The Senate GOP's The Senate Leadership Fund recently released an ad condemning Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for voting to allow men to compete in women’s sports. On Thursday, PolitiFact slapped a “false” label on the claim, but it had to allow Brown to have it both ways multiple times to do so. Seth Richardson writes, “The ad cited Brown’s 2021 and 2024 votes against failed amendments to two broad funding bills as evidence for the claim.” Richardson says this is wrong because “the amendments would have stripped federal funding from schools and colleges that allowed transgender girls and women to compete in sports matching their gender identity. They did not dictate athletic eligibility. Federal law rarely dictates who is eligible for specific sports.” Senate Leadership Fund communications director Torunn Sinclair attempted to rebut, “You're funding something, which is a vote to allow something to happen." Sinclair is essentially correct. The federal government used to use the threat of withholding federal funding to compel states to have certain speed limits, and this isn’t any different. Still, Richardson continued: Brown spokesperson Matt Keyes described both votes as 'poison pill' amendments — designed to render legislation ineffective — to broader funding bills. [Tommy] Tuberville’s amendments were to the 2021 American Rescue Plan and a 2024 bill funding multiple federal departments. Both failed along party lines. Keyes said Brown supports transgender rights, but Brown’s vote also was to preserve Ohio school funding. Brown 'believes there should be a fair process in place for athletics and will always fight to make sure Ohio schools have the funding they need,' Keyes said. Richardson and Keyes are trying to have it both ways. On one hand, they want to say Brown voted no because Tuberville’s amendments were unrelated to crucial legislation, but on the other, they basically admit that Brown would still have voted no on a standalone bill. Furthermore, Richardson lets Keyes get away with politicianspeak. “There should be a fair process in place for athletics” is an answer designed to avoid having to either offend Brown’s left-wing base or more moderate swing voters in an increasingly red state. Next, Richardson tried to have it both ways again, this time on whether Congress even has the power to regulate the issue. He claims that high school and collegiate sports are run by the states and governing bodies, respectively. However, he also acknowledges, “Some federal laws, such as Title IX, prohibit sex-based discrimination for programs receiving federal funding, which includes nearly all public schools.” In his conclusion, Richardson writes, “Brown did not vote to allow this. He voted against two amendments to much broader spending bills that would have stripped funding from schools that allowed transgender athletes to compete in sports matching their gender identity. The amendments did not pertain to athletic eligibility.” Title IX contributed to the expansion of women’s sports and conservatives now believe it can be used to protect them. States that discriminate against women by allowing men to compete in their sports can have their federal funds taken away, but Sherrod Brown does not think they should. Giving Republicans a “false” rating is itself false.

These days, the well-being of Americans seems to be at the bottom of our government’s priority list. Foreign wars and the millions of illegal immigrants who have invaded our country suck up U.S. dollars by the billions, leaving needy Americans in a state of hopelessness. The most recent example of this includes the victims of Hurricane Helene. FEMA claims it’s out of funds. It showed up a week after the storm ravaged the coastline. Then, it offered a pitiful $750 to families who had lost everything despite giving far more than that to illegal immigrants. There’s even reports of FEMA actively thwarting the private sector’s efforts to fill the gap. What gives? Why does it seem like the plight of Americans is met with hostility from emergency services? Amy LePore, a policy expert on the increased federalization of emergency management in the U.S., recently spoke with Matt Kibbe about this issue. Her take is that the public is misled in thinking that the federal government is prepared to respond when disaster strikes. While there are many reasons for this, there’s one in particular Amy says is especially problematic: States aren’t passing the Defend the Guard Act. — (@) “There are resources stationed in many states, which have the training and capacity to respond to disaster, and half the time, they’re deployed to the Middle East,” she told Kibbe and pointed to the Tennessee legislature that did not pass the Defend the Guard Act, which would prohibit the deployment of the National Guard overseas unless Congress has formally declared war. One day before Helene hit, Tennessee’s National Guard was deployed to Kuwait and was therefore unable to assist the hurricane victims. “The Defend the Guard bill has been in 30 legislatures and has passed in three states but in three chambers only,” Amy explains, adding that what we really need “is a brave state.” “I think all it is going to take is one state (maybe that state will be Tennessee) who takes this seriously, who can get it passed in both chambers. And I think there will be a domino effect in other brave states,” she says. To hear more about the Defend the Guard bill and the unsung heroes who work tirelessly to bring our troops home so that they are positioned to support Americans, watch the clip above. To