Dr. Dharma Bum

Dr. Dharma Bum

@drdharmabum.bsky.social

Card-carrying Antifa member, neurodivergent high-functioning fuck up, spider-loving iNaturalist nerd, and molecular biologist of infectious diseases whose boss has a 🧠 🪱 Turn ons: truth, equality and dogs Turn offs: fascism, misinformation and cilantro

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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In Ireland we suffered under 60 years of Roman Catholic theocracy (they did more harm than the Brits in the 20th century) before throwing off the yoke of church fascism & become one of the most liberal countries in the world & I can tell u cruxification would be too good for everyone in this photo.

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AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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Welp, that’s good enough for me. I mean if you can’t take a shady company run by a psychotic meth head at its word then who can you trust?

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Man, I'm so fucking pissed at Chuck Schumer for not yet saying a word this administration launching a baseless, bigoted, & vindictive criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar

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NEW from me: Beth Fuller was a 10-year CDC contractor when she was DOGE'd last year by Trump + Elon Musk, a mass layoff process cheered by the GOP. Now she's a candidate in a key swing district that could end the GOP’s decades-long grip on total power in Georgia. www.huffpost.com/entry/beth-f...

huffpost.comElon Musk Killed Her Career. Now She Has A Shot At Flipping The Georgia House To Democrats.Beth Fuller is running in a GOP district, but says residents are worried about democracy being dismantled: “We don’t want to live in a one-party system.”

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About 1,400 LA fire survivor households are set to lose disaster case managers amid a California–FEMA funding standoff. Recovery should never become a partisan bargaining chip. People’s health, housing, and well-being must come before political point-scoring. apnews.com/article/fema...

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Democrats are preparing to investigate Musk if they win control of the House in November, Politico reports. Potential probes would focus on his DOGE leadership, federal job cuts, alleged data breaches, government contracts and Starlink’s role in Ukraine.

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RFK Jr’s CDC funded Hep B vaccine experimentation in Guinea Bissau is an arm of his anti-vax crusade. His unethical “research” is coming to a university near you, if we don’t stop this study PERMANENTLY, and remove him from power. STOP THE STUDY HERE: www.standupforscience.net/petition-to-...

Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as health secretary RFK Jr. has proposed, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/h...

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This is capitalist propaganda. Billionaires don't care about employees; they care about profits. Which is why they are far more likely to use cash on hand to buy back stock than hire more employees or give the employees already there a raise. This is just "Trickle Down Economics" in corporate drag.

Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.

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This is what it looks like when billionaires and their lapdogs order journalists to capitulate to power, rather than hold it to account.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Of course Bari Weiss has pushed CBS reporters to pursue the James Talarico was in a mental hospital and Abdul El-Sayed is tied to the Muslim Brotherhoid stories. Of course she has. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

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Some corporate Democrats and pundits think the party has gone too far "left" and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?