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148: The Secret Lives of MAGA Wives feat. Madeline Peltz Oct 12, 2026 01:23:20 Picture it: You are in a secluded strip of fancy-pants military housing. In the distance, a Bose stereo pumps out an EDM remix of “Ring of Fire.” A beleaguered Benihana chef squirts sake into Doug Burgum’s wiggling, groaning, drunken mouth. A mechanical bull launches an unattended seven-year-old boy into the air, his landing spot out of sight. You are now in Katie Miller’s domain, partying with th

147: The Michael Tracey Question [Preview] Oct 8, 2026 00:11:40 Listen to premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~Stop us if you've heard this one before: There's a big story about sexual assault in the news and Michael Tracey has gone viral for making women angry. To quote Twin Peaks, “it is happening again.”On this episode, Jared and Mike are joined against by Posting Through It all-star guest Bobby Silverman to survey how low

146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent Oct 5, 2026 01:08:49 Everyone, likely including the Trump administration itself, understands the racist roots of the word "remigration." Before it appeared in US politics, white nationalists coined the term and amplified it throughout Europe. So if everyone knows this, why has our government chosen to publicly associate with it?The answer may be as simple as "Stephen Miller." Jared and Mike continu

145: Meet The New York Times' Favorite Racists [Preview] Oct 1, 2026 00:04:36 Listen to premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~What do Christopher Rufo and Jonathan "Lomez" Keeperman have in common? The New York Times has glazed both of them, and they both peddle pseudo-intellectual racist gibberish. On this Creamium episode, Jared and Mike dig into the wave of anti-Indian racism metastasizing across the online right, culminating in a podc

144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky Sep 28, 2026 01:11:51 Got a problem with the liberal media? Dispatch a squad of "investigative entertainers": young right-wing creators who pantomime scrappy, on-the-ground reporting while pumping out propaganda for the Trump administration.On this episode, Jared and Mike welcome Josh Kovensky, an investigative reporter at Talking Points Memo who has tracked the administration's collaborations with these

143: The Weird, Divorced World of MAGA’s Favorite Writer [Preview] Sep 24, 2026 00:04:28 Listen to premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~Do you hear the whistle blowing? It’s time to embark on your divorce journey with the MAGA movement’s favorite writer: an extremely strange man who wants to hypnotize you. On this episode, Jared and Mike introduce you to Joshua Lisec, a 35 year old man in Ohio who has co-authored books with Trump-era stars like Jack Posobiec

142: The GOP's Anti-Muslim Midterm Strategy feat. Wajahat Ali Sep 21, 2026 01:11:27 In March, Rep. Andy Ogles declared that Muslims didn't belong in American society. Since then, the broader GOP has leaned harder and harder into anti-Muslim scapegoating, using the same playbook they used to fear monger about transgender people in 2022 and migrant "caravans" in 2018.Jared and Mike are joined by Wajahat Ali to discuss the surge of anti-Muslim bigotry in US politics, J

141: Jared is Forced to Defend Macklemore [Preview] Sep 17, 2026 00:04:16 Listen to weekly premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit'FEMDOM' Shirts: Pre-Order HereJoin us at NYU on Oct. 28: RSVP Here---When Macklemore shouted "Free Palestine" on stage in New Jersey last week, the stadium erupted in cheers. This was apparently an unforgivable sin in the eyes of diehard pro-Israel groups like the ADL and stadium owners like Robert Kra

140: Who the Hell is Milo Yiannopoulos? feat. Bobby Silverman [UNLOCKED] Sep 14, 2026 02:20:44 This episode originally debuted on Sept. 2, 2026, as an exclusive for our supporters on Patreon, where we release exclusive episodes each Thursday. Sign up and listen through our backlog of premium episodes here: patreon.com/postingthroughit'FEMDOM' Shirts: Pre-order Link~~~Milo Yiannopoulos emerged during the alt-right's rise before Trump's 2016 win and went on to be arguably the

139: Benny and Kate Johnson's Guide to a Happy Marriage [Preview] Sep 10, 2026 00:04:57 Listen to premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~Benny Johnson, finding himself the second-biggest star at Turning Point USA in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination last year, is on a mission to dispel longstanding rumors that he's gay and instead convince the world he's a straight man who loves God, family, and President Donald Trump.Mike and Jared sat down to check i

138: One Year of Kirkification feat. Juliet Jeske, Abner Hauge, Haley Orion, Will Sommer, Charles Star & Madeline Peltz Sep 7, 2026 01:16:56 A year after a bullet to the throat killed Charlie Kirk, the TPUSA founder is less a flesh-and-blood person who died on a college campus in Utah than a symbol people fight over. For some, Kirk is the embodiment of patriotism and the threat of left-wing violence. For others, he's a racist podcaster the White House tried to force the country to mourn. For others still, he's the face of pure nihilism

137: Who the Hell is Milo Yiannopoulos? feat. Bobby Silverman [Preview] Sep 3, 2026 00:03:59 Sign up for our Patreon to listen to premium episodes: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~Milo Yiannopoulos emerged during the alt-right's rise before Trump's 2016 win and went on to be arguably the movement's most famous—or infamous—influencer. A standout in a conservative MAGA space for his flamboyant dress and outspoken enthusiasm for gay sex, Yiannopoulos became a star of Steve Bannon's Breitbart

136: Who the Hell is Jake Lang? feat. Carrie Schreck Aug 31, 2026 02:00:25 We're back with another installment in our acclaimed "Who the Hell?" biographical series, this time turning our attention to Jake Lang: a January 6th insurrectionist turned self-styled provocateur who has built a career out of peddling hate against Muslims, Black people, Jews, women, and any other minority group he thinks he can hurt with open expressions of bigotry. Jared and Mike a

135: How MAGA Weaponized the Lindsay Clancy Case [Preview] Aug 27, 2026 00:03:04 Subscribe to our Patreon to listen to premium episodes: patreon.com/postingthroughit---Author and researcher Madeline Peltz joins Jared and Mike for a jam-packed creamium episode, featuring two big stories, two album recommendations, and a whole lot of romantic tension with Conceptual James.First, the trio dissects how MAGA took the horrors of the Lindsay Clancy case and turned it into a rallying

134: Too Many Mules [UNLOCKED] Aug 24, 2026 01:18:44 This episode was originally released to Patreon subscribers on Aug. 6, 2026. Jared is traveling to Minneapolis this weekend to cover a story for the show, so we're sharing this on the main feed.---The promo material for Dinesh D'Souza's 2022 film "2000 Mules" left out one key detail: the election security expert it hinges its core claims on believes in teleportation. Four yea

133: Anti-Woke Media and the Death of Jason Arday [Preview] Aug 20, 2026 00:06:11 Listen to premium episodes on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit--Cambridge Professor Jason Arday was a Black scholar with a history of exaggerating events from his past and a plagiarizing in his work. He recently died amid the fallout of a media frenzy ignited by self-described "race realist" Nathan Cofnas. Mike and Jared discuss Arday's tragic story by examining the anti-woke me

132: Some Kind of Cultural Civil War feat. Bobby Silverman Aug 17, 2026 01:31:49 Tim Pool, the 40-year-old YouTuber who calls himself a "moderate," stormed off Jubilee's Youtube debate show "Surrounded" after someone called him a grifter, illustrating an increasingly evident truth about the modern MAGA movement: they may still have power, but America doesn't respect them anymore.Bobby Silverman, Posting Through It's unofficial NYC and sports correspondent, returns to the show

131: Marijuana is Poisoning Brains at an Extraordinary Rate [Preview] Aug 13, 2026 00:05:15 Listen to premium episodes on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~Imagine it: it's April 20th, and some of your UCLA classmates have gathered on the lawn to celebrate 420. The smell of skunk drifts over. You hear laughter crackling over reggae playing from an iPhone speaker. You know what you have to do. You call campus police. There are laws on the books for nuisances like these.In this Cr

130: What to Expect From Election Denialists in 2026 Midterms feat. Alex Kaplan & Kayla Gogarty Aug 10, 2026 00:53:52 Everyone knows it's coming. The MAGA movement has spent years claiming that any election where Republican candidates lose must be fraudulent, and its top media figures have spent every election cycle since 2020 stoking doubts about the integrity of US democracy. There's no reason to think 2026 midterm elections will be any different.Jared and Mike are joined by Alex Kaplan and Kayla Gogart

