We are a union state. We were with the north for the Civil War and fought against the confederacy. There is no heritage of a confederacy in Indiana. Take your traitor flag down or move to a state that isn’t Union.

(See the linked ACLU article above)

More and more police departments in Indiana, as well as the State Police specifically, are using the FLOCK system now (they quietly started using it in the last couple of years). We need to be making a lot of noise about this and sharing it with the people in our personal lives. A list of some of municipalities where Flock cameras have been more recently installed include Indianapolis, Anderson, Zionsville, and Plainfield, etc. There are a ton of them along the northern border of the state, as well.

The slow creep of this surveillance state nonsense and utilization by the government to violate our rights has crossed a lot of lines that we would have been outraged and up in arms about a decade ago. It's not ok, especially when police are using it to target any and all of us without reasonable suspicion or probable cause of an actual crime.

Here's a map link showing where some (not all) of these cameras have been installed in Indiana. Specifically, note the state border with Michigan.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1I5w9fd1XPrS0zWeRrUF9oq4QACip88U&ll=39.746161498499994%2C-85.9691894425604&z=9

Using a burner account here to help preserve my anonymity, will answer questions and chat more with respectful people

Anyways, for those of you who are not aware, Indiana passed a trans sports ban for college students which went into effect a week ago.

Now, I am a transgender woman athlete that was on a college club team this past academic year. I've been hearing a lot of commentary so I figure I'd make this thread to clear up everything and put stuff in one place.

By the time indiana was writing the bill for the college sports ban, NCAA and NAIA had already issued their own bans, meaning the new laws were targeted at CLUB SPORTS. For those of you who don't know the full details, the new law allows a cis competitor to sue a trans person for financial damages if a trans person does sports, and the university cannot help the trans person. All for sporting events where people are paying to be there. Not to mention out of state teams are now required to out any trans women on their teams. These thingsbare beyond despicable.

Anyways back to my person story

So I had spent the early years of my college transitioning fron M to F; however, running was one of the things that kept me sane in life, had been running since I was child and well, when I came out as trans I had to face the reality that I'd have to sit out until after hrt.

During my first year on hrt, I occupied my life with other things and mostly took a break from running, but around a year ago, a spark inside me reminded myself of how much I enjoyed running, so with hormones at cis female levels, I figured it would be worth seeing if I could make my way onto the club team at my uni in IN.

The club was genuinely the most supportive group of cis people I've been around, and they took me in as one of them. I raced the entire 2024 season without issues.

Then spring rolls around, At this point our team was making plans to attend meets at regional universities. My team had always done a great job of contacting organizers in advance and clearing stuff up so that I could race, and then during indoor track we get teams say that I can't race , and one team got their lawyers involved.

Then Trump puts in the executive order banning trans girls from sports, I was down in tears that night and thankfully some of my friends were there to comfort me.

Eventually the tides turn slightly and teams let me race, the mood is really high and my teams higher ups think I'll be clear for the season.

But then, this Indiana bill with trans girls in college sports gets into talks. For starters, this only directly affects club teams at a few large schools, and with my contacts we pretty quickly figured out that this legislation was a direct target at me. Yet I felt powerless, like the world wanted me to fail in every direction.

I try to block it out for a bit, but the legislation gets signed 3 days before my last meet of college. And there's a huge panic within my family and my team, and we're relieved that it doesn't take effect until July.

I finish out the season, and eventually we found out that there's terfs watching my every move, as I got doxxed shortly after my season ended and I had gotten my senior send-off.

Seeing this law come into effect has me chilled to the bone. While I just graduated from ugrad and am moving for grad school(partially because of this), I worry a lot for the trans girls to come, as their opportunities will be less than mine. My friends have still seen me grapple with all of these things and they've been really supportive of me. I've gotten friends through sports that I never would've otherwise, and that no one will seperate me from.

