7. Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban says the impending expansion of the College Football Playoff to 24 teams is “too many” and that he doesn’t think there are 24 teams in the country that can win a National Championship, lamenting the loss of the SEC Championship Game’s tradition and pride in favor of extra games that dilute the field and overburden players.
6. Jefferson County Constable Robert de Buys, an elected peace officer who took office in January 2025 after winning unopposed with 97.6 percent of the vote, posted a photo on Election Night of Alabama’s America 250 “I Voted” stickers arranged to spell “8647,” the numbers the Department of Justice charged former FBI Director James Comey with using as a threat against President Donald Trump, writing “Voting like ****ler is on the ballot” and tagging the Justice Department and FBI.
5. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) secured a 16th term with 160,008 votes to Democrat Amanda Pusczek’s 53,633, a 74.8 percent to 25.1 percent margin that stands as the largest Republican share of any contested U.S. House race, outpacing Governor-elect Nationlal Championship-winning Tommy Tuberville in every county of the R+33 4th District, the most Republican in the nation.
4. A media-driven freakout has highlight the Democrat anger over incoming White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who replaces Susie Wiles after serving as deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, has long defended the administration’s mass deportation efforts, declared “America’s doors are closed, fully, to asylum seekers,” called the Supreme Court’s upholding of birthright citizenship “one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions” in history, and urged Israel to “show Hamas, and all watching, the rage it feels on behalf of its tortured and murdered families,” while tying anti-Israel sentiment among America’s youth to large-scale immigration.
3. President Donald Trump said that his administration’s hardline immigration enforcement “was too tough,” conceding that while he earned high marks for removing “the bad ones,” the broader deportations of people who “had good jobs” and whose sole violation was illegal entry “hurt” Republicans after Democrats seized both chambers of Congress and flipped the Hispanic vote, even as the White House and ICE insisted the crackdown would not slow, but states like Texas are signalling they will no longer be allies with ICE under Democrat leadership.
2. President Donald Trump said it is “highly unlikely” he will order more strikes on Iran so long as Tehran signs “a very strong agreement,” adding that “I would if necessary, but we hit them really hard,” even as Secretary of State Marco Rubio played down any near-term breakthrough and dismissed the Islamic Republic’s demands as “unacceptable and in some cases outrageous and ridiculous,” with the remarks coming shortly before limited U.S. attacks on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.
1. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) pledged to expand civics education so schools teach “how bad” socialism and communism are compared to the Constitution, prioritize trade schools and workforce development over “woke rot” and gender studies so Alabama kids stay home rather than move to Nashville or Atlanta, and build “a shield around Alabama to keep this socialist, Islamist propaganda out of our state,” but State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) predicted a “much slower” 2027 session that will be a “getting to know you kind of session” under a new governor and tighter fiscal picture, even as State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) urged GOP lawmakers to examine tight margins and voter frustration that allowed an openly transgender Democrat to win a House seat.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
