Andrea Watts

Weird way to say you seek attention

Allison Janney on playing a character who becomes the first female American president on “The Diplomat”: “It seems like television sometimes is showing us where we ought to go.” #TAF25

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A bus is seen behind a pine needle in focus.

It’s Knozone Action Day #5 of 2025 in Indianapolis. Leave the car at home today, and avoid fueling up or doing yard work today!

IndyGo is a great way to get around as an alternative, and you can plan your trip with @transit.app, MyStop, or Google Maps.

Dad of Bluesky!!!

Good morning, everyone!

Please remember to take good care of yourself.

Stay hydrated.

Get up and move.

Stretch.

Get a snack.

yesterday’s mood: unpaid intern at the mayor’s action center, specializing in ✂️ civic landscaping cardio ✂️

Got a touch of the ‘tism

Advocates hope action on sidewalk snowplow program heats up soon One advocate described the City Council saga as “a giant waste of everyone’s time over meaningless political games.”

Kyle Lucas, executive director of the advocacy group Better Streets Chicago, described the saga as “a giant waste of everyone’s time over meaningless political games.”

“The pilot program needs to happen,” Lucas said. “So whichever path gets us there is the path that we would like to see.”

Now we know that the shooter's politics weren't as clear or straightforward as some predicted.

These troubled weirdoes have usually been twisted by the discourse in obscure online conspiracy forums. The rush to quickly link them, with no evidence, to one party or another in order to cast blame […]

In a perfect preservationist world, the city would be proactive enough to designate these structures before it’s too late. I imagine it may be now 😢 and that they wouldn’t want to ruffle any IEDC/corporate feathers

Drawn out legal battle too 🎭💰

From a historic preservation standpoint, abysmal! Not allowing @mrwildstyle.bsky.social in? Criminal.

When the Children’s museum wanted to demolish the Drake for a parking lot across from a BRT stop we slapped an emergency historic designation on it… 👀

👀 I’m just a girl who wrote a little bitty Substack snack piece about the data center debate open.substack.com/pub/andreawa... from a land use standpoint, is it the highest & best use of Indiana’s suburban & rural land? Discuss 👇🏻 go ahead, mansplain it 2 me 😇

Purdue and DePauw top Indiana schools for free speech; Notre Dame and IU lag Discover the top colleges in Indiana for free speech, according to a comprehensive survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranked 257 schools across the country, with two Indiana schools in the top 20 and two in the bottom 20, based on student interviews regarding free speech policies and experiences on campus.

Build Housing Not Concentration Camps · Indivisible Central Indiana Hard-working Hoosiers are going without necessities, including food and medical care, just to keep a roof over their families' heads. Many full-time workers have found themselves homeless or on the ve...

If you wake up this morning & want to do something to fight the rise of fascism, come out & join us at Rep. Shreve's Office at 530pm in Greenwood to say "NO!" to Concentration Camp Atterbury.

Hopeful & family-friendly (public park 1 block away).

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

I’m so slow to this thing! I’m sorry I’m just now seeing, retweeting to amplify the sentiment at the very least ❤️

Ashley C. Ford (@smashfizzle.bsky.social‬) will join Free Press Indiana, Mirror Indy’s support organization, as its women & girls reporter.

Ashley will travel the state to meet women and girls and learn about the changes they’re creating, the barriers they’re facing.

Stay tuned.

🧵 What’s it like to work in Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration?

Mirror Indy government reporter Peter Blanchard talked to a dozen current and former employees. Many described a “culture of fear” inside the City-County Building. Some said they were yelled at often. 1/

Workers describe ‘toxic’ culture in Mayor Joe Hogsett’s city hall The harassment allegations engulfing the Indianapolis mayor’s administration stem from a toxic work environment, several former employees said.

For years, city employees and political volunteers would not speak negatively about working for Mayor Joe Hogsett.

Now, a collection of current and former employees are speaking out about what they say is a toxic work culture in the administration mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...

My comments to the DMD Administrator regarding the reuse of the Indiana Women’s Prison property- you can send yours to DMDLand@indy.gov

Funding for walkability = funding for health!

Support walkable infrastructure and physical activity through community projects like safer street crossings and more vibrant main streets.

Learn how to fund them: buff.ly/QV4pskf #ActivePeople

Indy adopted #CompleteStreets + #VisionZero. Not buzzwords—commitments.

Protected bike lanes work. They’re ADA compliant. Cities prove it daily.

Since MK lanes were scrapped last fall, I’ve been waiting for this. Time to act like a city that keeps its word.

🧈 Don’t get me wrong, the art was dope. But the Butter-wrapped @indygobus.bsky.social, the barricades, and a whole lane of 10th Street transformed into a pop-up park? That was the icing on the cake for me 💚

A screenshot of a tweet from the Department of Labor that says “AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST!” with photos of a banner of President Trump’s face on a banner hanging off of DOL headquarters.

Is that what the Trump administration calls gutting the union rights of over 400,000 workers?

Trump hasn’t put “American workers first.” He's been the union-buster in chief.

In every debate about extending public transit into a US suburban area, we always hear this.

(Source in first reply.)

We need to talk about oversized trucks and the aesthetic of fascism.

Your Tech Won’t Save You From Your Feelings Elaine Castillo’s second novel captures the numerous ways that screens help people hide from themselves.

Screens have made people into masters of repressing their emotions. Elaine Castillo’s novel is about the moment when the facade inevitably cracks, writes Sarah Rose Etter:

Indy councilors got $1 million in the last budget. How are they spending it? As Indy approaches the next budget, we looked back at the parks and streets projects funded last year.

Indy councilors got $1 million in the last budget. How are they spending it? mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...

Everyone should be able to get home safe whether they are driving, walking, biking, taking transit, or moving in whatever way they choose

Federal data says that we spend $3.35 per person per year on biking and walking projects - about the price of one gallon of gas - not a massive investment