Wondering Forager

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[The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 @Thefactsdude]

LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida.

Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama.

He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1967 India ran one of the most inconvenient heart studies of the century, almost by accident, and the field has been quietly looking away from it ever since.

Dr S.L. Malhotra had a researcher's dream sitting in front of him: the Indian railway workforce, well over a million people. Same employer. Same medical cover. Comparable pay and hours. Scattered the length of a subcontinent. Strip all of that out and one great variable remained. Diet, which in India meant geography.

In the north, in Punjab and Rajasthan and UP, the railwaymen ate the way their grandparents had. Ghee. Milk fat. Curd. As much as nineteen times more fat than their southern colleagues, and nearly all of it the saturated animal fat that Ancel Keys was at that very moment teaching the West to dread.

In the south the plate was rice, sambar, and seed oils, groundnut and sesame, with far less fat overall. By the brand-new rules being drafted in America, the southerners were the ones doing everything right.

Then Malhotra counted the bodies.

Heart disease deaths in the south: 135 per hundred thousand. In the ghee-soaked north: 20. Seven times the disease in the men eating the wholesome seed oils. Among the railway sweepers, the leanest and hardest-working of the lot, the gap yawned open to fifteenfold.

He chased down every other explanation within reach. Smoking ran the wrong way, the north smoked more. Activity gave no clean signal. Wealth made things worse if anything, executives dropping dead while the sweepers carried on. The one thing that tracked the dying was the fat in the pan.

It was published. Peer-reviewed. British Heart Journal, 1967.

It landed in the exact decade the West was pouring concrete around the opposite belief. Heart associations were prescribing vegetable oils. Factories were tooling up to turn them out by the tanker. A study showing the seed-oil eaters dying seven times faster was not a study anyone with a budget wished to repeat.

So nobody did. Almost sixty years on, the finding still stands, unrefuted and unloved.

It has never once troubled a dietary guideline.

[Wondering Forager @JasonEckstein]

@paulbunyan78 @TNVoteRed777 @RWMaloneMD I've fed 100s if not a 1000 ticks.. some summers I walk through a few fresh hatching tick nest when foraging.

But I have 15 years of flipping the inflammation in my body via elimination diets that started with a wheat allergy and I'm carnivore now.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan just revealed that presidents and former presidents personally pressured Spotify to have him removed for "vaccine misinformation."

And not one of them apologized when his questions turned out to be right.

He says he still can't talk about most of it. What he will say is that the campaign was coordinated, expensive, and came from the very top.

ROGAN: "They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There was PACs involved."

ROGAN: "I can't even talk about it. But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify. Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation."

ROGAN: "And it turned out to be right. All of it."

ROGAN: "Not a single apology from anybody. Not a single retraction, not a single mea culpa, not a single 'we were wrong.'"

The pressure failed. Joe's audience grew. And the people who tried to silence him never had to answer for any of it...

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

MidJourney just announced... a full body ultrasound! Yup... read on because it's as crazy as it sounds.

"As powerful as MRI and as casual as a trip to the spa"

They are calling it "the @midjourney scanner"

Insane details:

- First, the scale. The device uses 8,960 individual transducers arranged in a ring around your body

- The precision is the most jaw-dropping part: it resolves motion at the picometer range. It can image internal tissues finer than the width of an atom. We are talking sub-atomic level diagnostic capability

- The compute requirement is massive. The system processes 17 gigabytes of data per second.

It takes 40GB of raw data to reconstruct just one cross-sectional slice. And they are planning to scan 100 slices?

- Midjourney claims that fewer than 12 of these machines could perform more full-body scans than every MRI machine on Earth combined.

Welcome to the future of healthcare!

Not only these scanners are announced, they will exist in a "Midjourney SPA" - with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and 9-10 whole body scanners.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

When Dr. Mark Brody sent a cautionary email to his patients urging them to wait for better vaccine data before getting the COVID shots, Rhode Island suspended his license. When forced to choose between renouncing his medical opinion or failing a board-imposed ethics course, he surrendered his license voluntarily, now practicing integrative medicine without prescriptions.

Dr Brody is one of six plaintiffs suing seven medical boards for violating the free speech of physicians whose medical opinions differ from other physicians.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year.

ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.”

One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year.

Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year.

P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’”

“The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.”

“A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.”

“It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.”

“Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

I sent this letter to the Editor-in-Chief of Toxicology Reports demanding a full explanation for the removal of a published article examining vaccines and sudden infant death.

Americans have a right to know why scientific papers are removed, who made those decisions, what evidence supported them, and whether the same standards are applied consistently.

