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Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

MIA TIN FOIL HAT

M.I.A. drops conspiracy-tinged streetwear line, including a 5G-blocking tin foil bucket hat

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

Mikael Thalen

Gordon Ramsay protests globalist plan to feed world bugs

Gordon and Bugs

Gordon Ramsay isn’t protesting a globalist plot to make us eat bugs

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

Katherine Huggins

Donald Trump Jr. argues his father isn't on the Epstein list

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‘He’s on the flight logs’: Trump Jr. bizarrely boasts his father’s name never leaked in Epstein case

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‘Hunter & Diddy Must Be Brothers’: Videos claiming Hunter Biden dragged woman through hotel circulate online

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.

Tricia Crimmins

Joe Biden(l), Joe Biden drinking orange drink(R)

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Stimulants, Gatorade, or pandering? Biden’s orange beverage at Juneteenth celebration prompts myriad speculation

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Hunter Biden’s biggest haters are suddenly annoyed he was convicted on gun charges

John Fetterman with ice pack and his wife

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John Fetterman’s car crash causes panic in newfound conservative fanbase: ‘Dems are sending a message’

Did 'undercover FBI agent' reveal what he saw inside Diddy's house?

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No, secrets about Diddy were not spilled by an ‘undercover FBI agent’

Hailey Closson is the Daily Dot&#8217;s spring 2024 FOIA intern. She is a Journalism and English student at the University of Maryland and has interned at the Baltimore Sun, worked for Capital News Service, the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion coordinator for her student paper, the Diamondback.

Hailey Closson

A fisheye view of Lake Lanier in Atlanta Georgia

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Inside the tortured history of the internet’s most famous haunted lake

Biden's poop sleuths want you to know that he didn't soil his pants

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Conservatives are once again fighting over whether Biden pooped his pants

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 on Google Maps

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The missing Malaysian Airlines flight wasn’t just discovered using Google Maps

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

What is this large 'anomaly' that experts are tracking in the ocean? Is it a leviathan?

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’84 pilot whales mysteriously huddled’: What is this large ‘anomaly’ that experts are tracking in the ocean? Is it a leviathan?

David Covucci was the senior politics and technology editor at the Daily Dot, covering the nexus between Washington and Silicon Valley. His work has appeared in Vice, the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Gothamist, and other publications.

David Covucci

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Deplatformed: Save a Horseman of the Apocalypse

Conspiracy theorists blame HAARP for Northern Lights

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Conspiracy theorists think the Northern Lights were caused by the government

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‘It could be worse’: Avril Lavigne finally addresses clone replacement conspiracy

Conspiracy Theories