Julianne McShane
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News writer at @motherjones.com, covering all things politics, repro rights & gender. Previously NBC News; bylines also in WaPo, NYT & the Guardian. 📰 Email: [email protected] Signal: jmcshane.19
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Greetings ✌🏻 I’ve finally fled X (sort of…) for 🔵☁️. I’m a writer for @motherjones.com covering news & politics w/ a special focus on reproductive rights/justice & domestic violence.

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Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

Our latest feature on Florida's surgeon general:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo believes his "spirit animal" is a tiger, and that an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru unleashed it by walking on the backs of his thighs.

This is medicine's Florida man.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Joseph Ladapo was once a successful normie: A Harvard Medical School grad w/ faculty positions at NYU & UCLA

Then his wife & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru came along 👀

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I on the pair of mystics who seem to lack any Western medical training yet have inspired FL's top doc:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
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Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
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“I have filed a lot of FOIAs, and my requests to the Trump Department of Homeland Security have been some of the least successful and least transparent."

The "most transparent administration in history"? Not quite...

www.cjr.org/analysis/ice...
ICE might be breaking the law to stonewall reporters.
Nearly two dozen reporters and other Freedom of Information Act requesters say they are getting the brush-off.
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Florida's surgeon general isn't just guided by science...his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

Our latest on Joseph Ladapo:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
motherjones.com
Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
juliannemcshane.bsky.social
NEW @motherjones.com: The FL surgeon general, an anti-vax crusader, was a normie—until he met his wife, a self-described "energetic healer," & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-mystical guru

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I dive into the unlikely influencers that helped make Joe Ladapo medicine's Florida man 🔮
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
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NEW: Florida's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo isn't just guided by science—his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

The latest from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
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The de-enlightenment age.
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NEW: Florida's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo isn't just guided by science—his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

The latest from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
juliannemcshane.bsky.social
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo believes his "spirit animal" is a tiger, and that an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru unleashed it by walking on the backs of his thighs.

This is medicine's Florida man.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Julianne McShane
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The idea of a traditional medicine practice called the "sha-king" method—just means "shaking"—is something I feel only America could produce. We are an incredible nation of con artists
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Joseph Ladapo was once a successful normie: A Harvard Medical School grad w/ faculty positions at NYU & UCLA

Then his wife & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru came along 👀

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I on the pair of mystics who seem to lack any Western medical training yet have inspired FL's top doc:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
kieraevebutler.bsky.social
Ladapo's wife believes that even children choose the harm that they experience. In fact, some children opt for “lives of sacrifice,” an insight that emerged from a vision she had of herself as a young mother with three children, each of whom she was forced to watch get burned alive at the stake.
motherjones.com
NEW: Florida's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo isn't just guided by science—his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

The latest from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
motherjones.com
NEW: Florida's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo isn't just guided by science—his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

The latest from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
juliannemcshane.bsky.social
Yes, you should also read this bc it is just straight-up wild.

Exhibit A: FL's top health official believes his spirit animal is a tiger & that the ex-Navy SEAL helped unleash it by walking on the backs of his thighs 👀🐯

His wife thinks the same guy helped her levitate & see divine spirits. 🔮
kieraevebutler.bsky.social
I've worked on crazy stories, but this, with @juliannemcshane.bsky.social, might be the wildest. Joseph Ladapo, FL surgeon general who aims to end school vax laws, is influenced by 2 ppl who believe in communicating w spirits, levitating, & even weirder stuff. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
Reposted by Julianne McShane
kieraevebutler.bsky.social
I've worked on crazy stories, but this, with @juliannemcshane.bsky.social, might be the wildest. Joseph Ladapo, FL surgeon general who aims to end school vax laws, is influenced by 2 ppl who believe in communicating w spirits, levitating, & even weirder stuff. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com
juliannemcshane.bsky.social
NEW @motherjones.com: The FL surgeon general, an anti-vax crusader, was a normie—until he met his wife, a self-described "energetic healer," & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-mystical guru

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I dive into the unlikely influencers that helped make Joe Ladapo medicine's Florida man 🔮
From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
www.motherjones.com