7. This week’s slate of college football games delivered chaos, marking the first time in the history of the AP Poll that five of the top seven ranked teams lost on the same day, with No. 1 Georgia falling 27-24 to unranked Auburn on a walk-off field goal to end a 53-game streak against unranked foes, No. 2 Notre Dame losing 28-24 to No. 8 BYU, No. 4 Ohio State edging No. 5 Indiana 19-15, No. 6 Alabama dropping 26-10 to No. 14 Tennessee, No. 7 Texas falling 27-24 to Florida, and No. 3 Miami surviving Florida State 43-35 in double overtime.
6. Democrat candidate Jason M. Jones for Madison County District Court Place 4 admitted he is “decidedly not tough on crime” and instead intends to be “fair on crime,” promising to be “impartial” so that “fairness leads the day,” while receiving an endorsement from the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund and facing Republican John Allen, who has focused on higher bail for serious crimes to avoid a “revolving door.”
5. Democrat candidate for State Senate District 2 Rudolph Drake has kind of responded to questions about a civil order on stalking and threatening an ex-girlfriend by attacking anyone asking him about it, luckily, the mainstream media has ignored this danger by pretending they don’t know this story is happening (stay safe out there, guys).
4. Violent protests over the “high cost of living” have erupted across France with more than 1,200 arrests, buildings torched, including a historic town hall, and clashes with police, prompting President Donald Trump to declare “France is burning” and blame “the immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts,” while urging the country to “Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late,” and Vice President JD Vance similarly blamed Western liberals for importing the third world without regard for assimilation, but France’s President Emmanuel Macron blamed America and Trump for his nation’s issues.
3. The latest round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump drew smaller, more muted crowds than previous events, with reports of only a few hundred in some Chicago-area rallies versus thousands earlier, roughly 2,700 in Reno versus 18,000-21,000 previously, and vague “thousands” in New York City far short of prior 100,000-plus turnouts, while participants openly defied organizers’ nonpartisan rules by urging “Vote blue” and declaring the events “as partisan as you can get.”
2. Alabama Republicans unveiled a plan to fully and permanently eliminate the remaining 2% state grocery tax as the first order of business in the 2027 legislative session after prior cuts that halved it, with Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) citing more than $1.5 billion in total tax relief and noting it would save a family spending $1,000 monthly on groceries about $240 a year, while Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, called the move an “election year conversion” and clashed with Ledbetter over timing and Republican governance with Ledbetter getting the better of Jones.
1. Alabama Republican leaders warned of complacency after primary turnout fell 25.3% to 493,376 ballots while Democratic primary participation nearly doubled to 364,635, with ALGOP Chairman Scott Stadthagen saying Democrats “are more fired up than they have ever been” and House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) stressed that low turnout could endanger legislative seats, while Democratic Chairman Bobby Singleton claimed the party has “awakened a sleeping giant” amid economic concerns and renewed energy.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
