Ads misleadingly link Ohio’s Sherrod Brown to Texas woman who had gender transition-related surgery – PolitiFact

Soren Aldaco’s account of her experience and records show she had her transition-related surgery in Texas when she was 19. 

Former Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown called the ad “a complete lie.” 

A 2024 Ohio law bans gender-affirming medical care for minors…

https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/oct/14/senate-leadership-fund/sherrod-brown-soren-aldaco-transition-ohio-texas/ 

‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bid

This week, Brown’s campaign announced a volley of billboards reading “See that datacenter? Jon Husted did that” and a website critical of the senator that offers voters a maps of the facilities in the state…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/sherrod-brown-ohio-senate

 

History Minute (049): From John Brown to Abraham Lincoln

Quoting Zinn:

"John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia with the approval of the national government. It was the national government which, while weakly enforcing the law ending the slave trade, sternly enforced the laws providing for the return of fugitives to slavery. It was the national government that, in Andrew Jackson's administration, collaborated with the South to keep abolitionist literature out of the mails in the southern states. It was the Supreme Court of the United States that declared in 1857 that the slave Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because he was not a person, but property.

Such a national government would never accept an end to slavery by rebellion. It would end slavery only under conditions controlled by whites, and only when required by the political and economic needs of the business elite of the North. It was Abraham Lincoln who combined perfectly the needs of business, the political ambition of the new Republican party, and the rhetoric of humanitarianism. He would keep the abolition of slavery not at the top of his list of priorities, but close enough to the top so it could be pushed there temporarily by abolitionist pressures and by practical political advantage."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

 

History Minute (048): John Brown

As reported by Zinn:

John Brown was a white abolitionist, 60 years old when he plotted a rebellion against slavery. Others in the movement, including Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass tried to dissuade him, saying his plan could not work. And they were right: local militia and marines, led by Robert E. Lee, overpowered Brown and his fighters. Even when only Brown remained alive, he refused to surrender and was wounded and taken prisoner, and eventually was hanged. In his last written statement in prison, he said: 

"I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, not an activist himself, said of the execution of John Brown: "He will make the gallows holy as the cross."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

 

 

Floyd Brown Admits Christian Nationalist Only Like The Constitution When Democrats are in charge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkH4yRsBz7w

Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity

US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-hegseth-joint-chiefs-cq-brown-jr

Seizing pay of failed bank CEOs gathers bipartisan Senate support - The Washington Post

The notion of seizing windfalls from stock sales gained traction after it emerged that Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker sold $3.6 million in his company's stock just before its failure. Investigators for the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission probing the bank's collapse are examining those sales, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

The bill from Brown and Scott would authorize the FDIC to recoup proceeds from such stock sales as well as bonuses that executives receive in the 24 months leading up to a failure. Executives who "recklessly" violate the law or engage in "unsafe and unsound practices" could also face penalties up to $3 million…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/20/senate-clawback-banker-pay/

Bipartisan Senate bill would seize pay of failed banks’ executives - The Washington Post

"Americans have watched executives take their money, run banks into the ground, and get away with it too many times before," Brown said in a statement. "It's time for CEOs to face consequences for their actions, just like everyone else."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/15/banker-pay-clawbacks/

Toxic train derailment due to greed and weakened rules, Sherrod Brown says - POLITICO

"You think about just the whole idea of you had to flee your home because of something — because a railroad failed to do its job, as the executives and their lobbyists get richer and richer and richer," Brown said. "And there's something very wrong with that."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/19/sherrod-brown-train-derailment-ohio-00083588

Former Judge Janice Rogers Brown Was Not Nominated to the Supreme Court - FactCheck.org

Republicans did not nominate former Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Facebook post falsely claims that Brown — not Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — was the first Black woman to be nominated to the nation's highest court.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/former-judge-janice-rogers-brown-was-not-nominated-to-the-supreme-court/

Jeremy Brown, former Special Forces soldier and congressional candidate, arrested in Capitol riot case - The Washington Post

"Plenty of Gun Ports left to fill," he wrote…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/02/jeremy-brown-capitol-riot-arrest/

Joe Brown - Here Comes The Sun (Live)

https://youtu.be/cTwWpkLEHCA

Ted Cruz slams fellow senator as a 'complete ass' over wearing mask | TheHill

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called a Democratic senator a “complete ass” for asking that fellow lawmakers wear masks while in the chamber. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) had asked Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) to wear a mask while presiding over the Senate on Monday. While Cruz argued that Sullivan was about 50 feet from Brown, and therefore didn’t need to wear a mask, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health authorities recommend that people use face coverings when in public indoor spaces and workspaces regardless of distance.....

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/526302-ted-cruz-slams-fellow-senator-as-a-complete-ass-over-wearing-mask

The Sly Psychology Behind Magicians' Card Tricks | WIRED

Card trick priming technique used by illusionist Derren Brown inspires psychologists. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/magic-or-science-subtle-verbal-and-visual-cues-can-influence-card-choices/

Illusionist Derren Brown Reads Seth’s Mind

Illusionist Derren Brown shows Seth a mind-blowing trick with two cards and series of photographs.
https://youtu.be/VEPNpy_5T24

Derren Brown Blows James Corden's Mind Again

Psychological illusionist Derren Brown shocks James and the Studio 56 audience with only a pair of dice, a series of numbers, and 45 grains of rice.
https://youtu.be/zAJHUv2JS7w

'It could have been me': five years after Michael Brown, young black men in Ferguson speak

On 9 August 2014 police in Missouri killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. We asked his peers from the same neighborhood to recall that day – and discuss how they’ve moved on ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/09/michael-brown-ferguson-death-black-men

Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Sherrod Brown, Dayton mayor of misrepresenting his hospital visit - CNN Politics

President Donald Trump, his press secretary and his director of social media accused Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, both of whom are Democrats, of misrepresenting the reception Trump received from shooting victims during his visit to a Dayton hospital....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/fact-check-trump-brown-hospital-visit-dayton/index.html

Trump didn't know the GOP tax bill incentivizes business to offshore jobs - ThinkProgress.org

President Donald Trump was apparently unaware that a provision in his biggest legislative accomplishment encourages corporations to offshore jobs. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-didnt-know-gop-tax-bill-incentivizes-business-to-offshore-jobs-367fe5bea9dd/

Here’s where Democrats are really picking up Trump voters - The Washington Post: Opinion |

If Sherrod Brown and Richard Cordray prevail, it will be in significant part because of their pro-worker evangelism. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-where-democrats-are-really-picking-up-trump-voters/2018/10/10/f4970228-ccbf-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html