T-Peru
@tperu.bsky.social
Excited to be here and connect with others. Interested in cats, bird watching, gardening, and books.
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Happening tonight: I'll be on PBS NewsHour Weekend talking about There Is No Place for Us and the roughly four million people—many of them powering, through their labor, the very companies raking in profits this weekend—who are experiencing homelessness in America right now.
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happening tonight: I'll be on PBS NewsHour Weekend talking about There Is No Place for Us and the roughly four million people—many of them powering, through their labor, the very companies raking in profits this weekend—who are experiencing homelessness in America right now.
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Weekend Wake-Up. Sunrise at Sears Tower on Sunday.
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Weekend Wake-Up. Sunrise at Sears Tower on Sunday.
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Excellent essay from historian Steven Mintz on why he’ll only evaluate writing he can witness firsthand
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What?
Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Excellent essay from historian Steven Mintz on why he’ll only evaluate writing he can witness firsthand
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
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This is what happens in your brain when you can’t recall a word - Cella Wright
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Speechless and deeply grateful: There Is No Place for Us has been named one of three finalists for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Speechless and deeply grateful: There Is No Place for Us has been named one of three finalists for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
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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.
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.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
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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In the notes of There Is No Place for Us, Brian says he met with families to review their respective chapters. I think about that all the time: centering those at the heart of a story with care and respect. I can't wait to hear from Celeste, Maurice, and Natalia as well as Brian during this segment:
I'm deeply grateful to Celeste, Maurice, and Natalia for sharing their lives on camera. These realities—jobs that don't pay the rent, families trapped in extended-stays—rarely get this kind of coverage.
I hope it helps propel these issues into the national conversation, where they urgently belong.
I hope it helps propel these issues into the national conversation, where they urgently belong.
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In the notes of There Is No Place for Us, Brian says he met with families to review their respective chapters. I think about that all the time: centering those at the heart of a story with care and respect. I can't wait to hear from Celeste, Maurice, and Natalia as well as Brian during this segment:
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I just started this book. I manage my news organization's early childhood coverage and I think all the time about how we as sa nation are utterly reliant on child care workers who get paid basically nothing, even working full time. (The median wage is around $13/hr)
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I just started this book. I manage my news organization's early childhood coverage and I think all the time about how we as sa nation are utterly reliant on child care workers who get paid basically nothing, even working full time. (The median wage is around $13/hr)
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I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts
"There is No Place For Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is destined to be a classic in the tradition of "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich. I will be watching this report tomorrow.
The timing feels especially critical: this week the Trump administration moved to gut permanent housing programs nationwide. As the safety net is torn apart and the affordability crisis deepens, this report shows what's at stake for millions of people.
Here's how the segment is being described:
Here's how the segment is being described:
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"There is No Place For Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is destined to be a classic in the tradition of "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich. I will be watching this report tomorrow.
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
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A Tufted Titmouse watching the snowy sky.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A Tufted Titmouse watching the snowy sky.
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I love cardinals. I love their songs, their bright red color, their loyalty to each other.
They are one of Nature’s Best Gifts.
They are one of Nature’s Best Gifts.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I love cardinals. I love their songs, their bright red color, their loyalty to each other.
They are one of Nature’s Best Gifts.
They are one of Nature’s Best Gifts.
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Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
I can't believe the news is not covering this story....
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I can't believe the news is not covering this story....
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Female Cardinal
A moment of bird zen...
A moment of bird zen...
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Female Cardinal
A moment of bird zen...
A moment of bird zen...
"Paper Girl" is such a great book. I highly recommend it. Very grateful to the author for highlighting the work of Pupil Personnel Workers, aka Truancy Officers, who are working so hard to reconnect students to school.
NBCC member Hope Reese talked to Beth Macy, author of "Paper Girl," for Greater Good Magazine:
Why Well-Being Is Falling in Rural America
According to a new memoir, inequalities in rural education may be contributing to the political polarization in the United States.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"Paper Girl" is such a great book. I highly recommend it. Very grateful to the author for highlighting the work of Pupil Personnel Workers, aka Truancy Officers, who are working so hard to reconnect students to school.
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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“Nobody was doing catios on the entire East Coast at the time,” Johnston said. “I go by Catio Bob now.”
Animal enclosure builder finds himself at forefront of ‘catio’ craze
The catio industry is expected to grow to more than $640 million by 2033.
www.atlantanewsfirst.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Nobody was doing catios on the entire East Coast at the time,” Johnston said. “I go by Catio Bob now.”
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Educators worry that excessive screen time is causing speech delays children
"Parental tech use has been likened to secondhand smoke in that it might endanger children’s health and development in ways we don’t even fully understand yet."
Here's my latest feature for WPR:
www.wpr.org/news/schools...
"Parental tech use has been likened to secondhand smoke in that it might endanger children’s health and development in ways we don’t even fully understand yet."
Here's my latest feature for WPR:
www.wpr.org/news/schools...
Educators worry excessive screen time is causing speech delays in early childhood
“When I look into a baby's eyes and ‘goo go ga ga,’ and the baby makes those sounds back, that child is learning how to make that hard G sound with me,” Sauk Prairie School District Superintendent Jef...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Educators worry that excessive screen time is causing speech delays children
"Parental tech use has been likened to secondhand smoke in that it might endanger children’s health and development in ways we don’t even fully understand yet."
Here's my latest feature for WPR:
www.wpr.org/news/schools...
"Parental tech use has been likened to secondhand smoke in that it might endanger children’s health and development in ways we don’t even fully understand yet."
Here's my latest feature for WPR:
www.wpr.org/news/schools...
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Midway through her first semester of college, Silvana Clark realized she didn't have enough money to finish the year. Then, her drama professor stepped in. n.pr/3ITdJs3
She was about to drop out of college, but then her professor stepped in
Midway through her first semester of college, Silvana Clark realized she didn't have enough money to finish the year. Then, her drama professor stepped in.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Midway through her first semester of college, Silvana Clark realized she didn't have enough money to finish the year. Then, her drama professor stepped in. n.pr/3ITdJs3
Jane Goodall's message of hope
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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October 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM