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Stacey Nguyen is a lifestyle and entertainment writer based in California. You can find her work on Real Simple, InStyle, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, and other sites.

Stacey Nguyen

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13 fun Taylor Swift puzzles that will make you feel like a ‘mastermind’

Rebecca Leib

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The Blue Friendship Bracelet Movement on TikTok is making people feel hope, anger, and 2016 whiplash

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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Ticket Master Eras Tour

‘You’re allowing people to steal money from us’: Fan says Taylor Swift tickets were stolen out of her Ticketmaster account. She’s not alone

Grace Rampaul is a social and multimedia intern at the Daily Dot. She is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, with a major in Journalism and focus on Media and Entertainment Studies. Grace is based in Austin and covers trending stories, entertainment, cultural phenomenon, and all things social.

Grace Rampaul

3 panel image: side panels show a mother and daughter with the text, "want to have a good time" overlaid and "Ticketmaster, Oops this ticket transfer has already been accepted by another email address. Taylor Swift is in the middle.

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‘I will never use their website again’: StubHub customer spends thousands on Taylor Swift concert tickets. Then she gets an error

Stacy Fernández is a freelance writer, project manager and communications specialist. She’s worked at The Texas Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and run social for The Education Trust New York. Her favorite hobby is finding hidden gems at the thrift store, she loves a good audio book and is a chocolate enthusiast.

Stacy Fernandez

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‘This has been happening with Ticketmaster too’: Woman buys $12,000 Taylor Swift tickets from StubHub. Then she gets a strange email

Aimée Lutkin was a freelance writer for the Daily Dot.

Aimée Lutkin

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Explaining the ‘Mi Gente Latino’ meme

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

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Was Kanye West’s infamous Taylor Swift-VMAs moment a secret plot to save her life?

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

Mikael Thalen

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Conservatives cheer destruction of Taylor Swift guitar at youth charity auction

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

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No, Taylor Swift didn’t lose 17 million Instagram followers after endorsing Harris

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

Katherine Huggins

Caitlin Clark's Instagram flooded with outraged comments over her liking Taylor Swift's post endorsing Kamala Harris

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Caitlin Clark’s Instagram flooded with hate for liking Taylor Swift’s 2024 endorsement

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Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris prompts Elon Musk’s ‘creepiest post of all time’

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

Taylor Swift Person of the year

Taylor Swift dropped her 2024 endorsement—with a not-so-subtle cat reference

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Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce psyop conspiracies

Purported ‘break-up’ strategy doc for Travis Kelce revives claims Taylor Swift romance was a Democratic psyop

Kamala Harris and Taylor Swift over background from Taylor Swift concert

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‘In my voting era’: Swifties for Kamala kickoff raises $138,000

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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