Jim Teeth

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.

Is it good when the Republican occupant of the White House needs to campaign in Texas for the Republican candidate? How’s about when the Secretary of State is doing it too?

Interesting rumor.

Early voting ends this week in Massachusetts. If you have any likelihood of not being able to vote on November 3rd get to your polling place and vote this week. Check the link below for dates and times:

If the Democrats really do have a wave in the election I am looking forward to some deep analysis of what impacts Republican redistricting had on those elections.

Holy shit. This is a great spot.

Don't let big money rewrite the rules. Vote NO on 3, 5, and 8.

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Capital gains should be taxed when the assets are monetize, whether that's via sale or via loan

If anyone is raiding polling stations that is a failure of the security agencies and Netanyahu should resign since he is responsible for national security.

Israeli polls close in about seven hours for those wondering.

One week out. The Democrats will gain control of the House, but will not get a majority in the Senate. I hope they get a majority in the Senate, but I don’t see it.

FWIW, Anthropic admits its current margins may not be representative. There's a bit of lucky timing here: big revenue growth while on the tail end of cheap compute contracted more than a year ago. Their future compute is... not so cheap. (1st pic their S-1, second are my graphics based on S-1.)

What a bigot.

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

“$16.286bn in the first six months of 2026 alone. ... Despite the increasing revenue, Anthropic disclosed a net loss of $80bn for the first half of 2026.“

This is one good example of how appropriations hardball can work if you're willing to not blink first. Another: take your pick for demands and restrictions on funding Executive Office of the President. Yes, literally defund the White House. EOP is the central hub of the assault on the Constitution.

He brought a lot of joy to a lot of people.

Any other product supposedly this dangerous would be blocked for sale and safety requiements would be developed. We don’t allow companies to sell cyanide to the public.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Trump is consistently and unapologetically antisemitic, but the ADL will never care because he is pro-Likud.

Excellent deep dive by Abigail into the structural problems at the root of Israel’s endemic political crisis

Good morning to those of you waking up right now. This is my definitive pre-Israel-elections mega-thread complete with speech to text typos. Good luck to all of us tomorrow.

Avishay does a dive into Israeli politics in the slide into the election.

Congratulations, Republicans. I'm a well-off white dude in his 50s. I'm a lawyer. I have additional degrees (plural) in commercial law. I am institutionalist and adverse to major change by nature. And, thanks to your decades of hard work, if I'm not a socialist now, I'm just a short step away.

Why are communities interested in turning their schools into black ops torture sites?

My personal hunch: if you're looking for upsets, they're more likely to be in places w/ lots of secular whites & independents (i.e. the Midwest) than in the Deep South. Not totally unrelated: my lunch locale today.

Garbage lawsuit and should be thrown out with minimal consideration. The Federal Government has no standing and the lawsuit seeks to invalidate an election because Trump doesn’t like on of the legitimately certified candidates on the ballot. This is frivolous.

Elon Musk is a danger to world civilization.

The blond has the Kubrick Stare.

These are some truly evil fucks.

The Duke is gone.

Buyers: "Hey, so who actually controls Starshield? Is it the White House? The DoD? Tesla? Elon personally?" "Yes."

Cops make it really difficult to care about cops.

Metaphor for our time 2: Whiskey Pete demands Eisenhower's globe but refuses to wait until the experts can help move it, so he damages the globe and has to give up the conceit. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump is preparing to attack Iran again.

Somalian. He's Somalian. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Imagine if Biden did this.

M*A*S*H.

Just going to start abbreviating Republican as Reb and Republicans as Rebs in honor of their allegiance to the Confederacy.

Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?