Tra Luna

poet, old soul, know-er, dreamer, I have a hippie heart with an anarchist brain. Individual rights for all. Non aggression. Seeker of truth. Love Always

[“Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled]

Top Canadian psychiatrist testifies: Mentally ill patients are already being euthanized under MAiD .. even before official expansion.

Dr. John Maher told parliament he has personally witnessed cases of vulnerable people with serious mental illness being fast-tracked for death using questionable or “flimsy” reasons.

Read the full story:

https://t.co/mPvCqiEmG8

This is exactly what critics warned would happen when Canada started down this road.

Safeguards are failing, and death is increasingly being offered as the “solution” for mental suffering.

When did we go from protecting the vulnerable to offering them lethal injection?

[Claudia A. Merandi @CMerandi]

If you have chronic pain, you need to protect yourself from these medical predators

They’re always moving the goal post - changing the science depending on the day

Boycott interventional pain clinics/Suboxone MDs who are posing as compassionate MDs

[Claudia A. Merandi @CMerandi]

I’ve attached four videos of medical predators who are incentivized to withhold pain medication from the suffering patient

These are the doctors I warn you to stay away from

[Dr Hoss T, PhD @hoss_tagge]

No war with Venezuela they pose zero threat to the US and Venezuealans are not our enemies. DJT has 'n' serious domestic problems that should be taking 100% of his time w/out wading into this quagmire that will destroy his presidency.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don’t need, and now it’s giving us new things we never needed and don’t even really want.

Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We were doing fine with online search functions and the ability to write and make art for ourselves. Only the most shallow and vapid of individuals find any appeal in the idea of talking to a chatbot like a companion, consuming “art” generated by a computer program, or letting the technology of some plutocratic megacorporation do their thinking, researching and expressing for them.

The economy is now balancing on a giant bubble of a fledgeling industry that is already underperforming expectations and hitting points of diminishing returns on multiple fronts, all while being really bad for the environment. And it doesn’t improve anyone’s life in any meaningful way.

Nobody asked for this.

And it’s not like people aren’t asking for things; capitalism just doesn’t have the ability to give them the things they are asking for. World peace. Affordable housing. Good health. Fast and efficient public transportation systems. Solutions to the various environmental catastrophes that status quo human behavior is driving us toward. The ability to have our needs met without spending all our time at work. Care for the needful. General human thriving. These are not demands that a system driven by the pursuit of profit for its own sake can supply.

When capitalism first showed up it delivered plenty of new things which people had a need and a desire for that weren’t available under previous systems like feudalism. The greatly increased material abundance and explosions of scientific and technological innovation ushered in with the dawn of capitalism caused human quality of life to improve by leaps and bounds.

But now we’re at a point where that just isn’t happening anymore. Things have stagnated, and we’re starting to backslide. People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

We are being driven into dystopia and annihilation by systems of our own making. We’re meant to be the smartest species on earth, but we locked ourselves in our invention — a self-reinforcing labor camp that makes us miserable — and then we get all huffy when people dare to question if it’s the only way of doing things. Literally every other species is smarter than us. Amoebas are having a better time of it.

This will change when humanity replaces capitalism with something better, in the same way we replaced feudalism with the superior system of capitalism. I don’t know what that system is going to look like, but it’s going to have to involve a move from a model that is driven by competition to one that is driven by collaboration. That’s the only way humanity will be able to channel all its brilliance toward the immense project of overcoming all the obstacles we now face as a species, along with all terrestrial organisms.

Until then, all we can do is try to help awaken as many of our fellow humans as possible to the reality of our circumstances. Use every means at our disposal to teach people how dire our plight is, how deceived we’ve been by the propaganda and indoctrination of the empire we live under, how sorely change is needed, and that a better world is possible. Once we get enough eyes open, we’ll have the numbers to force things to change.

