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Tommy Tuberville calls for banning Sharia law in America: ‘For too…

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Tommy Tuberville bravely defends Alabama from the imaginary threat of Sharia law.
Next week: he’ll take on Bigfoot, Atlantis, and the Oxford comma.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) called for more states to ban Sharia law on Wednesday. | Alabama News

Trump called the Digital Equity Act ‘racist.’ Now Internet money for rural Americans is gone. | Alabama Reflector

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 2d

The “anti-woke” crusade is costing Alabama real opportunities.

Trump canceled the Digital Equity Act, ending funding that gave rural families laptops and digital training.

This wasn’t about politics. It was about connection.
When you cut equity, you cut access.
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The halt came after President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that the Digital Equity Act was unconstitutional and pledged “no more woke handouts based on race!”

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 3d

George Retes is a U.S. citizen. He’s also a veteran.

ICE zip-tied him. Pepper-sprayed him. Denied him a lawyer.

He spent two days in jail. Then they let him go.

No apology. No accountability.

This is what happens when immigration enforcement ignores citizenship, due process, and basic humanity.

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 5d

This week, I’m sharing stories of U.S. citizens detained by ICE.

Veterans. Pregnant women. Elders. Construction workers.

Tackled. Jailed. Injured.

All released.

None should’ve been detained.

Based on reporting by Judd Legum at Popular Information.

Follow along.
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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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State Rep. Stringer rejects Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed efforts to…

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 3d

The mayor called for solutions.
The legislator called people names.

Everyone in Alabama knows what he meant.

We deserve leaders who protect our communities, not ones who talk down to them.
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| Alabama News

Montgomery City Council suspends downtown entertainment district…

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 3d

All because the state Legislature passed permitless carry and flooded streets with guns.
Now those same state leaders won't fix the gun laws. They're just offering phone calls and troops.
Local leaders govern. State leaders perform.
MGM deserves policies that protect both safety & community life.

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 3d

MGM City Council suspended the downtown entertainment district after Saturday's shooting. A painful but responsible decision.
What are they losing? Community events. Family gathering spaces. The cultural life that makes downtown vibrant.
🧵
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Members of the Montgomery City Council unanimously voted to suspend a downtown entertainment district after a Saturday night shootout left two dead and 14…

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 4d

#ChooseCare

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 4d

"War from within” is a headline.
Hospitals without resources is a reality.
He calls it a war. We call it a choice.

GOP officials attack Montgomery leaders in wake of shooting; city leaders push back | Alabama Reflector

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 4d

The state ties Montgomery’s hands, then blames it for the fallout.
When you outlaw local solutions, all that’s left are police-state stunts.
#GOPSoftOnCrime
#UnmuteAlabama
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Current and past Montgomery officials said they have invested resources in the police and seen anti-gun measures blocked by the state.

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Eighteen Months After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Rolls Back Its Commitment to Monitor Explosive Gases Above Coal Mines - Inside Climate News

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 5d

Public safety 101: when methane is tied to a fatal explosion, you don’t suspend monitoring. You expand it and publish the data.
Alabama should reinstate the plan and brief Oak Grove residents.
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
#UnmuteAlabama #FamiliesFirst
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In a letter to federal regulators, the director of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission wrote she has “indefinitely suspended” methane monitoring requirements her agency agreed to in 2024. Experts sa...

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 5d

That’s not radical. It’s real.

#UnmuteAlabama #AcademicFreedom #JusticeForAll

Auburn promotes ‘queer criminology,' CRT with class targeting…

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 5d

Auburn’s criminal justice class includes queer criminology and CRT, frameworks that explore how race and identity shape experiences with policing and incarceration.

The right calls it indoctrination.

But marginalized groups DO experience the system differently.

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Students at Auburn University taking “Crime and Justice in America” are learning queer criminology, which includes lessons on radical gender ideology that…

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 5d

This week, I’m sharing stories of U.S. citizens detained by ICE.

Veterans. Pregnant women. Elders. Construction workers.

Tackled. Jailed. Injured.

All released.

None should’ve been detained.

Based on reporting by Judd Legum at Popular Information.

Follow along.
popular.info/p/how-federa...

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

popular.info

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 6d

Tommy Tuberville says he’d “take over our streets with the National Guard.”
That’s not public safety. It’s government by force.

Alabamians deserve safety built on trust, not fear.
#CommunityNotCombat

Tuberville: 'If we need to take over our streets with National Guard,…

In a Thursday interview with the "Breitbart News Daily Podcast," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) previewed what would be different with him as…

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 7d

🪖 Tuberville’s plan to “take over our streets” with the National Guard

Keep talking. It’s working. 🗣

Email [email protected] to join us!

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 7d

🔥 New Unmute Alabama newsletter is out!
We won the first round of the shutdown messaging fight.💪
Inside:
🩺 Why this shutdown is really a billionaire tax fight
🗳 How Alabama’s gerrymandered maps are getting redrawn
🤰 The truth about prosecuting pregnant women in Alabama
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Warrior Met Coal to expand with coal lease sale

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 8d

#WinTheInternet

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 9d

Trump canceled clean energy grants that cut costs for families but just opened 14,000 acres in Alabama for coal mining.

The deal gives Warrior Met access to 53M tons of coal & could raise emissions by 80%.

Higher bills. Dirtier air. Polluted rivers.
#UnmuteAlabama

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Two coal lease sales in Alabama generated about $46 million in revenue and will allow mining operations to expand in Tuscaloosa County.

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Baldwin County man says ICE detained him twice despite proof of citizenship | Alabama Reflector

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 A Baldwin County man, a U.S. citizen, says ICE detained him twice while working construction.
He showed his ID. Told them he was a citizen. They didn’t believe him because he’s Latino.

How is this freedom?
#NoOneLooksIllegal
#UnmuteAlabama
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An Alabama man from Baldwin County has filed a lawsuit against several U.S. officials and agencies because of his two ICE detainments.

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 10d

🔻 Trump’s budget spends 10x more on billionaire tax cuts than it would to keep health care affordable.

Families will pay $1,000+ more in premiums next year, all so millionaires can pocket $80,000 tax breaks.

This isn’t leadership. It’s betrayal. #RepublicansCantGovern

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 10d

#RepublicansCantGovern #UnmuteAlabama

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 10d

📉 Jobs are disappearing. Prices are still high. And now, thanks to Trump’s shutdown, even the truth about the job market is being hidden.

32,000 jobs lost in September. August revised from a gain into a loss. Families flying blind.

It’s chaos.
#RepublicansCantGovern #UnmuteAlabama

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 10d

What are those “priorities”? Keeping ACA subsidies so families don’t see premiums spike 75%.

That’s not partisan. That’s survival.