Nazi uniforms and KKK hoods are fleeing with their swastika flags in fear.
August 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I am considering taking my diploma off my office wall and replacing it with a framed print of this
black-and-white 1985 photo of a woman, Danuta Danielsson, hitting a neo-nazi with her handbag in a Växjö, Sweden town square. She is in her late 30s, wearing a blazer over a midi pleated skirt, and sensible shoes, and lunging with the determination of a mighty warrior; her handbag is large, and about to make contact with the back of his head. the neonazi has a flag and is standing upright because the photo captures the moment before her strike. Danuta Danielsson is Polish-born daughter of Holocaust survivors. more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Daisy’s on this call too
Photo of the back of a small fluffy perfect yellow dog looking at a slide on a zoom call that says “ PILLARS NONCOOPERATION: EXAMPLES Local Businesses It's happened already: Dodgers Stadium owners refused to allow ICE on their premises, going against law enforcement compliance norms. We can make it happen more: Join activists who have begun asking local businesses to put up "No ICE" signs in their windows.
July 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM