Bill Barrow
@BillBarrowAP
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National Politics Reporter @AP. Harvard @NiemanFdn Fellow ‘22. Prior: Times-Picayune in NOLA. Press-Register (Ala.). Proud @AuburnU Tiger. DMs are open.
Atlanta, Georgia
Joined August 2009
My native Alabama often is recognized by its most sinister sons—Wallace, Bull Connor, the 16th St. bombers—or sports figures Bryant & Saban. The fuller story belongs to @repjohnlewis, Rosa Parks, Frank Johnson, Autherine Lucy, Helen Keller, Nelle Harper Lee and so many others.
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Make Hugh Freeze's firing for cause. Cause he wasted Cam Coleman and Eric Singleton.
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in a world full of uncertainty, it's comforting to see that SEC officiating remains just as terrible as ever.
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That SEC apology tweet in a few hours is gonna hit like craaaack
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The Southern Christian Leadership…, along with King’s family, argued that the FBI illegally surveilled King and other civil rights figures, hoping to discredit them and their movement. @BillBarrowAP
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s two living children are urging people to tread lightly with a newly released trove of records related to their father's assassination. Martin Luther King III and Bernice King...
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"Democrats’ path back to power may start here, one small meeting at a time, because it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the party to regain U.S. Senate control or win the presidency without competing harder for rural....voters" @BillBarrowAP
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Kentucky Democrats are trying to address the party's steep deficits in overwhelmingly white, conservative pockets of rural America.
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I count five, possibly six out of 18 security lanes open at the main checkpoint this morning at the world’s busiest airport. Sigh.
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.@CommunityNotes please
@DrunkAubie Broome has the best whistle in CBB. He can mug players on defense but Florida can’t look in his direction
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Note to sportswriters ahead of NCAA men's tourney: The South, SEC and Deep South are EACH a different footprint. Don't conflate them. Deep South, generally, comprises SC, GA, AL, MS & LA (FL historically but not as much now). UK, Tenn, Arky, Texas, are NOT in the Deep South.
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This also means Mark Sears hasn’t spent considerable time as No. 1.
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Auburn is now 16-2 in Quad 1 games after a convincing win at Kentucky. The Tigers are also 15-1 in what is statistically the toughest conference in college basketball history. A historic resume.
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The trope of 'Waste, fraud and abuse' via @BillBarrowAP
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Pinpointing the genesis of “waste, fraud and abuse” as political rhetoric is difficult. But the concept is older than the nation: Think “taxation without representation.”
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Mike Pence has emerged as one of the few Republicans willing to publicly criticize Trump in the early days of his new administration. Our interview with the former VP on what he’s been up to, his goals, and his last conversation with the president:
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His group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of Donald Trump’s top Cabinet picks.
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At St. Pat’s in NYC, they were asking me if students roll Toomer’s Corner at away games. I answered,
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An in-depth look from @AP's Peter Smith at @realDonaldTrump's effort to investigate what the administration insist is anti-Christian bias in the majority Christian United States.
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Christianity is by far the largest faith in America, and Christian conservatives have a strong grip on the levers of government.
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