Brian Goldstone
@brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud
theguardian.com
Leave in July, sign an NDA and get 11 months’ severance (hush money!) or leave in December. He chose…
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h ago
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
nytimes.com
Friends in Durham, NC (where my family and I moved earlier this summer): On August 14, I'll be joining my friend, Pastor Goodie Bell, at Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church for a conversation about homelessness and housing justice. The event is free and open to all. Hope to see you there.
Loving Our Neighbors: A Community Conversation on Homelessness with Journalist Brian Goldstone — Blacknall
Brian will discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” Learn More
blacknall.org
i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
thenation.com
There Is No Place For Us @brian-goldstone.bsky.social The cause of homeless is a lack of housing There are 34 affordable available units for every 100 households that need them Some people make poor choices but as a nation we take no responsibility to fix systemic issues #BookSky #Homeless
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people. n.pr/4w4pkH0
Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people.
n.pr
A friend spotted this in a new interview with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social. I wouldn't normally post this, but I've long admired Wilson's work (and appreciated her review of a certain movie this week), so seeing There Is No Place for Us as the book she "can't stop talking about" really means a lot.
Really, really dont think the public grasps how big of a "people forced into homelessness due to barely hanging on and then things get worse" crisis we are imminently facing. As safety nets are cut
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · last wk.Fun chart apnews.com/article/groc...
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
charlotteobserver.com
Just finished @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s There Is No Place for Us, and I realized it deserves all the awards because not only does it have a really original and thorough methodology, but it truly tells a story, while most contemporary nonfiction has as much pathos as a napkin.
If you get a chance to watch Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron (now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social), please do. It's a wrenching, exquisite film.
Blue Heron - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Sophy Romvari • 2025 • Canada, Hungary Starring Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Iringó Réti A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of ...
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Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance: "Once again members of our community find themselves in a state of extreme trauma, fear and terror... One of them told me her little girl doesn't even want to go to school for fear of coming home and not finding her mother."
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
I spent large parts of childhood & young adulthood homeless. My mom was a nurse. A lot of homeless have jobs. It’s only getting worse. Most homeless books are by sociologists. This is by a journalist. He gets it. Well written & researched, heartfelt. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social #catchatbookclub
an unhoused man was recently arrested for "felony camping" & it's telling imo that, once he was released from custody, he went right back to the park where he sleeps turns out when you put a homeless person in jail, they're *still homeless* when they leave jail! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Unhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s Cruelty
The Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public.
ballsandstrikes.org
Here is the gofundme to support the family he leaves behind. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy, organized by Erica Day Ruffin
It is with broken hearts that we share the unexpected passi… Erica Day Ruffin needs your support for Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy
gofundme.com
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
Adding paylinks to Sherri McCoy/Blessing Bags of Warmth who gives direct aid and is featured at the end of this segment Venmo: @BlessingBagsofWarmth venmo.com/u/BlessingBa... PayPal: blessingbagsofwarmth@gmail.com paypal.me/BlessingBags... Givebutter: www.givebutter.com/KeepInTouch
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoI hope you'll take a few minutes to watch this CBS Sunday Morning story. It's a chance to hear Marvin tell his story in his own words and hear his voice.
I’m reading this book (an epic work of narrative nonfiction on the housing crisis and working homeless) right now. This is devastating. Life can be so unfair.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
A detail I remember about Marvin & Natasha from the book was how they took their coffee and sat in the car together every morning, brief, quiet quality time together before another long, hard day. Devastating to hear Marvin has died so young, from a workplace accident. Please help out if you can.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoMarvin's family has now created a GofundMe to help with funeral expenses and to support Natasha and the kids in the difficult days ahead. If you're able to contribute or share the fundraiser, I'd be deeply grateful.
Marvin, one of the people profiled in Brian’s book ‘There Is No Place For Us’, died suddenly this week in a workplace accident. What we’re doing this morning is making sure Marvin’s family knows they’re not alone. Get in here.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoMarvin's family has now created a GofundMe to help with funeral expenses and to support Natasha and the kids in the difficult days ahead. If you're able to contribute or share the fundraiser, I'd be deeply grateful.
Marvin's family has now created a GofundMe to help with funeral expenses and to support Natasha and the kids in the difficult days ahead. If you're able to contribute or share the fundraiser, I'd be deeply grateful.
Donate to Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy, organized by Erica Day Ruffin
It is with broken hearts that we share the unexpected passi… Erica Day Ruffin needs your support for Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy
gofundme.com
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
"It feels good to stand up and say, 'This is not legal or constitutional so we will fight back.'" Proud to call @thrasherxy.bsky.social a friend. Whatever your views on his politics: "Members of the U.S. government… should not be deciding who is and who is not teaching at university campuses."
Denied tenure and alleging discrimination, Northwestern University professor sues school and government officials
A Northwestern University professor filed a federal lawsuit alleging federal officials pressured the school to deny him tenure.
chicagotribune.com
In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.
Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief
A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...
ksat.com
“After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.”
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
npr.org
This is a beautiful and heartbreaking book about how hard people struggle to survive in America right now and how little the country gives back to them.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3w agoMinneapolis friends! I'll be there next Tuesday and would love to see you.
Minneapolis friends! I'll be there next Tuesday and would love to see you.
Working and Homeless in America: A Conversation with Brian Goldstone
Family Housing Fund welcomes 2026 Pulitzer-Prize winner Brian Goldstone to discuss the human cost of the housing crisis and local solutions.
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guys, @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is keynote speaker for Decatur Book Festival in October and why yes I do believe I'll be in attendance. don't forget to snag your copy of "There is no place for us" #BookSky www.decaturbookfestival.com/meet-the-aut...
Brian | DBF
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