June 12th • 3h 22m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
ACIP
Replacement Migration
Is being in the united states illegally a civil or criminal offense?
Being in the United States illegally, often referred to as unlawful presence, is primarily a **civil offense** rather than a criminal one. Here's a breakdown:
- **Civil Offense**: Unlawful entry or presence in the U.S. violates immigration laws, specifically the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This is typically handled as a civil matter through administrative processes like deportation or removal proceedings conducted by immigration authorities (e.g., Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE). Being undocumented or overstaying a visa generally does not result in criminal prosecution on its own.
- **Criminal Offense**: Certain actions related to illegal immigration can be criminal. For example:
- **Illegal entry** (entering the U.S. without inspection or authorization) is a misdemeanor under 8 U.S.C. § 1325, punishable by fines or up to 6 months in prison for a first offense.
- **Illegal re-entry** after deportation (8 U.S.C. § 1326) is a felony, with penalties of up to 2 years in prison, or more if the individual has a criminal history.
- Other related crimes, like using fraudulent documents or smuggling, can also lead to criminal charges.
In practice, the distinction depends on the circumstances and enforcement priorities. Most undocumented immigrants face civil penalties (e.g., deportation) rather than criminal prosecution for simply being present unlawfully. However, specific actions like illegal entry or re-entry can trigger criminal charges.
If you want more details or have a specific case in mind, let me know!
Christie Walton No Kings
China Factories and Tariffs
Why is Louisiana the destination for ICE detentions? : r/Louisiana
Lasalle corrections underbid California for the daily rate . IIRC, California wanted $125 per day per detainee. Lasalle wanted only $75 per day. So all the Lasalle jails were turned into immigration detentiom centers.
Boobs On The Ground
Breast feeding is hard work!
Baby Formula Daycare
Fun Fact-
If you use a daycare or other childcare service, many refuse to give your baby pumped milk or homemade baby food.
In some places these rules come from the state.
We
have always and only imported formula from Germany. It's real milk.
And, it's actually not that more expensive than high end chemical Nestle
stuff.
But, we didn't
use it until the children were beyond 4 months old, and only to help
fill the baby up for sleep (formula gives them a slower digestive
process), for travel when keeping milk stored was difficult and my wife
wouldn't be with me, or when we had to use childcare.
For example, the day we needed to do the Greencard interview, or a series of doctors appointments, or church child care.
Breastfeeding mom explains Victorian times
Dear John and Adam,
In a recent show you were wondering about baby formula. As a new mom I have done research on this topic and I can give you a quick history of baby formula:
Pre-victorian era, if a baby could not be breast-feed by their mother (say the mother died in childbirth) other arrangements like wetnurses (a woman who could nurse the baby) would be made. If a wetnurse was not available substitutes like cow's milk were used, however infant mortality was extremely likely as breast milk provides key nutrients and antibodies that help build a baby's immune system.
In the victorian era people let the germ theory of desease get into their heads so they thought that if a scientist in a sterile lab could replicate something from the germ-filled real world, the lab version was "obviously better" that's when and why baby formula was invented. Despite male doctors telling women to use formula, most still breastfed because why pay for something you can get for free?
In the twentieth-century formula only became popular during WWII as working mothers became a thing. Generations of women have now been told to prioritize careers over their children and have been brainwashed into thinking of baby formula like feeding your kids dino-nuggets instead of grilled chicken. It's not the best, but it's a convenience you can still feel good about. With more and more research showing the nutritional difference between formula and breastmilk this narrative is finally crumbling and all formula companies can do is make a new formula so they can go on trying to pretend it's just as good as breast milk.
Hope that helps.
Answering your questions about infant formula and breastfeeding
Dear Adam,
ITM!
I am a certified lactation consultant and pediatric registered
dietitian. Hoping that I can answer your questions about infant formula
and breastfeeding that y'all were asking on the last show.
Historically,
some moms have always had trouble breastfeeding. The options for
feeding your baby before formula were finding a wet nurse or making a
homemade formula yourself. Homemade formula was usually made from
diluted cow's or goat's milk with other ingredients added to try to make
it more nutritionally appropriate. Straight cow's or goat's milk are
NOT appropriate for infants due to the high amount of protein and other
minerals that can't be filtered properly by the baby's immature kidneys.
Homemade formulas typically had ingredients like cod liver oil added to
provide vitamins D and A, as well as other ingredients. You can still
find recipes on the internet such as here:
https://old.passionatehomemaking.com/2009/11/goats-milk-formula-natural-supplementation-for-baby.html
When
formula was invented, this was viewed as an easy option for moms who
had trouble breastfeeding. However, the formula companies wanted to make
as much money and extend their market as much as they could. This led
to a HUGE push in marketing of formula in the 70s, both in the U.S. as
well as in other less developed countries. Nestle was one of the worst,
aggressively pushing their formulas in developing countries and causing
many moms to stop breastfeeding because they thought formula was
healthier, with the sad result being malnutrition and death of many
babies in these countries.
