Fought to prevent docs from coming out, and now that they've been forced they're trying to do damage control with the mechanisms of state secrecy. But turn on the TV, and you'll hear the administration boast that this is a testament to their "transparency." I'm not sure that's gonna work long term.

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

he was trying to warn us

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

It has been really great working at Open Measures and we’ve accomplished a lot this year (and have some cool stuff in the calendar for next year). Here’s a look back at our work in 2025 as we close up the year.

Was traveling today but this morning we put out this week’s PTI premium episode, which looked at Trump’s disgusting remarks about Rob Reiner after he was murdered, Susie Wiles’ comments to Vanity Fair, and some internet poison: a young groyper girl who likes pigs www.patreon.com/posts/146037...

the interesting question here is whether it just blames left and concludes they need common sense centrist solutions or whether it acknowledged that running a guy who was brain dead on a message of "more of the same" when the same included genocide was a mistake

Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

Finding new and exciting ways to jangle keys in front of our very bright and not at all cognitively degraded president

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Ay yo @jaredlholt.bsky.social and I are hoping to cover some of the worst "takes" of the year -- if you have any in mind (including long form X posts) please send them my way. And strong interest in takes the first half of 2025 that have aged poorly!

Despire reports of the financial beating Ellison/Trump-puppet Bari Weiss' new show got at CBS, she's going to continue pushing the rightwing-conservative agenda. Next "Town Halls"; Trump-righthand JD Vance, AI-propagandist Sam Altman, her anti-"woke" buddy Steven Pinker, anti-feminist Stuckey, etc.

Just a few more days to lock in your preorder for a Posting Through It “FEMDOM” shirt. We’re giving all the profits this goofy shirt generates to a good charity www.patreon.com/posts/145282...

The Trump Administration is one of the most cartoonishly corrupt entities on the planet. There are really only a handful of parallels through history, and none are great! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

Australian neo-nazis have been spreading talking points around the Bondi Beach shooting to promote anti-immigrant hate and extreme calls for xenophobic policy openmeasures.io/bondi-beach-...

Since the Bondi Beach shooting, Australian neo-Nazis have been highlighting the attack to push anti-immigrant hate and call for “mass deportation” blog.openmeasures.io/p/bondi-beac...

Conspiracy theories about weather manipulation (chemtrails, etc.) have spread online in recent years, driving increased threats against public officials. In 2025, they were especially popular on Truth Social -- a platform run by the current head of US government. openmeasures.io/weather-cons...

Every ep of Posting Through It is a banger (except the 2025 ep bc it stressed me out lol). But their best stuff is their paywalled eps because they let their true feelings out.

Amidst the Trump administration's attacks on "illegal" DEI, @propublica.org has found more than 1,000 nonprofits that revised the mission statements on their tax forms to remove terms like "racism" and "marginalized." Half who made changes reported no govt funding. www.propublica.org/article/dele...

Another end-of-year shoutout for the PTI podcast, this time from @jamesncohen.com newmediahomework.substack.com/p/do-we-need...

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

This kind of just makes me sad because aside from the intellectual angle people are just lonely. We're more connected than ever but somehow so many people feel so isolated that they're falling in love with wilson the volleyball. I gotta reach out to my friends man

I think this is useful to read the whole way through to see just how Internet-poisoned right wing billionaires are. This guy is insane nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/john-catsi...

On tomorrow's premium PTI: @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I look at the deepening fault lines within the conservative movement in light of Trump's appalling remarks about the murder of Rob Reiner. Mike argues the state of the MAGA is basically "Hellraiser II" www.patreon.com/posts/063-ma...

Remember when TPUSA said they were going to counter program an "alternative" Super Bowl halftime show? What ever happened to that?

A holiday classic defector.com/the-2025-hat...

A lot of Dems/centrists love to punch to their left, accusing young radicals of being naive, unreasonable, having their head in the clouds etc…. all while maintaining the most childish, unmoored fantasy of what the GOP is or ever was

Guest bars from Open Measures in this one

New: Weather control conspiracy theories claim the US gov has secret ways of orchestrating natural events and uses them to manipulate society. Yet some of the most-active platforms for these theories are closely linked to the Trump Admin: Rumble and Truth Social. openmeasures.io/weather-cons...

I wrote about Benny Johnson, a documented plagiarist who’s become something like MAGA’s content creator in chief: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Posting Through It gets more end-of-the-year love, this time from some podcast hosts at Slate slate.com/podcasts/cul...

congressional republicans are disappointed that the monster they elevated is behaving like a monster

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Cereal costs $11 now.

Their position is that antisemitism, which they love, is caused by Muslim immigrants, whom they hate

We discovered videos on RuTube promoting junk "cheat tools" for Roblox that are actually vehicles for malware that can steal information off devices, like passwords and credit card info. The risks are particularly concerning given the game's popularity with children. openmeasures.io/rutube-roblo...

Bari Weiss isn't a journalist. She's a very well-compensated PR flack.

As far as we know, worth noting were the only pod on this list without a publicist, social media team, etc. Just straight audio to the feed. What a year it’s been!

Incredibly odd turn in this saga: TPUSA cancels its plans to refute Candace Owens, instead flying Erika out to meet with Candace privately. Really weird pivot. Gotta wonder what terms everyone agreed to with this… www.axios.com/2025/12/15/c...

counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right

Jared Taylor, a prominent white nationalist whose annual American Renaissance conference serves as a "who's who" for the international white supremacist movement, was among those who attended the New York Young Republican Club gathering this weekend. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

TPUSA is currently in the middle of a sexual harassment scandal, just helped generate hundreds of death threats against some teachers, and Pete Hegseth said he committed a war crime at the request of Kolvet but every week all these mainstream outlets are just like “How you holding up, buddy? 😢”

Mike and I are humbled to see “Posting Through It” included in this HuffPost roundup of the year’s 10 best shows. We’re not done yet! We’ve got a packed “Who the Hell?” installment on the main feed next week to carry you into the holidays. www.huffpost.com/entry/best-p...

Out now: our chat with @goangelo.bsky.social about Candace Owens and the battle for the future of right-wing online media after Charlie Kirk’s assassination www.patreon.com/posts/145643...

Erika Kirk just doesn't have the juice. She is off-putting to normies. The harder they push her the worse this is going to go for them.

BTW that Erika Kirk interview was a huge success for CBS News, it went viral, just, uh, not for the reasons that Bari wanted

On Monday's episode, you'll hear our chat with @goangelo.bsky.social about the Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories tearing MAGA apart and how it fits in to the larger battle over the future of right-wing media. www.patreon.com/posts/062-ma...