John Dormin

Family man, retired lawyer, worked for justice, studying the Bible to understand truth.

[John Dormin @jwdny]

@elonmusk Florida and Cybertruck never disappoint!

[John Dormin @jwdny]

I’ve been re-watching “Veep” and it now seems more like a documentary post-VP Harris!

[Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner]

“‘Cause I’m looking at this yellow flower. I’m only interested in yellow flowers!’ As though my brain can’t handle the fact that there might be a pink flower hahaha that I might be interested in looking at!”

Man, I kinda missed this. 😭

Nice to see she’s done absolutely zero self-assessment since ‘24. It’s not just the word salad; it’s the cackling at every little thing when no one else is laughing and the ghetto voice she ours on.

[Tammy Bruce @HeyTammyBruce]

🥹 #RIPDolly

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

This is awesome.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

1/ I'm a cardiologist. I've practiced for twenty-five years, through a lot of "breakthroughs" that turned out to be press releases. So understand the weight of what I'm about to say: I have never seen a single week in medicine like the one we just lived through.
In the span of a few days, four separate scientific breakthroughs landed. The stock market treated them as four unrelated stories and sent a handful of biotech companies soaring. But that's the shallow read. Look closer and they are not four stories at all. They are four faces of the same story — the biggest shift in medicine since the discovery of antibiotics.

Medicine is becoming programmable. Individualized. Written for one human being instead of the average of millions.

Let me walk you through exactly what happened, in plain language, and show you where this is actually headed. Because the future arrived quietly this week, and most people scrolled right past it.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Eventually, every serious believer collides with the silence of God. You pray, and nothing shifts. Heaven stays completely still while problems mount in real time.

In that gap, a fear takes shape that few believers will say out loud.

Scripture tells you God possesses an unbroken, eternal joy. That He cannot suffer loss. That death is powerless before Him. That He already knows how the story ends.

And when you are bleeding, that certainty starts to look like detachment.

You begin to suspect you are the prank. That somewhere behind the veil, the one who holds all outcomes is watching your panic the way someone watches a joke they wrote long before you arrived.

Christianity has an answer to that suspicion. Stranger than noise. More demanding than a sign. It tells you what God is doing in the silence, where He reveals four distinct faces.

First is the attentive face of the craftsman.

Malachi 3:3 says “He sits as a refiner of silver”. In the ancient workshop, sitting was not passivity; it was the posture of supreme proximity. A silversmith does not shout over the flames or pace the room. He pulls his chair to the lip of the fire because the work demands unblinking focus.

God does not manage our suffering from a safe distance. He leans over the crucible, watching the flame and guarding the parameters of our pain so the heat purifies without destroying the vessel. His stillness is the proof of His closeness.

Second is the archival face of the judge.

When injustice runs unchecked and the innocent are exploited, silence is not consent. It is the terrifying patience of an open ledger.

Human anger is loud and erratic because we fear losing control, but divine justice operates with immaculate, unhurried precision.

Nothing is lost on God. The most calculated injustice, the quietest tear, and the subtlest abuse of power are cataloged with absolute exactness. An empire that fell two thousand years ago stands before His judgment seat with the exact same freshness as an injustice committed this morning.

Third is the priestly face of the intercessor.

This is the scandal of the Christian faith. God did not supervise human sorrow from the safety of eternity; He entered the fire Himself.

In Christ, we have a high priest who stepped into our vulnerability and took the silence of heaven into His own flesh. At Golgotha, the Word through whom all things were made took on our dereliction beneath a blackened sky. God did not just administer the silence. He endured it.

When we sit in the quiet, we are not trapped in a place God has never been.

Fourth is the sovereign face of divine intention.

When Joseph told his brothers that what they meant for evil God meant for good, he was not pretending the pit and prison never happened. God does not merely erase the historical reality of loss. He overrules its meaning and trajectory. He absorbs the malice of betrayal and weaves it into an indestructible architecture of deliverance.

