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Jim Teeth

@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social

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I enjoy history, economics, politics, foreign policy and technology. I’m actually fairly knowledgeable about some of it. Over educated but under-credentialed. I have a fondness for Existentialism and Judaism.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · Nov 7

I’m an adherent of the Block and Go philosophy of Bluesky. The thing is I don’t need rude people in my timeline and my life is better with them gone. Don’t be a dick.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1h

I will consider calling for Jay Jones to step down once the Republican Party deals with it’s Nazi problem.

I’m not interested in prior concessions with bad faith negotiators.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1h

Boner wasn’t much better.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 2h

I bet you’ll see a lot of conservative voters who disagree with Trump II.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 2h

Lots of state laws being broken.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if they are trying to fake a history where Biden followed Obama and Trump started on 20 January 2021.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson is a very stupid man. That’s probably his value to the fascist project.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 3h

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Notes on the Crises

Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for responding. I did not expect that.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Who would have guessed that tariffs increase consumer prices?

Tariffs are sales taxes paid by importers and passed to consumers as part of the price of goods sold.

Everyone should have know tariffs are inflationary.

This is basic finance and economics.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 4h

this is 5000% correct. bring a couple friends and you'll run the joint.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Why would we want the Soviet assessment of a sixty year-old crime that occurred in Texas? (JFK predates the Russian Federation.)

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 4h

Let me guess: Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden?

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 4h

Whichever doesn’t airbrush his turkey gobbler.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 4h

A 22kg container of Maxwell House coffee went from $14 to $22 over the last month. All illegal tariff based.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 4h

What the Hell is a Government Shutdown Anyway? The Accounting Gimmicks at the Heart of the Federal Budget

Subscribe Today! So the federal government is shut down. I’ve been late to covering this story because of my focus on events at the Federal Reserve. Well, that was true when I first wrote tha...

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 5h

Pakistan funded Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan during the American occupation and then once the Americans were gone, funny thing, the Pakistan Taliban became an issue again. It’s really weird how that sort of thing happens.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 5h

Schutzstaffel.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 6h

Schutzstaffel.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 6h

China has invested heavily in electrification. They built a modern grid and a lot generation. Electric cars. Electric heating. They have capacity to spare. The US is however facing electricity price spikes and routinely faces outages from an aging grid fault tripped by squirrels.

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 7h

This is a good line from the question @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is responding to:

“So MAGA is also a geopolitically revisionist movement that hates the American liberal world order. But from within America.”

"What's Happening Here"

My Chicago lecture and a great question

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 7h

Transcript: MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—Exposing Trump as Weak

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA deconstructs these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why they should prompt more to turn out against an obviously fearf...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 15h

It’s important to realize that while the GOP went full fascist, there was a concerted, relentless, and obscenely well-funded campaign to pull the Dems to the Right.

They became the conservative party and the project isn’t even close to being finished.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

Can that generation fuck off already? Have they not ruined enough for all the generations that follow?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one.

Fascism.

📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

A masked armed agent points a pepper gun at protestors. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A fed Pokice officer wearing a gas masks is surrounded by smoke and it’ll about to throw a tear gas cannister. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

Around 20 masked armed agents are seen with guns drawn, surrounded by smoke, about to advance on local residents. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A local resident is seen being knelt on and cuffed in the background as two armed Police with automatic weapons are seen standing in the foreground. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 7h

Schutszstaffel

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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