J.D. Rees
J.D. Rees
@jdreesiii.bsky.social
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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Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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those who object are subject to summary execution
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.
Ex-Nazi guard, 101, sentenced for role in 3,500 murders
He was sentenced to five years in prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
ICE Trials. 2027.
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM
National ICE Trials. 2027.
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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My god
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Nearly $30 BILLION for ICE.

"No funding" for affordable groceries, health care, or housing. Trump's priorities are very clear—and they're extremely dangerous.
January 23, 2026 at 7:45 PM
About 88 people per hour--"the majority children"--die because Elon Musk, with the approval of Trump and lickspittle Congressional Republicans, fed USAID into a woodchipper. May God forgive us
"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."
One Year Later: The Effect of US 'Chainsaw' on Global Health healthpolicy-watch.news/the-human-co...
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Inject today's Order re Lindsay Halligan into my veins:

"At the end of the day, Ms. Halligan’s Response asserts... she is free to act in an unlawful capacity, because she disagrees that she does so unlawfully. But that’s not how our legal system works...

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#23 in United States v. Jefferson (E.D. Va., 3:25-cr-00160) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER (Striking and Barring Future Use of Title; Providing Notice): This matter comes before the Court on the United States of America's (the "Government") Response to the Court's January 6...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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dear God, help me stay in courage so I can help all who fight 🇺🇸 fascism.

help me stand with sane patriots who love liberty. 🔔 #Antifa
January 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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This isn’t the America I want to live in.

And I don’t think it’s one most people want to live in.
4 male ICE agents tackle a woman U.S. citizen—lift her off ground with no concern over groping her breast or exposing her midriff.

"Help me! Help me!" she cries out. "Check my ID!"

Agents shove her into back of SUV hitting her head—literally run away from scene of crime.

St. Paul, Minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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ICE recruitment is going well.
January 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Daily required reading
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM