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Wendy Johnson

@wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social
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Family and Addiction Medicine Physician, activist, writer, curious explorer. Author of “Kinship Medicine: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves” out now! www.wendyjohnsonmd.com

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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In light of recent news, I’d like to propose a precautionary principle for all men. We need to test you first to prove you’re not harmful before releasing you to the public.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Stanford should be called the Anti-medical school. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Statement from Stanford School of Medicine on Alum Casey Means
Casey Means, MD, has been nominated to serve as the United States surgeon general.
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
On March 1, I'll have the treat of talking with @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social about her new book, Kinship Medicine, which explores the deep connections between health and nature. Join us at Matter Bookstore in downtown Denver: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal...
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Author Talk: Dr. Wendy Johnson on Kinship Medicine Reading & Conversation
Join us for an enlightening author talk with Dr. Wendy Johnson in conversation with her new book, Kinship Medicine.
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GSMC Book Review Podcast @gsmcbookreview.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Sarah talks with physician and author @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social about Kinship Medicine and why our health is inseparable from community, environment, and connection. Watch here: youtu.be/3hUJVMW5aD4 #WendyJohnson #AuthorInterview #GSMCPodcastNetwork
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Kinship Medicine by Wendy Johnson | GSMC Book Review Podcast
YouTube video by GSMC Podcast Network
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Trump Admin is actively trying to kill us all in multiple ways. We have to GET IN THE WAY as the great John Lewis reminded us.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Welp, we had 2 days of thinking 2026 might be better.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Bye 2025, Hello 2026! Welcome to the year of the 🔥 🐴 www.instagram.com/reel/DS_zIP9...
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I am lucky to be spending the holiday with loved ones, in a beautiful place, with good food and clean water. Grateful for that and the opportunity to keep fighting until everyone has the same. #environmentaljustice #happythanksgiving #gratitude #cleanwater #cleanair #foodjustice
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The poor have to go hungry, get sick, and die so the rich can have even more money to extend their lavish lifestyles indefinitely. My latest oped in The Santa Fe New Mexican For more of my writing, subscribe to my Substack newsletter, Kinship Medicine, here: substack.com/@drwendyjohn...
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The rich live longer, while the poor struggle
I recently saw a photo of longevity influencer Bryan Johnson giving a “tour” of his refrigerator. Every shelf was stocked with metal canisters, plastic bottles and glass jars like a
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The ballroom is a money laundering scheme, the government won’t reopen anytime soon and Congress essentially doesn’t exisit anymore. The task now is to preserve what we can until we can topple the dictatorship. Learn from the folks who have done it before.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We’ve done this before to prevent the sell off of public lands, we can do it again! Tell your congress critters: no deal without saving healthcare. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Stay strong! Here’s a link to send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Can’t wait for this 🔥🔥🔥 conversation with Alma Zaragoza-Petty this Friday. If you are near LA, I hope to see you at The Village Well in Culver City!
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I am really honored to be quoted in this excellent article about the real families and children that will face indescribably difficult choices when these Medicaid cuts hit.
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Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids on Medicaid
‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is projected to cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the next decade. Parents with sick kids and doctors tell Rhian Lubin the cuts are ‘final nail in the coffi...
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🤔 🤔 🤔 what ever could be the issue???
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It’s a huge honor to get to speak at Powell’s mothership! Can’t wait! Monday August 18 at 7 pm.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Can’t wait to see you Seattle!
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/08/2025
Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.
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How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Can’t wait to embark on the first leg of my book tour this week. See you on the road!
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I love all the right wingers accusing everyone of “fear-mongering.” Honey, fear-mongering is how we got into this. How we got a budget for ICE bigger than most other countries’ whole militaries, and a detention budget 13x bigger than 2024.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Dr. Hayes and I wrote an op-ed about the effect of Medicaid cuts on NM—it’s bad. Very very bad. www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...
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Medicaid cuts will hurt patients, providers in N.M.
