7. Walmart is now pulling self-checkout in stores all over the country, they seem to be giving a ton of excuses as to why this is happening: “We believe the change will improve the in-store shopping experience and give our associates the chance to provide more personalized and efficient service.” If you want the truth about why this is actually happening, look no further then Huntsville City Councilman Devyn Keith who was caught stealing from a Walmart in his district using self-checkout, so watch where these self-checkouts are removed.
6. An incredibly stupid bill that allows slot machines with extra steps in the form of “historical horse racing” or a game where morons put money down and then watch a video of a horse race that has already taken place has passed the Senate Tourism Committee even though this bill will not bring one person to the state. Even the betting industry acknowledges this is a slot machine, saying, “give players a slots-like experience in states where full-fledged slots aren’t legal.”
5. The Republican supermajority in the Alabama State Senate has chosen to help President Joe Biden gain access to the Alabama ballot after the Democrat National Committee was about to miss the deadline for access. The argument has been made that getting Biden on the ballot will help Republicans make the newly drawn racially-gerrymandered Second Congressional District which was drawn for a black Democrat and a competitive race.
4. The Alabama State House has a passed a bill that will guarantee the right to a secret ballot for unionization. This is happening right before a huge potential United Auto Workers win at the Mercedes auto plant could reset Alabama’s economic development appeal to automakers.
3. Not one of the 238 people arrested at Columbia during anti-Semitic protests will be prosecuted or receive a criminal record, the arrests included resisting arrest and assaults on police officers. Law enforcement officials are not happy, according to sources who spoke the the New York Post, “They’ll keep getting arrested and go back out and keep doing the same thing because this is all a performative game for them,” and “It’s a game because the system doesn’t hold them accountable for their nightly temper tantrums.”
2. The Alabama State House moved legislation to expand the ban on the discussion of LGBTQ topics in schools to the 8th grade after years of educators and their enablers pushing this matter on children across the country. This, school choice, and other education reforms are what happens when you push parents too far but educators, and other bureaucrats, seem insistent on pushing this matter.
1. Former President Donald Trump didn’t have the best day in court. Judge Juan Merchan appears to be laser-focused on potential violations of his gag order where Trump can’t talk about the case and the people involved while everyone else can. When it comes to the case in front of the jury, the National Enquirer‘s David Pecker laid out the “catch-and-kill” deals to being made to bury negative stories about Trump during the 2016, which is unseemly but not illegal, and highlighted Michael Cohen (Trump’s “fixer”) and his role in plan, which is still not illegal as former U.S. Attorney Jay Town notes, “So far there’s been no evidence of a crime.”
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