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My INsnyde Take: ICE Barbie and the Deportation Dreamhouse
Mike Braun is now just three deportations, two fat lips and a chin tuck away from completing his transformation into ICE Barbie — complete with an authoritarian dreamhouse, a militarized helipad, and a National Guard-sized detention center. In his latest cosplay as Kristi Noem’s frostbitten stunt double, Braun rolled out a plan that deputizes Indiana cops, prison guards, and DHS staff as ICE-lite agents under the 287(g) program. Because when Hoosiers are struggling to pay rent, buy groceries, or afford their electricity bills, what they really need is for their state government to prioritize rounding up immigrants over feeding families or funding schools.
While Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is off channeling 1950s televangelist energy and turning his office into a taxpayer-funded tabernacle, Braun is staging a “Law & Order: Xenophobia Unit” reboot at Camp Atterbury. Hoosiers might have been hoping their new governor would focus on, say, skyrocketing healthcare costs or the basic economic crises hitting Indiana households. Instead, Braun’s busy fantasizing about ICE bootcamps and cosplay photo ops with badges and boots. It’s less governance, more MAGA fan fiction with a detention center twist.
Beau Bayh takes the oath becoming a member of the Indiana Bar Association. September 2024. Birch Bayh Federal Building,Indianapolis. The Honorable David Hamilton, judge United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit presiding. The rule of law is one of the things that makes America exceptional. We must defend it.
Brown — a staunch pro-lifer — has been a fixture in the Senate Republican caucus since 2014. But now high-profile GOP Hoosiers like U.S. Sen. Jim Banks and Attorney General Todd Rokita have put her in the crosshairs for 2026.
As Central Indiana experiences extreme heat this summer, many residents are facing rising electric bills that have left them reeling. Amanda Byers and Molly Sanford are just two of those grappling with the financial strain of skyrocketing electricity costs.
One of Secretary of State Diego Morales’ companions on his eyebrow-raising March trip to India — who was being paid by taxpayers for a no-bid business consulting contract with Morales’ office — appeared to use part of the overseas trip to promote his own private business interests, advertising a “fast-track route to U.S. residency” to would-be foreign investors.
It would take legislative action to enable Braun to replace Mears, but the governor seems to have softened his stance on Mears ever so slightly after placing the blame for recent violence squarely at the prosecutor's office door.
Beto says it’s time to punch Republicans in the mouth—politically speaking. In this explosive episode of The SnydeReport, host Gary Snyder sits down with Beto O’Rourke for a no-BS conversation on Texas gerrymandering, authoritarian power grabs, and why it’s better to win than be right. If you're tired of watching Democrats bring a fact-check to a culture war gunfight, this one’s for you.
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On Monday night, I sat in my recliner writing my third novel. I’m about halfway done with it, and my editor is expecting that first half by the end of the week so she can do a midpoint “assessment” of the story. She worked on my last book, and I know how she operates. The first question she will contemplate is whether or not the story is grabbing the audience quickly.
Greg Petrowich, WFYI's president and CEO, sent 13News a statement saying, in part, "The American People have benefited immensely from their work and commitment to funding public media stations, including 17 right here in Indiana."
The unexpected firing of Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith’s Senior Advisor and Legislative Director Erin Sheridan may not just be a staffing shake-up—it could be the opening shot in a future political showdown.
Top staff for Indiana’s lieutenant governor played a video showing a state lawmaker’s wife seemingly topless, apparently using an AI program to alter the woman’s real performance at a state talent show hosted on April 9, according to multiple people familiar with the incident.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) has declared another Air Quality Action Dayfor Sunday. This is due to Canadian wildfire smoke being present in our atmosphere, blowing into northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, thanks to east-northeasterly winds.
Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales just added another notch to his Frequent Flyer card with his third White House visit in six months, all in the name of "election integrity" — a phrase that now apparently means using government resources to hunt for imaginary voter fraud.
HOOSIERS! You keep showing up across our state to protest the actions of the Republican supermajority in cities and towns large and small. On the weekend of June 14, over 30,000 Hoosiers showed up to events in over 50 locations, according to data compiled by volunteers.
There were an estimated 12,000 attendees in Indianapolis, 5,000 in Fort Wayne, 3,000 in Bloomington, 2,000 in South Bend, 1,200 in Madison, 1,000 in Highland, 1,000 in Michigan City.
But those were the larger cities. Small towns showed up too! 450 in Pendleton, 400 in Warsaw, 150 in Spencer, 250 in Nashville, 200 in Bedford, 75 in Kentland, and many more in dozens of other cities across the state.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 27, could be fielding some awkward questions after President Donald Trump, 79, took a moment in his latest interview to comment on what exactly it is about her that he likes the most.
Young Republicans are split over the future of the party, with two warring factions seeking to position themselves as the true MAGA warriors ahead of a weekend vote for control of the party’s youth arm.
Prince Andrew and Donald Trump’s Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed Donald Trump allegedly handed Prince Andrew a list of masseuses after the two men engaged in a sick conversation about “p---y.” The interaction reportedly happened in the year 2000, not long after they had been introduced by their mutual friends, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
The US office of special counsel, an independent federal agency, confirmed to NBC News on Saturday that it is investigating former Department of Justice prosecutor Jack Smith for possible violations of the Hatch Act.
After months of rallying and periods of relative calm, stocks tumbled on Friday as fresh economic data reflected unexpected signs of weakness in the labor market and President Trump announced steep new tariffs against some of America’s largest trading partners.
I wore a headscarf to honor a fallen Muslim NYPD officer at his funeral. Respecting a grieving family’s faith is “wut” leaders and anyone with basic decency would do.
For all of President Donald Trump’s promises of an economic “golden age,” a spate of weak indicators this week told a potentially worrisome story as the impacts of his policies are coming into focus. Job gains are dwindling. Inflation is ticking upward. Growth has slowed compared with last year.
President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of military planes for deportations, complete with the White House pumping out imagery of migrants getting frog-marched onto souped-up military aircraft. He sent the National Guard into Los Angeles amid large-scale protests there—and then sent in the Marines.
The official White House Instagram account came under fire on Saturday after it took the liberty of boasting about President Donald Trump’s “winning” golf skills.
With a combination of executive orders, legal maneuvers and staffing decisions, President Donald Trump has already put in motion his next effort to subvert upcoming federal elections in 2026 and 2028.
Kelsey Mitchell had 23 points, Aliyah Boston and Natasha Howard had double-doubles and the Indiana Fever beat the Dallas Wings 88-78 on Friday night for their season-high fourth-straight win despite playing without Caitlin Clark for the sixth straight game.
Edey admits to speeding, a Class C infraction, by going 91 mph in a 55 mph zone. Edey must pay a fine of $500 and court costs of $139.50, totaling $639.50. Dismissal of reckless driving
Bubba Wallace became the first Black driver to win on Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 2.5-mile oval, surviving a late rain delay, two overtimes, concerns over running out of fuel and a hard-charging Kyle Larson on Sunday in the Brickyard 400.
