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Kyle Whitmire@warondumb.bsky.social |
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2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com p'>(@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.
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Kyle Whitmire
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I think the better question is what does “opinion” actually mean? Too often the word is a weapon of multidirectional false equivalence negating *arguments* we don’t like. A good argument must have a basis in fact and withstand scrutiny, no different than *news.*
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That a lawsuit such as this could get this far is absurd. Mississippi Today’s CEO spoke carelessly about a public figure and later apologized. Now their Pulitzer-winning reporter is being compelled to reveal her sources or go to jail. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
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Our country is too important to trust it with people who measure their worth by how close they sit to the Oval Office. www.al.com/news/2024/06...
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Years ago, I interviewed Kinky Friedman, who wouldn't let me get to my questions without his first telling a story about Alabama's Jim Nabors, Muhammad Ali and how long a simple kindness lives in the universe. Here's that clip. RIP, cowboy. soundcloud.com/kyle-whitmir...
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If John Walh was the chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, do you think the AG would be cool with him voting with a fake ID? t.co/HDp3MH2uD0
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Eight years ago this month.
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I tried to warn y’all. www.al.com/opinion/2016...
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The Silver Gavel is an honor — and inevitably a weapon one of my children will attempt using on the other. www.al.com/news/2024/05...
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Katie Britt wants to defund Medicaid for states that ban IVF. 🤦♂️ Medicaid pays for almost half of births in Alabama. www.al.com/news/2024/05...
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Such a stupid move on OpenAI’s part. If they’ll rip off Scarlett Johansson, do we really think they won’t rip off other creators? They already have and they dont care until caught. www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1...
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Alabama AG Steve Marshall seems more concerned with the job he wants than the job Alabamians elected him to do. www.al.com/news/2024/05...
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Efforts to "reform" Alabama ethics laws have undermined the Alabama Ethics Commission when the state should be giving it more authority — over public records scofflaws and illegal government secrecy. www.al.com/news/2024/05...
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The newsletter in which I explain why Alabama still doesn't have a lottery. (Hint: It's not Baptists.) link.al.com/public/35226...
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She was the only Black professor. She used public records and a spreadsheet to reveal her college was dying. She spoke up. She got fired. www.al.com/news/2024/04...
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Ethics commissioner's goof leaves Alabama ethics law vulnerable to lawmaker's attack.
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David Carr warned a day would come when we'd explain newspapers to our kids and they wouldn't believe us. For me, that day was Monday. www.al.com/news/2024/04...
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Alabama lost something important today. To the Birmingham-Southern College Class of 2024, remember.
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Why was this Alabama library director fired? I got an answer from the library board director. And then another, and another ... You just have to read it. www.al.com/news/2024/03...
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Which town?
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I think he's evaluating his options.
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Why was this Alabama library director fired? I got an answer from the library board director. And then another, and another ... You just have to read it. www.al.com/news/2024/03...
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"Ethics" reform: Alabama lawmakers want to legalize gifts to Alabama lawmakers. My column: www.al.com/news/2024/03...
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Alabamafication = rebranding failure as success. This week, it's Katie Britt's turn. link.al.com/public/34670...
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Alabama and SNL go way back. I ranked my favorites. Tell me where I'm wrong. www.al.com/life/2024/03...
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This was old Alabama politics. The politics of fear and confusion. Britt blamed Biden for an assault that appears to have happened 20 years ago. Her spokesman won't give a clear answer when asked. www.al.com/news/2024/03...
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Katie Britt gave up on being her genuine self a while back. Last night it showed — this time in front of millions of Americans. www.al.com/news/2024/03...
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In its ruling that frozen embryos are people, the Alabama Supreme Court ducked all questions of what its decision might do. www.al.com/news/2024/02...
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A draft bill circulated among Alabama lawmakers would make ethics crimes … [checks notes] … not crimes anymore. www.al.com/news/2024/02...
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Filed under "Things that Should Be Urban Legends but are True." When Alabama prisoners die, families don't always get their organs back with their bodies. www.al.com/news/2024/02...
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Putting the ‘F’ in FOIA. Four years later, DEA refuses to say how much Alabama officials’ Mexican jungle junket cost taxpayers. www.al.com/news/2024/02...
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This young woman used her Make-a-Wish to gift her school band uniforms. Meanwhile, Alabama gave back education $$$ with a tax rebate and it's spending more than $1 billion on a prison. www.al.com/news/2024/01...
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Weeks before New Hampshire, truth lost the GOP primary with Christie's exit. Candidates and elected leaders have fallen ill to Katie Britt Syndrome. Haley is only the latest. link.al.com/public/34108220
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In today’s Alabamafication …
❄️ Snow days.
🐕 Bluey. So. Much. Bluey.
⛪️ Tim Alberta’s latest.
👩⚖️Pardons & Paroles.
Check it out and subscribe. link.al.com/public/34029...
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Library politics has escalated a level in Alabama.
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Show me you care about the good as much as the bad, and all that talk about "we need more good news" ain't just talk.
A fine story John Archibald about a fine Alabamian. www.al.com/news/2024/01...
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Donald Trump has shown how far you can get being a d-bag. Legions will follow his lead. Ramaswamy is only the first of many more to come.
My column: America has a Ramaswamy problem.
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“It was pretty much a draw,” Tuberville said. He thinks because there's no scoreboard, we can't tell who lost. That's all he does anymore.
My column: It's halftime for Coach.
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The economy is strong, but housing costs have left young Americans stuck in limbo and up for grabs in 2024. www.al.com/news/2023/11...
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The economy is hot. Unemployment is low. Inflation is down. Wages are now gaining ground. But when I ask younger folks why they think the economy is bad, they immediately come back to one thing — the cost of housing is out of control. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This didn’t have to happen.
After 1819 News published pictures of Smith Station Mayor Bubba Copeland wearing women’s clothes and makeup, the official took his own life.
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Geez. It almost feels like the Senate read my column. Tommy Tuberville asked for this. Now he's getting it. Good for the Republican Senators joining with Democrats to finally give him what he's wanted. Make him eat it. www.al.com/news/2023/10...
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WSJ just ranked BSC the ninth best liberal arts college in the South, despite all it has been through. And we’re just going let it die? apple.news/AmHReyt3CR7a...
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In Alabama, Republicans and Democrats, alike, seem fine sending a sad message: I’ll represent you in Congress, but don’t ask me to live here.
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In Alabama, Republicans and Democrats, alike, seem fine sending a sad message: I’ll represent you in Congress, but don’t ask me to live here.
www.al.com/news/2023/11...
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Happy Halloween!
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Most Alabama counties don't have a place to deliver a baby in a hospital and it's getting worse.
Why?
Babies don't make money.
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Whoa. Alabama state Rep. John Rogers has been jailed for attempting to contact a prosecution witness the obstruction case against him. www.al.com/news/2023/10...
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Who does he think he is? Donald Trump?
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How do you beat Tommy Tuberville? Give him what he wants.
My column below. www.al.com/news/2023/10...
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Unless there’s a white knight in the shadows, this is likely the end for Birmingham-Southern College. I’ll have something to say later, but for now just grief. www.al.com/news/2023/10...
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