Longtime University of Virginia professor and increasingly far-left kook Larry Sabato surfaced on Thursday afternoon’s CNN News Central and compared this supposedly dark time in America given the timeout ABC placed Jimmy Kimmel in and President Trump’s ripping of the media alongside the Civil War, the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 and censorship during both world wars. And that was on top of a show that started with co-host Boris Sanchez lying about Kimmel’s comments about the Charlie Kirk assassination that landed him in hot water to begin with and hours after The Situation Room co-host Wolf Blitzer also lied and tried to argue with former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera. First, Sabato invoked these trying times at the end of his interview with Sanchez and co-host Brianna Keilar when he was asked to provide a historical parallel.     Sabato correctly said there are “never precise parallels” or at least “rarely” the case, but he didn did just that, starting with the Alien and Sedition Act: But if you’re going to cite a few examples and this is of executives seizing power, trying to expand executive power because they don’t like criticism, you’d have to go back to the great and much admired and respected John Adams with the Alien and Sedition Act. That was certainly an example and people actually went to jail for criticizing the criticizing the President of the United States. One of the professors that Thomas Jefferson hired when he founded the University of Virginia, was let go, in part because he had served six months in jail for having the temerity to criticize John Adams. That’s incredible, isn’t it? He then brought up the Civil War, both World Wars, and, of course, Watergate: [D]uring wars, you can — World War I, Wilson enjoyed a lot of the censorship. He was able also to strike out at old foes. And you had some of that in the civil war. Like, a lot of it in the civil war. You had some of it in World War II. And then of course, Nixon and Watergate, when the press truly was the enemy, Nixon would have liked to have said many of the things that Trump has said and gotten away with. But Nixon knew it away with. But Nixon knew it would only make it tougher on him. But for Trump, no problem at all. Working backwards, he dropped this cockamamie Resistance hot take about America being stuck on “the authoritarian highway”:   Sanchez and Sabato also engaged in some condescending nonsense mocking the right as hypocrites (click “expand”): SANCHEZ: It wasn’t that long ago, Larry, that a lot of the folks now happy with this suspension of Kimmel were advocating for free speech and an absolute version of free speech, including posts on social media, including the misinformation that Kim was accused of propagating. Do you think Republicans have shifted? SABATO: They haven’t shifted. They flip flopped. It’s a complete flip flop. Not even a half flip flop. Because what they’re really saying, and I’ve seen this before, and it truly has happened on the left as well as the right. The message is free speech for me and not for thee. You can have free speech as long as I agree with what you’re saying. Well, that defeats the whole purpose of free speech. The First Amendment is there to protect speech you hate, not the speech you love. Everyone knows this, at least in this, at least in theory. But in practice, they don’t want to hear things they hear things they disagree with. Here was the pure partisan idiocy from Sanchez that was divorced from reality and especially given the fact that Kimmel’s comments are on-tape and not a he-said, she-said quandary:   Rewinding to Blitzer, he took issue with these emotional comments from Rivera about how those screaming about censorship — which he agrees with — are missing the point (click “expand”): You know, by focusing on the censorship aspect and the First Amendment aspect, I think it’s losing sight of what should be the lead. And that’s that Jimmy Kimmel owes the family of Charlie Kirk and his wife, Erika, two small children, an apology. He — what’s he saying, that if you’re a member of MAGA and Charlie is a friend of MAGA, then he had it coming? It just — it’s — in some ways, it’s very, extremely, extremely insensitive. The country’s in a very tough spot right now. Everyone’s walking on egg shells. The First Amendment is not a license to incite hatred and I think that we can start the discussion. Once Jimmy Kimmel apologizes, then they can talk about the business aspects and whether or not he gets back on the schedule and so forth. But there’s got to be a recognition that a terrible thing has happened here and that millions of Americans are grievously hurt by what happened. There is a — Charlie Kirk was beloved by many. And to just trample over it, he’s not even buried yet, for goodness’ sakes. And to make fun of the flags and half-staff and so forth, I just think that we have got to look at it with a notion that the country has to be healed, that we have to work to bring people together, that we need to respect each other. We don’t have to agree, but we have to respect. And I think that the audience has deserted him for a good reason. Blitzer then twice interjected to insist Rivera wasn’t given Kimmel the proper and “full context”:   To see the relevant CNN transcripts from September 18, click here (for The Situation Room) and here (for CNN News Central).

