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Mya Frazier

@myafrazier.bsky.social
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Journalist based in Ohio | @rad-institute.bsky.social‬ Fellow, 2025 | Words in many places: @NYTmag @BW @Harpers @climate @gdnlongread Watchdog Writers Group, University of Missouri

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I wasn't expecting to come across these generous words about There Is No Place for Us in @maris.bsky.social's Maris Review today. So moved by her description of it as "an impeccably reported book" that "shows how the real tragedy of our time is that hard work doesn't even guarantee a place to live."
From The Maris Review newsletter:

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

Speaking of dystopias, what a fitting read for the week when SNAP benefits have halted for 40 million Americans. I wrote a whole book about how being hardworking and industrious does not guarantee success in life for the middle class but despite my disappointments I am safe and secure and I have dozens of safety nets. Brian Goldstone's devastating and impeccably reported book, which follows the plight of five housing insecure families in Atlanta, shows how the real tragedy of our time is that hard work doesn't even guarantee a place to live in today's America.

Goldstone shows how the US government (both sides of the aisle) likes to believe that only people who live on the streets count as homeless, and so much of their struggle has to do with mental illness. Residents of extended stay motels are not counted, even though they We like to imagine that all people who are getting paid by employers can meet their basic needs, and that is simply not the case. Is this a failing of the individual worker? Fuck, no. Obviously not. Rents have skyrocketed while the minimum wage has stagnated. The rich get richer, etc. One mother whom Goldstone followed was asked by a shelter to take a financial literacy course, and her rejoinder sums up the problem. "What kind of 'financial literacy' would make it easier to afford $380 a week rent on a $12-an-hour wage?" It doesn't have to be like this.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Support Jamaica
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NPR @npr.org · 27/10/2025
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
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'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Truly moved and thankful for this remarkably generous, in-depth review in @nybooks.com. "The great virtue of There Is No Place for Us is its refusal to look away from the disheartening reality it depicts, or from the depth and pervasiveness of the problem and the pain it causes people."
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The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren
As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.
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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 19/09/2025
We’re thrilled to share that Mya Frazier's article, “Power failure,” a collaboration between FERN and Switchyard Magazine, was the winner of a 2025 CCNow Journalism Award!
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates's piece on the thing is the best one I've seen. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
More than a century and a half ago, this country ignored the explicit words of men who sought to raise an empire of slavery. It subsequently transformed those men into gallant knights who sought only to preserve their beloved Camelot. There was a fatigue, in certain quarters, with Reconstruction—which is to say, multiracial democracy—and a desire for reunion, to make America great again. Thus, in the late 19th century and much of the 20th, this country’s most storied intellectuals transfigured hate-mongers into heroes and ignored their words—just as, right now, some are ignoring Kirk’s.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This truth bears repeating, again and again. theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...
Headline from The Intercept: "Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless -- ​ Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say." September 3 2025. By Nick Turse
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel.... "The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally." It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments. Gift link ⬇️ www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...
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Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia
South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/09/2025
The web changes quickly. The Wayback Machine remembers—preserving voices, stories & culture for future generations. 📝 Tell us why the #WaybackMachine is important to you ⤵️ forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... 🧵 #Wayback1T
Gradient blue background with the Internet Archive logo modified so that two of its four pillars make the characters 1 T, for one trillion web pages. Testimonial text reads: "The Wayback Machine is like digital memory for the collective consciousness." Signed Md. Zahid H., Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
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Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Profoundly grateful that my book continues to resonate with those in the trenches of this fight. @cafreema.bsky.social's reflections are powerful: "Our society and government must make housing available to ALL. We must destroy housing as a commodity and recognize it as the human right it is."
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
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4 things to know about Gaza right now amid warnings of 'mass starvation' risk
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“The expression ‘skin and bones’ doesn’t do it justice. I saw the severity of malnutrition that I would not have thought possible in a civilized world. This is man-made starvation being used as a weapon of war..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...
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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/07/2025
Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza
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Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza
After pontiff calls for peace, Gaza’s health ministry says 73 Palestinians waiting for aid have been killed Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s health ministry said at least 73 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food. The Hamas-run ministry said on Sunday that the victims had been killed in different locations, mostly in northern Gaza. Continue reading...
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Soldiers opening fire on starving people who are trying to get food. This is genocide. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...
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Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Near Border Crossing, Gaza Health Officials Say
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Roughly 12 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance over the next decade—and now they'll get to watch their credit scores collapse too. This country is a machine for manufacturing needless suffering.
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A lovely essay by @alecmac.bsky.social "At a time when the rush of events seems particularly frenzied and overwhelming, the magazines have come to seem the ideal medium—a medium, quite literally, in that they are mediating the crush." mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
