Jail doesn’t make them “better”, it makes them more scarred, more likely to be homeless for longer and more desperate. open.substack.com/pub/mrwildst...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

A thorough argument -- with plenty of hyperlinked receipts -- outlining the end stages of a multi-decade & multi-party effort to remove democratic control over public schools in Indiana's largest school district.

This is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison: IndyGo’s budget is larger than the city’s commitment to IMPD. However, the city’s commitment to IndyGo is just $146M compared to the city’s $308M commitment to IMPD for BY 2026

This morning @kayladwyer.bsky.social and I released the next article in our Christian nationalism project. In this piece, historians and theologians explain why they believe the movement's rhetoric is similar to the messaging of 20th century Indiana Klan. bit.ly/49pFYJE

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

If you got a trillion dollars today, and spent $1 million every day, it would take more than 2,700 years to spend it all.

Mayor Joe Hogsett was once named “Mr. Clean” by a watchdog organization for his tough stance on government corruption as U.S. attorney. A Mirror Indy/IndyStar investigation finds that the mayor ignored conflicts of interest involving millions of dollars in city incentives. https://bit.ly/3L8OOBe

This team overcame obstacles to the very end, nearly earning a spot in the WNBA Finals. ❤💛💙 (📸: AP/Butch Dill)

The Midwest's most overlooked city is home to its best underground music scene.

“I didn’t want to leave the city of Indianapolis. I wanted to grow my career [there], but I decided to leave because I realized...my career there wasn’t worth my worsening mental health,” said Myles, a national Democratic political operative [working] for campaigns, labor unions and gov. officials.

Concentration Camp Atterbury is set to open this month in the middle of Rep. Jefferson Shreve's district - Abuses are already happening & will only get worse! Come join us on Sunday @ 530pm to tell Rep. Shreve we need "Affordable Housing Not Concentration Camps!" www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

Second verse, same as the first...

If more people had been as brave as Colbert then and were as brave as he is now, we would not be here today.

My original thread tracking how the Trump administration is changing Indy is so long it's hard to use. So starting a new thread to track post-100 days stories. Let's get back to it. #Indianapolis #HoosierSky

@mrwildstyle.bsky.social This is what Indianapolis should be doing. More literacy programs. More youth camps. Extended rec center hours. Planned block parties. Open up and maintain the pools. Open up schools for summer classes. Etc.

love this

" I was dragged out and groped by law enforcement at the direction of those very Democrats I once helped into office." - Elise Shrock www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Imagine paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for this report, claiming you took it seriously, and then not knowing the name of one of the accusers.

Video of Lauren Roberts being removed by law enforcement tonight from the City-County Council meeting as she tried to speak during the public comment period.

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Hogsett's texts to women show Indianapolis mayor embodied toxic culture | Opinion www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Check out our return to @punklottopod.bsky.social where we discuss our new album NOPLACE and an album from the year assigned to us: 2008's "Get Awkward by Be Your Own Pet.

We had a blast talking with @emmoore.bsky.social about our journey as friends, as a band, and making this record. Check out the @punknews.bsky.social feature.

wifepatrol.bandcamp.com/album/noplace Please welcome our second long player, NOPLACE. Five years in the making, we think it’s our best effort to date and right on time. Love you all, stay strong and kick ass TOGETHER. See you soon.

Indiana University has served the young people of the state and the country and the world as a model public university. These measures, passed without review or discussion, destroy IU’s independence and will if allowed to stand undo its essential character. (1/3) www.axios.com/local/indian...

"It's for everyone. Like, if you come here on a Friday night, you'll see people from all different countries, from all races … You'll see people from everywhere. And that's the goal." Indy is increasingly turning into exactly the city I want to live in. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

hey hey! thanks for the love, @punknews.bsky.social 💙

☆ Super sick gig coming up with Black Ends at Healer! Can't wait to rock with these living Seattle legends. ☆

Hey folks! We've just released "Ruthless," the second single from NOPLACE: wifepatrol.bandcamp.com/track/ruthless Hope you enjoy! Happy New Music Friday! 📷 photo credit: @crazyscarfman on Instagram

As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

New IN Dem chair on sexual assault scandals last year "it wasn't fair people were attacking Mike Schmuhl for not doing something about a sitting elected legislator, because it's not his place. It's not his job. It's the job of the state Senate." INSPIRED YET? www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

Thanks so much @totalvibration.bsky.social for including us in the latest mixtape!

we can't make Monument Circle car-free, enough with the newfangled ideas! (this is from 1958)

I don't know who all follows me on here, but if you do and want a small reprieve from the ongoing nightmare of 2025, I'm in a band (that's me on the left) releasing an album later this spring. New song out today. PRe-orders for the album are up.

OK #HoosierSky so this is happening Share amongst your peeps Those who are in science Those who like science Those who have been helped by science Those who value truth and facts Come hang with the cool kids and say hi to some rad scientists

It’s time to admit it. Charter Schools are failing our students. Not IPS. We must push back the notion that IPS should close and start having the real conversation; that charter schools must go!

One of those critical summaries of the era www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

also—we have to beg & plead & fight the world's most annoying rich boomers to get a single bike lane but when a billionaire wants to build another practice facility on city-owned land a block away from his other practice facility it gets rubber stamped behind closed doors bsky.app/profile/eric...

Great piece on the renewable nature of prejudice at the Indiana statehouse -- anti-DEI bills no different than the flap over CRT last year or the push for RFRA ten years ago. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

Ray Skillman’s favorite State Senator, Aaron Freeman, is up to his usual bullshit again. iga.in.gov/legislative/...

Can't quit the Ramaswamy/mediocre America story. An observation: Wasn't the lesson about Urkel that he WAS cool, outside the confines of the show? Everyone tuned in for Urkel. I had an Urkel t-shirt, not an Eddie shirt. In fact, isn't the last 40 years of US culture a story of nerd TRIUMPH?

Hoosier women face a stark reality. They are paid 70 cents to every dollar a man makes, on average. In a state with the third highest maternal mortality rate in the nation. And where 60% of evictions are shouldered by single mothers. @mcmolloy.bsky.social mirrorindy.org/indiana-wome...

My latest column. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

On the bright side, if we call it “Zero Vision” instead, a rebrand won’t be all that expensive.

I breezed through my Bluesky sign up process, so I may be misremembering, but I don't think I selected the 'show me endless rolls of pre-Clintonian computer technology' option. Like, I'm looking for news and local commentary. Enough with the Coleco ads.

North side Indy folks / Dems—if you live in state senator Greg Taylor’s district (33), consider contacting his office and asking him to step aside for the good of all as the newly (and confoundingly) party-elected minority leader. Hell of a month for Hoosier women. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...