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Kyle Whitmire

@warondumb.bsky.social
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2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com (@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gas is $4 a gallon and Tommy Tuberville wants to talk about furries flying airplanes. ✈️ 🦊
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does it matter what happens to the Kennedy Center? Because the guy running it into the ground is the same guy running the war with Iran.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Election laws for thee but not for me. Alabama law requires candidates for lieutenant governor to have lived in the state for the last seven straight years. So why did the GOP nominee register to vote in Tennessee six years ago?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Alabama GOP nominee for lieutenant governor swore he was a Tennessee resident, voter registration shows. My column: www.al.com/news/2026/09...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Being a finalist for an ONA Award is an honor. Being a finalist along side my colleague @roysj.bsky.social is something else entirely. We’re doing exceptional things at AL(dot)com and I’m proud to be a part of it. awards.journalists.org/winners/2026/
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2026 Online Journalism Awards Winners
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Why can’t he stop painting things gold?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Also, Tuberville said Alabama data centers will run off grant-funded gas lines. He didn’t say who would pay for the grants. www.al.com/news/2026/07...
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Tuberville says Alabama will teach all elementary school kids to use AI
Senator says grants will finance gas lines for data centers.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tommy Tuberville says he wants Alabama to “do data centers” and that public concerns are “bullcrap.” I went to Sterling, VA, to see what “doing data centers” might look like.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
White-collar prosecutions actually are at an all-time low, so
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Tommy Tuberville promised to donate “every dime” of his Senate salary to veterans charities. His tax returns don’t show he did that. So where is it?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
1/ I appreciate Howell Raines giving me credit for naming "Alabamafication." A lot has happened since I coined that term in the spring of 2016, and I've come to think it's no longer sufficient. 🧵
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
1/ A lot has been said about the Great American State Failure. Here's what's been missed: The National Mall was everything the fair aspires to be. It was free. It was fun. It was accessible. The fair is a phony copy that gets in the original's way. 🧵
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Ken McFeeters has the future of Alabama in his hands and an opportunity that would make many people jealous – to put Tommy Tuberville under oath. Also, did I mention he gives ivermectin to his dog? My column: www.al.com/news/2026/06...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tommy Tuberville just proved he lived in Alabama three months before he cast his last ballot in Florida. Yeah, you read that right. www.al.com/news/2026/06...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You ain't paranoid if they're really out to get you. My column: www.al.com/news/2026/05...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tommy Tuberville says he goes back to Auburn for ball games three or four times a year — then remembers he “lives” there.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If U.S. Senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville didn't understand it, how were voters supposed to?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Britt is not alone in her confusion. Now Tuberville says he has doubts which election is the real one. If US Senators don’t know which one counts, how are voters supposed to? www.al.com/news/2026/05...
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Tommy Tuberville expresses doubt on Alabama redistricting: ‘I’m not so sure it’s going to go through’
Alabama is trying to change congressional districts during an election year.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
NAACP puts out a call to Sam “Bam” Cunningham SEC states that redraw district maps. Don't laugh. If you don't live in the South, you don't know what this means. If successful, it hits these states where it hurts, where NIL was already undercutting SEC football dominance.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sen. Katie Britt is telling Alabama Republicans to vote today in a primary her party and state government have fought (thus far successfully) to render meaningless. Very much trying to make sense of this one.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
These were your tax dollars. Now they’re a $1.8 billion slush fund to go with the Billion Dollar Ballroom.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Are we supposed to believe SCOTUS read 107 pages — 26,000 words — conferred, voted and wrote a dissent in half an hour? The fix was already in. www.al.com/news/2026/05...
