Gay couple sells restaurant after enduring years of torture from MAGA neighbors

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/gay-couple-sells-restaurant-after-enduring-years-of-torture-from-maga-neighbors/

Notice that the gay couple were there first.  But you know how tolerant and easy to get along with maga Christians are … only if they get their own way all the time.  Otherwise they are violent self entitled gang thugs who can not be talked to, reasoned with, coexisted with.  Look how tolerant these people are of LGBTQIA kids and people who are a different non-white skin tone, that is how they want communities and businesses to be run also, totally intolerant and aggressively unaccepting demands they be removed from the public.   Hugs.  Scottie.  


Gay couple sells restaurant after enduring years of torture from MAGA neighbors
The Front Porch Market and Grill in The Plains, VAPhoto: Screenshot DMV Adventures

Gay restaurant owners William Waybourn and Craig Spaulding have hung up their aprons.

The longtime married couple have sold the restaurant they founded several years ago, the Front Porch Market and Grill in The Plains, VA. The new owner will change the name and try to make a fresh start with the restaurant’s combative Christian and MAGA-loving neighbors, Mike and Melissa Washer, who did their best to drive the gays next door out of business — and succeeded.

“In the end, the decision was easier to make than I expected,” Waybourn told The Washington Post, which detailed the years-long feud — instigated by the Washers not long after they moved into the neighboring property — last July.

News of the Christian couple’s dirty tricks and clinical obsession with making their neighbors’ lives miserable brought Waybourne and his husband support from around the world.

“On some level, I know I am disappointing many people, especially those who have stood by us these past three years, many of whom I have never met from places I’ve never heard of,” Waybourn explained.

But he said he knows that for his own health and well-being, and for his adopted town’s, he needed to step away from the toxic environment that the MAGA-loving Washers had created.

For the longtime gay rights activist, who proudly flew a rainbow flag from the restaurant’s porch since it opened, there was no compromising with people who planted a rat by his back door and then shared a picture of it with the local health department. Incessant complaints over garbage, deliveries, parking, noise, Covid mandates, permitting, no-trespassing orders on both sides, and a lawsuit followed.

Restaurant employees reported Mike Washer had called the owners “f****ts”.

The Washers were MAGA bullies, and there was no stopping them.

Last summer, Waybourn was knocked back with a mild stroke, revealing the toll the Washers’ campaign was exacting.

For a few months after that, things quieted down.

But in November, after the Washers’ son was elected to the Board of Supervisors, a fresh round of harassment came The Front Porch’s way. The restaurant’s so-called Christian MAGA oppressors were relentless.

“My presence became so personal with the Washers that removing myself would give the new owner and the restaurant a fresh start,” Waybourn concluded.

The couple sold the Front Porch at the end of December.

Waybourn describes the restaurant’s new owner, chef and restaurateur Shawn Malone, as “very laid-back.”

Malone has a five-year lease on the building from Waybourn and Spaulding, with an option to buy. Plans are for the new business to open in February under the name Bistro at the Porch. 

Waybourn hopes Malone can set the restaurant — and the relationship with his neighbors — on a new course. “I don’t think he’s going to personalize the Washers’ antics as much as I have.”

“I just can’t continue to have the emotional turmoil of owning a business that I can’t enjoy,” Waybourn said.

Marc Lamont Hill Delivers Absolutely Brilliant Speech Over Recent Biden Moment

Discussing the incredible speech given by academic, activist, and BET host Marc Lamont Hill at Saint Sabina over the recent protest (and subsequent reaction) to Joe Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME.

Netanyahu Spits In Biden’s Face With Latest Comments

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud, in complete rejection of what the Biden administration has been trying to accomplish while at the same time taking all the money & aid the U.S. has been providing.

