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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 26/07/2026

My mom craved a Filet-O-Fish today, so I went to McDonald’s. I was shocked it costs nearly $8. ($6.99 minus CA tax.) In 2019, the avg price was $4. Can’t be tariff-related since the fish is allegedly wild caught in Alaska. Adjusted for inflation (since ‘19) it should cost $5.19.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 16/07/2026

I think this will when the season will begin after the work stoppage ends.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 10/07/2026

First win at Crooked Run trivia. I picked the category for the first question next week—and of course it’ll be on the WNBA. (How’d you guys do, @steveagardner.bsky.social?)

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 24/06/2026

Initial USGS reading is a 5.6.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 16/06/2026

If a company is going to sponsor something, don’t be shy about it—even when reporters ask about a UFC fighter calling a former first lady a man, feet from where she lived for eight years. (via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social) www.status.news/p/ufc-white-...

Status reached out to Meta, Dodge, Crypto.com, Polymarket, and Bud Light to ask whether they viewed Hokit's comments as acceptable and whether they believed such rhetoric had any place at an event staged on White House grounds. None of the companies responded to requests for comment.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 05/06/2026

Fria, our half husky/half chihuahua, enjoys brining dead animals onto the deck. Today it was a squirrel. Glad I have these grabber tools—a must for any owner of these hair-shedding wannabe taxidermists.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 05/06/2026

Glad the FDA still has enough resources left to get Boner Bears recalled. 🔗 www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 10/05/2026

This story was written a decade ago btw. If you didn’t see any of these details in today’s coverage of Bobby Cox’s death, that says a lot about today’s sports media landscape.

What isn’t often talked about when we talk about Bobby Cox’s legacy is domestic violence, but perhaps it should be. Cox is just one in a line of men Major League Baseball chooses to celebrate for their on-field accomplishments while overlooking or forgetting about their off-field violence against women. The reference to his domestic violence incident with his wife is even conspicuously absent from his Wikipedia page.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 04/05/2026

Glad to have company on the gas station boner pill beat. This was from an AER I found in 2008. 🔗 abcnews.com/Health/story...

What's inside that food supplement bottle? Possible danger, not a path toward getting fit.

You know those disclaimers for Viagra, Cialis and Levitra about seeking medical help for erections lasting longer than four hours? This guy was aroused far longer than that and -- despite medical intervention -- he suffered from penile fibrosis and was left with permanent erectile dysfunction.
The adverse-event report -- which came from a doctor at the hospital where this man was treated --- claimed that Viapro didn't list any ingredients that would have caused such a reaction similar to a side effect of
prescription erectile dysfunction drugs.
Later tests by the FDA showed Viapro contained hio-methisosildenafil, a chemical that is similar to sildenafil (Viagra).
Dy Only
DSN 0477-5545
MALE ENHANCEMENT RESEARCH CENTER
viapro
(Prostancus HCI)-
375 mg
MAXIMUM STRENGTH WORKS IN 30 MINUTES
The FDA took action as it usually does in these cases:
It asked the manufacturer, EG Labs, to recall Viapro.
The FDA has the authority to recall supplements and
2 Capsules
FOR MEN
Food Supplement
has done so in greater numbers in recent years, although
© 2009 EveryoneDoesiT.com
as The New York Times pointed out last year (citing research in the Journal of the American Medical Association) it's an uphill battle.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 04/05/2026

When I wrote that story above, I found something that Last Week Tonight delved into: the life-changing consequences of gas station boner pills. 🔗 www.ajptraining.com/blog/2015/2/...

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 04/05/2026

Supplements don't need pre-market approval like pharmaceuticals, even when they are often more dangerous since anyone can buy them without a prescription. While hamstrung by 1994's Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, the FDA still could do way more. 🔗 abcnews.com/Health/story...

USA Today story: Dietary supplements cause 600 'adverse events'
First data since reporting law
(Link is to ABC News version of the story)

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 04/05/2026

.@lastweektonight.com highlighted some of the dangerous dietary supplements available at gas stations (and many other places), something I first wrote about nearly two decades ago. 🔗 usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/2007-...

