Adam H Domby, PhD

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

I kind of wonder if Trump’s random demand to renew nuclear testing was just him getting confused about the option of the senate using a nuclear option on the filibuster?

The whimsy and weirdness in these protests is just damned delightful. It dispels the gloom of this terrible moment and laughs in the face of lies about America-hating terrorists’ organizing the demonstrations.

Now vote.

It has to be said - again and out loud - that it’s Republicans in Congress who’ve unshackled him.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

A woman dressed as Barbie fighting for democracy

A woman in a fancy outfit say no to hate eat cake

Big crowd

Big protest Crowd

Big protest crowd in New Orleans.

Boston. Wow.

Historical 's' for the win.

It's a republic. Let's keep it.

My first thought at the news was, “yeah this tracks.”

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

Am I the only one who wants to know where the chain break is on that chainsaw? And what the heck is on the bottom of it (is that a Christmas tree stand)? That chain saw is just gonna take off the user’s hand if it even had an engine in it.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Tip for anyone discussing the Roberts court:

Taney sounds like “Tawney.”

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

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‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

If you want to understand the Supreme Court this article may do the best job of explaining the shadow docket and how the court is undermining the law. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Someday Stephen Miller will be the villain in many a historical drama set in the Trump administration. I used to say Bond villains aren’t realistic. However, Miller and Musk showed up and I changed my tune.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown How do you negotiate with a man who can break his promises at any time?

The SC allowing Trump to refuse to spend Congressionally appropriated funds makes budget negotiations impossible. This is breakdown of constitutional order stuff. There is no political way out of the shutdown if Trump can violate any agreement. And he has said he will. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The Hatch Act is among the things that they’re not even pretending to comply with anymore.

Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.

This NYT podcast on the cratering of coding jobs is an advertisement for a liberal arts education. Don't train for today's jobs b/c they might not be there tomorrow. Develop enduring critical thinking skills that allow you to adapt to an evolving world www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

Democrats "blocked" this bill by ... not voting for it.

No dirty tricks or sneaky moves, they just didn't vote for a GOP bill. It needed 60 votes to pass, 53 Reps and 2 Dems voted for it.

That, according to the broken Washington Post, means Democrats Are To Blame even though the GOP runs it all.

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