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Danielle Ohl

@dtohl.bsky.social
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news lady, union guy, Pennsylvania person please tip dohl@spotlightpa.org

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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Smash the bots except the ABS, the ABS is my little buddy
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is an awful story about horrible things happening to children, and I don’t want to downplay that. But I am serious when I ask what is the deal with chiropractors? I’ve gone a couple times, not anymore. But it was never an experience that felt…medically sound.
Screen shot of ProPublica story that says 

Marris was breastfeeding her daughter in her southern California home one afternoon that previous January when a post on Facebook caught her eye.

This part is highlighted: 
In a private group of backyard farmers, her chiropractor, Chris Boman, had shared a photo of a refrigerator, filled with gallons of freshly collected milk. In the years Marris had been visiting his office, she’d seen him selling raw milk from his own cow in his clinic’s waiting room. 

She had never thought to try it herself, but milk was on her mind lately. She was trying to wean Brooklyn, and so far it wasn’t going well.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brian Johnson, in 2016: I have to stop touring cause I’m losing my hearing ☹️ Brian Johnson, in 2026: nvm and also put 54 Marshalls behind me 🙂
Brian Johnson prancing around in his lil newsboy cap in front of 54 Marshall amps which you cannot see fully in the picture but just trust me I counted. Also angus king is there being a little guy as well, in his cobalt blue schoolboy outfit though he is like 80
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“If Jesus had a tshirt, I wouldn’t wait in this line.” —my father, re: the Phoebe Bridgers merch line
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy 20th anniversary to one of my favorite albums. None of the lyrics make sense, but all the songs rip so hard it doesn’t matter.
open.spotify.com
Sam's Town - Album by The Killers | Spotify
The Killers · album · 2006 · 12 songs
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🦴 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 (it’s wheeler’s rib)
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t wanna see the Phillies doing anything but hanging their heads in solemn prayer, ok?
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
drive-in, babes
Big red neon sign that says “Shankweiler’s” against a dark sky
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love the oddly ominous texts I get from CVS about my prescriptions
Screen shot of the preview for a text from CVS, that just shows “3 days left to pickup” like it’s Samara from the ring
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
clicked this, ctrl + cat, its not about cats :(
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know Spotify is an evil company but whoever put this here deserves the Nobel Prize
Screen shot of Spotify player with “skip ahead” button to skip commercials
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
clown school did take me out tho, reporter knew what she was doing there
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
only other thing I have to say about the Western Mass lesbian bar article is that as a person who reports on gay culture as one of my beats i do sort of feel like it's not really a story i would write and i don't love that it's going around online as "look at these crazy gay women"
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i've got two things to say about the greenfield lesbian bar piece: 1. I am going to be thinking about "Matellian is alone on the checkered dance floor, making pensive, graceful loops on the stripper pole, KN-95 mask in place" for the rest of my life. 2. I think it probably shouldn't exist.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think Yesteryear was kind of bad
normal rockwell freedom of speech painting
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
someday soon I am going to write about the frankly Lynchian situation I have been through trying to access records through the federal district courts of Pennsylvania
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
did you know that a straight, white, right-leaning male pundit has never won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary? no? well, that's because I made that up and Bret Stephens won it in 2013.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
watched Purple Rain for the first time last night and obviously the star is the music, but where was the supporting actor nom for the eyeliner
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Malala, can I get a go birds
A photo of the big Jumbotron at Lincoln financial field showing Malala wearing an eagles jersey and clasping her hands under her chin
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
hey @defector.com can I write about the agony of the eagles halftime show dogs that mostly do not catch the frisbees but the ecstasy of when they sometimes do
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am proud of my newsroom for recognizing that the Trump administration's ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown wouldn't be possible without extensive participation from local government. Some of our past coverage 🧵👇
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In 2025, ICE chartered just two flights from the small, regional airport in State College, Pa. This year, they've chartered 107. New and important reporting from my @spotlightpa.org colleague Melissa Pérez-Carrillo.
spotlightpa.org
Penn State’s airport sees dramatic increase in ICE flights
Because it receives federal dollars, the State College Regional Airport is required by law to be “available for public use.”
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“what’s camila cabello up to these days?” —my mom, just now, unprompted
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I am in the big apple and I just paid $10 for a matcha, get me back to god’s country, Pennsylvania
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I finished Yesteryear last night **spoiler warning** I thought it was decent, but some of the sloppy details on religion and the justice system really bothered me. Like she had a Confirmation *and* a young adult baptism? What do you mean a civilian served a “warrant” to take children away?
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Matt Dempsey @mizzousundevil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Woooo! @spotlightpa.org 's project on Pennsylvania's failing mental health system won the ONA for social justice reporting! Congrats to @dtohl.bsky.social, who did a great job on a challenging subject. www.journalists.org/news/congrat...
journalists.org
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 OJAs - Online News Association
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the PTFO v. ESPN debacle is honestly heartening to me because it proves that boring-ass, show-me-the-documents investigative reporting beats the pants off anonymous source, access journalism every single time
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my show is on!!!!
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I do not watch the NBA but I do watch the NBA drama and wow @pablo.show vindicated!!!!
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
are the Diamondbacks playing Brockhampton?
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
ok having seen (and loved) Camp Miasma, I'm thinking a bit about gender in horror, and struggling to think of a slasher where there's a sexy, himbo Final **Boy. Anyone have ideas?
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
see, Jane Schoenbrun gets it
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What Dolly Told Me (Gift Article)
Trailing Dolly Parton around the world, I witnessed so many small moments in which she’d gracefully own her power without the slightest hint of fight.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this wasn’t even one of the *good* episodes of Black Mirror!
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I do think spending my early twenties living in Baltimore has warped my sensitivity to some things, because everyone is up in arms about Flock (rightly so!) and I initially kind of shrugged because I remember sitting behind my house during COVID lockdown and being like, oh, there goes the spy plane!
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A journey through grief: HH Hiaasen asks how Baltimoreans would complete the day of loved ones lost to gun violence baltimorebeat.com/a-journey-th...
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A journey through grief: HH Hiaasen asks how Baltimoreans would complete the day of loved ones lost to gun violence
On June 28, 2018, Rob Hiaasen was supposed to get his hair cut. But the 59-year-old editor and columnist at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis didn’t go — and now his family imagines what his day would…
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
does anyone have eyes on Cher
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the Trio albums are just all-timers
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
usually, it's corny to get all personally broken up about a celebrity death, but in this case it's corny not to
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
crying to a perfect album open.spotify.com/album/4sQEu1...
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Trio (2016 Remaster) - Album by Dolly Parton | Spotify
Dolly Parton · album · 1987 · 11 songs
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I have nothing unreported to add but does propublica want a copy of my extremely, painfully circa 2018 PowerPoint about the Zumwalt class destroyers?
This is a screen shot of a four slide PowerPoint presentation I made about the Zumwalt class destroyers. 

