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Drove to Chicago this weekend to take my son to Shedd and the Chicago Children’s Museum… we also hit up the Illinois Beach State Park Super impressed with the children’s museum… This summer we’ve been to roughly 10 of them across the nation and it is probably the second best one (second to Indianapolis)

https://athletics.bellarmine.edu/news/2025/9/16/wrestling-hendricks-returns-to-bellarmine-wrestling-as-director-of-operations.aspx

I can't speak on WA, but in Indiana our gas tax is at 54.5 cents per gallon. We have a base tax of 34 cents and then a monthly adjusted tax that is based on the average price of fuel. That puts us at roughly 5th highest in the US for tax. With that, our transportation department (and state) will be facing a shortfall... Last time I checked, it's something like a 2.5 billion shortfall next year as a state and two years ago INDOT was projecting a billion shortfall over 10 years. As part of our state leadership tax plan that was passed this year, the state cut taxes, but all it really did was shift the burden from the state level to the county level. So while property taxes were cut, the max county income tax rate was increased and cities/towns can now have an income tax rate. To participate in state grant programs, counties now have to add additional taxes (ex, a wheel tax has to be implemented if you want to be able to receive road/bridge grants from the state). The state government in Indiana loves to brag about low taxes and push everything down to the local level so they don't get blamed for it. For local governments in Indiana

Yes, that's not good either - no disagreement there

AG Bondi did not have a good few days talking about criminalizing hate speech... I tried to include sources from all over the spectrum https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/pam-bondi-first-amendment-hate-speech-prosecution-00566424 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-hate-speech-remarks-spark-torrent-criticism-from-conservatives https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5506041-mike-johnson-pam-bondi-hate-speech-comments/ https://newrepublic.com/post/200502/maga-right-reaction-pam-bondi-hate-speech-free-speech https://www.thefire.org/news/why-everything-pam-bondi-said-about-hate-speech-wrong https://x.com/repthomasmassie/status/1967946533770551390?s=46 https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1967806738427678757 I saw she attempted to walk it back, but not a good look on her part

A news article on the findings - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/vaccine-hearing-congress-illness-children

I’ve loved it so far, just finished episode 6 Now I could see how people acting stupid resulting in X could be frustrating- ex, eating in the lab, not securing the containment device, not carrying that an alien is loose on the ship, etc…

Greta Thunberg, she’s apart of another flotilla idk, I try not to follow her

I wish I could have been there The last few years have been rough as a State fan (granted, the majority of my lifetime has been rough outside of those Mullen years) Clanga

With the Chase Sapphire Reserve card bumping its yearly fee and changing the point reward multipliers, is it still the card to use? My yearly renewal fee is coming up soon and debating keeping it or not

I've done some research (apparently not enough for Bigbrog) and it's all more or less the same headline quotes and media hot takes - before supporting the deployment of the National Guard to a city, I'd like to know the details... If it's just sending the guard to high crime area to show a presence and free up police to do investigative work, so be it, but I'd like to know. I'm curious if anyone has seen more details on what the plan is

I didn't ask that question?

What's the plan for the National Guard? I keep seeing that they are there to support the local police and authorities, but what does support actually entail? Is it just having a physical presence in an area?

Over under Alabama shoots Kalen DeBoer into the sun for Lane Kiffin?

How is Saunders? I haven’t kept up on his career but I remember sitting next to his dad at a summer camp, seemed like a good guy.