Logo_White

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_post_3:2

lede_post_card_featured_post_1:1

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero_3:2

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero_1:1

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_post_card_square

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_16x9_full_width

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_3x2_full_width

lede_article_featured_1x1

lede_article_featured_1x1_full_width

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_featured_flexible_full_width

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

lede_leaderboard

Main Header Menu

Logo_2a8517

The Daily Dot

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

fema director

FEMA head’s praise of employee featured in ‘LGBTQ disaster equity’ clip resurfaced by the right

Kira Deshler was the assistant newsletter editor at the Daily Dot. Kira received a Master&#8217;s in Media Studies from UT Austin and has previously written for sites like Slash Film and Looper. She runs her own Substack newsletter, Paging Dr. Lesbian, and is a member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

Kira Deshler

decoding-fandom-09-26-2024.png

‘Agatha All Along’ divides MCU purists and queer fans

Meta suspended Valentina Gomez's Instagram account

meta ban

Valentina Gomez booted off Instagram after 4 months of Reels littered with anti-gay slurs

Angela Andaloro proudly serves as a scribe, documenting all the shenanigans happening online. Her writing has been featured across Entertainment Weekly, PEOPLE, BuzzFeed, and more.

Angela Andaloro

transgender operations on illegal aliens meme

Trump Alien

Memes

Trump’s ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens’ phrase becomes a meme

Leqi Zhong was a fall intern for the Hi-Res division. Besides writing about business, tech, and the internet, she enjoys road trips and watching sunsets. Leqi graduated from UC Berkeley Journalism in May 2023 and had written for CNN, Palo Alto Daily Post, Berkeleyside, and Oakland North.

Leqi Zhong

Tony Ricardo(l), Moms for Liberty(c), Ron DeSantis(r)

tony-ricardo-moms-for-liberty-ron-desantis

DeSantis, Moms for Liberty backed school board candidate wins Jacksonville seat despite past anti-Black posts

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

Katherine Huggins

Transgender Flag, Person playing fortnite on mobile

Trans Fortnite update

Fortnite streamer roped into trans panic after pictures used to falsely ID Georgia school shooter

Claire Goforth is a lawyer and investigative editor. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and more. She regularly appears on radio and in podcasts. Email for booking info.

Claire Goforth

Peter Brimelow in front of castle with pride flag

peter brimelow

This West Virginia castle is HQ to an infamous anti-immigrant website that’s influenced mainstream Republicans. Their neighbors are fighting back

Memo from Vermont Department of Health and their logo

vermont-inclusive-language-for-families

Vermont Health Department flamed for Facebook post saying parents shouldn’t call children ‘son’ or ‘daughter’

Prop 1 NY there is text that says Digital Democracy in a Daily Dot newsletter web_crawlr font in the bottom right corner.

dd-08-28-2024.png

Anti-trans activists rally against New York’s anti-discrimination ballot amendment

i know what you are

‘I Know What You Are’: A Whitney Chewston meme

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

valentina-gomez-instagram

Valentina Gomez drops anti-gay slurs, brandishes gun in series of anti-LGBTQ Instagrams

homophobic dog whitney chewston - a white dachshund sitting next to a glass of red wine

homophobic-dog-whitney-chewston-.jpg

‘Homophobic Dog’ Whitney Chewston is an LGBTQ+ icon

tim-walz-tampon-memes

Why are Trump fans photoshopping Tim Walz’s face onto tampons?

vivian-wilson-criticizes-father-elon-musk

Elon Musk’s daughter flames him as ‘serial adulterer’ over newfound family man image

valentina-gomez-steven-fulop

Jersey mayor fires ‘Don’t be weak and gay’ candidate’s brother after demanding he denounce her

LGBTQ