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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 2h

#1, the point of this exercise is that it does NOT require 60 votes. That's the beauty of doubling the judiciary!

#2 gerrymandering messes with a LOT of shit, but Senate seats are not one of them. Senate seats are statewide elections, so no district drawing matters at all.

J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 14h

A devastating, impeachment-worthy admission. And plainly not true which, given the context, reeks of other impeachment-worthy corruption.

He expects Americans to be stupid enough to believe that he had no idea he happened to be pardoning a felon who just paid his family billions in crypto! lol foh

J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 15h

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today is a great day to share the new party line: #DoubleTheFederalJudiciary. All we need is simple majorities in both houses of Congress to change the number of district court, appellate, and SCOTUS judges. Not 60 votes to impeach, not 3/4 to change Constitution; simple majorities. That's it.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 15h

T-minus, what, one month till we find out about CZ sending personal emissaries to Trump and his failsons in the lead-up to bribery payments and CZ's pardon?

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 23h

It's so wild that, for decades, automation in the modern imaginary was this force to liberate us from manual labor and free us up to pursue art and poetry and other creative fields. And now our "futurists" are telling us the *computers* will be creative and *we* will toil in mines and factories?

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 3d

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 8d

it’s an innovative new strategy called irreparable harm and it’s the one weird trick judges just can’t beat

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8d

By proceeding with the demolition of the White House East Wing before seeking approval from federal agencies for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

How Trump Demolished the White House East Wing

By putting the demolition of the East Wing before the necessary approvals for his ballroom, President Donald Trump borrowed a tactic known as “stake-driving” to force an outcome.

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 9d

Take it a step further. How many national monuments/memorials could he take a sledgehammer to before the GOP in Congress say something? Anything?

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 11d

Serious question: How many historic memorials would Donald Trump have to demolish/destroy before Republican congresspeople speak up? The White House ain't enough. The Lincoln Memorial? Washington Memorial? Legitimately not sure there's a line he could cross on this

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · Feb 18

It is, as they say, fire.

The fellow is a catastrophe. But that is no reason why we should not find him interesting, as a character and as an event.
Consider the circumstances. Here is a man possessed of a bottomless resentment and a festering desire for revenge; a man ten times a failure, extremely lazy, incapable of steady work; a man who has spent long periods in institutions; a disappointed bohemian artist; a total good-for-nothing. And here is a people obsessed with powerful though far less justifiable feelings of defeat and inferiority, and unable to think of anything save how to retrieve its lost "honor." And then he— who had learned nothing, and in his dreamy, obstinate arrogance never would learn anything; who had neither technical nor physical discipline, could not sit a horse, or drive a car, or fly a plane, or do aught that men do, even to begetting a child—he develops the one thing needful to establish a connection between him and the people: a gift of oratory. It is oratory unspeakably inferior in kind, but magnetic in its effect on the masses: a weapon of definitely histrionic, even hysterical power, which he thrusts into the nation's wound and turns round. He rouses the populace with images of his own insulted grandeur, deafens it with promises, makes out of the people's sufferings a vehicle for his own greatness, his ascent to fantastic heights, to unlimited power, to incredible compensations and over-compensations. He rises to such a

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12d

To recap:
•$100M on golf
•$172M for jets for ICE Barbie
•$230M in DOJ payments to Trump
•$250M for a vanity ballroom
•$40B to Argentina while our farmers suffer
•$117B in annual tax cuts to the super wealthy 1%
•$170B ICE budget to round up Americans like Gestapo

Meanwhile—no money for food stamps

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 13d

(i was quoting Mr. Burns's response to that line you referenced, big dog <3)

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 13d

So what you're saying is... he's indestructible?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19d

Three senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR has language that would begin to address this, but Trump and Vought are completely opposed.

"If you're a Democrat - even just like a mainstream Democrat - your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism," said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. "Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"

"I don't think the Democrats want to shut down either," Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. "Their concern right now, and it's a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we're not going to spend them there?"

Julie Tsirkin @news_jul •1h
MURKOWSKI blames Russ Vought for making it harder to negotiate shutdown end:
"The appropriations process is being run over, and that, to me, is absolutely unacceptable."
She understands why Democrats don't trust them given Vought's rescissions and layoffs.
"Why would you?"

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 21d

"Get Out The Vought"

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 22d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 22d

"... to Argentina, where many of the President's appointees and cronies have purchased enormous amounts of sovereign debt and would lose billions if the country's economy collapses"

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 23d

A textbook example of a Kavanaugh Stop

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 23d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 23d

Like Nymeria and her pack, roving the Westerlands in ASOIAF... Except Hogs

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 24d

drake has access to the Loser Hadron Collider and is discovering forms of losing previously unknown to humankind

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 24d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · 25d

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J.D. Rees @jdreesiii.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today is a great day to share the new party line: #DoubleTheFederalJudiciary. All we need is simple majorities in both houses of Congress to change the number of district court, appellate, and SCOTUS judges. Not 60 votes to impeach, not 3/4 to change Constitution; simple majorities. That's it.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25d

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy.

A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the monarchy $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 25d

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