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James Harris

@james-harris.bsky.social
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National security consultant; economist by trade; former chief of the China Division and the Strategic Assessments Group at CIA; later, VP at CENTRA Technology.

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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, this is quite a read! Have at it!
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The third paragraph. And these people are perhaps a third of the electorate.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great ammo for the Dem impeachment strategy (post January).
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The GOP has to be destroyed before it is to have any hope of eventual resurrection as a respectable political party. Sadly, that is too big a gulp for most registered Republicans.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We've got to face the fact that a third of the country doesn't care if Trump is out of his mind as long as he's as racist and sexist as they are. But we also must recognize that the rest of the country deserves to live in a free country, not a dictatorship. Vote against all Republicans.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Republicans want a chance to vote in 2028 for a party that sort of resembles what it used to be, they need to go to the polls in 2026 to destroy what it is now.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The GOP we used to know is pretty dead.
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Gregory Daco @gregdaco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨Income erosion We've long established the labor market is non-inflationary, but with real wage growth having been negative for the last 6-months that represents a cap on consumer spending growth
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "If I ran today, I'd win by 25 percent"
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Makes me think that if we were really witnessing Creative Destruction, we'd be seeing much higher layoffs and much more new hiring--both.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Creative Destruction.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
cnn.com
I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Humans (users) can and do "control" AI (on provider servers) via prompts. That's our problem. How and where do we draw the line between acceptable and objectional uses of AI? It's not so easy.
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Gregory Daco @gregdaco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The losses in the US Treasuries market intensified on Wednesday as robust US manufacturing and services activity, higher oil prices and a weak 5-year Treasury auction drove yields across most maturities to the highest levels in almost two decades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
newrepublic.com
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As things stand, he is scheduled to be in office another two years, plus. It is hard to envision what that two years may hold, but obviously it won't hold a normal presidency.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The bit where he brags about how Trump allows the press in to watch him sign bills as if that hasn't been done by every president for decades is also good.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rick Scott and other GOPers like him are just too stupid to understand that they are too stupid to understand. This is how we get into huge trouble.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Republicans are down to name calling. Absurd name calling, at that. That's all they are capable of any more.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.axios.com/2026/09/12/a...
axios.com
Anthropic report: 5 ways Claude was exploited for war, spying and repression
An Iran-linked operation used Claude to help target U.S. naval forces.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Axios piece on AI. Forget about threats to humanity, this is bad enough. Link below.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What could go wrong? "A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war." thebulletin.org/2026/09/pent...
thebulletin.org
Pentagon's secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war
Drafted behind closed doors by a small group of defense officials, a new Pentagon strategy aims to expand battlefield nuclear options and blur the line between conventional and nuclear warfare—bypassi...
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every day, Trump seems to be trying to ruin his own party by alienating about three fourths of the electorate.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Comments in this thread aimed at the media, and they have a point.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
openai.com/index/an-ali...
openai.com
An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Chief Scientist at OpenAI this morning:
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Disturbing. Dwarkesh Patel on the Hugging Face incident: "I don't think this is the final warning shot we'll get. But it's probably the last one that I'll personally be able to understand." www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
dwarkesh.com
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
NYT today.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who is he threatening here? Kevin Warsh and the Fed? Boggles the mind. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Threatens to Halt Some Trade Unless the Fed Cuts Rates
The president said he could halt trade between the United States and countries with which it has a trade deficit if the central bank doesn’t do his bidding.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
August added 162,000 jobs, way above forecasts of 50-60,000.⁣ ⁣ But the composition tells a different story than the headline. New jobs are mostly all in healthcare or social assistance. Other sectors suffered.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
Where Are the Hard Hats in This Jobs Report?
This administration promised a manufacturing revival. What we got is an aging country hiring nurses and aides—and outside of health care, the economy has shed jobs.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Iran's strategy is to drastically weaken the US basing system in the Middle East while exhausting our weapons stockpiles--exactly the kind of approach the Trump administration can't fathom.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Increasingly, I find myself thinking that there is roughly a third of the US adult population the country would be better of without. That's a lot.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We joke about it, but for sure he's not right in the head. At what point do we do something about it? Impeachment and conviction is the right solution but ain't gonna happen, even after the mid-terms.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He can’t even get along with Canada. First person in the universe who couldn’t work with Canada.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'd extend this a bit to the Republican party: it's not about governing, it's a machine for electing people who promise loyalty.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The essence of Trumpism.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
People don't appreciate the vast amount of work, bipartisan, that goes into monitoring precinct level activity on election day and vote count auditing shortly thereafter. I do both. As a Democrat; my last vote audit was shared with two Republicans.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Exactly.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/07/2026
Spain edited Trump out of its celebratory photo.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ossoff nails it. Geez....
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The party of limited government....
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In a democracy, you don't need permission from a soldier to cast your vote. Trump disagrees. Stop him. 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from sending troops to our polling places
Contact Congress today!
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Yes, he is.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Yep. Problem is he believes/believes that the common voter actually buys it if he says it.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Exactly.
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Listen to “Street Fighting Man.” The base is what makes it special. (Keith Richards on that one, actually.)
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James Harris @james-harris.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
James Comey, Obama, radical left libtards are to blame.
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