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Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

Rachel Kiley

A photo of Ashley St. Clair with a tweet from @willsommer that reads "Elon Musk’s child with MAGA Ashley St Clair has absolutely roiled right-wing Twitter. It pits MAGA types praising St Clair for securing wealth/good genes against trad types concerned that having a kid with a billionaire with limited involvement is far from the conservative ideal."

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‘She is not the conservative she claims to be’: MAGA turns on Ashley St. Clair after she allegedly had Elon Musk’s baby

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

Katherine Huggins

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Even MAGA is mocking a GOP bill encouraging Trump to rename Greenland ‘Red, White, and Blueland’

Map of North America showing the name Gulf of America highlighted. A tweet over it reads: taking a page out of the republican playbook and will be refusing to recognize this name change.

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The right keeps deadnaming trans people—Now the internet is ‘deadnaming’ the Gulf of Mexico (and Twitter, and HBO)

Screenshot of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from X; Exterior sign of Fort Bragg.

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Pete Hegseth’s ‘deceitful’ hack to reinstate Fort Bragg’s name leaves MAGA fuming

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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MAGA’s new favorite anti-woman meme

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.

Hope Talbot

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MAGA fan crashes car on live stream right after claiming God cleared the roads for him

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Did Elon Musk burn Laura Loomer’s blue check for calling him a ‘stage 5 clinger?’

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MAGA lusts over ‘Day of the Rake’ 

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Trump Doomers cope with hope

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

Mikael Thalen

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‘First truth out of the campaign’: MAGA is pushing Doug Emhoff’s Harris praise—for a crude reason

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Will the YMCA reveal the election results?

Donald Trump wears a new gold on black "Make America Great Again" hat. Behind him is a gold and black American flag.

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Trump wore a gold-and-black MAGA hat—critics think it’s a secret signal to the Proud Boys

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

A two-panel image, left side shows a man's mugshot, right side shows a screen shot from his FB page and which have the words "verified harmful extremist" on it.

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North Carolina man arrested for FEMA threats shared militia propaganda, dubbed self ‘harmful violent extremist’ on Facebook

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‘More like Dork MAGA’: Elon Musk’s awkward appearance at Trump rally slammed

Experts throw cold water on MAGA conspiracies after Trump rallygoers experience eye pain

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Lighting, not secret chemical attack, to blame for Trump rallygoers’ eye pain, experts say

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