7. While journalists whine about a convicted murderer in Alabama, the state of Florida is attempting to convict a child predator and sentence him to death. Maybe there is some hope for humanity and Alabama will follow suit.

6. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) dismissed his colleague, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and his obsession with Florida State’s College Football Playoff snub. Tuberville telling the “State of the Union” website that “[t]here’s nobody more experienced to talk about this than me, I got left out in 2004, and we were undefeated.”

5. Artificial Intelligence is starting to be a problem in schools with kids being kicked out of colleges for using ChatGPT to write college papers. Now, middle-schoolers in Demopolis, Alabama are using the technology to make porn involving their classmates.

4. A violent weekend in Birmingham, broken up only by Mayor Randall Woodfin’s pathetic Facebook posts and news about building tiny homes for the homeless to destroy, included a man being shot after he allegedly was threatening to kill patrons at Waffle House before being shot and killed, police are still looking for that shooter, who may be a hero or a villain.

3. There was much fretting that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) was engaging in insider trading in Congress, but he is now reportedly losing $2.86 million on a Tesla stock bet. If he is doing coordinated insider trading, he is doing it very poorly.

2. There are rumblings in the corridors of power on Goat Hill about massive gambling legislation being passed by the Alabama Legislature in the upcoming legislative session and that includes expansions of Medicaid and school choice. But State Sen Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) doesn’t think that is happening. Orr does think a crackdown on illegal gambling may be coming, “One of the things that could happen is ramping up the penalties for illegal gaming in the state. That might be a possibility that could pass, and we’ll just have to see.”

1. It is 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 all over again because former President Donald Trump is allegedly planning to be a dictator, saying mean things about immigrants, planning to leave NATO, and people who aren’t going to vote for him are afraid to say so. Meanwhile, he is still crushing everyone in the primary and in the general.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 am weekdays on WVNN, on Talk 99.5 from 10-11 am, and on Talk Radio 103.9 FM/730AM WUMP from noon to 1 pm.