7. Despite a bipartisan coalition of potheads, business owners, and the Alabama Policy Institute, Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill legalizing and regulating the sale of some THC-products.
6. The City of Madison has admitted that the conversation surrounding fluoride on the national level with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. influenced their move to potentially remove fluoride from the water.
5. Alabama has moved forward with a crackdown on illegal immigration through a new law targeting human smuggling that would punish people for abetting and transporting illegal immigrants throughout the state, while a federal round-up of illegals continues.
4. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) warned that failing to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts as part of a “Big, Beautiful Bill” would cost Alabama families thousands annually and called it “actual insanity.”
3. South African refugees have arrived in Alabama as the national conversation surrounding the issue becomes more racist and unhinged because they are white.
2. Democrats in the Alabama Legislature successfully stopped the Alabama State Senate from operating as Republicans intended, by keeping the chamber from passing a large number of local bills, as well as the controversial bill about the Archives and History Department, which could lead to rule changes next year.
1. President Donald Trump signed $1.2 trillion in economic commitments and trade deals worth $243 billion with Qatar — including $96 billion in jets from Boeing and more than $34 billion in future defense investments from Qatar, as well, further enhancing America’s ties to the region while the media screams about an airplane.
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