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Brian Goldstone

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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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Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social · 2h
What the hell.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2h
"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."
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Palestinians, US journalist attacked in West Bank pogrom: What we know
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2h
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.'"
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 6h
Alice Driver on the return of child labor to the US
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The Return of Child Labor | Alice Driver
For years I have been haunted by a grainy video I saw in 2023, when I was interviewing poultry processing workers in Green Forest, Arkansas. In those
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18h
“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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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@slate.com published a story I wrote today about an unusual sheriff race in rural Arkansas. (TW for child sexual abuse and violence) slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
He Shot a Man Dead 15 Times. People Applauded—and He Got Away With It. His Next Act Is Turning Heads.
The star attraction at the Lonoke Fair was a vigilante killer. He could be the county's next sheriff.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It can in the absence of politics and policies that make people feel safer and happier. I mean that so seriously. The numbers are not what’s making people crazy - the precarity, instability, & absence of the “charm of anticipated success” à la Tocqueville is doing that.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"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.'"
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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.
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
SPH READS 📖 Join us next week for a free webinar with author @brian-goldstone.bsky.social & Dean Francesca Beaudoin on Goldstone's Pulitzer Prize-winner, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Live Q&A following the conversation! RSVP at the link bit.ly/3TCHnY1
This image is an advertisement for an event titled "SPH Reads." It features a conversation with authors Brian Goldstone and Dean Beaudoin. The event is set for October 20, 2026, from 4 to 5 p.m. and will be held as a Zoom webinar. The book cover shown is "There Is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America" by Brian Goldstone. The book is noted as a Pulitzer Prize winner and a New York Times Critics’ Top Book.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can't wait!
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes! Let's make it happen ❤️
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
507 people in 2024 murder by policy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows | CBC News
More 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.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's always such a special thing to deeply admire someone's writing and thinking, and then spend time with them in person and discover they're even cooler and kinder than you'd imagined. (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social appreciation post)
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Incredible news, and so well deserved!!
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
It's official. I AM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR!!! WOW 😭✨ #TheDoubleTax has won the prestigious 2026 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize, awarded to one author whose work advances gender equity. Past winners include NYT Bestsellers and National Book winners. #GodsPlan womensway.org/events/18th-...
WOMEN'S WAY 

2026 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize Winner
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, Economist and Author of The Double Tax

Anna Gifty stands in front of library, smiling, wearing an oversized yellow sweater and holding THE DOUBLE TAX with the cover facing the camera

photo credit: Corban Swain
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
💯
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Balaeniceps tex 𓅣🌏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☭ @socialistpuffin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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.
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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's actually not complicated. You end homelessness with safe, dignified housing people can afford.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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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CA-NC-GA Lady @ca-nc-galady.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social would you be willing to share this petition? No one chooses 'urban camping' don't cate what Nicole Massiah calls it. c.org/8trKj2c6nz
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Sign the Petition
Speak out against DeKalb County's urban camping ordinance
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I guess it's official now:
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Brian Goldstone Joins Trinity College
The Duke alumnus joined the Department of Cultural Anthropology for a year focused on fostering collaborations, enhancing student experiences and increasing public discourse.
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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/...
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We’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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gonna share @stschrader1.bsky.social's new book again because it is and will continue to be relevant. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...
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Blue Power
A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A tour de force ... Read it no...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last thing! Malaprop's (one of my favorite bookstores in the country) will be hosting a virtual discussion of There Is No Place for Us on Wednesday, Oct 14, ahead of the Justice Forum. Info here: malaprops.com/event/2026-1...
Flyer from Malaprop’s Bookstore for a virtual discussion of Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, ahead of the 2026 Justice Forum. The event takes place Wednesday, October 14, from 6–7 p.m. via Google Meet.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The event will be held at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in downtown Asheville and is free and open to all. For those who can't attend in person, there will also be a livestream and regional watch parties in Brevard, Burnsville, Cullowhee, and Hendersonville. www.pisgahlegal.org/2026-justice...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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...
Graphic for Pisgah Legal Services' 15th Annual Justice Forum, with a photo of Brian Goldstone. The event takes place October 22, 2026, at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, NC. More information at pisgahlegal.org/justiceforum.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE shot a man in New York City today while he was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child. Abolish ICE.
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ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
✊❤️
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(And thank you for flagging this!)
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, absolutely, just shared!
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Stoned Feminist 👻 Spooky Version @ladylinds.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please take the time to submit public comment for HUD's proposed rule changes that would eliminate permanent supportive housing programs like the one I live in
endhomelessness.org
Tell HUD: The "Strategies" They are Pushing Will Not Work
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 08/10/2026
omg Anne Carson finally
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson's NOX is one of the most extraordinary books I've encountered—as much a physical/visual experience as a literary one (and one I've taught many times over the years). Thrilled to see her awarded the Nobel Prize. This 2013 profile is a great introduction to her singular work. Gift link:
nytimes.com
The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson (Gift Article)
Is she a poet? No one quite knows for sure.
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Kasey Fandal @malt1999.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you’ve read Mr. Goldstone’s book, There Is No Place for Us (on one of President Obama’s favorites list!), you’d know just how devastating and sad these eviction statistics really are. 💔
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed 74,245 Palestinians in three years, Gaza’s health ministry says. “There is a ceasefire in name only,” said a senior policy fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
washingtonpost.com
Three years after Oct. 7, Israeli strikes in Gaza grind on and deaths climb
Almost a year has passed since President Donald Trump declared the fighting over and “peace in the Middle East” achieved.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The new issue of Hammer & Hope is out! Featuring articles on Trump’s deadly invasion of Memphis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Democrats’s “Woke” Panic, and Kelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and Raves. hammerandhope.org
Illustration of a tree-lined Memphis street with a woman holding a flower next to a bird and butterfly
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you so much!
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd love to meet up!
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"While Black residents make up 53% of renters in the city, they experience 69% of the eviction filings... [W]omen are more likely to be filed against due to the fact that they may have children residing with them, who are often considered a liability to property owners."
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, the devastation is unreal.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Atlanta had over 142,000 eviction filings in the past year. More than 10,000 in a single month. Absolutely staggering.
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Metro Atlanta leads US in highest eviction rates with over 142,000 filings
Metro Atlanta is leading the nation for the highest eviction rates in the United States, with over 142,000 filings as of June 2026, according to new data by The Eviction Lab, a Princeton University-ba...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
thecut.com
The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks for the invite! I'll be traveling that day, otherwise I would have loved to attend
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you, Christina!
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