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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 · 05/10/2026
Movie poster for “The Thin Man” starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This really caught my eye.
Graph from https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-biggest-economic-bet-in-us-history showing change in private construction investment since 2024. Data center construction is up $5b and all other is down $10b.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This was posted by @pkrugman.bsky.social. Changes over past year, in dollars per barrel (42 gallons).
Graph posted by @pkrugman.bsky.social. Changes over past year, in dollars per barrel (42 gallons). Diesel shows a 100% increase.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Account impersonating @scalzi.com.
Account impersonating John Scalzi.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My running total of block using blockcurve.bisks.net. Getting added to the AI Haters blocklist gave a decent bump. I’m also on one labeled Furries which I’ve never understood. This tool also showed me I’m on a list labeled Nazis and another labeled Zionists. Fun tool.
Graph showing running total of blocks on my account. The biggest one day block was when I was added to an “AI Haters” list. This was generated using the tool https://blockcurve.bisks.net/
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Live and grew up in Central Massachusetts. I do think my dialect is less Boston and more Maine. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Dialect map: https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is where I post from
Plywood shack
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How many Republicans were so concerned about the debt that they voted against the GW Bush tax cuts, the Trump I tax cuts and the Trump II tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations?
The Guardian, 20 August 2026 at 8:25am US ET, “Democrats and Republican outraged over $40tn national debt”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Stonekettle post on another social media site.
Stone kettle, “If your government is loudly demanding the dissolution of the International Criminal Court, the international court that tries war crimes, well, then the odds are pretty high that your government is committing war crimes.
A lot of war crimes.”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I always thought Graham would go after Trump.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Web comic by Deaign Thinking.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Also seen on my walk.
Red tailed hawk on a tree branch in the park.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Seen during my morning walk. I love living in New England.
Deer in a park.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The sidewalk is not your car park.
Silver car parked on a sidewalk.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Potential for day one of a heat wave.
Forecast showing four days of high temperatures in the mid to upper 90s F.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.
Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer II.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Post a robot that is not from Star Wars or Transformers.
“Hardware Wars” robots, Artie-Deco and 4-Q-2. This was a short parody of Star Wars from the 1970s.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This dynamic is why I feel confident that the Senate will not flip in this election. Montana is a hard right, but the Democrat and Independent are splitting a formidable Non-Reoublican vote block.
Semafor.com poll result for Montana senate showing the Republican safely in the lead while a Democrat and Independent split the non-conservative vote.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Name a TV show no one remembers but you.
Cast photo for the 1980s show “Wizards and Warriors”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
That comment brings this photo to mind.
photographers doing a close up of a fire in a trash barrel
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Inflation over 4%. Two things have kept inflation in the US low. Cheap consumer goods from China and cheap oil. Trump started a trade war with China and slapped tariffs on consumer groups and then started a war on Iran and forced the Strait of Hormuz to close.
From semafor.com, “Analysts expect the Bureau of Labor Statistics to report this morning that prices last month increased at an annual rate of more than 4% for the first time in more than three years.”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
SpaceX wants to IPO at a $1.8t valuation based on the supposed future earning of Grok, but they are leasing their chips instead of using them themselves. Obviously they over invested in capacity. SpaceX is a scam stock and Musk is hoping for meme energy and general flimflam to buoy it.
X.com post.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I think this is correct.
From sinocism.com, “ in the emerging multipolar world. Da Wei offers a more restrained formulation, merging the ideas of "G2" and multipolarity into that of a "dual-core multipolar order". As he frames it, this both acknowledges the position of China and the US as the key players and allows middle powers the space to hedge selectively between them, avoiding the hardening of Cold War-style blocs.”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And You Tube has provided me quite the playlist to follow it.
You Tube playlist
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This drain of oil reserves is part of what’s keeping the price of gas under $5. Know what happens when the Strait of Hormuz opens? The US Government and every other government starts buying oil to replenish their reserves. High oil prices will be around for a long time.
US oil reserves graph showing a 10% decline since the start of Trump’s war on Iran.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’ve seen this movie. I am not going to reach into this storm drain to fetch this ball.
Pink ball stuck in a storm drain.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Five year median weekly real wage. Same data. Different scale. You can see the change since 2020 better.
FRED five year median weekly real wage starting in 2020.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Nice uptick in inflation since Trump started his war on Iran. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Inflation graph from The Guardian showing a sharp uptick to 3.3% after the start of Trump’s war on Iran.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/10/march-inflation-soars-iran-war-economy
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Artemis II crew captured the moon eclipsing the sun.

Photograph: APThe so-called Earthset as seen from the Orion spacecraft on Monday.

Photograph: Nasa/AFP/Getty Images
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
In February 100 ships a day passed the Strait of Hormuz. Now ten pass and have to pay a toll to Iran. Prior to Trump’s war on Iran the strait was open and free to travel.
Senator.com graph showing the drop in ship crossings at the Strait of Hormuz from about 100 a day to about ten a day. #ThanksTrump
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Yes, You Tube algorithm. That’s totally the theme of this song.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
Cast photo of McHale’s Navy TV series.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
First flowers of 2026 in my neighborhood.
Purple crocus.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Trump did this.
Semafor.com graph showing mortgage rates moving from slightly under 6% to 6.38% since the start of Trump’s war on Iran.

#ThanksTrump
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Rev Peyton’s Big Damn Band is playing Off The Rails in Worcester on 7 May. Great band and should be great show. The Reverend is an amazing guitarist.
Rev Peyton’s Big Damn Band is playing Off The Rails in Worcester on 7 May.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Turks will be very unhappy with another Kurdish group armed to the gills. The US has armed Kurds in Iraq and Syria already. The Turks are extremely worried about their own Kurdish minority getting ideas.
Map highlighting areas where Kurds live. This is the core of what is called “Kurdistan”. It covers regions of Iran, Iran, Syria, Türkiye and Armenia.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Crude oil futures currently hovering around $72 a barrel.
Crude oil futures currently hovering around $72 a barrel.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Trumpist Regime‘s drumbeat for war with Iran is playing like a repeat of George W Bush’s war on Iraq. www.timesofisrael.com/as-talks-res...
The Times of Israel - 26 February 2026

Despite the claims from Rubio and Vance - which echoed remarks made by Trump in his State of the Union address Tuesday night - the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday cited experts and diplomats saying that Iran has not made any major advances on its atomic program since last June's
US strikes.
David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector, told the newspaper that according to satellite imagery, "we don't see any evidence that they are trying to reconstitute their nuclear-weapons program. They are essentially on hold."
And on Thursday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated that his country is not seeking a nuclear weapon.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has banned weapons of mass destruction, which "clearly means Tehran won't develop nuclear weapons," Pezeshkian 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-talks-resume-rubio-vance-accuse-iran-of-trying-to-restart-its-nuclear-program/
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I always thought a wolf in Los Angeles would be wearing a zoot suit. Did cartoons lead me wrong?
Cartoon wolf in a purple zoot suit.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is who runs this account.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is similar to an ultimatum that precedes a declaration of war.
Nick Schifrin 
@nickschifrin

NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state
"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President
DJT"
11:31 PM • Jan 18, 2026
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
How many of you are dead this morning?
**Tweet by Jane Orrick, M.D. (@JaneOrrickMD) - Jan 9**
**All Covid Vaccinated will be dead by December 31, 2025**
*According to United States of America, who lead the charge to kill 95% of the World in 1994, under UN Agenda 2021.*
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I didn't create this. I don’t know who did.
Caption,”I got my tickets for New Year’s Eve.” Picture shows event tickets stating “stay home, do nothing, go to bed early.”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Oh well. I’m not subscribing to Wired to read on average less than one article a month.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I’m just going to embrace “Radical Left Scum” as an identity. Maybe make shirts and hats.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Here is a copy of the Bill Clinton statement calling for release of the Epstein Files.
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