129: Too Many Mules [Preview] Aug 6, 2026 00:03:20 Support the show on Patreon to gain access to weekly premium episodes: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~The promo material for Dinesh D'Souza's 2022 film "2000 Mules" left out one key detail: the election security expert it hinges its core claims on believes in teleportation. Four years after D'Souza released his thoroughly debunked election-fraud exposé, the same people behind

128: OnlyChuds Conservatism Aug 3, 2026 01:05:07 Is the MAGA media machine actually cracking up, or is it just taking a summer nap? Jared and Mike sift through new data reporting from The New York Times, and a truly staggering amount of cringe, to find out. View counts are dropping, engagement is cratering, and people are getting "the ick" from influencers like Benny Johnson.Amid this MAGA content recession, one unusual newcomer is gro

127: How Many of Y'all Like Nick Fuentes? [Preview] Jul 30, 2026 00:03:49 Support the show on Patreon to get access to weekly premium episodes: patreon.com/postingthroughit---Maybe you've heard of the Hitlerian livestreamer Nick Fuentes. He hurls slurs at Black people, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the abusive treatment of women — all to boost his view counts and further his white nationalist ideology. Fuentes has legions of fans, but pretty much everyone else

126: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo? feat. Molly Conger Jul 27, 2026 03:00:38 Andy Ngo is MAGA media's go-to "expert" on far-left extremism. The Portland-born social media personality has spent years pushing Republican leaders to treat anti-Trump and leftist movements as terrorist threats, churning out a bevy of hyper-sensationalized and misleading social media content to make his case.Jared and Mike’s guest for this episode is researcher and reporter Molly Conger, who host

125: ‘Top G’ Hits Rock Bottom [Preview] Jul 24, 2026 00:03:36 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit

124: Can Anything Stop the Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theories? feat. Brandy Zadrozny Jul 20, 2026 01:07:34 Preliminary hearings wrapped up last week for Tyler Robinson, the “old boy” accused of shooting and killing Charlie Kirk last September. Prosecutors presented their evidence, and while it certainly seemed compelling, a sizable portion of MAGA internet just isn't buying it. It’s likely they never will.Brandy Zadrozny, a senior enterprise reporter for MSNOW, was at the Utah courthouse during Rob

123: Lil Boosie Dumbazz [Preview] Jul 16, 2026 00:05:05 Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the full episode: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~Has Russia poisoned Sen. Lindsey Graham with ricin? Why is Clavicular in Israel, and why did a rabbi give him an OpenAI necklace? Is Kash Patel threatening to arrest us for disliking his girlfriend's singing? Jared and Mike struggle to answer these questions and more in this jam-packed Creamium episode, sifting t

122: Maine Feed Episode feat. Nathan Bernard Jul 13, 2026 01:14:52 Graham Platner, a progressive candidate for US Senate in Maine, managed to defy an array of scandals as he rose to become the frontrunner to take on thirty-year incumbent Sen. Susan Collins. But last week, after a former romantic partner credibly accused him of rape, Platner suspended his campaign and withdrew his candidacy — leaving his supporters heartbroken and the Democratic Party scrambling t

121: Twelve Angry Kirks [Preview] Jul 9, 2026 00:04:05 To access premium episodes, subscribe to our Patreon: https://patreon.com/PostingThroughIt~~~Preliminary hearings began this week in the case against Tyler Robinson: the 23-year-old man accused of murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a campus speaking event in September 2025. Jared and Mike break down the scenes at the courthouse, where a gaggle of Kirk's former employees and fr

120: The MAGA Wanker Cometh feat. Madeline Peltz Jul 6, 2026 01:30:18 American patriotism just hit a 25-year low, and the country celebrated accordingly: a 56-year-old man we're calling the "MAGA Wanker" allegedly cranked it to some acrobats on a mostly empty field, and Michael Knowles spoke to a ten-year-old about the merits of burning women at the stake. Researcher and reporter Madeline Peltz returns to Posting Through It to relive America's 250t

119: What We Know About the Prairieland 'Antifa' Trials [Preview] Jul 2, 2026 00:04:51 For access to the full episode, subscribe to our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit---Mike and Jared break down the recent sentencing in the Prairieland "antifa" trials, wherein 450 years were handed down across eight defendants who attended an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, 2025.The guys walk through what happened — a noise demonstratio

118: Greg Bovino Wants to Be Your President feat. Christopher Mathias Jun 29, 2026 01:18:08 Do you remember the small guy in a big, fashy-looking coat who oversaw ICE's invasion of Minneapolis — the operation that led to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti? His name is Gregory Bovino, and he wants to be your president.Acclaimed To Catch a Fascist author Christopher Mathias rejoins PTI this week. After a brief detour into the sentencing of antifascists in Texas, he joins Jared and Mi

117: Gotta Have My 'Goyslop' [Preview] Jun 25, 2026 00:04:40 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit---Mike and Jared dig into the ADL's recent campaign against "goyslop": an antisemitic meme that now travels across social media with no context, delighting freaks of all kinds. Then they take stock of JD Vance’s life of ongoing humiliation after becoming the fall guy for the Iran War. Kash Patel returns to PTI after

116: The Right's Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Machine Targets James Talarico feat. Parker Molloy Jun 22, 2026 01:21:28 James Talarico, a Texas candidate for US Senate, might be the Democrat who Republicans fear most ahead of 2026 midterm elections. Talarico has gained national attention for the unusual ways he's centered faith, masculinity, and progressive politics in his campaign — often defying the right-left "culture war" paradigm. As polling shows him to be a serious threat to the GOP's contr

115: I'm Worried the Baby Thinks Graham Platner Can't Change [Preview] Jun 18, 2026 00:04:54 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~Jared and Mike finally sit down to talk about the embattled political campaign of Graham Platner, who won his primary election in Maine last week and will attempt to dethrone the state's longtime Republican incumbent, Sen. Susan Collins, this fall.This episode reviews Platner's political career and the cascading personal

114: All My Apes Gone to DC feat. Molly White Jun 15, 2026 01:11:52 Maybe you've seen the president of the United States promoting what seems like obvious cryptocurrency scams. Or perhaps you've been frustrated lately with the amount of AI-generated "slop" polluting social media lately. What you may not know is that the industries behind both of those things have been working hard (sometimes together) to forcefully ingrain themselves in our natio

113: Garden of Sleepen [Preview] Jun 11, 2026 00:05:27 Listen to the full episode by signing up for our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit---Welcome to the official basketball podcast of New York City, where the hosts occasionally dip their toes into political discourse. We're your hosts Mike "Dunk'em Donuts" Hayden and Jared "Bench Toaster" Holt.The guys discuss Orange Cheeto Drumpf's appearance at the third game of

112: AI and the Future of Radicalization feat. Luke Barnes Jun 8, 2026 00:54:11 Turns out AI chatbots can do more than create pornographic images of Miss Piggy...Jared and Mike are joined by Luke Barnes, a senior research scientist at NYU who explores issues related to tech and democracy, to talk about cases where AI chatbots have radicalized people and encouraged them to harm themselves and others. But before that, the guys discuss how the landscape of extremism has changed

111: Vanilla Ice in Valhalla [Preview] Jun 4, 2026 00:04:20 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitThings are going badly in Iran and at home. Tensions are erupting with Israel. MAGA pundits like Jack Posobiec and Dave Rubin are getting bodied online by trolls. There is only man who can heal our divided country: Vanilla Ice. Jared and Mike review the impact the Iran War has had on MAGA before turning to America’s 250th birthday

110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman Jun 1, 2026 02:30:34 We're back with another installment in our critically acclaimed "Who the Hell?" biographical series, this time sitting down to scrutinize Michael Tracey: a contrarian writer and social media personality who has managed to draw a surprising amount of attention to himself throughout the Trump era.Jared and Mike are joined by guest Bobby Silverman to review the arc of Tracey's caree

109: Ghost World [Preview] May 28, 2026 00:08:24 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitIt’s a listener-driven Q&A show this week and it starts with Jared breaking down the overuse of the designation “Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE).” So-called NVE is everywhere these days and some of the people pushing the phrase are conspicuously right wing. Old friend of the show Katherine Dee weighed in on the topic, and yo

PTI Bulletin: How to Form a Union feat. Esteban Gil May 27, 2026 00:32:57 Workers across the country are looking for ways to fight back against bosses who underpay, overwork, and mistreat their employees. Forming a union remains one of the most powerful tools available, but the process can feel overwhelming — especially when management is watching. The key is knowing how to organize quietly, build trust with coworkers, and protect yourself.In this PTI Bulletin, union or

