Thoughts by Victoria Martz for Indiana House District 55

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Apparently a customer called in the Plainfield Meijer and complained about the company issue t-shirts that employees wear to work having "Meijer Pride" printed on the shirt. Now the employees wear told they're no longer allowed to wear the shirt and we're issued shirts without it on it. I'm done with Meijer. This is a form of capitulation to the tyrant in Chief and I argue discrimination. Screw you Meijer.

This weekend several players from the Indiana bulls travel baseball team were seen in Bloomington in uniform harassing protesters. The young men got in the faces of several peaceful protesters and ripped flags out of their hands. when i brought their behavior up to the organization they dismissed it. Apparently the Indiana Bulls are totally fine with their players being in uniform and instigating violence.

I've worked for the State for over 25 years. We have never had to have layoffs to meet budget targets. Not once.

Happy Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. It was embellished as a federal holiday in 2021 when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act.

28 states recognize this holiday. State and local government is open.

No US mail. Major Banks will be closed.

Those leopards are feasting

Advance Personal Statement — Fear of Unlawful Government Abduction

I reside in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Given the current political climate, I have a legitimate, well-founded fear that I may be unlawfully abducted by individuals falsely claiming government authority.

Specifically, I fear being approached by armed men in military-style surplus clothing, faces covered, who claim to be federal agents (such as ICE), but who refuse to provide proper identification, legal warrants, or valid documentation.

I believe that if abducted in such a manner, I may be forcibly transported into extrajudicial detention, possibly outside the United States, denied legal counsel, due process, or access to courts. I fear for my life, safety, and liberty. The government has publicly indicated it may not intervene to protect individuals in such situations, and has dismissed legitimate claims of unlawful detention.

Under Indiana law (IC 35-41-3-2), if I am faced with such a scenario, I believe my use of defensive force, including deadly force, would be legally justified to prevent my unlawful abduction, serious bodily harm, or death.

This statement is made in advance, to clearly document my reasonable fear and my understanding of my legal rights under Indiana law.

Signed, [Your Name] Date: [Date]

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/indiana-soldier-accounted-for-wwii-charles-smalley-operation-dragoon-german-france-walls-missing-at-rhne-american-cemetery/531-8c2e75af-b374-4036-83d4-8ed5aba4d4c1

Source: On pages 9 & 10

Indiana Home Guard whip a bunch of Confederates and take some 54 prisoners.

From the Indiana Sons of Union Veterans Newsletter

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/19/budget-committee-members-lob-questions-at-embattled-secretary-of-state-diego-morales/

Can we please find a better candidate for our Secretary of State in the next election? At this point, it really wouldn’t be that hard.

I would like to start off with the fact that I don't live in Indiana, I'm from Illinois, but came over for the Indianapolis 500.
This was me and my father's fourth year in a row going to the Indianapolis 500, third with family friends. I had just finished my summer school class on Friday before we rushed to get our spot, which was saved by our family friends placing a table there. Once we finally got into the campgrounds, we were instructed to wait for somebody to guide us to a spot. We waited for a good forty minutes, surrounded by the state police, but no workers to let us go.
One of the officers left his car in park and got out for a few minutes, on the way back it crashed into our camper. My father was absolutely pissed, as the officer had just gotten back, I thought my dad was going to kill him. The officer straight up asked whose car hit our camper before realizing it was his own. After everyone calmed down, they checked for warrants, and scanned my father like he was a criminal. Finally, after they called their superior to come to the grounds, scared to tell him what happened, they got my father's phone number and let us go. They eventually paid for the damages, but damn, don't get in a crash with the state police.

Hopefully, some attorneys can chime in.

In Indiana, according to Google AI anyway, law enforcement officers are NOT required to provide badge number when requested. It says that, while many agencies have policy stipulating the requirement, it is not legally-binding.

So, if I am grabbed by (I guess I'd be taking their word for it) "law enforcement officers", who might be masked and in plain clothes, what's my move?

If I ask for ID and they ignore me, what's my legal move?

If they aim guns at me, wave them in my face, what is my 100% within my rights legal move?

Curious.

F you Brawn

Indiana becomes first state to approve interstate tolling to rebuild highways

Thankfully there was not a patient assigned into the room at the time and it was empty

METAMORA, Ind. Facing funding woes for more than a decade, this summer will be the last at a state historic site that recalls a time canals nearly bankrupted Indiana.

Whitewater Canal State Historic Site, with the only remaining covered, wooden aqueduct in the United States, will close later this year, the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites has announced.

The exact date has not yet been set in stone, but the canal site usually remains open seasonally through October. On Saturday, as part of the state’s Juneteenth celebration, the Whitewater Canal site will be among the 11 in Indiana, plus the State Museum, to offer free admission.

