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Via @alander.bsky.social: A majority of “non-medical, unexpected or unexplained” child deaths in the state happen in suburbia, at home and using a firearm or weapon, according to a new report from the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH).

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Advocating for children with disabilities was Victoria DeLano’s dream. And after 15 years of advocacy work, she got her dream job at the U.S. Department of Education in December. Three months later, she was fired.

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Great to live in a country where the health care journalists logging thousands of miles hoping to wake Americans to the rural health care crisis get a fraction of the attention of someone farting out idiocies about Medicare towns.

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A federal judge denied The Associated Press an immediate temporary order that would have restored access to cover certain White House events and travel with the president, after the Trump administration banned the agency for refusing to adhere to the administration’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: A federal judge in Maryland on Monday partly granted a request from Quakers and other religious groups to limit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s authority to conduct immigration enforcement in houses of worship.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The seat became vacant after former Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview, stepped down to become Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger's director of constituent services.

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It’s a stable source of ratings.

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Editor Brian Lyman writes that Alabama, a state with some of the highest rates of firearm deaths in the country, can't be serious about public safety if it treats firearms as fixed and blameless objects and shrugs at their role in preventable children's deaths.

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Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump.

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My column this week. It's very hard to take the Alabama Legislature's public safety drive seriously when lawmakers refuse to consider the most basic safety measures around firearms, the leading cause of preventable death among Alabama children.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: An Alabama state representative has refiled a bill that would expand the state’s ’Don’t Say Gay’ bill to all grade levels.

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Via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social: In a growing vacuum of information, nonprofit abortion-access websites and helplines continue to connect pregnant people with resources.

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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social and @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: Senators gathered on the floor late Thursday and remained there through just before sunrise Friday, debating 25 amendments. Here is a roundup of some of those proposals.

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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My wife @juliebennettphoto.bsky.social is a hell of a photographer.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: The rally in Birmingham drew at least 500 people, who marched chanting “Say it loud and say it clear, immigrants are welcomed here.”

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

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My column from Monday. In their endless quest to hurt transgender Alabamians, Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Legislature have given local governments and schools sweeping powers to separate men and women in the name of “safety” and “fairness.” That’s certain to hurt Alabama women.

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My god that’s @indyfromspace.bsky.social’s music

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“Once the (DOGE) men were inside, one agency worker even confronted them in a conference room, demanding to see their credentials, in an incident described to The New York Times. One of the Musk aides used his laptop to block his ID badge from view.”

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Via @mattvas.bsky.social and @stateline.org: The Trump administration has begun dismantling the nation’s defenses against foreign interference in voting, a sweeping retreat that has alarmed state and local election officials.

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Read if you dare

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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: U.S. senators voted early Friday to approve a budget resolution that Republicans hoped would get them one step closer to passing core elements of their agenda, including boosted immigration enforcement.

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Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: About 2,000 low-income households in Alabama are poised to lose federal assistance to help them pay high energy bills, under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.

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Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: A bill in the Alabama Legislature to extend police immunity is expected to change. How it will change is not clear.

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I drove behind a truck with a bumper sticker saying “My chicken can beat up your honor student.” Alabama’s rage addiction has finally reached the level of “chugging pure absinthe.”

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This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

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Via @ashleymurray.bsky.social: Patel is also the author of a children’s series that depicts a cartoon Donald Trump as a king confronting opposition, including battling a fictional stolen election, even though kings are not elected.

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Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: One of the plaintiffs, a woman from Ecuador, has already been deported, the Department of Justice confirmed in a Thursday emergency hearing.

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Via @acvollers.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Alabama joined 16 other Republican AGs over the Biden administration’s addition of a gender identity-related disorder to the disabilities protected under a section of a 1973 federal law. But a backlash has erupted.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: The bill, sponsored by Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham, would provide presumptive Medicaid coverage for up to 60 days to pregnant people before their application for the program is formally approved. A similar bill passed the Alabama House last week.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: HB 35, sponsored by Rep. Russell Bedsole, R-Alabaster, would allow survivors of volunteer firefighters who die of work-related cancer to claim a death benefit award.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved a bill that would allow Medicaid to sue some parents who don’t enroll their children in employer-provided health insurance when available.

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The Alabama Supreme Court pulled off a similar bit of nonsense over a decade ago when they ruled that the Alabama Legislature didn't have to conduct its meetings in public, even though the Alabama Constitution specifically requires the doors of both chambers to be open.

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Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: Lawmakers Wednesday halted a bill that could have made parents and guardians who don’t secure their firearms criminally liable if their children bring those guns to school.

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Most of “Slavery By Another Name” is focused on Alabama and the Pratt Mines. It’s an essential book for those looking to understand this state.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: HB 235, sponsored by Rep. David Faulkner, R-Mountain Brook, bans children 16 and younger from owning a social media account. HB 276, sponsored by Rep. Ben Robbins, R-Sylacauga, would expand limitations and parental controls to 18-year-olds.

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Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: The Trump administration Wednesday appealed an injunction in a suit brought by a coalition of Democratic attorneys general challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that aims to redefine the right to birthright citizenship in the U.S. Constitution.

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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: Republicans have been eyeing the health care program for lower-income Americans as a way to pay for increases in spending on border security and defense, as well as a massive tax cuts package aimed at business.

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Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved a bill that would allow state and local law enforcement to enforce the nation’s immigration laws amid concerns from civil rights groups that the legislation will lead to racial profiling.

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This editorial, "Secrecy, deception erode public trust," has been taken offline. But here's an archived version, preserved by @archive.org for everyone to read: webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20250219...

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Via @alander.bsky.social: House Health Committee Chair Paul Lee, R-Dothan, said he wanted to review “some insurance issues” but did not otherwise give a reason for the delay.

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Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: An Alabama Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill creating a conflict resolution course for middle schoolers.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: Alabama originally budgeted $1.3 billion for the construction of two new men's prisons in 2021, but costs have soared far beyond initial estimates.

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