California Congressman Brad Sherman is in damage control mode after being called out for appearing to view pornography on a flight.
X page “Dear White Staffers” posted photos of the aging lawmaker seemingly scrolling through adult imagery while taking a plane ride. The context of the photos is not immediately clear, but several different images could be identified in the photos posted by the account.
Look:
Why did California Congressman Brad Sherman feel it was appropriate to look at porn on his iPad during a flight today? His district deserves better representation than this!! #CA32 pic.twitter.com/gAYZ82tyr2
— Dear White Staffers (@dearwhitestaff) November 14, 2025
“Why did California Congressman Brad Sherman feel it was appropriate to look at porn on his iPad during a flight today? His district deserves better representation than this!!” the outraged account posted.
It didn’t take long for a journalist to ask Sherman about the bizarre incident. Punchbowl co-founder Josh Bresnahan conducted a “13-minute interview” with the lawmaker in which he denied intentionally viewing inappropriate content.
2/ Sherman denied repeatedly that he was looking or pornography or has a problem with pornography.
Sherman said these photos came up in “Twitter feed” under the “For You” heading
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) November 15, 2025
“Sherman denied repeatedly that he was looking or pornography or has a problem with pornography. Sherman said these photos came up in ‘Twitter feed’ under the ‘For You’ heading,” Bresnahan wrote.
3/ Sherman: “This was on Twitter. These pictures came up on ‘For You.’”
“I must’ve looked at more than 1000 posts” during his flight, Sherman said.
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) November 15, 2025
“I must’ve looked at more than 1,000 posts,” Sherman reportedly told the journalist.
4/ I asked Sherman if it was appropriate for a congressman to be looking at this openly on a plane.
“Is it pornography? I don’t think Elon Musk thinks so.
“Is it appropriate? No.”
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) November 15, 2025
“I asked Sherman if it was appropriate for a congressman to be looking at this openly on a plane. ‘Is it pornography? I don’t think Elon Musk thinks so. Is it appropriate? No,'” Bresnahan says, quoting Sherman.
5/ Q. “Do you have a problem with pornography?”
Sherman: “No, I don’t have a problem.”
Sherman said “It’s all about the algorithms,” and asserted these pictures came up in his feed “because of the algorithms.”
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) November 15, 2025
The lawmaker also denied having a “problem with pornography” and claimed that “the algorithms” were the reason the images appeared on his feed.
6/ Sherman: “If I see a picture of a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah.”
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) November 15, 2025
“If I see a picture of a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah,” Sherman admitted candidly. “If you have to fly across the country, you look at a lot of stuff on your tablet.”
7/ Sherman: “If you have to fly across the country, you look at a lot of stuff on your tablet.”
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— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) November 15, 2025
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