Posting Through It

Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden
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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

  1. 1 day ago

    152: Who the Hell is Richard Hanania? feat. Christopher Mathias & Henry Burke

    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

    152: Who the Hell is Richard Hanania? feat. Christopher Mathias & Henry Burke

  2. 4 days ago

    151: Grok, Is This Le Pew? [Preview]

    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!

    151: Grok, Is This Le Pew? [Preview]

  3. 19 Oct

    150: The GOP is Libbity Bibbity Blowing It feat. Nikki McCann Ramírez

    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

    150: The GOP is Libbity Bibbity Blowing It feat. Nikki McCann Ramírez

  4. 15 Oct

    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 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!

    149: Which Way Western Twink? [Preview]

  5. 12 Oct

    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 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

    148: The Secret Lives of MAGA Wives feat. Madeline Peltz

  6. 8 Oct

    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 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.”

    147: The Michael Tracey Question [Preview]

  7. 5 Oct

    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 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

    146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

  8. 1 Oct

    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 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.

    145: Meet The New York Times' Favorite Racists [Preview]
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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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  • Creator
    Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    343
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden
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