James Briggs

Indiana allows unlimited e-learning days in lieu of snow days. Now parents drop everything to become teacher assistants with zero notice. It's not tenable. indystar.com/story/opinion/…

The clout struggle is real

It’s bad for society, politics and government that all you have to do to rise up from obscurity is start relentlessly posting negative stuff about your community. Maybe tag a fellow poster now and then to get seen and build clout. So many Indianapolis-specific accounts like this.

@JATompkins Yes.

@JamesEBriggs also when the city actually fixes roads and some have to close, it’s also Bad

We should make sports betting illegal again. Put it back in the black market where it did a lot less damage to society.

One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.

Andreesen is right about human drivers -- Waymos already have better safety records than the human-driven cars they share streets with, and letting the computers drive is going to be great for both safety and productivity.

this is the hardest court sketch i’ve ever seen

Has any tweet aged better than this one? It’s basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time.

Now spike mortgage rates on them as housing season starts in an election year

In less than a month, hope for a decent spring selling season has all but vanished in housing as oil spikes, rates jump, and inflation expectations reset higher. Can’t even get an adjustable-rate mortgage below 6% anymore.

Investors are now betting overall US inflation over the next 12 months will surge above 5%. Implied inflation rate from 1 year breakeven, per Bloomberg @business @TheTerminal

I don't want to become a weather-girl for mortgage rates, but holy cow, rates up to 6.53% today! A borrower putting 20% down on a $600,000 home would pay $168 more now than they would have the day before the U.S. bombed Iran when rates were 5.99%.

I think everyone should cheer up. Political arguments are fine. I spend my days engaged in them. But this constant depressive tone is absurd. nationalreview.com/magazine/2026/…

Indiana's statehouse just signed two bills that cannot survive being read in the same sentence. The first: public universities must now accept the Classic Learning Test for admissions. The CLT draws its questions from classical texts. Plato. Augustine. Cicero. Shakespeare. The argument is that these works represent the intellectual foundation of Western civilization and self-government. The second: public colleges must eliminate programs deemed to produce "low earning" graduates. No carve-out for humanities. No protection for the programs where students actually read and wrestle with those classical authors the first bill just elevated. Fort Wayne's Redeemer Classical School sent a representative to the statehouse to champion the CLT. Their students read Homer and Euclid. Their graduates will now test into universities that are legally required to accept their scores and simultaneously required to shut down the departments built around the tradition those scores are supposed to measure. You cannot champion the classics as a signal of intellectual seriousness and then eliminate the classrooms that make the ideas real. That is not education reform. That is a credential without a curriculum.

Every single day that this war goes on, the more the economic damage just compounds. This is the key line right here from @tracyalloway bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

1. Roll out articles so people can write really long tweets. These will mostly be written by AI 2. Then, use AI to summarize those articles back into tweets

Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"

Totally normal and cool

I'm 85% an AI optimist but sometimes ...

Opinion: AI is lowering barriers to starting businesses. But people stay in jobs they don't love because losing health care is too scary. indystar.com/story/opinion/…