7. Some in the medical community are actually suggesting a behavioral change over the “quick fix” of drugs and surgery, they seem to be recommending their push for gender-affirming care, The U.S Preventive Services Task Force now suggests that primary care clinicians should provide intensive behavioral interventions for children with high BMI. These interventions include self-monitoring, goal-setting, supervised physical activity, and dietary instruction, totaling at least 26 hours per year and the recommendations exclude weight-loss drugs and surgical procedures, despite their success in other guidelines, this is angering some people.
6. It’s Juneteenth, here is it is, the holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is the celebration of African American history and freedom and the name “Juneteenth” is comes from June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger led the Union Army into Galveston, Texas, where he announced the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth will again be recognized as a state holiday in Alabama this year, marking its third consecutive observance since 2021 but it should be added as an official holiday.
5. On the day the U.S. Surgeon General pointlessly called for a warning label on social media, and U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) reiterated her plan to get kids off social media altogether, the Los Angeles Unified School District decided to ban cellphones in schools. This is a great idea and should spread nationwide.
4. Alabama taxpayers will be on the hook for the minimally used money-losing federal government boondoggle for $1 million after the Alabama State Port Authority agreed to put the money up. But the plan still needs $1 million from the state, which Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey supports, but the state’s fiscal year 2025 budget already approved and the Legislature is not in session until next spring.
3. Baseball legend Willie Mays passed away two days before Major League Baseball’s Giants-Cardinals game at Rickwood Field which is set to honor the historic Negro Leagues. The event would have featured Mays, one of the most iconic figures in baseball history but he was already expected to miss the game and was disappointed to do so. The Hall of Famer, who played in the Negro Leagues in Birmingham before breaking into the major leagues, will be honored at the game.
2. President Joe Biden announced a new program allowing up to 500,000 undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for legal residency, a policy he does not have the ability to enact and that is undoubtedly mass amnesty. This initiative, revealed on the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, proving it is political, will utilize executive authority to grant work permits and residency status through parole. But former President Donald Trump has promised to undo the scheme if he is elected.
1. Speculation that President Joe Biden will not make it to election day are nothing new, commentators at the Washington Post and the New York Times, Republicans, Democrats, and now even U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) says Biden will be swapped out. Tuberville opined that the Democratic Party will replace President Joe Biden with a new nominee for the 2024 presidential election and he says that is irrelevant and that former President Donald Trump would reclaim the White House.
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