Posting Through It

Our appetizer this holiday is a dive into the latest "Red Scare" discourse after Dasha WhatsHerFace reflects on her recent wave of online backlash. Then we dust off the Olivia Nuzzi pop track “Jailbait” (yes, it exists) and admit it’s more fun than American Canto. For the main course, we look at the stranger corners of RFK Jr. gossip, courtesy of Ryan Lizza. For dessert, our pumpkin pie comes in the form of a purported mu...

MAGA has gone global. What started as an American political movement has evolved into an international force, energizing radical-right groups across the world and creating networks that link European extremists directly to sitting members of the U.S. Congress. Heidi Beirich, one of the leading researchers on the radical right and co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), joins us to explore how we got her...

Jared and Mike welcome a special, top secret surprise guest to read through the excerpt of American Worm-O, Olivia Nuzzi’s tome about having wet, sloppy FaceTime sex with RFK Jr. and the parasite that lives in his cranium. They dip “under the blade of devices” to find winking flags and ponder all that is “more meaningful and more meaningless than you might think.” The guys then shift to Dave Portnoy, who finds himself the target of...

How did a once-celebrated critic of Wall Street end up advancing Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” agenda and defending MAGA? This episode retraced the life and career of Matt Taibbi to find out, featuring in-depth perspective from our guest Eoin Higgins.

You’ll hear about Taibbi’s early years in Russia, his controversial comments about women, and his rise to prominence as a star writer at Rolling Stone. Then, you’ll hear about pivotal moment...

Jared and Mike stare into the abyss as the Democrats squander all of the good vibes they inherited on election night over the shutdown negotiations. Later, they listen to Josh Hammer cry in constricting underwear on his Newsweek podcast about Washington Commanders fans booing down the Big Drumpf before introducing “Robby Latte,” an activist who goes around calling corporations, asking them to drop their DEI policies. Hammer and Rob...

Jared and Mike welcome researcher and forthcoming author Madeline Peltz to talk about right-wing female influencer culture and the broader effort to recruit young and “fertile” women into the MAGA movement. The trio unpack the surreal online discourse surrounding Erika Kirk, her appearance alongside JD Vance, and the intense scrutiny of her fashion choices. They also dive into figures like Alex Clark, the influencer who urges young...

Jared and Mike explore the salt mines and find that a lot of people are “big mad” about the MAGA bloodbath on election night. They break down the MAGA flop in New Jersey, where they had previously dispatched Jack Posobiec to rail against "Antifa," Jonathan Greenblatt’s weird Mamdani monitoring project, the freak out over Virginia's next attorney general, and Nick Fuentes' declaration that “MAGA is dead.” Plus, the...

Online can be a hellish place. In this episode, Jared and Mike dive into the darkest corners of the web with Will Stancil, a civil rights attorney recently turned into a literal cartoon by far-right extremists. After enduring years of online harassment, Stancil became the target of a Hitlerite activist Emily Youcis, whose mocking web animation has found unsettling popularity — even among powerful tech reactionaries like Marc Andree...

Jared and Mike catch up on the latest content from Malaysian lolcow Ian Miles Cheong, who is not at all upset about someone creating a fake tweet to make fun of him. The guys move onto the likelihood that Trump will pursue a third term in office and question why so many pundits are waiting for the bad thing to happen–when it’s fairly obviously already here. They talk about Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, and why something about Ni...

Jared and Mike bring back resident New Yawk correspondent Robert Silverman to discuss the forthcoming mayoral election in the Big Apple — one that has major implications for the future of the Democratic Party and the fight against the MAGA agenda. Join them for a guided tour of the scandal-ridden NYC political landscape where Zohran Mamdani emerged as a frontrunner and why Trump is “big mad” about it. Cameos by: Dipset, an army of ...

Everywhere you turn these days, it seems there’s another Republican staffer glazing Hitler. Jared and Mike break down why exactly this keeps happening – from the big GOP group chat, the Nazi flag caught on camera, and Paul Ingrassia’s faceplant in D.C. – and then check out some fresh apologist spin from repeat PTI offender Katherine Dee. The hosts also take a look at the "No Kings" rallies, the liberation of George Santos...

Jared and Mike catch up on MAGA’s witch hunt for "Antifa" terrorists and find that it isn’t going particularly well. The White House has leaned on laughable influencers to persuade the public that Antifa actually exists and that protesters wearing Cookie Monster and Barney the Dinosaur costumes are proof of the problem. The guys play audio from an insane hype reel created by the White House and hear from Daryle Lamont Jen...

Laura Loomer has not-so-quietly emerged as one of the most influential figures in MAGA media, but who the hell is she and where did she come from? This episode seeks to explain how a person who is now known for eating dog food on camera came to wield so much power over one of the most powerful countries in the history of the world.

Will Sommer, a reporter for The Bulwark, joined Jared and Mike to dive deep into Laura’s prolific hist...

Jared and Mike discuss the cohort of right-wing influencers who have flocked to Portland to help the Trump Administration manufacture outrage against anti-ICE protesters resisting the federal occupation of their city. They take a closer look at Nick Sortor, who the White House has elevated as a mini-martyr. The guys also talk about sombrero memes, the straightest man in DC, and more.

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Gillian Branstetter joins to talk about MAGA's hyper-fixation on transgender people and the movement's warpath against them. We discuss right-wing media's use of trans people as scapegoats, false claims that trans people are radical and violent, and more.

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Jared and Mike read from what may end up being the most batshit insane column of 2025–The Daily Caller’s “Enough is enough… I choose VIOLENCE” by “writer, drinker” Geoffrey Ingersoll. The guys pair Ingersoll’s words with the reporting on real life violence from ICE. They also break down Trump’s new fascination with so-called med beds, check in on the growing conspiracy theory that Erika Kirk killed her husband, and struggle to unde...

Christopher Mathias, a longtime friend of the show and a journalist who has covered far-right movements in the United States, joins to talk about the origins of the right-wing panic surrounding antifascist activism in the United States. We also talked about the Trump's executive orders targeting "antifa," a questionable study claiming that left-wing terrorism is rising in the US, and why today's antifascist panic ...

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In an absolutely jam-packed premium episode, Jared and Mike lay out the biography of Dave Rubin, the ex-progressive turned reactionary internet performer and tequila salesman. The guys examine the phenomenon of this unsavory flavor of grifter, answer listener questions, and report out what we know about the alleged intimate relationship ...