Sensing an opportunity for exploitation Thursday night, the liberal broadcast networks went full bore with lying to their audiences about why late night “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel was put in timeout by Disney/ABC, choosing to instead claim the suspension was orchestrated by the Trump administration. CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and even ABC’s World News Tonight dismissed, downplayed, or twisted the fact that the pressure to suspend Kimmel came from inside the media’s house. ABC News was in the best position out of the three to actually know what was happening in their camp with the pressure rising from their local affiliates to act, but World News Tonight anchor David Muir chose to blame ABC’s political opposition. “We move on now, to the fierce reaction tonight with Disney/ABC suspending late night host Jimmy Kimmel, quote, ‘indefinitely,’ after pressure from the Trump administration,” he lied. Correspondent Elizabeth Schulze tonight echoed Muir’s false premise for the suspension. “Disney/ABC puling the late night show off the air last night, after pressure from the Trump administration,” she said. Much like CBS and NBC, Schulze suggested the push back from local ABC affiliates were only spurred on by FCC Chairman Brendon Carr and by purported craven motives of one network affiliate owner (Click “expand”) SCHULZE: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who was appointed by President Trump, blasting Kimmel's comments on a conservative podcast Wednesday, accusing Kimmel of misrepresenting the ideology of Kirk's killer. And saying local broadcasters should stop airing Kimmel's show. BRENDON CARR (chairman, FCC): We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. SCHULZE: Hours later, Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the biggest owners of network TV affiliates, said they would not air Kimmel's show. Nexstar is in merger talks in merger talks with another media company in a deal that would require Brendon Carr's approval at the FCC. Disney/ABC then pausing Kimmel's show indefinitely, drawing outrage from some who say this is caving to political pressure. And that this is about protecting freedom of speech.     Schulze made it clear that she was trying to cook up a false narrative of federal censorship by trying to draw a through line between Kimmel and CBS’s pending release of late night host Stephen Colbert, despite all the evidence that pointed to financial overruns which debunked that lie weeks ago: Kimmel's suspension comes just months after CBS announced it was canceling the Stephen Colbert show. CBS saying it was purely a financial definition. But Colbert, like Kimmel, was a vocal critic of President Trump. And overnight, the President suggesting NBC go after its late night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. Posting “Do it NBC.” Over on NBC Nightly News, they highlighted their former late night host, David Letterman baselessly suggesting that ABC was capitulating to the Trump White House: “You can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That's just not how this works.” NBC correspondent Liz Kreutz downplayed Kimmel’s lie to the masses that a MAGA supporter killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk as just “criticism from conservatives.” She also drew imaginary lines between Carr, the suspension, and Nexstar (Click “expand”): KREUTZ: After criticism from conservatives, Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, threatened action against the network. BRENDON CARR (chairman, FCC): Disney needs to see some change here. KREUTZ: Hours later, Nexstar, which owns more than 200 local TV stations nationwide and is currently seeking FCC approval for a merger, announced it would stop airing Kimmel on all of its ABC affiliates. Soon after, ABC said it was suspending the show. Now Sinclair, another major television group, saying they won't air Kimmel's show again unless he offers a “direct apology” to Kirk's family and donates to Turning Point USA.     Kreutz also tried to rope in CBS/Colbert to form a larger conspiracy and leaned heavily on the overwrought reaction from Democrats. She touted former President Obama speaking out, despite the fact that he tried to jail multiple journalists for their reporting and falsely blamed a film for the Benghazi attack, for which he wrongly jailed the maker. She also shared the hysterical reaction from the only Democrat commissioner of the FCC. For CBS’s part, they conspicuously avoiding the Colbert situation as Evening News anchors Maurice Dubois and John Dickerson pompously bloviated about the First Amendment (Click “expand”): DUBOIS: The First Amendment, adopted in 1791, says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. DICKERSON: But President Trump is suggesting that a law Congress made in 1934, the Communications Act, may be used the crackdown on media outlets exercising those freedoms. DUBOIS: That act created the Federal Communications Commission, which issues licenses for TV stations. Today, the President suggested, networks that criticize him should have the licenses for their stations taken away.     