World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer

Profit is king, the poor are only livestock to create wealth for the wealthy, mindless uneducated drones to serve their betters / masters.  Right wing billionaire bought a president and with that came all new courts aided by a willing republican congress.  All to destroy any assistance for the lesser incomes / poor / workers and keep all power in the hands of the most wealthy people.   In their minds they are the only real people, the public is not people like the wealthy are, they are a lessor people, a sub human class who should be kept desperate for any job at any low wage in any dangerous working conditions offered simply to survive.  And to accomplish this the right keeps their people busy hating minority groups like immigrants, gays, trans, and even non-Christian groups.   Hugs.  Scottie

Side note:  I had my spine epidurals yesterday, in the L4s5, both sides.   Very painful.   This morning I have my allergy shots, which last week left in a full-blown allergic reaction.   The doctor was not happy when I saw him and talked to him about it.   I suspect the nurses will grill me on it and lower my doses.  Which means I will have to stay on once a week longer.   Hugs.  Scottie 


Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase

Demonstrators hold a homemade sign saying Tax the Rich in downtown Davos, Switzerland, on January 14.

Demonstrators in Davos on Sunday. A wealth tax of 1% to 2% on wealth above £10m could bring in £22bn a year for the UK. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money.

The details come in a report by Oxfam as the world’s richest people gather from Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum meeting of political leaders, corporate executives and the super-rich.

 

The yawning gap between rich and poor is likely to increase, the report says, and will lead to the world crowning its first trillionaire within a decade. At the same time, it warns, if current trends continue, world poverty will not be eradicated for another 229 years.

Highlighting a dramatic increase in inequality since the Covid pandemic, Oxfam said the world’s billionaires were $3.3tn (£2.6tn) richer than in 2020, and their wealth had grown three times faster than the rate of inflation.

The report, Inequality Inc., finds that seven out of 10 of the world’s biggest corporations have a billionaire as CEO or principal shareholder, despite stagnation in living standards for millions of workers around the world.

Head and shoulders of Elon Musk, mouth slightly agape, looking sideways, with a blue lanyard and a black suit with white shirt.
Will Elon Musk be the world’s first trillionaire? Photograph: Reuters

Compiled using data from the research company Wealth X and Forbes, it says the combined wealth of the top five richest people in the world – Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg – have increased by $464bn, or 114%. Over the same period, the total wealth of the poorest 4.77 billion people – making up 60% of the world population – has declined by 0.2% in real terms.

“People worldwide are working harder and longer hours, often for poverty wages in precarious and unsafe jobs,” the report says. “Across 52 countries, average real wages of nearly 800 million workers have fallen. These workers have lost a combined $1.5tn over the last two years, equivalent to 25 days of lost wages for each worker.”

Mirroring the fortunes of the super rich, it also says business profits have risen sharply despite pressure on households amid the cost of living crisis. It finds 148 of the world’s biggest corporations together raked in $1.8tn in total net profits in the year to June 2023, a 52% jump compared with average net profits in 2018-21.

Calling for a wealth tax to redress the balance between workers and super-rich company bosses and owners, the report says such a levy on British millionaires and billionaires could bring in £22bn for the exchequer each year, if applied at a rate of between 1% to 2% on net wealth above £10m.

Julia Davies, an investor and founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a nonpartisan group of British millionaires campaigning for a wealth tax, said levies on wealth were “minuscule” compared with taxation on income from work.

“Just imagine what £22bn a year invested in public services and infrastructure could pay for; improving the lives of every one of us who live in the UK and providing our elderly, young and vulnerable with the care and support they need and deserve,” she said.

Oxfam said the most recent Gini index – which measures inequality – found that global income inequality was now comparable with that of South Africa, the country with the highest inequality in the world.

The world’s richest 1% own 59% of all global financial assets – including stocks, shares and bonds, plus stakes in privately held business. In the UK, the richest 1% own 36.5% of all financial assets, with a value of £1.8tn.

Aleema Shivji, Oxfam’s interim chief executive, said: “These extremes cannot be accepted as the new norm, the world can’t afford another decade of division. Extreme poverty in the poorest countries is still higher than it was pre-pandemic, yet a small number of super-rich men are racing to become the world’s first trillionaire within the next 10 years.

“This ever-widening gulf between the rich and the rest isn’t accidental, nor is it inevitable. Governments worldwide are making deliberate political choices that enable and encourage this distorted concentration of wealth, while hundreds of millions of people live in poverty. A fairer economy is possible, one that works for us all. What’s needed are concerted policies that deliver fairer taxation and support for everyone, not just the privileged.”