watch Kibbe’s full conversation with Amy LePore, watch the episode below. Want more from Matt Kibbe? - YouTube www.youtube.com To enjoy more of Matt's liberty-defending stance as he gets in the face of the fake news establishment, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Dr. Casey Means, the Stanford University-educated chief medical officer of the metabolic health company Levels, further vindicated Alex Jones' longstanding concerns about atrazine, an endocrine disruptor and one of America's most widely used pesticides, in Tuesday's episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience." When asked about the increasing commonality of early onset puberty, Means said, "We are living in this wildly estrogenic environment that is created by humans." Means suggested that the ingestion of plastics — which behave like xenoestrogens when broken down — has proven hugely impactful, affecting humans as early as in the womb. She indicated further that pesticides have also played a starring role, particularly those that increase aromatase — "the enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen." The physician called out one pesticide by name: atrazine. "So atrazine ... is banned in Europe, but we spray 70 million pounds of it per year in the U.S.," said Means. "We buy it from other countries. So China and Germany and other countries are selling us a chemical of which 70 million pounds are spread on our food — invisible and tasteless, which up-regulates aromatase and converts testosterone to estrogen." "How are we allowing this to happen? Of course it's affecting boys too," continued Means. "It's not like there's a bunch of exogenous testosterones, right. It's not like the plastics are also stimulating testosterone." Means is hardly the only person in the burgeoning Make America Healthy Again movement willing to discuss atrazine and other apparently ruinous pesticides. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently told Dr. Jordan Peterson, "The second-most used chemical in this country, pesticide in this country, is atrazine. It's banned in Europe, banned all over the world, but we use it here. It's in 63% of our drinking water." "We don't know what impact it's having on our children," Kennedy later added. Kennedy noted in June 2022 on his own podcast, "If you expose frogs to atrazine, male frogs, it changes their sex, and they can actually bear young. They can lay eggs, fertile eggs." 'They have zero chance of reproducing.' "And so the capacity for these chemicals that we are just raining down on our children right now to induce these very profound sexual changes in them is something we need to be thinking about as a society," added Kennedy, who warned elsewhere that the entire Midwest's water supply is "coated" with atrazine. Atrazine was the chemical Alex Jones was alluding to in his now-famous 2015 rant, in which he yelled, "I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the frigging frogs gay!" Jones, like Kennedy, was referencing the finding by University of California, Berkeley endocrinologist and amphibian biologist Tyrone Hayes that atrazine "wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females." "These male frogs are missing testosterone and all the things that testosterone controls, including sperm. So their fertility is as low as 10 percent in some cases, and that is only if we isolate those animals and pair them with females," Hyes told UC Berkeley News in 2010. "In an environment where they are competing with unexposed animals, they have zero chance of reproducing." Some male frogs morphed into hermaphrodites and mated with other males. 'Do you want to take a chance, what with all the other things that we know atrazine does, not just to humans but to rodents and frogs and fish?' Hayes said, "We have animals that are females, in the sense that they behave like females: They have estrogen, lay eggs, they mate with other males. Atrazine has caused a hormonal imbalance that has made them develop into the wrong sex, in terms of their genetic constitution." The university paper noted: Some 80 million pounds of the herbicide atrazine are applied annually in the United States on corn and sorghum to control weeds and increase crop yield, but such widespread use also makes atrazine the most common pesticide contaminant of ground and surface water, according to various studies. More and more research, however, is showing that atrazine interferes with endocrine hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone – in fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles, laboratory rodents and even human cell lines at levels of parts per billion. Recent studies also found a possible link between human birth defects and low birth weight and atrazine exposure in the womb. Syngenta, an agricultural company that makes the pesticide, tried downplaying the findings. According to the New Yorker, a freelance science columnist whose nonprofit organization received tens of thousands of dollars from Syngenta, wrote a Fox News hit piece attacking Hayes, trying to characterize his paper in the journal Nature as junk science. Hayes doubled down, saying, "Not every frog or every human will be affected by atrazine, but do you want to take a chance, what with all the other things that we know atrazine does, not just to humans but to rodents and frogs and fish?" When Alex Jones picked up on Hayes' findings, much of the ire previously assigned the scientist was redirected. CNBC, for instance, characterized Jones' suggestion that "chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay" as one of his "5 most disturbing and ridiculous conspiracy theories." In a piece disputing Jones' claims that the government could manipulate the weather and that fluoride in the drinking water can dumb people down, Forbes also suggested that Jones had misinterpreted the results of Hayes' study. 