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Jack Wheatley @jacktwheatley.bsky.social · 5h

Brandt Wiggins, a prominent groyper and associate of white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, posted on LinkedIn that he interned for Judge Alan Black, a state district Judge in Louisiana. @tulaneu.bsky.social @tulanelaw.bsky.social

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 6h

I am not. I have spent much of my career hoping I’d be wrong about where things were heading

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 6h

We’ve got the Pentagon posting QAnon slop on a verified government account. What an utterly humiliating time to live in this country.

Department of War CTO posts a Qanon meme on X

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 6h

The term of art we use on our show is “website personality” but man is he mad that people don’t consider spending 20 hours a day name-searching yourself on social media apps “journalism”

Michael Tracey on X: These little Student Reporter shitheads call me an "online commentator" rather than "journalist" because they think they're the guardians of Serious Journalism after they took a huckster lawyer's civil complaint at face value and named a bunch of guys as gang rapists

Michael Tracey on X: Renowned CNN journalist @robpicheta refers to me as an "online personality," claiming I have gravely endangered Jane Doe. Funny, CNN otherwise has no problem using my journalistic material as a source. But when I report on a litigant in a civil action, I'm an "online personality"

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10h

brilliant example sir, this message is sure to resonate with the peasants

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12h

This is your periodic reminder that if you appreciate what we do on the podcast, a quick and free thing you can do to show us some love is leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app. It helps us out a lot podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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News Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · "Posting Through It" is a political news podcast exploring the intersection of modern politics and social media through independent reporting, analysis, and comment...

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please enjoy our impromptu one-act play, Sad Mens Who Won't Log the Eff Off—Ever

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you enjoyed our "Who the Hell is Michael Tracey?" episode, you will enjoy this *Why the Hell is Michael Tracey Doing This* sequel. Plus: Halloween comes early in the form of Josh Lisec's "Dad Chat" audio. It's a spooky one--with Bob--that you might not want to play before bed! 😱

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This episode features a special reenactment of a Mike-to-Mike DM exchange where Tracey declined to answer some extremely simple questions about why he behaves the way he does unless we hosted him on our show (no thanks, we’re good on that).

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tomorrow AM on the Posting Through It premium feed: a conversation about ethics in contrarian "journalism," featuring PTI all star guest @robertsilverman.bsky.social and some pain meds Mike got after his surgery this week www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

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147: The Michael Tracey Question | Posting Through It

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 w

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Open Measures @openmeasures.io · 06/10/2026

Our researchers will be monitoring and investigating potential risks surrounding US midterms in the weeks surrounding Election Day. Less than a month out, here's a breakdown of what they've been seeing so far. blog.openmeasures.io/p/2026-midte...

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Threat Briefing: 2026 US Midterm Elections

Open Measures will be monitoring for online threats in the weeks surrounding Election Day

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So excited for this event at NYU on October 28! Me and @michaelehayden.bsky.social will be talking about our books, with the great @jaredlholt.bsky.social doing the moderating. RSVP today!

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just DM’d you some questions — we record at 10PM ET

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My thesis for what we might expect to go down around US midterms largely hinges on the question of if/how the Trump Admin directly intervenes in them. In the meantime, here’s what our team has been seeing (and not seeing) so far:

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they're calling it the least used form in human history

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"You guys just did an episode about Michael Tracey a few months ago. You couldn't possible do another one so soon... right???"

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was a pleasure to chat with Greg on this week’s episode. Check it out if you haven’t already

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Forum boards are the best form of internet, full stop, and the internet began to suck more and more as we strayed from that light

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

During the first Trump administration, I would think a shady, white nationalist-coded government office literally called the “Office of Remigration” would have been a huge deal on cable news. Pretty unnerving how little play it’s getting among liberals now.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 05/10/2026

For my newsletter, I explained why you're all seeing Texas anti-trans ads during every football game this fall and what it all means for the midterms generally. www.burnsnotice.com/everyone-is-...

