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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 · 6h

This guy is so very much suffering a chronic fatal disorder.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t believe in heaven or hell, so he’s right.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 8h

This is why Republican SCOTUS is illegitimate. We have precedent and lower courts that follow precedent. That’s how this works. Republican SCOTUS shits on precedent and the lower courts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 8h

This is a good thread.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 8h

I would love to buy American, but even though I make a solid middle class income I can’t afford $100+ for each shirt. Either I buy imports or I don’t buy.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 8h

I think most people would want to be remembered fondly. He must know 55% of the American populace is waiting to urinate on his grave.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14h

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16h

This week's comic: Leaf It To Jason foxtrot.com/2025/10/12/l...

Leaf It To Jason

FoxTrot by Bill Amend | October 12, 2025

foxtrot.com

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 17h

Afghanistan is where empires go to die.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18h

Peter Thiel is a deeply weird person. I have no clue what His Supreme Weirdness actually thinks, but I don’t think he sees the antichrist in the terms of John’s Revelation. It seems more a literary archetype. I don’t think you can believe in Final Judgement and be a billionaire.

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like Peter Thiel, the blood-drinking global surveillance overlord, or the hateful wannabe dictator he helped install as president fits the bill better than Thiel's idea of an antichrist: someone who helps people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19h

That’s not actually a thing.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

1789. 1917. ????

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

79 is over life expectancy even for a white male in the United States.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

FISHBONE LAST CALL IN AMERICA Featuring George Clinton

YouTube video by Fishbone

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

The Blogs: American Jews are slipping away

Israel’s actions in Gaza and its failure to spell out a day-after scenario have opened a rift with US Jewry that may prove costly to heal

blogs.timesofisrael.com

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI is working to create a new MechaHitler.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

The Dr Teeth household will be eating a lot of poultry for the foreseeable future.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

The people who were involved in the Underground Railroad had similar concerns of being discovered.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 1d

The people who were part of the Underground Railroad had similar fears of being discovered.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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