We will restore trust in public health by insisting on transparency, accountability, and open scientific inquiry—not by asking the public to accept decisions behind closed doors.

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

Obama and Sen. Dick Lugar co-wrote an op-ed warning that an avian flu pandemic could kill millions and represents a major national security threat comparable to nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

Guess where they just traveled from before writing a report about a "KILLER AVIAN FLU" and signing a biological agreement? UKRAINE. DNI Gabbard's report warned of over 120+ BIOLABS across 30 countries, including, UKRAINE.

On September 2, 2005, the Nunn-Lugar program transported 124 samples of 62 unique strains of dangerous pathogens, including plague, anthrax, cholera, and others, from Azerbaijan's anti-plague station to Washington, D.C. for "study" and secure storage.

The report Obama and Lugar wrote was the beginning of the psychological operation aspect of the "killer flu" pandemic, planting it into the public domain. This is predictive programming.

This is the precursor and the beginning to the Fauci gain-of-function and military preparation of the COVID "plandemic."

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

“If we liquidated this business that has created thousands of jobs and also promises to propel man to an interplanetary existence, we could give everyone a minimum-wage pay check for one month.”

I’ve yet to see a tweet that better exemplifies leftism than this.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

We took Erin Brockovich's map of every data center in America. Then we laid the nation's aquifers on top of it.

We noticed they're not building data centers where the land is cheap. They're building them where the water is.

Farmers near these facilities say their livestock have stopped falling pregnant. Residents say the humming never stops.

And the projects arrive under NDAs, so most towns don't know until the ground is already broken.

The question isn’t where they’re building anymore. It’s why they’re building where they’re building. Tonight, we think we can answer that question.

We’ve been covering the data center issue in great detail on this broadcast, and for good reason. It’s a serious problem in America and worldwide, and it’s one that is uniting people from all sides of the political aisle because, guess what, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you have human rights that enable you to have access to basic survival needs like water, which was given to us by God, not by the state or Big Tech, by the way.

Erin Brockovich joined the data center fight recently. She launched a site including a map that shows data centers either completed, under construction, planned, or community reported, likely due to all those pesky NDAs in place stopping us from knowing they’re coming to our area. But the public isn’t stupid.

So Maria thought she’d do something a little bit different. She created a series of maps using Erin Brockovich’s data center data, then superimposed aquifer maps onto those maps, then superimposed smart city locations onto those maps. What Maria found was pretty mind-blowing and, she says, lends credence to her theory that those in charge are purposely making rural areas unlivable for the purpose of pushing people into smart cities, where they will be under constant surveillance and on a short leash.

[Daniel Tawfik @dantawfik]

Creatine is known for building muscle and improving athletic performance. A new UCLA study just found it does something completely different—it powers the immune cells that direct your body's cancer-fighting response.

Researchers published the findings in iScience after studying both mouse models and human cells. The discovery builds on earlier work showing creatine fuels killer T cells that attack tumors directly. Now they've found creatine also energizes dendritic cells—the immune cells that capture tumor fragments and train T cells where to strike.

Most cancer immunotherapies target killer T cells directly, but only 20-40% of patients respond. The limitation isn't the T cells themselves. It's the dendritic cells upstream that activate and direct them.

The research team started by examining which metabolic genes were most active in dendritic cells that had infiltrated tumors in mice. One gene stood out: the creatine transporter, which pulls creatine into cells. It was markedly elevated in tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells compared to those in healthy tissue.

To test whether this mattered, they engineered dendritic cells that couldn't transport creatine. These cells showed impaired survival, reduced activation, and weakened ability to prime T cells for tumor response. When grown alongside T cells in a lab dish, those T cells divided less and produced fewer cancer-fighting signaling molecules.

Then they tested the opposite intervention—increasing creatine instead of removing it. Daily creatine injections in melanoma-bearing mice significantly slowed tumor growth and boosted both the number and activation of dendritic cells infiltrating tumors. The creatine-treated dendritic cells produced higher levels of chemical signals that recruit additional immune cells to the tumor site.

Metabolomics analysis revealed the mechanism: creatine supplementation raised intracellular ATP levels in dendritic cells. ATP is the energy currency cells use to power nearly every function. Creatine acts like a battery—storing and releasing energy on demand, helping dendritic cells maintain stable energy levels even when competing with fast-growing tumor cells for nutrients.

The effect extended to human cells. Creatine treatment enhanced activation of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells—the type often used in dendritic cell cancer vaccines—and improved their ability to stimulate human T cells against cancer-associated targets.

The findings suggest incorporating creatine during manufacturing of dendritic cell vaccines may boost their therapeutic potency. More broadly, they reveal that creatine doesn't just help the immune cells fighting cancer directly—it energizes the infrastructure that supports and guides them.