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Everyone is Sick of Texas Political Ads

Why you are seeing all these Ken Paxton ads and why this is a sign of the GOP's Texas demise

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026

My friend @melissaryan.bsky.social loaned me her platform today to talk about the frenzy on X around the Cornell case — and how it shows that the current policy climate's answer to #MeToo, nine years later, is more like "so what." (* content warnings apply, of course)

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Nine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’

‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026

Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The @openmeasures.io crew is lining up for a heavy monitoring/research blitz in the weeks surrounding US midterm elections. There's no better time to make sure you're in the loop with us. Sign up for our free newsletter to get the latest from us in your email inbox: blog.openmeasures.io

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Open Measures | Substack

Original insights on disinformation and extremism from the corners of the internet the mainstream often overlooks. Click to read Open Measures, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’ve got @gregsargent.bsky.social on the main feed this week, joining us for a conversation about the millions of taxpayer dollars being spent to pursue Stephen Miller’s white nationalist daydreams Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · October 5 · 1h 9m

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I owe that guy an apology. I was not familiar with his game

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Over on the other site people are sharing albums that shaped their music tastes. That’s too hard for me to nail down so here’s nine modern records that have stuck around with me for a while

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My decade of developing reporting and research skills has led me to this important moment

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michael Tracey has responded to this by posting through it on X, hence the name of our show

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Made a little video version of this thread for our Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DeAm8Ux...

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social are right once again. While the @nytimes.com swoons over Chris Rufo and treats him as a "very serious person," they call him out as the fascist and "turd polisher" he is. PTI is #1 source for news (and music)! www.patreon.com/cw/PostingTh...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Didn't mean to. Will see if I can fix that

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this year, the podcast I co-host profiled Michael Tracey and tried to explain why he is... the way that he is. Here's a link to that if you're curious about his background: www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

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110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman | Posting Through It

110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman by Posting Through It on Patreon. Join Posting Through It's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey claims he took his post down out of principle, and that it wasn't a "retraction." But it should be. He ran with information from a junk website without looking into it. If he worked at a publication with any sort of standards, this unforced error would be a fireable offense.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know why this site listed a name that didn't appear in actual New York court records, but the name has been floating around far-right circles on X. Given the curation of other purported court records on the site (Lindsay Clancy, Clavicular, etc), the site operator may run in those circles.

A list of the other purported court records on "ecourtrecords.org" (taken from an archived copy of the website)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What Tracey found was on a sketchy site called "ecourtrecords.org" -- not NY's court system, as he claimed. A disclaimer on the site reads: "Not a court, law firm, or certified record service." Its domain was registered just a few weeks ago. And as of this post, the site he cited is offline.

Domain registration info for "ecourtrecords.org" shows the domain was created on Sept. 17, 2026.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Major news outlets, and even some liberals, have treated Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman (aka "Lopez") as MAGA "intellectuals." We reviewed a recent conversation they had about Indian immigrants that laid bare just how ridiculous that is. On our premium feed: www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

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145: Meet The New York Times' Favorite Racists | Posting Through It

What do Christopher Rufo and Jonathan "Lomez" Keeperman have in common? The New York Times has glazed both of them, and they both peddle pse

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On tomorrow's premium episode of PTI, Mike and I discuss the rampant anti-Indian racism that's been pulsing through the MAGA movement and how two of The New York Times' favorite racist "intellectuals" have tried to justify it. Out tomorrow AM! www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

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145: Meet The New York Times' Favorite Racists | Posting Through It

What do Christopher Rufo and Jonathan "Lomez" Keeperman have in common? The New York Times has glazed both of them, and they both peddle pse

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Open Measures @openmeasures.io · 01/10/2026

The Gateway Pundit is one of the internet's top "junk news" sites, putting out an endless stream of articles bashing the MAGA movement's enemies, including public officials. In its comments section, we saw readers openly fantasizing about harming and killing individuals who were featured on the site

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Violent Rhetoric Against Public Officials Seen in Comments on Hyperpartisan News Site Ahead of 2026 Midterms - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.

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