Posting Through It

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 g...

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 e...

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 h...

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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 R...

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, sifti...

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...

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...

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...

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 demonstra...

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...

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 aft...

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...

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 per...

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...

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 ga...

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 chang...

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit Things 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 birthda...

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...

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit It’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 y...

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 o...

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 profi...

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit Jared 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 c...

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...

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...