Ashley Powers
@ashleypowers
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Writer and editor. On an extended Twitter vacation. Clips, contact info here: https://t.co/IeYOfXXySY
Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2008
RT @robespierrette: This long and insightful read from the @washingtonpost tackles our society’s failure to address online radicalization….
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He was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S. history. What would it take for him to rebuild his life?
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RT @washingtonpost: Mohammed Khalid was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S.….
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He was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S. history. What would it take for him to rebuild his life?
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RT @mjmishak: "The upheavals of my life were distorted into a force of hate so strong that it trapped me in its claws." Inside the radicali….
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He was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S. history. What would it take for him to rebuild his life?
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RT @pdxverde: “They were able to relate the grievances that I felt in my life to a larger strategy of radicalization.”. As true for Trumpia….
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He was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S. history. What would it take for him to rebuild his life?
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A 17-year-old is arrested on terrorism charges. Do we try to rehabilitate him? Or lock him up and walk away? My new piece @wpmagazine @Longreads @longform @sundaylongread.
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He was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S. history. What would it take for him to rebuild his life?
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He was arrested on terrorism charges at age 17 -- and then expected to deradicalize himself. Is there a better way? My new feature in @wpmagazine @Longreads @longform.
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He was set to enter Johns Hopkins when he became one of the youngest people charged with terrorism in U.S. history. What would it take for him to rebuild his life?
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"This country manufactures only one product powerful enough to interrupt the greatest health and economic crisis it’s probably ever faced. We make racism, the American virus and the underlying condition of black woe.".
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Awash in the ghastly video mosaic shot by black people’s cameraphones, I found myself doubled over the kitchen sink. Then a lyric gave me strength.
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How desperate for jobs is Youngstown, Ohio? (My hometown!) It gave massive tax breaks to—and demolished a neighborhood for—the maker of a SELF-CHILLING BEER CAN. Guess how that worked out.
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Welcome to Youngstown, Ohio, home of Chill-Can, the self-chilling beverage container you’ve probably never heard of. Officials have gambled millions of dollars and demolished a neighborhood for the...
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Holy moly this is some tobacco industry-level covering-up.
.@newsday investigation: Grumman knew it was polluting groundwater beneath Bethpage, but kept critical information secret stories by @paullarocco and me, plus many talented people here.
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RT @mjmishak: MUST-READ from @ProPublica & @sacbee_news "Overcorrection" project exploring California's criminal justice overhaul, via @poh….
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The Kern County, CA Sheriff’s Office places hundreds of people into suicide watch each year. They’re held for days or weeks in rooms without mattresses and sometimes toilets. The state can’t stop it.
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RT @theferocity: This is a harrowing read.
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"I would take out $40, $50 at a time and put it in this duffel bag."
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RT @vicbethchow: Recommended listening: @ashleypowers on @marketplace's Morning Report, discussing her new @CalSunday story on economic abu….
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For domestic violence survivors, economic abuse can have lasting effects.
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Apply, apply, apply.
Attention #Ohio newsrooms! @propublica's Local Reporting Network is coming to Youngstown! Applications are now open:
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I grew up in Youngstown. My dad worked at the Lordstown plant. I interned at The Vindicator. The paper's closure will be nothing short of devastating.
I spent some time last week in Youngstown, Ohio where the one and only newspaper, The @vindicator, is going out of business. Here's what I found:
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RT @mjmishak: Some exciting personal news: I'll be joining @propublica as a senior editor to help oversee its #LocalReportingNetwork! Eager….
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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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RT @Publici: "Fraud is to them what cross-burning is to white supremacists: an expression of belief." . One of the best reads of the weeken….
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Tens of thousands of far-right extremists subscribe to a paranoid ideology that lends itself seamlessly to financial crime.
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RT @alexrichards: Behind the curtain of "sovereign" fraud, where ideologically extreme grifters prey upon the financially desperate. Great….
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Tens of thousands of far-right extremists subscribe to a paranoid ideology that lends itself seamlessly to financial crime.
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A wild tale involving anti-government extremists, a U.F.O. conference, a conspiracy cruise, a bust tied to a solar eclipse, and Norwegian forest show cats. My @nytimes debut:. cc: @Longreads @longform @sundaylongread @mmcphate.
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Tens of thousands of far-right extremists subscribe to a paranoid ideology that lends itself seamlessly to financial crime.
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5,000 words on the sovereign citizens movement? HELL TO THE YES
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