Wendy Johnson
@wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social
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
www.wendyjohnsonmd.com
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
#environmentaljustice #happythanksgiving #gratitude #cleanwater #cleanair #foodjustice
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
#environmentaljustice #happythanksgiving #gratitude #cleanwater #cleanair #foodjustice
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
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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
www.santafenewmexican.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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
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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.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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.
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.
The task now is to preserve what we can until we can topple the dictatorship. Learn from the folks who have done it before.
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
The task now is to preserve what we can until we can topple the dictatorship. Learn from the folks who have done it before.
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...
October 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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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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
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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!
September 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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!
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.
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...
www.independent.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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.
🤔 🤔 🤔 what ever could be the issue???
August 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🤔 🤔 🤔 what ever could be the issue???
It’s a huge honor to get to speak at Powell’s mothership! Can’t wait! Monday August 18 at 7 pm.
August 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It’s a huge honor to get to speak at Powell’s mothership! Can’t wait! Monday August 18 at 7 pm.
Can’t wait to see you Seattle!
9/8 at 7:30 PM | Family Physician and public health professor @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social asserts that many of the causal factors of poor health may be solved by restoring humanity's interconnectedness to people and planet.
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August 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Can’t wait to see you Seattle!
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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.
How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?
www.newyorker.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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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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.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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.
Can’t wait to embark on the first leg of my book tour this week. See you on the road!
July 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Can’t wait to embark on the first leg of my book tour this week. See you on the road!
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.
July 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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.
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...
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
www.santafenewmexican.com
June 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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...
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.
June 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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.
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.
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.
June 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
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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ICE crossed a line in LA
June 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ICE crossed a line in LA
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This. More of this.
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This. More of this.
My thoughts exactly!
So far today I've received 28 pitches for upcoming books. By 28 different publicists representing 28 different authors. There is so little space to cover any of them. Which is why this AI-created and unedited by humans summer reading list is such a slap in the face.
May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My thoughts exactly!
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No foreign films, no NPR/PBS, no NEA funding for theater and music
Nothing to distract us from protesting!
@thirdactorg.bsky.social
Nothing to distract us from protesting!
@thirdactorg.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
No foreign films, no NPR/PBS, no NEA funding for theater and music
Nothing to distract us from protesting!
@thirdactorg.bsky.social
Nothing to distract us from protesting!
@thirdactorg.bsky.social
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.
Democrats questioned whether the proposals, including a one-time $5,000 payment for having a baby, would have a substantial impact on the financial challenges of parenthood.
Critics say Trump's baby bonus proposal won't address the real problems parents face
Democrats questioned whether the proposals, including a one-time $5,000 payment for having a baby, would have a substantial impact on the financial challenges of parenthood.
nbcnews.to
May 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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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/...
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/...
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
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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/...
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/...