Rod Taylor

Christ follower. Blessed husband. Grateful father. Businessman. Coos County Commissioner. Truth seeker.

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 LED LIGHTS FLICKER 120 TIMES PER SECOND. YOU CAN'T SEE IT. YOUR BRAIN REGISTERS EVERY SINGLE ONE. THIS WAS KNOWN BEFORE THEY MADE THEM MANDATORY.

In 2012, the U.S. government banned incandescent light bulbs. The reason given: energy efficiency. The real reason is in a document that was never meant to be public.

In 2007 — five years before the ban — the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory completed a 14-month neurological study on LED flicker. Reference: PNNL-SA-2007-4419. Classified: "Limited Distribution — Not for Public Release."

What they found:

LED bulbs at 120Hz produce flicker invisible to conscious perception but fully registered by the thalamus. Continuous exposure over 6+ hours per day: measurable melatonin suppression, circadian disruption, and a 23% reduction in deep-sleep duration within 90 days.

23% less deep sleep. In 90 days. From your ceiling lights.

A former lighting engineer — 9 years at one of three companies manufacturing 87% of LED bulbs in North America:

"We were told the flicker had to remain at 120Hz. Not because of cost. Not because of engineering limitations. Because the specification came from outside the company. It was a compliance requirement attached to the federal energy rebate program. If you wanted the subsidy, you built to their spec. Nobody asked why the spec existed. We just built to it."

The spec came from the DOE. The DOE study proving neurological harm was completed 5 years before the ban. They knew. They mandated it anyway.

What 120Hz flicker does over years:

Melatonin suppression. Pineal calcification accelerates. Immune response weakens. Emotional regulation deteriorates. Attention span shortens. You become easier to agitate. Easier to distract. Easier to control.

Incandescent bulbs: continuous current. No flicker. Smooth light identical to fire — what human biology evolved under for 300,000 years. They banned the one light your brain was designed for and replaced it with one that degrades you 120 times per second.

The fix: Replace LEDs in rooms where you spend 4+ hours — especially bedrooms — with incandescent bulbs. Still legal as "heat lamps" or "rough service" bulbs. They never disappeared. Just relabeled so you wouldn't look.

Your sleep problems are not stress. Your brain fog is not aging. Your irritability is not personality. It's 120 invisible pulses per second, every waking hour, in every room you enter.

CODE: PNNL-2007-4419 / 120HZ-PWM / MELATONIN-23 / DOE-SPEC-MANDATE / THALAMUS-REGISTER

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They banned the light your brain was built for and replaced it with one that breaks you so slowly you blame yourself. The bulbs are still available. They just made sure you'd never think to look. Share this.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Common sense sacrificed on the altar of insanity, delusion & propaganda. Exhausting.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

BREAKING: ADVANCED ALZHEIMER’S PATIENT REGAINED SPEECH, MEMORY, AND BLADDER CONTROL AFTER SINGLE PSILOCYBIN DOSE

An 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s — who had barely spoken for YEARS — experienced RAPID and SUSTAINED improvement after taking 5g of psilocybin mushrooms.

During the acute phase, she entered a prolonged deep sleep-like state with profuse sweating.

~19 hours later, she spontaneously started talking again for HOURS — sharing detailed autobiographical memories she hadn’t expressed in years.

Over the following days, her family reported improved memory, walking, emotional connection, speech, and regained bladder control.

After 1 month, bladder control REMAINED RESTORED, and she was still functionally improved compared with baseline.

While this is just one published case report, the implications are enormous given that there are currently NO approved medications known to produce effects like this in advanced Alzheimer’s.

These findings urgently need replication. For millions watching a parent or loved one disappear to Alzheimer’s, even the possibility of restoring lost function warrants serious scientific investigation.

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

Things that make you say, “hmmm…”

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The ethnicity most likely to be on welfare in each country.

USA: Somalia #1
Denmark: Somalia #1
Netherlands: Somalia #1
Norway: Somalia #1
Finland: Somalia #1
Sweden: Somalia #1

Somalis are most likely to be on welfare and are responsible for the highest crime rates per captia.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

An 80-year-old Japanese-American woman with advanced Alzheimer’s—bedbound, incontinent, and speaking only in single syllables for years—just shattered our understanding of neurodegeneration.

