7. More than 100 faculty, students, alumni, and community members protested Auburn University’s Board of Trustees after it dissolved the faculty senate and replaced it with an appointed Presidential Academic Advisory Council, as psychology professor Tracy Witte said, “There’s a lot of fear on campus” and history professor Heidi Hausse warned the board is “furthest from the classroom” while setting required civics courses.
6. University of Alabama student and Miss Oklahoma Teen USA Chloe Braxton has released a video of her mocking a Charlie Kirk memorial online, a throwback to his murder at these universities, as campuses from NYU to Tennessee advertised “Kirkaversary” look-alike contests and flyers reading “REST IN PISS FOREVER.”
5. The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, revealed as the only black person on an otherwise all-white panel that deadlocked 11-1, faced a later-dismissed 2021 domestic violence charge alleging he grabbed his wife by the throat, but that is not stopping the attack from Lindsay Clancy fans, while a fundraiser for him raised nearly $85,000.
4. President Donald Trump said the Iran war “will end right after the mid(terms), maybe before” and “Gasoline is going to drop like a rock,” but blames current diesel prices on the war in Ukraine, U.S. forces struck Iranian minelayers; CENTCOM redirected 101 commercial ships; Houthis seized Red Sea positions and hit Saudi energy sites; and Brent crude jumped to $108.23 a barrel.
3. Nasdaq futures and chipmakers are taking a beating as U.S. AI chiefs warned of losing control of the technology, China’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the slowdown talk as “Fear-mongering,” and President Donald Trump rejected the pause, saying “whoever wins AI, wins.”
2. Alabama Senate District 2 Democrat candidate Rudolph Drake, who campaigns on “integrity, service, and real results,” was found by a Florida court to have stalked a former partner who swore he said she “deserved a bullet in my head,” after a judge entered a final protection order in May 2022.
1. Transgender issues are entering the race as Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said 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, “has spent his career pandering to the socialist left on transgender issues,” citing Jones’s Equality Act cosponsorship and a 2018 remark that LGBTQ civil-rights additions were “very, very important,” with 50 days left, the fundraising gulf is huge with Tuberville holding more than $14.5 million raised to Jones’ more than $4.6 million.
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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.
