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Kevin Jon Heller

@kevinjonheller.bsky.social

Professor of International Law & Security, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies. Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on War Crimes. Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (UK). Arsenal, Bears, Magpies, All Blacks.

814 Followers  |  219 Following  |  519 Posts  |  Joined: 07.01.2025  |  1.9097

Latest posts by kevinjonheller.bsky.social on Bluesky

#MAGA -- Making America Gross Again.

17.02.2026 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," one CBS News staffer told me tonight. "This is 'fuck you' to Bari."

17.02.2026 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3618    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 33

TFW the computer program you are using shows an animated rolodex while loading pages and you have to explain to everyone else in the room what a rolodex is. 😒

16.02.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I read the title, I keep hoping your answer is going to be "Logan's Run."

15.02.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Taliban’s new penal code puts husbands on par with β€˜slave masters’ A Kabul-based legal adviser says it is now β€˜impossible for women to get any justice’ in the Taliban-run courts. Arpan Rai reports

More horrific gender apartheid from the #Taliban. www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

15.02.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I had a great time discussing the Karadzic trial -- an oldie but a goodie -- with the inimitable @andrewmueller.bsky.social!

14.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear #ICE,

I would like to see you completely defunded and abolished.

Sincerely yours,

Kevin

#DefundICE #AbolishICEnow

14.02.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's perfectly sane once you admit that the US no longer wants Ukraine to win the war.

13.02.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stop insulting white people food, the finest of all the races in the world.

13.02.2026 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLet’s just sack all the journalists. Pretty sure that won’t lead to us printing any absolutely honking factual errors.”

12.02.2026 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s talk about International Law at the Munich Security Conference!

β€œA Conversation on Security & Accountability in a Disintegrating Legal Order”

When: Friday 13 February at 10:30-11:15 am
Where: Dachgarten Lounge, Hotel Bayrischer Hof

Live-streamed on the @munsecconf.bsky.social website

12.02.2026 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration

We Europeans pride ourselves on respecting the rule of law, but all of this evaporates when it comes to our treatment of migrants
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...

11.02.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cameron met top government lawyer while dodging ICC prosecutor David Cameron sought advice from government’s top lawyer in Israel arms sales case a day after pencilled-in meeting with Karim Khan, new data show

David Cameron, profile in courage. www.declassifieduk.org/cameron-met-...

10.02.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very important post.

09.02.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very important post.

09.02.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Horkheimer, 1942/44

08.02.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Meanwhile, Trump is threatening foreign leaders to support him for the Nobel Peace Prize -- or else.

07.02.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

06.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 27709    πŸ” 8173    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 301

R2P = Responsibility to Plunder.

04.02.2026 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi shot dead by armed men at home Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s political team says β€˜four masked men’ stormed his house in Zintan

Shocked to learn that Saif Gaddafi has been killed. I spent a ridiculous amount of time writing about him when the #ICC wanted to prosecute him. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

04.02.2026 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Venezuela, Narco-Trafficking Narratives, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Rome Statute: Keeping Accountability on Track [Thairi Moya SΓ‘nchez (PhD) is a full-time professor of public international law at Complutense University of Madrid] Over recent months, the Venezuela file has moved into an accelerated escalation:…

I’m delighted to share my latest post: β€œVenezuela, Narco-Trafficking Narratives, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Rome Statute: Keeping Accountability on Track.”
Many thanks to the Opinio Juris team for the opportunity and careful editorial support!. opiniojuris.org/2026/02/03/v...

03.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I didn't have on my bingo card that Greenland would play a pivotal role for the future of democracy and International Law. But this is the first time Europe joined Canada and put the foot down to stop predator Trump.

Read and watch my latest here πŸ‘‰

03.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

His cognitive decline is so advanced he literally can't keep a coherent thought for two sentences. Of Somalis: "92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."

02.02.2026 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And @drnajimagi.bsky.social!

30.01.2026 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"Duck And Cover" - original TV advert
YouTube video by AlanSmithee20 "Duck And Cover" - original TV advert

Apparently I need to revisit my childhood "duck and cover" days...

As a Brit, I assume you were taught to stand up straight and stare impassively at the mushroom cloud as it rolled inexorably toward you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnK...

29.01.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Over the last year, the Trump 2.0 has bombed:

Yemen
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Somalia
Nigeria
Venezuela
Boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific

29.01.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 486    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 8

Calling the Gestapo β€œthe Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.

29.01.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4167    πŸ” 854    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 28

God knows this administration is world-historically dangerous. But are we really closer to doomsday than, say, the Cuban missile crisis?

29.01.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A few weeks back ICE agents ate at a Mexican restaurant and then *detained the restaurant's workers* and they're complaining about how they can't eat out anymore?

29.01.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2618    πŸ” 690    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 12

Parents are limiting their activities as legislatures kowtow to noisy crackpots who think they have a right to subject kids to fatal diseases and that ppl must adjust their lives to accommodate delusions. MAHA is a conspiratorial health populist movement attempting to exert control. Understand that.

29.01.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

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