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Samantha Grasso

Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Tomi Lahren melting a snowflake

Tomi Lahren’s ancestor allegedly charged, acquitted for citizenship fraud

How can Tomi Lahren criticize undocumented immigrants when she’s allegedly a descendant of one?

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A firefighter crew rescues Liam Smyth's Tinder date from two windows she became trapped between while retrieving a poop she tried to throw away.

Woman gets stuck in Tinder date’s window after fetching a poop she tried to throw out

This swipe right was a swipe wrong.

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A photo of someone scrolling on their phone in the dark next to a text conversation between a phone thief and the phone's owner's relative.

Brother gets his sister’s phone back by pranking the heck out of thief

This phone thief didn’t know what hit them.

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Whataburger table tents

Police can no longer use Whataburger table markers at crime scenes

Whatashame.

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FaceApp photo with 'white' filter on iPhone

FaceApp’s race-changing filters under fire for promoting blackface

But if you’re gonna shame FaceApp’s filters, maybe you shouldn’t use them yourself.

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A tote bag that says 'My favorite color is glitter' but appears to say 'is Hitler'

This tote bag appears to say ‘My favorite color is Hitler’—and the internet is freaking out

Your favorite color is what, now?

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Navy personnel inspect the hairstyles of female Sailors during a personnel inspection at the Presidio of Monterey

2 women are making history as the first females to enlist in Navy special operations

The women will undergo ‘the ultimate test of a man’s will.’

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Confederate civil war re-enactors

Maybe modern-day slavery wasn’t the best theme for HBO’s new series

‘Confederate’ is the revisionist Civil War series coming from ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners.

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A woman looking at her phone

Blue Whale ‘suicide challenge’ leader sentenced to 3 years in Russian jail

He was convicted in connection with 2 attempted suicides.

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Male critic criticizes Bechdel Test within the context of 'The Beguiled'

Misguided male film critic is mad the Bechdel Test isn’t fair to male-dominated Hollywood

Bad Take City, population: This guy.

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Ravioli Pop Tarts

The internet arguing over the ravioli-likeness of Pop-Tarts will melt your brain

Pop Tarts for dinner, anyone?

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Teen Titans writer David Slack busts a fan theory about Beast Boy being in the friend zone

TV writer perfectly shuts down fan’s misogynistic ‘friend zone’ theory

‘Women are actually people.’

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German model Martina Adam in blackface

White woman undergoes cosmetic procedures to make herself ‘black’

Nope. Big nope.

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Affinity Magazine tweets about Otto Warmbier

How a teen magazine botched a North Korea tweet and set the internet ablaze

This is what happens when you conflate racial bias, victim blaming, and the mistreatment of Otto Warmbier.

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Camera and yearbooks

Student with autism left entirely out of her high school yearbook

‘This is not right. You guys got every other kid but me.’

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