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Alabama passes the John Roberts Literacy Test
In Milligan v Allen, justices read 107 pages and wrote five more in half an hour? Sure.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Want to show your friends how far the GOP has backslid on voting rights? Come find me on TikTok and I’ll show you how to do it with just one picture. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkcCs5Xy/
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What do IVF and voting rights have in common? Let me explain Alabama-style Somebody Stop Me Politics. My column 👉 www.al.com/opinion/2026...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Only one of two things is possible: Either the acting AG lied or he didn’t know what he was talking about and made stuff up.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Alabama officials are done pretending. 11 hours. That’s all it took from when SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act until Alabama officials began doing what should have been expected.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
America’s top prosecutor (promotion pending) said the Southern Poverty Law Center never shared intelligence it gathered from informants with law enforcement. Then the SPLC brought the receipts.  These folks would be so much more dangerous if they weren’t so bad at this.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Let's dispense with the he-said/she-said silliness and talk about what's really going on here. This is a dumb case brought by dumb people, and it promises the same result we've seen in so many others like it. www.al.com/news/2026/04...
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Justice Department indicts SPLC for doing thing Justice Department does
DOJ wants you to be outraged that ... SPLC paid Klan spies?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under a federal investigation by DOJ for using paid informants to infiltrate hate groups in the US. www.splcenter.org/beacon-hope-...
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A Beacon of Hope for 55 Years
For 55 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stood as a beacon of hope, fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice to help create a multiracial democracy where we can all live and th...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I grew up Southern Baptist in rural Alabama. What I was 16, I read the Bible. And then I started to wonder whether anybody else had. Alabama just mandated the Ten Commandments in public schools. Then the president broke the first one on Truth Social. You don’t have to be part of that.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Someone went full David Koresh last night, huh?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
America will tolerate a lot of things, but not a loser.
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There is only one rule that limits Trump’s power. And he broke it.
Laws have little effect anymore, but one distinction still remains.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
How far we’ve backslid in just two clips. “Islam is peace” — George W. Bush, six days after 9/11. “Do we want to wait until we have to fight them in the streets or do we want to kick them out now?” — Tommy Tuberville, 2026.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
RALLY ‘ROUND THE BALLROOM! “From LBJ’s vast White House carpet project ‒ ‘Shag the People’s House’ ‒ during Vietnam to Bush’s Iraq-War-era construction of the Cheney Hot Tub Pavilion, Americans have never failed to support a president’s wartime build-o-rama.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Forget the war in Iran. We must support Trump's ballroom | Opinion
My fellow Americans, our nation is at war, and so it is vital we patriotically rally around our president’s ballroom.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
As I listen to Tommy Tuberville, I hear state Rep. Chris England on the Alabama House floor four years ago: “You want life in Alabama to be so difficult, so people that don’t look like you or think like you or act like you go somewhere else.” www.al.com/news/2026/03...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Tommy Tuberville seems upset that people are calling him a racist. Why would anyone think that? Let us count the ways.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder: Who the SAVE Act is for (and who it isn’t).
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Folks, we need to talk about Steve Marshall. Alabama’s AG keeps trying to execute people who didn’t kill anybody. And now he’s running for the US Senate.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles Lee Burton to life in prison. Good on her.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Why do arms dealers advertise? In Washington, this stuff is so common nobody seems to notice. But to those of us from the rest of America? It’s kinda weird. And telling.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Is this the sign of a man who will let go of power? The president and his allies are acting as though that’s something they’ll never let happen.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons? Wait. He didn't.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alabama is waving this Globe & Mail story like an Olympic gold medal today. But is it true? The answer: A big YES with a lot of buts. Some thoughts …
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Republicans says they believe in voter ID, but when one of their own got caught in the snare, what happened? Donald Trump endorsed him. I give you the curious case of John Wahl.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a prank to expose the most cruel among us, and then it caught a kindergarten teacher. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I’m from the same era - born during his second governorship and remember his third. But yeah, no one ever voted for him. Then again, sometimes you find things like a campaign thimble in your grandmother’s sewing box after she passes.
A George Wallace presidential campaign thimble. It is made of (once-white?) yellowed plastic with VOTE WALLACE FOR PRESIDENT printed in red block letters.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Alabama’s past is America’s future. Ever met anyone who brags they voted for George Wallace?
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
When did police start dressing like Fortnite characters? And what is camouflage good for in a city? Dress is a form of speech and we need to pay attention to the message we’re being sent.
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