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Support the show on Patreon and get access to premium episodes: Patreon.com/postingthroughit -- This episode features audio from our book event with Christopher Mathias at New York University on Oct. 28, 2026. The guys talk about the books Mike and Chris wrote before turning their attention to contemporary topics, including 2026 midterms, how the fight against fascism has changed in the second Trump Administration, and what ever became of the "antifa civil war" that was supposedly imminent in 2019. Thanks to everyone who came to hear our talk and hang out after!

From 2008 to 2012, Richard Hanania wrote under the name “Richard Hoste” for white nationalist websites, where he argued for forcibly sterilizing people with IQs under 90 and warned that “race mixing” was destroying the white gene pool. Then he went to law school, got a PhD, founded a think tank, and reinvented himself as an “anti-woke” pundit beloved by Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Vivek Ramaswamy. Now he’s a repentant Trump voter writing for the Boston Globe, being praised by liberals, and defending Jeffrey Epstein. What are we to make of a guy like this?  Jared and Mike are joined by Christopher Mathias, the reporter who unmasked Hanania’s alt-right past in 2023, and Henry Burke, a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project who shared a mountain of research for this episode. Together they trace how Hanania was accepted by three political worlds in turn: the white nationalist fringe, the MAGA-adjacent tech right, and liberals hungry for MAGA converts.  (Richard Hanania answered some of our questions by email for this episode but not others.) Links for Christopher Mathias: To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym (HuffPost) Bluesky: @letsgomathias.bsky.social / X: @letsgomathias Links for Henry Burke: The Revolving Door Project Bluesky: @henryburke.bsky.social / X: @burkehenryt Transition Music: “RIVULET” by TRIAGE Join us at NYU on Oct. 28: RSVP Here

Subscribe to our Patreon to listen to premium episodes: patreon.com/postingthroughit -- What are you scared of this Halloween? Michael Myers? Jack Torrance? Drake? The American right’s answer to that question is France. They have noticed what is happening there and they are scared and excited as hell. Jared and Mike dig into the wave of school blockades, Yellow Vest revival protests, and brutal police crackdowns sweeping France (and now spreading to Belgium, Italy, Greece, and beyond), and how MAGA influencers are already repurposing the footage, stripped of context and sometimes outright faked by AI, into an implausible story about scary leftists and immigrant chaos coming for the West next. Also in this episode: the DOJ digs through 50 years of Ilhan Omar’s life looking for a deportation pretext while the FBI rushes noncitizen voter-fraud cases ahead of Election Day. Trump and Vance roll out a $25 million snitch fund and dangle pardons for patriotic brain genius Nick Shirley. A brutal attack ad against Ohio’s Amy Acton drags her childhood sexual abuse into the governor’s race, and right-wing influencers immediately accuse her of lying about it. We are forming like Voltron on this Creamium episode of PTI, out to destroy every copy of the Tempest we can find!

The GOP is spending big enough on TV ads that you’d think they were in a strong position headed into the midterms. The opposite is true. They are lost in a sea of dogshit and running out of scapegoats to attack. To the average swing voter, they have now entered… the Libbity Bibbity Zone of the terminally insufferable. On this episode, Jared and Mike are joined by Nikki McCann Ramírez, political reporter at Rolling Stone and cohost of the American Friction podcast, to talk about MAGA’s scattershot closing argument: migrant caravans, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Muslim attacks, conspiracy theories about James Talarico, and whatever else they can pull out of their money-stuffed asses. They dig into the Trump/Vance road tour through red states, an administration drowning in cartoonish corruption and self-inflicted wounds, and leaked audio of Ken Paxton sounding worried about Texas. Plus: how realistic is a Democratic sweep of the House and the Senate, and if MAGA gets wiped out in November, what does the “post-MAGA” right look like. So look out for Mayhem. You’re in good hands with Posting Through It. Links for Nikki ‘Corruption to Go Around’: How Dems Are Preparing to Investigate Trump After the Midterms ‘Abbott Is Struggling’: Ken Paxton Gripes About Texas GOP and Campaign Woes in New Leaked Audio "American Friction" podcast X: @NikkiMcR / Bluesky: @nikkimcr.bsky.social Join us in NYC on Oct. 28: RSVP Here Transition Music: "LEMONBRAIN" by Bergie and the Magic Bag

Listen to premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit ~~~ You’re a groyper in October 2026: You get cozy to watch your idol, Nick Fuentes. But what’s Nick talking about here? Weight loss tips, his opinions on how to drink coffee and the wonders of autumn? And what are you wearing while watching Nick? How about some naughty-looking athletic socks... and a thong, perhaps?  If you only follow Fuentes out of the corner of your eye, you might have missed some changes in his fanbase. What started as a white nationalist movement claiming to defend tradition and heteronormativity has evolved into something much more about culture and sexuality, with Fuentes’ fans adopting all kinds of public postures that white nationalists are supposed to consider degenerate. On the heels of this, Fuentes himself was allegedly spotted out at dinner with a fellow groyper in one of Chicago's LGBTQ+-friendly neighborhoods. On this episode, Jared and Mike dig into Fuentes’ alleged gay date at Big Jones in Andersonville, the years of rumors about Nick’s sexuality that led up to it, and the openly gay groyper accounts now hawking his merch in thongs and America First socks.  Then Jared walks through the conspiracy theory MAGA media cooked up after Texas Senate nominee James Talarico came down with the flu: that he had secretly flown to an Ohio psychiatric hospital. The evidence? An anonymous account with an AI-generated profile picture, a private flight with no connection to Talarico, and a call to the Lindner Center of Hope edited to cut out the part where the employee said there was no record of him receiving care there.  So, get your poppers ready for a hypnotically gay and potentially mentally ill pumpkin spice creamium episode of Posting Through It. We are feeling cozy!

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 the least popular and most cruel administration in recent memory. On this episode, Jared and Mike welcome Madeline Peltz, an independent journalist who covers right-wing media, to dig into Vanity Fair’s portrait of Katie Miller as MAGA Washington’s deeply hated hostess. Madeline and the boys also run through a cast of other unsavory MAGA characters, including Andrew Tate, who allegedly possessed eel porn; “Dad Chat” daddy Joshua Lisec, who won’t let Madeline into his event; Megyn Kelly, who wants you to know how ugly sexual assault victims are; and Michael Tracey (again), who went to Cornell to shout at people while dressed like sentient body odor. So, throw your tap water in the garbage like Michael Tracey’s request for time. There are no “brokies” on Posting Through It. We are now en route to white boy heaven. Links for Madeline: Pre-order "GOOD GIRLS AND ALPHA MALES": Source Books Newsletter: Number Two Pencil BlueSky: @peltzmadeline.bsky.social / X: @peltzmadeline Instagram: @peltzmadeline Join us in New York City on Oct. 28: RSVP Here

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 Tracey has stooped since Jane Doe filed her lawsuit in the Cornell 7 case. Tracey has posted jokes about rape while asking his followers to help him identify Jane Doe. In that effort, he cited a shady website that, as Jared discovered, was a thinly veiled hunk of junk. The gang also acts out a direct message conversation between our Mike and Michael Tracey, and Bobby gets a little emotional in the Tracey role.  Listeners who make it to the end of this one will find a sampling from Joshua Lisec's "Dad Chat" for divorcing and single MAGA fathers, including an audio clip in which Lisec advises the crew on what to do if their "dick still works." So, join us for an important follow-up to our "Who the Hell is Michael Tracey?" episode. Hide your sordid "proclivities" and always remember: “there are two ways to win, zero ways to lose.”

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 continue their coverage of the most consequential figure in our government, and the architect of its most sadistic policies, in a conversation with Greg Sargent of The New Republic. Sargent, who has done big-picture reporting on Miller's ideology, explains that American taxpayers have been quietly funding a federal "Office of Remigration," and how it relates to the Trump Administration's rhetorical war against "communism." The situation for immigrants is precarious, to put it mildly. But as Stephen Miller himself once said: "Racism must be defeated. Thank you." Links for Greg: Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks Podcast: The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent X: @GregTSargent / Bluesky: @gregsargent.bsky.social Join us in New York City on Oct. 28: RSVP Here Transition Music: "Any Time Any Place" by Jester Of No Court

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 podcast by Rufo and Keeperman titled "The Indian Question." It's gotten ugly out there for Indians in general within MAGA, and the racist obsession coincides with Indian Americans — from JD Vance's family to Harmeet Dhillon to Vivek Ramaswamy — gaining increased visibility in the movement. Nick Fuentes, one of the biggest ringleaders of anti-Indian racism, has also challenged people with Indian families to embrace who they are and stop hiding. It's the kind of situation you only find yourself in when you're trying to sell white nationalism to an electorate that maybe isn't all that white. This episode offers an illuminating lesson on who liberal elites have determined to be interesting voices in a mainstream hate movement. And we learn that Mike, a Resident Evil enjoyer, has issued his first media fatwa. Tune in to find out who it's about.

