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YouTube video by House of Highlights Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner - FULL Final Highlights | Roland Garros 2025

This is an instant classic. Oh, what a match!
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YouTube video by Paramount Pictures Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise

Ya, I'll admit it--worth seeing on the big screen.

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Read all about it: The final installment from @bshelburne.bsky.social. Enjoy!

Read all about it: Part 3 in @bshelburne.bsky.social series regarding complaints filed against the ADOC.

Read all about it: Part two dropped today. Take a read please!

Read all about it: First in a series of four stories regarding how ADOC settles lawsuits related to use of excessive force.

Blood Money: Alabama Department of Corrections pays to settle lawsuits alleging excessive force | Alabama Reflector The Alabama Department of Corrections has spent over $17 million to settle claims of excessive force by corrections officers against inmates.

Read all about it: The first in a series of four that details how the Alabama Department of Corrections handles lawsuits concerning excessive force. @bshelburne.bsky.social #ALPolitics

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Woohoo, straight A's this semester. It is the first semester, but it still counts!

Oh my gosh @williesha.bsky.social. Now it is my turn to experience the stress that you were feeling when you were toiling away at this!

Final exam taken, final project completed, first semester of graduate school finally done.

Got this in the mail today--guess that means I am part of the Thurndering Herd family!

Braves' Jurickson Profar gets 80-game PED ban, calls it 'most difficult day' of his career Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been suspended for 80 games without pay for performance-enhancing drug use.

Now I wonder if he earned the season he had last year when he became an all-star: Braves' Jurickson Profar gets 80-game PED ban, calls it 'most difficult day' of his career
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Opinion | The AP’s Freedom of Speech—and Yours A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.

Food for thought: www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

BREAKING: We just learned Alireza Doroudi is being held at the Pickens County jail awaiting to be transported to an ICE facility, which should happen in the next couple days.

USDA programs that paid KY farmers to provide food to schools, food banks cut. ‘Devastating’ The USDA grants paid about $15 million to Kentucky farmers for pork, chicken, vegetables and fruit.

USDA is canceling programs that paid Kentucky farmers to grow food for school cafeterias, food banks.
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Gov. Kay Ivey takes control of State Board of Veterans Affairs • Alabama Reflector Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday signed a law restructuring the Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs, reducing its powers but keeping its membership at 17.

Via @alander.bsky.social: The law ends the Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs' powers to set policy and rules on veterans' issues, reducing it to an advisory board.

Alabama House approves grocery tax cut, income tax adjustments • Alabama Reflector The Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed $191 million in tax cuts in a four bill package on Tuesday.

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The bill from Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, would cut the state grocery tax from 3% to 2%. Another bill would allow local governments to lower their grocery taxes but not require it.

Check this out: www.notus.org/alabama/shom...

Sending good vibes to the families affected by the storm. @ us if communities are in need of assistance. ✊️

SC inmate executed by firing squad, a first nationwide since 2010 • SC Daily Gazette Brad Sigmon, 67, is set to become the first inmate executed by firing squad in the United States since 2010.

Read all about it: States turn to different methods to execute people sentenced to death: scdailygazette.com/2025/03/07/s...

Alabama House committees approve bills targeting immigrants • Alabama Reflector The bills enhance penalties for felonies committed by people in the country unlawfully and invalidate licenses issued to those without legal status.

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: Two Alabama House committees Wednesday approved bills enhancing penalties for crimes committed by people living in the country without legal authorization and one invalidating out-of-state licenses issued to those without legal status.

They are all going to TikTok and YouTube now.

Doomscrolling has never been good for my mental health, but I am seeing on my LinkedIn feed a lot of journalists getting laid off. At first it was frustrating, but now it is maddening. Honestly people, how are you supposed to know what is happening in the world without us here to tell you!

2018? I think!

Fate of Hanceville police department still uncertain after ‘culture of corruption’ accusations City leaders met to discuss the recent arrests of the chief of police, several officers and an officer’s wife.

This has been the wildest story @al.com haa covered all year. Between this and Tarrant...oof. www.al.com/crime/2025/0...

Alabama city divided over whether to abolish police department accused of "culture of corruption" A small Alabama city has been roiled by accusations that the local police department has a “rampant culture of corruption.”

Not from me, but worth a look regardless: apnews.com/article/hanc...

Breaking news everyone!

Just tagged you!

@5sheps.bsky.social: here it is courtesy of Mr. Brown

Oh bless you!