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Anjali Dayal

@anjalikdayal.bsky.social

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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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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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 · 1h

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

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1h

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

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 10h

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

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20h

I’ll show myself out

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20h

How did you find my notes??

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20h

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

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

completely undignified

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

@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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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Student protests are basically a necessary condition for any democracy movement

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Student-Led Pro-Democracy Protests and Their Impact Worldwide (1955-2025)
Outcome
• Successful Transition
• Long Term Impact|
• Partial Gains|
• No Immediate Gains
Hungary Uprising' °

1960
1970
Poland Protests' ® 'France May '68
° South Korea April Revolution
Mexico Movement, a, Yugoslavia Protests
Greece Polytechnic, o
1980
Poland Solidarity, O
" 'South Africa Soweto
Philippines People Power,®
Brazil Diretas Já
South Korea June Movement
Burma 8/8/88 China Tiananmen
1990
Vepal Jana Andolan|
Indonesia Reformasi, o
2000
zechoslovakia Velvet- & ,East Germany Participation
Taiwan Wild Lily
Serbia Otpor, & ran University Protests
o Ukraine Orange Revolution
Venezuela Movement, o
2010
long Kong Umbrella
Tunisia Participation
gypt Tahrir, & Chile Winter urkey Gezi Park, g, Ukraine Euremaidan
•,Ethiopia Protests
2020
Myanmar Protests' 8, Iran Life Freedom
Bangladesh July Revolution' & Serbia
Algeria Hirak' 8 Thailand Students
Note: This timeline illustrates major student-led protests from 1955 to 2025, highlighting their outcomes in terms of political and social change. Outcomes are categorized as 'Successful Transition' (leading directly to significant reforms or government changes), 'Long Term Impact' (initially limited but influential over time),
'Partial Gains' (achieving some concessions or moderate changes), and 'No Immediate Gains' (little to no short-term change despite protest efforts).

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

are you speaking in your private capacity or on behalf of the Hoop Earring Association of the Americas

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's not the most important thing but I'm also insulted on behalf of hoop earrings for being dragged into this CBS news debacle

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

THE EM DASHES ARE INNOCENT

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

I'm so proud of my sister, who was head writer for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and is now the showrunner of this brand-new HORTON! series for Netflix.

Please watch with your family! It's hard to get preschool shows made these days, and the algo isn't built for this www.netflix.com/title/81388347

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