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We currently have our YoutubeTV paused as we were not really using it. Thought we were going to have restart for baseball season, but it seems as though the new ESPN Unlimited subscription bypasses the need for $35.99 per month.

Fingers crossed this works come gametime...

Wonder if the American Academy of Pediatrics will also be changing their stance? Link to their policy and them reaffirming it in 2023.

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/25340/AAP-reaffirms-gender-affirming-care-policy

Apparently phone type matters. No service on Pixel but Samsung on the same plan is fine.

You can compare monthly bills here.

https://www.lpsc.louisiana.gov/Utilities_Comparisons

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Who even talks like this?

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Someone who is used to people riding to his rescue.

On a related note, check out the Anti-Semitism Act of 2025.

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This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights take into consideration the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA's) working definition of antisemitism when reviewing or investigating complaints of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. According to the IHRA's working definition, antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. 

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/558

It is very problematic that a law could be passed that uses a "working definition" from a third party.

Hate is an emotion that should be avoided, but do we want our government making laws against it? What a ridiculously slippery slope.

As for Ted Cruz, it was informative to hear him in the Tucker Carlson interview state: “I came into the Congress 13 years ago with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate, and I’ve worked every day to do that.”

Any St. Tammany people remember this one? It was the case where the guy that got pulled over had a friend who recorded the whole interaction. That recording demonstrated the arresting officer had completely fabricated the details of the field sobriety test. Yet, initially, no criminal investigation took place...

"I didn't see it as a criminal act. I'm the hiring and firing authority as the sheriff. I make those decisions to whether we open up an internal investigation"

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If you want to dig deeper, this is an informative paper on the many potential risks of acetaminophen, not just neurodevelopmental, but reproductive and urogenital disorders as well.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34556849/

I have wondered why the recent FDA new conference focused only on the Autism angle since there seems to be a lot of red flags with this drug. Some of the references in the above paper go back to the 1990's - so it not new information.

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They destroy language and definitions to bend society

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Did you see how Obama used the word violence the other day?

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Barack Obama has accused President Donald Trump of “violence against the truth” for linking autism to the use of Tylenol by pregnant women.

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Anyone else notice that one of the links on the Whitehouse.gov page was to a 2021 Consensus Statement which included safety concerns beyond Autism? Why did the FDA ignore these other concerns in their letter to physicians? Note that APAP and Paracetamol = acetaminophen.

Paracetamol use during pregnancy - a call for precautionary action

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The experimental evidence of urogenital and reproductive effects
Consistent with evidence from epidemiological studies, exposure to APAP has been linked to abnormalities in testicular function, sperm abnormalities and the development of male reproductive disorders [across a range of studies involving in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models (Supplementary Table 2). These data suggest that several mechanisms of action result in decreases in hormones critical for normal reproductive development and inhibition of germ cell proliferation and differentiation. For example, experimental studies have suggested that APAP can reduce testosterone production in the human fetal testis. Treatment of pregnant mice and rats with APAP has been found to cause urogenital abnormalities, such as reduced AGD in male offspring that is coupled to decreased hormonal levels during the masculinization programming window. Differences and inconsistencies remain between studies that might be related to several factors, including species, strain, age, developmental stage, dose, duration, and route and schedule of administration, among others. However, strong evidence from rodent studies and experiments with human cells and tissue performed in several independent laboratories shows that both acute (for example, 24 h) and long-term (for example, 1 week) exposure to APAP results in a reduction in fetal androgens

Four independent research teams have found consistently that prenatal APAP exposure can reduce female reproductive health and fertility. These teams utilized different models in both rats and mice with APAP exposure at doses equivalent or close to the maximal human recommended dose from 7 days post coitum to birth or from 13.5 days post coitum to birth. The combined data show that APAP exposure results in the reduction of primordial germ cells and delayed meiotic entry, which leads to a decreased number of follicles in adult ovaries and subsequent infertility through early-onset ovarian insufficiency. Importantly, the effects of APAP on female development have not yet been properly investigated in human observational studies.

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Apparently preclinical data as detailed above is extensive, some of which goes back decades.

While I wasn't a fan of Trump's delivery on this topic, perhaps he has caused appropriate attention to be given to the probability that acetaminophen is not the benign drug many believe it to be.