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James R (Randy) Fromm

@randyfromm.bsky.social

‘Retired’. Ex-Nuclear Nomad. Perennial student. Independent scholar of Rhetoric (ABD). Interests include Affect, Social Imaginaries, & ‘American’ Vigilantism. Cold War submarine veteran. Desert dwelling artisanal sourdough baker.

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And,
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@fernandez.house.gov

SecDef Hegseth should appear before Congress for hearings concerning his overt support of an extreme version of White Christian Nationalism.

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11.08.2025 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The latter question did cross my mind when I first read today about the orange shitgibbon’s puerile potempkinizing performative politicking.

I’m certain Putin is laughing himself all the way to Alaska.

11.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

11.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 20856    🔁 7323    💬 1129    📌 380

Puerile Performative Politics

11.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

10.08.2025 03:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had anyone asked me a week ago who Sydney Sweeney is I’d have said, “Sydney who?”

I’m still asking that question.

But, I’ve now added, “And, why should I care?”

09.08.2025 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the person claiming Sydney Sweeney ads are “causing panic on the left” … remember who she is:

09.08.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." —U.S. Const. art. II, § 4

09.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

😠😡😠😡😠😡😠

09.08.2025 18:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You saw the results of some questioning of GPT-5 … right?

Just in case …

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09.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald J. Trump, Interior Desecrator

09.08.2025 14:29 — 👍 1481    🔁 234    💬 270    📌 60
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Las Cruces police issue 86 citations during north Main Street enforcement The Las Cruces Police Department issued 86 traffic citations during a short enforcement operation along north Main Street on Aug. 7, 2025. Most were for speeding, with additional tickets for registrat...

In 75 minutes, LCPD officers handed out 86 citations on north Main Street. Most drivers were speeding, but several other violations stood out.

08.08.2025 17:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Given an already (apparently) established precedent that parents can withdraw their children from class sessions the parents find objectionable, PragerU could be cut off at the knees before they get started … if enough parents do their ‘fiduciary’ duty and vociferously object.

08.08.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Apparently, threats and tantrums are *NOT* the best negotiation tools, especially when ‘you haven’t got the cards’ (and the other guy does).

08.08.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ex-DOGE staffer allegedly injured in attempted carjacking — leading Trump to float federal takeover of D.C. Former DOGE staffer Edward Coristine was allegedly assaulted over the weekend, CBS News has confirmed.

Given Trump’s trumpeting about the apparent car-jacking in DC of a DOGE-boy – and his doing so before the police report was released (his usual MO!) – it is not surprising that a willfully uninformed segment of the population believes his catastrophe cacophony.

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08.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Somehow that sounds like an “I double-dog dare you” challenge (though that’s hard to do well after shooting one of your dogs) and I will bet a new pair of boots to a can of beans that the South Park team will rise to the occasion at some point to come.

08.08.2025 16:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Boom.

08.08.2025 13:33 — 👍 1803    🔁 432    💬 37    📌 6

That would really piss off Donald Trump.😂

08.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 4473    🔁 811    💬 150    📌 20

Quoting James Gleick here from his NYRB review essay, “The Parrot in the Machine”:

“linguist Emily M. Bender and the sociologist Alex Hanna call them ‘synthetic text extruding machines.’”

That last descriptive phrase conjures some wild images.

08.08.2025 04:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I concur. Agents generally are not lawyers … and lawyers specialize because their special knowledge has specific situational value.

08.08.2025 04:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ProPublica delivers the goods … again, with receipts.

Once an exploiter, always an exploiter.

08.08.2025 04:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💔

08.08.2025 03:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations The Department of Homeland Security has removed age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement.

This is not going to end well … whether as government training of lone wolves or as a return of vigilance committees and ‘popular tribunals’.

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07.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Excellent question!

07.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love that flag! Love its placement. You have as much right to a full lane on that road as anyone in a car.

07.08.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

🙄

07.08.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senior FBI official who resisted Trump administration demands is pushed out, AP sources say A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, investiga...

“Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity” is fast becoming “Fickle, Brazen, Irresponsible”

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07.08.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“the righteousness of work”?!?

That is f’ing rich! The people who frame everything in terms of ‘morality’ and ‘justness’ are those least likely to be moral/ethical in their work and there is nothing just about what they are doing.

07.08.2025 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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