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Via @alander.bsky.social: At least 14 "No Kings" protests are planned across Alabama on Saturday. Here's where they're scheduled to take place.

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Mr. Abrego Garcia, speaking through an interpreter, has entered "not guilty" pleas to the two charges @tennesseelookout.com

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Via @fischler.bsky.social: A federal appeals court late Thursday quickly froze a lower court’s order that President Donald Trump return command of 4,000 California National Guard troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom and set a schedule to more fully hear the closely watched case in the coming days.

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there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: Five parents want a court to require the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) to establish a patient registry for medical cannabis, citing delays in access to the program.

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Didn’t expect the final episode of a series on an imagined Martian revolution to be moving. Well done, @mikeduncan.bsky.social.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama third grade students appeared to improve on a test of reading comprehension last year despite a slight increase in testing standards, according to numbers released by the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) on Thursday.

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Recently heard a colleague describing AI as “working with the stupidest employee in the world” and boy, you do not want your attorney to fit that description

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Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: “I’m Sen. Alex Padilla and I have questions for the secretary,” he said as four federal law enforcement officers grabbed him and shoved him to the ground. “Hands off.”

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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

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Via @stateline.org: Experts nearly unanimously agree that public subsidies for stadiums are a poor investment, but that hasn’t slowed a wave of local and state spending for billionaire team owners.

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State health officials have made no secret of their concerns with declining MMR vaccination rates among kindergarteners, and Harris says an Alabama measles case “is coming.”

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I come back to the brave men and women who were harassed, pulled over by police and in some cases bombed in their homes because they chose to car pool instead of taking a segregated city bus. They faced life-threatening danger for over 380 days; every day they confronted it, and in time they won.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The head of the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) said Wednesday that he is concerned about potential cuts to federal financial aid, but also that the system has enough funds in reserve for a “soft landing.”

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Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: Former Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis filed a civil lawsuit against Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday, alleging his firing in October violated his free speech and due process rights.

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Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: The lawsuit was dismissed after the original plaintiff in the case, the anti-affirmative action group American Alliance for Equal Rights, signaled that it did not want to go through discovery.

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Via @ashleymurray.bsky.social: More than 100 heavy-duty military vehicles and weapons systems will parade down Constitution Avenue in the nation’s capital Saturday, just days after President Donald Trump ordered troops to Los Angeles to quell mostly nonviolent protests against deportations.

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read this as “anarchic squid” and liked it much better 🦑

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the bottom line is this — anti-vaccine contrarians, conspiracists, and cranks are now on the committee that will set vaccine policy for the nation.

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RIP Brian Wilson

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Via @kelciemmorris.bsky.social: The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances act made it a federal crime to use or threaten force or otherwise physically obstruct people from obtaining or providing reproductive health care.

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James Boswell was a selfish mess of a person, but The Life of Samuel Johnson is incredibly entertaining.

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Via @acvollers.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Nationwide, most rural hospitals no longer offer obstetric services. Since the end of 2020, more than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies, according to a new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s leadership is considering moving one of its training programs for local, federal and international law enforcement from Quantico, Virginia, to Huntsville, according to the Washington Post.

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Read some portions of “The Crime Against Kansas” for my Lincoln podcast, and it made me appreciate Sumner’s oratory. He was said to have a deep voice, but reading his speech aloud it’s clear he put a lot of thought into the cadence and rhythm of his words.

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Narrator: There were zero similarities

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Origin Story’s two-part episode on Martin Luther King is really worth your time. But boy, did it remind me how much I’d like to read a critical analysis of polling methods of the 1960s. A good bit of the white backlash narrative rests on surveys that had almost uniformly bad news for civil rights.

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Via @fischler.bsky.social: The Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles will cost the federal government about $134 million, a Pentagon budget official said Tuesday.

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The Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature has tried to ignore IVF access since passing a quick fix after the Supreme Court’s ruling. But the fix is still vulnerable to legal challenges.

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Via @jamellebouie.net: “A smarter White House might try to isolate its opponents with a performance of responsible stewardship. Instead, the actual White House may have given its opponents the ammunition they need to persuade the public of their cause.”

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Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: According to media witnesses, Hunt gasped and raised his head off the gurney during the execution. He moaned just before 6 p.m. and raised his feet, before he gasped to breathe again with long pauses in between.

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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said it was “disturbing” that the president’s budget request suggested lawmakers cut NIH funding by about $18 billion, or 40%, in the upcoming spending bill.

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Via @stateline.org: Experts say that the MAHA report’s assertions could worsen disparities that affect children’s access to asthma medications and undermine years of research around the drugs.

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Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: Members of a Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee panel Tuesday probed witnesses about how the federal government can ensure public safety at major international sporting events such as the Olympics and World Cup.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: The Attorney General's Office and plaintiffs who successfully challenged an earlier map as racially discriminatory said in a filing Monday they could not reach an agreement in the case, which has opened the possibility of future federal oversight of state redistricting.

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