Ruth McCarthy

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

“You know, I spent 30 years trying to get mercury out of the fish in this country and nobody ever called me anti-fish.” — RFK Jr.

So why is it that when RFK Jr. fought to get mercury out of vaccines, he was called “anti-vax”?

Wanting toxic substances out of our food, water and vaccines shouldn’t be controversial.

It should be common sense.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨BREAKING: Dr. Paul Thomas has claimed that a person is more likely to die from the vaccine than from the disease for every shot on the childhood schedule, stating there is “no safe vaccine” on it.

In his book Vax Facts, he presents the following risk comparisons:

- Polio: disease 1 in 1 trillion vs vaccine 1 in 215,000
- Diphtheria: disease 1 in 42.5 million vs vaccine 1 in 76,000
- Tetanus: disease 1 in 1.5 million vs vaccine 1 in 76,000
- Pertussis: disease 1 in 2.3 million vs vaccine 1 in 76,000
- Measles: disease 1 in 106.5 million vs vaccine 1 in 108,000
- Mumps: disease 1 in 40.3 million vs vaccine 1 in 108,000
- Rubella: disease negligible vs vaccine 1 in 108,000
- Chickenpox: disease 1 in 32.3 million vs vaccine 1 in 202,000
- Hepatitis A: disease 1 in 1.6 million vs vaccine 1 in 73,000
- Hepatitis B: disease 1 in 305,000 vs vaccine 1 in 96,000
- Hib: disease 1 in 1.5 million vs vaccine 1 in 46,000
- Pneumococcal: disease 1 in 236,000 vs vaccine 1 in 50,000
- Meningococcal: disease 1 in 822,000 vs vaccine 1 in 141,000
- Influenza: disease 1 in 136,000 vs vaccine 1 in 15,000

[Troy Brewer @pstroybrewer]

Just watch and listen. The great Don francisco wrote it but oh my goodness. We played this every Easter for over 20 years but nobody ever did it better than Dolly.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Dr. Paul Thomas, MD: "You are MORE likely to die from the VACCINE than from the DISEASE, this is true for EVERY single vaccine on the childhood schedule."

"There Is No Safe Vaccine On The Childhood Schedule... Period."

The statistical risk of death of each vaccine...

The risk of death from Polio is 1 in 1 trillion
The risk of death from the Polio vaccine is 1 in 215K

The risk of death from Diphtheria is 1 in 42.5 million
The risk of death from the Diphtheria vaccine 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Tetanus is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the Tetanus Vaccine is 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Pertussis is 1 in 2.3 million
The risk of death from the Pertussis vaccine is 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Measles is 1 in 106.5 million
The risk of death from the Measles vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Mumps is 1 in 40.3 million
The risk of death from the Mumps vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Rubella is 1 in 0/negligible
The risk of death from the Rubella vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Chickenpox is 1 in 32.3 million
The risk of death from Chickenpox vaccine is 1 in 202K

The risk of death from Hepatitis-A is 1 in 1.6 million
The risk of death from the Hep-A vaccine is 1 in 73K

The risk of death from Hepatitis-B is 1 in 305K
The risk of death from the Hep-B vaccine is 1 in 96K

The risk of death from HIB is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the HIB vaccine is 1 in 46K

The risk of death from Pneumonia is 1 in 236K
The risk of death from Pneumonia vaccine is 1 in 50K

The risk of death from Meningitis is 1 in 822K
The risk of death from Meningitis vaccine is 1 in 141K

The risk of death from Influenza is 1 in 136K
The risk of death from the Influenza Vaccine is 1 in 15K

**Statistical Facts From Dr. Paul Thomas' Book: "Vax Facts."**

[Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz]

Shocking stuff

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Excellent.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it.

Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand.

Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more.

Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter.

Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing.

Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm.

These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades.

The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers.

People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles.

What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished.

Prayer works.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every hospital in Britain had a stockpot on the stove until approximately the 1960s. Every workhouse before that. Every military mess. Every school kitchen. Every farmhouse. Every household that could afford bones, which was every household, because bones were the cheapest thing the butcher sold.

The stockpot ran continuously. Beef bones, pork bones, chicken carcasses, lamb shanks. The bones went in with water and were simmered for 12, 18, 24 hours. The broth that came out was the foundation of every soup, every stew, every gravy, every sauce.

Bone broth contains collagen, which breaks down into gelatin during cooking. Gelatin provides glycine and proline, essential for joint health, gut lining integrity, and connective tissue repair. It contains calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium leached from the bones. It contains glucosamine and chondroitin, now sold as joint supplements at £15 per bottle. It contains bone marrow, rich in fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K2.

Your grandmother did not know the names of these compounds. She knew the broth kept the family well. She knew a bowl of broth settled the stomach when someone was ill. She knew the broth made the gravy and the gravy made the dinner and the dinner kept the children growing.

The broth was replaced by the stock cube.

The stock cube contains salt, maltodextrin, palm oil, yeast extract, flavouring, sugar, and colouring. It does not contain collagen, glycine, glucosamine, or any of the compounds the 24-hour broth provided. The stock cube is flavoured salt water.

The generation that grew up on the broth has joints. The generation that grew up on the stock cube has a glucosamine subscription and an orthopaedic appointment.

