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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12h

me when this wasn't released immediately and I need to clean my house

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

“Posting Through It” is back on Monday with another installment in our longform biographical series. This one traces the deep cuts and forgotten moments from Laura Loomer’s rise to MAGA stardom.

Featuring @willsommer.bsky.social, w/ a cameo from Bernard Media.

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044: Who the Hell is Laura Loomer? feat. Will Sommer | Posting Through It

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

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Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 13h

don't worry - we stand with Laura and her tire

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 17h

Are you ready to be #LOOMERED?

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This is the longest episode we've ever done, and it's a banger. We've got a link to the drop on Patreon now. This will be on our main feed, so you'll get it first thing Monday morning on all the podcast apps -- just search "Posting Through It" and follow us there.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

“Who the Hell” episodes take us weeks to research, produce, and edit. Help us make more of them by supporting the show on Patreon. You’ll get access to weekly premium episodes, where Mike and I get weird and have fun. (Next week we’re talking about MAGA rock music.)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

This one hits the main feed first thing Monday morning. You won’t find another profile of Laura Loomer that goes as deep as we did.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

“Posting Through It” is back on Monday with another installment in our longform biographical series. This one traces the deep cuts and forgotten moments from Laura Loomer’s rise to MAGA stardom.

Featuring @willsommer.bsky.social, w/ a cameo from Bernard Media.

www.patreon.com/posts/140478...

044: Who the Hell is Laura Loomer? feat. Will Sommer | Posting Through It

www.patreon.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

We’re all insane here! We were very happy to have him on for this one. One of the best reporters to ever cover this beat and between the three of us we had an insane amount of Loomer lore stored up

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This is the longest episode we've ever done, and it's a banger. We've got a link to the drop on Patreon now. This will be on our main feed, so you'll get it first thing Monday morning on all the podcast apps -- just search "Posting Through It" and follow us there.

www.patreon.com/posts/044-wh...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This is the longest episode we've ever done, and it's a banger. We've got a link to the drop on Patreon now. This will be on our main feed, so you'll get it first thing Monday morning on all the podcast apps -- just search "Posting Through It" and follow us there.

www.patreon.com/posts/044-wh...

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready!

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Well folks, we did it. We nearly broke our brains but the next “Who the Hell?” longform episode is on the way.

Who the Hell is Laura Loomer? Feat. @willsommer.bsky.social will be on your feeds Monday morning.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Well folks, we did it. We nearly broke our brains but the next “Who the Hell?” longform episode is on the way.

Who the Hell is Laura Loomer? Feat. @willsommer.bsky.social will be on your feeds Monday morning.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

If this government is going to come for you anyway, why not make them take you to jail in an inflatable unicorn outfit? Let them try to explain that one to the masses.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be hanging out at "News Night" in Chicago next week, talking a little bit about the stories I'm working on these days and chopping it up with some folks.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Bari gets rightfully mocked as a hack, but I will suggest that she is also a person who has no original ideas

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 2d

After the White House endorsed poorly supported claims that Tylenol is linked to autism last month, Truth Social users began to parrot the claims and engaged with posts that supported them more frequently. The topic was obscure and unpopular on Truth Social before that.

Trump Admin Briefing Sparks Wave of Tylenol-Autism Posts on Truth Social - Open Measures

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

openmeasures.io

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah the really good ones are legit performing. A lot of these big EDM acts… not so much. Basically selling tickets to a light show

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

Paying god knows how much money to see John Summit “play” at the Sphere just to watch the guy bounce around in front of a giant screen and pretend like he’s doing anything

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute funniest bit in live music is when a big DJ is squirming behind the decks, twisting knobs and all that, and then the camera cuts to the faders and you see everything is muted except one that’s playing the pre-recorded mix.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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