Immuotherapy works for some patients but fails for most. The difference may come down to whether dendritic cells can maintain enough energy to properly activate the T cell response. Creatine supplementation addresses that metabolic constraint.

A supplement taken by millions for muscle growth and athletic performance turns out to support immune cell function at a fundamental metabolic level—powering both the killer T cells that attack tumors and the dendritic cells that train them where to go.

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Just days after news broke that the National Defense Authorization Act for next year would virtually merge the US and Israeli militaries, we now are hearing that the Intelligence Authorization Act is doing the same thing with the US Intelligence Community!

Introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton, the provision would rip open our nation's secrets and hand them over to a foreign country - one that has just been accused of ramping up its spying on us!

Isn't there a name for this?

Watch @RonPaul & @DanielLMcAdams below:

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Scientists Map 110 Quadrillion km of Underground Fungal Networks…
A billion Times The Distance From Earth to the Sun!

Earth’s Vast Underground “Carbon Superhighway”

A groundbreaking new study published today in the journal Science has revealed, for the first time, the global scale of one of Earth’s most important but hidden biological infrastructures: the networks of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.

These thread-like fungal structures, known as hyphae, form symbiotic partnerships with roughly 70% of land plant species—including major crops like wheat, corn, and rice.

In exchange for sugars from the plants, the fungi deliver essential nutrients (such as phosphorus and nitrogen) and water, while also playing a massive role in storing carbon underground.

Mind-Boggling Scale

Using data from more than 16,000 soil cores worldwide, machine-learning models, and high-resolution robotic imaging of fungal hyphae, researchers estimated:

•Total length: ~110 quadrillion kilometers (1.10 × 10¹⁷ km) of living hyphae in the top 15 cm of global soils—enough to stretch nearly a billion times the distance from Earth to the Sun (or about 10% of the diameter of the Milky Way if laid out in space).

•Biomass: ~300 megatons of carbon, equivalent to 4–6 times the biomass of all humans on Earth.

•These networks move about 1 billion metric tons of carbon per year into soils, acting as a critical “carbon circulatory system” that helps regulate the planet’s climate.

Densities are highest in grasslands, with notable hotspots in places like the Sudd wetlands in Africa and the Everglades.

The “Wood Wide Web” at Planetary Scale

This research builds on the popular “Wood Wide Web” concept, where fungi connect plants in shared resource networks.

The new global maps (available for exploration via the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, or SPUN) show these connections operating at an ecosystem-wide level, supporting plant health, resilience to drought and disease, and food security.

These fungi are vital allies in the fight against climate change and for sustainable agriculture. However, they face threats from soil disturbance (like tillage), pesticides, and land-use changes.

The study also highlights gaps in sampling, particularly in undersampled ecosystems that need further research.

Read the full research paper (paywalled, but abstract freely available): https://t.co/6cu4UUFgxU

Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

Explore interactive maps and learn more at https://t.co/P35alXz06O.

This discovery underscores how much of Earth’s life-support systems remain invisible to the naked eye yet operate on a truly planetary scale.

Protecting these underground networks could be one of the most effective ways to sustain healthy soils, productive crops, and a stable climate.

[Wondering Forager @JasonEckstein]

People would learn a bit faster. 🤣

[Crazy Clips @crazyclips_]

The fact that this is an acceptable crossing guard response is frigging brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A bomb squad was checking a suspicious backpack, and this dude got fed up with waiting

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

6/8

The Real Crime

Let’s be blunt about what happened here.

A young man with elite scientific credentials started publicly documenting the Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration of Canadian institutions. He cited official government reports. He visited the offices of MPs and MLAs — Hedy Fry, Taleeb Noormohamed, Niki Sharma, Brenda Bailey, Jenny Kwan, and others. He delivered materials to the Vancouver School Board. He handed out flyers in public.

Within weeks, a psychiatrist observed him in a café, talked to his family, and signed a form that stripped him of his freedom. He has now been detained for over two weeks — potentially much longer — with no criminal charges, no public hearing, and no end in sight.

This is what “medical kidnapping” looks like in 2026. It doesn’t require jackboots or secret police. It requires a Mental Health Act with vague criteria, a psychiatrist willing to pathologize political dissent, a family willing to cooperate, and a police force willing to execute the order without asking questions.

The Soviets needed a diagnosis of “sluggish schizophrenia” and an Andropov directive. Canada needs a Form 4 and a CAR 87 team. The architecture is identical. Only the branding has been updated.

