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J.D. Rees

@jdreesiii.bsky.social
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Attorney, US & int'l politics junkie, LA sports fan, amateur astronomer/cosmology enthusiast, Husband of Angela, father of Harper, Piper, and Penny

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Simple majorities plus the White House can pack the courts. My proposal is that we double the entire federal judiciary: bsky.app/profile/jdre...
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not just SCOTUS :: slaps federal bench:: this baby can fit SO many district court judges and appellate court justices! In all seriousness, we should *Double* the Federal Judiciary bsky.app/profile/jdre...
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hence: bsky.app/profile/jdre...
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For easier-messaging but similar-Overton-window moving purposes, my suggestion is that we double the entire federal judiciary--up to and including SCOTUS
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bare-majority legislation vs. amending the constitution is such a no brainer, it's insane that anyone is coming out and suggesting the latter in this environment bsky.app/profile/jdre...
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Michael Scott (Steve Carell) Says Thank You
ALT: Michael Scott (Steve Carell) Says Thank You
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
he literally does the face
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Tim Heidecker Tim And Eric
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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The Big Lebowski: Walter & The Dude - Coen Brothers
ALT: The Big Lebowski: Walter & The Dude - Coen Brothers
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We need to normalize thinking about large-scale prosecutions of this admin as inevitable. Cabinet members on down to ICE stormtroopers are going to face justice for their rampage of criminality. And the public needs to know details of what happened. The murders, the bribes and embezzlement.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Lana 🌺 ❤️💛💚💙💜 @mahalomalama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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5 Supreme Court Judges Raising The Confederate Flag While Trampling Over Paper That Says, Voting Rights Act
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
May I respectfully propose instead a full Doubling of the Entire Federal Judiciary? bsky.app/profile/jdre...
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 19/08/2026
inshallah this will be me in 25-30 years
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The modern-day version of "nightmare in which i'm giving closing arguments to a jury [or taking a final law-school exam, etc.] while being underprepared" = learning, as you defend your expert's depo, that they have hundreds of pages of LLM conversations like this about "their" "expert opinions"
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A fun new existential horror for litigators everywhere!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My daughter is leaving for college this week, so we told her she could plan all the dinners -- order whatever she wants, go to any restaurant she wants -- and she said she wanted me to cook her favorite meal.
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Emotional 'Don't Cry' Moment
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
for now, but don't get cocky kid
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I keep saying, if we elect the right people this November and again in 2028, we can quite literally take back every fuckin cent these assholes have stolen from the American people. Every. Single. Cent.
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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 10/08/2026
like.
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スキビディミク @thebrainrotgotme.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As long as you're enjoying drawing that's all that matters
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Dr Michelle Wong - Lab Muffin Beauty Science @labmuffin.com · 08/08/2026
Here’s why AI chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini etc) are unreliable for science content, and terrible as “just a starting point” for science communicators. Unfortunately, this probably isn’t something AI chatbots get much better at… although sloppers will get better at hiding it!
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The entire supposed framework of the unitary-executive theory breaks down in this non-hypothetical scenario already upon us: what happens when the unitary executive is clearly wielding his authority lawlessly, refusing to abide by norms, binding precedent, the rule of law, the Constitution, etc.?
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Tia Yang @tsyang27.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Latest at @fiftyplusone.news: We built a dataset tracking every primary endorsement from Trump, progressive groups, party committees, women’s groups, and pro-Israel groups. Halfway through the season, here's who's winning. 🧵 blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/primary-pr...
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you Bluey Voidposting
I am up to no good, I will actively be disturbing the peace, featuring… Muffin? Trying to ride a pink flamingo
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's one national Political Party, Michael, how much could it cost? Negative two million dollars?
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Lucille Bluth Winks in Arrested Development
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Secret Panel HERE 😩 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/07/23/old
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great work as always, Dave
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2026
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/07/2026
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source. Obama's wealth grew from royalties from books written before office, and Bush's largely came from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior. Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.
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God Is A Tulpa @kristyclueless.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This goes out to everyone in the US, but especially looking at our politicians
A comic panel of a dog with a hat putting out fires. He is saying "there was no reason to let it last this long and get this bad"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An agent from HSI—the criminal investigation arm of ICE—shot and killed a young man in May while responding to a local 911 call as part of Trump’s ‘Memphis Safe Task Force.’ The call had nothing to do with immigration. Jonah Neal. Say his name.
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He was having a mental health crisis. Memphis task force agents came and shot him
Jonah Neal, 25, was struck by a Homeland Security Investigations agent in May. There have been at least four deadly shootings related to the task force.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Cathy Rutherford tells a journalist that the late Margaret Thatcher did “not a bit of good” and says “ i'd put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she never comes back”
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Said in a speech less than two weeks after the U.S. double-tap strike that killed 168 at an elementary school, mostly little girls under age 12. And Lindsey punctuated it with a snickering laugh. Not only will I not take the high road with him, I am suspicious of anyone who does.
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
That is what nobody will remember most—for *obvious* reasons—and you amplify the damage he did with this historiography. Please, stop
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Welcome to InfoWars (summer edition). Tune in tomorrow, anywhere you want. 8/7 ct.
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Nick i dunno what it is about your music but you fuckin rock, man. Thanks for sharing your gift
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Honest-to-god Nazi shit
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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Orwell spinning so much in his grave that a Dyson sphere around the cemetery where he was buried would solve the world's energy crisis in perpetuity
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There’s no difference between men marching in white masks and men marching in white hoods. None.
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the finale 🫡
a lot of fireworks at once looks like one really really big firework
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What a show, what a time to be alive.
He then got to the big story of the night: Exclusive footage of Alex Jones exploding in his SUV after eating too many Whataburgers. He took calls, including one from Tim from Toledo, who viewers quickly figured out was comedian Tim Robinson. Tim from Toledo insisted that Jones had been dead before the supposed explosion — that he’s a character, like James Bond or Bozo the Clown, who is periodically replaced. Heidecker kept in character as he derided Tim from Toledo’s theory, with the caller eventually spouting back, “I will not be told this, that I’m full of shit. I reject that!”
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