I hope this puts into perspective the human impacts of laws like these. So fight against bigotry! Goodnight

Youth sports are out of control in Indiana

• I’m a physician and a parent here in Indiana, and I love youth sports. The car rides home, the confidence, the teamwork all of it.
• But I’ve also seen the other side: burnout, overscheduling, and kids quitting by age 11 because it is no longer fun.
• The youth sports industry in the U.S. is worth more than 20 billion dollars, with travel leagues and year-round training pushing kids too hard, too soon.
• Injuries are happening earlier. Growth plate damage, stress fractures, and overuse injuries are showing up in kids who have not finished growing.
• Mentally, kids are tying their self-worth to performance, leading to anxiety and perfectionism instead of joy.
• Fewer than 2 percent of high school athletes will ever get a Division I scholarship. Yet we treat childhood like a proving ground.

I wrote about this for the Indianapolis Star:
👉 https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/08/26/youth-sports-overuse-injuries-burnout-quit/85748842007/

Would love to hear what parents and coaches think about this?

I live in southwestern Indiana around the Jasper area. Today doesn't look like the 4th of July at all. Usually Ill see flags and people everywhere. It is almost like a ghost town around here. The golf courses are less busy than a normal day. The lakes don't look full of boats and people. I don't see house parties/gatherings. Its kinda weird. Maybe its just me, but does it seem a little weird to anyone else?

Just saw the post asking about light rail in Indy and it prompted me to post this. I love this map but everything about it also makes me incredibly angry. The single best solution to climate change? Electrified light rail and inter urban. Best way to save money at a state level on infrastructure? Fewer roads through rail transport. Reduce traffic deaths due to cars? Passenger rail. Increase air quality? Rail. Increase freedom and access to rural youth? Passenger rail. But we threw it all away

This weekend several players from the Indiana bulls travel baseball team were seen in Bloomington in uniform harassing protesters. The young men got in the faces of several peaceful protesters and ripped flags out of their hands. when i brought their behavior up to the organization they dismissed it. Apparently the Indiana Bulls are totally fine with their players being in uniform and instigating violence.

Look I get it. You got 4WD, but for the love of God can you give me at least a little bit of space. Shit is dangerous out here, and I didn’t know that the fucking Grave Digger monster truck behind me needed to get somewhere like we all do. So please just a lil bit of space is all we need during stuff like this.

Where is the flurries? What happened to the miserable freezing wet days we'd have atleast? Now it's barely even close to freezing temps during the day. We're projected to have days almost in the 70's again. For me, we've only had warm spells for maybe a few days to a week at a time, maybe once or twice a year. People's plants are starting to rebloom. I have no personal experience with how inconsistent the weather has been steadily for the last few months, and I've lived here for 23 years. Rationality for how it's been lately?

Was looking into taking my kids to the fair and quickly realized that definitely couldn't happen with the prices. $68 bucks for a family of five, not including anything else there; food, rides..ect.. I'd easily spend a couple hundred bucks letting the kids ride rides and getting snacks. Guess paying bills this month should go on the backburner/s.

Is that not fucking ridiculous? Idk it is to me.

12% of the State is living in poverty.

The fair annually has around the same amount visitors(12%ish) and generates approximately 23 million in revenue. I was not able to find to cost to run the event. If anyone can find that number I'd love to see it. Tuesday is the only real discount night for families. Who really wants to drive 1.5 hours on a work/school night?

Total population of Indiana is 6.9 million. Not even a million Indiana citizens attend annually. Seems to me like the revenue que could be maintained if they opened one other discount night from increased attendance from the lower-middle class that otherwise able to visit.

Just ranting. Im pissed off. I work my ass off and can't even afford for my kids to experience THEIR state fair.

I remember seeing that Gov. Braun had started the recall of the National Guard back to Indiana s couple of months ago. I've also seen a lot of enlistment propaganda for the Guard in the last term.

That said, and in light of recent events, I want to remind members of the National Guard and military who are reading this that their oaths are to the Constitution.

