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2 Nov
In the last 15 months, HarperCollins has published two, 400+ page, thoroughly-researched books by me, each with 1,200+ endnotes. You might not agree with them, but if you haven’t read them, you have no business accusing me of cherry-picking evidence.
I tweet 280 characters. I write op-eds 900 words long, publish Substacks 2,500 words long, and write books 115,000 to 140,000 words long.

Don’t read a tweet or skim a Substack and then accuse me of not being comprehensive.

My books are comprehensive. It’s why I write them.
I do 3-minute TV segments and 3 hour long podcasts. Don’t complain about the things I left out of 3 minutes. Almost everything is left out of 3 minutes. Even 3 hours isn’t very long.

If you want comprehensive, thorough, and balanced, please, read the books.
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1 Nov
Glide is a major homeless service provider. It received $4.8M from San Francisco in 2020. Its head of harm reduction said, “People have used [fentanyl] for years and not come to harm. We can’t be shaming, stigmatizing, sensationalizing."

Now this:
Glide's blithe promotion of safe fentanyl use is unconscionable

San Francisco has highest drug overdose rate of any major city in the US Image
Fentanyl is driving those deaths up nationwide, from 17,000 drug deaths in the US in 2000 to 97,000 last year Image
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1 Nov
I love HBO comedian @iamjohnoliver but last night he repeated myths about homelessness including that it is caused primarily by lack of housing, that it causes addiction more than the other way around, and that the solution "Housing First."

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michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-john-oli…
In a 25-minute segment last night Oliver attributed homelessness to poverty, high rents, and lack of housing. Oliver showed interviews with homeless people who say they would like to work full-time but are unable to do so because they have to live in homeless shelters.
Unfortunately, Oliver repeated many myths. The vast majority of people we call “homeless” are suffering from untreated mental illness and/or addiction and it led them to lose their job, housing, and family ties.

I summarize the evidence here:

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-californ…
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1 Nov
People still blame Reagan for the homeless mentally ill but a) that was 50 years ago, b) it was Kennedy who got deinstitutionalization rolling and c) it was Foucault & the radical Left that demonized psychiatry & involuntary hospitalization, even for psychotic schizophrenics
I am happy that my friend @clairlemon has published in @Quillette an excerpt from my new book, San Fransicko, on the history of mental illness, and why America in general, and progressive cities in particular, keep failing so miserably in treating it
I was glad to be able to reveal for a general audience how the bad ideas of French historian Michel Foucault, the most influential intellectual among progressives today, contributed directly to today’s immoral non-treatment of mentally ill & addicted people trapped on the streets
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30 Oct
The United Nations is using a talking dinosaur to urge poor African nations to not use fossil fuels while providing information to global elites about which airports in which they can land their private jets for next week’s climate change meeting ImageImage
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, & other elites flew to UN climate talks in 400 private jets to send a message. The message isn’t just that they’re richer than you, nor that they’re more moral. It’s that the rules that apply to us don’t apply to them

news.com.au/technology/env…
Everybody misunderstands what’s happening. Defenders of the climate elite say “face time” is crucial, but that’s obviously nonsense because UN climate talks are between governments, not billionaires, are totally voluntary & irrelevant to how nations decide energy and food policy.
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30 Oct
Progressive social workers thought they were being compassionate but the result is a dead mother & baby

“She was offered shelter several times; she was offered further medical treatment; she declined those offers”

Addiction had take control of her mind

Addiction denial kills
From a former addict:

“Without a high bond and the threat of lengthy prison sentence, I would never have stopped using…now I have a Ph.D”

Recovery is heroic. It often requires being arrested.

It’s time for us to grow up and recognize that MANY addicts need to be arrested!
What a testament to the advocacy nature of so much “journalism” about drugs and “homelessness” that we rarely hear stories like the one above even though they are so common

It’s why voices of recovering addicts like @Twolfrecovery & @vicwestbrook are so important!
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