Danielle Ohl
@dtohl.bsky.social
news lady, union guy, Pennsylvania person
remember to tip your journalists dohl@spotlightpa.org
remember to tip your journalists dohl@spotlightpa.org
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Danielle Ohl
@dtohl.bsky.social
· Jul 28
The tragic consequences of PA's failed mental health system
One family's story reveals the human cost of hospital closures, funding cuts, and the resulting failures in Pennsylvania's mental health care system.
www.spotlightpa.org
This is Sue’s story. But it could be the story of any of the roughly half a dozen families I spoke to for this investigation.
And it’s the story of what failure over three decades means for real people, a mother and son.
And it’s the story of what failure over three decades means for real people, a mother and son.
me, when Stephen King writing about anything else and it’s integral to the plot: 🙂🩸💣💕😏✅👻🥹
me, when Stephen King writing about cars and it’s integral to the plot: 😖🚗🛞⚙️🫨🧮💢🔄⚠️
me, when Stephen King writing about cars and it’s integral to the plot: 😖🚗🛞⚙️🫨🧮💢🔄⚠️
February 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
me, when Stephen King writing about anything else and it’s integral to the plot: 🙂🩸💣💕😏✅👻🥹
me, when Stephen King writing about cars and it’s integral to the plot: 😖🚗🛞⚙️🫨🧮💢🔄⚠️
me, when Stephen King writing about cars and it’s integral to the plot: 😖🚗🛞⚙️🫨🧮💢🔄⚠️
I’m starting a lifelong campaign to topple Italian American simping for Christopher Columbus and replace him with Damian Clara
Damian Clara Was Italy's Improbable Bastion | Defector
The Olympic spirit takes a few forms. There’s total dominance, as the best athletes in the world display their mastery. There’s the unlikely upset, when deep underdogs overcome the odds. And then ther...
defector.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I’m starting a lifelong campaign to topple Italian American simping for Christopher Columbus and replace him with Damian Clara
what do you mean the Dunkin’ donuts on my way to high school is now a “manhattan” “bagel”
February 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM
what do you mean the Dunkin’ donuts on my way to high school is now a “manhattan” “bagel”
My colleague @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social with an important primer on how the Pennsylvania state government collaborates with ICE.
How PA agencies under Shapiro’s control cooperate with ICE
Gov. Josh Shapiro has not hidden that PA works with ICE, nor has he promised new limits on existing cooperation.
www.spotlightpa.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
My colleague @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social with an important primer on how the Pennsylvania state government collaborates with ICE.
need everyone to know that the very good, very proud, very competitive for bronze swedish ice hockey team is currently tied with the very these are just some guys italian ice hockey team because the italy goaltender is a monster
February 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
need everyone to know that the very good, very proud, very competitive for bronze swedish ice hockey team is currently tied with the very these are just some guys italian ice hockey team because the italy goaltender is a monster
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when will someone figure skate to allentown pennsylvania hardcore at the olympics
Pissed Jeans - Romanticize Me [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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February 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
when will someone figure skate to allentown pennsylvania hardcore at the olympics
I CAN FINALLY REVEAL I WAS THERE IN PERSON!!!!
Geese's Tiny Desk Concert is really good
Geese's Tiny Desk Concert Is Really Good: Watch
An Australian TikToker recently ran into Geese frontman Cameron Winter at an airport, and they had a little impromptu interview. When asked what was next for Geese, Winter said, “We go deeper into the...
stereogum.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I CAN FINALLY REVEAL I WAS THERE IN PERSON!!!!
I wrote about the Dilley Detention Center back in 2018 because a local elected official traveled down to offer legal support to asylum seekers. It seemed chaotic back then; I can't imagine what it's like now.
(idk why the photo is Ben Jealous, it wasn't him)
(idk why the photo is Ben Jealous, it wasn't him)
A week in Dilley: Annapolis alderman, local attorneys volunteer at a Texas detention center
Marc Rodriguez sits at a bus station in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by smiling women and children wearing red, yellow and blue T-shirts. For many, it’s their first day in weeks free from d…
www.capitalgazette.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I wrote about the Dilley Detention Center back in 2018 because a local elected official traveled down to offer legal support to asylum seekers. It seemed chaotic back then; I can't imagine what it's like now.
