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."
There are still people who say nuclear energy has no future but China just announced it will spend nearly a half trillion dollars building 150 new reactors over the next 15 years. That’s more than the rest of the world has built over the last 35 years. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Nuclear is much, much more important than climate change, as I argue in a major new piece for @unherd
- Emissions in Europe & US in 2020 were 26% and 22% below 1990 levels
Van Jones: “Democrats are coming across as annoying and offensive and out-of-touch. I think there is a message here.”
Anderson Cooper. “It seems annoying to a lot of people”
The Democratic Party has become “moralizing” and “self-righteous” agree @davidaxelrod & @VanJones68
“Voters are being brow-beaten in being told they’re voting for racists. People do not believe that about themselves and do not believe that America is full of the hateful kind of people that McAuliffe & Biden told us Virginia was full of”
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.
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."
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.
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