I just want to remind you, as you continue to scrape by. As you clip your coupons. As you go into shock seeing your daycare rate increase. As your rent increases. As you wonder when it will make financial sense to retire. As Braun asks everyone to do more with less.

Beckwith decided now was a good time to get an 88k Tahoe, and something that’s getting lost in the noise, he also requested nearly double his office’s budget for the next two years. To support faith based initiatives. And then he thought it was funny to double down. Making a meme out of the whole situation by driving in a borrowed Cybertruck to the statehouse.

The governor is spending 118K for upgrades to his home so he can work from there. He’s getting a helipad, among other things.

“Rules are for thee, not for me.”

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/03/14/braun-family-home-in-jasper-gets-118k-in-security-improvements-with-helipad-trailer/

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/02/indiana-lt-gov-announces-spending-cuts-along-with-taxpayer-funded-car-buy/

Based on her recent statement that the Ukraine must cede land to Russia...is anyone else thinking she is actually a Russian agent?

So, Micah thought it would be awesome to "own the libs" by getting a CyberTruck. OK, great. He wasted $90K of taxpayer money on a "non-luxury" Tahoe then made the great financial decision to immediately trade it in for a "truck" that just had a massive recall of all vehicles. OK, not the most sound nor financially responsible reaction to constituents being upset over his "non-luxury" Tahoe.

Don't be upset that he bought a CyberTruck. He wants that. He is playing games with our money. OK, let's play. Call his office and congratulate him on being a crunchy granola hippie. Let him know how much the environment means to you and how happy you are that he is helping keep Hoosiers healthy and happy. Do not give into his game. Play it. Play it well. Let him know that every government official should drive an EV as clearly gas/oil are killing the planet.

Also remember that he has to drive that POS now. And THAT is absolutely hilarious...because it IS a POS!

Apparently he also took issue with the BLM protests that happened in Lafayette.

https://wsbt.com/news/local/measles-rash-fever-cough-symptoms-contagious-health-risk-unvaccinated-child-vaccines-prevention-department-allen-county-indiana

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/2025/04/08/what-charges-could-result-after-lafayettes-anti-trump-rally/82976493007/

Hatred has ruled kingdoms, resurrected nations and fueled generations of misguided racists, bigots and religious zealots. It also has surged through the psyche of most people, including me and possibly you.

“If you want to feel 10 feet tall and as though you could run 100 miles without stopping, hate beats pure cocaine any day,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once said. “It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate.”

The Hoosier literary legend told this to the graduating class of the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1978. His timeless words were captured in the 2013 book, “If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young,” which shared nine of his speeches to graduates across the country.

“As a member of a zippier generation, with sparkle in its eyes and a snap in its stride, let me tell you what kept us as high as kites a lot of the time: hatred,” Vonnegut told grads. “All my life I’ve had people to hate — from Hitler to Nixon, not that those two are at all comparable in their villainy.”

Most of us need a villain to hate. It could be a schoolmate, a neighbor, an ex-spouse or a political leader. It doesn’t matter if they’re still in our lives or not. Our hate for them lingers in our mind. And poisons our soul.

Fast forward to 2025 and America the Hateful is a raging inferno of blind outrage, fueled by primal fear and stoked by online algorithms. Our country is becoming increasingly poisoned by free speech anger and incentivized by digital clicks, artificial intelligence and old-fashioned ignorance.

“Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half-starved nation with hatred and nothing more. Imagine that,” Vonnegut told grads in one of his speeches.

This is true and yet we continue to drink it like Kool-Aid. It taps into our primal instincts. Look around at people in your daily orbit, or in your own family, or on your social media sites. Or possibly in your bathroom mirror. You’ll find glimpses of hate looking back at you with a self-righteous sneer.

To protest Todd Rokita's April Fools "joke," I've made a PDF you can use to print and mail to him. The first page is pride flags; the second page is a note explaining the purpose of the mail. Just cut them out, put a bunch of flags with each note in a regular sized envelope, and send. Bombard his office with pride flags. Let him know that this flag represents solidarity and equality, and we are PROUD to see it in our government buildings.

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Just in case you thought Indiana was “immune” from this craziness. Well, you’re were wrong.

From Hillbilly Elegy to Gnome-billy Effigy

If I understand the current bill that was supposed to provide homeowners real estate property tax relief because the increases have been just out of control, the legislature is pursuing a bill that has no real property tax relief for homeowners (some $200 credit mechanism), has personal property tax relief for businesses that literally came out of nowhere, and then they have increased the individual income tax rate 0.3% to cover the cost of the reform. So this bill costs every wage earner 0.3%, provides homeowners no real relief, and rewards businesses first. WTF - every single person that supports this bill should be removed from the state government - every wage earner should be a tax break - not a new tax increase. Call them all out - this is complete crap

I don't know if it's been mentioned at all on this sub but I465 SUCKS! Every time I'm on it there's congestion, doesn't matter if it's 11am, 4pm or 11pm weekday or weekend. It's always backed up bumper to bumper for seemingly no reason at all. Even the Kennedy in Chicago abates after a certain time/point and one can predict when it will be backed up. Worse yet, you can't avoid it because INDOT decided to throw every other state/US route in the area on to it. Who in INDOT thought that was a good idea? And now that I think if it, 65 sucks as well. Indiana doesn't really have any good cross state routes as interstate alternatives. At least in IL I can use 40 or the National road instead of 70, 45 and IL37 instead of 57, US66 instead of I55, US51, IL251 etc...

I have recently finished my military service last year and now returned home in Indy. The more I drive here in Indiana the more I see crazy bastards with the spacial awareness of a owl, hillbillies in their 4x4s, and the guy who is speeding because he is late to his office job for the 40th time this week. I’ve started going to IUPUI for college and I have been saving up to own a house. I’m tired of living in a location where I require driving into a highway for basic necessities or having to navigate an occasionally changing road infrastructure thanks to construction. I do plan to also move out because Indy is a sad ass state in terms of politics and can’t see this state getting better without change, but I think owning a home in a walkable city is the next best thing.

Short question is that are there any suggestions for a walkable city anywhere in Indiana?

my little brother passed away a few months ago and i want to get a tattoo to honor him. he loved anime and his favorite anime character was secre from black clover, he specifically loved her in her bird form, so that's what i would like to get. would anyone know of any artist who could do something like that? i'm not looking for anything fancy, just a good quality tattoo of something my brother loved to remember him by

Looking for a farm to buy eggs from near Muncie. Thank you!

Please suggest some places for bird photography in Indiana. P.S. places known to have more birds in a group

Will be new to Indiana next month. I am wondering how local income taxes work. Is it based on where you earn the money, or where you live?

Is it only county level, or are there cities that have it also?

So for example, if a person lived in Indianapolis, but worked in Muncie, what rate are they paying? Do you potentially run into a situation where your locality doesn't take out enough and you owe it to another?

I'm coming from a state that doesn't have local income taxes, and I've actually never lived in one that had it. State income tax, sure, but that was all. Years ago I dealt with living in one state that had an income tax, but working in another that also had it--it was like one gave me credit for the other, and thankfully the rate was the same. But I've not encountered a local income tax before.