(idk why the photo is Ben Jealous, it wasn't him)
(idk why the photo is Ben Jealous, it wasn't him)
Reposted by Danielle Ohl
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
I cannot stop laughing
February 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I cannot stop laughing
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
today someone on here said we need AI because having talent is ableist and I am barely exaggerating
what a website
what a website
February 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
today someone on here said we need AI because having talent is ableist and I am barely exaggerating
what a website
what a website
i'll say it once, i'll say it for the rest of my life: everything, even hockey, comes back to Pennsylvania 😈
Penn State hockey star Gavin McKenna faces felony, accused of assault in State College
An affidavit of probable cause filed Wednesday detailed the accusations against the 18-year-old.
www.centredaily.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
i'll say it once, i'll say it for the rest of my life: everything, even hockey, comes back to Pennsylvania 😈
you know it's a colossally stupid blunder when even my sister, who is a nurse with more pressing things to do, calls me and is like "what the fuck is going on with the washington post"
February 5, 2026 at 12:04 AM
you know it's a colossally stupid blunder when even my sister, who is a nurse with more pressing things to do, calls me and is like "what the fuck is going on with the washington post"
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Jeff Bezos gave $75 million to support Melania Trump's vanity film, but he doesn't have the money for the hundreds of journalists he laid off at The Post today.
Democracy dies with Bezos – unless we fight back. Here's how you can help:
newsguild.org/mass-layoffs...
Democracy dies with Bezos – unless we fight back. Here's how you can help:
newsguild.org/mass-layoffs...
Mass layoffs at Washington Post; hundreds of journalists cut as Bezos gives millions to Melania Trump | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
The Washington Post on Wednesday announced a devastating number of layoffs to journalists, decimating one of the most important newsrooms in the country.
newsguild.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Jeff Bezos gave $75 million to support Melania Trump's vanity film, but he doesn't have the money for the hundreds of journalists he laid off at The Post today.
Democracy dies with Bezos – unless we fight back. Here's how you can help:
newsguild.org/mass-layoffs...
Democracy dies with Bezos – unless we fight back. Here's how you can help:
newsguild.org/mass-layoffs...
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
On the same day the Washington Post announces their layoffs, ProPublica of all places is ready to strike.
How has journalism gotten to the place where the people who power the best newsrooms in the country are treated so poorly by the people that run them?
How has journalism gotten to the place where the people who power the best newsrooms in the country are treated so poorly by the people that run them?
1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @propublica.org agrees to a fair contract.
www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...
www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...
The ProPublica Guild is Ready to Strike for a Fair Contract — ProPublica Guild
The ProPublica Guild is prepared to strike. We have shown up and compromised at the bargaining table for more than two years, but our newsroom’s management has slow-walked negotiations , offering w...
www.propublicaguild.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
On the same day the Washington Post announces their layoffs, ProPublica of all places is ready to strike.
How has journalism gotten to the place where the people who power the best newsrooms in the country are treated so poorly by the people that run them?
How has journalism gotten to the place where the people who power the best newsrooms in the country are treated so poorly by the people that run them?
ICE has been buying up warehouses across the country, including one in Berks County, Pennsylvania just north of Reading. www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...
ICE buys $87M warehouse in Berks County
Deed records show the Trump administration purchased a 520,000-square-foot warehouse in Hamburg, PA, for $87.4 million on Feb. 2.
www.spotlightpa.org
February 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
ICE has been buying up warehouses across the country, including one in Berks County, Pennsylvania just north of Reading. www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...
this is a lovely tribute, but it shoulda been T-Pain
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 AM
this is a lovely tribute, but it shoulda been T-Pain
Grammy award winner Lefty Gunplay
February 2, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Grammy award winner Lefty Gunplay
now i get why weird rich dudes think everyone needs a robot to write good emails
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 AM
now i get why weird rich dudes think everyone needs a robot to write good emails
I do need everyone to know that I got a big laugh today from this botched press release announcing the prosecutors coming together as “FOFO”
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 AM
I do need everyone to know that I got a big laugh today from this botched press release announcing the prosecutors coming together as “FOFO”
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This is one of the most touching and heartbreaking things I have ever read.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:03 PM
This is one of the most touching and heartbreaking things I have ever read.