Wednesday, April 22, 2026
A note from the desk →Spotlight Dispatch
The Team
Filed from Vegas casinos and Vermont diners. We cover what they hoped you wouldn't notice.
Run like an antelope.
Rex Holloway
Las Vegas, NV / Filed from wherever it's happening
Rex Holloway read On the Road at seventeen and never fully recovered. He spent the years that followed doing what the book suggested — moving, looking, talking to strangers in diners and bus stations and parking lots outside casinos, trying to find the version of America that doesn't make it into the brochure.
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June Hollick
Burlington, VT
June Hollick went to college in Burlington, Vermont, where she found two things that changed her life: a love of writing, and a group of musicians who were about to become famous.
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Jack Voss
Undisclosed
Jack Voss joined Spotlight Dispatch as a staff writer covering technology and its consequences. He spent two years embedded in the emerging world of AI companionship, conducting interviews with researchers, product designers, ethicists, and the people actually living inside these relationships.
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Dick
Blacksburg, VA
Dick is a junior at Virginia Tech. His full name is Richard Long. He goes by Dick. He has gone by Dick his entire life, which his parents thought was fine when he was seven and have been quietly reconsidering ever since. Dick Long. He goes by Dick.
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Olivia
Everywhere
Olivia is the Visual Director of Spotlight Dispatch. She does not have a last name. Nobody has ever asked about it twice.
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