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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, okay. Odd. You'd assume that it would be uncontroversial that noon in the Senate would be whenever noon in the rest of D.C. was.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 7h

I am fairly well educated but I admit that I do not understand what the question is. Under what circumstances would noon in Congress not be noon in all of the rest of Washington, D.C.?

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 9h

Right?

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 9h

It wouldn't be okay if you did it because you were mad, but it would be okay if you did it for reasons.*

*Only the right reasons, obviously.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 9h

If all I was going to be able to say about advance notice for deporting a Venezuelan citizen to Africa was that he "is going to have the ability to contact his counsel when he's in the detention facility," I would do almost anything in my power to avoid leading that off with "my understanding is."

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 10h

Was Dustin Grage in here or have they not caught him yet?

Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 10h

No one disrespects Republicans more than other Republicans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 10h

"Secret legal justifications" is both my defense to all the Rule 11 motions against me and my band name.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 12h

Each and every one of these freaks have an invitation to clerk for Clarence Thomas.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 14h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 12h

"I'll burn down the Walmart but only if you can promise that it'll all be good afterwards."

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 14h

Yet also strangely unwilling to make truly gigantic sums of money selling their unerring understanding of what it takes to win elections.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 14h

I got this all wrong - he lives in Sullivan, and no, he's not on the city council (though he does chair its planning board).

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 15h

The Maine race is to unseat an incumbent Republican senator who has been there for a million years and has won several seriously-contested races, so you're not okay with Janet Mills, but you're okay with Roy Cooper, who is running for an open seat, because North Carolina is "less blue?"

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 15h

His chance is the primary. Voters are neither unaware of Mills' age or of the risks of electing to the Senate someone her age.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 16h

Platner may well win the primary, and that would be fine with me. But there is no theory under which he is entitled to be the nominee unless and until he wins the primary. He doesn't have a right to be the nominee just because, what, he got in before Mills?

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 16h

I find it absolutely bizarre to say that Mills, the sitting governor of Maine, running for a Maine Senate seat currently held by a Republican, is "primary[ing]" Graham Platner, a guy whose highest elected office is, what, Bar Harbor City Council?

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 16h

The whole district bench, right?

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 17h

Hey now, there are miniscule amounts grown in California and Hawaii.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

As it turns out, this was not true, so.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

Oops.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Starship 11 explodes into sea

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I will remind you that...Joe Biden did win in 2020? In Pennsylvania and in the Electoral College?

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

I'm terribly sorry that you we don't always nominate a perfect candidate who is also guaranteed to win in a landslide every time, but regrettably that person does not exist.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

Also, like, that was a long fucking time ago, especially in political terms. More than a decade and a half. Should he have had perfect foresight of how things would go over the next more-than-half-decade? Anticipated Trump's every move? Gone for broke only to get destroyed in the 2012 election?

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

What, in your estimable view, should have happened? Joe Biden decided to drop out. Should he have been forced to run? Should someone (who?) have forced other candidates to run? Should Biden have been replaced, but not by an "establishment insider" (picked by whom?)?

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1d

Others have made exactly the same point already, but this is exactly as stupid as Trump crying about Biden having set him up on January 6th.