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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.

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“This is vile”: Jet2holidays voice actress pushes back at Trump White House using meme to hype deportations

President Donald Trump speaking to construction workers bulldozing the White House Rose Garden with an overlaid bluesky post from Democratic strategist Mike Nellis reading: "We’ve got money to bulldoze the White House Rose Garden and turn it into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio, but we can’t pay for cancer research for kids or make sure veterans aren’t living off food stamps."

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Trump bulldozes White House Rose Garden to start paving over it, outraging critics

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

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Trump’s first ‘new media’ briefing hosts influencer who spent 7 days convinced the moon had disappeared

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

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White House deletes COVID resource site—to launch ‘lab leak’ promo page

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‘Fight back now’: Libs want Usha Vance detained during upcoming Greenland trip over husband’s rhetoric

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Pentagon quietly restores web page on Black Medal of Honor recipient after backlash over ‘DEI’ label

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‘It’d certainly be a shame’: Critics of Trump’s new DEI ‘snitch email’ definitely don’t want you to spam it

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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‘You reap what you sow’: Spanish version of White House website taken offline after Trump inauguration

Trump adviser pledges Kash Patel will take Democrats pound town

‘Gonna do what?’: Trump adviser pledges Kash Patel will go to ‘Pound Town’ on Democrats

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MAGA vows to oust any ‘spineless’ Trump nominees who supported even basic COVID measures

In the image Dr. Janette Nesheiwat speaks to camera. Behind her we see the coronavirus and photo of anti-vaccine protesters.

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MAGA turns on Trump surgeon general pick for once calling COVID vaccine ‘a gift from God’

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Justice for Jan. 6 is switching to vengeance 

Pete Hegseth over image of bacteria under microscope

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Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth proudly boasted of never washing his hands: ‘Germs are not real’

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Joe Biden actually bit 4 babies at a White House Halloween event—and the internet is hotly divided

White House staffer slammed by conservatives for old tweets

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New White House staffer under fire for old tweets calling police ‘slave patrols’

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