7. MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers got exactly what they deserved after inviting an anti-Catholic hate group to the stadium to receive an award, thousands of protesters, and a muted ceremony before the game for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The media’s cleanup job for this mess was pretty pathetic.

6. Alabama politicians continue to point out that they are not happy about state government getting involved in social issues. State Sen. Sam Givhan (R-Huntsville) expressed that the latest move to focus on LGBTQ-issues by the Alabama Department of Archives and History could backfire on them, “I expect you’re going to see a heightened interest in the Archives next session.”

5. Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 6 points nationally in a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, but another poll from PBS shows Biden beating Trump by 4 and  Americans in that same poll want Trump to end his campaign. A large majority of Democrats want him out of the race, a similar number of Republicans want him to stay in the race but 6-in-10 independents want him to drop out.

4. Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest to jump into the fray on the side of North Alabama for the Space Command. Pence was in Alabama to speak at Gridiron Men’s Conference and said, “there’s only one place it should be, and that’s right here in the hub of the American space program, Huntsville, Alabama.”

3. NAACP will hold a voting rights summit marking what they consider to be the “devastation” of the Voting Rights Act, even though the Supreme Court recently cited the Voting Rights Act to order a redo of Alabama’s congressional district.

2. The Democratic National Committee’s Executive Committee is not too happy with the Alabama Democratic Party and their decision to remove caucuses related to LGBTQ, disabled, youth, Native Americans, and others. The chaos has Randy Kelley, the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, suggesting that former Democrat U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) had led a “racist plot” to “weaken the Black vote.”

1. It is Juneteenth, a federal holiday that has been recognized since 2021, after riots surrounding George Floyd, to celebrate the last slaves to be told that they were free. In Alabama, the holiday is not formally a state holiday … yet … but there were bills introduced to declare the federal holiday a state holiday, too, but they did not pass.

Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.