Bird City is out today, and you can find it wherever you buy books. ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/pub-day

@ryangoldberg.bsky.social makes the case for birdwatching in the winter and fall.

For LitHub I wrote about my favorite time of year at the beach...after Labor Day!

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

My book Bird City comes out on Tuesday! But for a little sneak preview, head on over to @defector.com: defector.com/the-owl-code...

I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Next month I'll be doing a bunch of events with some great people to talk about BIRD CITY, my book coming out in 8 days! Come join! You can get more details on ryangoldberg.net.

Yet another over-the-top story about a third party candidate who lost his party's primary by a large margin but has name recognition so that earns him a boatload of free publicity.

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

For New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the ethical complexity of one of the most irritating shows on television... SuperKitties. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

In two weeks you can vote and pick up your copy of Bird City on the same day: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...

I wrote about a great morning of watching bird migration and the very big problem of window collisions: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/stop-birds...

I wrote about one of my favorite places in the city, the hawk watch at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways: ryangoldberg1.substack.com/p/hawk-watch

Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The wildflower meadows at Green-Wood Cemetery are in full bloom right now. A must visit.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

I launched a Substack today, and here's the first post if you want to check it out. I'll be sending the occasional update about my book, the stories I’m working on, and field notes from my travels around New York City’s wild places.

With fall migration upon us in NYC, I'm leading a bunch of free walks in Prospect Park this season for the Brooklyn Bird Club. Come check one out! The first Sunday (tomorrow) in Sept. and Oct., meeting at 8 AM at the Boathouse, and Tuesdays at 7:30 AM, meeting at Vanderbilt St. and Prospect Park SW.

DC getting eric adams at the trade deadline is a huge win now move for the city. especially if we can move him to a secondary position and a powerless admin appointee bench role. new york also getting to clear payroll and move their rebuild window forward makes this win-win

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Imagine if NYTimes journalists were being routinely massacred by a foreign state and competing media outlets responded by explaining that the Times is a mouthpiece for imperialism and propaganda arm of the US and Israeli governments such that murdering its workers was defensible.

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

I rarely write about racing anymore, but I had fun talking to my friend @davidhill.bsky.social on his American Gambler podcast about the memoir of union organizer-turned-handicapper Len Ragozin, as well as my own book and whether birding is like gambling. davidhill.substack.com/p/the-odds-m...

Imagine sitting around a table dreaming about bootlicking

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

The normalization of lawless mass disappearances in major US cities is chilling beyond belief. Ghosts of the disappeared everywhere, in plain sight.

"Asked why they chose to support Adams [with $4,200 in donations], she replied, 'I don’t really know how to explain. It sounded like he could help us if we supported him.'" www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

This is such a strong piece by Liv Veazey for @hellgatenyc.com offering the banality of ICE agents as they huddle and lounge around Lower Manhattan, engaging in the most barbaric of activities, kidnapping and holding people in a gulag and then talking about slurpees. hellgatenyc.com/what-ice-age...

This is an incredible post even by Adam Johnson standards

returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...

Is this surprising? Eric Adams also runs his mayorship as a criminal enterprise, & while the NYTimes breathlessly worries about free buses, New Yorkers have to pay $200-$300M each year to settle lawsuits against NYPD, which are almost all for police brutality, on top of their $11 billion/year budget

Long live, Birdfector. Great blog from @barryp.bsky.social on bill shapes, ranked - defector.com/bill-shapes-...

WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise."

“The campaign finance watchdog has greatly expanded its probe into Eric Adams’ fundraising, targeting alleged illegal straw donations arranged by an agent of the Uzbekistan government and demanding records related to several fundraisers Adams failed to disclose.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/09/a...

Finally leaving that other site. So I'll add here that my first book, BIRD CITY, is coming out on Nov. 4. Lots more to come! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ryan-...