7 Things: Socialism vote blowback, Jones mocks the Guard, “Canada first,” and more…

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September 1, 2026

7. Offshore sportsbooks set prop lines on 12-year-old Phenix City Little League World Series star Kinley Rasmus despite Alabama’s gambling ban, prompting Little League to say “No one should be exploiting the success and failures of children playing the game they love for their own personal gain,” while BetOnline brand manager Dave Mason answered “if the discomfort is really about profiting off 12-year-olds, that conversation shouldn’t start and end with us,” and State Rep. Chris Blackshear (R-Phenix City) warned unregulated gaming is “growing every day.”

6. Eighteen-year-old Opelika High School student Jacob Scott Howell was charged with first-degree making a terrorist threat after police said he planned a violent attack on the school, was taken into custody Monday, and is now banned from all Opelika City Schools property, with police urging residents, “if you see or hear anything suspicious, report it immediately to law enforcement.”

5. U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) said Huntsville has been discussed as a possible home for President Donald Trump’s newly ordered U.S. Space Academy saying that the amount of space activity in the area makes it a good fit.

4. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall believes data centers can be an economic opportunity if done responsibly, “Alabama consumers want to make sure that energy prices don’t go up” and “nothing that will go on the development of data centers will impact the bottom line,” while arguing against a moratorium sought by Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, and loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and by U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham), because “Alabama is open for business.”

3. In what is a pretty odd choice, Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, and loves crushing ice cream sandwiches appears to have sided with Canada over the latest tariffs leading “Team Trump” to ask, “Why is the Democrat candidate for governor in Alabama siding with Canada instead of Alabama lumber companies?” calling him “CANADA FIRST” and Rex Lumber owner Caroline Dauzat called Jones’s claim “completely inaccurate.”

2. Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, and loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, mocked the D.C. National Guard deployment by saying soldiers “did a fabulous job of planting flowers” and “had no effect on the drop in crime,” while dismissing Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Auburn) Montgomery crackdown pledge as political.

1. Democrat Socialists and the far-Left continue to cause issues for Democrats as U.S. House Republicans advance a resolution condemning socialism which Democrats called it “silly season” and “nonsense,” while Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed an old 9/11 tweet saying he would mourn “~1M lives” he blamed on “my country” the day after the attack and Michigan’s AG Dana Nessel begged Jewish Democrats to vote for Democrats despite it putting their personal safety at risk.

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