Ron Powers

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. His latest award-winning nonfiction book is "No One Cares About Crazy People".

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But I repeat myself . . .

. . . on the topic of guns and madness and guns and madness and . . .

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Do you see why we urgently need sweeping mental healthcare reform?
I've all but given up on any hope of gun-law reform. My wife Honoree was shot and killed three weeks ago by a stranger almost surely in psychosis. https://t.co/d0r27qS2Mo

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JAMES MARK RIPPEE (APRIL 17, 1963-NOVEMBER 29, 2022)
Catherine J. Rippee-Hanson recently completed this breathtaking digital pen drawing of her brother, the late James Mark Rippee, taken from a photograph. https://t.co/P2bUxl5kmg #homelessness #mentalhealth

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A schizophrenic victim! Arrested on a MISDEMEANOR charge! Dumped not into some backwoods hoosegow but into FULTON COUNTY JAIL IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA! Left alone as he was EATEN ALIVE BY BEDBUGS! https://t.co/ozIohf94AJ #justicesystem #mentalillness #LashawnThompson

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A STATUE FOR JAMES MARK RIPPEE https://t.co/7hOtUipbnJ #mentalhealth #homelessness #healthcare #TBI

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MSNBC TAKES A SHALLOW DIVE INTO MENTAL ILLNESS. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Sadly, the road to mental-illness coverage is fashioned from similar material. https://t.co/GUyg0ZgDme #MentalHealth @NicolleDWallace #advocacy

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THE FILM WEBSITE FOR “NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE” As many of you might know, my 2017 book No One Cares About Crazy People is in development as an independent documentary film. Learn more: https://t.co/17I4RXhKcJ

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MATT GAETZ, WILL YOU STOP RANTING AND START HELPING?!
Here is an open letter to a divisive Republican Florida Congressman who yet might be of use. https://t.co/k4z2uoUwRO #endstigma #mentalhealth #suicide

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“Hope, hope to the last . . .”
. . And there are a couple of new reasons to hope, in the struggle against mental illness. https://t.co/v6JGCVl0Nm #books #mentalhealth #advocacy

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CHRIST! WHAT ARE PATTERNS FOR? –Amy Lowell, 1916

I am wearily–yes, wearily–posting links to two recent pieces by the peerless mental-healthcare blogger Pete Earley. Below them I’m linking to an archive within the blog you are reading now.

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Godspeed you, “Killer Mike”
An gesture of compassion, forgiveness, and hope at the dawning of 2022!
KILLER MIKE OFFERS TO ASSIST ‘MENTALLY DISTURBED WHITE MAN’ WHO VANDALIZED HIS ATLANTA BARBERSHOP https://t.co/p4kHeSFRRg

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The Crumbleys, Part II
The school shooting in Michigan last week has opened up new avenues for thought and action, and re-opened old ones. We must not let this awful opportunity evaporate. https://t.co/f3HNaz1tfk #gunviolence #mentalillness

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HERE WE DON’T GO AGAIN
The mass shooting in Michigan compels us to look again at psychosis, mayhem, and the enormous difficulties in warding off this witch’s brew. https://t.co/ybgvGypMrJ #gunviolence #mentalhealth #schoolshooting

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State Senator Cindy Friedman Gets It!
Among the most infuriating barriers to mental healthcare reform is the indifference of policymakers. The mentally ill don’t form a significant constituency, in voting or in contributions. Thus, you know, nobody cares. https://t.co/2Af3vTbGxS

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Here is a glimpse inside the soul of an activist. Leslie Carpenter of Iowa City, Iowa, is among the very best we have. She has connected, and deeply, with people at all levels of public service to implant her passionate agenda of mental healthcare reform. https://t.co/Tpf8Th92BP

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The documentary-in-progress inspired by my book No One Cares About Crazy People rolls along. Here is an updated promo reel created by the producer, Gail Freedman. https://t.co/fWpfMYIwEj #mentalhealth #film

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Paris Hilton, Mental-Healthcare Reformer
No, seriously–and props, and godspeed to her! Her piece in the Oct. 19 Washington Post turns a rare spotlight on one of the many under-explored areas of corrupt and viperish traps for mentally disturbed children. https://t.co/AxjxXpCnmM

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I am typing these words in a near-incoherent state. I am consumed with boiling anger that makes me want to scream; black despair; bottomless pity for Rebecca Distel Reinig, the mother of Joseph; for Joseph’s father, and for Joseph, rest his soul. https://t.co/nPz5vgTvRI

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AND YOU WONDER WHETHER OUR GOVERNMENT CARES ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE “Rikers houses more than 4,800 detainees on a given day, a majority of whom are awaiting trial and have not been convicted of a crime.
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In the Mental-Health Trenches With Three Valiant Mothers

Please carve out a few minutes and listen to these powerful, articulate advocates discuss the most overlooked social and moral blight of our time.

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