7 Things: Trump to go to jail Thursday; gender mutilation banned in Alabama; and more …

7. It looks like we are back to having all politically motivated music being “cringe” again after a pro-union musician responds to Oliver Anthony’s hit, “Rich Men North of Richmond.”

6. Unemployed Alabamian seeks relevancy, and a job on CNN, by calling everything a threat to democracy and attacking a wildly popular U.S. senator who trounced him in an election.

5. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says that crime is the number one issue facing the city so he hosted a rap concert with rappers who use lyrics that accurately describe the city’s number one problem.

4. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is the latest leader from the state to call for an investigation into President Joe Biden’s decision to rip Space Command HQ away from the state. Alabama State House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) says Biden would not have done this to former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa).

3. President Joe Biden comforts people in Hawaii by lying about losing a house to a lightning strike, he likes telling this lie, and talking about the accident that killed his first wife.

2. Alabama can ban transgender surgeries after a federal court affirmed the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. The law correctly punishes the doctors who commit the crime and the other folks involved as well with a felony and 10 years in jail.

1. Former President Donald Trump will turn himself in Thursday and will then post $200,000 bail after he is fingerprinted and a mugshot is taken. He will also face social media restriction.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to noon.

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