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Claire Atkin is the co-founder of Check My Ads, an organization dedicated to boosting awareness of online advertising’s financing of hate and misinformation and working to drive change against it. She joins SH!TPOST to talk about the work her organization is doing, Dan Bongino’s targeting of her co-founder Nandini Jammi, and what a better future in online advertising looks like.Learn more about Check My Ads: https://checkmyads.org/Read the latest ‘Branded’ newsletter: https://checkmyads.org/branded/dan-bongino-is-begging-to-be-cancelled/Follow Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/catthekin Like what you heard? Consider supporting this project with a subscription! You’ll get access to a newsletter that goes out between episodes! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscrib

Amanda Moore spent a year undercover within the grassroots of the post-election Trump movement and its various subcultures, attending events and integrating herself with pockets of true believers. All along the way, she recorded what she witnessed with a hidden microphone. She joins SH!TPOST this week to share her observations and takeaways from a year living and breathing MAGA in its purest forms.Follow Amanda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17Find Amanda on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/franklin17 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Michael Hobbes is a writer and co-host of the podcast “Maintenance Phase.” You may also recognize his voice from the acclaimed podcast “You’re Wrong About.” He joins SH!TPOST to discuss the steady stream of stories and columns from national American media about the supposed rise of an “illiberal left”—something he argues to be a modern moral panic reinforced by thin hype. Jared and Michael talk through the ways this decades-old right-wing talking point has been laundered through respectable press using the moral panic starter kit and why it’s important to push back against it.Follow Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmarkListen to Michael on “Maintenance Phase: http://maintenancephase.com/Read Michael’s writing mentioned during the show: michaelhobbes.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If

Vic Berger is an acclaimed video editor and satirist. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about his path into making his bizarre edits of American culture, the parody potential of the post-Trump years, and what he’s up to these days. This interview was a long time coming and we hope you enjoy!Vic’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/Vic's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VicBerger/featuredOffice Hours Live with Tim Heidecker: https://officialofficehours.com/Vic's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vicbergerVic's Albums: https://flannelgraphrecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-enough-to-see-the-moon This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Joe Mulhall is Head of Research at HOPE not hate and one of the UK's leading authorities on far-right extremism. He joins SH!TPOST for a chat about his latest book, “Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right.” In it, Joe provides an exhaustively researched accounting of far-right political movements around the world that he tastefully pairs with vivid recounting of his time spent infiltrating and exposing those movements.Follow Joe Mulhall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeMulhall_Read the book: https://bookshop.org/books/drums-in-the-distance-journeys-into-the-global-far-right/9781785787515Joe’s favorite thing on the internet: TikTok train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois! https://www.tiktok.com/@francis.bourgeoisProgramming note: You may notice your host sounds slightly different! Thanks to listener support, SH!TPOST has upgraded our audio recording and processing equipment. We hope that as we learn the new hardware and software that the show’s audio quality will greatly improve.We also welc

Joseph Bernstein is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. He joins SH!TPOST this week to discuss the overly simplistic story of online disinformation that many American audiences have been sold. Joe encourages those interested in understanding online disinformation to pause and recognize several fundamental issues with the way some of our current conversations have been framed. These flaws, he argues, are not an end-all to the study of disinformation; rather, he hopes that addressing them will produce better work that contributes to stronger public knowledge.Follow Joe Bernstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BernsteinRead his essay on this topic at Harper’s: Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation (https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public epis

Vera Bergengruen is a Washington correspondent for Time Magazine who joins the show to explain why some unvaccinated people are seeking out Ivermectin as a supposed shield against COVID-19. Demand for the drug has overwhelmed many pharmacies, leaving some so desperate in their hunt that they’ve bought and ingested horse paste and other livestock drugs that contain Ivermectin as an active ingredient. At least it’s apple flavored.Follow Vera on Twitter: @VeraMBergenRead Vera’s fantastic reporting: How 'America's Frontline Doctors' Sold Access to Bogus COVID-19 Treatments—and Left Patients in the LurchIf you like the show and want to help support it, you can sign up for a subscription, right here on Substack. You’ll get access to an accompanying newsletter that publishes on the weeks between episodes.And if you want to read the newsletter but can’t afford a subscription for whatever reason, get in touch. We’ll let you through the gate. No questions asked. This is a public episode. If you would lik

