Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026In 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. 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Stanford should be called the Anti-medical school. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...med.stanford.eduStatement from Stanford School of Medicine on Alum Casey MeansCasey Means, MD, has been nominated to serve as the United States surgeon general. 110
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonEmily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 23/01/2026On 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...eventbrite.comAuthor Talk: Dr. Wendy Johnson on Kinship Medicine Reading & ConversationJoin us for an enlightening author talk with Dr. Wendy Johnson in conversation with her new book, Kinship Medicine. 021
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonGSMC Book Review Podcast @gsmcbookreview.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Sarah 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 #GSMCPodcastNetworkyoutu.beKinship Medicine by Wendy Johnson | GSMC Book Review PodcastYouTube video by GSMC Podcast Network 041
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The 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. 030
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Welp, we had 2 days of thinking 2026 might be better. 110
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Bye 2025, Hello 2026! Welcome to the year of the 🔥 🐴 www.instagram.com/reel/DS_zIP9... 010
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I 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 140
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The 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...santafenewmexican.comThe rich live longer, while the poor struggleI 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 020
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025When 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. 872293468724
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025The 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. 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025We’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... 042
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I 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 14685962817531
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Can’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! 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I 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.independent.co.ukTrump’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... 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025It’s a huge honor to get to speak at Powell’s mothership! Can’t wait! Monday August 18 at 7 pm. 020
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/08/2025Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.newyorker.comHow Scientists Started to Decode BirdsongLanguage is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too? 841605352
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonDr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025It 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. 398163315342
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Can’t wait to embark on the first leg of my book tour this week. See you on the road! 040
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I 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. 120
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Dr. 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...santafenewmexican.comMedicaid 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 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025RFK’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. 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025As 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. 030
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025ICE crossed a line in LA 7822460511916
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/05/2025wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/buil...wagingnonviolence.orgWhy building inspiring alternatives is necessary to counter authoritarianismBecause resistance isn’t only about saying no, here are seven ways communities are building a future worth saying yes to. 095
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/05/2025No foreign films, no NPR/PBS, no NEA funding for theater and music Nothing to distract us from protesting! @thirdactorg.bsky.social 3555499
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 06/05/20255 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. 030
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The 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/...theguardian.comThe missing lynx: how the rise of border walls has split up wildlife populationsIn 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 213647
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Hi 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.open.substack.comKinship Medicine | Dr. Wendy Johnson | SubstackWriting 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. 020
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A 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."sciencedirect.comThe impacts of climate activismWe 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… 9622243
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Medicaid 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.comCutting Medicaid could worsen overdose deaths — and erase recent progress in treating addictionReducing funding to the largest payer for addiction services could pose major setbacks for those battling drug use 419453
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025First 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! 131
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonNick Jackson @nbj914.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The 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... 011
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Hard 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... 090
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Michelle 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! 209247404655
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Coyotes serenade us at the end of our hike. Watch to the end for glimpses of them, you can even see one wagging its tail. 070
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I posted this 3 days ago, but even more so today. 🤷🏼♀️ 020
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Feeling 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.youtu.beThe next stage of capitalism | Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracyYouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas 010
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I mean, if he was a Russian sleeper agent, what exactly would he be doing differently? 000
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/02/2025Your 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. 194115442892
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I wrote a thing on Substackopen.substack.comWhat To Do. . .Creating Querencias While the World Burns 130
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonBlake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2025United States, 2020-2025media.tenor.coma 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. 10432117
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/02/2025World'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 291453298
Reposted by Wendy JohnsonCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Senator 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. 14947047215679
Wendy Johnson @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025It'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.comNewly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attentionThe risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue. 060