108: The Rise of Right-Wing Confrontation Porn May 25, 2026 01:00:00 Content Warning: This episode includes audio clips that contain derogatory and racist language. Listener discretion is advised.Maybe you've heard of the mustachioed guy in a cowboy hat who hurls racist slurs at strangers, or the one who dresses as the Joker to recite FBI crime statistics at Black people on chat websites. Believe it or not, these are real adult men who not only exist but profit

107: With Liberals Like These, Who Needs Conservatives? feat. Anthony Fisher [Preview] May 21, 2026 00:03:19 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitJared and Mike welcome MSNow opinion editor Anthony Fisher to this week’s cremium episode to talk about an old friend of ours, Bill Maher, and a friend we haven’t really talked about before: Ministry mosh-pit beefcake John Fetterman. The crew talks about a recent podcast featuring these brilliant, brave, heterodox liberals in conve

106: How Republicans Are Stacking the Deck Ahead of Midterms feat. Ari Berman May 18, 2026 00:53:05 How sick is our democracy right now? (Not in the skateboard-trick way.) Jared and Mike are joined by Ari Berman to find out. He’s the national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones and one of the country’s leading reporters covering issues related to elections. This episode reviews how recent Supreme Court decisions weakened the Voting Rights Act, why states like Tennessee have become a blue

105: Don Colossus Comes to Town [Preview] May 14, 2026 00:06:33 Jared and Mike hit Trump National Doral Miami to witness the unveiling of “Don Colossus,” a 22-foot, gold-covered Trump statue that seems to symbolize a particular affliction in MAGA’s character. (Look closer, Lenny!) They also talk about Poodle Room veteran Kash Patel’s balls-on-the-table stare-down with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the grifty Trump phone, and infighting on the antisemitic flank of

104: The Last Day of Infowars feat. Dan Friesen from ‘Knowledge Fight’ May 11, 2026 01:27:01 The notorious conspiracy website Infowars made its final broadcast on April 30, 2026 and hours later, the site went dark. Jared, Mike and this week's guest, Dan Friesen, co-host of the legendary and recently retired podcast Knowledge Fight, get together to talk about the closure of Infowars and the future of its founder, Alex Jones. The guys review the final hours of Infowars' time on the

103: The ‘Grift Industrial Complex’ Comes for The Daily Wire [Preview] May 7, 2026 00:03:28 Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitJared and Mike dig into reports of chaos at The Daily Wire after Candace Owens — once one of its top stars — claimed the company enacted a “bloodbath” of layoffs affecting as much as 60% of its staff. (The Daily Wire confirmed the layoffs but denied they were as extensive as Owens claimed.) What followed was an unusual weekend of s

102: The 'MAHA' Movement is Getting Sick (of Trump) feat. Madeline Peltz May 4, 2026 01:17:27 The coalition of activists known as “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, has emerged as a legitimate force in American politics and it’s hardly a given that they will remain aligned with President Trump and the Republican Party. Researcher and reporter Madeline Peltz returns to Posting Through It to brief us on the MAHA movement and their mission–weighing in on how his diverse group can theoreti

101: A Night to Remember [Preview] Apr 30, 2026 00:04:09 Mike and Jared review an unusually eventful White House Correspondents' Dinner, which abruptly ended after a man sprinted past a security checkpoint in hopes of finding and killing the man he saw as a "pedophile, rapist, and traitor": President Donald Trump. Then, they also check in on MAGA's defamatory claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center planned the deadly Unite the Righ

100: Billionaires Are Building Their Own Private 'Deep States' feat. Robert Silverman Apr 27, 2026 01:19:25 For the 100th episode of Posting Through It , Jared and Mike welcome back NYC correspondent Bobby Silverman to discuss a major investigation he co-bylined at WIRED magazine looking at how powerful individuals and companies are building their own surveillance networks — effectively creating their own private “deep states.”Bobby's story zeroes in on one such "panopticon," built around

099: KASHIN' OUT [Preview] Apr 23, 2026 00:05:03 Jared and Mike sit down to review new allegations that Kash Patel is the coolest FBI director we’ve ever had. Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic after it published an article where sources said Patel barely showed up to work, spent his time thinking too hard about FBI merchandise, and liked getting white-girl-wasted at some place called “The Poodle Lounge.”But befor