Puck News national correspondent Tina Nguyen joins SH!TPOST to talk about her time covering Mike Lindell’s 72-hour “Cyber Symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last week. We’ll talk to her about what she saw, her takeaways, the dang big shrimps on the buffet bar, and more.Learn more about Puck News here: https://puck.news/And sign up for Tina’s newsletter here: https://tina-nguyen.news/Follow Tina on Twitter: @tina_nguyenIf you liked this show, you might like the newsletter, too! Smash the button below to sign up for subscriber-exclusive content, delivered straight to your inbox: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell joins SH!TPOST to discuss GOP youth organizer Charlie Kirk’s skid into anti-vaccine misinformation and scaremongering. In recent months, the GOP wunderkind has voiced hard opposition to public health measures and spread unfounded claims meant to scare audiences away from protecting themselves against the virus.Read Jason’s research on the topic here: https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirks-anti-vax-campaignFollow Jason Campbell on Twitter: @JasonSCampbellFind a place to get vaccinated at Vaccines.GovIf you liked this show, you might like the newsletter, too! Smash the button below to sign up for subscriber-exclusive content, delivered straight to your inbox: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access

[Sorry for the hiccup!]Freelance reporter and The Daily Beast contributor Robert Silverman joins SH!TPOST to talk about his blockbuster profile on YouTube news performer Tim Pool, one of the most prominent right-wing aligned personalities on the platform. Robert and Jared talk about what Tim Pool’s early career reveals about his current goings-on and how the YouTuber has quietly built a media micro-empire with little criticism from media watchdogs.For more background on Tim Pool’s career arc, check out SH!TPOST’s interview with @TimPoolClips here:Follow Robert on Twitter: @BobSaiettaRead Robert’s latest article:How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet (https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet)Check out Robert’s favorite thing online right now:If you liked this show, you’ll like the newsletter, too! Subscribe to get the subscriber-exclusive content in your inbox and support the show

(Note: Because host Jared Holt is traveling, his audio quality on this episode is less than normal episodes. He’ll be back in his home studio in August.)Salon reporter Zachary Petrizzo joins SH!TPOST to share observations from his weekend covering CPAC’s 2021 summer gathering in Dallas, Texas. Petrizzo describes the scenes in the conservative movement’s Lonestar State gathering as an anything-goes spinoff of the national flagship event, where fringe and far-right cultural elements jockeyed for prominence over a receding movement conservatism.Follow Zachary Petrizzo: @ZTPetrizzoRead some of Zach’s reporting at Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/zachary_petrizzo Zach’s favorite thing online: the ongoing sideshow antics of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.(If you would like to subscribe at a paid tier to read the newsletters between episodes but can’t afford to do so, send me a message here or on any other platform. No questions asked. I have deep gratitude for those who do support this project, but I don’t want this

Political Research Associates research analyst Ben Lorber joins SH!TPOST for a conversation about the status of white nationalist movements in the United States six months after President Joe Biden was sworn into office. This episode will explain a particular branch of white nationalism growing popular with younger conservative audiences and gaining footholds within the Republican Party.Follow Ben Lorber: @BenLorber8Read some of Ben’s writing at PRA: https://www.politicalresearch.org/bio/ben-lorberBen’s favorite things online right now: The “Blowback” podcast and @the.holistic.psychologist on Instagram(If you would like to subscribe at a paid tier to read the newsletters between episodes but can’t afford to do so, send me a message here or on any other platform. No questions asked. I have deep gratitude for those who do support this project, but I don’t want this to be a cost-prohibitive venture. ) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episod

Joining SH!TPOST is P.R. guy, writer, and Joker-meme enthusiast Ed Zitron, who wrote a fantastic essay this week that confronts the ways newsrooms have failed to respond to bad-faith internet harassment campaigns against their reporters made in service of right-wing political causes. Major outlets still have no real answer to the ongoing problem and have filled in the void with public statements that often accomplish less than nothing. Ed offers a few solutions of his own.Follow Ed Zitron: @edzitronRead Ed’s writing on Substack: ez.substack.comIf you liked this episode, consider subscribing! You’ll help support the show and get access to biweekly newsletters between episodes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughi

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Over Memorial Day weekend and deep in the heart of Texas, powerful MAGA political figures and QAnon believers joined together for a wild-west themed conference inside an event venue made to look like a cowboy town. Joining SH!TPOST is Protean Mag publisher and independent journalist Steven Monacelli, who spent time at the conference incognito.Correction note from Steven: “I mentioned a salute done by Brace Belden that I erroneously described as a "Daesh" salute. That salute has broader and more general use in the Islamic world. It  was effectively hijacked by Daesh and I regret associating it with them as such.”Follow Steven Monacelli: https://twitter.com/stevanzettiSteven’s favorite thing online: Ken Klippenstein tricking prominent conservatives into wishing Lee Harvey Oswald a happy Memorial Day.If you liked this episode, consider subscribing! You’ll help support the show and get access to biweekly newsletters between episodes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other

The United States is considering ways to fight the kinds of extremist movements that enabled the attack on the U.S. Capitol and some have suggested creating new domestic terrorism laws that would offer federal agencies with more avenues to address that threat. Joining SH!TPOST to talk about flaws with this kind of counter-terrorism approach to fighting white supremacy is SPLC senior research Hannah Gais.Follow Hannah Gais: https://twitter.com/hannahgaisRead “A New ‘War on Terrorism’ Is the Wrong Way to Fight Domestic Extremists”Hannah’s favorite thing online right now: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

As the United States inches closer toward reopening and our bosses ask us to consider returning to their fancy-pants offices, we face a unique chance to re-examine how we think of work in our lives and our approach to the 9-to-5 grind. Joining SH!TPOST to share perspective on this topic is Charlie Warzel, who co-authored a book with his partner about working from home. He’s also the author of a fantastic newsletter/blog called “Galaxy Brain.”Follow Charlie Warzel on Twitter: twitter.com/cwarzelRead Galaxy Brain: warzel.substack.comAbout Charlie and Anne’s book, “Out of Office”: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673782/out-of-office-by-charlie-warzel-and-anne-helen-petersen/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthr

The QAnon conspiracy theory phenomenon is the subject of a new six-hour HBO docuseries that is as raw as it is revealing: Q: Into the Storm. If you watch it, you might even see a familiar face. Director Cullen Hoback embarked on the project three years ago and joins on us on this episode of SH!TPOST.Follow Cullen Hoback on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CullenHobackThis episode was recorded while Jared was away from his normal pro-audio recording and mixing capabilities, so this edition of the podcast is a bit rougher around the edges than most releases. The studio quality you know and love will be back in rotation in May. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Lil Nas X sneakers, Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, and more; right-wing media in the U.S. has spent the Biden era so far hopping from manufactured outrage to manufactured outrage, riling up their audiences along the way. What was once a hallmark of YouTube grifters seeking clicks has seemingly consumed the mainstream GOP. Media Matters editor-at-large Parker Molloy has been writing about this phenomenon for years and she joins the show to explain the trends and what they mean for the rest of us.Follow Parker Molloy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloyRead her latest: Right-wing outrage over Lil Nas X exposes the fraud of their campaign against “cancel culture”If you liked this episode, please consider signing up for the email list. You’ll receive an email when new content gets posted here. If you really liked this episode, you can support the show and receive access to newsletters between episodes by signing up here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac

In Bessemer, Alabama, employees at an Amazon fulfilment center have been fighting to unionize their workplace, hoping to secure better working conditions and pay. If successful, the action will mark one of the largest labor victories of modern times and could inspire other of Amazon employees to take similar actions at their own workplaces. The fight is an existential one: labor versus a brutal, new tech-dominated economy.Reporter Kim Kelly has been reporting from the ground in Alabama on the unionization effort and vote. She joins us during the show to contextualize and explain this historic event and its broader consequences.Follow Kim Kelly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrimKimIf you liked this podcast episode, consider supporting the show using the button below:Subscribers get access to a bi-weekly newsletter in between the bi-weekly episodes. Your money goes to support the show and feed the dog. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus e