It's a glorious day in Alabama. The sky is bluer, bird songs sweeter, dolphins gasping in the Gulf of America with just a little more pluck.
The state is brimming with the kind of optimism that comes only from knowing the Alabama Legislature is no longer in session.
Check out what they did to us.
The book Tom talks about here, AJ Bauer’s “The Making of the Liberal Media,” is a fascinating look at the decades-long effort — going back to the ‘40s — to paint traditional media as liberal. Not partisan, just a look at the strategy. Really eye opening stuff.
Amen and amen and amen.
Thank god for Mithithippi.
This column seems like it's about history, but it's not. It's about now, and how the road of moral certainty leads to the palace of "Oh crap look what we've done."
Thanks man. Likewise, of course
People tell me that former Democrat Steve Marshall has no soul, that he’s a ghoulish weathercock so desperate to prove his tough-on-crime bona fides that he’d fry his grandmama if it’d help him get a few votes.
I can’t confirm that. I have no way of knowing if Steve Marshall has a soul or not.
The cynic in me says, 'In Alabama it takes a lame duck to do the right thing.'
But perhaps today a simple thank you will do.
www.al.com/news/2026/03...
Who's a good boy?
The Legislature, with about a month left to go in the session, has superbly done its job. It has rolled over to its big business masters, fetched political sticks and buried the bones. It has fed on so much red meat it will inevitably soil itself.
This is really good stuff by @crowejam.bsky.social, documenting the deportation of Fonzie Andrade in graphic novel form. You won't see this just anywhere.
Alabama has never cared about protecting its air or water. Or its people, for that matter.
It’s why the state has a sniveling, equivocating, kowtowing, toothless Alabama Department of Environmental Management instead of an environmental protection agency.
did I just explain that on the wrong thread? Lord
Click document stats and run it and this will come up. All of the fields are helpful but I pay particular attention to the Flesch-Kincaid grade level.
Keep it under 6.
Go to Review>Spelling and grammar
And this will come up:
Fonzie thought he was an Alabamian. He lived for football and his fiancee and a little too much fun. I followed him to Mexico when he was deported to a place he did not know or understand. This is his story. As it is with any deportation, it is not his story alone.
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
He doesn't. Which is why I gave him his "due" respect.
As the threat of AI looms over us all, @johnarchibald.bsky.social's multi-part story for
@al.com highlights just how quickly (and quietly) the technology is creeping into the criminal legal system, almost always in ways that will make the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones worse:
Thanks so much!
You know Tommy Tuberville is bad. If you want see just how far we have fallen, take a look at the words of this former Alabama GOP governor. Not so long ago.
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
Just because
Fascinating book. Come talk about it.
Amen to that. :)
It's kind of life changing, isn't it.