098: Hillbilly Eulogy feat. Amanda Marcotte Apr 20, 2026 01:09:17 How many y’all like JD Vance? That’s the question some proponents of MAGA are asking as the movement grapples with the inevitable reality of Trumpism ending. Either Trump’s term will run out, or the McDonald's will take its course, or an angry mob will secure control of the White House — something has to give here. Superficially, Vance seems like the obvious choice to replace Trump... but mayb

097: MAGA Politicians Are Getting Weirder and Scarier [Preview] Apr 16, 2026 00:06:43 When the MAGA phenomenon first took off in 2016, the term evoked nationalism and racism, but it cast a wide enough tent for most Republicans to feel comfortable joining in. Ten years later, the term has mutated, and so have MAGA candidates. Look no further than the hot, sweaty, iguana-riddled, environmentally atrophying state of Florida, where James Fishback and Dan Bilzerian are seeking public of

096: Strange People on the Hill (Live in DC, 4/11/26) Apr 13, 2026 01:09:40 Jared and Mike hosted a talk about Mike's new book "Strange People on the Hill" at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2026. Thank you to everyone who came out!This episode includes audio from the event for those who couldn't make it.

095: Strange People at The Center [Preview] Apr 9, 2026 00:07:56 Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideationJared and Mike start out this episode listening to another episode of The Katie Miller Pod, this one featuring Todd Blanche, who was effectively promoted to the top of the DOJ when Trump fired Pam Bondi. After that, the guys settled in for an extended chat about Mike's experience at the Southern Poverty Law Center and how th

094: Who the Hell is Stephen Miller? Apr 6, 2026 02:01:25 At just 40 years old, Stephen Miller has cemented himself as the most influential policy mind and speechwriter of the MAGA era. Aside from Steve Bannon — and Trump himself — few figures have done more to define what MAGA means in practice.But influence is only part of the story. Miller is also one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. He has spent much of his career focused on restr

093: Noem Family Dog Has Seen Some Things [Preview] Apr 2, 2026 00:07:47 Jared comes back from a nice rest to find Mike playing the role of Ian Miles Cheong, helping him “Catch Up” on all the news that matters. “No Kings” blew out CPAC in terms of social media engagement, but it’s hard to know why — with poor women expected to have babies, Michael Knowles positioned as a symbol of machismo, and Josh Hammer crying about Tucker Carlson. The hosts then learn about Lindsey

092: The Dark, Horny World of The Daily Wire’s 'Lady Ballers' [UNLOCKED] Mar 30, 2026 01:43:29 This episode was originally released to Patreon subscribers on Mar. 12, 2026. Jared is on vacation, so everyone is getting it in the main feed this week! ~~Mike and Jared took a break from Iran War coverage to look back on "Lady Ballers": a feature-length film The Daily Wire released in 2023, at the height of MAGA's efforts to stoke an anti-transgender moral panic over women's sp

091: Whole World's Gone to Slop feat. Hannah Gais [Preview] Mar 26, 2026 00:05:29 Things are getting stupid out there, thanks to Web3 — the grift-crazy era of crypto and the A.I. slop. Our friend Hannah Gais joins the show to talk about her experience at a Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, D.C., where people were encouraged to drain their wallets betting on the news and shrug off the possibility that our government is engaging in insider betting on the platform. We also disc

090: What Are the Odds? feat. Danny Funt Mar 23, 2026 01:00:17 If you’re alive in America today, you’ve seen the ads — on TV, at bus stops, and on your phone. We have a gambling problem in this country, and it’s getting worse by the minute. With a rapid, billion-dollar boom in sports betting already underway, we now have to reckon with the next phase of this trend: betting on news events.Journalist and author Danny Funt joins Posting Through It for a conversa

089: Rest in Piss, Infowars and The Daily Stormer [Preview] Mar 19, 2026 00:04:36 Posting Through It says farewell to two of the worst websites to have ever existed: The Daily Stormer and Infowars. Andrew Anglin and Alex Jones have claimed their respective demises before, but something feels markedly different this time. Both are facing declining revenue and mounting debts from lawsuits and dwindling web traffic. Meanwhile, the MAGA movement that once supported them has largely

