Not sure what Coach White said at halftime, but she may need to accentuate the important parts during the next break. #WNBA

Ouch.

1/5 On May 15, Associated Press leadership cut 20 guild covered staff. Layoffs included U.S. news, photographers, investigations, business and sports across 12 states.

My newsletter needs opinions from people local to the Greensburg/Decatur County area who know about skating - county tourism and the local arts council have a grant to paint the ramps at the park. Park was built in '04 and allegedly has not been touched a lot since.

After the unexpected loss of our executive director, Diana Fuentes, we’re searching for the executive director to help guide IRE into its next chapter. Please apply, share the job post or send us recommendations: https://bit.ly/3P1wMU5

Okay I only know of this guy/follow him b/c of his podcast work but READ THIS WHOLE THREAD AS HE KEEPS ADDING TO IT.

As someone trying to make journalism work (pivoted into "real" journalism from a background covering equestrian sports and got my first local reporting position in December 2019 just in time for the pandemic to mess everything up 3 months late) we're just muddling along trying our best is all I got.

According to the Capital Chronicle, the state has spent approx. $10m on federal immigration detainees and the federal gov't is 5 months behind on payments: indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/feds-...

It hasn't happened to me often but I've definitely stumbled on AI songs before on YouTube. Ick. Think I ditched Spotify right before that became a more prevalent issue there.

There are people who didn't know it was called a plumbob? I feel like I've known the name since the Sims 2 days...which...okay yeah I guess I'm old now in terms of gamers.

I dare any of you to fucking look up the demographics of Indianapolis as a city.

Pacers rep T.J. McConnell was alone up there on stage during the NBA Draft lottery, looking helpless and distraught after the bad news - but he wasn’t really alone. We were up there with him. All of us. www.indystar.com/story/sports...

In other WNBA related posts from me today I am somewhat hyped b/c there is a Valkyries game on at a reasonable time for me to watch live over here in the Eastern time zone.

Making this post here and probably more eloquently than I did on Threads: I've wanted to like Caitlin Clark. I've tried to embrace her being on my team despite the bandwagon fans she brought with her & the way those fans have tarnished other W fans' perceptions of my favorite team.

Kelsey Mitchell is tough

The Fever will make the Finals.

Have since lost the sticker from being outside in the rain but voted in the primaries earlier today. Hopefully everyone so inclined has gotten out and voted today.

Reading about people worked up over CNN getting new owners potentially wondering where all the outrage was when regional level news sources were getting gobbled up by the likes of Gannett, Hearst, Lee, Nexstar, Tegna, etc. years ago.

I now kinda want to read this when it's out but I'm not usually a big non-fiction-that-gets-analytical-about-the-current-state-of-the-world person and I'm also afraid it might just make me wanna rage flip a table into the next county.

I'm gonna assume this Brad fellow is not familiar with this song. Maybe give it a listen. Reflect on some stuff: youtu.be/joNzRzZhR2Y?...

Update on the Independent: it'll be published on Sundays during May. I'm fine, personally, I just have a side job that isn't in journalism, my schedule is a lot right now & it's going to be easier to bump this to over Sundays instead of scrambling to put something out on Fridays.

Jim Rodenbush refused to make students stop printing hard news. He got fired. Then he became a national hero. Via Corey Hutchins. www.cjr.org/analysis/ind...

Funny I see this making the rounds today when I literally just finished reading the first volume of the manga yesterday. (Small town library doesn't have a large manga selection and this looked interesting enough I checked out Vol. 1 & 2. Enjoying it so far.)

I feel like every time this makes the rounds, this ends up being my answer. I'm not a movie person. To mix things up I'll throw a few others that I'm pretty sure I've seen more than 6 times in the comments.

Trying out a 24 hour mute encompassing people I follow as well as people I don't follow for a buttload of political terms. Let's see if this makes my feed calmer.

I'll say it again, this is the express purpose of disinformation. Of course they want you to believe the disinfo but at its core it's about making you think it's impossible to discern truth, that you can't believe anything you read.

I am not a particularly swear-y person, myself, but will remind everyone who has potentially followed me for journalism reasons to always be prepared for random sports posts during NBA and WNBA seasons.

Apparently my state's lt. gov. is angry that a HS pep band wore black and red facepaint during a themed performance and declared it a middle finger to Christians in a social media post: www.youarecurrent.com/2026/04/23/l...

Not a @womenjournos.bsky.social member (yet) but their free webinars are amazing - on one right now and learning so much!

And time has flown by, we started this ko-fi goal in March to help with taxes, my upcoming eye surgery and to try and pay off our car because we are so darn close to eliminating that monthly car payment. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

This. Wii Virtual Console (3DS also as it was the same deal: buy games individually) was great. I've barely used Switch Virtual Console and dropped the subscription. Can't say I've missed it.

Our latest edition is hot off the presses - read it here: decaturindependent.mymagic.page/volume-1-iss...

Post the best picture you've taken of your pet (this is making the rounds and fun so why not) - here's my cat, Cortes, watching me playing Zelda on GameCube a couple years ago. Probably not The Best Photo Ever of him but it's a fun one I found going through photos I'd posted elsewhere in the past.

Good reporting from the Capital Chronicle: indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/17/p...

I am seeing that Mitchell & Ness not only has throwback WNBA jerseys but that one of them is a Tamika Catchings jersey. Very tempted to snap one up if they don't sell out too fast.

Update: Shirley Rigby has been located and the silver alert has been canceled.

MISSING WOMAN IN GREENSBURG, INDIANA. Shirley Rigby was last seen wearing a pink shirt and blue jeans. She has shoulder-length light colored hair & may have been carrying a pair of white roller skates. She has dementia.

A big ol' housekeeping thread from me ahead of the W season:

Apparently I am now gonna be on the wrong side of the more die-hard Valks fans. Folks, I was not being 100% serious with that post, yes I missed 90% of the news about who got traded there, I live in the Eastern time zone & while I love the Valks they're v. much my secondary team not my primary team.

On the one hand congrats to Temi on the other hand who is even left on the Valkyries at this point? I own a Valkyries t-shirt and now I feel like I have no reason to actually care past "I like their logo/name" are Tip Hayes and Veronica Burton still there?

Don't follow college hoops but watching this, I'm liking Raven Johnson as a Fever player already: www.threads.com/@indianafeve...

Assuming this is real: YOU CAN'T HAVE JENNY BOUCEK OR RICK CARLISLE. THOSE TWO BELONG TO THE PACERS, OUR COACHES, YOU CAN'T HAVE 'EM GO FIND SOMEONE ELSE.

I appreciate Tony East's explanation b/c I was not paying attention and looked up in time to see the coaching staffs heading towards each other and was like "wait, the COACHES are trying to fight?" For a sec.

Nooooooooo. Whyyyyyy. She doesn't do anything we couldn't find a better human being to do. Her off-court attitude is obnoxious and just makes the whole fanbase look bad and the only people I ever see who seem to like her are gross dudes who just like her b/c they think she's hot.

Oh, nice! www.indystar.com/story/sports...

I haven't seen it here b/c I'm picky about who I follow but is it too much to ask the internet in general to not:

New sticker (the cute plague doctor one) for the guitar amp if anyone on social media needs a timeline cleanse today.

Called two senators and my representative via the 5Calls app regarding some current events. I encourage everyone who feels compelled to speak up to do so.

Really good read from Poynter's Indianapolis Public Editor via the Capital Chronicle: indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/08/h...