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Danielle Ohl

@dtohl.bsky.social
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 2h
when gabby windey puts out a stunning memoir in like 18 months, and everyone acts smug because they knew about her writing prowess from the vibration plate substack post, just know I’ve been annoying my friends about her since April 2025!!!
me texting my group chat on April 6, 2025 to say that I think Gabby Windey is the voice of a generation
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 20h
omg god bless the internet archive, she lives! web.archive.org/web/20170825...
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'It's Real' | Inside the Culture
Lacking guidance, fraternities and sororities turn to internal processes to cope with allegations of sexual assault within their community.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 20h
But I have to wonder if there's still a culture that would support that kind of thing going today. This was 10 years ago (💀) but pre-Me Too. It did really feel like there was a culture of consent bubbling up, even in the stickiest of frat basements. Maybe I was naive to feel that way.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 20h
None of the adults I interviewed thought that was a good idea, but I was struck by how sorority sisters in particular felt like every other system had failed them so they had to rely on internal pressure to punish their abusers. And in some cases, it worked!
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 20h
The Title IX and criminal justice systems at UMD at the time were so unreliable that the fraternities were using their standards boards that are supposed to be for like, property damage, to litigate sex crimes by their own members.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 20h
The Cornell case has me thinking a lot about my senior year of college, when I spent an entire semester interviewing Greek life members about sexual assault. The story link is broken, but iirc, I found out that like every chapter was running their own kangaroo court to deal with sexual assault.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 21h
there is no Philadelphia sport tonight and I can finally know one night of peace
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
shout out to librarians, I am regularly appearing at the local library with hundreds of pages of documents I need to scan and they are just completely unfazed
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
5/ This story was a true collaboration, so huge thank you to @katehuangpu.bsky.social and Gabriela Martínez, particularly Gabi, who jumped into this story and made it possible for us to communicate with Carlos and Wendys. Editing props to @mizzousundevil.bsky.social and @kearse.bsky.social!
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
4/ Local agencies have been opting in to the sprawling deportation campaign since it began in 2025, offering different reasons for the decision: money, oversight, belief in the mission. We did this story to demystify what that choice means for the families who are caught in the federal dragnet.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
3/ But Carlos spent the months leading up to his son's birth 200 miles away from his family. Within the jail, he struggled to receive accommodations for his disabilities. His time in the jail left him so defeated, he decided to give up his asylum case and face deportation without meeting his child.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2/ Carlos spent nearly six months in the Cambria County Prison, a local jail that makes hundreds of dollars a week holding immigrants for ICE though an agreement with the federal government. Defenders of these agreements say the local jails are more accountable, and keep people closer to home.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🧵 1/ In March, ICE arrested Carlos Moreno, a blind and partially deaf father of four as he was leaving court in Pottsville. He was there to pay a fine for a noise citation. The agents ripped him away from his pregnant wife, Wendys, without explanation, leaving her to prepare for birth alone.
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ICE detained a disabled man. A county jail neglected him, he says
Carlos Moreno says Cambria County Prison ignored his requests for his hearing aids and cane. At home in Schuylkill County, his growing family suffered.
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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
I went to a guy for forward head placement and neck pain and he brought up “The Body Keeps the Score.” Turns out I have hypermobility, so it probably would’ve been bad to let him whack my neck multiple times a week like he wanted.
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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.
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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 · 27/09/2026
the sickness in my brain is I read this as david foster wallace instead of Dallas Fort Worth
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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 am not immune from the siren call of wow this would be such a good fucking story, but it's our job to examine that instinct a lil bit is all i'm sayin 🤷‍♀️
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎯 exactly
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
esp because people are now surfacing all this interesting info about the detractors that, to me, are so much more interesting than the a-little-too-perfectly-placed info about unusual pronouns! if I came away from your piece laughing and also thinking did the CIA write this then idk man
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a piece can have good writing, perfect comedic timing, all these delicious little details, and still be in service of a net harm if the goal is look at these silly people aren't they so funny I'm open to other opinions on it! but i came away thinking what was the point there other than voyeurism
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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 · 23/09/2026
skill issue, brain freeze but real
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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
I am getting my Golden Padlock nomination locked and loaded @ire.org
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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
everyone is sporting exquisite, emotive eyeliner. Prince, sure, but Apollonia’s smoky puppy eyes when she first blows into town?? Morris Day’s louche little smudge??? I was hooting, I was hollering
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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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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ah god, Tessa, I didn’t realize you were affected. I’m so sorry.
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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...
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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
Local utilities and zoning authorities need to sign off on the construction and operation of new detention centers — the construction of which affected a local school district.
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ICE sale led PA district to temporarily freeze HS renovation
While Hamburg officials say the financial impact is limited, it does demonstrate the uncertainty that the ICE project is creating locally.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Local district attorneys make promises to immigrants who help them solve crimes, promises that are now under threat as ICE continues it's crackdown.
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How ICE policy shift affects crime survivors and witnesses in PA
Advocates warn ICE’s new policy could undermine programs created to help witnesses and victims of serious crimes.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Contracts with local jails mean ICE has a place to hold people who they've detained.
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PA jails earn millions detaining immigrants for ICE
A group of Pennsylvania counties that have detained immigrants for ICE billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years.
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Danielle Ohl @dtohl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A contract signed by county commissioners makes it possible to operate the notorious Moshannon Valley Processing Center.
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Clearfield County to make $1 million over 5 years on detention center contracts
Clearfield County will make $1 million to act as the middleman between ICE and GEO Group, which operates Moshannon Valley Processing Center.
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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.
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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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