7. Having solved all of Birmingham’s crime problems and making everyone say, “Hey, why can’t we be more like Birmingham?”, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin affirmed his support for President Joe Biden following a conference call with Democratic mayors, emphasizing Biden’s commitment to his agenda and vision for the nation. Despite Biden’s own staffers sounding pretty glum, Woodfin praised Biden’s focus on reducing costs for working families, improving healthcare accessibility, and making significant investments in cities like Birmingham.
6. U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) asked conservative media commentator and Daily Wire co-owner Ben Shapiro about the impact of organizations like the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) and NewsGuard who target conservative media outlets for censorship are having on the political discourse. Shapiro responded, “Well, government and other organizations like it have worked in conjunction with GDI and NewsGuard to set standards,” Shapiro responded. “And again, those standards are purportedly objective in practice, [but] they rarely are. NewsGuard, for example, has penalized us openly for being a conservative site. When we mention that we are honest about our biases, they say, ‘well that means you’re not objective,’ unlike other outlets that claim to be objective but are biased toward the left.”
5. A national Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged Alabama officials on Thursday to honor Death Row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin’s request to forgo an autopsy after his scheduled execution on July 18, citing his devout Muslim beliefs against such procedures, which seems like a reasonable request. CAIR emphasized that religious freedoms should be respected even for those of murderers like Gavin, who was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of courier driver William Clayton Jr. who Gavin shot after the Clayton used an ATM to get cash to take his wife out to dinner and shot at police later.
4. Alabama is blowing up, the state gained over 22,000 net residents and nearly $800 million in adjusted gross income (AGI) in 2022, surpassing other similar Southern states. Alabama outperformed states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas in net migration and AGI gains, though it was outpaced by South Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida. The state attracted significant migration from high outbound states like California and New York, with Baldwin and Madison counties leading in population growth. The South as a whole saw substantial migration gains, contrasting with large AGI losses in California and New York.
3. The newly redrawn Second Congressional District in Alabama is very much in play with Republican candidate Caroleene Dobson raising the money needed to win that race. According to the latest filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Dobson has raised over $527,000 in campaign contributions since mid-April, making her one of the top 10 non-incumbent GOP candidates for Congress. Dobson also slammed an incompetent President Joe Biden for his press conference last night and wants her opponent to weigh-in, “I think the “big boy” press conference went pretty well, and I’m sure President Putin, Vice President Trump, and Biden’s commander in chief would agree. It’s time for Shomari Figures to break his silence and admit the White House is quickly becoming ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’”
2. The first Democrat senator is calling for President Joe Biden to drop out, more Democrats came out before, and after, Biden’s embarrassing, but “good enough to keep him in,” press conference, but the momentum continues to grow. Biden himself says he will drop out if polls show he can’t beat former President Donald Trump, the polls show that, but he claimed in a creepy whisper, “No one’s saying that, no poll says that.”
1. President Joe Biden took part in a “big boy” press conference where he had a list of reporters to call on hoping to prove he is capable of doing the job he currently holds. Voters have clearly already made their voice heard with 67% telling him to go away. The president began his press conference by confusing VP Kamala Harris with former President Donald Trump and mentioned that he would follow the advice of the military chief of staff. Biden discussed pacing himself and better managing his schedule to address his challenges, he made incoherent comments about Ukraine, rambled on about how “We’re gonna make sure that rents are kept at a 5% increase, corporate rents for apartments and the like, homes, are limited to 5%,” and said something about Japan and South Korea.