The supplement industry now sells, individually and at substantial markup, every compound the bone broth contained for free. Collagen powder: £25. Glucosamine tablets: £15. Bone broth itself, repackaged as a wellness product: £8 per serving from a company in Shoreditch with a minimalist label.

They have not discovered anything new. They have rediscovered what their grandmothers threw away.

The stockpot is still available. The bones are still at the butcher's. Water. Bones. Heat. Time.

The broth has been the broth for approximately 10,000 years.

The stock cube has been the stock cube for approximately 70.

The broth's track record is better.

[Del Bigtree @delbigtree]

A few days ago a judge decided he knows more about children's health than Robert Kennedy Jr. and every member of the ACIP committee... And everyone at HHS, the CDC, and other.. This is a judge with no medical degree, no pediatric expertise, and a lifetime appointment... and with one ruling, he erased the most meaningful attempt to protect American children this government has ever made.

Reuters called it "upending Kennedy's overhaul of childhood vaccine policies." Here's what actually happened.

RFK Jr. looked at peer nations (like Denmark and Germany) with healthy kids and functioning societies, and said let's see if there's a smarter schedule. What he found was that we give 54 shots of 72 vaccine doses. Denmark gives roughly half that. And Denmark has not seen measles come back, or polio come back, or smallpox come back.

None of the fear porn the American Academy of Pediatrics has been selling you has actually happened.

Meanwhile we went from 12% of American children with chronic disease in the 1980s to nearly 50% today. In 48 years, we have seen the greatest collapse of children's health in the history of this country, happening in perfect parallel with a vaccine schedule that grew from 12 vaccines to 54 shots.

You cannot look at the health of American children and call that program a success. You simply cannot.

So what did the judge do? He said RFK Jr. didn't run it by ACIP, the advisory committee that by everyone's understanding has always been advisory only. No binding authority, just an opinion, not a mandate. At least that's what they always told us when the committee was captured... And then when Kennedy moved to satisfy that requirement, the judge said he didn't recognize the current ACIP either.

There is no committee he recognizes. According to him there are no changes allowed in either direction, no new vaccines can be added, there can be no modifications for any reason, including a bioweapon attack. One judge has put the entire country in limbo to protect a rubber-stamp committee that has never once had a genuine skeptic in the room.

A committee where members like Paul Offit voted to add rotavirus vaccines to the childhood schedule while personally developing a rotavirus vaccine and didn't recuse himself. That's the balance they're defending.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, a trade organization funded by the pharmaceutical industry, went to court to make sure your doctor has no say in your child's vaccine schedule. They don't want pediatricians in the conversation. They want the government to decide.

This is what happens when you try to clean the swamp. The swamp has judges.

This case is not over. It's an injunction, not a final ruling. The Trump administration will appeal. And we will keep fighting.

Because the children of this country deserve better than what 40 years of this program has given them.

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

I just needed to vent after tonight's #SOTU address. Because the main takeaway is simple and undeniable.

[German Shepherd Dad 🇺🇸 & 🔥 @FlagAndFire]

Trump is a businessman, not a politician!

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

They wrote a children's book explaining socialism in a way that's digestible for the average Mamdani voter 😭

It’s pretty pathetic when you’ve got to put it in a children's book to teach these Democrats logic

[Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_]

🚨 CONFIRMED: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We’re about to release dietary guidelines that are going to change the food culture in this country. They’re going to change the kinds of food the military gets. They’re going to change the kind of food our children get. We’re releasing those in December.”

About time!

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This woman says the quiet part out loud and speaks an uncomfortable truth. Say it louder for the people in the back!

“If the Government feeds you, it can starve you. If the Government houses you, it can evict you. If the Government pays your utilities, it can turn them off. If the Government pays your cell phone, it can disconnect it. If the Government provides your transportation, it can decide when you go and where you can travel. If the Government takes care of your health, it can decide when it has spent enough money on you. If the Government educates your children, it can choose what they learn. If the Government raises your children, it can shape what they believe. If the Government controls your information, it can control your truth.

And when a Government controls all of those things, it doesn’t have to take your freedom, you will hand it over piece by piece in exchange for comfort. You’ll think you’re being cared for, when in reality is, you’re being kept.”

Powerful words and she is 100% correct.

In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan- "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.' "

[Patricia 🇺🇸 @1109Patricia]

Good Morning 🇺🇸
Dear God I bow my head and ask if it be thy will, please save this land from those who seek to destroy it. Bless this great Nation. Our hearts are breaking. Praying for peace, unity and healing.
We ask you to protect our land from enemies, both within and outside.
Lord, I pray that this Nation returns to you. Amen

[Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner]

Probably one of Charlie’s best answers ever. Watch until the end.

Charlie Kirk when asked about the culture war and how to save America: “We will not save the country just through politics. Politics is a means towards an end—a means towards liberty. But liberty is not man’s idea. It is God’s. And we are only able to experience that liberty if we are a moral and religious people…The Constitution is incompatible with a faithless nation. You will not have a free society if the country goes atheist.”

This is what our Founding Fathers knew, and it hold true today and forever.

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

Did you hear about this video that was just banned on TikTok?

I didn’t believe it until I saw it - Tulsi Gabbard

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

There's an entire emerging body of science that links the microbiome to mental health—what they call the gut-brain connection.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

This young lady and @Timcast make excellent points. Do you agree with them?