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James R (Randy) Fromm

@randyfromm.bsky.social

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‘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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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · Nov 25

Quote with who you’d be if you were in a fairytale.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 10h

J. F. C.

James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 12h

Mine, too. Especially since Apple gave us iOS 26.xxxx. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

When is the round table on the tooth fairy?

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 13h

I find it funny no one gave a ‘shit’ about my Senator, Martin Heinrich, putting up a video on September 29, 48 hours before the shutdown, in which he said – literally – “So, this is what happens when you elect a Speaker who doesn’t give a FUCK about working people.”

I was SOOOO pleased!!

James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 13h

Time well spent, Jen. I’ve been doing a long, slow, thoughtful read.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14h

Ay me, this tyrant fever burns me up

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

NEW: A brief explainer for what the 9th Circuit just did with regard to the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. www.muellershewrote.com/p/live-with-...

The 9th Circuit Just Stayed the TRO Blocking National Guard to Portland, BUT the Guard Still Can't be deployed.

A recording from Allison Gill's live video

www.muellershewrote.com

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 14h

That peckerhead is still fighting the culture wars of the 60s. Burning the flag IS protected free speech.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 16h

My father, his sisters, and his brothers were all Anti-Fascists, Antifa if you will. And I’m damned proud of that fact.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 16h

Sadly, you are spot on.

And what they should truly fear – what they should truly hate – is being made fools of by the same guy … over and over and over again.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 16h

Wonderful!!

I wonder whether I could get our governor interested in such an idea. I think I’ll start with my local state representatives.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 17h

Stealing this for my Epstein Meme collection!!

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 19h

I know it doesn’t help your situation but I do understand and I am saddened you have to deal with that. Past a certain age, we elders become acceptable collateral damage to those pursuing power.

They apparently forget that we vote.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 22h

Mike Johnson is out there blowing more smoke than Vesuvius on a bad day. If he cares so much about women, he should swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and release the Epstein Files.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 22h

This guy doesn’t even have to open his mouth to whine. Look at that hangdog expression on his face. He has ‘l am a victim’ stamped in boldface on his brow.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sen. Hagerty: "This goes all the way back to Obama. I moved into Trump Tower the day after the election in 2016. The FBI came up and surveilled us then ... the real threat to democracy are Chuck Schumer and the Democrats."

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 22h

In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.

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James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 22h

If you ever find yourself asking what YOU, personally, can do to check Trump’s authoritarian efforts, look no farther than the simple act of serving on a jury … particularly on a grand jury.

Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 23h

Another No Bill by a grand jury. Keep going.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah … but … but … Amerika First.

Right?

Right??

James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 23h

Well, that assumes you own enough of your soul to sell it.

James R (Randy) Fromm @randyfromm.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you. Comment posted. I read the petition in full and it is permeated with Miller’s ‘ideas’. I could hear his voice as I read it.

It galls me that their fundamental argument is a thorough distrust of fellow Americans. If I sign a document, that signature has meaning.