The first one is text superimposed over a pic of the destroyer slicing through ocean (they have an inverted bow shape) that reads Zumwalt Class Destroyers: A case study in fucking pointless government spending.

The next slide is a picture of Edwin Starr with a speech bubble that reads “War! What is it good for? Literally fucking nothing ok let’s move on”

The next slide is different pictures of the destroyers and haphazardly placed captions saying “nifty death boat,” “v expensive trapezoid,” “league of extraordinary gentlemen ass ship thing” and simply “america”

Last slide is headline screencaps from various stories explaining what a boondoggle this project was. Again, screen shots of slides. First is a chart showing the spending on the project showing it was like 50% over budget by 2020. There’s a red circle around that figure. 

Next slide says “It cost $23 billion and they’re not even fucking done!!!”

Next slide is the crests of four cabinet departments — labor, commerce, interior, and treasury. I thiiiink the point was the project cost more than the cumulative annual budget of these departments. 

Last slide is a screenshot of a USA Today tweet reporting that treating trans troops only cost $8 million. If I recall correctly at time the cost of gender affirming care in the military was a big talking point, and I was drawing contrast to how little it actually cost when compared to how much the military spends on weapons development projects that go nowhere.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love a pitchfork bnm as much as the next guy, but I love uncool music so much. You’re gonna tell me *not* to listen to the counting crows as I drive to the jersey shore on a big beautiful day? yeah, right, sister, I’ve got a death grips box set to sell you
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
my car is 10+ years old, just hit 150k miles, eating oil for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but this is why I will be putting a quart in every 500 miles and praying she goes quietly in the driveway one morning because I am quite literally terrified of buying a new vehicle
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
i love philadelphia
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m stretching in bed and my partner asked me if I’m just off my shift at the car lot :(
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
you have....wacky balloon man, it's terminal
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
got a hypermobility assessment today and ngl I’ve never felt so seen and so attacked simultaneously as I did when the physical therapist very seriously handed me this piece of paper that says I’m a wacky wavy balloon guy
Photo of a piece of paper that says:

Analogies for hypermobility
Automobile dealership balloon guy

Wacky Wavy Tube Man: Picture the noodle man outside a car dealership and how wacky and wavy his libs are. Now picture noodle man walking down a narrow alley, his wacky wavy arms would be bumping into all the narrow alley walls. Similar to noodle man, people with hypermobility are always bumping into things. Yes, we can see things around us, but our joints don’t have the control and proprieties feedback to prevent the bumping from happening, regardless of your visual guide.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
stopped by and everyone knew you
A photo of a whiteboard calendar that says “BETA NIGHT” written in marker on Aug. 6
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
what losers don’t understand is finding a place owned by one nice boomer who needs you to write a check is hitting the rental lottery
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