James Briggs
@JamesEBriggs
Opinion editor and columnist for @indystar. Find me outside X: https://www.betweenthemotion.com/
The $90,000 cars and the helipad for the governor’s private residence would be kind of funny if Indiana’s DOGE bros weren't demanding everyone else do more with less. New column: indystar.com/story/opinion/…
Very good advice on how to be a takes monger of the highest order.
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Todd Young is betting he can keep doing meaningful work and win reelection as a non-MAGA moderate Republican while also upholding the president’s agenda, because America doesn’t need him to save us from Trump. Column: indystar.com/story/opinion/…
Opinion: Sen. Todd Young has sacrificed neither his conscience nor his influence. Would he throw away his career to take a stand against Trump? indystar.com/story/opinion/…
I'm really enjoying the perspective @jstewartIndy brings to @indystar. It's been pointed out many, many times that Indiana's school voucher program serves to subsidize private schools for wealthy families. This column covers the topic from a new angle. indystar.com/story/opinion/…
Mike Braun grandstands on Indianapolis crime while murders drop 24% … from metro columnist @JamesEBriggs indystar.com/story/opinion/…
Gov. Mike Braun is threatening state intervention if Indianapolis doesn't "make a change" on violent crime. If reducing homicides doesn't count as "change," then I don't know what does. Column: indystar.com/story/opinion/…
Good column by @JamesEBriggs. I personally think property crime is a more relevant issue than violence downtown for most people.
Opinion: The do-something carnival barkers want you scared about Indianapolis crime. Here's why they don't deserve a voice. indystar.com/story/opinion/…
Reflexive critics of charter schools in Indianapolis probably need to grapple harder with this. chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/0…
Venus Williams after becoming the oldest WTA match winner since 2004: “I had to come back for the insurance, because they informed me this year that I’m on cobra. So it’s like, I got to get my benefits on” 😭😭😭😭
It’s hard to get your head around being this good at a sport for 30 years, from a young teenager to mid-40s.
Wow. Wow. WOW! 45 year old Legend Venus Williams, playing her first singles match since march 2024, defeats world #35 Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 to reach the 2nd round in Washington WTA 500. Hit 9 aces. That's her first singles win since august 2023. Simply UNREAL.
It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
The White House said it would ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool covering President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, its latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to Jeffrey Epstein. wapo.st/44Zli7A
I asked ChatGPT to give me the breakdown of a medium cane sugar coke, a cheeseburger, and a medium serving of beef tallow fries at Steak and Shake Apparently this is MAHA now!
NEW: @astronomerio CEO Andy Byron has resigned following Coldplay concert scandal. axios.com/2025/07/19/ast…
None of you tweeting about Colbert have watched a full episode within the past five years, maybe ever.
After all these years I still love my Peloton. My NPS is 100 Will always wonder what this company would have been with a more realistic understanding of their TAM and no pandemic
At the ALEC meeting in Indianapolis this morning, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts suggested that states should de-charter capital cities that aren’t “representative of the will of the people” and make them “state municipal districts.” Met with hesitant applause.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.), a rancher, whipped out his phone to show a message from a poultry farmer in his district who was worried about having enough workers not only to raise and process birds but also to move them from farms to stores. “I have people they call me.…