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GrumbleKing

@spduffy.bsky.social

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Pug dad, cruciverbalist, museum-goer, wordsmith Current audiobook: Plagues Upon the Earth by Kyle Harper Current book-book: Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 8h

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm guessing you're not missing as much as she is.

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 3d

Those three toadies behind him - his Pips - clearly know he's totally full of shit, but they sold their souls months ago at a dirt crossroads and they've no effing idea what to do next. White knuckle it, gentlemen! This hell you signed up for is just getting started.

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 5d

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 7d

You've wondered. Now you know what the face looks like without the orange makeup.

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 7d

Fox Sports commentator Mark Sanchez, a former NFL quarterback, was arrested after he was stabbed during a confrontation with a truck driver outside a hotel. The driver told police Sanchez smelled of alcohol and tried to enter the truck. The man pepper-sprayed Sanchez, whom he did not recognize.

Mark Sanchez Is Arrested After Being Stabbed in Fight With Truck Driver

www.nytimes.com

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 9d

The article described Kirk as a “Christian-Nationalist icon” and defender of “often racist and controversial views.” It struck a nerve.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 11d

Such a garbage person ... this country will never heal ... speaking only for me, I will never forgive the many people I know who voted for this POS - not once but TWICE! Cannot even be in the same room with them.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11d

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 14d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b...

Neil Kraft, Visionary Adman Who Sold ‘a Mood and a Lifestyle,’ Dies at 67

www.nytimes.com

GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 14d

Sandra Bernhard wears Armani in a 1989 ad for Barney's and Marky Mark sports Calvins in a 1992 Times Square billboard - two of the cutting-edge images conceived of by the brilliant adman Neil Kraft who died this month at 67.
(Link to NYT obit in comments)

GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 14d

"Since Musk fell out with Trump, Russell Vought has begun to put his plans into action — remaking the presidency, block by block. His is helping Trump exert authority more aggressively than any modern president, threatening an erosion of the checks and balances in America’s constitutional system."

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 16d

ON THIS DAY in 1940 the the leaders of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, officially forming the military alliance known as Axis.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16d

SAD!!

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Did you try this one out on your wife first, Stevie? Did it get her going? Did it flood her basement?

GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 18d

Another cleanup on Aisle Orange for Vance who'd be twice as dangerous if he were as clever as he is smug. #ITMFA

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 20d

INFORMAL POOL:
How long before this attack bitch loses her law license?

Trump’s Pick to Replace Ousted U.S. Attorney Lacks Prosecutorial Experience

www.nytimes.com

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 21d

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 21d

take the win, people

GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 23d

Have you canceled your Hulu and/or Disney accounts yet.

I just did and it felt good.

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 23d

Trump’s policy radically alters how food stamps are funded, leaving states to bear costs for the first time in six decades.

Whether states can find the money — billions of dollars in some cases — will have wide-ranging consequences for some 42 million recipients. #ITMFA

States Grapple With Fundamental Change in Food Stamps

www.nytimes.com

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Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry @chshumanists.bsky.social · 24d

"In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors." - Benjamin Franklin

#1stAmendment

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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GrumbleKing @spduffy.bsky.social · 24d

ITMFA