Highlights from Mayor Hogsett’s $1.7B Indy budget proposal The mayor did not seek a tax increase as most departments faced modest cuts.

Some highlights from Mayor Joe Hogsett's 2026 proposed budget:
- $1.7B budget (3.5% increase over last year)
- no new tax increases
- 4% cuts across agencies depts (except DPW, police, fire, sheriff)

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"Kids these days have is so easy!"

Yes. That's the whole bloody point.

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics, philosophy, and natural history in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, and architecture."
- John Adams

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.

President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

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

I've be struggling to comprehend how the sweeping disruptions to federal programs and mountain of executive orders is having a real-time effect on people here in Indianapolis.

So I'm starting this thread to keep track of stories documenting the impact.

Let's go.

WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status?

BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer

WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?!

LONG: I can read the statute and I did

WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?

guard: [looking away] fine

wife: did something happen?

guard: [tearing up] no

wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

The Art of Redoing the Deal, but worse and with ongoing collateral damage.

Incredible how transgender folks are too strong for sports but too weak for the military. Good thing our military is already spending 8x more on Viagra alone than all transgender-related health expenses.

Nothing says "solid fiscal policy" like tariffs on Thursday, exemptions on Friday, and reversal on Saturday.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

Sometimes it's darkest before it gets darker.

South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

Abdominal work in your forties isn't to create a six pack, it's to build strength to suck in your gut.

The Fashion Police are really efficient - no arrest, no jail, no courts. The verdict is delivered immediately.

"If necessity is the mother of invention then laziness is the father."

Comedy gold.

The quote is real, but nothing else is in this admin.

www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025...

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi “To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.

This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...

Reminder: If you think you love FREEDOM bu you don't care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is PRIVLEGE.

If you want to audit something you bring in accountants, not a squad of junior programmers.

America sold our future for the hope of living in a past that never actually existed.

At USAID, I Prioritized the Wrong Argument As Republicans seek to demolish the agency, its defenders should appeal to a higher principle than self-interest.

Worth a read: Maany Peyvan argues that we should make a less selfish case for USAID. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Are you or your work in TB affected by recent US govt actions? Click 👇 to systematically document these experiences that waste US taxpayer $: stop-work, aid freezes, expiring medications,
unrealized waivers of exception. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...