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Grouchy Smurf

@grouchysmurf.bsky.social
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Dog lover. Upset by political malfeasance. Orange is my least favorite color. Did I mention I’m a dog lover? And yes, I’m grouchy.

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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 10h
This dinosaur needs to go. He's up for reelection in 2028. He'll be 95! Hey Grassley . . . time for the old age home you scummy POS. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Grassley slams Democrats for ‘falling over themselves’ to defend Jack Smith
The Iowa Republican said his team is working to make withheld documents available after last month’s hearing.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social You just asked Claire McKaskill if she thinks Dems have realized Trump's nominees are bad actors. She said she "thinks so." Really Claire?? Does she realize people like Amy Klobuchar STILL vote for them? Ask Claire what kind of Kool-Aid she's drinking. smh.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22/01/2026
Nine months before his term expired, Mayor Eric Adams granted Jordan McGraw, the son of TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw, unusual access to trail members of the New York Police Department: on-duty, up-close, cameras rolling.
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NYC sues Dr. Phil's son to block release of 'life-threatening' behind-the-scenes NYPD video
Then-Mayor Eric Adams' City Hall authorized "special" access to the NYPD for Jordan McGraw. The plan, according to a lawsuit and sources familiar with it, was for McGraw to develop and market a multi-episode series called “Behind the Badge.”
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William S. Becker @sustainabil.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
From his control of the world's second-largest nuclear arsenal to his active contribution to global climate change, and from a lack of checks and balances to his mental deterioration, Donald Trump is arguably the world's most dangerous person. Congress must do something. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
thehill.com
Trump is the world’s most dangerous man
It is time — actually, well past time — for members of Congress to hitch up their Big Boy and Girl pants, red as well as blue, to do something about this.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
thehill.com/opinion/whit... Thank you @themaxburns.bsky.social #trumpscrumblingpresidency #trumpisaterriblepresident #trumpisalunatic
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This is what's been stolen by a madman. #kennedycenterhonors #ledzeppelin www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Rx...
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Heart - Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors
YouTube video by Local Global
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Great turnout in rural Kingston NY!
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Kingston NY. Great turnout! #nokings #nokingsprotest #kingstonny #hudsonvalleynokings
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 24/03/2025
Once again, this won’t end well…Americans are on to them. They’re firing the staff who help seniors get their hard-earned benefits from a lifetime of work and answer the phones and fix problems. Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security
Claims of massive fraud by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with reams of audits and reports on the agency’s spending.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Why Doge is struggling to find fraud in Social Security." It's behind a paywall and I can't do a gift read but the headline should tell you all you need to know. How absurd is it that they're "struggling" to find fraud?? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security
Claims of massive fraud by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with reams of audits and reports on the agency’s spending.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@fetterman.senate.gov “I’m never going to be a part of any vote that shuts the government down.” What a disgrace you are. I thought you were going to be a good guy, but everything I see and hear tells me you're anything but. You should probably put an "R" next to your name. Go to hell Fetterman.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The incredibly vile Mike Johnson claims that the people who went to the GOP town halls were paid protesters. He learns well from his master. This man gets scummier every day. www.thedailybeast.com/johnson-trie...
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Johnson Tries to Shrug Off Anti-DOGE Town Halls as the Work of ‘Paid Protesters’
“You can’t argue they were all paid protesters,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins immediately shot back at the House Speaker.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Why aren't the Dems doing this? I am not at all impressed with Hakeem Jeffries. And don't get me started about Schumer. A useless man. Get the ball rolling Dems!! thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is a must see. Musk's son lets the cat out of the bag: www.reddit.com/r/musked/com...
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From the musked community on Reddit: Elon Musk's son tells Tucker Carlson that Trump will win and the people "will never know"
Explore this post and more from the musked community
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@swlady.bsky.social Welcome aboard!
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
DOGE has no authority to access Americans’ private information or to block critical payments.   Elon Musk may be the world's richest man, but he is not above the law. I intend to sue to stop this injustice.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Rachel you are one of the few bright spots in my day right now. Your segment on Tyson Gay really made me laugh out loud. I still chuckle when I think about it. I need your show to keep me grounded. I will be so sad when your 100 days are up, but so relieved you're here for now! ❤️
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Gregory Richards @gregoryrichards.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today's @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social column is well worth reading. "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article)
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
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USpolitics 🇺🇸 @uspol.skyfleet.blue · 31/01/2025
White House, Emmer call for Jeffries to apologize
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White House, Emmer call for Jeffries to apologize
The White House on Friday called for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to apologize for remarks pledging to push back against the Trump administration's agenda.  Jeffries at a press briefing stressed "the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations, and then stick New Yorkers and working-class Americans ... with the bill." "We are gonna fight it legislatively. We are gonna fight it in the courts. And we're gonna fight it in the streets," Jeffries said. A release from the White House Office of Communications on Friday then blasted Jeffries for what it characterized as “a sick call for violence.” “Will Minority Leader Jeffries apologize for this disgusting threat? Or will he double down on the same calls for violence that have plagued the country for years?” the statement read.  House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) also said on X that Jeffries “should promptly apologize for his use of inflammatory and extreme rhetoric.” “President Trump and the Republicans are focused on uniting the country; Jeffries needs to stop trying to divide it,” Emmer said. But Jeffries’s office in a statement obtained by NewsNation flatly denied the inferences about his remarks. “The notion that Leader Jeffries supports violence is laughable. Republicans are the party that pardons violent felons who assault police officers. Democrats are the party of John Lewis and the right to petition the government peacefully,” the statement read. Jeffries during his press conference denounced the now-rescinded federal funding freeze and also knocked Trump for suggesting that federal diversity initiatives contributed to this week's deadly crash between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane near Reagan National Airport. The Hill and NewsNation are both owned by Nexstar Media Group.
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Simple Science 🌿 @unconventionalmed.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Response to Wednesday's airplane crash: This is what we should do, from Brian Beutler at Off Message open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
Screenshot from the publication that lists the steps we should take:

1.Warn ominously about the kinds of catastrophes we can expect when a degenerate like Trump fires capable servants and replaces them with compromised amateurs.

2. mount a rapid public response when those consequences come to pass.

3.promise, in open and defiant terms, to rebuild quickly once voters run these vandals out of office.
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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
thehill.com/opinion/5117... A piece of my in The Hill about the Dems and messaging. "Democrats live in a media museum."
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Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My take on Trump 2.0 at its outset. Plenty in here for everyone to dislike. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Can Trump Be a Great President?
Pushing power to the limit does not guarantee presidential success.
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Jeffrey Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A pre-Trump read Steve Hanson and I wrote for today's New York Times. "Trump aims not to streamline modern state bureaucracies, but rather to replace them with a much older form of rule based on personal loyalty to the ruler." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Assault on the Systems That Keep Americans Safe Is Dangerous
Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the ruler.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I saw this coming from a mile away. Of course Trump will refuse to have any media present who will challenge him on anything. You can forget having ANY fair coverage of his administration. Not to mention MSM is terrified of retribution. thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com
White House press corps recoils at Trump’s threat to shake up briefing room
Signals from President-elect Trump’s team that a shake-up of the White House Press Briefing Room could be coming are roiling journalists preparing to cover his second term.   People close to …
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Even as a cynical pessimist, I try to look for hope and optimism. Nice article on Politico (Trump will over play his hand) is keeping my hope alive, albeit just slightly. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready.
I lived through the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Here’s what I learned.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Now THIS is a headline. In the Huffington Post today 12/1/24:
Huffington Post Headline 12/1/24. "Trump names nut for FBI."
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hard to find something to smile about these days but hopefully this will bring one to your face. Coffee Milano Cafe in Middleborough, MA offers free coffee to people who come in dancing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOyG...
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Coffee shop goes viral for offering free coffee to customers who dance into cafe
YouTube video by MassLive
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Great article by John Kenneth White. I hope he's right. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
thehill.com
Donald Trump won the election. Now he’s losing it.
Trump was not hired to gut the Justice Department, abolish the FBI, pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, weaken our intelligence agencies, eliminate the Department of Education or “go wild on health…
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Why Trump voters should be held accountable for their choice
For now, I’m not getting involved in the debate over what Kamala Harris did wrong. For one thing, whatever conclusions are drawn now will almost certainly be forgotten by the time of the next election...
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Finally, an article that gives me hope and just a sprinkling of optimism. Thank you to Matt K. Lewis. thehill.com/opinion/camp...
thehill.com
Trump thinks he won a mandate to change America. History says otherwise.
Newly elected presidents tend to overestimate the mandate they’ve been given, assuming they’ve won a sweeping endorsement for their entire agenda.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Seniors should be comforted knowing TV's Dr. Oz will most likely be in charge of our country's Medicare and Medicaid Services. I sure wish this was a joke. His picks keep getting more disturbing and absurd. www.scientificamerican.com/article/dr-o...
scientificamerican.com
Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor
His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
John Heilman on Deadline White House: Trump isn't afraid of picking a cabal of unsavory incompetents because they're just like him. Damn right. That's what happens when half the country are ignorant fools who think a cabinet is what you put your toiletries in.
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Grouchy Smurf @grouchysmurf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Trump nominates a Fox News host, Tulsi Gabbard & Matt Gaetz! for 3 of the most serious & important cabinet positions that are imperative to our safety. It would be horrifying if they get confirmed, but even if they don’t, it should tell us all we need to know about Trump’s lust for absolute power.
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