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 recent Supreme Court decisions weakened the Voting Rights Act, why states like Tennessee have become a blueprint for dismantling majority-Black districts, and the contradiction between years of MAGA claims about “rigged elections” and the GOP’s open embrace of aggressive gerrymandering.

Faithful Posting Through It listeners know this is a topic that has stressed out the hosts (especially Mike) for a long time. Viktor Orbán may have fallen in Hungary, but his vision of weakening a country’s democratic infrastructure to produce authoritarian outcomes is alive and well in the United States.

Links for Ari Berman:

Jared's piece at Open Measures: Pro-Trump Communities Spent Years Claiming Elections Were ‘Rigged.’ Now They Support Gerrymandering.

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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 d...

8 Juni 54min

111: Vanilla Ice in Valhalla [Preview]

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitThings are going badly in Iran and at home. Tensions are erupting with Israel. MAGA pundits like Jack Posobiec and Dave Rubin are get...

4 Juni 4min

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 personali...

1 Juni 2h 30min

109: Ghost World [Preview]

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitIt’s a listener-driven Q&A show this week and it starts with Jared breaking down the overuse of the designation “Nihilistic Violent E...

28 Maj 8min

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...

27 Maj 32min

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 racis...

25 Maj 1h

107: With Liberals Like These, Who Needs Conservatives? feat. Anthony Fisher [Preview]

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughitJared and Mike welcome MSNow opinion editor Anthony Fisher to this week’s cremium episode to talk about an old friend of ours, Bill M...

21 Maj 3min