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2 weeks ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci
In a White House press briefing last month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt berated a reporter who asked her if she’d ever paid a tariff, criticizing the White House’s constant messaging that President Donald Trump’s trade war wouldn’t cost American consumers. “Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that, again, have been ripping us off. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people, and the President is a staunch advocate of tax cuts,” Leavitt said.
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2 weeks ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci
Deplatformed is a weekly column that looks into the nether reaches of the internet—outside the big few that everyone already covers—to tell you the political discourse online. It runs on Thursdays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of internet culture delivered straight to your inbox.
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3 weeks ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci
Commissioner Nathan Simington revealed that he was hiring Gavin Wax as his chief of staff in a post on X. “Excited to welcome @GavinWax as my new Chief of Staff, alongside Tom Struble as Senior Legal Advisor & Anne Urban as Confidential Assistant. Their expertise will be invaluable as we continue advancing a pro-growth, pro-innovation agenda at the FCC,” Simington wrote. The hiring was first revealed on Friday by Mother Jones.
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3 weeks ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci
Deplatformed is a weekly column that looks into the nether reaches of the internet—outside the big few that everyone already covers—to tell you the political discourse online. It runs on Thursdays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of internet culture delivered straight to your inbox. This week, the internet’s most odious imageboard, , was .
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3 weeks ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci |Andrew Wyrich
Skip to content Subscribe to web_crawlr to get the best and worst of internet culture in your inbox everyday. Posted on April 17 2025 11:26 am CDT Featured Video Internet culture is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter here. You’ll get the best (and worst) of the internet straight into your inbox. Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
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