Far-left Dickerson led into the segment by falsely blaming Carr: “The FCC is chaired by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, who pressured Disney/ABC to take Jimmy Kimmel's late-night TV show off the air after Kimmel made controversial remarks about Trump ally Charlie Kirk.” He also lied about Kimmel’s comments being “about” Kirk, when they were about MAGA supporters. CBS correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti painted a false depiction of Kimmel as some equal opportunity offender with his comedy, supposedly hitting all sides. “John, for more than 20 years, Jimmy Kimmel has used this theater behind me for a late-night satire spanning four administrations” and “built a career taking the White House to task in Hollywood,” he falsely stated. As a NewsBusters study recently found, for the last few years, conservatives found themselves the target of 92 percent of his jokes while liberals made up 97 percent of his guests. Of course, Vigliotti too blamed the supposed craven motives of Nexstar for part of the pressure. He offered no mention of Sinclair. But he too gave a plat form to Gomez and bitter liberal protesting Disney. The transcripts are below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s World News Tonight September 18, 2025 6:35:47 p.m. Eastern DAVID MUIR: We move on now, to the fierce reaction tonight with Disney/ABC suspending late night host Jimmy Kimmel, quote, “indefinitely,” after pressure from the Trump administration. FCC chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by President Trump, and his threat after Kimmel's comments after Charlie Kirk's death. Calling on stations not to carry Kimmel. Well, tonight, outrage from some, saying this is caving to political pressure, and an assault on free speech. Here's ABC's Elizabeth Schulze tonight. [Cuts to video] ELIZABETH SCHULZE: Tonight, the decision to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live, a show that's been running for more than 20 years, is sparking a fierce debate. Disney/ABC puling the late night show off the air last night, after pressure from the Trump administration, following Kimmel's comments during his opening monologue Monday about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. JIMMY KIMMEL: We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them. And doing everything they can to score political points from it. SCHULZE: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who was appointed by President Trump, blasting Kimmel's comments on a conservative podcast Wednesday, accusing Kimmel of misrepresenting the ideology of Kirk's killer. And saying local broadcasters should stop airing Kimmel's show. BRENDON CARR (chairman, FCC): We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. SCHULZE: Hours later, Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the biggest owners of network TV affiliates, said they would not air Kimmel's show. Nexstar is in merger talks in merger talks with another media company in a deal that would require Brendon Carr's approval at the FCC. Disney/ABC then pausing Kimmel's show indefinitely, drawing outrage from some who say this is caving to political pressure. And that this is about protecting freedom of speech. This was not the first time Kimmel addressed Kirk's murder. Posting on Instagram just hours after Kirk was shot, “can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.” Tonight, President Trump on his return from the state visit in the U.K. now suggesting the FCC should take licenses away from broadcasters that are repeatedly critical of him. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They give me only bad publicity, or press. I mean -- they're getting a license, I would think -- maybe their license should be taken away. It would be up to Brendan Carr. SCHULZE: A move that would be at odds with an executive order the President signed on day one in office, pledging to protect free speech. TRUMP: And I've stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It's back. SCHULZE: Kimmel's suspension comes just months after CBS announced it was canceling the Stephen Colbert show. CBS saying it was purely a financial definition. But Colbert, like Kimmel, was a vocal critic of President Trump. And overnight, the President suggesting NBC go after its late night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. Posting “Do it NBC.” [Cuts back to live] David, no word tonight from our parent company Disney/ABC about Jimmy Kimmel being off the air indefinitely, and if, and when, he'll return. Meantime, up on Capitol Hill today, some Democrats are calling for FCC Chairman Carr to resign and some want him to testify about freedom of speech. The Republican House speaker who has defended free speech, said today that it's up to companies to decide what to do with their own programs. David? MUIR: Elizabeth Schulze in Washington tonight. Elizabeth, thank you. CBS Evening News September 18, 2025 6:30:53 p.m. Eastern MAURICE DUBOIS: The First Amendment, adopted in 1791, says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. JOHN DICKERSON: But President Trump is suggesting that a law Congress made in 1934, the Communications Act, may be used the crackdown on media outlets exercising those freedoms. DUBOIS: That act created the Federal Communications Commission, which issues licenses for TV stations. Today, the President suggested, networks that criticize him should have the licenses for their stations taken away. DICKERSON: The FCC is chaired by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, who pressured Disney/ABC to take Jimmy Kimmel's late-night TV show off the air after Kimmel made controversial remarks about Trump ally Charlie Kirk. Jonathan Vigliotti has more about that from Hollywood. Jonathan? JONATHAN VIGLIOTTI: John, for more than 20 years, Jimmy Kimmel has used this theater behind me for a late-night satire spanning four administrations. The chairman of the FCC said this week he crossed tine, in-line critics say has been redrawn to suppress opposition. [Cuts to video] Jimmy Kimmel built a career taking the White House to task in Hollywood. JIMMY KIMMEL: And yes, Joe Biden did say he wasn't going to pardon Hunter, but to be fair, there's a very good chance he doesn't remember saying that. VIGLIOTTI: Yesterday, his stage lights were cut over this commentary on Mondays show, following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. KIMMEL: We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the speech MAGA getting desperate the track to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them. And doing everything they can to score political points from it. VIGLIOTTI: Today, President Trump on his way back from London suggested that TV networks should lose their licenses. PRESIDENT TRUMP: They give me only bad publicity or press. I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It