088: Why the Right Struggles Against Antisemitism feat. Art Levine Mar 16, 2026 01:08:43 MAGA is at an existential crossroads right now. If that sounds strange to you, you haven’t paid much attention to the movement’s struggles with antisemitism, which exploded after the assassination of Charlie Kirk at a college speaking event last September. Our guest, investigative reporter and author Art Levine, recently covered the GOP’s crisis with antisemitism in the Washington Spectator.It’s a

087: The Dark, Horny World of The Daily Wire’s 'Lady Ballers' [Preview] Mar 12, 2026 00:16:20 Mike and Jared took a break from Iran War coverage to look back on "Lady Ballers": a feature-length film The Daily Wire released in 2023, at the height of MAGA's efforts to stoke an anti-transgender moral panic over women's sports. The guys reexamine the movie as an artifact that helped deliver the MAGA movement we see in 2026 and an example of conservatives' efforts at counter-programming against

086: Is MAGA Really in Crisis? Mar 9, 2026 01:11:40 In this intimate, two-handed edition of Posting Through It, Jared and Mike try to figure out whether the MAGA movement is actually faltering, as some news coverage would suggest. The short answer is yes: poll numbers are sagging, the economy is slumping, influencers are turning on one another, and the rhetoric has grown so absurd that less-online working people can no longer follow it. The more nu

085: A Nuclear Arsenal of Iran Takes [Preview] Mar 5, 2026 00:10:55 Well, we are at war. It doesn’t matter what MAGA calls it tomorrow — it’s war. Jared and Mike may not be foreign policy analysts , but they know enough to recognize who else isn’t, either. The hosts wade into a Caspian Sea of bad takes in this premium episode, running through the propaganda of Zionist extremists, antisemitic extremists, and, in some cases, people so stupid you'd consider it ex

084: Contrarian Freaks Are Lining Up to Downplay the Epstein Files feat. Ileana Justine Mar 2, 2026 01:13:33 Jared and Mike dive into the growing world of contrarian punditry that seeks to downplay Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex abuse and discourage audiences from drawing conclusions about his connections to some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. They take a closer look at one online personality, Michael Tracey, to unpack this surreal and alarming trend.Later, they’re joined by Ileana Just

083: How MAGA Laid the Blueprint for Attacking Elections in 2018 [Preview] Feb 26, 2026 00:08:25 In this episode, Jared and Mike rewind to Florida’s razor-thin 2018 midterms to break down a often-overlooked test run of “Stop the Steal,” years before it became synonymous with the 2021 riot at the United States Capitol. As recounts unfolded in the high-stakes Senate and governor’s races, longtime GOP operative Roger Stone and a network of MAGA activists mobilized protests in Broward County, amp

082: The Ugly Ideology Behind 'Looksmaxxing' Subcultures feat. Annie Kelly Feb 23, 2026 01:11:20 By now, you've probably seen it: someone you follow making a joke about "maxxing" or getting "mogged" on your timeline. These terms come from a terminally online subculture spun off of the so-called "manosphere" known as "looksmaxxing." It's hyper-focused on the shallowest dimension of masculinity: physical appearance.Clavicular, the subculture's breakout star, has been popping up everywhere latel

081: AI Scott Adams is My Kind of Guy [Preview] Feb 19, 2026 00:10:35 We hope you had a good Valentine's Day last week. If not, there's always the new Free Press matchmaker offshoot from Bari Weiss — and if that doesn't work out either, come join us while we try to make sense of what is happening with A.I.Specifically, we dig into the strange situation surrounding Scott Adams' post-death A.I. talk show, which has cropped up on social media somewhat m

PTI Bulletin: How to Use Signal During a Protest feat. Bill Budington Feb 18, 2026 00:28:16 Grassroots organizers have increasingly used the messaging app Signal to coordinate responses to MAGA authoritarianism. It remains the best messaging app available, but the “ICE Out” protests in Minneapolis demonstrated how regime propagandists and corrupt law enforcement can attack and exploit it. Influencers entered public-facing Signal chats and ferried the information there to Kash Patel’s FBI

080: The MAGA Brain Rot Threatening to Undermine Midterm Elections feat. Hunter Walker Feb 16, 2026 01:03:41 Midterm elections are approaching and early polling shows it's poised to be a bloodbath for the MAGA movement. But Americans may be in for a wild November, thanks to a crew of brain-rotted election denialists now working inside the US government. (One of them happens to be the president.)Hunter Walker, an investigative reporter at Talking Points Memo, has been following the MAGA movement's efforts