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 20/04/2026

Why is a member of Congress boosting an anonymous African account using “CONFIRMED” without a legit original report that Trump “wanted to invoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran” and the a general refused?

Retweet by Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY):

Royal Ambassador @Jao.
..・16h
X
CONFIRMED: The US joint Chiefs of staff Air Force Gen. Dan
Caine stormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to invoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran but Caine refused and invoked the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Royal Ambassador @JaokooMoses
X.com
Date joined
July 2016
Account based in
Africa
Connected via
Africa Android App

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 19/04/2026

Spring is the best season for sports.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 18/04/2026

As far as novelty concessions go, the $18 Stuggy’s Crab Mac 'n Cheese Dog wasn’t bad (probably because it originated in Baltimore and not here in DC).

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 09/04/2026

Freedom 250 Grand Prix tickets were supposed to be available starting around April 1. So far, it doesn’t appear any of the free tickets have been released for DC’s first IndyCar race set for Aug. 23.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 04/04/2026

My seats aren’t bad today.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 03/04/2026

Really sucks there will be no beer or wine at Nats Park this year. Nats lost the opener.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 02/04/2026

Tiger Woods fought off hiccups and drowsiness after his DUI arrest last week. The new footage seems to back up the arrest report, which stated the 15-time major champ showed “several signs of impairment.”

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 28/03/2026

The best part of the of the #NoKings protests is seeing millions express themselves peacefully. The second-best part is seeing MAGA folks responding with AI slop to match their unhinged view of reality.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 28/03/2026

#NoKings protests on five Route 7 overpasses in Loudoun County this afternoon.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 28/03/2026

@bobharig.bsky.social, great points on BBC News. Yes, we’d all love some candor from Tiger related to his non-driveway car incidents. There’s a first time for everything.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 28/03/2026

Tiger Woods escaped with only a reckless driving charge (probation) when he was found passed out in his vehicle in 2017. Let’s see if 19th Circuit State Attorney Tom Bakkedahl will let him go with another slap on the wrist after another DUI arrest.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 17/03/2026

You just knew Venezuela would rally when Fox Sports broadcast this booth shot.

Yes, this was altered by AI from a screen cap of FIFA PRESIDENT Gianni Infantino and CONCACAF PRESIDENT Victor Montagliani with Drake inserted.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 16/03/2026

Back at this theater for the first time since the 2012 derecho hit (and knocked out the power). Just glad the meteorologists already screwed up today, so we should be good for Project Hail Mary.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 12/03/2026

What role did this AI-generated video commissioned by Fox Sports play in convincing Trump to back the race? Days after he posted it on Truth Social, racing tycoon Roger Penske and Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks were on hand as Trump signed the executive order. 🔗 washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/d...

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 09/03/2026

A better look at the circuit

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 09/03/2026

Details of Freedom 250 Grand Prix—an IndyCar Series race set to take place on the National Mall in August—are coming out this afternoon at news conference near the steps of the Capitol. Here’s the 1.66-mile, 7-turn circuit:

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 22/02/2026

What occurred last week with the Red Sox jerseys is the latest example as upset fans reflexively hammered Fanatics on social media—and the team's initial statement stoked that outcry. Fanatics tried to head this controversy off in the planning stages. www.latimes.com/sports/story...

The Red Sox picked the design of the new home jerseys from multiple options before they were made at Fanatics’ Pennsylvania plant that has produced MLB jerseys for decades. Those involved in turning the mockup into a finished product informed the Red Sox on multiple occasions that the piping down the middle of the jerseys was too close to the “Red Sox” lettering, a person familiar with the conversations who is not authorized to discuss it publicly told The Times.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 19/02/2026

Came to this realization today: I’m not white enough nor brown enough to wear a Bass Pro Shops hat.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 15/02/2026

Back in 2009, I profiled Mike Rutenberg when he was a New Mexico State assistant coach making $30k a year—tied for the lowest-paid assistant in FBS that year. "If you have to coach on the moon, you better find a way to survive on the moon." web.archive.org/web/20100718...