[ChronicPainWarriorsUnited @CPWUNation]

In glad to see they are FINALLY pushing back on this somewhat in the UK. Their system is even worse that ours in a lot of ways because of it being totally government controlled, and if you want to see what that can look like, just look at the #PainManagement system being run and controlled by the @DEAHQ and @CDCgov. God knows how many people they have killed since 2016. We have quite a few British, Australian, Spanish, a few Swiss, and Irish commenters on the #ChroniPainWarriorsUnited YouTube channel. (https://t.co/Ebg7Off3he)
More show up every week. I've realized since launching our advocacy efforts last December that this movement has the legs to be a worldwide,...or at least, First-World worldwide movement. Countries all over Europe are denying their citizens adequate pain relief as well. Mass crimes against humanity and #PainPatiients to #PainRelief #FacesOfChronicPain #PainWarriorDreams #Spoonie #ChroniPainNews #InvisibleIllness https://t.co/Ebg7Off3he

[Jack @NFLD_Jack]

@SilentlySirs

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

D.A.R.E. | The REAL Reason Cops Taught You About Drugs https://t.co/hWY4I7XJPr via @YouTube

[Claudia A. Merandi @CMerandi]

“Patients in nursing homes are crying in pain”

Unbelievably cruel to withhold pain medication from nursing home residents

Link to support our efforts

https://t.co/6G7cNZP3eY

[Sassy Devil Dog 🔥 @VinoNStrosGal]

Weeds Get the Spotlight While Poppies Get Plowed Under

Donald Trump’s latest pivot: floating the idea of moving cannabis to Schedule III at the federal level — a major reclassification that would ease restrictions, open the door to broader medical access, and shift the national conversation.

Cannabis reform has become the cool kid at the policy lunch table. Celebrities openly endorse it, influencers post glossy dispensary hauls, and politicians of every stripe angle for a slice of the green economy.

Meanwhile, prescription opioids—proven, regulated, and in many cases life-saving for people in severe chronic pain, are treated like contraband.

The same public figures who post selfies with edibles keep prescription opioids like oxycodone, Vicodin, Tramadol, or Tylenol #3 in their medicine cabinets.

The difference is you’ll never see them advocating for the patients who need prescription opioids daily to survive.

They’re too afraid of being canceled by a media narrative that equates legitimate pain care with abuse.

Here’s the hypocrisy:

Both cannabis and opioids have ancient medicinal roots. Both come from plants. Both can be abused. Yet only one is being glamorized, commercialized, and welcomed into mainstream culture with open arms — while the other is vilified, restricted, and made nearly impossible for suffering patients to access.

And for millions in the pain community, this isn’t a “policy debate.” It’s survival.

We are being bulldozed in the rush to crown cannabis as the next bipartisan win, while people with incurable, disabling conditions are left to deteriorate or die without the medications that work for them.

If this was truly about compassion, relief, and bodily autonomy, opioid patients would be part of the conversation.

Instead, we’re treated like collateral damage in a political popularity contest.

Weeds get the spotlight.

Poppies get plowed under.

#ChronicPain #OpioidCrisis #PainPatientsVote #Cannabis #Opioids #PainCommunity #Trump #MedicalFreedom

[Claudia A. Merandi @CMerandi]

Part of the glamorization of Suboxone “script includes selling buprenorphine as “drug-free”

Never call it an opioid ; stick with “medication for opioid use disorder”

Put a pretty pink bow on it and sell the shit out of it

#DontBeDupedIntoBupe

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

@CMerandi I hate this with all my heart

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

@CMerandi What can I do for a pain? In the meantime because that’s all there is around here
Tylenol, only hospitals, and shots or buprenorphine pain management clinics

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

@CMerandi Oh my God! When is this insanity? Going to stop, Claudia? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

@CMerandi I’ve done some research on BUTRANS but what do you think of it, Claudia? I live in a city of 22,000. I’ve been a chronic pain patient for over 10 years. I’ve talked to many Pain patients here, and now they’re trying to make me take this buprenorphine medicine instead of an opioid

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

@CMerandi The pain management clinics here will give you two things, tramadol, and buprenorphine.
There are three in this area. It’s a joke. They should be called torture chambers.

[Tra Luna @Shuttergrill]

@CMerandi I had my fourth appointment with a new pain management provider, I’ve been having panic attacks and crying since I got home.
This is the second Pain provider I’ve been to in this area and there are only three that keep trying to push buprenorphine
I have a grocery list of dxs

[🔥Temporary Solutions💉 @TSBurkhardt]

technology addiction.
the final boss battle between the remaining nexuses of human soft power and the inevitable gaping void
also why techbros are frontrunning the "make insane asylums great again" movement
a field of living corpses will be strewn in the wake of the singularity

[🔥Temporary Solutions💉 @TSBurkhardt]

2030: addiction medicine is responsible for half of all new jobs created