Jim Teeth
@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social
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.
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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They are going to stonewall it. Bondi is going to stonewall it. They will investigate Clinton and Summers and so forth but never charge them. It’s not to say it’ll work - it might - but that is what they’ll do.
Sir, I'll focus on the Epstein files: I raised an eyebrow at the swiftness with which this measure rocketed through the Congress to make it to the White House. This doesn't happen unless Trump has an ironclad out. What do you suspect that sure thing to be, sir?
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
They are going to stonewall it. Bondi is going to stonewall it. They will investigate Clinton and Summers and so forth but never charge them. It’s not to say it’ll work - it might - but that is what they’ll do.
Trump does like to associate with sex traffickers and child molestors.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump does like to associate with sex traffickers and child molestors.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
Interesting.
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Interesting.
No one from high school. I attended elementary school with the Coors Light Twins.
Who was in your high school graduating class, +/- two years, that would be of interest?
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
No one from high school. I attended elementary school with the Coors Light Twins.
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The Nazis are everywhere in "greater MAGA" world . A LOT of US Conservatives, including many Jewish Trumpists, have tolerated them for years for fear of being booted out of the camp. Now they have a permission structure, they can finally say what they might have been thinking for a while.
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Nazis are everywhere in "greater MAGA" world . A LOT of US Conservatives, including many Jewish Trumpists, have tolerated them for years for fear of being booted out of the camp. Now they have a permission structure, they can finally say what they might have been thinking for a while.
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The play now is he'll sign the law and the investigation will never conclude.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The play now is he'll sign the law and the investigation will never conclude.
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Just to clarify, the only thing he was not allowed to do was stall it in committee. Nobody told him he had to not debate it on the floor or vote for it.
According to Mike Johnson, first thing the Senate is going to to do is "methodically" fix the Epstein bill.
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THE FRIGGIN' SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: "[That the Senate] will take the time to methodically do what we have not been ALLOWED to do in the House, to amend this discharge petition and to make sure that these protections are there [in the bill]”?
(might require a 2x4)
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#HRules
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November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Just to clarify, the only thing he was not allowed to do was stall it in committee. Nobody told him he had to not debate it on the floor or vote for it.
Why is Trump pardoning pedophiles?
Why won’t Trump release the full Epstein Files?
Why won’t Trump release the full Epstein Files?
Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why is Trump pardoning pedophiles?
Why won’t Trump release the full Epstein Files?
Why won’t Trump release the full Epstein Files?
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Holidays are coming up, a perfect time to remind your MAGA family members that Epstein is only part of the story, Trump has been importing foreign sex traffickers and giving them special protection.
Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"
Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Holidays are coming up, a perfect time to remind your MAGA family members that Epstein is only part of the story, Trump has been importing foreign sex traffickers and giving them special protection.
Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"
Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"
There is nothing Trump can do to make the Epstein Files entirely go away with the exception of releasing damaging evidence about himself.
Epstein’s brother Mark on News Nation: “They’re sanitising these files.
“There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out.”
“There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There is nothing Trump can do to make the Epstein Files entirely go away with the exception of releasing damaging evidence about himself.
Interesting thread on tariffs.
The most obvious thing to say about the Court's IEEPA decision is that Trump will continue tariffs no matter the outcome, but that alone misses that each possible tariff authority has its own scope and constraints which means that different tariffs behave very differently with different impacts.
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Interesting thread on tariffs.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
This is a fitting image.
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is a fitting image.
The Trump Administration is using Federal power to go after the Christians during the Christmas season.
I didn’t see this one coming.
I didn’t see this one coming.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Trump Administration is using Federal power to go after the Christians during the Christmas season.
I didn’t see this one coming.
I didn’t see this one coming.
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Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
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Oh no, please don't seize the assets of those European companies and individuals who stayed in Russia after 2014!
Please, anything but that.
Please, anything but that.
RUSSIA TO USE SIMILAR MEASURE IF EU SEIZES ASSETS: TASS
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Oh no, please don't seize the assets of those European companies and individuals who stayed in Russia after 2014!
Please, anything but that.
Please, anything but that.
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Imagine living in a country that enforced laws on heads of state.
Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity
Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Imagine living in a country that enforced laws on heads of state.
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Folks, I don't think the lawyers can make anymore sense of this.
But what APPEARS to have happened is:
1) They no-billed one count.
2) SOMEONE IN THE GOVT LEARNED THAT.
3) They put together a 2-count indictment and, w/o re-presenting the case, got them to vote for those.
The whole thing is cooked.
But what APPEARS to have happened is:
1) They no-billed one count.
2) SOMEONE IN THE GOVT LEARNED THAT.
3) They put together a 2-count indictment and, w/o re-presenting the case, got them to vote for those.
The whole thing is cooked.
"So they separated it."
That's what the only indictment against Jim Comey is.
"Count Two and Three were then put" by someone who may or may not be Lindsey Halligan "in a different package."
That's what the only indictment against Jim Comey is.
"Count Two and Three were then put" by someone who may or may not be Lindsey Halligan "in a different package."
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Folks, I don't think the lawyers can make anymore sense of this.
But what APPEARS to have happened is:
1) They no-billed one count.
2) SOMEONE IN THE GOVT LEARNED THAT.
3) They put together a 2-count indictment and, w/o re-presenting the case, got them to vote for those.
The whole thing is cooked.
But what APPEARS to have happened is:
1) They no-billed one count.
2) SOMEONE IN THE GOVT LEARNED THAT.
3) They put together a 2-count indictment and, w/o re-presenting the case, got them to vote for those.
The whole thing is cooked.
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“Whatever they legally are entitled to.”
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Whatever they legally are entitled to.”