Application to cluster headaches of new suffering metrics I proposed in my book The Tango of Ethics. Analysis by Alfredo 🔸 estimates ca. 5 million Days Lived with Extreme Suffering (DLES) per year, a major contribution to global burden of suffering forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/geh2g2nK…

Testimonial of a chronic cluster headache patient with 10 attacks/day after successfully using DMT as a rapid abortive youtube.com/watch?v=ClBV0g…

Utter depravity: torture chambers hidden from view, in operation for decades. One of the worst consequences of totalitarianism.

Human depravity, creating a hell on earth for animals

Today Trump's USDA nominee, Brooke Rollins, told Congress that she will force states to allow the sale of pork from crated pigs. States banned these sales to stop animal cruelty. The conservative Supreme Court upheld those bans. Only pork industry lobbyists want this change.

Pigs are as intelligent and socially complex -- if not more so -- than dogs. Morally despicable factory farms keep pigs in cases so small they can never turn around, step on their babies, and go insane. The whole industry is a menace to public health, and destroys family farms.

The group of armed KKK-like masked settlers that lynched No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal (still missing), caught here on camera.

𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 Jonathan Leighton 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗜, 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀, & 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 🌍 Jonathan is the Executive Director of the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering OPIS , a

This seems like a pretty accurate summary of Trump’s relationship with the truth

A new piece I published on the intolerable situation in Gaza, with an appeal to members of the Jewish community to join other Israelis and Jews in condemning it medium.com/@jonleighton1/…

Played a (very minor) role in getting this case series published with Jonathan Leighton, OPIS, Dr. Livia Granata, Aisha Savdo! It's about 9 patients with cluster headache being treated with psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin + sometimes ketamine) in a Zurich clinic. Most of them found

Our new case series on 9 cluster headache patients treated with psychedelics + ketamine under compassionate use provisions at the Zurich pain clinic of Livia Granata, adding to the evidence pool and supporting an expanded role for such treatments OPIS doi.org/10.1177/251581…

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

We are pleased to announce our new, wide-ranging publication "Compassionate Governance: A Strategic Guide to Preventing and Alleviating Global Suffering" available for free download or paperback order. Launch webinar on 25 June 2025. preventsuffering.org/compassionate-…

Don’t say you didn’t know or that you thought it was all Hamas propaganda

Israel will not hesitate to bomb any sovereign country, break every international law, undermine all bonds of trust with a mediator to ensure that there is no peace, that the genocide continues, that its own hostages are given no chance.

⭕️ BREAKING: UN Committee Against Torture: Israel now has a “de facto State policy of organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” that has “gravely intensified” since October 7. The UN Committee is made up of ten independent UN experts and periodically monitors states’

The judge’s ordeal epitomising Europe’s disappeared values. Let us, for a moment, entertain the fanciful hypothesis that Europe cares about its values. Imagine a Europe where the principles so lavishly inscribed upon the banners of the European project – the rule of law, the

Results of OPIS's pilot survey on human suffering with 485 respondents, including a discussion of suffering metrics