Good Things Friday (327) and Link Love
June 6, 2025
1. We spent a ton of time with the kids this week and mostly it was good. To my surprise. There was a lot less fighting than I had expected. I very much needed this break from professional responsibilities and to have time with them that wasn’t our day to day frustrations.
Helping folks: if you wanted to help my friend’s family during this trying time, you’re welcome to send money that I will place in their hands personally. I can’t set up a GFM, I just don’t have the bandwidth for that.
We can use my Lakota links with the note “For Jose”:
Venmao: @RK-Tillman
PayPal: ruthtillman@gmail.com
Cashapp: $ruthkt
‘Whiteness’ Is an Ancient Con. We Must Win ‘The Game’ Together.
ICE touts arrests of almost 1,500, gives update on detained Milford student
One Explanation for Elon Musk’s Claimed DOGE Departure that Gossip-Mongers Missed
Video from Bluesky: San Diego neighborhood makes ICE retreat. I am glad they stood them off and also know that this worked because the residents were loud and white. I have no doubt that if this was predominantly a brown crowd? Violence would have broken out.
I haven’t been over to Darcy’s at We Want Guac in a while but these two articles resonated deeply with me this week – I’ve missed this kind of writing in the PF blogosphere:
6 Reasons I’m Chill with Tariffs Wrecking My Investments
Why the Social Security Program Needs Your Support, NOW
I can’t remember where KB is located but her local Ben and Jerry’s is keeping up the good fight.
An explainer (Bsky users only) on a really significant discovery of a method to detect and make HIV visible in white blood cells. The publication itself at Nature Comms.
I came to this situation without context but see some schadenfreude to be had at the expense of these lousy ICE agents whining that they’re at risk of getting sick in Djibouti where they are because they insisted on deporting people to South Sudan without due process and insisted that it was better to conduct that due process where they were diverted (Djibouti) instead of bringing them back to the US. Hope y’all get what you all so richly deserve, ICE agents.
Ah, a little more context (publicly available). My sentiments are unchanged.
