Anjali Dayal

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

again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them

I actually respect hating Andrew Cuomo so much that you call a press conference to explain how much you hate him

The UN has a little informational update for us this evening, also useful to anyone currently threatening to invade New York

is Zohran the Fay Wray of this little scenario for them

ooooooooooo if I had known there'd be a halloween sticker

A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know

“If you are willing to accept that from a distance, as many Democrats say they are, a person may not be able to tell the real symbol of hate from its doppelgänger, that is for you to live with. But, I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism.”

I was going to crack a snarky joke but the honest truth is that if you’re over the age of thirteen and you fuck up you should have the good grace to admit it and not blame someone else for pointing out you fucked up

feckless!

There is literally no other way to describe your father’s cousin in English thats accurate. Second cousin is not a culturally relevant term. “Aunt” is a class of person, not a single bond of relation. “Uncle” is a class of person, not a single bond of relation.

The bigger revelation to me yesterday was that Bernie is tall! I’d always imagined him mitten-height, or, say, 5’7” ish

I realize this is going to make me sound like a giant naive newborn baby but I never understood why the Biden press secretaries didn’t sometimes just answer questions instead of adopting a frequently adversarial position. There’s no reason press secretaries can’t educate instead of just spinning.