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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.

Alexandra Samuels

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‘This is a great idea’: TikToker shares apparent movie theater popcorn hack in viral video

Kahron Spearman is a journalist, copywriter, and host of “Discovery with Kahron Spearman” on KAZI 88.7.

Kahron Spearman

‘I gave y’all ten years of my life’: Southwest Airlines employee delivers impassioned quitting speech in viral TikTok

Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election.

Tricia Crimmins

In a TikTok, a white woman allegedly left her son in the car on a hot day.

‘This little boy was f*cking hot as sh*t and crying’: TikToker shames woman for allegedly leaving her kid in hot car

Phil West is a veteran professional writer and editor, and his works include two nonfiction books and articles in myriad print and online publications.

Phil West

Starbucks worker shows how they make drinks when multiple customers order the same thing

Wendy's fries with inset of drive-thru window covered by sign that reads "Sorry I'm short staffed I can only make fry's, nuggets, chili, potatoes, and drinks."

Drive-thru sign saying ‘short-staffed’ Wendy’s workers can only make ‘fries, nuggets, chili, potatoes, and drinks’ goes viral

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration 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.

Samira Sadeque

Ring footage shows man warning woman about fire in her house, and then helping her carry her child out

‘Your house is almost on fire!’: Neighbors use Ring camera to alert woman of approaching blaze

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

‘It’s a trap‘: Dairy Queen sign offering $2,400 bonus for new workers goes viral

Woman gets tackled by passerby after allegedly throwing rock at elderly woman in viral TikTok

man putting money into wallet while talking to cashier (l) cashier slaps customer both with caption "I'm matching y'all racist ass energy I'm glad today is my last day of dealing with this racist shit 100 100"

‘I’m matching y’all racist a** energy’: Cashier slaps customer who called him a ‘Black motherf*cker’

Moises Mendez II is a recent graduate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a freelance journalist based in New York City writing about everything from music to LGBTQ issues.

Moises Mendez II

‘Delete everything’: TikToker catches elderly man sneaking photos of girls on a train

man gesturing and yelling in a store (l) young man in mask (c) man with arms outstretched (r) all with caption "racism at it's finest"

‘It’s the thought that counts’: Man tries to stand up for Asian man against racist at Burlington, unintentionally ends up also being racist

‘Why are you acting like a child?’: Male Karen  refuses to leave after retail worker kicks him out for defying mask policy

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Video: Substitute teacher freaks out after Black student criticizes her for writing ‘all lives matter’ on whiteboard

Viewers accurately predict that popular finance TikToker has thyroid cancer

hand pouring large coffee into empty cup with caption "Since people wanna see what you get out of a large" (l) spoon holding back ice as coffee pours into cup (r)

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