Mya Frazier

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."

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."

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

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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

“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..."
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The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

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...

Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza

Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Near Border Crossing, Gaza Health Officials Say

Soldiers opening fire on starving people who are trying to get food. This is genocide.
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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.

The Sunday Long Read: Alec MacGillis, Public Libraries, Texas Flood The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.

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."

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Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

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:

I don't subscribe to many newsletters. Andrea Pitzer's is among the best. Well worth your time.

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.

This is genocide. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The more I think about it, the more insane it is that the entire climate movement isn't mobilizing against data centers. They are clearly a way to continue, if not expand, fossil fuel use, they are extremely water intensive, they prey on desperate communities without creating many long-term jobs 1/

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.

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.

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Incredible reporting from @outliermedia.org on how property speculators have undermined stable and safe housing for Detroit renters.

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

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.

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.

'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.

“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.”

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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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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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.

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

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.

Check out CBS News' Scott Pelley's speech at Wake Forest.

"Why attack universities? Why attack journalism? Because ignorance works for power."

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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.

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-...

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...

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.

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...

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."

American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help? How a Supreme Court decision paved the way for more punitive policies

Destroying people's stuff and homes IS violence. You can't throw away people's things and then say you aren't being punitive.
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