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Kyle Whitmire
@warondumb.bsky.social
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2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com (@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 2h
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...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 9h
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.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 1d
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...
Archibald: What happened when I Googled myself
AI created a phony national controversy, a fake Miss Alabama and a life in hiding.
www.al.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 5d
Some people think it’s impossible to turn Alabama blue, but if it were, it would begin with sh!tposting about Nick Saban.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 6d
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...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
vote.signalaward.com
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AL.com @al.com · 7d
"It’s almost like someone is trying to run out a clock," columnist @WarOnDumb.bsky.social writes.

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/hold-the-line-tommy-tuberville-scandal-is-on-the-phone.html
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 7d
I don't want to hear States' Rights ever again.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 7d
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...
Tommy Tuberville holds the line
Senate phone 'tapping' news breaks as AG Bondi goes before U.S. Senate. Weird timing, huh?
www.al.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 12d
No good deed …

www.al.com/news/2025/10...
Alabama doctor who replaced Fauci claims Trump administration fired her for whistle blowing, vaccine support
The former UAB director found out that she was fired from her position as NIH director three weeks after filing a whistleblower complaint on Sept. 4.
www.al.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 14d
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...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 17d
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
Opinion | Why must we all suffer? Bring back the benches.
America is increasingly standing room only.
wapo.st
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 18d
I’m doing some fun stuff over here. Come follow me in both places. www.instagram.com/warondumb
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 20d
Unless an alien invasion is imminent, this seems dumb.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 21d
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...
Whitmire: The Constitution needs a wellness check
Our rights exist only as long as we agree they are real.
www.al.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 26d
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.
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AL.com @al.com · Sep 11
🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/09/whitmire-in-this-season-of-political-violence-birmingham-has-a-lesson-to-share.html

"Our short-term memories seldom have the opportunity to leap to lasting thoughts before some new tragedy trips their feet," columnist @warondumb.bsky.social writes.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Sep 11
My home has a lesson to share about such things, if we can find the time between tragedies to remember. 4/
www.al.com/news/2025/09...
In this season of political violence, Birmingham has a lesson to share
Public murder has become so frequent that there's no time to turn our grief into action and our anger into change.
www.al.com
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Sep 11
Our expressions of grief never transform into an impetus for change, but only obligatory denunciations of violence as we wait for the next tragedy to strike. 3/
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Sep 11
Our short-term memories seldom have the opportunity to leap to lasting thoughts before some new tragedy trips their feet. 2/
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Sep 11
America, it feels, is now a place punctuated by violence, not a period at the end of a sentence but an ellipsis, an unfinished thought, that lingers until it’s interrupted by another death. 1/
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Sep 4
Donald Trump moved Space Command from Colorado because … mail-in voting? That’s not the gift to Alabama some might think it is.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · Sep 2
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 31
Will the 2nd Amendment protect us? Don’t be silly. But the 6th might. Let’s discuss.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27
It happened again. What else is there to say? This will keep happening.
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