'One of the most significant health issues that affects couples is infertility.' The unfortunate truth about atrazine has clearly survived such distortion efforts by Big Ag and the corporate media. Just months ago, the esteemed peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports published a study confirming that "atrazine exposure is toxic to the testis and affects the normal structure of the seminiferous tubules and sperms." "Pesticides like atrazine which are frequently present in everyday surroundings, have adverse impacts on human health and may contribute to male infertility," said the study. The study makes no secret of the adverse impacts the pesticide can have on reproductive systems: In adult females, atrazine consumption has been linked to early onset of pituitary and mammary cancers, extension of the estrous cycle, decreased weight gain caused by estradiol in the uterus, reduced uterine cytosolic progesterone receptor binding, and reduced estradiol-caused uterine weight growth. Male adults who are exposed to atrazine may experience reduced weights in the anterior pituitary, the prostate, and the hypothalamus, decreased levels of dihydrotestosterone attaching to the androgen receptor, as well as decreased spermatozoa quantity and motility. One of the most significant health issues that affects couples is infertility. Around 30% of these cases are caused by male factors. There are other factors including chemotherapy, environmental toxins, and drug use that can harm spermatogenesis and affect normal sperm production. Like Blaze News? 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One of my favorite Apple devices is the Apple TV. Even though I have a premium smart TV, I don't think it has an operating system as good as tvOS. Apple's set-top box is reliable and fast and has several hidden features that make it the perfect device for consuming media. These are some of my favorite Apple TV functions. I use them daily, and I think you should, too. Set a timer: Honestly, this is the Apple TV feature I use every single day. You just need to press and hold the TV button to open the Control Center. Find the timer function, and your set-top box will turn off automatically after 30 minutes, one hour, or two. Automatic Subtitles: If you are using tvOS 18, the Apple TV app has a new feature called Automatic Subtitles. Whenever you're on mute, ask Siri to play back a scene, or the default language changes in a scene, tvOS will automatically add subtitles for you. InSight: This Amazon Prime Video-like feature displays timely information about actors, characters, and music from Apple TV+ movies and shows onscreen in real time. Users can select an actor to view their background and filmography page or quickly view the song playing in a scene and add it to an Apple Music playlist. It's also available with the tvOS 18 update. Image source: Apple Inc. Apple Music Sing: This feature creates the perfect karaoke environment. If you have the latest Apple TV 4K, just open an Apple Music song and tap the microphone icon in the bottom right corner. It will lower the song's main vocals, and you can sing along. Use your iPhone to create visual effects on your TV. Apple Music SharePlay: If you usually have casual parties or gather your friends at home, you should be aware that you can have people add songs to your playlist. With Apple Music on your Apple TV or HomePod, open your iPhone and tap the SharePlay icon at the bottom of the Now Playing screen. Share that QR Code with friends so they can also add songs to play next. Switch Profiles: Did you know you can switch profiles on the Control Center? If you have other people in your iCloud family, you can add their Accounts to the Apple TV. This helps bring personalized content, their own Apple Music profile, Photos, and Apple TV+ suggestions. Just long press the Home button and tap on your profile icon to switch profiles. Third-party VPN app support: This benefits enterprise and education users who want to access content on their private networks, allowing Apple TV to be a great office and conference room solution in even more places. Create folders: If you long-press an Apple TV app, you can create a folder with it. This is an easy way to arrange your most used apps and the ones you don't need to have displayed at all times. Change screen savers: Did you know you can add new screen saver options to your Apple TV? Just tap < twice and slide up to see other options. Don't Miss: tvOS 18: Release date, features, download, Apple TV compatibility, more The post Apple TV hidden features: 9 helpful tricks everyone should know appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Top Prime Day deals: $169 AirPods Pro 2, $170 Apple Watch SE, laptops, Bose headphones, robot vacuums, more Today’s deals: Early Prime Day sales, $189 Apple Watch SE, Philips OneBlade 360, Crest 3D Whitestrips, more Reolink Fall Prime Day: Autumn’s Best Deals on Home Security – Get up to 44% OFF Top Prime Day deals: $199 iPad, 75-inch smart TV for $500, Amazon device deals, Crest 3D Whitestrips, more

U.S. — Despite polling momentum swinging towards former President Trump, political pundits believe that Kamala Harris can still win the election if she can just remain completely unseen and unheard until November 6th.