The word is already going out - so I'm finally able to say YES! I'm joining the team at Damien Center as their new Director of Advocacy. It's an honor to have earned the trust of such a storied institution.
Can't wait to dig into their impressive advocacy and policy portfolio! I'll be helping their team secure care, resources, and dignity for the vulnerable Hoosiers they serve.
I'm going to do that by doing what I do best: Making friends everywhere!
It's sine die in #Indiana and I can officially report that NO ANTI-LGBTQ LANGUAGE SURVIVED THIS SESSION.
This is the first time that's happened since 2020 - the start of the anti-#trans wave that has swept the country.
This is a very big deal, and today I'm pleased and proud to call myself a #Hoosier.
Shame on my State Senator, Democrat J.D. Ford, for voting to raise taxes of Hoosiers so that billionaires can build another sports stadium in our state.
Even if it doesn't happen (and it likely won't), voting for such a bill is a betrayal. Will have to revisit if I want to continue supporting JD for Congress.
Lawmakers eye road spending review as universally hated Mid-States Corridor nears construction
"Latest cost estimates put the total project at more than $3 billion...We’ll have to see how many dollars we have available to do that, because we certainly don’t want to do a huge project like that and then our safety improvement projects get put on hold,”
What IS this? The legislature doing sensible things is disrupting my whole worldview.
In #Indiana, I generally think of the anti-trans wave as starting in 2020, the most recent year we were able to stop all anti-LGBTQ legislation.
I just watched a (formerly?) powerful state senator fail to get a MAGA wet-dream of a bill out of committee, and then repeatedly fail to get amendments with similar language attached to three other Republican bills.
It's hard not to feel like the moral panic train is starting to run out of gas.
You would think these MAGA tryhards in the state senate would be ashamed of constantly looking so pathetic and thirsty in front of their colleagues but I guess a lack of self-respect is baked into the type.
Nowhere is the hubris of the #Indiana supermajority more evident than in watching them repeatedly vote down reasonable amendments to their electric utility affordability bill that would save Hoosiers real money on their bills while their own voters are *begging* them for meaningful actions.
All while offering a pat (false) excuse that "this has a fiscal and we've passed the recommit deadline."
"If Hoosiers are confronted, harassed or assaulted for going in the legally required toilet, what is their remedy? Are there consequences for making a false accusation with malicious intent? And what happens when police arrive? Will they inspect the accused person’s genitals?"
https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2026/02/06/senate-bill-182-transgender-families/88534131007/
My friend Lindsay Haake calling SB182 like it is on this week's Indiana Week In Review. "Throw it in the trash!"
Perfect comment on this latest assault on transgender Hoosiers.
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