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

Katherine Huggins

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‘No one is safe’: Trump’s tariffs accidentally ensnare penguin colony

Jason Wilson is an investigative reporter based in Portland, Oregon.

Jason Wilson

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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.

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Leftist Twitch steamer, U.S citizen, says CBP searched phone at Mexico border

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Musk-led freak out over rise in non-citizen Social Security numbers stems from Trump-era program

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How to avoid the Signal mistakes the Trump administration made

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MAGA’s new semantic defense of leaked Yemen Signal convo strains credulity

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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.

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Trump officials old calls to jail leakers roasted after their Yemen Signal group exposed

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Trump rages over ‘distorted’ portrait in Colorado—that his supporters paid for

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