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 types of creators. Together, they walk through a rogues' gallery of the genre: Nick Shirley, the former prank YouTuber whose Minneapolis daycare video earned him a Pulitzer endorsement from JD Vance, and loudmouths Nick Sortor and Cam Higby, who joined the influencer press corps DHS courted in Portland and Minneapolis. They also meet flagpole-injury survivor Katie Daviscourt; TPUSA contributor Savanah Hernandez, whose résumé starts at Infowars; and Tyler Oliveira, whose bigoted "investigations" into Haitian, Somali, Indian, and Hasidic communities push further than even most of his peers dare to go. Democracy dies in darkness, so make sure you keep the ring light on. Links for Josh: Extremely Online: Minnesota ‘Antifa’ Cases Born of Internet Beef With Far-right Activists Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers The Influencer-Administration Complex X: @joshkovensky / Bluesky: @joshkovensky.bsky.social The TPM Social Club Join us in NYC on Oct. 28: RSVP Here Transition Music: “Pocket” by Low Gary

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, Scott Adams, and Jennica Pounds (aka “@Datarepublican”) and claims to have ghostwritten hundreds more. Lisec recently announced that his wife left him and has started offering himself as a lifeline to other men experiencing their own “divorce journey.” But before they talk about the self-described “celebrity ghostwriter,” the guys examine some recent allegations that Rep. Lauren Boebert had multiple sexual encounters with staffers in her office, including same-sex relationships. Boebert has denied the claims… sort of... and one of the former staffers called them “defamatory.” But considering Boebert’s past escapades, some are finding those denials hard to believe. All aboard! This “Train Ride to Greatness” is leaving the station. Last chance to pre-order your 'FEMDOM' shirt: Order Here Join us in New York City on Oct. 28: RSVP Here

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, JD Vance's obsession with Abdul El-Sayed, an ADL-sponsored event where a speaker said Muslims should leave America go back to their "s******e countries," and more. American Muslims are posting historic political gains, seen in Zohran Mamdani's mayoral election and Abdul El-Sayed's campaign for US Senate in Michigan. Can broadcasting photos of Hasan Piker flexing in his underwear stop it? It seems the GOP is eager to find out. Links for Wajahat: The Left Hook Democracy-ish Podcast X: @WajahatAli / BlueSky: @wajali.bsky.social Other Links: 'FEMDOM' Shirts: Order Here Join us at NYU on Oct. 28: RSVP Here Transition Music: “The Bottom Line” by Smokescreen

Listen to weekly premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit 'FEMDOM' Shirts: Pre-Order Here Join 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 Kraft, who successfully pressured Ed Sheeran to drop the rapper from his US tour. In this premium episode, Jared pulls double duty: first explaining the whole saga to Mike, who struggles to understand how either of these guys got famous in the first place, and then — reluctantly — defending Macklemore. Next, fresh out of the Poodle Room, we find PTI mainstay Kash Patel going "beast mode," begging his FBI spokesperson to defend his honor against an offensively named X account and sharing some of his thoughts about bestiality with members of congress. Jared and Mike also look at the recent wave of dystopian buzz around artificial intelligence and a strange new alliance between Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon on the topic. Finally, they check in on Benny Johnson after recorded an incredibly normal podcast episode with his wife where they repeatedly insist they conceived their children through vaginal sex and that their family is not an AI-generated hoax.

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 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 News and helped drive the misogynist "Gamergate" harassment campaign before leading a notorious troll storm against Black comic Leslie Jones. He elicited protests on his "Dangerous F****t" tour and landed a massive book deal before his comments about adults having sex with minors sent his trajectory in a star-crossed direction involving Kanye West collaborations, turning "straight," and being sent back to England at the hands of a brutal ICE agency he once championed. Jared and Mike's guest for this episode is Bobby Silverman, returning after previous Who the Hell episodes: Tim Pool, Dave Portnoy, and Michael Tracey. Bob interviewed Milo during the height of his celebrity, and together the three trace his path from his English upbringing to his recent deportation at the hands of frenemy Laura Loomer. So enjoy the limelight while you're in it — because one day you're America's bad boy, and the next you sink to the bottom of the sea, like a sodomy stone. Transition Music: "Never Outnumbered" by Shaolin Punk

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 in briefly recount how Benny Johnson wound up in the position he's in today and explore his latest content pivot, where he and his wife, Kate, are hoping to sell themselves as traditional family figureheads. The guys weren't totally convinced. If we're to believe Benny, he might just be the straightest man in Washington, DC.