
Abe Asher
Journalist at Freelance
Writer. Bylines @thenation, @VICE, @portlandmercury, etc. @themacweekly alum. he/him. Portlander 🌹.
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1 week ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
When an information technology (IT) technician was beginning their career in IT services at Designer Shoe Warehouse, they had a notion that one day they wanted to end up in Portland. “The dream was to come here and work at Nike or Adidas,” the IT worker (referred to in this story as "IT manager") who agreed to speak to the Mercury on the condition of anonymity, said.
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1 month ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
On January 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending federal funding for all American medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to people under the age of 19. The order, titled ‚ÄúProtecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,‚ÄĚ was quickly challenged on constitutional grounds by doctors and Democratic state attorneys general, and temporarily blocked nationwide by federal judges in both Baltimore and Seattle.
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1 month ago |
austinchronicle.com | Abe Asher
Scientists will discuss cutting-edge methods to re-create and study the human brain Depression remains the most common cause of ill health and disability worldwide, per the World Health Organization, and while doctors are getting better at treating its acute symptoms, there is still a group of people who have what Patricio Riva Posse, a neurologist and associate professor of psychiatry at Emory University, calls “treatment-resistant depression.” Providing those people long-term relief has...
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2 months ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
The last time the Portland Timbers took the field for a competitive match, they suffered what was easily among the most humiliating defeats in club history: a 5-0 drubbing, at home, in a playoff game, against a Vancouver Whitecaps team that was about to fire its coach. On Sunday afternoon, February 23, the Timbers will return to Providence Park for the first time since that night—facing the same Whitecaps team and plenty of questions after the sale of star midfielder Evander to Cincinnati...
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2 months ago |
austinchronicle.com | Abe Asher
Shopping for home There are plenty of reasons to love Austin and the enormous, unique state it’s part of. There’s also no shortage of reasons to pull up stakes and leave. Whether it’s the far-right state government depriving you of your civil rights, the scorching, climate-change-fueled summers, the cost of housing, or the lack of public transit.
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RT @BenEhrenreich: Late last year, @Harpers sent me to the West Bank to report on the state of the nonviolent resistance movement. Nothing…

Four big questions (still very much) facing the 2025 Portland Timbers. #RCTID https://t.co/E4YvO781wX

Tenants are organizing a building in NE Portland — and have an eye on the upcoming election. Reporting for the @portlandmercury. https://t.co/rQLaMfgMOC