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The Sunday Long Read: Alec MacGillis, Public Libraries, Texas Flood
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
An estimated 47.4 million Americans suffered from hunger last year. 13.8 million were children. Now this country is set to strip SNAP benefits from *two million* more people—while allocating over $100 billion to "help squads of men in masks" terrorize immigrants. A searing essay by Tracy Kidder:
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Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I don't subscribe to many newsletters. Andrea Pitzer's is among the best. Well worth your time.
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This is genocide. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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UN reports 798 deaths near Gaza aid hubs in six weeks
The U.N. rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups.
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Aaron Mondry @amondry.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
BREAKING: The City of Detroit is suing a cryptocurrency-based real estate company RealT for failing to maintain hundreds of rental properties across the city, following investigations by @outliermedia.org. outliermedia.org/realt-lawsui...
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Detroit sues crypto landlord RealT over blight, tenant harm
The lawsuit alleges RealT, a cryptocurrency-based real estate company, failed to maintain hundreds of properties it owns in Detroit.
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Incredible reporting from @outliermedia.org on how property speculators have undermined stable and safe housing for Detroit renters.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
What’s the worst detail in this story? The mother forced to use unclean water to make formula for her baby? The child w/cancer now facing relapse symptoms? The 16-year-old trying to be strong for her 2 younger siblings and mom, all trapped in the camp together? This is America. Don’t look away.
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“It’s amazing when you grow up and realize how redlining has allowed these industries to kill your family,” he said in an interview. “Elon Musk is a representation of the oligarchy we already knew was operating under Jim Crow. It’s a familiar evil.” www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/06/2025
Utterly stunning @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social optical gas imaging video from the site of Musk's massive new fossil power station fuelling the Grok text generation engine on X @nickcunningham.bsky.social's full write-up here - must-read gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai... All this for a crappy chatbot.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It's hard to express what this review by @libbycwatson.com means to me — not just for its praise ("an incredible feat… the 21st-century equivalent of The Jungle") but for how precisely it captures the heart of my book: a system that cruelly exploits people's labor while denying them everything else.
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How America Failed the Unhoused
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
If you want to understand what's happening with the concentration camp arc we're on—all this domestic and overseas detention, and the attempt to erase various groups from society—please join me (and others!) Wednesday June 11 @ noon to find out what can be done. Free, but registration required.
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Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center
Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...
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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
these visuals hardly do it justice, but just staggering to contemplate this scale of destruction. An estimated 60 percent of all buildings destroyed; 90 percent of housing gone. 90 percent of the population -- 1,900,000 people -- displaced www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
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Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I've been lucky enough to hear about this book from the earliest days of @sho-walter.bsky.social's always thorough and brilliant reporting. This is an urgent and important work of journalism by one of the most compassionate and caring journalists working today.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies
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Marjorie Pak @marjoriepak.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I just finished this book. In tears. The people's lives are narrated in beautiful, resonant detail, and the cruelty and indifference they encounter is staggering.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to share some upcoming West Coast book events. If you're in Seattle, Portland, or San Francisco, I'd love to see you! Seattle — Third Place Books June 5th at 7pm I'll be in conversation with Gregg Colburn, author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/brian-...
Event graphic for There Is No Place for Us author Brian Goldstone in conversation with Gregg Colburn at Third Place Books, Seward Park, on Thursday, June 5 at 7pm.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.
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Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center
Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Trump's proposed HUD budget cuts should be treated "as a five-alarm fire. If it becomes law, the impact would be swift and devastating. Evictions would rise, shelters would overflow, and thousands would be pushed into homelessness. This is not theory. It is a proposal with real human consequences."
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Op-Ed | Trump's Housing Cuts Will Hurt Working Poor and Homeless in California - Davis Vanguard
Trump's 2026 budget proposal would cut federal rental assistance by 43%, threatening the survival of low-income renters, seniors, people with disabilities, and families in one of the most expensive st...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025
NEW: A Tennessee lender told legislators its new product, the Flex Loan, would help residents. In the 10 years since getting approval for it, the company has sued over 110,000 borrowers. With @tennesseelookout.com
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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending…
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
At the top of my reading list: @calebgayle.bsky.social's forthcoming BLACK MOSES, about a 19th-century Black visionary who dreamed of a state governed by and for Black people. It's my favorite kind of story--a buried history of resistance and possibility. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717975...
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Bria LaVorgna @chaosbria.com · 24/04/2025
Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.
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Shoshana Walter @sho-walter.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I spoke with @slate.com on my @themarshallproject.org reporting on hospital drug testing, from its origins in the crack epidemic, to the implications for pretty much every single person who gives birth in the US today. Please give it a listen. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?
False positives happen and their consequences can be severe.
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