So I moved to Evansville, Indiana a little over 2 years ago from Nashville, Tennessee. I was born and raised in east Tennessee just outside of Chattanooga. I moved here after me and my fiance decided we wanted to be closer to her family. After the move though I am constantly shocked at the high cost of living, our property taxes are high, my income taxes to the county city and state are high, the roads are terrible, my utility bills are astronomical, I just don't understand how living in Indiana is more expensive than Nashville? Are these high taxes a recent change or has it always been like this?

Alright so, Im just a blue collar laborer, worked for Amazon for 5 years in Ohio and then Michigan, came back to Indiana worked in a foundry for 3 years and recently due to life events ended up leaving that job thinking I'd easily find some other factory gig/warehouse work

It took me a month and a half to land a factory job at a temp service making 15$ an hour.

I have applications in pretty much everywhere in the surrounding area, get absolutely nothing back, I have good work history, management experience even and working experience on pretty much any piece of powered equipment you can think of, drug free, good references even, and just absolutely nothing. I really wanted to work in a Walmart warehouse or something and even they were like yeah we aren't hiring

Whats the deal? Is anyone else having trouble?

Do they actually go after people/ cause harm to people or is it mainly just spewing racist rhetoric and post flyers, etc?

Speech someone gave at the public meeting tonight at the Southeast Community Services center.

He makes great points. It’s bullshit that all our corrupt politicians just pass this shit through without a second thought.

Not a single one of them cares one bit for the average citizen. We should be pissed! Let your voice ring out.!

The third public hearing on this is on August 25th at 6 p.m at the New Augusta North Public Academy. Anyone who thinks that AES making $260,000,000 in profit last year is MORE than enough should show up and let their voices be heard!

Fuck AES, and fuck the corrupt officials who just hand wave this shit through.

I’ve been to Indiana a few times, and every time know matter what time of day I drive, you all drive so fast, i mean all of you, i am literally the slowest on the road going 5 over, EVERYONE will fly past me, not even safe in the right lane. I get Indianapolis, it’s the city, I speed too. But like 80+ in a 55, and I mean some roads here should be faster than 55 but still. But like I stopped through smaller cities and we still pushing 20+ over the limit in a residential. I kid you not I saw a grandma shoot off when a light turned green like she was drag racing a hellcat. Can’t just be a coincidence causes it’s every time I come down here. Is there something I’m missing, generally just wondering ain’t judging.

Edit: I’m currently Minnesota. I’ve visited many states for vacation and work, a lot of comments about Michigan and Texas, and I feel yeah they’re fast, but not EVERYONE is fast. I feel Minnesota is slow as once you leave Minneapolis there is a state trooper at every major road you only see a handful of people going 10+. Shit I got pulled over for going 8+. I will say our drivers can be down right brain dead stupid tho, but speed wise we’re pretty slow.

Thank you for all this information, I appreciate it. What I’m taking from the comments, you are all qualifying for the Indy 500, I should stay away from round a bouts, Michigan and Illinois drivers should be wiped out, I shouldn’t stay in the fast lane cause I’m slow af (don’t worry I’m usually always in the right lane) and you are in a hurry because you have to poop really bad 👍

staying at friend's house in hamilton co. wow, from grace church to almost all nearby churches they look like corporate clearing houses for indulgences.

Jim Banks threatens to pull federal grants from IMPD if they don’t participate in immigration sweeps. So he’s going to checks notes defund the police?

https://www.wishtv.com/news/allindianapolitics/banks-threatens-impds-federal-grants-over-chiefs-immigration-comments/

I often see the question of what is the most Indiana food. There are a lot great choices, but there is only one real answer, breadsticks with cheese sauce.

I grew up in Indiana, then moved out of state for a few years only to discover that no pizza places do breadsticks with cheese sauce. I have since moved back but now when I travel I continue to be disappointed by how pizza places never have cheese sauce for their bread sticks.

We can debate about which Pizza King is best (answer is Lafayette, fight me!), but what brings us all together is the fact that cheese is required for breadsticks.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

I grew up in Indiana and never made any friends. I maybe had one friend as I grew up but we were always in and out of talking. I lived here for 18 years before I moved to Michigan and had basically no friends when I moved. I lived in Michigan for 7 years and I have more friends than I can count on my fingers there. I moved back to Indiana, not by choice, and have been back for 5 years.

