Kyle Whitmire
2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com (@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.
- Tommy Tuberville, 2023: “The constant malignment of Americans exercising a constitutional right has to end.” Tuberville, 2026: “Why would you take a gun? I don’t understand that.” www.al.com/news/2026/01...
- Stanley Milgram’s cruel experiment explains the ICE-y obedience to authority breaking America. 65 percent of us will consent to horrible things — a demographic grossly over-represented in Congress.
- If you want fine wine, go to France. If you want to do great journalism, go to Alabama. Congratulations to The Alabama Solution!
- Power is a drug and should be regulated like all other controlled substances, only more so. www.al.com/news/2026/01...
- When did police start dressing like Fortnite characters? And what is camouflage good for in a city? Dress is a form of speech and we need to pay attention to the message we’re being sent.
- I’m not sure how to fix the economy, but political prosecutions of Federal Reserve Board members is a hell of a way to break it.
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- You can’t filibuster reality, but Tommy Tuberville will try. www.al.com/news/2026/01...
- Where does Tommy Tuberville live? Florida or Alabama? If he wants to run for Alabama governor, he needs to put this issue to bed. Release your state tax returns and show us, Senator — if you can.
- Paul Finebaum on his political skeletons, Nick Saban, Black Lives Matter and what it’s like getting Laura “Loomered.”
- Paul Finebaum received a text message asking whether he would like to trade one life for another. Would he consider running for the U.S. Senate? “As long as I live, I cannot explain the next thing I did,” he says. My column: Paul Finebaum's road not taken www.al.com/news/2025/12...
- Tommy Tuberville says things George Wallace wouldn’t have. There’s no code language to decipher. He puts the hate on a plate.
- First Amendment Alert! From the Crimson White: The University of Alabama has shuttered two student publications aimed at women and students of color and cited AG Pam Bondi’s anti-DEI memo as its reason. thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...
- How do you win elections in Alabama? It helps to be a football star.
- The arrest of *that* Fairhope, Ala., #NoKings protester is the dumbest COPS episode. youtu.be/lgopOu0h5Qs?...
- Apple CEO Tim Cook used to quote MLK and fight for human rights. Today he dines at the White House with MBS, who ordered the death of a journalist. What happened to you, Tim?
- I don’t know what you did to deserve this, America, but Tommy Tuberville might be about to sue you.
- It’s almost like this whole shutdown thing was some kind of stalling tactic.
- Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has said a lot of ridiculous things. After Zohran Mamdani won in NYC, it got worse.
- Get ready, Tuscaloosa. Somebody’s ego will need a rehab.
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- Starving poor people into submission? How very Stalinist.
- Weird? Cool? Scary? (sound on)
- Rumors had been stirring already. Doug Jones hints he will challenge Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/politics/202...
- OK. This is kinda cool. (Sound on.)
- The people who voted for Zohran Mamdani and the folks who raged over “woke” Cracker Barrel have more in common than you may think. Let me explain.
- Just because there's no BLS to record it doesn't mean it's not real. Reality has a way of catching up. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- . @anneapplebaum.bsky.social is right. This is an American propaganda machine. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- That’s not just a White House demolition. That’s Southern-style middle-finger politics in action.
- The Mamdani Effect? Alabama’s top election official wants to ban naturalized citizens from running for state office.
- Remember when the GOP backed voting rights? It happened. And not so long ago. One picture shows how far things have regressed.
- Alabama’s execution protocols are so brutal, death row prisoners ask to be shot instead. Pro-life, huh?
- Explain how this is anything less than evil. I’ll wait. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Republican leaders in Fox News talking heads warned Americans to stay away from No Kings rallies because they are … dangerous? Sounds like a challenge. Let’s check it out.
- Deleted my last post to correct a mistake. Eddie LaCour still has one hurdle to cross to become a judge. Maybe the Senate can consider whether he told the truth to the Judiciary Committee. We'll see.
- If you don’t believe Alabama would do this, you haven’t been paying attention to how hard Alabama has been fighting the last three years to do this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
- Dear national media: Instead of using photos of LBJ signing the Voting Rights Act, use this one of its bi-partisan reauthorization. It does more to show how far we’ve regressed in a few short years.
- My colleague @johnarchibald.bsky.social asked Google to look up an old column. Overviews hallucinated a controversy that never happened. Also, it thinks I’m a 10-year-old swimmer bound for the Olympics. www.al.com/news/2025/10...
- Some people think it’s impossible to turn Alabama blue, but if it were, it would begin with sh!tposting about Nick Saban.
- He's not running for office but my colleague @johnarchibald.bsky.social needs your vote for "American Shrapnel" in the Signal Awards. vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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- I don't want to hear States' Rights ever again.
- Isn't it weird that the FBI phone "tapping" (it wasn't tapping) business dropped just as Pam Bondi was going before a US Senate committee to get grilled about Epstein and Homan? Timing is everything. www.al.com/news/2025/10...
- No good deed … www.al.com/news/2025/10...
- Finebaum for Senate? McCarron for lt. governor? Tuberville for anything? This is not a farce. It is another symptom of a broken system that lets the rich and famous skip to the front of the line. In Alabama, that means football. www.al.com/news/2025/10...
- What a lovely column about a simple thing that might seem small but says much about who we’ve become. I won’t look at Union Station the same way again. 🎁🔗👉 wapo.st/3KnvPTq
- I’m doing some fun stuff over here. Come follow me in both places. www.instagram.com/warondumb
- Unless an alien invasion is imminent, this seems dumb. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Perhaps our rights come from God, but they exist only so long as we agree they are real. And when that agreement breaks, we will not only have lost our rights but also our country. www.al.com/news/2025/09...
- Is the First Amendment OK? Is freedom of speech still with us? It’s time we gave our old friend the Constitution a wellness check.
