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Posting Through It
by Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden
"Posting Through It" is a political news podcast exploring the intersection of modern politics and social media through independent reporting, analysis, and commentary. It is hosted by acclaimed investigative journalists Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden and regularly features in-depth interviews with guests.Support the show and listen to weekly bonus episodes: patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Episodes
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149: Which Way Western Twink? [Preview]
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…
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148: The Secret Lives of MAGA Wives feat. Madeline Peltz
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...
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147: The Michael Tracey Question [Preview]
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…
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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent
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...
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145: Meet The New York Times' Favorite Racists [Preview]
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...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
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...
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143: The Weird, Divorced World of MAGA’s Favorite Writer [Preview]
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...
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142: The GOP's Anti-Muslim Midterm Strategy feat. Wajahat Ali
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…
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141: Jared is Forced to Defend Macklemore [Preview]
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...
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140: Who the Hell is Milo Yiannopoulos? feat. Bobby Silverman [UNLOCKED]
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...
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139: Benny and Kate Johnson's Guide to a Happy Marriage [Preview]
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...
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138: One Year of Kirkification feat. Juliet Jeske, Abner Hauge, Haley Orion, Will Sommer, Charles Star & Madeline Peltz
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…
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137: Who the Hell is Milo Yiannopoulos? feat. Bobby Silverman [Preview]
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...
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136: Who the Hell is Jake Lang? feat. Carrie Schreck
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…
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135: How MAGA Weaponized the Lindsay Clancy Case [Preview]
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....
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134: Too Many Mules [UNLOCKED]
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…
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133: Anti-Woke Media and the Death of Jason Arday [Preview]
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…
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132: Some Kind of Cultural Civil War feat. Bobby Silverman
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...
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131: Marijuana is Poisoning Brains at an Extraordinary Rate [Preview]
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…
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130: What to Expect From Election Denialists in 2026 Midterms feat. Alex Kaplan & Kayla Gogarty
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...
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129: Too Many Mules [Preview]
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...
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128: OnlyChuds Conservatism
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...
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127: How Many of Y'all Like Nick Fuentes? [Preview]
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…
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126: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo? feat. Molly Conger
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...
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125: ‘Top G’ Hits Rock Bottom [Preview]
Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit
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124: Can Anything Stop the Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theories? feat. Brandy Zadrozny
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...
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123: Lil Boosie Dumbazz [Preview]
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?…
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122: Maine Feed Episode feat. Nathan Bernard
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…
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121: Twelve Angry Kirks [Preview]
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.…
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120: The MAGA Wanker Cometh feat. Madeline Peltz
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.…
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119: What We Know About the Prairieland 'Antifa' Trials [Preview]
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...
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118: Greg Bovino Wants to Be Your President feat. Christopher Mathias
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...
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117: Gotta Have My 'Goyslop' [Preview]
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...
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116: The Right's Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Machine Targets James Talarico feat. Parker Molloy
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...
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115: I'm Worried the Baby Thinks Graham Platner Can't Change [Preview]
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....
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114: All My Apes Gone to DC feat. Molly White
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...
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113: Garden of Sleepen [Preview]
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"…
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112: AI and the Future of Radicalization feat. Luke Barnes
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...
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111: Vanilla Ice in Valhalla [Preview]
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....
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110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman
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....
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109: Ghost World [Preview]
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…
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PTI Bulletin: How to Form a Union feat. Esteban Gil
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…
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108: The Rise of Right-Wing Confrontation Porn
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…
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107: With Liberals Like These, Who Needs Conservatives? feat. Anthony Fisher [Preview]
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...
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106: How Republicans Are Stacking the Deck Ahead of Midterms feat. Ari Berman
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…
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105: Don Colossus Comes to Town [Preview]
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...
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104: The Last Day of Infowars feat. Dan Friesen from ‘Knowledge Fight’
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…
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103: The ‘Grift Industrial Complex’ Comes for The Daily Wire [Preview]
Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit Jared 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…
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102: The 'MAHA' Movement is Getting Sick (of Trump) feat. Madeline Peltz
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…
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101: A Night to Remember [Preview]
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...
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"Posting Through It" is a political news podcast exploring the intersection of modern politics and social media through independent reporting, analysis, and commentary. It is hosted by acclaimed investigative journalists Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden and regularly features in-depth interviews with guests.Support the show and listen to weekly bonus episodes: patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
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