James R (Randy) Fromm

James R (Randy) Fromm

@randyfromm.bsky.social

Retired. Ex-nuclear nomad. Cold War submarine veteran. Member of AntiFa. Perennial student. Independent scholar of rhetoric. Interests include affect, social imaginaries, narrative, American vigilantism. I’m a desert dwelling artisanal sourdough baker.

2,112 Followers 949 Following 4,858 Posts Joined Nov 2023
3 hours ago

Somehow, he still manages to make a simple ask sound like an existential threat against the parties whose help he seeks.

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4 hours ago

The SAVE Act is a massive voter suppression bill -- and folks should definitely be resisting it. It's been motivated and justified by conspiracy theories about election fraud. But we don't need new conspiracy theories (about DOGE, stolen SSNs, and future fraud) to justify pushing back against it.

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8 hours ago

Sounds like Semafor is trying to break into ‘used Carr’ sales.

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11 hours ago
The image is a cartoon in two split panels. The upper panel, read left to right, shows first your brain asking whether you are going to sleep and second you with your eyes closed sleepily responding, “Yes I am. Now shut up.” The lower panel, read left to right, shows your brain asking, “Why did Gandalf the White not have a hat?”, followed by you suddenly lying there in bed WIDE AWAKE.

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12 hours ago
Image is the face of a gage or other round process indicator. It is labeled ‘BULLSHIT METER’ and the indicator needle is at the high end (fully clockwise). The high end of the scale is, of course, labeled ‘100 PERCENT COMPLETE BULLSHIT’, which the subject of this comment warrants.
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12 hours ago

I’m partial to Apple-Green Chile or Peach-Ancho.

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12 hours ago

She sounds more thuggish than many of the thugs DJT has ‘working’ for him.

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1 day ago
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Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

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14 hours ago
A frustrated young boy is having a heart-to-heart with his mother. 

He says, head in hands, “Mom, when I grow up I want to be a sailor.”

His mother, ever sympathetic to his frustrations, says, “Well son … you have to decide. You can't do both.”

The story of my life.

If I knew enough about editing the text on memes, I’d ‘fix’ this one to read: “MOM, When I Grow up I want to be a Male Man.”

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14 hours ago

My copy will be arriving soon. I was notified yesterday my credit card was tapped.

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14 hours ago
Image is a simple ‘white text on black background’ message: “It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this.”
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1 day ago

Don’t we all.

Thanks for a saying so, though.

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1 day ago

Chips a’Roy! Ain’t he sweet?

What a worm.

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1 day ago

In Trump’s world, the military is a pneumatic nail gun and the troops and equipment are all just so many nails pumped out under gas pressure.

We need to unplug the compressor and chop up the air line into little pieces or he’ll do us all in.

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1 day ago

If I could nominate anyone for a future SCOTUS slot, it would be Chief Judge James Boasberg.

He has shown himself to be a fine jurist.

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1 day ago

That looks delicious.

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1 day ago

The hubris of thugs.

Why does everyone working in this so-called ‘administration’ look like a Hollywood B-movie thug?

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1 day ago

i am genuinely astonished by how this guy speaks exclusively in cliches

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1 day ago

Yeah, Nancy … as a veteran, I more or less agree.

But you left out one crucially IMPORTANT fact about that sacrifice.

Sacrifice has to have an overarching purpose, which is wholly lacking here.

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1 day ago

"We were looking for patterns... the officers who joined Battalion 601 had...performed worse than their peers at the military academy. They had graduated toward the bottom of their cohorts. They had stalled in the lower & middle ranks. They were men whose regular career paths had quietly closed."

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1 day ago
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Trump calls Iran a “terrorist regime” for “killing innocent people.” Since his regime started bombing Iran, many of the people killed have been innocent people, including girls at a school. By his own logic, Trump is leading a “terrorist regime.”

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1 day ago

Accusation as CONFESSION.

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1 day ago

Read the room, Hegseth!

You’re executing this for ONE person only, NOT as you say “on behalf of great, patriotic Americans.”

The great and patriotic Americans I know – regardless their political affiliations – are angry about what you are doing, about the way you are ruining their daily lives.

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1 day ago
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This is the pentagon press corp now: hand picked propagandists

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1 day ago

An effective long term strategy for those who care about independent and credible news would be to fund nonprofits to enable nonpartisan journalism. We can see where CNN is going, we need more ProPublicias.

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1 day ago

Well … we have just learned that Pete ’the war criminal’ Hegseth can dance.

That was the non-est of non-answers I’ve ever heard.

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1 day ago

Interesting choice of word, ‘distillation’. And it’s not even the word doing the heavy lifting.

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1 day ago

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which is the cessation of a negative.

1. A good night’s sleep
2. A not so wee dram of excellent whisky
3. A fresh apple and green chile empanada

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2 days ago
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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

1. Donald Trump starts a war with Iran, deeply unpopular with the American people, that causes oil prices to spike.

2. Trump allows Russia to sell its oil at those inflated prices, giving Russia far more money for its war with Ukraine.

3. Trump is Russia First.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

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