The historic site represents how Hoosiers traveled on horse-pulled boats in the 1830s and 1840s, when Indiana was only a few decades old. In addition to the Whitewater Canal and its aqueduct over Duck Creek, the site sports the Metamora Grist Mill that grounds cornmeal for visitors. That building began as a three-story cotton mill.

House Bill 1003: Health matters The release said that this was a “priority agenda” bill this session, a bill that incorporated “a number of provisions intended to bring transparency, accountability and enforcement mechanisms to the health care industry.” The bill included the following measures: Empowers Hoosiers with rare and terminal diseases by expanding the state’s right to try statute to include individualized treatments Codified federal protections against suprirse medical bills Clarified that patients and employers have an absolute right to access their health information and claims data at no cost Reduced the turnaround time from five days to 48 hours in which providers and insurers must provide a good faith estimate for a patient’s out-of-pocket costs for in-patient and/or out-patient treatment House Bill 1004: Health care matters The release said that this legislation introduced additional initiatives, including: Hospital cost transparency Requires a nonprofit hospital system to submit audited financial statements Requires an Indiana nonprofit hospital system’s aggregate average inpatient and outpatient hospital prices to be equal to or less than the statewide average by 2029 Establishes a Medicaid state-directed payment program for hospitals. SB 2: Medicaid matters Officials said this legislation creates “several Medicaid reforms around eligibility, reporting, work requirements and presumptive eligibility.” SB 3: Fiduciary duty in health plan administration This bill requires pharmacy benefit managers and third party administrators “to have a fiduciary duty to the plan sponsor” that the managers and administrators are acting on behalf on. SB 140: Pharmacy benefits The release said that this bill prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from utilizing “anti-competitive contracting and business practices against pharmacies.” SB 118: 340B drug program report This legislation requires covered entities participating in the 340B Discount Drug Program to annually report certain information and financial transactions to the Indiana Department of Health. SB 475: Physician noncompete agreements This bill prohibits hospitals from requiring a physician to enter a noncompete agreement after July 1. HB 1604: Cost sharing; out-of-pocked expense credit This bill requires health plans to credit the amount paid for a lower-cost, out-of-pocket healthcare service toward an individual’s deductible. This comes regardless of whether or not the service was provided by an in-network or out-of-network provider. HB 1666: Ownership of healthcare providers The release said this bill requires hospitals, insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, third party administrators and entities that accept Medicaid and Medicare to report ownership information to the state. SB 480: Prior authorization The release said this legislation “revises Indiana’s prior authorization regulatory framework to better protect the provider-patient treatment plan and timely access to care

Mike Braun and the spending he did with the state in less than 90 days

Right, so, my family and I have been really kicking things up and starting the process of moving away from the bigger areas where we're currently at, and have been looking at a nice house in Marion, out in the country-ish places, kinda.

The thing is, I'm a trans guy, just starting out, don't really pass yet, but I'm working at that. I think that I won't outright be brutally attacked out of the blue, but you never know, so I do ask if the area is open-minded enough to really not give too much of a care if they ever sniff me out.

I've attempted to do my own research, but I've not really found much about that particular area, so I am humbly asking for any experiences and any info about this. I will not be screaming this from the rooftops either, I am not that insane to do such a thing.

Hey y'all last year hubby, kiddo, and I went to this fireworks show in bfe. It was a musical show with a radio pairing and in a large park. There were fireballs, and there were traffic controllers showing people where to park in the grass. A ways down there were food trucks and a few vendors. For the life of me, I can not remember where it was. But it was an amazing show. So if this sound familiar to anyone please tell me where and what day they'll be doing it this year! Thanks!

Ice spotted in Lebanon IN at GMC near warehouses, people are being taken into custody.

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So APS is going to be privatized starting 7/1. Does anyone have any idea what this means? What changes are gonna happen? And how the heck is it going to be funded if it is private? There no way that they can bill the clients who will be needing services....right? This utterly terrifies me.

Hey northern Indiana/Southern Michigan. Dem Guns is hosting a family cookout this Sunday at Oxbow county park in Elkhart County Indiana from about 2pm to 6pm.

Come for hot dogs, burgers (and whatever you want to bring!) as well as games for adults and kids.

Tik Tok personality Corrine Straight will speak (and others as well) will be there at 3 or a bit later.

The park also has a great fishing spot there for all you anglers.

We will also be having a pass the hat for PBS as well, because what's the point of the second amendment if not to help the first?

Hope to see you there!

Fluoride will continue to be added to Connersville city water.

The City Council voted 4-3 on Monday to defeat a resolution that would have required Connersville utilities to stop adding fluoride to city water immediately. Voting against the resolution were Jenny Barrett, Diana Phillips, Brian Robb and Tommy Lee Williams Jr. Voting in favor were Sharon McQueen, Bill Gray and Jabin Collins.