079: A Super Bowl to Call Our Own [Preview] Feb 12, 2026 00:12:24 Bawitdabadabangdadangdiggydoogy, our name is Postiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin' THROUGH IT. Jared and Mike have covered the TPUSA halftime show from its inception and despite insistence from their individual psychotherapists they see no reason to stop now. Hear the hosts breakdown how the event happened, what TPUSA wanted to accomplish and what they actually accomplished—a very grim, objectively st

078: Who the Hell is Steven Crowder? feat. Byron McKoy Feb 9, 2026 02:28:00 This edition of Posting Through It's acclaimed "Who the Hell?" series profiles right-wing podcast host Steven Crowder. Jared and Mike are joined by Byron McKoy, co-host of the podcast Louder Than Crowder, to explore how Crowder emerged as one of the Trump-era's flagship media programs and how his career started to unravel in recent years.Together, they retrace the arc of Crowder&

077: Jeffrey Epstein Had a Lot of Friends [Preview] Feb 5, 2026 00:07:29 The Jeffrey Epstein story will never die. Jared and Mike report back on the many scandals embedded in the latest drop, while paying acute attention to Epstein’s relationship to MAGA and the radical right. (Unlike Nick Fuentes, our podcast is not selling Jeffrey Epstein branded quarter-zips.) The hosts move on to talk about TPUSA’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show, which features a few names yo

076: Angry About ICE? Trump Might Have You on a Watchlist feat. Ken Klippenstein Feb 2, 2026 01:08:45 Jared and Mike speak with seasoned national security reporter Ken Klippenstein about the expansion of national surveillance programs targeting anti-ICE activists and community organizers, alongside others they consider threats to the MAGA political agenda. While DHS denies that the agency maintains databases of so-called "domestic terrorists," Ken's reporting revealed that to be plainly untrue.Ken

075: People Are Really Starting to Hate this Shit [Preview] Jan 29, 2026 00:11:33 Minneapolis has changed America in ways we can’t even process yet, but in the short term it has sent the MAGA movement into a spiral of lying, propagandizing, and coping—the likes of which we haven’t quite seen before. Jared and Mike dip into some grim polling numbers for Trump and ICE before pivoting to the shit they’re currently selling: Antifa boogeymen, entirely nonexistent paid protesters, an

074: Bari Weiss is 'Honestly' Flailing at CBS News feat. Justin Baragona Jan 26, 2026 01:19:41 Jared and Mike welcome media columnist and reporter Justin Baragona. They discuss the latest execution by ICE agents in Minneapolis and initial reactions from MAGA media before turning their focus to what's been going on at CBS News under the direction of its new ideologically driven leader: Bari Weiss. Since the network's owners hired Weiss to be its editor in chief in October 2025, she's been sl

073: Limited Edition Black Metal Groyper [Preview] Jan 22, 2026 00:11:30 [Black metal voice] KRRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!It’s time for something cringe! No, it’s not wearing corpse paint. It’s far worse: Nick Fuentes, the Tate Brothers, Clavicular, Sneako, the ever insufferable Myron Gaines and a list of random orbiters infested a Miami Beach club to bang Ye’s pro-Hitler rap anthem. Jared and Mike talk about that bullshit, alongside Fuentes' alleged monster deal to hawk

072: Minneapolis is a Warning for the Rest of America Jan 19, 2026 01:12:12 No story has defined 2026 quite like the federal invasion of Minneapolis, which grows more alarming by the day. Fears are mounting that Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy 1,500 US Army troops from Alaska, who are specialized in cold weather operations, and make a scary situation even scarier. The hosts trace the cascading fallout from an ICE officer fatally shooting Renee Good, from

UNLOCKED 071: Who the Hell was Scott Adams? Jan 17, 2026 01:26:06 Our Patreon supporters told us we should unlock this one. If you like what you hear, sign up to support the show and listen to our weekly premium episodes: https://patreon.com/PostingThroughItThis episode was originally released on Jan. 14, 2026.~~Jared and Mike bid farewell to MAGA legend Scott Adams, who died of cancer at age 68 on January 13, 2026, with a special installment of their "Who

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