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Josh Moon

Josh Moon is an investigative reporter and columnist. You can reach him at [email protected].

National / News

America’s most sensitive man is hosting an ego-soothing extravaganza. Don’t watch it.

Don’t watch it. Don’t spend a second of your Fourth of July on the gaudy, misguided, un-American and ego-soothing monstrosity that will be Trump’s Independence Day celebration. A military extravaganza created by a man-child that would soothe even the most craven dictators of the world — men who the U.S. president is now oddly friendly … Continued

Josh Moon

July 4, 2019

JeffCo DA drops charges against Marshae Jones

Marshae Jones won’t faces charges after all. Jones, whose fetus died after she was shot in the stomach during a fight with another woman, had been charged with manslaughter by a Jefferson County grand jury, which determined that she was responsible for the fight that led to the shooting. On Wednesday, however, Jefferson County Bessemer … Continued

Josh Moon

July 3, 2019

Opinion

A letter to Steve Marshall: You’re still wrong about why Alabama could lose a congressional seat

Dear Steve, It’s not the brown people. It’s the dumb people. The latter is Alabama’s real problem when it comes to the issue of people who reside within this state’s borders. And no matter how many times you, and a few others, attempt to place the blame for Alabama losing a congressional seat on undocumented … Continued

Josh Moon

July 3, 2019

Opinion

The prosecution of Marshae Jones is ridiculous

The Marshae Jones case is ridiculous. All of it. It’s ridiculous that a pregnant woman was fighting in a parking lot. It’s ridiculous that every fight apparently now must end in gunfire. It’s ridiculous that we are so desensitized to the use of guns that a grand jury in this state found it reasonable for … Continued

Josh Moon

July 2, 2019

DNC orders big changes within the Alabama Democratic Party

Big changes are coming for the Alabama Democratic Party. On Friday, after months of haggling, the Rules Committee of the Democratic National Committee voted to approve a plan that should significantly alter the way minority candidates are selected, limiting the power of the ADP’s minority caucus chairman Joe Reed. The plan details were laid out … Continued

Josh Moon

July 1, 2019

Opinion

If we’re indicting people who fail to protect children, Republican lawmakers should be terrified

I would like to report a whole bunch of crimes. Murders, actually. Hundreds of murders. I want every Republican legislator, at least the last two Republican governors and a handful of Democrats charged with killing a whole bunch of babies. Babies that they had a responsibility to care for. Following the indictment of Marshae Jones … Continued

Josh Moon

June 27, 2019

Opinion

Alabama lawmakers mostly silent on 3M revelations

If someone was poisoning your neighbors, would you tell them? Would you speak up? Would you try to stop them? Would you use whatever authority you had to make them stop? Would you hold them accountable? Would you make them clean up their mess? Would you help the people who had been poisoned? If you … Continued

Josh Moon

June 25, 2019

Opinion

Roy Moore is going to win

I have bad news. Roy Moore is going to win. There was a lot of cheering and back-slapping among Alabama Democrats and other Alabamians with morals and decency last week when Moore officially announced that he was running for U.S. Senate again. The thinking was clear: Doug Jones beat Moore once. He can do it … Continued

Josh Moon

June 24, 2019

Opinion

Whose side is ADEM on?

Imagine this scenario: A thief calls the local police and tells them that he’s been stealing from local homes and businesses, and that he plans to steal more. He tells the cops when and where he’s been stealing, and when and where he plans on stealing from in the future. And the cops tell him … Continued

Josh Moon

June 20, 2019

Roy Moore speaks to reporters and supporters

Opinion

ALGOP’s biggest fear: Roy Moore running again

It’s such a shame to see racist pandering go wasted. But such is life for Tommy Tuberville and Bradley Byrne, it appears. Two reasonable, educated men, who chose not to raise the level of discourse in their bids for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat but instead sank quickly to the bottom of the scum-filled swamp to … Continued

Josh Moon

June 19, 2019