Dani McClain
danimcclain.bsky.social
Dani McClain
@danimcclain.bsky.social
writer. reporter. editor. cincinnati. wrote a book about parenting in these times https://tinyurl.com/LiveForTheWe
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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 --
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...
January 19, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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...
January 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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...
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.
www.thenation.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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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...
March 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Reposting with alt text:

I did this just now and it worked.
February 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.
February 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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.“
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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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.
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.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.
February 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Doge as IMF structural adjustment imperial boomerang 🤯
Or we might think of the predecessors to the Greek crisis, the IMF structural adjustment programs imposed on so many countries around the world from the 1980s onward. I'm sure that to their hosts the young American economists parachuted in for SAPs looked much like Big Balls or whoever does to us.
February 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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.
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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...
ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
www.acog.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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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...
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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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
February 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM