7. Trump is working to get back on Twitter
- President Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter since January, but he’s suing to return to the site and has asked a federal judge to order that his account be re-activated.
- Trump’s lawyers have said that the social media platform “exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate.”
6. Biden administration moving forward with attempting to monitor transactions
- Recently, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) pushed back against an effort from President Joe Biden and his administration to use the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) to monitor bank transactions of $600 and more, but despite this, the Biden administration is moving forward with their plans.
- The plan remains part of Biden’s infrastructure plan that is still being negotiated. Others like BNA Bank CEO Bo Collins have also raised issues with the plan, saying this “could cause unnecessary burden and expense on the banking industry, not to mention the invasion of privacy on citizens, depending on whether they are proposing individual transactions or total sums of transactions to be reported.” The current limit that has to be reported is $10,000.
5. Women marching for rights they don’t want others to have
- Despite almost two years of ranting from the media about large gatherings they disapproved of, another women’s march has come and gone with glowing media coverage. This is all despite the fact that large numbers of people gathered and screamed about the perceived injustice of legislators implementing the agenda that they disagree with.
- Signs and tweets about how “men need to shut up, sit down, and listen” and “hands off my uterus” were seen. Ironically, the cliche “my body, my choice” signs were prevalent while many of these same people and their media enablers are demanding their fellow citizens take the vaccine against their will.
4. The Grinch, starring Anthony Fauci
- With coronavirus cases declining as the country heads into the holiday season, Dr. Anthony Fauci is withholding saying if gathering for Christmas this year will be safe.
- Fauci recently said, “We certainly are turning the corner on this particular surge,” but when asked about holiday gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas that are right around the corner, Fauci said it’s “just too soon to tell.” Last year, there was a surge of coronavirus cases during the winter months before the vaccine was widely available.
3. Coronavirus cases at their lowest point since July
- The coronavirus surge appears to be over in Alabama, and the numbers are dropping nationally, too. There were only 892 coronavirus cases in Alabama on Sunday, which is the lowest daily case count in the state since July 19, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
- The current seven-day average is the lowest it’s been since July 26, at 1,663 cases per day on average. Cases have been steadily declining since the beginning of September.
2. More time needed on infrastructure plan
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has said that “more time is needed” to develop and pass the $1 trillion infrastructure package that President Joe Biden has pushed. Pelosi had previously said that the bill would be passed last week. U.S. Representative Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) has recently highlighted how the spending negotiations in Washington, D.C. have been impacted by just a few House and Senate seats as U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have refused to side with fellow Democrats.
- It’s unclear when the infrastructure bill will be revisited. Pelosi said in a letter to colleagues, “While great progress has been made in the negotiations to develop a House, Senate and White House agreement on the Build Back Better Act, more time is needed to complete the task.” She added, “Clearly, the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill will pass once we have agreement on the reconciliation bill.”
1. Prison plan signed
- Governor Kay Ivey has signed the plan that will build two new prison facilities in Alabama after the plan passed the Alabama Legislature in a special session last week. Both prisons come with 4,000 beds.
- There are also plans to improve current prisons and some sentencing reform included in the legislative package. The funding will be $400 million from the American Rescue Plan and $785 million in bond issuance. Ivey said she was “extremely pleased” to sign the package. She added that “this is a pivotal moment for the trajectory of our state’s criminal justice system.”
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