After a single supervised 5-gram dose of psilocybin mushrooms (Enigma strain), she woke up after 19 hours and did the impossible:
+ Regained full speech (forming complete, coherent sentences)
+ Recovered lost memories (recalling long-forgotten life events)
+ Regained mobility & continence (dressing herself and staying dry)
+ Restored eye contact and humor
A follow-up 3-gram dose one month later boosted her verbal fluency and agility even further. These gains lasted for weeks.

🧠 This Is Not A Cure. It’s Something More Profound.
The case report, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience (May 27, 2026), proves that functions we assumed were irreversibly destroyed by dementia are actually still there—they are simply trapped behind broken neural gates. Psilocybin bypassed the damage. How? Through explosive, rapid neuroplasticity:
+ The 5-HT2A Switch: Psilocybin floods 5-HT2A serotonin receptors, triggering a massive spike in BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor).
+ Neural Rewiring: BDNF acts like fertilizer for the brain, driving dendritic spine growth, synaptogenesis, and the repair of broken networks.
+ Circuit Restoration: It downregulates chronic neuroinflammation and re-establishes critical communication between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

🛑 The Tragedy of Our Delay: Johns Hopkins is already studying psilocybin for depression in early-stage cognitive decline. But for late-stage, severe patients? It is an absolute shame that we aren't taking these trials more seriously. Modern medicine has exactly zero treatments that restore lost function in advanced dementia. This single case demands immediate action.
We don't have time to wait for a 10-year bureaucratic pipeline while millions of minds fade into the fog.

⚡ The Directive for Compassionate Use: President Trump’s executive order accelerating psychedelic research gives us the exact legal framework we need. We must bypass the standard red tape and establish compassionate use protocols immediately for advanced patients. For millions of families watching their loved ones slip away, this case report is a thunderbolt of hope. The brain still holds secrets, and science moves fast when we get out of its way.

What if a single guided experience could give you back one last conversation with the person you love?

🔄 Share this if you want real hope for dementia. Access and research must accelerate NOW.

#Psilocybin #Alzheimers #Neuroplasticity #BDNF #MedicalBreakthrough #CompassionateUse #Dementia

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

Seize-Investigate-Arrest-Convict

[MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican]

This IS IMPOSSIBLE, and yet, the Senate will not pass the Save America Act.

39.3% vote in…
Karen Bass had 117,579
Spencer Pratt had 86,323

42.4% vote in…
Karen Bass 130,429
Spencer Pratt 86,323

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

Wyden the breathing corpse must go.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. SEC. SCOTT BESSENT JUST WENT THERE 🔥

SEN WYDEN (D): We don't want ramblings about the most corrupt regime in history, we want facts

BESSENT: "And we'd like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey EPSTEIN talked about. Your son's largest investment position was Rick's Cabaret. So, did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?"

ASSASSIN.

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

Huh. Well imagine that.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

Even the secular scientists know that life from non-life is impossible.

But don't take my word for it!

Take the words of one of the top origin of life scientists:

“Chemistry on early Earth did not produce life. It produced asphalt.”

“We have not yet found a path by which life could arise from simple chemicals. All paths end in tar, not biology.”

“The problem is not making organic molecules—they form everywhere. The problem is getting them to organize into a system capable of Darwinian evolution. No environment on early Earth that we know of supports this.”

“Instead of making ribose, nature overwhelmingly makes tar. Chemistry does not lean toward life. It leans toward asphalt.”

“Life’s molecules are unstable in water, yet all the standard models place the origin of life in water. Water is the enemy of polymerization.”

“Water, essential for biology, is destructive to prebiotic chemistry.”

“The chemistry that we have learned over the past century tells us that the RNA world is not plausible based on known chemical principles.”

“The RNA world is impossible based on everything we know about chemistry.”

“The very conditions that would supposedly allow RNA to form on early Earth are precisely those that destroy it.”

“We do not know how to get nucleosides, nucleotides, or RNA by any prebiotic route. Every proposed pathway either requires modern enzymes or conditions incompatible with life’s chemistry.”

“RNA cannot replicate itself. The only systems we know that replicate RNA require proteins—and proteins come from RNA. We are caught in a vicious cycle.”

“You cannot get a genetic code by random chemistry. The code requires a highly specific set of interactions that we have no way to generate prebiotically.”

“Every experiment shows that prebiotic processes produce mixtures—racemic mixtures. Yet life requires single-handed molecules. No natural mechanism has been demonstrated to select one hand over the other.”

