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Ordinary Rendition

@renderjudgment.bsky.social

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Attorney (not yours), healthcare compliance professional, greater Minnesotan, lifelong Gopher, North Star State devotee. None of the opinions expressed here are my own.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 1m

I don't think that would work.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 2m

So funny to me that they loudly take the position that will do great political damage to themselves and then meekly walk it back, helping themselves little if at all.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 4m

If I don't hear about how antifa has wrecked Portland I will be cancelling my subscription, not a dollar more for any of you.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 2h

Never heard of this. Fascinating.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 2h

Which is no shade on Paul McCartney and Elton John, to be clear!

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 2h

Of all the uses of AI that we could live without, the uses that rely on works by people like Paul McCartney and Elton John seem like the uses we could most live without.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 2h

Can't wait until his MAGA brother tells the media that he (the brother) won't talk to him (Pope Leo) because he (Pope Leo) has abandoned Catholicism.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 3h

Worth considering on days the Discourse is running especially strong.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 3h

It's also funny that people in that thread are horrified that AI is being trained on their stuff. You're posting to an almost totally public website - did you think that would be off-limits?

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think so either, but that's not what I was saying.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 5h

That is an airport every 3.65 days. Seems optimistic.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 12h

They're "stoking intra-party division" by...running the popular sitting governor? Do you hear yourself?

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

Somebody's gotta make a FOIA request for these.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 16h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

This would either be an absolute catastrophe for Trump and hang around his neck forever or show that he's totally above political consequences. I can't imagine an outcome in between.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h

MICHAEL WOLFF CLAIMS TRUMP COULD PARDON SEX TRAFFICKER GHISLAINE MAXWELL AS EARLY AS THIS WEEK

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

She's the sitting governor. She's going to have to run a pretty intense race, certainly in the general election and very likely in the primary, too. If people think she's not going to be able to serve out her term, much less serve at all, they're perfectly able to vote for someone else.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

I guess, but she's volunteering to spend a significant chunk of the rest of her life - maybe all of the rest of it, as you suggest - in an elected office she's going to have to commute to. I don't think that's something someone takes lightly.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting to see the USVI up there - I knew Maine was the oldest state, but I never would have guessed that the USVI has it beat.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

It's an extremely white, extremely rural, extremely (relatively) elderly state.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

I'm aware of that, but part of being 77 years old is that you don't run for a new statewide office you're by no means guaranteed to win without wanting it pretty badly.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone knows they're old. The primary electorate can decide whether Mills' age is too big a problem or it isn't. If it isn't, it's probably because she's too valuable a candidate not to win the Democratic primary.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

I don't have strong feelings about who wins the primary. I think, at a moment when the electorate is more aware than ever before about the pitfalls of choosing elderly candidates, it's very silly to say that elderly candidates shouldn't run at all, even when they're the sitting governor.

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

Party leadership doesn't actually decide who runs and who doesn't.

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

Also, sitting governor, not former!

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 13h

The primary electorate should know that, then, right?

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