Jack

I have an odd fondness for kind of strange-seeming celebrity couples like Timothee and Kylie, or Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau. You know it has to be real and not a PR thing because absolutely no one in the world likes or wants it

any time you hear someone say “we NEED light rail” you know they’re not serious they just think trains are status symbols

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

Gentrification in Indianapolis from 1990 to 2020

Washington St with Signia Hilton tower at the horizon

The upcoming Signia Hilton hotel just might have the second best views of the Blue Line corridor. The best views will be onboard, of course.

YouTube video by Heartland Urbanist Chicago New Plan: Faster Buses = Freedom

Better Buses = Better Cities

The reality: rail can't go everywhere. Buses are the backbone of transit, filling critical gaps and feeding into rail networks.

And don't forget—many cities don't have rail at all. In those places, the bus is king and should be treated as such.
youtu.be/RzybWToSoPo?...

Congrats! You’ll do great.

THE CITY INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE City of Indianapolis Issues RFQ for Architectural Partners for Residential Pre-Reviewed Plans February 9, 2026 Indianapolis, IN - The City of Indianapolis, through the Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD), has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking architectural services for residential ore-reviewed plans as part of the Pre-Reviewe Housing (PRH) pilot program. The PRH program is intended to help lower some of the barriers to building new residential housing by shortening approval timelines and lowering upfront costs-helping housing projects move from concept to construction more efficiently. "This pilot program has the potential to accelerate housing projects in our community," said Marlee Cawthorn, DMD's City Architect. "By streamlining the path from design to construction, this pilot aims to make it taster, easier, and more affordable to build small-scale, high-quality housing that fits within existing neighborhoods.

HELL YEAH LETS FUCKIN GO!

in conclusion, statehood for dc and pr

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

Indianapolis set a new record for bicyclist deaths in 2025 with 10 fatalities. This was a significant increase from the previous record of 7 bicyclist fatalities in 2021 and the 4 recorded bicyclist fatalities in 2024.

#SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZero

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Jaunty! (Yay)

Rachel Moss speaks at the Eiteljorg

Jennifer Pyrz speaks at the Eiteljorg

Emily Meaux speaks at the Eiteljorg

Me, Jackson, and Jack

Highlights from the Transit Equity Day event hosted by the IndyGo Foundation at the Eiteljorg yesterday.

Nonprofits list transportation as the biggest barrier for their clients, but spend the least on transportation.

As Rachel Moss said: “Transportation is always essential, but rarely centered.”

People stand in front of a mural on a wall

First Friday Art Show feat. “The Indy Transit Bad Boys & girls”

Imaginary transit map of Boston with a score of 5,355

New high score for the Boston Mini Metro level. 🥹

Indiana Fever training facility next to the Carson Transit Center and the City County Building

Kind of impressed by how quickly this dumb thing is getting built (no offense to the Indiana Fever. I would say the same of any gimmicky inefficient land use right next to a transit hub)

If the Epstein files don’t lead to convictions and drastic societal changes, then the only point of releasing them was for these powerful men to flaunt what they can get away with.

The Newport

Redbar

Rails Inn

Kingpins

These kinds of human scale, mixed-use Midwest dive bars are illegal to open and operate in most American neighborhoods.

oh my god

Bloosiers rise up

I'm sorry, but I'm only gonna allow this if she changes her name to Jen Nunn.

Megalania in theaters now

Ken Nunn bus only it’s Vicky Nunn now

Did you guys hear Ken Nunn has a successor now?

I’ll cap it at one: Ivanhoes 😍

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.

Largest federal employee union calls for Noem, Miller's resignations

American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, also represented Alex Pretti, issued a statement Monday night calling for the resignations of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

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oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them