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 15/02/2026

A guy proposed to his girlfriend at the wine bar/restaurant we went to tonight. After she said “yes,” and he got off his knee, he said, “Fuck, that’s embarrassing.” Bruh, you didn’t do it on a scoreboard proposal like 🙋🏽

Picture of a table setup work a rose and a lamp from the wine bar

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 13/02/2026

The @columjournreview.bsky.social delved into @mississippitoday.org's coverage of the mini-scandal that the outlet created (and still hasn't corrected). www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Last Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that the National Park Service removed brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument that called the murderer of Medgar Evers a racist. The article cited Park Service officials who “asked not to be named for fear of retribution.” Evers, a renowned civil rights activist, was assassinated in 1963 by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

Condemnation was swift. “The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical,” Martin Luther King III posted on X in response to the story. “Sanitizing history from violence and racism does not bring the country together. It weakens our understanding of who we are and how far we still have to go.” Senator Raphael Warnock also weighed in: “This administration is celebrating Black History Month by erasing it. We won’t let them get away with it.”

And it would indeed be appalling if the administration were attempting to erase the context of Evers’s killing. There’s just one problem: it appears the brochures may not have been removed or edited at all.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 11/02/2026

The @theverge.com dug into this issue. www.theverge.com/tech/877235/...

“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said the doorbell was disabled at 1:47AM on February 1st, and she was not reported missing until the next morning, more than three hours later. By that time, those recordings were no longer accessible to anyone with access to the account. (It’s possible members of the Guthrie family had access to the app; I know I have access to my elderly parents’ video doorbell app.)
But because it had once been in the cloud, there was a chance it could be retrieved. According to Nick Barreiro, chief forensic analyst with Principle Forensics, deleting footage from the cloud doesn’t necessarily mean it’s immediately gone. “When you delete something from a server, it doesn’t get overwritten immediately — the file system is just told to ignore this data, and this space is now available to be used. But if no new data is written over it, it’s still going to be there, even though you can’t see it.”
While it would be fairly straightforward to retrieve this data from a local server or hard drive, Barreiro said the process to retrieve it from Google’s servers was likely much more complicated.
While Barreiro has no direct knowledge of Google’s processes, he spent a decade in law enforcement focused on recorded evidence before moving to the private sector five years ago. “These video files aren’t necessarily all stored on a single server; they are probably stored in fragments in servers all over the world. It probably gets very complicated with Google’s architecture,” he said.”

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 11/02/2026

Pam Bondi whenever a Dem member of the committee asks a question

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 11/02/2026

Haha. I saved him from a kill shelter in Brooklyn and he's arguably the cutest dog we have ever rescued. But, man, his previous owner (or owners) must have really been awful. He's so reactive and the only dog who has bit me (many times). He goes from happy/chill to chupacabra.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 11/02/2026

Commanders co-owner (and City Paper owner) Mark Ein approached WaPo’s then-CEO Will Lewis with a pitch to “spin sports and local into a separate entity that the City Paper would then invest in and host on its platform.” Bezos and Co. really screwed over the DMV. www.theverge.com/policy/87683...

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 10/02/2026

There's one Fanatics mention in the Epstein files—and of course it contains a needless redaction.

Email with recipient's name redacted.

From: Lesley Groff

Subject: Alert - change bill to address on Fanatics order

November 29, 2017 10:00 AM : change bill to address on Fanatics order

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 09/02/2026

Our first job as journalists is to get the facts right, something the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mississippi Today failed to do when "reporting" brochures were removed from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument that called his murderer a “racist.” That myth soon spread.

National headlines about the removal of brochures that didn't actually happen,

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 08/02/2026

Not sure why I checked my hidden requests on Instagram—and I have zero clue what made him so mad (or antisemitic). I only block when the convo gets ugly.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 07/02/2026

The use of AI for anonymous documentary interviews is intriguing. Putting aside the ethical questions, I thought this use of digital anonymization was a tad distracting in the Letby doc. (I was studying the footage very closely.) Here's me setting up the tried-and-true setup for such shoots below.

Image of producer A.J Perez silhouetted during the setup of an anonymous documentary shoot.

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A.J. Perez @byajperez.com · 04/02/2026

As I was saying a few days back. I feel for all the journos who will be impacted by this and to all those who value what real journalism is all about.