Apartheid is alive and well in the land. A Comment by Suze Hartline

I am way behind in reading and replying to comments.   But I am supper glad I saved them for getting to when I could.   This comment from Suze is outstanding.  I will first post the link she left it on, then her comment.   Hugs.  Scottie

NBC NEWS: WATCH: Kids sell food and drink on the streets of Rafah to help support families

I have visited Palestine twice….both in the early 2000’s. Kids were on the streets of Ramallah and Raffa everyday selling whatever they could for tourists spare change. I bought street food (falafel) for about ten kids one day…garnered a LOT of interest from Israeli police who seemed to think it was a strange activity. Those kids watched out for me though and led me to some truly wonderful shops where I could easily bargain. I made it a priority to purchase food every day in a Palestinian area to bring back to my hostel or hotel. On my last day in Rafah I was saying goodbye to a few kids and a funeral procession started down the street. One of the kids, a boy of about six, grabbed my hand and pulled me into a shop. I asked if he was okay and he said “missy, you stay off street, men are angry. I keep you safe” That little boy, if he has survived is a man now and I wonder about him every day. I get that Israel is all about their “homeland” but frankly it is the Arabs homeland too and they are treated like fourth class citizens. Apartheid is alive and well in the land.

History Made: South Africa Takes Israel To Court

South Africa presented it’s case, an 84-page filing, at the ICJ for why Israel is in violation of international humanitarian law.

TX GOP Chair Worked For Funder Of Extremist Group

This goes along with my last post, Christian take over of the US pushed by Churches, leaders with money, and wealthy older people who see it as a way to enforce their bigotry to remain a white cis straight 1950s society.   I really want to emphasize the hard right bigotry and hate these billionaires have and the changes they are making to society.  They fund the very rabid right wing media that is trying hard to change all of our society and political leanings, increasing hate for LGBTQIA and hate against blacks / brown people.   They push a pro Christian white cis straight male in charge of society.    Dunn & Wilks also control influential legal, policy, & advocacy organizations. One of those orgs argued in court that pharmacies shouldn’t sell birth control. The lawyer who argued that case later became a federal judge. He banned the abortion pill.   And they’ve even created their own right-wing media bubble. Dunn & Wilks fund Texas Scorecard, the top far-right publication. Wilks owns the Daily Wire and bankrolls PragerU, a right-wing “education” platform they’re trying to force into our schools.   Prager U is now being used in red state public schools as instruction materials.  Florida pushes their message hard.  There is a serious push by really wealthy old Christian bigots to turn the US into a Christian Iran, a Christian Saudi Arabia, a Christian Afghanistan.  Do we the poor majority want to allow this?  Hugs.  Scottie

 
 

January 13, 2024

The Texas Tribune reports:

For more than three months, Republican Party of Texas Chair Matt Rinaldi has vigorously attacked critics of Defend Texas Liberty, and rebuffed calls to distance the state party from the powerful group over its ties to white supremacists. As he did so, Rinaldi was also working as an attorney for one of the group’s two billionaire funders, Farris Wilks, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Since 2021, Wilks has given nearly $5 million to Defend Texas Liberty, which last year was the state party’s largest financial supporter. With Rinaldi’s help, the group has sought to purge the Texas GOP of more moderate voices by bankrolling far-right causes and primary candidates. Publicly, Rinaldi has also been silent about Defend Texas Liberty as the Tribune extensively reported on ties between the group and other white supremacists and Nick Fuentes acolytes.

Read the full article. There’s much more. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load because they illuminate how deep this goes. The final tweet links to a grimly fascinating deep dive into Defend Texas Liberty’s leader.

 

 

Dunn and Wilkes made their billions from fracking.

Y’know that old saw that goes, “If you enter a room and there are 12 Nazis having dinner at the table and you sit down to join them, there are now 13 Nazis at the table”?

Rinaldi, Dunn, Wilks, Strickland and the rest of these guys are the ones who catered the meal.

Two billionaires funding right wing hate groups and Nazis. And both are pastors.

Who said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then it is for a Richmond to enter the kingdom of heaven?

