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Ljeonida is a reporter and writer with a degree in journalism and communications from the University of Tirana in her native Albania. She has a particular interest in all things digital marketing; she considers herself a copywriter, content producer, SEO specialist, and passionate marketer. Ljeonida is based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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‘It’s ours’: Trump wants the Gulf of Mexico to become the ‘Gulf of America’

Alexandra Samuels is a national political reporter and contributor to the Daily Dot, where she started as an intern covering politics in the summer of 2016. She enjoys all things Marvel, keeping up with the latest TikTok trends, long walks with her pup, and reading murder-mystery novels.

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‘Inside the Oxxo’: Woman goes on road trip through Mexico. There’s just one problem

Christina Baez is the Curation Lead for The Daily Dot. Previously, she&#8217;s worked at BuzzFeed, People Magazine, UsWeekly Magazine, and Alexa Magazine within The New York Post. She&#8217;s an artist and has had work on display at La Bodega Gallery, Milk Gallery, Calumet Gallery and Dagny &amp; Barstow in New York City. She is also the founder and host of &#8216;The Subway Portraits&#8217; podcast, a project that aims to create a digital archive of commuter&#8217;s experiences riding on New York City&#8217;s subway.

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‘Never seen a less Jewish Jew’: Mexico’s new president thanked her husband—and it got wildly misinterpreted

Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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‘This is why I don’t do group trips’: Woman says group trip to Cabo turned from bad to worse after one of the girls only went with $135 to her name.

Maya Wray is a Fall 2022 FOIA intern for the Daily Dot. She is currently a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies journalism in the Moody College Honors Program. She has written for the Daily Texan and the Austin Chronicle.

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Women in Mexico go viral for video explaining how to navigate being quarantined with an abuser

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Josh Katzowitz is a 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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