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2 days 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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6 days 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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1 week 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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1 week ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci
It is waging an online campaign against Chris Van Hollen. Posted on April 16 2025 4:28 pm CDT Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is traveling to El Salvador to seek the release of a man wrongfully deported from his state. And the Trump administration has gone on the offensive, sending a blast email about immigrants in his state and trying to turn his efforts into a meme.
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1 week ago |
dailydot.com | David Covucci
A metaphor for ineptitude. Posted on April 14 2025 5:02 pm CDT The Ohio State Buckeyes men’s football team visited the White House to celebrate its 2024 national championship, where it won the first-ever NCAA 12-team playoff. Featured Video And they left the White House minus one intact trophy. At the ceremony, Vice President JD Vance, himself an Ohio State University alumni, helped try to hoist the national championship trophy alongside a player.
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