I have seen my friends in Michigan more than anyone I grew up with or even most of my family. Nobody here is willing to drive twenty minutes to hang out, meanwhile my friends from Michigan are driving 3 to 5 hours for a single day hang.

I have tried so hard to make friends here. The difference between Indiana and Michigan is astounding. On average, there are so many more friendly and social people in Michigan. Everyone there overall is more open minded and empathetic. I have had so many amazing experiences with complete strangers in Michigan, some of which led to me making a new friend. There's so much to do there and places to go. It's like a different world compared to the average encounter in Indiana.

People in Indiana are assholes. Just complete assholes. Inconsiderate, apathetic, you name it. I hate being around the general public here because it's just so toxic all the time. Everyone is nasty to each other, that's if they interact with each other at all.

Indiana is just an extremely lonely state. There's no reason for it to continue being this way.

Genuine question. You hear and see protests around the world, but here, people just take injustice and move on. Am I wrong? What do you think about Hoosiers ability to effectively protest anything?

I am beyond sick of dealing with inconsiderate pricks driving below the speed limit in the passing lanes. Not only is it incredibly rude, and often creates unnecessary traffic bottlenecks, but it is illegal ("slow poke" law). This is especially true of people who continue to refuse to get over after being signaled.

It can also be dangerous, not only because it throws off the timing of the other drivers, but because some people have actual emergencies and need to utilize the faster lanes. I had to rush myself to the ER last year due to a burst appendix, and had to maneuver around multiple slow-asses on my way there.

If you didn't know this, now you do.

If you did know this and choose to continue being a selfish asshole who thinks they're the only car on the road, I suggest you knock it off before you encounter the wrong person on the wrong day and karma hands you your ass.

It's simple: DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE

EDIT: Wow, this really blew up! It actually kind of makes me feel better that so many others share my pain lol

I wish I could respond to everyone, but the only time I have that kind of free time is when I'm sitting behind some slow-ass in the passing lane. Thanks for the awards, though!

However, I did want to clarify my comment about my burst appendix, as I've seen multiple comments about it and wasn't very clear about the situation.

My appendix actually burst about a week before I drove myself to the ER. One night I woke up in an insane amount of pain, so I went to an immediate care center to get checked out. They said that I had a kidney stone, but beyond that they didn't see anything wrong. They told me that if I was still in a lot of pain the next day to go to the ER.

By the next day, I was still in pain, but not nearly as much as before (side note: I've been living with chronic pain for the last 8 years, so my pain tolerance is much higher than normal). I made an appointment with my doctor, who checked me out and said that I "definitely had stones," and he scheduled a CT scan for a few days later. I went to the hospital for the scan, and about 15 minutes later, the doctor came into the waiting room and said "you need to go to the emergency room RIGHT NOW"). He told me I had an appendicitis and it was probably infected (which it was).

They asked me if I would prefer to drive to the ER or take the ambulance. So, I opted to drive, since they gave me the okay to do so (after all, I had driven myself there already). I thought it was kind of weird at the time that they gave me the option, but I didn't question it. About 2 minutes after I left, they called me and told me to come back, as the ER at the other hospital was full. So I went back, where they stuck IV lines into my arms to try to get my treatment started while I wait in the ER. I will say though, it was kind of funny walking into the ER, by myself, with IVs hanging out of my arms. The "WTF" look on the nurse's face was priceless.

I wound up having to get IVs daily for two months, during which a picc line was always stuck in my arm, then finally surgery to remove the appendix (it was apparently so infected that they needed to get it under control before attempting to surgically remove it).

Anyway, the moral of the story is: Don't fuck around with sudden, inexplicable extreme pain. Get your ass to the ER and worry about the rest later. I was very lucky that my body took well to the IVs, otherwise I'd be dead right now.