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Hope Talbot is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Daily Express, Euronews, and Bristol24/7, to name a few.

Hope Talbot

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Marco Rubio cabinet nomination kickstarts unironic Hulk Hogan for Senate push

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

Single panel design with a cut out of Elon Musk with his hands pressed together and against his face as we looks off and down in to the distance. He has a background of cryto coins behind him.

A crypto memelord fined by the SEC was the brainchild behind Trump and Musk’s DOGE initiative

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Lindsey Weedston

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Memes

What’s up with all those Elon Musk First Lady memes?

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Pete Hegseth over image of bacteria under microscope

Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth proudly boasted of never washing his hands: ‘Germs are not real’

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

‘I prefer this Trump’: MAGA fans upset with Rubio cabinet post flag Trump’s old dunks on him

Screen shot of tweet reading, ""your body, my choice" so you're admitting it was never about the fetus and instead about controlling women?" Below it is an image from the Mean Girls original movie.

‘My fist, your face’: The ‘Your Body, My Choice’ meme draws heavy backlash

Sasha Baker is a London-based freelance investigative journalist writing for the Daily Dot’s tech and politics section. Their work has also appeared in the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, openDemocracy and more.

Sasha Baker

Mike Waltz and Donald Trump with Tiktok logo

Trump ran on saving TikTok—his new National Security Advisor called refusing to ban it ‘craven’

A Starlink satellite crashing back to Earth is now the center of a left-wing conspiracy Musk stole the election

Ramon Ramirez was the managing editor and, formerly, the Dot&#8217;s news director, entertainment editor, and evening editor. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Grantland, Washington City Paper, Austin American-Statesman, and Austin Monitor.

Ramon Ramirez

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Main Character of the Week: Your spiraling Facebook friends

‘Final boss of democracy’: TikTok memes dream of Trump abolishing term limits—and Obama coming back to wax him

Ted Cruz's daughter is not celebrating Trump's win

‘Dad has no spine but she does’: Ted Cruz’s daughter praised after telling mom ‘don’t clap’ for Trump

‘The icon’: Olivia Rodrigo pulls ‘deja vu’ audio after Trump uses it in president-elect TikTok

Trump Doomers cope with hope

Originally from Texas, Douglas Lucas is based in Seattle. When not substitute teaching in public education, and not toiling away in marketing, he&#8217;s a freelance writer/journalist published at Foreign Policy, Vice, Salon, WhoWhatWhy, the Texas Observer, and several others.

Douglas Lucas

The digital divide for Indian Country got better under Biden—will that progress go away?

Rebecca Leib

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Donald Trump