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Dani McClain

@danimcclain.bsky.social
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writer. reporter. editor. cincinnati. wrote a book about parenting in these times tinyurl.com/LiveForTheWe

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 25/06/2026
A campaign to stop a railroad company’s land grab and protect Black ancestral sites shows just what the Voting Rights Act has been protecting all along. hammerandhope.org/article/voti... “When you think about a train running over our ancestors,” says Ida Blocker, “well, that’ll impact me greatly.”
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These Black Georgians Refuse to Be Silenced
A campaign to stop a railroad company’s land grab and protect Black ancestral sites shows just what the Voting Rights Act has been protecting all along.
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Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham @roshanabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm really excited about this one: I went through the archives of my literary hero June Jordan and pieced together the story of a revolutionary novel about land reform that she was working on for decades but never finished. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/june...
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What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?
For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"I’m constantly calculating scenarios of witnessing a neighbor being taken or being stopped and having to show my passport. My child is a Black boy whose voice has completely changed this year. How do I explain that he’s so young?" hammerandhope.org/article/minn...
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Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother During ICE’s Winter Invasion
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Organizer Theresa Hice-Fromille on Springfield's response as the administration threatens to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians via @hammerandhope.bsky.social
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How One Ohio Town Is Resisting the Threat of an ICE Raid
Springfield is a divided American everytown — with a Haitian community vilified by the Trump administration. Will we protect our neighbors?
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Please spend some time today with this report from the front lines of “Operation Metro Surge.” While you're at it, read all of the new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social, out this week
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Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother During ICE’s Winter Invasion
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“There’s so many other Black women who I know and I’m friends with that have been targeted, lost their jobs,” Franklin says." @natalieymoore.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social r hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?
Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more. Read here: hammerandhope.org
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
great story. thanks for your reporting
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Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Thanks so much to @danimcclain.bsky.social for this powerful, heartbreaking piece and for highlighting some of the work I have been fortunate to do with my wonderful collaborators at BU on the staggering disparities in exposure to firearm violence that Black children face in this country --
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Deaths by suicide are increasing at a faster rate for Black children and young adults than for any other racial or ethnic group. I looked at the city where I'm raising a tween to find out why www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I spent months talking to families, therapists, youth advocates and scholars about youth mental health. Turns out focusing on screens and social media doesn’t adequately address what’s happening in the lives of Black adolescents. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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What Black Youth Need to Feel Safe
Young people are facing a mental health crisis. This group of Cincinnati teens thinks they know how to solve it.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In Ruth Marcus' new column for The New Yorker in which she unveils the Washington Post column that was rejected and led to her resignation, she points out that the paper's media critic Erik Wemple also had a piece disagreeing with Bezos' new opinion mandate nixed. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Milbank’s column somehow passed muster and ran—even though that required the highly unusual step of it being submitted to the publisher for review. Eugene Robinson followed, with a subtle column on the new documentary about Katharine Graham; the column made no reference to Bezos, but its paeans to Graham’s courage in the face of Richard Nixon’s threats evoked an implicit comparison with the current owner and his relationship with Trump. Our media critic, Erik Wemple, was less fortunate. His straightforward column disagreeing with the Bezos announcement—I read it in our internal system, and found it perfectly reasonable—never ran.
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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Reposting with alt text: I did this just now and it worked.
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Jan 20

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their Al program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few min to do.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.
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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
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NPR @npr.org · 11/02/2025
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
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Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/02/2025
Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 05/02/2025
Doge as IMF structural adjustment imperial boomerang 🤯
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
BREAKING: Judge Deborah Boardman of the U.S. District Court of Maryland granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of the Trump administration's executive order on birthright citizenship. The order, she ruled, conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment.
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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
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ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
maybe 250 words describing status250-ish social justice wordssmaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?And another 150 or so on race
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Kate Sosin @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trans folks, if any of these new orders are impacting your life, we at @19thnews.org want to know. DM me. Tell me if your medical appointments are canceled. If your documents are seized. Help us find the news
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I spent the last few days absorbed in EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE. Many thanks to you and @genderhorizon.bsky.social for giving readers a way to think about the future in this disorienting and awful present.
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Dani McClain @danimcclain.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
heeeyyy Sasha. Good to be connected with you, as always
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