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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tommy Tuberville’s new campaign ad blasts pro data center politicians –– like Tommy Tuberville. www.al.com/news/2026/10...

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alabama public television commissioners polled PBS approval with an eye toward cutting ties. Instead, they showed Trump’s approval is underwater in the state.

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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

And congrats to The Alabama Solution, finalist for Excellence in Social Justice Reporting! My home state is a great place to do journalism that matters.

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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

7/ Raines' piece is great, and it's easiest for America to see its faults when they're on display somewhere else. But make no mistake — something like this is happening close to home, wherever you find yourself in America today. 🎁🔗👇 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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The Alabamafication of National Politics

What the race between Doug Jones and Tommy Tuberville says about America’s past and future

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

6/ This is not the Alabamafication of America anymore. That part's over. This is the result. We live in the United States of Alabama now.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

5/ In place of competent government, we have a White House that rules through public bullying and no-bid contracts, and a legislature too weak and too scared to do anything about it.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

4/ State police regularly trample the rights of citizens. The administration fights to revoke the citizenship of people it doesn't like and imprisons others when it can't.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

3/ Last month, the president celebrated his birthday with a cage fight on the White House lawn — a sport that spent its outlaw years taking refuge in Alabama and a few other states too indifferent to ban it.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

2/ Alabamafication implies a transition, and the transition is over.

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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

11/ So we're staying home. Small explosives from the stand down the street. Too many hot dogs. Our own front steps as the sun goes down. www.al.com/news/2026/07...

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This land was your land

The July 4th on the National Mall was great as it was, but Donald Trump couldn't leave it alone.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

10/ Here's his mistake. He can post that the place was packed and dare you to argue. That works on people who weren't there. But this weekend his own people will be there. You can lie to a crowd about its size. You can't tell a man he had a good time when he didn't.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

9/ Then there's the fireworks, now scheduled for 11 p.m. Trump has children, but I can tell he did not parent them. No parent schedules fireworks for 11 p.m. For families with small kids it might as well be 10 minutes before sunrise.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

8/ Instead, where once there were vistas, there is particle board. Where there were marble obelisks and sandstone columns, there are paintings of obelisks and columns blocking the sightlines. The fair is a TV dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

7/ That's America's front lawn. Elm trees, monuments, Smithsonians on both sides. The Apollo 11 capsule. Archie Bunker's chair. It would be the perfect place to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday. If only Trump had left it alone.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

6/ Nearly 150 years ago, the American government turned an ugly, deadly place into one of the most beautiful public spaces in the country. About 700 acres of new land. No bulldozers, no combustion engines, no slavery. Today, our government can't get green goo out of a pool.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

5/ Down the hill from the Washington Monument sits a 350-square-foot stone house. The Lockkeeper's House. It's older than the monument itself. It sits on what used to be the muddy, deadly shoreline of the Potomac. The Army Corps didn't drain that swamp. They filled it.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

4/ Everything the fair pretends to be already exists a few yards away, behind a border wall of rent-a-fences.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

3/ There's a Ferris wheel that creeps as Ferris wheels do, but no Tilt-a-Whirl. A fifty-foot mockup of the Arc de Trump looks like it's made of giant Duplo blocks. On the bandstands, lonely performers sometimes outnumber spectators.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

2/ The green lagoon, at least, is interesting. So interesting, they stationed the National Guard there to keep people away on purpose. The east end of the Mall is empty for a different reason. It's insufferably boring.

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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

He gave it to his dog for cancer.

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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

2. Is this insurance in case the state loses a lingering court challenge? A backstop for a political ally?

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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 · 16/05/2026

Are we the sane ones? I hope so.

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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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