I'm mostly posting over at @theshapeshiftingcrone.com -- my newly launched business that focuses on trauma-informed care and disability rights. Still here on occasion, but my cannabis science work has been on the back burner while I built up the new website for trauma-informed care. 💚🌿

"When presented with the opportunity for empathy, even performative empathy, he chose escape."

I spent time talking to aging adults with disabilities about how they’re aging independently outside of institutions. Their stories highlight the importance of relationships–and the need for continuing research and safety nets. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to depart the country and abandon their plans to treat underserved patients if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, immigration attorneys told me. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

Well, it's official. My tilt table test came back with fucky results. The virus we normalized as "no big deal" to "get back to normal" gave me dysautonomia. Thanks to the woman who coughed in my husband's face because she thought she was fucking funny. Pox on your house, Karen.

Exquisitely written. Important issues for U.S. public corruption. Solution oriented. "Lessons can be drawn from peers like Canada, Mexico, and France, which do not exempt their heads of state from conflict-of-interest rules." @abigailbellows.bsky.social, former NSC Director for Anti-Corruption

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Died young, empire immediately collapsed. Assassinated. Died in exile.

The courts have struck down legislation written by elected officials in order to make elections less fair. For many Court decisions you dislike, the answer is "vote for someone who will change the law." Harder to recommend that when the court takes aim at the process of voting itself.

Look, kids. They're figuring it out. "Mental illness" is physical illness. And all your mental health stigma is b.s.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Any PlayStation game purchased digitally after March's sytem update will reportedly now require an internet connection once every 30 days to validate the license 🎮 If the console stays offline longer than that, the games will not launch until you reconnect (via MrZackXOfficial | TW)

The very act of struggling with a medical condition can lead to trauma, as well as getting a dreaded diagnosis of a chronic or life-threatening illness. Seeking diagnosis is also a factor because it takes an average of 8 to 10 years to be diagnosed with a rare disease: www.ihi.org/library/blog...

"There is now evidence that exercise causes sustained immune, metabolic and neuromuscular degeneration in people with ME/CFS-related post-exertional malaise."

“Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage” is some serious Madison Grant/Lothrop Stoddard stuff, straight up 1920s Klan/eugenicist language.

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The enshittification multiverse; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/04/27/a... #Pluralistic 1/

Michael Tracey is obsessed with smearing Epstein victims and reframing the case as a “moral panic.” Last night he reportedly yelled at Pulitzer winner Julie K Brown about Epstein until he got escorted out. If only victim-blaming was unacceptable and intolerable in elite media spaces to begin with.

We're in the waiting days to see whether the FDA will ban shocking autistic and other disabled kids as punishment, which only one school, in Massachusetts, continues to do. The decision is slated to come before May. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Long Covid damages kids’ performance in school, their social lives and even their ability to concentrate johndupuis.substack.com/p/long-covid...

"Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been." —David Bowie Me at 56, not quite believing I'm still here some days. There's been so much pain over the years, and I feel like I'm only just starting to understand who I am and what I want to do.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Folks should understand that all of this is being done in the name of creating inventory space for paid advertising. It's not there for any other reason. They want to sell ads. They want to make money off those ads. They are inundating search engines to drive people to see ads.

"Goodnight moon" #synthart

Cabin on a Hill #AIart #Midjourney8

“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.” — Angela Davis

I am so tired of bread and circuses.

Capitalism

It's almost as if none of them are taking this seriously either.

So who made how much on Kalshi/Polymarket?

And the Sky Touched Down (2011) by Canadian artist Mark Grantham (born in 1966) Acrylic on canvas 91 x 61 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources corroborating her reporting

“While 1 in 3 Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care and millions of working Americans lose sleep over their health care bills thanks to Trump’s cuts, some of the biggest health care fraudsters in the nation are sleeping consequence-free in their multimillion-dollar mansions.”

The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.

New! The WHO's Results Report, highlighting improvements in people's health worldwide. The report finds significant progress across all three “Triple Billion” targets under WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13) for 2019–2025:

This is important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…its members “believe deeply in the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years,” such as the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power.”

Also this. That's the Associate Director General of the WHO talking here - and when people like that talk about "an enormous number of lives", that's not just a few thousand people.

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

"Advocacy in the Face of Adversity," a new Perspective Essay Collection curated by NEJM editors, examines the responsibilities physicians are grappling with as they advocate for their patients in a challenging environment. Explore the collection: www.nejm.org/perspective-...

Patients and healthcare workers both pay the price for unsafe staffing and workplace violence. A new report shows the high costs of inaction on these issues that cause nurses to leave hospitals. 🏥 www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/th...

I’ve been doing NIH-funded research for over 30 years and I have never encountered anyone as incompetent as the current HHS secretary 🤦🏻‍♀️

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

Impact tracker dashboard for USAID cuts: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

We need to start collecting this kind of content to make a pop-up book about the patriarchy. This is *chef's kiss* perfect.

Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials who consistently downplayed COVID own this. Media who plarformed minimizers own this.

"Rainy Road" - my oil painting

John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...