Brian Goldstone

Thank you so much

Thank you!

We interviewed @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on The Intercept Briefing last year about "There Is No Place For Us."

“It’s an engineered abandonment of not thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but millions of families.”

Thank you so much!

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As a social worker, I agree that Brian's book will give you a better understanding of our unhoused crisis, and from a place of empathy motivate you to want to help. Go buy his book.

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Amazon down — live updates on massive outage as shoppers can't check out It's affecting mobile apps and its website

"At least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East have been damaged by Iranian drone strikes since the U.S. attacked Iran on Friday, disrupting the company's cloud computing services in the region."

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Working and Homeless in America

With Amazon down, a good reminder to buy books from actual bookstores—not an oligarch-owned tech behemoth that exploits its workers.

Strongly concur, and here's where to pre-order:

It's an incredible book. Happy to mail you my galley (though I'm sure @justinevdl.bsky.social would love to connect with you too!)

@justinevdl.bsky.social just joined Bluesky. Give her a follow and preorder UNREASONABLE WOMEN immediately. An extraordinary book everyone will be talking about this year.

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Depraved

Screenshot of a CDC webpage. The page title reads “Mental Health,” with a subheading: “Poor Mental Health Effects Adolescent Well-being.” “Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.”

Starting research for a new project on youth mental health, I went to the CDC website.

This brazenly discriminatory anti-trans notice is tacked to the top of the page.

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

Because housing assistance is drastically underfunded, only 1 in 4 eligible low-income households receive it.

Providing it to all who qualify would cost $118 billion a year—a tiny fraction of the proposed $1.5 *trillion* defense budget for 2027.

Poverty would fall 13% overall and 23% for children.

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i can't say it enough - this is the best book i read last year. (and i read a lot, due to my inability to sleep ever at any point) it will change your life. you have to read it. i cannot recommend it enough.

Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead The bulk of the money Missouri gives to its crisis pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families experiencing poverty with basic necessities and child care, Republican Rep. Jason...

The bulk of the money Missouri gives to pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families with basic necessities and child care.

As many as $3 of every $4 was from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in 2024, and in 2026, it will be $2 out of $3.

From me:

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The Highest Law in the Land: A Conversation with Jessica Pishko A discussion with Jessica Pishko about her new book: The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy

On March 18 at 6 pm I'll be at Duke Law School talking about sheriffs! Please join me if you can.
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Read this 🧵 then read this book which is one of the best I've read, ever. Really and truly.

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Ahh that means so much! Thank you thank you

I know I've said this before, but this is hands-down one of the most important books I've ever read (and is beautifully written and reported, too). Get your paperback copy of There Is No Place For Us:

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

168 killed, dozens of them children.

The school was located next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) barracks, but there is no indication that the school was involved in the IRGC.

These people and these girls would not be dead if it weren't for the USA and Israel's illegal war.

Absolutely. I posted about it last week but it deserves more attention.

thank you so much!

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An exceptional feat of reporting, full of an immediacy that calls to mind Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family and Matthew Desmond’s Evicted.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf AwarenessThe working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.

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