An already-dire health care crisis in rural New Mexico will worsen exponentially if the Medicaid and other health care cuts in the “Build Back Better” legislation are allowed to pass
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
RFK’s push for wearables are the “let them eat cake” of the MAHA movement. No healthcare? Just use a CGM or a Fitbit. No problem.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As the world crumbles around us, it's never been more important to find ways to create kinship and solidarity, and to speak out in whatever ways we can. My book launch is a little more than a month away. If you are not in Santa Fe but would like to attend, you can livestream starting at 6:30 MDT.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
ICE crossed a line in LA
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Brian White @brianwhite.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This. More of this.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My thoughts exactly!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/buil...
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Why building inspiring alternatives is necessary to counter authoritarianism
Because resistance isn’t only about saying no, here are seven ways communities are building a future worth saying yes to.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
No foreign films, no NPR/PBS, no NEA funding for theater and music Nothing to distract us from protesting! @thirdactorg.bsky.social
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
5 thou, but no healthcare, no childcare, no special needs programs, no public schools, no libraries, no public transportation, no housing. That’s the world the fascists envision.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The missing lynx: In an age of growing hostility to migrants, there are now 10x more barriers on borders than when the Berlin Wall fell, heavily impacting wildlife populations across the globe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The missing lynx: how the rise of border walls has split up wildlife populations
In an age of growing hostility to migrants, there are 10 times more barriers on borders than when the Berlin Wall fell. But as well as the human cost, animals are unintended victims
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Hi all, if you want to keep up with what I’m writing and what I’m reading or listening to on the topic of human and planetary well-being, the best way is to sign up for my Substack. You don’t have to be on Substack, and I promise I won’t bombard you with emails either.
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Kinship Medicine | Dr. Wendy Johnson | Substack
Writing about the intersection between human well-being and the health of our planet. Click to read Kinship Medicine, by Dr. Wendy Johnson, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A really cool new study on the impact of climate activism has just dropped! Some highlights: 1) "There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed."
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The impacts of climate activism
We review 50 studies on the impacts of climate activism. We present the existing evidence in a map of what we know about climate activism and its impa…
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Medicaid is the largest source of insurance for addiction treatment. Easily the single greatest policy change to actually make a difference in our overdose crisis has been Medicaid/Medicare guaranteeing coverage for medical treatment of addiction. Any reduction in coverage will lead to more deaths.
salon.com
Cutting Medicaid could worsen overdose deaths — and erase recent progress in treating addiction
Reducing funding to the largest payer for addiction services could pose major setbacks for those battling drug use
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
First round of homemade seed paper bookmarks done. I’ll be sending to folks who sent me their address and their preorder receipt in early April. Also, I’ve nailed down the first two launch events—on July 15th in Santa Fe at Tumbleroot and 7/17 at Bookworks in ABQ. Stay in for more details!
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Nick Jackson @nbj914.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics: "When we understand ourselves as implicated in larger histories, as entangled in other people's stories and fates, what choices will we make?" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hard to describe how exciting it is to hold an actual copy of the book you’ve been working on for half a decade. If you have a podcast or want to write a review, hit me up for an Advanced Reader Copy. Coming to a bookstore near you on July 15. Or preorder: www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/kinship...
Book cover for Kinship Medicine.Press release for Kinship Medicine
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals. The pro-life party: This is an outrage! RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio. The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Coyotes serenade us at the end of our hike. Watch to the end for glimpses of them, you can even see one wagging its tail.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I posted this 3 days ago, but even more so today. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Feeling sick every morning about the world crumbling. Today it’s NOAA and the Brits cutting aid spending to boost defense. Commit to buy local only today—and make it the start of a buy local streak. See how many days you can stay away from feeding our technofuedal overlords.
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The next stage of capitalism | Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracy
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I mean, if he was a Russian sleeper agent, what exactly would he be doing differently?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/02/2025
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I wrote a thing on Substack
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What To Do. . .
Creating Querencias While the World Burns
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Seems even more relevant than 3 weeks ago.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
United States, 2020-2025
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a person is digging a hole in the ground to rescue a dog from a hole in the ground .
Alt: Sheep rescued from trench runs back in trench.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people. I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
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Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's went from a 1.3 to a 1.6 probability of hitting the Earth in 2032. The writers are just going insane with this season. Then again, I understand that they need a big ending. . . . Would wrap things up nicely.
washingtonpost.com
Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
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