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Tricia Crimmins is a Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.

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‘We love critical thinkers’: High school students protest anti-abortion assembly in viral TikTok

A USC Frat house is covered in graffiti after allegations of sexual assault and drugging.

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‘Don’t let them forget’: TikTok shows frat house covered in graffiti to protest allegations of spiked drinks, sexual assault

Milby high school students walk out after a sexual misconduct allegation against their assistant principle.

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‘Looking is not OK’: Viral TikTok shows students protesting after principal allegedly ‘looked at’ student dancer changing clothes

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

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‘This is not happening’: TikToker confronts neighbors flying Nazi flag to protest COVID vaccine

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Viral TikTok shows empty grocery store shelves—viewers say it’s due to trucker protests

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Audio of Portland activist’s arrest shows cops allegedly making up charges

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Pro-Trump group organizing rides to election protest gets trolled

Angelica Arinze is a former editorial intern for the Daily Dot and student at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the former the director of the Daily Texan’s diversity and inclusion board and formerly involved with the National Association of Black Journalists and BlackPrint, UT’s Black interest publication.

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Black Lives Matter protests sparked a wave of promises. Are they being kept?

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Video shows Trump supporter driving through crowd of protesters on his motorcycle [Updated]

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Wisconsin ‘vigilante’ shooter charged with murder

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These volunteers are making Black Lives Matter videos accessible to deaf activists

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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