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I’m a patriot grandmother who loves our country and countrymen

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

There was a time when finding a single quarter could make your whole day.

If you know, you had a pretty good childhood.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

🇵🇱 Polish man sends a message to Muslims praying in public space:

“Over my dead body before I let you pray here. You are a gust here.”

[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

In a split second, he shielded his daughter and wife with his body, saving their lives at the cost of his own.

His last act was love.
And love like that never dies.

Remembering Corey Comperatore
Butler, PA — July 13, 2024

[GodlyAction @GodlyAction]

Muhammed married a 6 year old when he was 54.

He’s not a prophet.

He's a pedophile.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

Good morning

Celebrate your freedoms and the Awesomeness of America today!

God Bless America

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

DON’T CARE WHAT ANYBODY SAYS. IF WE PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, CALI TURNS RED 💯

TIME IS RUNNING OUT

GET LOUD

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

BREAKING: We are on scene of a person shot that IMPD says left a person in critical condition however we are on scene and the person appears to be dead still in the street. We are working to get clarification if there is one victim.

This is happening on the eastside at 10300 Trent Court in Bristol Square Apartments right now.

There is a heavy police presence and we are working to get you confirmed information. LIVE updates on @FOX59

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

A 4-year-old boy whose father left him, stood outside every single day for months waving at strangers... just hoping somebody would say hi back, in North Carolina.

Then one neighbor walked across the street to meet him.

Now an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD shows up for his soccer games, his swim lessons, his birthday parties.

Roman Butzlaff is 4 years old, from Concord NC, just outside Charlotte.

His mom says he wakes up every single morning excited to say "hi" to somebody. It's the very first thing he wants to do.

But behind that big smile was a hurting little heart. His parents split about a year ago and his dad moved away.

Then a neighbor named Wade Fulgum did the simplest, most powerful thing in the world.

He just walked across the street... and met the little boy who was always waving at him.

And it spread.

Now about a DOZEN neighbors, people who barely knew each other's names, show up for Roman's soccer games.

His basketball games. His swimming lessons. Even his preschool open house. His birthday party guest list was basically a map of the block.

One neighbor said it best: "If the world was like this child, what an awesome, awesome place it would be."

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Ever notice…

Politicians always want to raise your taxes without lowering their fraud.

Weird?!

[Andrew Ireland @AndrewIrelandIN]

Gary Snyder looked at a photo of Indiana high school students attending a Turning Point USA leadership conference and compared them to the KKK.

Beau Bayh regularly appears on Gary’s podcast. Evan Bayh is one of Gary’s biggest financial sponsors.

Do they agree with this?

[Ken Colbert @KColbertReport]

INDIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

STEALING A BILLION DOLLARS FROM HOOSIERS

How is that legal?

Researched & Produced by Rachael Arbuckle | Signal Stack Research

When people ask me about the LEAP District, they usually start angry about one thing — the land, the water, the money — and end up asking the same question: how is any of this legal?

Here’s the answer nobody wants to say out loud. Almost none of it is illegal. It was made legal on purpose.

Let me walk you through it, and I’ve tiered every claim so you know exactly how solid the ground is under each one. Green means documented and primary-sourced. Yellow means real but softer. I’m not going to hand you anything I can’t back.

FIRST, THE SHAPE OF THE THING

Strip away the details and here’s the structure:
The state used public money to secretly buy 6,345 acres of farmland. It used public money to build the roads, water, and infrastructure. It is positioned to push the ongoing utility costs onto ratepayers — you, on your water and electric bill. And at the end of all that, private companies get finished, serviced, shovel-ready sites to build their own profit-making facilities on.

Public cost. Private benefit. That’s the whole shape, and everything below is just the machinery that makes it run.

THE FIVE WAYS YOU HIDE A BILLION DOLLARS IN PLAIN SIGHT

None of these are secret tricks. They’re legal tools, used in the open, that add up to a project no ordinary agency could have pulled off.

1. The shell company (🟢 green). The state didn’t buy the land as the state. It bought through IIP LLC. The forensic audit — commissioned by Gov. Braun’s own administration — literally calls it a “cutout” created “to allow the state to purchase plots of land without disclosing to sellers or the public that the IEDC was the buyer.”

Through IIP LLC, the IEDC bought more than 6,000 acres for $475 million, about $75,000 an acre. Farmers were approached to sell before anyone knew who was really buying. The public only found out because farmers talked.

2. The quasi-public structure (🟢 green). In 2005, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the law that replaced Indiana’s ordinary Department of Commerce with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation — a “corporation” that spends public money but is exempt from many of the open-records and oversight rules that bind a normal state agency. Alongside it sits the IEDC Foundation, a private nonprofit. Same staff. Same 12-member board. One side public, one side private, and one lawyer standing at both doors — Deputy General Counsel Andrew Lang, who both denied the request for LEAP’s budget and, separately, argued the Foundation didn’t have to file its nonprofit tax forms.

3. The “deliberative and speculative” denial (🟢 green). When reporters from the Arnolt Center and the Indiana Capital Chronicle filed a public-records request for LEAP’s budget, Lang denied it — the budget was “considered deliberative and speculative in nature.”

So after a six-month investigation, reporters could only estimate the total by adding up land records and contracts across agencies. They got to $985.1 million. The actual budget? Still not public.

4. Donor anonymity (🟢 green). By state law, the IEDC Foundation must redact a donor’s name if that donor requests anonymity — and most do. In one window, ten donors gave about $2.7 million; six went anonymous. Only the two smallest were named: the Urban Institute ($5,000) and the Battery Innovation Center (about $12,000).
The big givers stay hidden by statute.

5. Fragmentation (🟢 green). Even the records that are public aren’t in one place. A statehouse reporter said it took her six months to piece the spending together because “there isn’t one single place where all the contracts are.” Scattered isn’t technically secret — but it works the same way.

WHO DONATES AND WHY

Here is the single number that tells the whole story.

Of the 107 entities that donated to the IEDC Foundation, 46 of them also received $238 million in payments or tax credits back from the IEDC (🟢 green, from the forensic audit). They gave roughly $6 million between them. They got $238 million back.
People don’t donate to an economic-development foundation out of civic warmth. They donate when it benefits them — and the numbers say it benefited 46 of them very well.

The audit also found 30 entities where an IEDC board member or employee had a conflict of interest and the entity still received funding. Of those 30, only four were even discussed in board minutes, and only one was disclosed to the State Ethics Commission (🟢 green).

The marquee example: the Applied Research Institute, where a former IEDC chief innovation officer landed — and where, the audit found, about 82% of his 2023 salary traced directly to a single IEDC contract, which it flagged as a “potential violation of post-employment restrictions.”

The single disclosed conflict is referenced by count, not named, so I won’t guess which one it was. And it’s not “29 hidden names” — it’s some conflicts named openly in the audit, plus eight donor identities still shielded by state law. I want to be precise about that, because precision is the whole point of doing this right.

SO HOW IS IT LEGAL?

Three legal machines make it so, and every one of them was built on purpose.

The 2005 structure. By creating a corporation instead of a commerce department, the legislature made an entity that spends public money while sidestepping the oversight that binds real agencies. Legal, because they wrote it that way.
The incentive model itself. Governments are broadly allowed to spend public funds on land and infrastructure to attract private industry — the legal theory is “public benefit,” meaning jobs and tax base. Courts have permitted this for decades. So “the public builds it, the private profits” isn’t a loophole. It’s the entire, legal model of modern economic development.

The fight is only ever over whether the public benefit is real and whether the process was honest.

The cost-shifting laws. The legislature passed statutes — TDSIC, and the newer small modular reactor cost-recovery law — that specifically let utilities recover these costs from ratepayers. The SMR law even lets them recover up to 80% of development costs even if the reactor is never built. Legal, because they wrote that too.

THE PART THAT SHOULD ACTUALLY SCARE YOU

The forensic audit found no criminal wrongdoing.
Read that again, because it’s not the exoneration it sounds like. It’s the thesis.

The land cutout, the no-bid contract, the donor overlap, the ratepayer cost-shift — each one was structured to stay inside the lines of laws that were written to allow exactly this. A regular state agency, bound by normal open-records and ethics and bidding rules, could not have done what was done here. So in 2005, Indiana built one that could. And every step since has been legal by design.

That’s the scandal. Not that they broke the rules — that they wrote the rules so they wouldn’t have to.
When they tell you “the audit cleared us,” here’s the honest answer:
I know. That’s what should scare you.

Sources: FTI Consulting IEDC Forensic Review (Oct. 2, 2025); Indiana Capital Chronicle / Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism LEAP spending investigation (Feb. 24, 2025); Indianapolis Star, “Undisclosed conflicts, contracts with donors, lavish travel” (Oct. 2, 2025); Citizens Action Coalition, “LEAP Threatens Hoosier Water and Wallets”; The Journal Gazette and IBJ reporting on the IEDC Foundation. Figures reflect the review period cited in each source.

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[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Oil IS NOT a scarce resource...
Water IS NOT a scarce resource...
Land IS NOT a scarce resource...
Food IS NOT a scarce resource...

But the only way they can make you pay top dollar for all of it is by convincing you IT IS!!

[Hoosier Enquirer @HoosierEnquirer]

Good morning everyone and God bless America.

Nobody believes the first picture of Mitch McConnell and he is still on life support.

Thank you Government for lying again to us.

[Mike 🇺🇲 @VegasMike27]

Candace: Me and Charlie were best friends. He was like my brother.

Charlie: fires Candace from TP USA, didn’t invite her to his wedding, she didn’t know his kids, and she didn’t attend his funeral.

Just like best friends/brother-sister 👍

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

So very true 🎯💥

[FAN TRUMP ARMY @TRUMP_ARMY_]

Do you agree with President Trump?

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: 85% of all women murdered in Ireland this year were killed by foreign migrants

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

Antisemitism will not be tolerated.

Not in Zionsville.
Not in Indiana.
Not anywhere.

Thank you to the federal, state, and local officials working to bring the perpetrators of this despicable arson attack to justice.

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[THE INTEL PATRIOT 🇺🇸 @DeIntelpatriot]

Trump faces 32 felony counts over a $120k bookkeeping error, with Dems launching an 120-person team and spending $50M in tax dollars to prosecute him and his accountant

—yet Ilhan Omar’s $30M error gets a pass?

Prosecute Ilhan Omar for corruption?

A. Yes
B. No