After living in #Alabama & #Oklahoma and half living in #Tennessee and #Texas, it's so much nicer to live in a state with a decent (not corrupt, not bigoted, not hateful) Governor.
Now let's get a President that's *not* doing everything to destroy our country.
Stupidville-Gate
“It’s gonna be a slow pain first before we get the gain.”
— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), discussing tariffs on Fox Business.
Alabama Supreme Court rules in case of inmate beaten, gang raped days into his sentence who died by suicide
> During April and May of 2018, it was noted that Chumney was paranoid about attacks from other inmates and was having suicidal thoughts.
Strangely weird to claim he was paranoid about being attacked, when he had previously been attacked.
Also inmates should be allowed to sue for being attacked and sexually assaulted.
This Day in #History: The 15th Amendment (1870)
The right to vote regardless of race was guaranteed today in 1870. In this #PBS Frontline #video, reporter Alexis Johnson explains how this promise was quickly undermined through organized violence and discriminatory laws like poll taxes and literacy tests.
The struggle continued until the 1965 Voting Rights Act—and many challenges remain today. 
Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/voting-history-suppression-america-pbs-frontline
#Alabama Won’t Say Student Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must. | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alabama-alireza-doroudi-ice/
University of Alabama student Alireza Doroudi abducted by ICE —
https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-alabama-graduate-student-detained-ice-school/story?id=120220787
#AlirezaDoroudi #Doroudi #ICE #Alabama
University of #Alabama graduate student detained by ICE, school says. “#Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from #Iran studying mechanical engineering, is currently being held in a county jail, awaiting transfer to an #immigration facility, his attorney... Doroudi was taken into custody by #ICE at 3 am Thursday at his home... the student has "not been arrested for any crime, nor has he participated in any anti-government protests." | ABC https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-alabama-graduate-student-detained-ice-school/story?id=120220787 #arbitrarydetention
‘Dagger through the heart’: outcry as #ICE detains University of #Alabama phd student from Iran on a student visa #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-university-of-alabama-doctoral-student
US immigration officials detain doctoral student at University of Alabama https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-university-of-alabama-doctoral-student #Trumpadministration #USuniversities #USimmigration #USeducation #USpolitics #Alabama #USnews
Rod Smith, a #veteran and extremely brave resister in #Alabama, is saying that people come up to him in the street and thank him for speaking out-- they say they'll lose their jobs if they speak against #Trump but they are very grateful to him.
He says that even in deep red states there are a lot more people than you realize who are supporting the #resistance
Hats off to all the brave people speaking up in #MAGA counties and states!
Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for #VotingRights
Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of #CivilRights activists, also known as foot soldiers, marched from #Selma to #Montgomery , #Alabama to fight for the right to #vote for Black people. As they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama State Troopers brutally beat them. The violence these activists endured became synonymous with the struggle for Black enfranchisement.
#rights
Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon
Don't Miss The DAIRY QUEEN GORILLA!
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Dairy Queen Grand Opening in Prattville, Alabama
- March 27th, 1982.
#DairyQueen #Alabama #Advertisement #Gorilla #Retro #Vintage
Former Alabama basketball player back in NCAA transfer portal | Reports https://www.rawchili.com/4138676/ #alabama #basketball #gamecocks #ncaa #NCAABasketball #NCAAB #NickPringle #SouthCarolina #TransferPortal
#Alabama board defunds local #library after complaints over ‘#inappropriate’ books
By KIM CHANDLER
Updated 11:44 PM EDT, March 21, 2025
Excerpt:
"'I think that the GOP chair on the State Library Board is forcing the removal of books just because of anti-library extremists. I think that’s ignoring the voices of Fairhope taxpayers and library users,' said Amber Frey of #ReadFreely Alabama, an organization that has opposed the restrictions.
"The action against the Fairhope Library is the first taken under a new Alabama law and 2024 administrative code changes that say to receive state funding, local libraries must have policies to safeguard youth from 'sexually explicit or other material deemed inappropriate for children or youth.'"
https://apnews.com/article/library-content-battles-alabama-funding-571d58e060fbe0b25b2317a0bf99c467
#Censorship #BannedBooks #Libraries #LibraryNews
@nazokiyoubinbou #HurricaneHelene devastates southeastern US, millions without power
Sept 29, 2024
"Damage estimates ranged from $15 billion to more than $100 billion, insurers and forecasters said over the weekend.
"The National Weather Service said conditions would “continue to improve Sunday” as it warned of possible “long-duration power outages”.
"Helene slammed into Florida on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane and surged north, gradually weakening but leaving a trail of destruction: uprooted trees, downed power lines and homes damaged by mudslides.
"The Federal Emergency Management Administration (#FEMA) said on Saturday it granted emergency declarations in six states – #Alabama, #Florida, #Georgia, #SouthCarolina, #NorthCarolina and #Tennessee – 'to assist these states with preparation and response efforts in the immediate aftermath of the storm'."
Today in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
![The third Selma Civil Rights March frontline. From far left: John Lewis, an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ralph Bunche; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; Frederick Douglas Reese. Second row: Between Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Bunche is Rabbi Maurice Davis. Heschel later wrote, "When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying." Joseph Ellwanger is standing in the second row behind the nun. By http://www.dartmouth.edu/~religion/faculty/heschel-photos.htmlThis URL is [as of Sept. 17, 2014] a dead link; Therefore, for a web.archive.org (Wayback machine) "snapshot" of this URL, please (feel free to) refer to this "archived" copy: "Heschel Selected Photos". the Trustees of Dartmouth College [faculty] [Department of Religion]. Archived from the original on Sep 17, 2014. Retrieved Sep 17, 2014., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5004303](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/200/711/692/155/418/original/15195a5cbf765b09.jpg "The third Selma Civil Rights March frontline. From far left: John Lewis, an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ralph Bunche; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; Frederick Douglas Reese. Second row: Between Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Bunche is Rabbi Maurice Davis. Heschel later wrote, \"When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying.\" Joseph Ellwanger is standing in the second row behind the nun. By http://www.dartmouth.edu/~religion/faculty/heschel-photos.htmlThis URL is [as of Sept. 17, 2014] a dead link; Therefore, for a web.archive.org (Wayback machine) \"snapshot\" of this URL, please (feel free to) refer to this \"archived\" copy: \"Heschel Selected Photos\". the Trustees of Dartmouth College [faculty] [Department of Religion]. Archived from the original on Sep 17, 2014. Retrieved Sep 17, 2014., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5004303")
