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.
ICE is the American Schutzstaffel.
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 8:33 PM
ICE is the American Schutzstaffel.
ICE is the American Schutzstaffel.
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
From the Maine community on Reddit: ICE tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully filming
Explore this post and more from the Maine community
www.reddit.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:49 PM
ICE is the American Schutzstaffel.
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Children are brave. They shouldn’t have to be, but they are.
nine years old
January 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Children are brave. They shouldn’t have to be, but they are.
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v... via @statnews.com
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v... via @statnews.com
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
January 23, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Jury finds Chicago man not guilty in murder-for-hire case involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino
Live updates via @chicago.suntimes.com : chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
Live updates via @chicago.suntimes.com : chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
Verdict reached in murder-for-hire trial involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates
The unusually swift trial is the first to result from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Jury finds Chicago man not guilty in murder-for-hire case involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino
Live updates via @chicago.suntimes.com : chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
Live updates via @chicago.suntimes.com : chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
On the high point the world will be a better place when the US is quarantined for rampant disease.
Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV reut.rs/3NBzBtS
Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV
Moderna does not plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from U.S. officials, CEO Stephane Bancel said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Thursday.
reut.rs
January 22, 2026 at 9:41 PM
On the high point the world will be a better place when the US is quarantined for rampant disease.
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Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
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Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky?
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain.
A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky?
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
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One more sleep until it's Whiskey Friday With Tony Dokoupil
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
One more sleep until it's Whiskey Friday With Tony Dokoupil
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Okay this is fucking ridiculous.
ICE is using the same paper plate on FIVE DIFFERENT CARS. This photo was taken by Harbor Area Peace Patrol, which monitors activity at Terminal Island for Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
No local gov't has held ICE accountable for this shit. #FuckICE
ICE is using the same paper plate on FIVE DIFFERENT CARS. This photo was taken by Harbor Area Peace Patrol, which monitors activity at Terminal Island for Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
No local gov't has held ICE accountable for this shit. #FuckICE
January 22, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Okay this is fucking ridiculous.
ICE is using the same paper plate on FIVE DIFFERENT CARS. This photo was taken by Harbor Area Peace Patrol, which monitors activity at Terminal Island for Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
No local gov't has held ICE accountable for this shit. #FuckICE
ICE is using the same paper plate on FIVE DIFFERENT CARS. This photo was taken by Harbor Area Peace Patrol, which monitors activity at Terminal Island for Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
No local gov't has held ICE accountable for this shit. #FuckICE
If OpenAI really wants a cut of any money generated off output from its tools it is basically telling corporations to find another tool.
OpenAI Wants a Cut of Your Profits: Inside Its New Royalty-Based Plan and Other Business Models - Gizmochina
OpenAI is exploring new revenue models beyond subscriptions, including royalties, licensing, ads, and outcome-based pricing
www.gizmochina.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:25 PM
If OpenAI really wants a cut of any money generated off output from its tools it is basically telling corporations to find another tool.
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Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
Trump is a lich. He died from COVID in 2020, but made a deal with Lucifer to be reanimated as a lich to prepare the path for the apocalypse.
he’s literally rotting
January 22, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Trump is a lich. He died from COVID in 2020, but made a deal with Lucifer to be reanimated as a lich to prepare the path for the apocalypse.
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from shaking hands lefty, no doubt
Trump's *left* hand -- not the one that is usually disfigured -- now has a large bruise and is discolored
These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)
These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
from shaking hands lefty, no doubt
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Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.
I think the Board of Peace is one of those things that’s not unconstitutional, but anti-constitutional.
It is not clear to me this org obligates the United States to do anything like a treaty. But, entering a multi-national working group where Trump is chairman for life violates enduring values.
It is not clear to me this org obligates the United States to do anything like a treaty. But, entering a multi-national working group where Trump is chairman for life violates enduring values.
US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
January 22, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.
And thus Trump was crowned King of Gaza.
Trump’s Board of Peace has now officially been recognized as an international organization, according to the White House.
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
And thus Trump was crowned King of Gaza.
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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.
I’m not a fan of anyone disrupting religious services. This goes for protestors and Federal agents. Either places of worship are sacred spaces and sanctuary or they aren’t. I do find it credulous that the government is claiming a civil rights violation and a Federal offense.
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BREAKING: A woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted service at a Minnesota church has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
The woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says
Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I’m not a fan of anyone disrupting religious services. This goes for protestors and Federal agents. Either places of worship are sacred spaces and sanctuary or they aren’t. I do find it credulous that the government is claiming a civil rights violation and a Federal offense.
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Taxpayer funded treatment for what doctors are only beginning to label "Stancil PTSD" is going to be a huge chunk of the federal budget when the goon squads retire.
January 22, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Taxpayer funded treatment for what doctors are only beginning to label "Stancil PTSD" is going to be a huge chunk of the federal budget when the goon squads retire.
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Yesterday's SCOTUS argument on Trump's attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve distills Trump's imperial view of his power (p.46):
"baked into our jurisprudence from the dawn of --of this Court -- is the notion there's going to be some things the president does that you can't dispute."
"baked into our jurisprudence from the dawn of --of this Court -- is the notion there's going to be some things the president does that you can't dispute."
www.supremecourt.gov
January 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Yesterday's SCOTUS argument on Trump's attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve distills Trump's imperial view of his power (p.46):
"baked into our jurisprudence from the dawn of --of this Court -- is the notion there's going to be some things the president does that you can't dispute."
"baked into our jurisprudence from the dawn of --of this Court -- is the notion there's going to be some things the president does that you can't dispute."