would be up to Brendan Carr. VIGLIOTTI: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Fox News... BRENDON CARR (chairman, FCC): President Trump has fundamentally changed the direction of this country. And one of the ways he has done that is he has run directly at these legacy, mainstream broadcasters and he’s smashed the facade that they get to control what we get to say and what we get to think. VIGLIOTTI: This comes as Nexstar, the country's largest local broadcaster and owner of multiple ABC affiliates, undergoes a federally reviewed media merger. On Wednesday, it preempted Jimmy Kimmel Live for the foreseeable future. Then came ABCs announcement that it was pulling the program indefinitely. But Kimmel's indefinite suspension was panned by Hollywood writers. Today, they protested outside of Disney's Burbank headquarters. Anna Gomez, a Democratic-appointed FCC commissioner, accused the white house abusing the agency to censor content. ANNA GOMEZ (Democratic commissioner, FCC): It is not the FCC's job to judge what is and what is not funny. It is not the FCC's job to determine what content should be. It's not even the FCC's job to determine if there is bias in a particular broadcaster. VIGLIOTTI: This wasn't the first time Kimmel commented about the Charlie Kirk murder. On the day of the shooting he posted, "Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one they agreed that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?" [Cuts back to live] And it's unclear at this hour if Jimmy Kimmel Live will return. We've reached out. We have not heard back. We did just hear back from Nexstar. In a statement they said they had no communication with the FCC or any government agency prior to pulling the program. DUBOIS: Jonathan Vigliotti in Hollywood, thank you. NBC Nightly News September 18, 2025 7:01:45 p.m. Eastern TOM LLAMAS: And good evening. It was an announcement that sent shockwaves across politics and media. ABC indefinitely pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air. The long time late-night host suspended after comments he made in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk. President Trump praising the move and suggesting broadcasters who regularly criticize him should have their licenses pulled. Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr today said the country's media landscape is shifting and that, quote, “we're not done yet with seeing the consequences of that.” But the condemnations have been equally swift. Former president Obama blasting the move, saying Trump administration has taken cancel culture “to a new and dangerous level.” And across Hollywood an outpouring of support for Kimmel from actors and comedians. Kimmel has long been a staple of late-night TV, but after more than 20 years on the air, tonight his future is uncertain. Liz Kreutz starts us off outside of Kimmel's L.A. studio. [Cuts to video] LIZ KREUTZ: Tonight, protests outside Disney headquarters as fallout grows from the company's abrupt decision to indefinitely pull the show off the air. Condemnation swift from Democrats in Washington to Hollywood heavyweights. DAVID LETTERMAN: You can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That's just not how this works. KREUTZ: But President Trump and many of his supporters praising the decision by ABC and its parent company Disney. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you could call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent. KREUTZ: The President later suggesting broadcast licenses could be taken away by the FCC. This all began Monday after Kimmel said this during his opening monologue. JIMMY KIMMEL: The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one them. And doing everything they can to score political points from it. KREUTZ: After criticism from conservatives, Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, threatened action against the network. BRENDON CARR (chairman, FCC): Disney needs to see some change here. KREUTZ: Hours later, Nexstar, which owns more than 200 local TV stations nationwide and is currently seeking FCC approval for a merger, announced it would stop airing Kimmel on all of its ABC affiliates. Soon after, ABC said it was suspending the show. Now Sinclair, another major television group, saying they won't air Kimmel's show again unless he offers a “direct apology” to Kirk's family and donates to Turning Point USA. CARR: The issue that arose here where lots of people were upset was not a joke, it was not making fun for pillaring me or the administration or the President. It was appearing to directly mislead the American public about a significant fact. KREUTZ: But Anna Gomez, lone Democrat on the FCC panel, says the government is expressing free speech. ANNA GOMEZ (Democratic commissioner, FCC): This administration has weaponized the licensing power of the FCC in order to pressure broadcasters. They want only to have coverage in the way that they want to have it and this is a clear violation of the First Amendment. KREUTZ: The move by ABC two months after CBS announced it’s canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, another Trump critic, and amid multiple lawsuits President Trump has filed against news organizations. In a statement, former President Obama slamming the White House, writing, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle for fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like.” [Cuts back to live] LLAMAS: Liz joins us now outside Jimmy Kimmel’s studio. And Liz, I guess the big question tonight is have we heard from Kimmel himself? KREUTZ: Tom. No. Kimmel has not yet commented publicly, but his friend Nevada Senator Jackie Rosen says she did speak to him and said he is worried about his staff right now and also his ability to continue doing his political commentary. ABC has also remained silent today. They have not said if or when the show will be back on the air. Tom. LLAMA: Okay. Liz Kreutz, leading us off tonight. Liz thank you.