Who said the greatest commandment after loving God was loving your neighbor?

Who said not to store up treasures on earth?

no one of any importance whatsoever to modern fundamentalist Christianity. One could almost wish that they succeed turning Texas into a theocracy and the right wing state. Maybe they can leave the union.

I think it reveals that they don’t even believe their religious nuttery. They just want to use superstition and money to control EVERYTHING, and they also think they’re so smart that no one will pick up on the hypocrisy

The problem is they won’t leave the Union. They will just continue to spread their shit and disease to the rest of America. It’s happening now

Actually, they are heretic “Christians”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Wilks’ parents founded their own church (cult?), which denies Christian doctrines like the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and gives primacy to the Hebrew Scriptures. While they seem to recognize Jesus as a prophet of some sort, they don’t seem to be bound to follow his teachings.

Is there a republican who is not an extremest at this point?

If they’re not actively Nazis, they’re Nazi adjacent or Nazi tolerant.

They are all Nazis.

And look! Wilks is the pastor of his own church cult.
Currently the Assembly of Yahweh (7th day) is a conservative Jews for Jesus-type congregation. It teaches that “the true religion is Jewish (not a Gentile religion)” and its members celebrate the Old Testament holidays rather than those related to the New Testament. The congregation considers the Old Testament historically and scientifically accurate.

So, a white supremacist group is funded by white supremacist billionaires. And the TX GQP chair closely worked with one of them.

That perfectly explains why the Texas GQP refuses to disassociate from Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis.

I’m beginning to think the klan has been very active in Texas for a very long time.

Sheesh. 😯

I’d take all of the left’s so-called “radicals” over ANY of the right’s extremists or Christian Nationalists.

 

 

 

2024: ALL HELL’S BREAKING LOOSE! | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

Moms for Liberty wants funds cut to Alabama libraries that let kids check out ‘pornographic material’

https://www.al.com/educationlab/2024/01/moms-for-liberty-wants-funds-cut-to-alabama-libraries-that-let-kids-check-out-pornographic-material.html

I will call note to the plans of these hate groups.  The statement outlines the primary mission for Alabama’s two chapters of Moms for Liberty in 2024: to apply for library board appointments, submit reconsideration forms for books they consider inappropriate, and discuss issues with local government officials who control public libraries, such as county commissions and city councils.  Also note what they call pornographic material.  It is simply any media that has LGBTQIA characters, plots, or even mentions them in a positive way.   It is a way to mask their flat out bigotry and hate.  Please understand had restricts been on when kids can come to the library or that they must be accompanied would have stopped me from one of my safe spaces to go to after school and I wouldn’t have been able to read because I couldn’t have books at home.   Also as I got older the few books I did find on abuse and having gay characters or information about being gay saved my sanity which was teetering on a very thin edge over a cliff.   Hugs.  Scottie


Children's books on library shelves

Children’s section at the North Shelby Public Library in Mt. Laurel

The conservative political group Moms For Liberty sent a letter last week that asked the state legislature and the public library service to withhold funds for libraries that allow children to check out “pornographic” materials. It also wants the Alabama Public Library Service to create software that prevents a minor from checking out books outside of their age range.

 

The statement outlines the primary mission for Alabama’s two chapters of Moms for Liberty in 2024: to apply for library board appointments, submit reconsideration forms for books they consider inappropriate, and discuss issues with local government officials who control public libraries, such as county commissions and city councils.

 
 

“It is time for the Alabama legislature to utilize the power of state funding and directives to APLS to push towards meaningful and long-lasting changes that protect minors and empower parents to have their voice heard,” the release said.

 
 

APLS director Dr. Nancy Pack said it’s possible for local libraries to install software to limit minors from checking out adult books, but she thinks children and teens would still find a way around the system to check out the materials they want.

 
 

“The only way that you are going to keep children from checking out materials that the parent feels are inappropriate for their child is to have parental guidance and for the parents to have a sit down talk with their children saying this is what you may check out,” Pack said.

 
 

Emily Jones, of the Madison County chapter of Moms for Liberty, said the organization doesn’t want to remove books from libraries, “rather that books be placed in a manner that allows parental oversight when sexually explicit material is included.”