[Wondering Forager @JasonEckstein]

The dystopian neighbors are getting more insane every minute.. and I don't mean the guy in the car.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

1/8 🧵

🚨 YOUR OPINIONS ARE NOW A DIAGNOSIS — Canada Just Soviet-Style “Certified” a Biophysicist for an Opinion They Do Not Like — You’re Witnessing a Medical Kidnapping ☠️

They didn’t charge him with a crime. They didn’t need to.

Nicholas Jordan Wagter — 27 years old, Honors Medical Biophysics (Western), Master’s in Innovation Management (U of T), published peer-reviewed author in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience — was pulled over in Vancouver on May 23, 2026, by police and a CAR 87 mental health crisis team.

He’s been locked in a psychiatric ward ever since.

His offense? Handing out a document in coffee shops.

The document — titled “CHINA VANCOUVER ATTEMPT” — cites CSIS, RCMP, NSICOP, and the Hogue Commission on foreign interference.

It connects dots between CCP influence operations, illegal police stations, UNDRIP sovereignty issues, and federal bills C-8, C-9, C-15, and C-21. Whether you agree with every line or not, he’s citing official Canadian intelligence reports. This isn’t tinfoil-hat territory — these are documents Canada’s own spy agencies produced.

Here’s where it gets dystopian:

A psychiatrist — Dr. Christine Taylor of Vancouver Coastal Health — reportedly spotted Wagter in a café.

Not in a clinical setting. Not during a scheduled evaluation. In a Tim Hortons. She observed him, consulted his family, and issued a Form 4 certification under BC’s Mental Health Act. Wagter was never notified. Never given a voluntary assessment option. Never even told he’d been certified until police surrounded his vehicle three weeks later.

The officer’s own words on bodycam, captured by Wagter: “Dr. Taylor saw you in a cafe. She didn’t certify you then. And then she spoke with your family, got some more information, and... you’re going to have to turn that camera off.”

Turn the camera off. Of course.

When Wagter — calm, compliant, repeatedly offering to come in voluntarily for an appointment — refused to stop filming, Dr. Emery (senior resident, CAR 87) certified him a second time on the spot. Destination: Vancouver General Hospital, involuntary psychiatric ward. No judge. No hearing. No due process. Just a psychiatrist who didn’t like what she saw in a coffee shop.

#MedicalKidnapping #FreeNicholasWagter #PsychiatryIsTheNewGulag #CanadaPoliceState #Form4Tyranny #SovietStylePsychiatry #DissentIsNotDiagnosis #CivilLibertiesAreDead #VancouverDetention #CCPInCanada #SluggishSchizophrenia2026 #YourOpinionsAreADiagnosis #MentalHealthActAbuse #InstitutionalOverreach #WakeUpCanada

[Patrick Sullivan Jr. @realPatrickJr]

Nattokinase is truly a remarkable supplement.

At 10,800 FU daily, it reversed arterial plaque in 66.5% of patients over 12 months, with no side effects.

The rest of the data is even more insane.

Researchers tracked 1,062 people with confirmed hyperlipidemia and carotid artery plaque.

These weren't just healthy volunteers.

Every person had an ultrasound at the start and another after 12 months of daily nattokinase.

The study used two dose groups: 3,600 FU and 10,800 FU per day. The low-dose group saw almost no change in their plaque or lipid markers.

Even though it was the same supplement for the same amount of time, the dose made the difference.

At 10,800 FU, carotid artery plaque shrank by up to 36%. The arterial wall thickness decreased by 21.7% on average.

These are physical, structural changes that doctors measured and confirmed on ultrasound.

77.7% of participants showed measurable improvement in arterial wall thickness.

66.5% showed measurable reduction in plaque size.

Improvement rates across all markers ranged from 66.5% to 95.4% for the majority of over 1,000 people, not some few lucky responders.

The participants lipid results moved in every right direction simultaneously.

- Total cholesterol: down
- LDL: down
- Triglycerides: down
- HDL: up

No adverse effects were recorded at any point across the full 12 months.

Lifestyle also amplified everything.

Participants walking more than 5,000 steps daily responded better than sedentary ones, and those with higher BMI saw larger relative improvements, likely because they started from a higher risk baseline where there was more room to move.

The study also tested co-administration.

Vitamin K2 and low-dose aspirin taken alongside nattokinase produced a synergistic effect, outperforming nattokinase alone across cardiovascular markers.

If you're building a stack, that's the combination the data points to.

The researchers found the effective range is 6,000 to 12,000 FU daily. Most supplements in Europe are only 2,000 FU. That's a huge gap.

The data shows 2,000 FU does almost nothing to plaque, while 10,800 FU actually shrinks it.

All in all, truly an incredible enzyme.