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Jacob Silverman
@jacobsilverman.com

I have a chapter on Lonsdale and his punitive (and influential) homeless policy in GILDED RAGE.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.

nytimes.comHow the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.

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Bob Ramsey
@bramseyjr.bsky.social

Whenever one of these oligarchs show up in the news, I immediately have bad feelings and remember something awful about them - in Lonsdale's case, the NDA's. And then I remember it's because I read Gilded Rage.