Brian Goldstone

Brian Goldstone

@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net

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Brian Goldstone
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I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

"In Israel the filmmakers were described as traitors... Mobs hunted for them and their families... The same Israeli officials who declared that there were no innocents in Gaza are now outraged by a film showing that this is exactly the principle the military has acted on."

Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that the UK edition of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out now from @canongate.co.uk. Though based in Atlanta, the forces pushing working people into homelessness extend far beyond the US. So, too, does the growing movement fighting for safe, dignified housing as a fundamental right.

Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in other news from the apparently debatable affordability crisis: "The number of people who said they had delayed or skipped care altogether because of the expense increased to 50 percent this year from 46 percent in 2022."

nytimes.comEmployers Shift Rising Health Care Costs Onto Millions of Workers (Gift Article)New surveys show that increases in premiums and deductibles are forcing people to forgo treatments or doctor’s visits while budgets are strained by higher food and gas prices.
Brian Goldstone
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teklanika@teklanika.bsky.social

Went to the food pantry for the first time since I was 19 today. Only getting medical care because my ex-employer had good coverage and I can scrape together COBRA - I hit my out-of-pocket max. And I’m employed. Also luckily housed! But behind…

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Smitha Khorana
@smithakhorana.bsky.social

No one should be hungry

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Are more Americans struggling to make ends meet? Is it all in their heads? Who's to say? "Risk is an understatement. It's an existential risk... Our communities are facing the worst hunger crisis that we've seen in at least a generation." www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Tonight in Asheville! Free and open to all. Hope to see some of you there.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Looking forward to being in Asheville on October 22 for Pisgah Legal Services' annual Justice Forum. I'll be speaking about the deepening crisis of housing insecurity and working homelessness, both in Western North Carolina and across the country. Register here: www.pisgahlegal.org/2026-justice...

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Lauren Harper
@laurenleharper.bsky.social

Two back-to-back deaths in for-profit facilities contracting with ICE. These facilities are more dangerous than government ones, and are more secretive because they aren't subject to FOIA. If we can't shut them down, we can at least make them transparent. Extend FOIA to private prisons.

nytimes.comMan Who Died in ICE Custody in Texas Was Denied Medicine, Daughter SaysThe man had been detained at an immigration center in Laredo, Texas, since June. Immigration officials said he had received proper medical care.

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Jason Chavez
@jchavezmpls.bsky.social

Encampment evictions lead to overdose spikes. New research backed by the University of Minnesota looked at 87 encampment evictions in Minneapolis between April 2024 and March 2025 and compared them to 1,431 nonfatal overdose 911 calls from the same period. 1/ www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

axios.comStudy: Overdoses spiked after Minneapolis swept homeless campsThe findings raise new questions about whether sweeps create or diminish a public health risk.

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Robert Downen
@robertdownen.bsky.social

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

texastribune.orgMigrant found dead at Laredo Processing Center run by ICEThe death was confirmed by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, who said the 56-year-old Mexican national was found unresponsive in his cell. He’s the seventh person to die while detained by ICE this year.
Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

"Israel has killed scores of Palestinian journalists with impunity... But a more likely and honest accounting goes further: Israel has deliberately created systems that killed many of these journalists in order to cover up what they would have documented." — @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Aseel Mousa

cjr.orgRemembranceIsrael has killed scores of Palestinian journalists with impunity and waged propaganda campaigns to discredit their work, but a full accounting tells a different story.
Brian Goldstone
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Dozens of masked settlers attacked Palestinian villagers and savagely beat a Washington Post photographer today. "Israeli troops arrived shortly before the attack, which seemed to embolden the settlers. Soldiers fired tear gas at Palestinians and 'did absolutely nothing about the settlers.'"

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

Brian Goldstone
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"The attack was among several targeting Palestinians trying to gather their olive harvest... These incidents are just the latest in weeks of intensifying pogroms on local communities in the West Bank by Israelis from illegal settlements who are protected—or at least unrestricted—by Israeli forces."

aljazeera.comPalestinians, US journalist attacked in West Bank pogrom: What we knowIsraeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine.
Brian Goldstone
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"More than 3,700 people are believed to have been arrested in the UK for alleged support of Palestine Action since it was banned in July last year, most for holding placards saying: 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.'"

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Sally Rooney's publisher is pulling her books from the UK market. She can no longer receive royalties from UK sales of her books. She fears arrest if she enters the country. Political dissent, effectively treated as a criminal offense. It's hard to overstate how frightening and insidious this is.

theguardian.comSally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action supportIrish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Sally Rooney's publisher is pulling her books from the UK market. She can no longer receive royalties from UK sales of her books. She fears arrest if she enters the country. Political dissent, effectively treated as a criminal offense. It's hard to overstate how frightening and insidious this is.

theguardian.comSally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action supportIrish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
Brian Goldstone
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Amnesty International UK: "Writers should not find their books disappearing from shelves because of their political beliefs... There is a real danger that others, seeing the price [Rooney] has paid, will decide they cannot afford to speak out."

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karen ward
@kwardvancouver.bsky.social

507 people in 2024 murder by policy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caDeaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows | CBC NewsMore than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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@socialistpuffin.bsky.social

People tell me to "get a job" when I mention that I'm homeless. I was working full-time right before I had a mental breakdown that lead to me losing my job, housing, and possessions(and I have a job now even while living in a shelter). I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Derek Fox
@partialobserver.bsky.social

Yes. Homelessness is a choice that we make, as a society, every day. If it gets treated as part of the architecture of civilization, that’s only because powerful forces want you to think that way. Finally, it would cost less to house every unhoused person than it costs us to leave them homeless.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Sergio Perez
@sergioperez.bsky.social

We need this written on dozens of massive billboards in Los Angeles. We have neighbors living on the street because we lack affordable housing. The police don’t build housing through arrests and imprisonment. Mental health services don’t conjure up housing. We need beds, and we need them now.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Max Blau
@maxblau.bsky.social

My colleagues and I at @propublica.org are looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before covering a medical expense — impacts patients. We need your help. 👇 www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

propublica.orgWe’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.ProPublica is looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization impacts patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests...

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Lydia Kiesling
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social

About to testify in favor of this and am going to lift up @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's amazing book There is No Place for Us, which details how corporate behaviors directly lead to people being pushed into homelessness, where they are still used as instruments of profit for shareholders.

Councilor Mitch Green@councilorgreen.bsky.social

More than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Starbuck's CEO took home $31 million - 1,794 times more their median worker. Live Nation's CEO made $33 million - 976 times the median pay. The system has been rigged against the working class, but the Fair Share Tax starts to change that.