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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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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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Phil Reed @phil-b-reed.bsky.social · 19h

rana custodiet ipsos custodes

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5h

A FRIEND FROM ANOTHER POND

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11h

this week, we consider UNGA's aftermath; below the fold, we talk through the new Gang Suppression Force for Haiti & what, if anything, it can do differently from past interventions; & we both hope the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the remarkable mutual aid networks of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms

Did The Gaza Ceasefire Emanate From UNGA? Plus: A New "Gang Suppression Force" for Haiti and our Nobel Predictions

UNGA is over.

www.globaldispatches.org

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19h

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19h

the obsession with being seen as a peacemaker is not one most of his remaining senior staff seem to share, either; they seem happy to blow up random fishermen and crow about the warrior ethos without worrying about peace deals

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19h

the question is really why Trump wants so badly to be seen as a peacemaker, not whether he is one (obviously not)

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 21h

there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html

(from the nyt obvi) With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment

For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

soigné AND freewheeling

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

I am college professor and students skipping class is their problem, not mine

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

this is a hilarious thing to put anywhere in the newspaper, let alone page one

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

frog’s got backup. backup’s got rhythm. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll show myself out

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

To be totally fair to him, i think what had happened was that confused the marriage plot in monsoon wedding with the marriage plot in bend it like Beckham (not necessarily better, but more explicable)

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

Midatlantic chapter, but there’s been some splitting over whether midatlantic is one word or two

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

How did you find my notes??

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this inflatable frog

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t intervene to correct because it’s one of the steps in my Pedants Anonymous program

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

Zohran Mamdani’s mom directed Bend It Like Beckham, per this guy on the train

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

completely undignified

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

like, is that a way for a person to behave? It’s not. It’s ridiculous.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

this kind of arrogance is an attempt to intimidate people and therefore we should definitely mock her for it

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

tfw you go shopping for tools at the ash heap of history

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

The state is not a personal slush fund for the monarch, but Trump is absolutely determined to use the tools of the 21st century along with the economics of the 19th to rule like it's the 17th century

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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