- Steve Benner, Origin of Life Scientist, various published sources

[Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt]

Breaking: The City of Battle Ground, Washington, has signed a proclamation officially recognizing the federal government’s designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization.

Antifa members interrupt Mayor Overholser, resulting in removal and an arrest.

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

This is what Pride Month would be like if it were about straight people. 🏳️‍🌈

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

@chasedownleads Yeah, but you also paid at least 3% in merchant fees. Rage bait.

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

@FloraLuzz_ YES. Not every day of course. But these are the ones who've stepped up to serve. They also should be served.

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

@hashjenni 🤡
I hope you're keeping your big girl pants on
When it comes out, it won't be what you assume

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

@mbrown_co Advice

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The most detailed 3D reconstruction of a cell ever created.

Blows my mind every time.

But what exactly are we looking at here?

The average human cell contains:

~ 15-20 total distinct organelle types, totalling between ~1-10 million working together per cell.

All these nano-machines in the cell are made up of proteins.

~ 8,000-10,000 distinct types of unique proteins, adding up to between 40 million - 10 trillion total proteins making up all those cellular systems.

~ 10,000 - 15,000 distinct types of RNA shuttling information around the cell, totalling up to ~10 million RNA molecules moving around the cell simultaneously.

~ Billions of Lipid molecules packed together into the cell membrane, which is also packed tightly with millions more protein-based nano-machines.

And let's not forget billions of lines of DNA information to build and run it all.

That's TRILLIONS of of individual molecular pieces working together to make a single cell function.

That means there is more complexity in a single cell than humanity's largest cities.

And people still believe this wasn't Divinely Designed.

This is God's Glory on Display.

But to make the point.

A cell couldn't have evolved from some nebulous simpler "protocell" because even the simplest cells still require massive complexity.

The "simplest" cell ever created was engineered by scientists knocking out pieces of a functional cell until it stopped functioning.

Here is what they found is the absolute necessary minimal requirements of a cell to function:

- Over ~531,000 lines of coded DNA information

- 473 total genes to create hundreds of unique protein products (they later added 19 genes back in because the cell was so weak)

- Hundreds of thousands of total proteins all working together

- Extensive regulatory networks guiding all these interactions

If the cell doesn't have all these systems in place, from the start...
it doesn't live.

Cell rely on an intricate network of complex systems, which are themselves built from complex interconnected pieces woven together into an incomprehensibly complex web of functionilty.

Only intelligence has ever been observed creation vast interconnected systems like this.

Life was clearly Created.

It couldn't happen any other way.

[Kayakestable @kayakestable]

1. El cliente pensó que el doctor estaba bromeando.

2 semanas después (sin cambios en la medicación)….

Su cortisol bajó de 23 mcg/dL (ansiedad clínica) a 14 mcg/dL (normal).

Fue entonces cuando se dio cuenta…

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 A JOURNALIST JUST FILMED INSIDE THE NEWARK ICE PROTEST CAMP. READ THAT AGAIN:

Nick Sortor went in with a hidden camera. What he found wasn't a spontaneous protest.

It was a fully operational logistics base.

– Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars in equipment already on site

– Riot gear. Not signs. Not banners. RIOT EQUIPMENT.

– Hot food delivered every single hour, on schedule

– Medical sections, expensive tents, organized supply chains

– This is outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, NJ

– Protests have been running for over a week — round the clock

– Andy Ngo documented week-long violence by Antifa at the same facility

– State police had to intervene just to restore basic order

– Nobody is asking who is paying for hourly catered deliveries to a protest camp

– Nobody is asking who sourced the riot equipment

– Nobody is asking who coordinates the resupply logistics for a week-long operation

This is not a group of angry citizens who showed up with signs.

This is a funded, staffed, continuously resupplied operation with riot capability.

Someone is writing checks for this. Someone is organizing the deliveries. Someone made sure the equipment arrived.

The protesters didn't just open a door that CANNOT be closed.

The funders did. And nobody is looking for them.

Follow and turn on notifications before it's too late.

[Rod Taylor @RodInBandon]

@TinaKotek @tinakotek: Dude, you just don't get it. Your transsexual agenda does not educate our children, which is a large part of the reason for Oregon being at the very bottom US states educationally. This is also a large part of the reason that you will be out of office in six months.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

Ready to have your mind blown?

Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:

- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal

“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”