That is the bedrock of Romans 8:28. God commandeers every deficit, deceit, and displacement, forcing the weapon designed to break us to serve our ultimate good.

To stand in the silence of God is never to stand in an empty room. Silence is terrifying only when you do not know who is in the dark with you. When you know His character, the quiet stops being a void. It becomes the purposeful stillness of a God who is watching the fire, keeping the ledger, bearing the grief, and finishing a redemption that no human malice can destroy.

[John Dormin @jwdny]

@wil_da_beast630 Most certainly true. I once prosecuted a domestic violence case in which the woman was horribly abused culminating when the abuser threw her dog off the 23 story balcony. Women wrote and called and came to courthouse because of the dog, not once asking about the woman.

[Hozz @TheRealHozz]

@WallStreetApes All of the companies doing this should face immediate massive class action suits. Attorneys will get rich but maybe these companies will learn a lesson.

I’ve purchased many of these products and the shit these tests are finding in them aren’t on the labels

[Barry Kirk @BarryKirk_ESS]

@WallStreetApes People were buying that brand specifically because of what they advertised wasn’t in it.

They did that for health reasons and paid for that.

Kraft Heinz needs criminal charges for fraud.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

Another huge Trump win, and if Hezbollah can actually be removed, the first time Lebanon will have had peace since the Islamists and Palestinians started the murderous Lebanese Civil War in 1975.

The deal also includes mutual recognition of sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity. Lebanon has NEVER recognized any of this since it declared war on Israel in 1948.

If all proceeds as planned, this likely means Lebanon will join the Abraham Accords. It also means Hezbollah has nowhere to go.

[WestCoast_Life @westcoast_lyfe]

Powerful message from a Scottish World Cup visitor who was originally afraid of even traveling to the US

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Marc Andreessen just explained how the United States assassinated its own future.

In the 1970s, the Nixon administration launched something called Project Independence.

The mandate was absolute.

Andreessen: “Build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000.”

One thousand reactors. Unlimited, carbon-free baseload power. Enough electricity to move the entire country to electric vehicles four decades ahead of everyone else.

But it went further than energy.

Andreessen: “It’s called Project Independence because it means the US won’t have to be involved in the Middle East anymore, because we won’t need the oil.”

No oil dependence. No Gulf Wars. No generations of soldiers stationed in deserts protecting supply chains that never needed to exist.

A complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. Permanent.

And none of this was hypothetical.

Andreessen: “France ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power. Japan ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power.”

Other nations proved it worked at scale. America had more capital, more engineers, and more ambition than all of them.

Andreessen: “How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand? Rounds to zero.”

Zero.

Not because the physics failed. Not because something superior replaced it.

Because the same administration that drafted the blueprint for unlimited energy also created the institution that killed it.

Andreessen: “They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which made it its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants from getting built.”

Same government. Same decade. Same pen.

One directive launching the most ambitious energy program in American history.

Another creating the bureaucracy that would quietly dismantle it from the inside.

Andreessen: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not approve a new nuclear plant design for 40 years.”

Forty years of zero approved designs. Not because no one submitted them. Because the institution built to regulate nuclear energy became the institution built to prevent it.

That’s not oversight.

That’s abolition dressed as due diligence.

We spent the next fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

Whoever made this video is creatively brilliant! Terrific lyrics, too

[John Dormin @jwdny]

Brilliant

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

This is absolutely hilarious.

[John Dormin @jwdny]

@BishopBarron @BishStrick any comments on the below Your Excellencies?

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[Jesús Enrique Rosas - The Body Language Guy @Knesix]

So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.

And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.

All organically, I'm sure.

I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.

This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.

But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.

Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.

The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.

OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.

But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.

The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.

[John Dormin @jwdny]

@Sachinettiyil @FiatLuxGenesis I suspect this count does not include “candidates” those who may have received 1 sacrament but have rejoined the faith in full. Our parish had 3 for every 1 brand new Catholic.

[John Dormin @jwdny]

Wow!