Daniel Garrett

The Jan issue of AJIL is now online, featuring a curated Book Reviews section where classic texts & films are put in conversations with newer ones to analyze how current events in int'l law connect to both historical trends & prospects for the future.
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After years of taking sunset photos on the coast, they all started to seem the same but looking back now, I can see the differences in the cloud formations, the waves, the streaks of light. Each was unique, even if I didn't see it at the time.
#photography #californiacoast #fromthearchives #sunset

Pair jailed for violent attack on gay men in Kenya Two people have been sentenced to jail time for attacking and robbing two gay men in Kenya, a ruling that has been hailed as a breakthrough moment for

Pair jailed for attack on gay men in ‘encouraging’ moment for Kenya’s queer community

La Scarzuola: Umbria’s Adults-Only Architectural Playground - Italy Segreta A look into, La Scarzuola in Umbria the 13th-century Franciscan monastery transformed into a surreal architectural dreamscape in the 1950s.

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Israeli shelling killed Pierre al-Rai, a Priest in the southern Lebanese border village of al-Qlayya in Marjayoun district after a home in the town was struck twice. The first Israeli artillery strike wounded the homeowner and his wife, prompting neighbors and Red Cross paramedics to rush in to help

Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm last week after he disrupted a Senate hearing to voice his opposition to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Democracy Now! speaks with the veteran, Brian McGinn...

www.democracynow.org/2026/3/11/br...

How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.

The election and reelection of corrupt leaders, whether in the USA, Israel, or elsewhere, is a failure of citizenship, a failure of education, ethics, and engagement.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Vanishing Point with Bani Khoshnoudi TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.

"Beginning with recorded phone calls and visits, home movies, and family photos, Khoshnoudi traces the silence around the disappearance of a young family member in the notorious Evin Prison to engage the larger, collective silence in Iran..."
www.tiff.net/events/the-v...

Keep in mind that Pete Hegseth's reported Pentagon spending spree happened just months after Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to the social safety net in exchange for huge tax cuts for the rich.

And defense spending may soon hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Priorities.

Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

Personality disguises the total institutional power of the authoritarian state; thus, many people do not notice the step by step move into fascism. Idiosyncrasy diffuses the imperial.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How God Got So Great What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down, but there’s a reason it swept the world.

"Searching for a single key to monotheism across such varied traditions, however, is like trying to identify a facial feature shared by members of a large family."
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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say

Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court’s handling of emergency cases creates ‘warped’ process - Europe News Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday said the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency cases has created a “warped” process that effectively signaled the

Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court’s handling of emergency cases creates ‘warped’ process

https://www.europesays.com/news/3211/

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday said the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency cases has created a “warped”…

Mango pickers (Martinique), 1887 #gauguin #paulgauguin

Jamaica to end decades-long agreement with Cuba over medical missions criticized by US Jamaica’s foreign ministry says it is ending a decades-long agreement with Cuba involving its medical missions.

Jamaica is ending its agreement with Cuban doctors who helped staff hospitals and rural clinics. Cuba’s global medical missions provide revenue for Havana while filling physician shortages abroad. Without them, Jamaica’s rural health system could face major gaps.

apnews.com/article/jama...

Paul Bremer ran Iraq for Bush. His emails show what really happened ‘I am now officially the government of Iraq,’ Bremer wrote to his wife in private messages from 2003 unearthed by The Sunday Times. In frank detail, they show the dangers of waging war without the rig...

Newly revealed emails from Paul Bremer show the Iraq occupation descending into chaos behind the scenes. Overthrowing a govt is one thing—running the country afterward is another. Before talking about regime change in Iran, maybe we revisit what happened in Iraq.

www.thetimes.com/article/00b2...

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

I’ve taught students who came to school hungry.
I’ve watched parents work 2–3 jobs and still struggle with childcare.

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson is focused on political fights instead of kitchen-table issues.

Let’s build leadership centered on families, not political theatre.

Beyond the Potomac River, sewage spills threaten cities with old infrastructure and little funds A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure.

A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure.

Nashville reporter arrested by ICE asserts First, Fifth Amendment violations in new legal filings • Tennessee Lookout A petition filed by lawyers for Estefany Maria Rodríguez Florez accuses the federal government of violating the First and Fifth Amendment.

Attorneys for Estefany Maria Rodríguez Florez have filed an amended petition in federal court that accuses the federal government of First and Fifth Amendment violations in detaining the Spanish-language news journalist, who has reported critically in recent months about ICE enforcement activities.

In an exclusive interview, Kamal Kharazi, foreign policy adviser to the office of the Supreme Leader, tells CNN's Frederik Pleitgen that it is a "false narrative" that the Iranian military's capabilities have been drastically degraded and that he sees no "room for diplomacy anymore." #iran #war #USA

CNN Jerusalem Bureau Chief Oren Liebermann shows us the devastation wrought on an apartment in central Tel Aviv after a possible cluster munitions attack. #USA #Israel #Iran #war #donaldtrump

Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan An interview with Sana Atef, a reporter with the Zan Times who covers the lives and work of women in Afghanistan.

Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.

That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.

The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

In the woods 🌳 #trees #woodland #treeclub

Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.

hyperallergic.com/suffering-fr...