7 Things: Trump shuts down Iran talks, Tuberville nixes data center deals, DeSantis bans road cams, and more…

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September 2, 2026

7. SEC schools are weighing boycotts, probation, expulsion, and/or a federal lawsuit over LSU’s plan to add former NFL players after court orders blocked the conference ban, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney calling the situation “embarrassing that’s where we are.”

6. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) is highlighting a desire in the proposed Protect College Sports Act to “protect Friday night lights,” arguing media-rights pooling must not crowd high school football off Fridays so “people can rally around the next generation.”

5. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said trade talks can resume “when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious,” calling U.S. insults of Canada’s military “beneath their office,” while the White House said Canada rejected “the most generous trade deal of any of America’s trading partners.”

4. Chevron said it will more than double Venezuelan oil output to 600,000 barrels a day and invest more than $7 billion over five years, with CEO Mike Wirth citing “confidence in the country’s deep resource potential.”

3. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered automated license-plate readers stripped from state highways, saying a drive to Buc-ee’s is “none of the government’s damn business” and warning against a “digital AI surveillance state,” while municipalities are banning them daily around the country too.

2. Apparently, to the surprise of the mainstream media, Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) has reiterated his already known and stated position, saying, “When I am governor, data centers will pay for everything” and “keep your hands out of our pockets,” rejecting new tax incentives as companies elsewhere offer cash, lazy rivers, and teacher bonuses, 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 still wants a ban.

1. A desperate Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says thatTehran will “immediately reciprocate” if the United States returns to June’s memorandum of understanding, but President Donald Trump said “We don’t want to speak to them,” and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to “economically asphyxiate this regime,” and U.S. forces struck new Iranian targets after a month of quiet and Iran fired missiles and drones in reply.

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