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Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Samantha Grasso

Woman gets 7 years in prison after smuggling cocaine for catfisher

Jessica Machado is the former IRL editor of the Daily Dot. Previously, she was an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Elle, Vice, Salon, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Bitch, Bust, the Cut, the Awl, the Toast, among others.

Jessica Machado

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‘Ear parties,’ luxury piercing, and the mothers yearning for control

Paul Gonzales, the dine-and-dash dater facing 10 felony charges.

Serial ‘dine-n-dash dater’ faces felony charges for sticking his dates with expensive bills

Jessamyn Stanley is fighting for radical visibility and yoga for every body

Formerly a Fulbright fellow, Claire Lampen is a lifestyle reporter who has published work with Vogue, Gizmodo, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, the BBC, Vice, Marie Claire, and more.

Claire Lampen

How should we celebrate Women’s Equality Day in 2018?

Ellen Ioanes is a former FOIA reporter at the Daily Dot. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, and her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Center for Public Integrity, HuffPost India, and more.

Ellen Ioanes

Trolls attack slain Mollie Tibbetts for pro-immigration tweets

Alex Dalbey is a writer and zinester currently living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They have written for The Daily Dot, Kill Screen, The Lingerie Addict, and Bullet Points.

Alex Dalbey

Trans people keep getting suspended from Twitter—and they want answers (updated)

Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. Her work has appeared at Vice, Vox, Truthout, Bitch Media, Kill Screen, Rolling Stone, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games.

Ana Valens

Embracing pansexuality: A queer woman opens up about how she came to identify

Annie Segarra and other wheelchair users share that #AmbulatoryWheelchairUsersExist on Twitter.

Yes, ambulatory wheelchair users exist—and aren’t ‘faking’ when they use aids

"how Milennials killed mayonnaise" tweet over mayonnaise jar

Keep mayo’s name out of your screed about white obsoletion

David Covucci was the senior politics and technology editor at the Daily Dot, covering the nexus between Washington and Silicon Valley. His work has appeared in Vice, the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Gothamist, and other publications.

David Covucci

Stephen Miller’s uncle calls out his nephew in blistering op-ed

TERF wars: Why trans-exclusionary radical feminists have no place in feminism

Joseph Knoop is a gaming writer for Daily Dot, a native Chicagoan, and a slave to all things Overwatch. He co-founded the college geek culture outlet ByteBSU, then interned at Game Informer, and now writes for a bunch websites his parents have never heard of.

Joseph Knoop

Video: Man steals Alaska Airlines plane, barrel rolls before Seattle crash

Josh Katzowitz is a former staff writer at the Daily Dot specializing in YouTube and boxing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. A longtime sports writer, he&#8217;s covered the NFL for CBSSports.com and boxing for Forbes. His work has been noted twice in the Best American Sports Writing book series.

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