 
 

That goes for all books, she said, including non-children’s Bibles.

 
 

 

Alabama Archives hosted an LGBTQ speaker. Now lawmakers want the board fired.

https://www.al.com/opinion/2024/01/alabama-archives-hosted-an-lgbtq-speaker-now-lawmakers-want-the-board-fired.html

The point is erasing the LGBTQIA from public view.  Like Russia did.  Next is to make being LGBTQIA illegal, again like other countries do.  This is not the end of it.   It is a deliberate push to wipe out all progress of the past 70 to 80 years on equality and equal rights for those not cis straight white males.  It is the first part in a war to return to white Christian cis straight male rule.  Hugs.  Scottie


A bill before the Legislature this year would replace trustees with political appointments.
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Gay Pride Marchers in Birmingham, Alabama The Birmingham News The Birmingham News
 
 

This is an opinion column.

 

History in Alabama is under attack again. A handful of state lawmakers are on a mission to erase it, to cancel those who would mention it and punish those who would protect it.

 

No less than a revered state institution is on the line — the Alabama Department of Archives and History — and the stories it exists to preserve.

 

But this time it’s not stories of Reconstruction or civil rights protests at risk of being lost. At least, not yet. Rather, something more recent.

 
 

It’s LGBTQ history in lawmakers’ crosshairs.

 
 

Founded in Birmingham in 2015, the Invisible Histories Project collects stories and material regarding LGBTQ history in the South — the things, it seems, many would like to pretend never happened.

 
 

In June, the Alabama Department of Archives and History invited one of the Invisible Histories Project founders, Maigen Sullivan, to speak in Montgomery about the group’s work, as part of a lunchtime lecture series.

 
 

And that’s where all hell broke loose — this time.

 
 

You see, the other Invisible Histories founder, Joshua Burford, had spoken as part of the same lunchtime lecture series the year before, and no one seemed bothered then.

 
 

But political winds changed. The Moms for Liberty types brought back the Inquisition and now a thing that had once escaped notice of all but a handful of history nerds became a moral panic of political importance.

 
 

A handful of lawmakers called the Archives and questioned why state money was being spent on such a thing. The Archives director, Steve Murray, explained it wasn’t state money but a grant that funded the lecture series.

 
 

Not that the funding mattered. These lawmakers did not want it to happen, period, regardless of who paid for it.

 
 

“I wanted to express my concern for this event,” state Sen. Chris Elliot, R-Josephine, wrote Murray in a text message I obtained through a public records request. “Ideally, I’d like to see it canceled.”

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Canceled. There’s that word. The next time you hear someone yapping about cancel culture, look back at Elliot’s text message and remember who is trying to cancel who.

 
 

Murray declined, the event went forward as planned, and angry lawmakers began to plot retribution.

 
 

First Elliott tried to cut $5 million of state funding from the Archives, nearly half its budget. And remember, he already knew tax dollars hadn’t paid for the event.

 
 

This was punishment.

 
 

Elliott filed his first bill in a special session. Legislative leadership instead kept to the point of the special session to redraw congressional districts. Elliot’s bill died when lawmakers gaveled out and went home.

 
 

Now, Elliott has set his sites on those who control the Archives — its board of trustees.

 
 
“Ideally, I’d like to see it canceled.”
Alabama State Sen. Chris Elliott to Alabama HIstory and Archives Director Steve Murray regarding an LGBTQ historian invited to speak.
 
 

In a bill pre-filed for the 2024 session, Elliott would change the Archives governance from a self-nominating board to one controlled by the governor, lieutenant governor, and the Alabama House and Senate leaders.

 
 

All of the 21 current board members would be fired on June 1, 2024. Those board members include folks like Montgomery civil rights attorney Fred Gray, who knows a thing or two about Alabama history (because he made it).

 
 

But Elliott’s real target seems to be Murray.

 
 

“It really chaps me when we end up in a situation where you have unelected bureaucrats saying, ‘We know better. We’ll do what we want to do regardless of what the people think,’” Elliott said in a recent talk radio interview.

 
 

The thing is, I’ve seen Murray speak in at least a dozen public hearings, and I’ve seen him explain things to rooms full of lawmakers that they should have learned in fourth-grade Alabama History. Murray doesn’t fume, yell or condescend. Generally, he’s one of the more patient, soft-spoken people I’ve met in Alabama state government.

 
 

And I’ve never heard Murray speak the way Elliott described. Nor did Murray say any such thing in the text messages Elliott exchanged with him before the event.

 
 
Museum of Alabama
Museum of Alabama

The Alabama Department of Archives and HIstory was the first of its kind in the country and is home to the Museum of Alabama.Kyle Whitmire, al.com

 
 

I called Elliott to ask, who had spoken to him that way?

 
 

Turns out, no one. They just didn’t do what Elliott wanted them to do.

 
 

When I pushed him on it, Elliott argued that he doesn’t like how Archives and History board members are appointed and he said some things that weren’t exactly accurate.

 
 

“They are one of the few, if not only, self-perpetuating boards in the state of Alabama that does not at least answer to elected officials, or by extension to the people of the state of Alabama, and simply reappoints itself over and over and over again,” he said. “And you gotta wonder, is that good governance?”

 
 

There are a few problems with what Elliott said.

 
 

First, there are other boards that self-nominate to fill vacancies, including the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, and there are others controlled by professional associations, such as the State Board of Medical Examiners and the Alabama State Bar.

 
 

Elliott hasn’t filed bills to change how those boards work. I checked.

 
 
Chris Elliott

State Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, wants to fire the Alabama Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees after the department refused to cancel an LGBTQ historian’s speech last year.

 
 

Nor is it true the board lacks political oversight or that it is purely self-perpetuating.

 
 

The board does nominate its members, but those nominations then go before the Alabama Senate, where Elliott serves, for up or down votes — much like Supreme Court nominees go before the United States Senate.

 
 

If Elliott didn’t like any of these prospective board members, he could have voted against them. In fact, he’s had that opportunity 20 times since he became an Alabama state senator in 2018.

 
 

Care to guess how many he approved?

 
 

In the last four years, Elliott voted to approve all the people he now wants to fire.

 
 

Elliott approved three of those nominees this year — just two weeks before he took an interest in the LGBTQ stuff.

 
 

Not only did Elliott vote to approve those people for the board, but so did the cosponsors of his bill.

 
 

I didn’t get to ask Elliott about this during our phone call.

 
 

When I asked him how many Archives and History events he had been to — not counting the open-bar receptions special interest lobbyists host there — the phone call suddenly ended.

 
 

“Have a great day!” he said. “Bye!”

 
 

And the line went dead.

 
 
Chris Elliott texts
Chris Elliott texts

Text messages between state Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, and Alabama Department of Archives and History Director Steve Murray show Elliott knew the Food for Thought speakers series was not funded with state money. AL.com obtained the texts through a public records request.

 
 

Elliott’s record will have to speak for itself.

 
 

But what of his question: Is that good governance?

 
 

A handful of lawmakers out of 140 demanded an event be canceled because they didn’t care for its subject matter.

 
 

The director and the board declined to cancel it.

 
 

Because silencing a speaker who has tried to make Alabama history more accurate and more complete would be in direct conflict with Archives and History’s purpose — to document and share true Alabama stories.

 
 

They made the archives a place to tell Alabamians’ stories — not just the ones Elliott wanted told.

 
 

They did their jobs and now Elliott wants to fire them for it.

 
 

This is Don’t-You-Know-Who-I-Am politics.

 
 

This isn’t someone concerned with free speech.

 
 

This isn’t someone who cares about cancel culture. This is someone angry he doesn’t get to cancel someone else’s culture.

 
 

This is someone who wants to bring back the silence — to erase what little has been recovered and mute those who would speak of it.

 
 

Unless we say, enough.

 
 

Unless we say, this is history that won’t be forgotten.

 
 

Unless we say, not again.

 
 
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Kyle Whitmire is the state political columnist for AL.com, where he writes about political culture in Alabama. Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, incompetence and hypocrisy. Likes: quiet heroes. He is the 2023 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.