We don't wanna hear you say "nigga" no more!

These are just some of the troubling findings from audits of six city agencies undertaken by the Mamdani administration to ensure compliance with the city’s sanctuary laws. The audits and recommendations were called for under Executive Order 13, Mayor Mamdani’s first step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to protect New York’s immigrants from federal immigration enforcement. The 19-page executive summary of the audits illuminates the breadth of city agency interaction with immigration enforcement and outlines recommendations for how officials can plug loopholes and rectify weaknesses in the city’s immigrant protections.

There is then a link to a UN article stating the same thing from the address “ohcr.org”, and an image with a background of thick, slightly blurred blue and navy blue stripes and a white logo in the centre; the logo has two olive branches surrounding a graphic of a simple white fireball sweeping to the left. The whole image has a slightly papery texture overlaid, and there is a small caption in a black box with white text that reads “Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts”

There are then two other screenshots from this article. They have grey text on a white background, and read “GENEVA (23 February 2024) - Any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in Gaza is likely to violate international humanitarian law and must cease immediately, UN experts* warned today.

’All states must ‘ensure respect’ for international humanitarian law by parties to an armed conflict, as required by 1949 Geneva conventions and customary international law,’ the experts said. ‘States must accordingly refrain from transferring any weapon or ammunition - or parts of them - if it is expected, given the facts or past patterns of behaviour, that they would be used to violate international law.’

‘Such transfers are prohibited even if the exporting state does not intend the arms to be used in violation of the law - or does not know with certainty that they would be used in such a way - as long as there is a clear risk,’ they said.

Silver hinged anklets from Oman, 1950s.

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David Ferry, commenting on Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation by George Kalogeris