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The Fifth Dentist

@fifthdentist.bsky.social

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Frederick, MD. Retiree. Proudly and fiercely anti-authoritarian. Regular guy with no fancy media credentials. Orioles and Ravens fan. Elvis enthusiast. Member of Bluesky Samizdat since December 4, 2024. I post occasional music videos to keep us all sane.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · Jan 8

The Rwanda genocide of the early 1990s was fueled by misinformation on talk radio.

Just something to keep in mind as the trump crowd consolidates media control.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 7m

I knew exactly why you thought that too before you explained why.

I'm old too.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 12m

What was that adage, if everybody you deal with is an asshole, maybe you're the asshole?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 27m

Most trump voters wanted all this. They just thought it wouldn't affect them.

Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 1h

I can't imagine what it must feel like to know you voted for this mess and you have to sit back and pretend like it is all okay and that you actually wanted to kidnap people off the streets, remove DOE special education, SNAP benefits, healthcare and welcomed in fascism.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 30m

"Essay" is generous. It's an unhinged screed.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 32m

Why are trump government agencies so thin-skinned about criticism?

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 3h

Not anymore he doesnt. 😁

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 3h

"I'm one of the good ones" is the essential (erroneous) belief of ANYBODY who supports the regime, whatever their identity.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 4h

I have never used ChatGPT. Literally never.

Am I missing anything?

I sure don't feel like I am.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 4h

Over the last twenty years or so, it's definitely been the Jets.

Watch them sign Jordan Love in 2035.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 4h

Instead of taunting them for voting for this (which they most certainly did), I'd just ask them what they're going to about it.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 4h

Both sides, both sides!

When the AI bubble pops, the country still won't be nearly as bankrupt as the legacy media is now.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 4h

Are the New York Jets the most ridiculable franchise in pro sports?

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 4h

JD Vance is cancer.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

JD Vance indicates to NBC that Trump isn't opposed to invoking the Insurrection Act.

A key line from Vance: "The problem here is not the Insurrection Act or whether we actually invoke it or not."

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing closet about it.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 7h

A lot of right-wingers have special-needs children. It's the kind of thing that doesn't discriminate.

We'll find out if right-wingers love their children enough to fight this, or not.

Trish K @tkaz99.bsky.social · 7h

They simply don't care.

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a liberal because good liberal democratic governance results in better, freer lives for all, me included.

The idea of a common good that THEY benefit from as much as anyone is completely foreign to them.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 7h

"My friends" "we don't believe"

This equivocating language is infuriating.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Jeffries on Fox News Sunday: "My friends on other aisle seem to think believe healthcare is an extraneous issue. We don't believe it's an extraneous issue. It's a central issue...the states most affected are all ones Trump won...so this is not a partisan fight. We're fighting for everyday Americans"

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 8h

"Ignore trump's advice" is a universal rule of thumb.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 9h

RIP John Lodge.

I wore out the Long Distance Voyager album in high school.

Meanwhile

YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 21h

I'm yet to see a report on any US citizen tearfully accepting that coveted slaughterhouse job he'd been cruelly denied all these years because an immigrant blackmailed the employer into hiring him instead.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Did people actually believe Trump during his campaign, or did they just love the permission he gave them to be racist?

Trump on loop: “They’re stealing your jobs.”

If that were true, why aren’t Americans lining up to take those so-called “stolen” jobs?

Every Trump voter needs to see this.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 21h

Watch the Mariners pitch a shutout. Because baseball.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 21h

This is good.

Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 1d

I've been sounding the alarm about Fetterman for a long time. Prof. Ealy takes all the information and serves it up not only with prime snark, but makes it make sense.

Pennsylvania Deserves Better — And It’s Not Too Late to Demand I

How John Fetterman went from working-class hero to absentee senator—and why Pennsylvania shouldn’t settle for excuses.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 22h

The backlash would be insane if the NFL succumbs to this.

The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 1d

The wrong 79-year-old died today.

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh was a privileged, entitled Good Catholic Boy who grew up in cloistered bubble and who has no idea how the real world works.

And he's a gargantuan asshole, too.