On the rare occasions I can face visiting London these days, I always make sure to stop in at Banya No.1 in Hoxton. From the outside, it’s unprepossessing — just another modern block with a buzzer door — but when you get inside and go downstairs, it’s like you’ve been transported beyond the new Iron Curtain to Moscow or St. Petersburg or Novgorod. It’s a proper Russian spa — a banya — complete with sauna, huge wooden-barrel plunge pool, freezing showers, treatment rooms with tables, and even a little cafe where you can sit and gobble pelmeni (delicious little stuffed dumplings) or have a hearty bowl of borscht (beetroot stew with meat). Sauna treatment has been used, with great success, to treat police officers suffering chronic health issues as a result of repeated exposure to methamphetamine, for example.And, of course, there are the staff, all of whom are authentic Russki, from the charming girls on the desk to the sullen myrmidons who patrol the saunas and abuse you with various implements for an extra fee — although you get the feeling they’d happily abuse you without payment too.It’s a shame, but also a blessing, that I don’t live close to London. I’d be at Banya No. 1 all the time. If money were no object, I’d recreate it at home. I’d have a fragrant cedar-clad sauna with a big brick oven in it, and I’d pay a couple of former goons from the vory v zakone called Andrei and Pavel to keep the wood burning and beat me with birch twigs and scour me with Siberian pine tar to my heart’s content. Heaven.I’d do this not just because it’s fun and a potent way to reduce stress — and we could all do with a bit less of that right now — but also because going to the spa is good for you in other ways.Toxic basteYou’ve probably heard talk of the detoxification benefits of sauna before. They’re very real, and as I try to impress on my readers as much as I can, we all need to be detoxing our bodies. We’re constantly exposed to harmful chemicals in our daily lives, and anything we can do to reduce the amounts that get into and accumulate in our bodies is a good thing.Sweating is one of the principal routes for harmful chemicals to leave our bodies, as well as in our urine and feces and when we lose (or give) blood. Particular chemicals, such as bisphenol A (BPA), a plasticizer with endocrine-disrupting effects, are generally found in greater quantities in our sweat than in our urine or blood, which is a clear sign that sweating is the main way our bodies dispose of them.Sauna treatment has been used, with great success, to treat police officers suffering chronic health issues as a result of repeated exposure to methamphetamine, for example. It’s being trialed as a treatment for a range of other health conditions.Fat chanceSweating appears to be particularly effective for detoxification when combined with fasting or a calorie-restricted diet. Rodent studies show that being in a fasted or dieting state pushes harmful chemicals out of the body’s diminishing fat stores and toward the skin, where they can then be sweated off. Many harmful chemicals are lipophilic, and as a result, when they get into our bodies, they end up in our fat stores. That’s actually one of the many important functions of fat — as a kind of vault for harmful chemicals, to seal them away and keep them out of other tissues — and it’s probably why a reliable effect of regular exposure to harmful chemicals is to put on fat. It’s a protection mechanism.(This is also probably one of the reasons why celebrities who go on drugs like Ozempic end up looking so terrible, even when they lose loads of weight — search for before-and-after pictures of podcaster Ethan Klein if you don’t want to sleep tonight. Because of their terrible diets and lifestyles, fat people have enormous stores of toxic chemicals in their bodies, and if they suddenly lose weight with Ozempic or Mounjaro or whatever, their tissues are flooded with them. This could actually be quite dangerous, and it’s one of the many reasons you should prefer traditional methods of weight loss — exercise and changes to diet — over these new drugs when possible.)Hot airIf you want to sauna regularly, you have various options. Of course, you can join a gym or health club with a sauna. That’s easy enough. If you want to sauna at home and you’ve got space in your garden, you can get a wooden barrel sauna for a few thousand dollars or convert a shed or outbuilding. You’ll find plenty of good guides online for building your own sauna.If you don’t want to build a permanent structure, you could go the Native American route and build a little sweat lodge in your garden with a tent and some rocks. Dig a hole, put a tent (preferably canvas) over it, fill the tent with hot rocks heated on a fire, sit inside the tent, and pour water on the rocks. Voila: steam in a confined space. A sauna. Again, you’ll find helpful tutorials all over the internet.There are also infrared sauna kits that can be used indoors and folded away and stored easily if you don’t have a great deal of space. They’re pretty reasonable.But there may also be an even simpler and cheaper option. Just have a hot bath. Tub-thumpingYes: A hot bath probably confers all the benefits of a sauna. In fact, it may even be more effective at boosting your health than a sauna, according to a new study I wrote about recently on my Substack. It’s worth noting that the study didn’t compare the detoxification effects of baths and saunas due to sweating, but if you’ve ever sat in a hot bath, you’ll know you sweat plenty. Sweating takes place underwater, too, but you just don’t feel it.What the new study does show is that hot baths offer superior metabolic, cardiac, and immune benefits to saunas, in large part because the heating effect of being immersed in hot water is much, much greater than sitting in a heated enclosure. Water conducts heat 24 times more efficiently than air, and your whole body — or most of it — is in direct contact with the water the entire time.RELATED: Sun's out, guns out: Finally, therapy even men can enjoy Jason Connolly/Raymond Boyd/Getty ImagesSave our swimmersI have one caution about hot baths, though, and it’s for my male readers. Protect the family jewels. Boiling them is even worse than toasting them (see my note about testicular tanning in a previous installment). Why? Heating the testicles is associated with reduced fertility, whether as a result of working in a furnace or as a welder, or through taking regular hot baths or saunas. The effects can be long-lasting, even after just a single session. One study from the 1960s showed that it takes between 10 and 12 weeks for sperm counts to return to normal after just 30 minutes of intense scrotal heating. If you’re going to take regular hot baths as a man, I’d recommend keeping your testicles out of the water, however you see fit. You can arch your back a little bit, or you can put some ice on your balls in a flannel or use a proper ice pack.

The House has passed a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy and condemning his horrific assassination. Although the resolution garnered bipartisan support, dozens of Democrats couldn't bring themselves to honor Kirk.The resolution passed in a 310-58 vote, with 95 Democrats joining 210 Republicans to commemorate the conservative activist. That being said, 38 Democrats voted present, 22 didn't vote at all, and 58 voted against the resolution all together. 'The Democrat party is clearly so morally bankrupt that many of them have lost all sense of decency.'Notably, the House unanimously passed a resolution condemning the assassination of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member who was brutally gunned down in her home in June. Despite unifying behind their fellow Democrats like Hortman, House progressives like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan refused to formally condemn Kirk's assassination. RELATED: Most Democrats vote against bill boosting security funds for politicians following Kirk assassination Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll CallHere is a list of all the Democrats who voted "no" on the resolution honoring Kirk and condemning his murder:Rep. Gabe Amo of Rhode IslandRep. Joyce Beatty of OhioRep. Wesley Bell of MissouriRep. Sanford Bishop of Georgia Rep. Shontel Brown of OhioRep. Andre Carson of IndianaRep. Troy Carter of LouisianaRep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of FloridaRep. Yvette Clarke of New YorkRep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina Rep. Jasmine Crockett of TexasRep. Danny Davis of IllinoisRep. Veronica Escobar of Texas Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York Rep. Cleo Fields of Louisiana Rep. Shomari Figures of Alabama Rep. Valerie Foushee of North CarolinaRep. Maxwell Frost of FloridaRep. Sylvia Garcia of TexasRep. Jimmy Gomez of California Rep. Al Green of TexasRep. Jahana Hayes of ConnecticutRep. Steven Horsford of Nevada Rep. Glenn Ivey of MarylandRep. Jonathan Jackson of Illinois Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington Rep. Hank Johnson of GeorgiaRep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California Rep. Robin Kelly of IllinoisRep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois Rep. Summer Lee of PennsylvaniaRep. Lucy McBath of Georgia Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey Rep. Robert Menendez of New Jersey Rep. Kweisi Mfume of MarylandRep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New YorkRep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts Rep. Mike Quigley of IllinoisRep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois Rep. Emily Randall of WashingtonRep. Bobby Scott of Virginia Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama Rep. Lateefah Simon of California Rep. Marilyn Strickland of WashingtonRep. Emilia Sykes of OhioRep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan Rep. Bennie Thompson of MississippiRep. Rashida Tlaib of MichiganRep. Lauren Underwood IllinoisRep. Nydia Velazquez of New YorkRep. Maxine Waters of California Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida RELATED: Why did Cory Mills come to Ilhan Omar's rescue? Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty ImagesAlthough similar resolutions have been passed unanimously in the Senate, House Republicans have pointed fingers at the "morally bankrupt" Democrats who refuse to condemn Kirk's murder. "Their silence spoke volumes," Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York said in a post on X. "Americans won’t forget.""The Democrat party is clearly so morally bankrupt that many of them have lost all sense of decency," Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota said in a post on X. "Absolutely shameful."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Late-night talk show hosts reacted to the suspension of their peer, Jimmy Kimmel, from his Disney-operated show.Kimmel's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was indefinitely taken off the air following his claims that Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was a President Trump supporter.'Americans are free to express any opinion we want.'"... the MAGA gang desperately [is] trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said on Monday.Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair soon announced they would pull the show from their feeds, and ABC subsequently suspended the production.Thursday night, the three other top late-night hosts provided their reaction to Kimmel's suspension, which resulted in an awful display of either coordination or parallel thinking.Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" was the first to air at 11 p.m. ET. After Stewart joked that "some people" would say the Trump administration was coldly "consolidating power" and using "intimidation" to silence people, he sarcastically added, "not me, though; I think it's great."Stewart then went over to his diverse cast of seven reporters/fill-in hosts, whom he asked, "Is Donald Trump stifling free speech?"In unison, they all answered in monotone, "Of course not, Jon. Americans are free to express any opinion we want."Unfortunately, this predictable sketch was then replicated by host Jimmy Fallon just minutes later.RELATED: Farewell to Stephen Colbert, fake laughs, and lame late-night bias "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," which airs at 11:35 p.m., wasted no time covering the Kimmel debacle. In his opening monologue, Fallon referred to Kimmel and said, "A lot of people are worried that we won't keep saying what we want to say or that we'll be censored."But the comedian assured his audience that he would "cover the president's trip to the U.K. just like I normally would."Fallon then began giving a report, which was interrupted by voice-overs that were complimentary to Trump. For example, Fallon said, "President Trump just wrapped up his three-day trip to the U.K., and —" with the voice-over finishing the remark with "looked incredibly handsome."This continued before Fallon repeatedly, and painfully, inserted Trump and "Epstein files" into more jokes about the president's trip to the U.K.If audiences still weren't tired, they could simply endure the rest of Fallon's show to get another nearly identical bit from Seth Meyers an hour later.RELATED: The market fired Jimmy Kimmel At 12:35 a.m., the "Late Night with Seth Meyers" host said the Trump administration is "pursuing a crackdown on free speech," before switching gears and sarcastically saying, "I've always admired and respected Mr. Trump.""I've always believed he was a visionary, a [sic] innovator, a great president, and even better golfer," he went on.Meyers continued, "If you've ever seen me say anything negative about him, that's just AI."The repetition of the similar bits across the three shows was only overshadowed by how quickly they happened. With Stewart's monologue getting into its sketch about 20 minutes into the program, that places Fallon's mirrored monologue just 15 minutes later. Then, audiences got to see the same comedy bit recited an hour later on the same network.In an awkward display of the show's true bias, Meyers' Thursday episode also featured a drag queen who goes by the name "Jinkx Monsoon," who identifies as "trans-femme."Hilariously, Meyers repeatedly referred to the actor — whose real name is Jerick Hoffer — as a woman.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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