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 Jenkins, who Andy Ngo since claimed is the "main leader" of Antifa.

In the second half of this episode, the PTI crew details the history of "The Turner Diaries": an infamous white supremacist book that has inspired deadly acts of racist terrorism. They spoke to Kelvin Pierce, the son of William Luther Pierce, the prominent neo-Nazi who wrote the book, and hear how he rejected his father’s ideology and worked to build a different world.

• The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible, J.M. Berger (2023)

• One People's Project

Links for Kelvin Pierce:

• Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist (2020)

• The Divine Child Foundation

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Mike and Jared discuss the Red Scare podcast, a terrible GQ article about Nick Fuentes, and MAGA's taste in awful 90s rock music. They also submit their own audition tape for the TPUSA "All American Halftime Show."

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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 history as an attention-seeking influencer and bigoted far-right activist, covering everything from her tumultuous childhood to her notorious relationship to President Trump. They revisited the deep cuts and lost lore from Loomer's career, like the fact a guy lost part of his pinky finger when she handcuffed herself to Twitter's NYC office in 2018.

The episode also features a cameo from Nathan Bernard, who found himself at the center of one of Laura’s many legal dramas.

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• Subscribe to his newsletter: “⁠False Flag⁠” at The Bulwark

• Read his book: “⁠Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America⁠” via HarperCollins

• Follow him on ⁠X⁠ and ⁠Bluesky⁠

  
  

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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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• Sign up for her newsletter, The Autonomy

• Follow her on Bluesky and X

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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 understand a QAnon influencer’s belief that Jon Benet Ramsey never died and became Erika Kirk.   

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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 feels more alarming than its prior iterations.

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Links for Chris:

• Preorder his book: "To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right"

• Read his column in MSNBC: "Trump's new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous"

• Follow him on Bluesky: @letsgomathias.bsky.social

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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 between antisemite Sam Hyde and Chaya Raichik, the Jewish woman behind the bigoted Libs of TikTok account. The hosts also review Stephen Miller’s palpably angry speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial and Mike does his best impression of MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow.

Mike and Jared discuss how the Trump Administration and its allies have escalated their efforts to censor and criminalize their opponents in wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They also talk about the ways leaders in business and media – even “anti-hate” nonprofits – have been spooked into self-censorship.

Then, Jared shares an interview he did with Kelly Jensen. She’s a former librarian and writer celebrated for her coverage of movements to ban books from libraries. Their conversation expands beyond books to cover the Right’s attacks on public institutions overall and what normal people can do about it. As you’d expect from a former librarian, Kelly put together an incredibly thorough reading list for listeners to check out.

• ​“Charlie Kirk opposed free speech but the media won’t tell you that” – Madeline Peltz

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Links for Kelly:

• ​Book Riot newsletter: “Weekly Literary Activism”
• ​Kelly’s newsletter, “Well Sourced”
• ​Blueksy: @heykellyjensen.bsky.social

Stories Kelly referenced:

• ​Timeline of IMLS Cuts, Impact to Libraries, and More
• ​The Lie of "Local Control," as Texas and Florida Signal What's Next in Book Censorship
• ​Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida Book Ban Bill
• ​What's in the 596 Books Banned by the Department of Defense in their Education Activity Schools?
• ​Politics Can Now Dictate Public Library Collections in Three States, Thanks to Fifth Circuit Ruling
• ​South Carolina Bans 10 More Books Statewide
• ​Utah Bans 18th Book Statewide from Public Schools
• ​The Anti-Book Ban Bills Passed in 2025 and What They Mean
• ​Pride is Disappearing in Libraries
• ​Why Would a County Evict Its Public Library Over $1?
• ​Wyoming Proposes Extreme Anti-Library Bill
• ​Public Libraries On the Chopping Block, 2025 Edition
• ​As local governments struggle with budgets, they discover libraries, museums as new revenue sources
• ​Menomonee Falls diverts $300k from library to police budget

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