Good Things Friday (328) and Link Love
June 13, 2025
Well it has been a hell of a week, after a hell of a week, after a hell of a week. Hard to believe we’ve personally gone through a full ICE detainment fight in less than a month and are now seeing LA, New York, Chicago and more explode with the full tilt fascist authoritarian power grabs.
Please do what you can to fight back: give, make calls, protest, help your community.
I’m not sure I have a great deal left in me this week to be positive or giving, I’m in a period of recovery on many fronts, but I’ll catch my breath and get back into it again.
Good grief. What unhealthy and controlling pressure to put on a kid: Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead. I often think about how I want my kids to succeed in life but not at this cost. I’m not willing to destroy their sense of self to achieve some imaginary goal I’ve got for bragging rights.
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
Private equity firms are vampiric devils, I hate them so much. They’re directly responsible for driving up veterinary costs while driving down quality of care. I specifically hate Mars for acquiring VCA which was already bad enough on its own but that acquisition has spelled the doom of some of my previously competent and reliable vet practices: Candy maker Mars is the biggest vet provider in the country: Inside its sprawling operation
Good thing: I don’t like the NYT for so many reasons but I had to read this interview with Misty Copeland because Misty Copeland (gift link): Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.
“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged. In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” is in a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No Democrat or independent has filed to run.
Tired in Tornado Alley: A crucial National Weather Service office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks.
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
Good news: SCOTUS’s Conservative Majority Rules in Favor of Disability Rights:
Families won’t have to prove bad faith to sue for disability discrimination in schools.
