7. CNN’s Don Lemon off the air for a dumb comment

• Candidate for president Nikki Haley got a boost in attention when CNN’s Don Lemon decided to declare that the decidedly not past her prime candidate was past her prime. All Lemon got out of this was loads of embarrassment, angry co-workers, a phone call from his boss, and claims that he has been fired. 
• CNN continues to claim that the claims that Lemon’s benching is untrue, he was just on a scheduled vacation. Now he is being hounded by journalists and isn’t ready to come back to work.

6. Jimmy Carter receiving in-home hospice care

• Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, is nearing the end of his long life and The Carter Center has stated that President Carter has entered hospice in his home. The statement read that Carter would spend his “remaining time” at home instead of receiving “additional medical intervention.”
• Carter’s presidency is regularly the measuring stick for failure, but well-wishes have come flowing in from across the country as news of his health issues was made public.

5. Lame attack on Ron DeSantis ramp up

• Former President Donald Trump and other potential Republican candidates for president clearly see Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the GOP frontrunner based on their recent attacks. Trump, North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu are getting in on the attack. 
• Trump’s attacks are both the most important and the saddest of the bunch. Trump recently attacked the guy he voted for twice as, “Meatball Ron,” as someone who “closed up Florida,” a “RINO,” a globalist, “Ron DeSanctimonious,” and he also parroted media attacks on Republicans that DeSantis wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. Trump seems worried, even though he is the clear frontrunner.

4. U.S. urged to send more weapons to Ukraine, warns China not to

• As the war in Ukraine continues, and after the U.S. sends tanks to the country, U.S. lawmakers and the Pentagon are now ramping up calls for F-16 fighter jets to be sent to Ukraine as well. This will be seen as another escalation of our involvement.
• While the U.S. is being pushed to provide more materiel and pension(?) assistance to Ukraine, the U.S. is also warning China they need to stay out and not provide “lethal support” to Russia.

3. Tuberville puts a hold on defense nominees over abortion

• U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville is working to stop the Biden administration from breaking federal law and precedent by paying for travel to other states to get an abortion by holding up Biden’s Defense Department nominees.
• Tuberville notes that Biden’s new policy goals violate “both the letter and spirit of the law” and “believes policy change is outside the department’s authority, highly controversial, and will have a major impact on readiness and the department’s budget.”

2. Auburn’s student newspaper runs weak defense for BSU

• While preparing for a career in the mainstream media, students with Auburn’s student newspaper The Auburn Plainsman bent over backward and embarrassed themselves to defend racism because they literally expect so little of black students that they suggest they didn’t know any better. The Plainsman claims they have, “A spirit that is not afraid” but they are clearly afraid of the backlash from actually covering this story.
• An editorial says the “document of ‘anti-white racial slurs’ is in no way, shape or form the same as the historic systematic and structural racism that has produced the type of racial slurs Black people have had to endure for centuries,” which is obviously true. The official position of the newspaper is that racism is fine if the right people do it. Truly a cowardly position in 2023, but it is the safe position to take because truly being brave would make them uncomfortable.

1. AG Marshall comments on dead inmate draw fire

• Attorney General Steve Marshall’s reaction to a video of an inmate who died in custody has angered many. The Walker County inmate was seen on video being moved to a police car to be transported to a medical facility where he was pronounced dead. 
• Marshall was on CBS42 in Birmingham and said the inmate appeared to be “posturing” as he watched the video. The inmate’s family has filed a lawsuit claiming Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, who was arrested for shooting at Walker County deputies, was tased in his cell, locked in a freezer, and died of hypothermia. Marshall has said his office is not involved in the case and had not seen the video before. The Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the FBI are investigating.