Kyle Reed 🟥

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Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Amsterdam | Studying international law, language, and politics | #IntLaw (IHRL, IHL, jus ad bellum) | he/him 🏳‍🌈 | Lions Fan | Views are mine, nobody wants to pay for them

A screenshot of the results from 2020s Political Compass quiz, created by BritMonkey, showing that my closest match is Zohran Mamdani.
Paragraph 7 of the US-Iran MOU "The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, I.A.E.A. Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and express their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them."
A screenshot of a bluesky (the app for sports) feed showing two posts. The top post is about the Detroit Lions placing rookie WR Kendrick Law on injured reserve. The second post is about Joe the Lions will "push it" at training camp but won't break players.
Screenshot from the article: "For a start, the Department of Justice’s OLC should produce a written opinion on when the United States considers it lawful to target a foreign head of state under domestic law and the law of armed conflict. It need not be public in full, but the opinion should be available to the relevant congressional committees in classified form."
An image of a vinyl album cover sitting on a closed turntable. The cover is mostly black with red text. The text, in bold, reads "Chants, Poemes et Discours du Temps de la Resistance." The text covers the bottom third of the cover. In the center is a black and white oval image of a person listening to a 1940s radio
A screenshot about the play "Operation Hellfire,' put on by the Nationale Theater (Netherlands). The screenshot reads: "Operation Hellfire is een politieke thriller over het Internationaal Strafhof."
Screenshot of UNGA Draft Resolution A/80/L.67, reading: Algeria, Bahrain, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia:* amendment to draft resolution A/80/L.65 Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of climate change In operative paragraph 2, replace “as identified by the Court” with “taking into account the views of the Court, as appropriate,”.
Image shared from service members deployed as part of the (illegal) war against Iran. A cafeteria tray with a fork, carrot slices, a brown meat puck, and a mysterious silver-ish piece of something
Screenshot of a Spotify push notification reading: "New album coming soon - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart started the countdown on Spotify."
Image of "The Sims" video game title page
A screenshot of a Spotify Wrapped summary. Top artists: The Mountain Goats, Taylor Swift, Dessa, Enter Shikari, Lucy Dacus Top songs: Getting Ready to Get Down (Josh Ritter), True Blue (boygenius), Emily I'm Sorry (boygenius), The Good That Won't Come Out (Rilo Kiley), Forever Half Mast (Lucy Dacus). Minutes listened: 144,503 Top Genre: Freak Folk
Screenshot from the article reading: "What do you see as Dornsife’s greatest strengths? And what is a strength that this community might not recognize about itself? First off, the level of talent here is extraordinary. Faculty, staff, students — across the board, we’re operating at a very high level. There’s intellectual excellence, but also a real commitment to each other and to the mission of the College. That’s not something you can take for granted in academia."
Screenshot from the article reading: "Marketing plant-based products using meat labels "is misleading for the consumer", the member of the conservative EPP group in the EP said."
Screenshot from the article reading: "The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January"
An excerpt of a typewritten letter reading "I confess that I am getting a little anxious as to where all this is leading us." The signature is at the bottom right of the page in blue ink "S. Lloyd."
A picture of pink cherry blossoms reflected on blue water. The blossoms go across the center of the frame with white clouds behind them
A Spotify Wrapped card titled "Goblincore Banjo Folk Punk," describing my August listening. Featuring The Mountain Goats, AJJ, and Apes of the State
Image of a Spotify Wrapped summary. Top artists: 1. The Mountain Goats 2. Taylor Swift 3. Dessa 4. Anberlin 5. Enter Shikari Top songs: 1. True Blue (boygenius) 2. Hot & Heavy (Lucy Dacus) 3. A Better Son/Daughter (Rilo Kiley) 4. Garden Song (Phoebe Bridgers) 5. I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore (Lucy Dacus) Total minutes: 139,176
Image of a concert hall, taken from behind the Orchestra, looking out toward the seats
A map of poll closing times in the US election, shaded for CET. East coast polls close starting at midnight, with some wear coast polls not closing until after 4am CET.
Screenshot of an article abstract. The article tests the effectiveness of legal framing in human rights arguments, applying statistical research methods to recommendations in the Universal Periodic Review, to find that arguments framed on legal grounds outperform those framed on non-legal grounds. This calls attention to the value of legal argumentation and the place of legal rhetoric in IOs and human rights
A group photograph of conference participants standing outside the KFG building.
A black and white photo of a Martin P6M Seamaster, a jet powered flying boat. Picture is looking down at the plane on the water.
Quote from article: Campaigns are about many things: the state of the nation and the national mood, candidate character and candidate quality, policy prescriptions, the strength of a party’s infrastructure, money and advertising. But they are also about some intangibles, things that do not rise to the level of high policy or dignified debate, including sometimes a day-by-day jujitsu contest at which Trump once excelled.
The cover of the book "The Kid Who Ran For President"
Excerpt from the ICJ decision, paragraph 41: "41. According to the Respondent, the Israeli Defense Forces implement “[r]estricted fire areas” and “tactical pauses in fighting along evacuation routes” to enhance the security of the Palestinians evacuating..."
The first page of the ECHR press release accompanying the decision. Full text is linked in the post.
Quote from article: His Wetenschapsinstituut voor de Ontengelsing van de Taal (WOT) agency will first “unEnglish” official reports and then tackle youth slang in schools, linked with online language migration. “You hear teenagers describing an invitation, for example, as nice or chill, but this makes no sense in Dutch,” said Tilburg University linguistics professor Onsa Taal, who is advising the WOT. “It’s never cold enough to chill, for a start. And their grandparents cannot understand a word they are saying.”
Picture of a UNSC draft resolution authored by Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Switzerland. Operative Paragraph 1: "Demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address their medical and other humanitarian needs, and further demands that the parties comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain." Operative paragraph two reiterates previous demands regarding the flow of humanitarian assistance and protection of civilians in Gaza
Quote from a NY Times article: "Constitutional-law education is in a crisis, Justin Driver, a professor at Yale who has taught the subject for 15 years, told me. “One of the primary challenges when one is teaching constitutional law is to impress upon the students that it is not simply politics by other means,” he said. “And the degree of difficulty of that proposition has never been higher.”"
Quote from the article - "As he (Biden) intensifies his reelection campaign, the president must also showcase his national security credentials and his ability to keep Americans safe"
Screen grab of a Spotify Wrapped summary. Top Artists - the Mountain Goats, Taylor Swift, Anberlin, Dessa, Enter Shikari Top Songs - $20, Not Strong Enough, Garden Song, True Blue, Bite the Hand Minutes listened - 135,575 Top genre - Indie Rock
Poster for the lecture "The International Criminal Court - Between Internationality and Sovereignty," being given by Dr. Ute Hohoff on Tuesday 17 October at 6:15pm. The event is being held at Humbold University in Berlin, Lecture Hall 1072.
Picture of a Dutch language textbook