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Indeed he is: https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/james-briggs/2025/12/12/braun-redistricting-trump-senators/87727524007/ It must suck to be a lame-duck governor only about year into your administration.

I will enjoy watching lil Micah's career end more.

Looks like somebody grew a pair. Braun = Dead Man Walking

31-19 against

Redistricting is cheating. So is the two-party system. https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/readers/2025/12/10/indiana-redistricting-cheating-republican-democrat-libertarian/87582718007/?tbref=hp Mr. Rainwater is right. The two-party system is a corrupt system.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2025/12/09/dozens-ready-to-take-us-oath-denied-final-step-to-citizenship-in-indianapolis/87688790007/?tbref=hp This is asinine, and frankly stands against most everything this country was founded upon. Why should these individuals be denied their dream of U.S. Citizenship just because of the country they were born in? Where is the objective evidence that any of these 38 individuals may be terrorists or "enemies of the USA"? "Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883

Why the Indiana Senate will likely reject early redistricting: https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/jacob-stewart/2025/12/10/indiana-senate-reject-redistricting/87691810007/ I sure hope Mr. Stewart is right.

Too many Indiana Republicans failed the courage test on redistricting: https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/12/08/indiana-house-redistricting-cowardice/87623398007/ At least my duly elected state representative was no coward, he voted No.

https://reason.com/2025/12/03/university-of-oklahoma-student-is-justifiably-shocked-at-sudden-expectation-she-be-a-good-writer/ Higher education has indeed sunk low.

Gerrymandering is a time honored political dirty trick. What gets me is that, in the past, the people drawing the maps at least articulated a half-ass justification for what they are doing. These people just come right out and say we’re doing this to keep the Republicans in power. No pretense. Just naked political advantage. Shameful is too mild a term.

House panel advances Indiana map drawn ‘purely for political performance’ of GOP: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/02/indiana-maps-drawn-purely-for-political-performance-of-gop-bill-author-says/ Cowardly Republicans kowtowing to Trump, a lame duck president. Shameful.

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2025/12/02/indy-redistricting-greg-ballard-map/87568271007/?tbref=hp Spot-on commentary from Mr. Ballard.

Democrats speak out: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/01/redistricting-shows-gop-out-of-touch-with-hoosiers/ If they have not already I urge all Hoosiers to contact their state representative and let them know of your opinion regarding this. I have.

Of course not. Redistricting (gerrymandering) is being pushed by Trump to add Republicans to Congress to keep him from getting impeached … again. That’s the only purpose it serves.

It does up to a point, and the GOP wants to give it even more. And as the opinion piece states, this is mostly due to influence form outside of Indiana; aka Trump. And most GOP politicians are too cowardly to tell him to go pound sand. Do you support mid-cycle congressional re-districting in this particular case, Bobref?

You mean it doesn’t already?

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/12/02/indiana-redistricting-will-disenfranchise-rural-voters/87557639007/ A spot-on analysis. Do we really want Indianapolis to carry such political clout across the entire state, like Chicago does in Illinois?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/ (Story is behind a paywall) Some excerpts and comments: Yep, the U.S.found in the movie Idiocracy is surely coming to pass. Thank you government education.

Mr. Trump once again shows what a horrible person he is: https://reason.com/2025/11/19/a-reporters-unwelcome-questions-provoke-yet-another-trump-threat-to-yank-broadcast-licenses/

An Indiana Mom Left Her Kids Home for an Hour. Her Husband's Ex-Wife Called Child Services. https://reason.com/2025/11/13/an-indiana-mom-left-her-kids-home-for-an-hour-her-husbands-ex-wife-called-child-services/ Sad that we now live in a society where this kind of law is needed.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/28/indiana-lawmakers-could-force-more-school-consolidation-union-mike-braun/85748032007/ Sounds like a good idea to me. We need less government schools, not more.

https://reason.com/2025/10/08/trump-calls-for-arrest-of-chicago-mayor-and-illinois-gov-pritzker/ I'm no fan of the socialist state government to the west of us, but this disgusting rhetoric by Mr. Trump is beyond the pale. Where do state rights end and Trump's supposed "plenary authority" begin?

https://reason.com/2025/10/01/ice-arrested-a-u-s-citizen-twice-during-alabama-construction-site-raids-now-hes-suing/ Completely despicable and un-American behavior by these ICE officers. And don't get me started about the cowardly ones wearing masks. And Mr. Kavanaugh is completely out of touch with the America he lives in. He needs to come down from his SCOTUS Ivory Tower. I'm probably going to have some construction activity occur on my property in a few weeks. There is a %100 chance most if not all the workers will be of Latino/Hispanic descent. If for some inexplicable reason ICE shows up at my property for a "dragnet raid" can I tell them to get the hell off my private property, unless they produce a valid warrant?

https://abcnews.go.com/International/jane-goodall-famed-primatologist-anthropologist-conservationist-dead-91/story?id=109868347