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“We are being stripped of our identity”: Flight attendants say goodbye to Hawaiian Airlines after Alaska merger

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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“All the narcissists saying she did nothing wrong”: Tourist walks through sea turtle habitat for selfies, despite being yelled at

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A Walmart parking lot with a red overlay.

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Walmart announces new $48 parking lot fine. Here’s how to avoid it

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QAnon world loses it after police chief with ties to Maui fires, Vegas shooting named in Diddy case

Tangie Mitchell is a creative writer, journalist, and editor based in New York. Her interests include pop culture and entertainment, poetry, and morning cups of herbal tea.

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‘They are still charging full price’: Hilton guests are required to get their own towels, goods. This is how they have to serve themselves

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‘I started feeling really strange’: Woman issues warning about common type of snorkeling mask after it happened to her

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TikTokers are asking why blue things aren't burning in Hawaii fries, claiming lasers involved

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‘Lasers don’t like the color blue’: Why an image of an unburnt umbrella is at the center of Hawaii wildfire conspiracies

Sabine Joseph is a former reporting intern for the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in Miami and Connecticut publications, including Montage, the Miami Laker, and Connecticut Health I-Team.

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‘This is violence’: Viral school assignment asks students to justify destroying Native Hawaiian burial ground

Jessica Machado is the IRL editor of the Daily Dot. Previously, she was an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Elle, Vice, Salon, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Bitch, Bust, the Cut, the Awl, the Toast, among others.

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Trump supporters ask to #BoycottHawaii—and it spectacularly backfires

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