There was a huge
outrage after this which resulted in the creation of the WHO
"International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes" in 1981
(rules that countries could adopt that prohibited the unethical
marketing of formula over breast milk, although participation by
countries is voluntary). You can find the entire set of guidelines here :
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9241541601
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/254911/WHO-NMH-NHD-17.1-eng.pdf
The
pendulum has definitely swung back the other way today. Many hospitals
are becoming "baby friendly," meaning they have rules in place to push
breastfeeding rather than formula. These days, most educated women know
that breast milk is best for their babies and most try to breastfeed.
However, many women have trouble exclusively breastfeeding for a number
of reasons: moms are having babies when they're older (less glandular
tissue to make milk), the medicalization of childbirth (use of epidurals
and increased C-section births prevents optimal initiation of
breastfeeding), and also increased prevalence of chronic health problems
in the moms, such as obesity and diabetes, which increase your risk of
breastfeeding problems. I also have patients who do everything right but
still produce barely any milk and have to rely on formula or who have
horrible pain when they nurse and give up breastfeeding. Even when
things go well, it is a LOT of work to breastfeed (or pump milk to
bottle feed) and having done it with both of my daughters, I understand
why exhausted, stressed out moms give it up for the ease of formula.
Formula companies try to emulate breast milk as best they can, but it's
just like any other processed food that can't compare to the natural
thing. Most of my patients who can afford it are indeed opting for
European formulas that are viewed as cleaner than American ones. There
are milk banks that provide donor milk, but there is a limited supply so
this is usually reserved for sick babies in the neonatal ICU. Selling
breast milk is illegal, but there is a lot of informal sharing that goes
on these days, especially with social media allowing people to connect
in order to find a donor.
Hope this helps! TYFYC!
Dame Sara in Houston
What was used before Infant Formula BOTG
Adam, you had questions on what predated baby formula, and i am sure you got so many answers you are sick of the explanations, but I will add what I know
Baby formula was developed post-WWII to help deal with the orphan and abandoned children issue, as well as the starvation that was going on from wrecked economies in Europe and Asia. It was found that a mixture of oils, fats and fillers was not enough to feed infants, that a certain amount of milk proteins were required. It was developed from there by the big food players. Nestle had a big presence in that.
prior to WWII, the standard "formula" was condensed milk with boiled and cooled water and sugar. Cows milk appears to be less rich than Human milk so the evaporated milk is a benefit. As kids got older, straight cow milk was a good substitute, what it lacks the baby can get from food.
as a side note, this is one of the real marketing pushes of canned evaporated milk when it was first developed: it was pure, it was shelf stable, and it was free of possible contamination and pathogens - there was a serious concern about tuberculosis being passed in cow's milk in the late 1800's and early 1900's, especially in cities where there was a lot of TB.
Traditionally you tried to get the kid on solid food as quickly as possible. It was not uncommon for the mom or caregiver to chew up her food, and pass the well chewed food to the baby via a kiss. A close friend of mine was raised in an orphanage in Korea and that was how she was fed as an infant, until she got some teeth of her own. She nursed her own daughter as long as possible, but as a young mom she was broke, so she transitioned her daughter to solid food the same way.
There are networks now, here, for human breastmilk. It is about as shady and dark as the black market in raw milk now found in our rural areas, though less likely for the state police and county inspectors to do armed raids.
(My favorite insanity of 2025 is that I could buy pot in a store but I have to buy milk and eggs from a guy I had to find through some guy who had to size me up for being an informant)
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Transmaoism
US Trans Military welcome in NL
MOTIE VAN DE LEDEN DASSEN EN NORDKAMP
Voorgesteld 27 mei 2025
De Kamer,
gehoord de beraadslaging,
constaterende dat de regering-Trump heeft besloten om Amerikaanse
militairen te ontslaan om het enkele feit dat zij transgender zijn;
van mening dat deze beslissing ingaat tegen de waarden die de NAVO,
zoals vastgelegd in het NAVO-verdrag, zegt te verdedigen;
overwegende dat Nederland, net als andere Europese NAVO-lidstaten, te
kampen heeft met een groot tekort aan militaire opleiders, waardoor
momenteel een grote groep militairen in spe niet opgeleid kan worden;
verzoekt de regering de opties te verkennen om Amerikaanse militairen
die ontslagen zijn omdat zij transgender zijn, een kans te bieden om in
Nederland aan de slag te gaan als opleider van militairen,
en gaat over tot de orde van de dag.
Dassen
Nordkamp
Big Tech AI and the Socials
China
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