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Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

Left: Iran bombing meme showing Donald Trumph hitting "WW3" button below caption reading: "When nobody shows up to your sad little birthday parade" Right: Who Killed Hannibal meme showing Andre as Trump shooting "Iran" in one panel, and him saying "now is the time for peace" in subsequent panel

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Memes

30 viral memes about the Iran bombing that sum up the online panic and nihilism

Left: Trump director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaking into a microphone Right: President Donald Trump giving a press conference

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Viral Politics

Old anti-war tweets come back to haunt “hypocrites” Trump and Gabbard after Iran airstrikes

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“You don’t know anything about Iran”:  Tucker Carlson grills Ted Cruz in an interview, and the internet has mixed feelings about the whole thing

Left: "Pentagon Pizza index is spiking" showing map of DC near the pentagon Right: The closest Dominos to the Pentagon has surged in traffic as of 8:55pm ET, showing Domino's Pizza surge

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Culture

Why the internet thinks pizza orders warned us about Israel’s attack on Iran

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

Posters joke that Mossad agent "Eli Kopter" is behind deadly Iran helicopter crash afters new analyst gaffe

Eli Kopter

Who is Eli Kopter? Meme suggesting Mossad agent took out Iranian president spirals out of control

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

Mikael Thalen

Right-wingers think 'Iranian Sleeper Cells' will be unleashed in America

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‘Iranian terror cell’ fears pushed by same crowd who claimed secret Hamas agents were in the U.S.

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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‘Mean tweets and world peace’: Trump fans push new 2024 slogan after Iran’s strike on Israel

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid is a journalist and commentator. He’s the Pakistan correspondent for The Diplomat. His work has been featured in Guardian, Independent, Foreign Policy, BBC, Spectator, Haaretz, Arab News, Daily Beast, Courrier International, Le Monde, Charlie Hebdo, Vox, MIT Technology Review, among other publications

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Protestors take part during a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy in Brussels, Belgium on Sept. 23, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini.

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Inside Iran, protesters remain unfazed by the regime’s high-tech crackdown

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration, sexual violence, and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards. Follow: @Samideque

Samira Sadeque

Screengrabs show Iran’s doctors dancing

Iran’s doctors are dancing to keep spirits high amid coronavirus scare

Libby Cohen is a third-year University of Texas student originally from New Jersey. She has written for ORANGE Magazine, the Daily Texan, and most recently interned for 1010 WINS in NYC. She&#8217;s now back in Austin writing for the Texas Standard and the Daily Dot.

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A U.S. military parody account is drafting everyone on Twitter

David Gilmour is a reporter who specializes in national politics, internet culture, and technology.

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Reddit identifies 143 accounts linked to Iranian influence campaign

Andrew Wyrich is the newsletter editor at the Daily Dot. He previously served as the deputy tech editor. Andrew has written for USA Today, NorthJersey.com, and other newspapers and websites. His work has been recognized by the Society of the Silurians, Investigative Reporters &amp; Editors (IRE), and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

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President Donald Trump made an all-caps tweet threat to Iran on Sunday. It was quickly turned into a meme–with people on Twitter mocking it mercilessly

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Trump’s threat to Iran’s president is already a dank meme

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