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.
Ordered. Looking forward to it.
January 28, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Ordered. Looking forward to it.
I cannot imagine living a life where political commitments trump human kindness.
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I cannot imagine living a life where political commitments trump human kindness.
Great question. Wish I had an answer. Repeated exposure to the facts? Not forcibly, but gently … with empathy. Maybe. It could be a start.
January 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Great question. Wish I had an answer. Repeated exposure to the facts? Not forcibly, but gently … with empathy. Maybe. It could be a start.
Ted’s struggling to butter the up-side of the bread after it already hit the floor.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Ted’s struggling to butter the up-side of the bread after it already hit the floor.
Reposted by James R (Randy) Fromm
To put it another way: the images of warfare against US citizens in Minnesota reframed the issue of immigration and showed the tragic consequences of the dominant "invasion" frame. The frame wars are ongoing. Frame Warfare: The Invisible Propaganda War
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Frame Warfare: The Invisible Propaganda War
It's difficult to see the frames that are being used to shape our understanding of reality, unless we go meta
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
To put it another way: the images of warfare against US citizens in Minnesota reframed the issue of immigration and showed the tragic consequences of the dominant "invasion" frame. The frame wars are ongoing. Frame Warfare: The Invisible Propaganda War
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Thanks for sharing!
January 27, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Thanks for sharing!
I remember life under Hoover. Patel is clearly a Hoover-wannabe … right up to the dress-up games he plays.
January 27, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I remember life under Hoover. Patel is clearly a Hoover-wannabe … right up to the dress-up games he plays.
A point of comparison, the unifying theme (?), that comes to mind for me – and it should work for both Bovino and Noem – would be ‘the rule of law’ contrasted with ‘law and order (at any price)’.
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
A point of comparison, the unifying theme (?), that comes to mind for me – and it should work for both Bovino and Noem – would be ‘the rule of law’ contrasted with ‘law and order (at any price)’.
The question is, whose lives would he contrast them with?
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The question is, whose lives would he contrast them with?
Greg Bovino is being removed, not because he created enough violence in the streets to get Donald Trump bad polls, but because he didn't create *enough* violence in the streets to get Donald Trump an excuse to invoke The Insurrection Act.
January 27, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Mrs. Betty Bowers has an interesting take on this … he was fired NOT for what happened but for what he was not able to bring about: an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.
January 27, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Mrs. Betty Bowers has an interesting take on this … he was fired NOT for what happened but for what he was not able to bring about: an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.