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Jim Teeth
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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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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.
Oh well. I’m not subscribing to Wired to read on average less than one article a month.
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.

Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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US media inching closer to admitting that the country is running concentration camps.
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’ve had enough of sub-freezing temperatures this winter. December has been brutal. We still have January and February to survive.
December 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Football - the sport of the common man.
December 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What does this say about the acceptance of antisemitism in America? Millions of people listen to Rogan.
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.

Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Big fan of bourbon and amaretto (aka Godfather cocktail).
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
FIFA Peace Prize Laureate.

😂
Merry Christmas!

The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:

Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.

Randy, his arms down.

The Old Man, when the lamp broke.

Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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merry Christmas, Bluesky: he has risen again
merry Christmas Bluesky, may your Alf’s be merry and bright (censored edition)
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:

A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses

www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
ICE Releases Grandma With Green Card After 5 Months in Time for Christmas
Donna Hughes Brown's case was highlighted during a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
www.star-telegram.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This is the *charitable* read
J. D. Vance has "clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid," Franklin Foer argues. theatln.tc/aaUENxUw
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It is possible to be critical of the Israeli government without being antisemitic. It really is; unless of course you are an antisemite in which case you’re going to be you.
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m just going to embrace “Radical Left Scum” as an identity. Maybe make shirts and hats.
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Republicans can’t afford to lose the antisemitic conservatives and still win elections. So they have courted them for a long time. I don’t see them expelling the antisemites from the party. I also expect a lot of other conservatives to close their eyes and cover their ears.
Ben Shapiro’s desperate stand against right-wing antisemitism is receiving major pushback
Showdown at Turning Point USA convention highlights how Jews and Israel have become fault lines in conservative American politics
www.timesofisrael.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Happy Christmas to those who observe.
Full Metal Jacket - Christmas song
YouTube video by Lex
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December 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
By this time next year he’s going to excommunicate JD Vance.
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Spinal Tap - Christmas with the devil (Return of Spinal Tap Movie version)
YouTube video by missangelkari
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
ICE is the American Schutzstaffel.
“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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OK, less contentious post:

You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?

For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Your yearly reminder that heavy metal Christmas songs exist. Should you wish to have yourself a not-so-silent night this evening, I have some suggestions:
www.heavymetalnomad.com/blog-4-1/hea...
Heavy Holidays: 10 metal Christmas songs to make the Yuletide loud — Heavy Metal Nomad
Yes, Virginia, there are heavy metal Christmas songs…. And why not? Pop, country, jazz, hip-hop and mainstream rock have all laid claim to the holiday with classic songs in their respective genres fo...
www.heavymetalnomad.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As the United States abandons its allies it only makes sense for them to consider obtaining nuclear weapons. It would be foolish for them to not do so.
Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says
A source within Japan's prime minister's office said Thursday that the country needs nuclear weapons, remarks that deviate from the country's long-standing non-nuclear principles and could trigger bac...
english.kyodonews.net
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM