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2026 104
- “Sex Trafficking” laws are a disgrace to America
- Another random podcast with some gay rightoids
- Letter to the editor of “The Appalachian” newspaper
- Discussing Women’s Issues on Red Scare podcast
- New footage shows a carnival of stupidity, hysteria, and rank defamation at Cornell
- Letter to the Editor of the “Ithaca Voice”
- Cornell Community Members Give Their Gang Rape Takes
- Talking to Cornell Professors about Gang Rape
- Compilation of “I am Jane Doe” phone calls
- Live from Ithaca
- My visit to Ithaca, NY to discuss Gang Rape
- Did I accidentally spark the “New #MeToo Movement”?
- Note on Jane Doe
- Troll me about “Jane Doe,” please — not others
- Time to discuss the Cornell r*pe fiasco
- Feds launch new Epstein criminal investigation! What, how, when, why?
- Will there ever be “accountability” for this shocking “abuse”?
- That time they “razed” a perfectly good lodge in Michigan to atone for the unspecified sins of Epstein
- “Never Forget” that people will believe anything: 9/11 edition
- The banality of Gloria Steinem: a final word
- Gloria Steinem and Satanic Panic w/Michael Tracey
- Meet one of Gloria Steinem’s forgotten male victims
- Gloria Steinem: leader of the “Women’s Movement,” peddler of “Satanic ritual sex abuse” garbage
- Response to the world’s toughest man, Matt Walsh, on Lindsay Clancy
- Another wildly mendacious Epstein screed by Thomas Massie
- Remove these foul creatures from public office immediately
- Learning about “Trafficking” with the Trump Administration
- Talking to women about Lindsay Clancy
- DEAR FELLOW MEN: You’re making us all look like emotionally-stunted meatheads over this Lindsay Clancy thing
- Can Everyone Stop Being a Complete Moron About the Max Miller Situation?
- On the latest Congressional sex shenanigans
- Bantering with Steve Hilton, California GOP gubernornatorial candidate
- Lindsey Graham's last laugh
- Welcome to the #ZombieEpstein era: where anyone anywhere can be "trafficked" at any time
- Debating Housing and More with Steve Hilton
- BREAKING: "Adult Grooming" Scandal DESTROYS the International Criminal Court!
- You can now view this week's "Great Epstein Debate"
- Reviewing the "Great Epstein Debate"!
- REMINDER: NYC EPSTEIN DEBATE TOMORROW
- Lindsey Graham Was The Most Effective Political Operator Of The Past Decade
- Forget "MeToo" -- we're in the "Zombie Epstein" era
- What advice would I give Graham Platner?
- One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime
- Donald Trump, Theodore Roosevelt, and the end of American imperium
- A livestream review of "Communion," the historic new treatise by JD Vance
- Seven years ago today...
- “Sex Trafficking” Laws Are Out Of Control
- Amy Coney Barrett enrages bitter partisans by once again issuing another perfectly sensible opinion
- My manifesto against podcasts
- Piss off with your "Grooming Gang" fakery!
- Graham Platner, Nazis, and Pedos
- Mark Your Calendars! Upcoming debate
- Thomas Massie Deserves To Lose
- FULL PANEL: Should we abolish all podcasts? Featuring Michael Tracey, Bret Weinstein, Lauren Southern
- How a crazy “Jane Doe” scam exposes the fraud at the heart of the “Epstein Survivor” machine
- Meet the "Jane Doe" caught fabricating evidence, in one of the craziest Epstein scams you'll ever see
- Should we throw people in prison for Russiagate?
- "Today's News" -- May 1, 2026
- Please watch this video of two giant scumbags, Jim Acosta and Tara Palmeri, spewing a torrent of utter bullshit about me
- "Today's News" -- April 27, 2026: Jim Acosta Substack Brawl Trauma-Bonding Fiasco
- Jim Acosta threatens to fight me at Substack party
- "Today's News" -- April 24, 2026: Southern Fake Hatery Law Center
- Time to bring back "New Atheism"? Part Two
- "Today's News" -- 4/20/2026: British Pedo Paralysis
- Trump Is Not Bluffing
- Time to bring back "New Atheism"?
- "Today's News" -- April 17, 2025: Eric Swalwell, the new Epstein?
- "Today's News" -- April 13, 2026: Trump's blockading Iran, Melania's mysterious Epstein speech, Swalwell's wild implosion... Oh My!
- So, uh, are we headed for perpetual war in Iran?
- Interview with Joe Kent: Iran ceasefire, Trump's craziness, Israeli influence, Tulsi, Epstein
- "Today's News," April 6, 2026: Has Trump finally gone crazy?
- Holy Day livestream with Batya Ungar-Sargon
- Blondi booted, Blanche boosted, Jeffrey smiles
- "Today's News," 4/3/2026: My encounter with Epstein lawyers, "worst podcast" tournament continues
- "Today's News" Live Stream -- 3/30/2026
- Asking Cuban regime change rally-goers in South Florida about Jeffrey Epstein
- "Today's News," March 27, 2026: Sam Harris bashes Michael Tracey, Cuba regime change rally, "Worst Podcaster" March Madness continues
- A date with Destiny
- "Today's News" livestream -- 3/25/2026
- Was MAGA ever really "anti-war"?
- Why is the US at war with Iran right now? With journalist Hooman Majd
- Here’s why I say TRUMP (not Israel) is the primary agent of responsibility for the war in Iran
- "Worst podcast" March Madness tournament with Matt Taibbi
- No war for pedos?
- "Today's News" with Michael Tracey and Matt Taibbi -- 3/16/2026
- New podcast with Matt Taibbi, Episode 1: "Conspiratardation"
- The problem with Tucker
- A slightly worrisome thought
- Another slew of soap opera garbage from "The Majority Report"
- New column by me in the Wall Street Journal: The Epstein ‘Transparency’ Travesty
- Michael Tracey Exposes Epstein Hysteria For What It Is
- Epstein Debate/Discussion with journalist Daniel Boguslaw
- The Epstein Myth Unravels: Why Capitulating to Hysteria Only Fueled Prince Andrew's Downfall
- Prince Andrew has actually been VINDICATED! But instead he's being slimed
- SURPRISE! "The Young Turks" are CLUELESS about Epstein!
- SPECIAL COMMENTARY: My blowout Epstein debate on Piers Morgan
- A selection of insane viral garbage tweets on the "Epstein Files"
- Video discussion: why Chomsky was right about Epstein
- Noam Chomsky Was Right About Epstein
- WOW! More evidence of the government deceiving us about Epstein!
- BREAKING: I found the real "coverup" in the Epstein Files!
- It's raining Epstein Files. Hallelujah
- A note on the ridiculous 2026 "National Defense Strategy"
- The Spellbinding Transformation of Tulsi Gabbard
2025 86
- The Epstein Fiasco Has Been A Complete Nightmare For Civil Liberties
- All I want for Christmas is Epstein
- A discussion with Ian Maxwell, brother of Ghislaine
- Was Jeffrey Epstein a "convicted pedophile"?
- Lawyer for Epstein "victim" threatens to sue me!
- My Letter to Judge Berman re: United States of America v. Jeffrey Epstein
- Why is Trump so fixated on Venezuela?
- Are the Epstein Survivors creating false memories?
- Why are the "Epstein Survivors" refusing to answer questions?
- Live from DC at the Epstein Files bonanza
- Was Epstein an Israeli intelligence agent?
- My encounter with a Rebbe
- Why did Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky love Jeffrey Epstein so much?
- Time to dissect yet another Trump/Epstein "bombshell"
- The Last Big Mystery of the New York City Mayoral Election
- In a New York Minute... Everything Can Change. Things Can Get Pretty Strange
- MT interviews NYC voters on livestream
- The incredibly irritating Zohran/Cuomo endgame
- NYC and NJ election preview
- “The Devil You Know” — Staten Island Voters On Why They Begrudgingly Back Cuomo
- Andrew Cuomo's Fake "Sexual Harassment" Scandal Just Won't Go Away
- REVIEW: "Nobody's Girl" by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
- When Dopey Left-Wing Dreams Clash With Trump's Dopey Sanctions
- We Need To Talk About Virginia
- Asking the New Jersey gubernatorial candidates about Zohran Mamdani, Venezuela, "misinformation," and Epstein
- What is Israel Derangement Syndrome?
- Big Beautiful Birthday Book Bust
- A Note on Trump, Ukraine, and Continued Escalation
- Plagiarism Update — Jessica Reed Kraus
- Charlie Kirk's Christian Revival: A Tremendous Display of Unbridled State Religion
- Charlie Kirk Memorial: Christian Revival Sweeping America?
- My conversation with Gloria Allred
- I went to a Charlie Kirk memorial event
- The Right Finally Gets Their “George Floyd Moment”
- Was Charlie Kirk a "Martyr for Truth"?
- Yes, the killing of Charlie Kirk was heinous. No, he was not a martyred truth-teller
- Plagiarism Alert — Jessica Reed Kraus
- These Professional Epstein "Survivors" Claim They Were "Groomed" as Adults!
- Megyn Kelly and Glenn Greenwald discuss Michael Tracey at the Epstein Press Conference
- Has anyone actually bothered to look into the "victims" who were paraded around at the Epstein Press Conference?
- Live from DC after getting kicked out of Epstein press conference
- Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna’s Bill Would Allow the Government to Continue Concealing “Epstein Files”
- Darryl Cooper Admits to Fabricating a Quote, but then Fabricates a New One — and Other Hilarities
- Darryl Cooper Finally Responds — With Boring Emotional Blackmail
- Where oh where has Darryl Cooper gone?
- Darryl Cooper Has Some Questions To Answer
- I read Ghislaine Maxwell's entire prison interview, and I'm here to enlighten you
- Ghislaine Maxwell Just Drove a Stake Through the Heart of Epstein Mythology
- Dave Smith and the Pedo Panic
- Have You Heard The One About The Israeli Pedophile Who Supposedly Escaped From Las Vegas?
- Was an Israeli pedophile really allowed to flee the United States?
- How much of the Epstein story is just a myth?
- Chris Hedges, Nick Bryant, and the Total Collapse of Journalistic Standards
- The Webb Whitney Weaves
- Whitney Webb Just Makes Stuff Up
- But wait, there's more: Julie K. Brown's growing credibility problem
- Julie K. Brown: Groundbreaking Epstein journalist, or ridiculous myth-peddler?
- It never ends! The latest Trump and Epstein developments
- Here's what happens if you ask trivially basic questions about Epstein, Part 2
- This is what happens if you dare to ask the most gently critical questions about the media and Epstein
- Asking people at the Jersey Shore about Epstein
- The Insane Multitude of Misconceptions About the Epstein Case
- Somehow They Filmed a Movie From Inside My Internet-Addled Brain
- Unraveling the endless Epstein insanity
- What is Steve Bannon hiding about Jeffrey Epstein?
- Yet another emergency Epstein broadcast!
- Surf's Up! It's the Summer of Epstein!
- The "Epstein Files" meltdown continues!
- The Epstein humiliation
- NATO Summit aftermath, with Lily Lynch
- What the German Chancellor's Spokesman Privately Said About Trump at the NATO Summit
- Close Encounters With Trump At The NATO Summit
- Follow Me For Updates From The 2025 NATO Summit
- Trump and the Iran War: perhaps the most openly telegraphed event of all time
- Beating the Drums of War
- My remarks at last night's Trump 2.0 debate
- The "Original Sin" of "Good Night and Good Luck"
- "Liberation Day," Musk face-plants in Wisconsin, Bombing Iran, and more
- War Planning by Groupchat
- Gaza War Back on, and Trump and Putin Speak
- Zelensky's White House meltdown
- LOTS OF NEW MATERIAL FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!
- Why was the US funding LGBT "Pride" marches in Ukraine?
- Why Does Trump Like William McKinley So Much?
- Master Diplomats Biden and Blinken: A Case Study in Professional Class Screwups
- "Jimmy Carter's Jewish Problem"
2024 45
- What I got wrong in 2024: Audio/Video
- What I got wrong in 2024
- An extremely festive reminder
- "The Moment That Defined 2024"?
- Document: Pentagon Knew Weapons Shipments for the Failed Ukraine "Counter-Offensive" Were a Logistical Disaster
- Drones and Mass Hysteria: An Inquest
- Former Al Qaeda Commander Seizes Power in Syria; Washington, DC Cheers!
- Pete Hegseth, a "recovering neocon"?
- Is Donald Trump a "neocon"?
- Voters fed up with foreign entanglements were justifiably repulsed by the Democrats, even if Trump and the Republicans are a sham
- Liberal anguish over Trump was never going to be a sustainable electoral strategy
- Happy Election Day
- Why I won't vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the 2024 election
- Who agrees with Liz Cheney?
- You can watch my first attempt at Substack Live video
- The great RFK Jr. bamboozle of 2024: a brief history
- Trump's "town halls" this week were filled with paid attendees and Republican activists
- Univision's Kamala Harris "town hall" for "undecided Latino Voters" was actually filled with avowed Kamala supporters
- Among the "Hotties for Harris" — Live from the DNC in Chicago
- Top US Military Officials Won't Say Whether the US had Advance Knowledge of Ukraine's Invasion of Russia
- I Have Completed Guest Hosting For Glenn Greenwald
- I'm Guest Hosting Glenn Greenwald's Show
- Kamala Harris Has Shockingly Little "Democratic" Legitimacy
- Republican Convention, Day Three: Divine Intervention
- Republican Convention, Day Two: "America First," if by "America" you mean "Israel"
- Republican Convention, Day One: Biblical Revelations, JD Vance, Israel, Ukraine
- This is very bad
- "Project 2025" is just "Project 1981"
- Gavin Newsom says Joe Biden should have sole authority over the nuclear codes at age 86
- I asked a Democratic Congressman if Biden should be in charge of the Nuclear Codes at age 86. As you might suspect, he really, really didn't want to answer
- Uh, What About The Nuclear Codes?
- Trump Being A "Convicted Felon" Does Not Magically Make Him A Mortal Enemy Of "The Establishment"
- Never Forget That Donald Trump Snookered His Own Voters To Pass Ukraine Funding
- The Eclipse Was Majestic And Has Made Everyone Nicer! What More Could You Want?
- I just went to one of the first legal psilocybin mushroom clinics in the United States
- ZeroHedge debate on Trump
- A brief personal note on pro-war credulity
- The frenzy to ban TikTok is another National Security State scam
- American politicians are "honoring" Navalny by brazenly misrepresenting his views
- The Michigan primary is the best evidence yet that Joe Biden is in trouble
- Inside the mythical NATO-sabotaging version of Trump hallucinated by David Frum
- The idea that Trump will undermine NATO conflicts with everything Trump actually did while he was in office
- Responding to criticisms, and the Senate "national security" bill
- The war in Ukraine is a giant disaster and Putin should not be valorized for it
- Here's the best question to ask Vladimir Putin
2023 1
2022 40
- Newsflash: Republicans Are Largely Faking Their Opposition to Ukraine War “Aid”
- Congressman Can't Answer Simple Question About His Own Bill, So Accuses Me of Working for the Russian Government
- It's Official: "Progressives" Confirm They Are 100% Aggressively Pro-War
- "The US and the Holocaust" Documentary by Ken Burns is "Revisionist History" Designed to Foment Support for Nuclear War
- Yes, Americans Overwhelmingly Opposed US Entry into World War II
- A Fairy Tale Version of World War II is Being Used to Sell the Next World War
- Democrats and Republicans Pretend They Have Massive, Unbridgeable Differences So They Can Unite Seamlessly on War
- "America First" Hawks Admit US Weapons in Ukraine are Plunging Down a "Black Hole"
- Introducing the World's Fakest Journalist
- The Fakery of the NATO Summit, continued: Joe Biden's Fake Press Conference
- The NATO Summit: a Historic, Triumphant Exercise in Media Fakery
- After the Abortion Ruling, How Will the Media Decide Who's Morally Intolerable?
- Surprise! The Texas Shooter and the Ukraine Military Get Their AR-15s From the Same Place
- Nazis Are Actually Fine Now, According to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League
- Why Won't They Say Who Funded These Ukraine Ads?
- Elon Musk Conquers Twitter, and France
- Anatomy of a Bogus “Disinformation” Smear
- Watch Out, Vlad! Here Comes the British Invasion
- The UK is Trying to Drag the US into World War III
- Ukraine War Frenzy Proves: It’s Still John McCain’s GOP
- State Department Secrecy: Sinister, or Pointless? A Brief Parlor Game
- "The Adults in the Room" are Always the Most Colossal Screwups
- The Ukraine Border is Ground Zero for Profiteers and Spooks
- Unfortunately, Displaced Ukrainians are Calling for World War III
- American Foreign Fighter Says He Was Injured In Russian Air Strike
- Why Democrats Demand Collective Punishment Against Russian Civilians
- Poland Asks: Is the US Ready to "Close the Sky"?
- NEW REPORT: US Military Personnel Have Entered a "War Time" Posture
- Ukraine is Trying to Goad the US into World War III
- Note to Readers: I'm Going to Poland
- Escalation Alert: Is NATO Fighting in Ukraine Right Now?
- Why Wouldn’t the US Negotiate With Putin?
- What I Got Wrong About the Invasion of Ukraine
- Newark, NJ Ditched Its “Vaccine Passport” After I Told the Mayor Nobody Was Enforcing It
- “Crazy” US Media Coverage is a Bigger Threat to Ukraine than Russian Invasion, Ukraine Parliament Member Says
- If World War III Happens, You Can Thank Russiagate
- Yep, They're Still Riding the "Omicron" Wave...
- "You Heard It Here First..."
- "Don't Look Up" at the Hollywood Schmucks
- Please Shut The Hell Up About January 6
2021 67
- Happy New Year... Kind Of
- An Extremely Merry Christmas From MT
- Government Officials Using Phony "Emergency Powers" To Impose Vaccine Passports
- COVID "Bullshit Jobs" Are Driving Everyone Crazy, Including TV Crews!
- “Progressive Prosecutors” are Invoking “Terrorism” to Expand State Power and Advance Their Political Ambitions
- How the Biden Family Gets Away With an Enormous Amount of Sleaze
- How AOC "Emotionally Manipulated" The Entire Democratic Party To Do Her Bidding
- Shocker! My Column In Today's New York Daily News
- US Government Kept a Ludicrously Irrational COVID Ban in Place for Months and Months, but Media Bashes the Supposed Irrationality of Private Citizens
- Unprecedented Abuse Of Power: What The Media Still Isn't Telling You About The Cuomo Debacle
- COVID Gives Joe Biden A Permanent Excuse To Stay Hidden
- The Intercept Fabricates A College "Censorship" Story
- Tom Morello: “Fight The Power” By Subscribing To My New York Times Newsletter
- The Fakest "Whistleblower" Ever
- Media Activists Unite In Rage Against The Two People Temporarily Impeding The Democratic Party’s Agenda
- Due Process — And Normal Social Relations — Are Being Destroyed By COVID Snitching Culture
- Academia Is Establishing A Permanent Surveillance Bureaucracy That Will Soon Govern The Rest Of The Country
- In Connecticut, The New "Permanent Emergency" Surveillance Regime Suffers A Temporary Blow
- Lockdown Chronicles: Why I'm Going To Connecticut College
- There's An Insane "Australia-Style" Lockdown Happening Right Now In The US
- Welcome To Hegemonic Decline — It Ain't Pretty
- British Melodrama Over Afghanistan Withdrawal Masks Their Own Impotence And Irrelevance
- In Massive Propaganda Onslaught, Media Ignores The Real "Catastrophe" Of Afghanistan
- Ignore The Fake "Experts" — The Real "Catastrophe" In Afghanistan Was Always The War Itself
- What The Media Hasn’t Told You About The Cuomo Debacle
- Reader Email: "Vaccine Hesitancy" Is A Class Issue
- “DC Guantanamo Bay”? Attorney Alleges Torture Of Jan. 6 Defendants
- Media Promotes Fake “Vaccine Hesitancy” Narrative To Justify Coercion And Scolding
- In Radical Affront To Civil Liberties, The Government Is Branding Non-Violent Jan. 6 Defendants "Terrorists"
- "Misinformation" Means Whatever Those With Censorship Power Want It To Mean
- Democrats And Republicans Unite To Demand US Invasion Of Cuba
- “A Big Money Funneling Operation” — Afghanistan Vet Reflects On Withdrawal Of US Forces
- Political And Media Class Solemnly Commemorates Six Months Of Overwrought Whining About January 6
- Due Process Is What Makes America Great
- Bill Cosby And The Incoherence Of American Liberalism
- A Funny Thing Happens When You Mention Record-Breaking Homicide Rates
- American Politics Is Turning Into A Bad Rerun
- "Fighting The Power" When You Wield State Power: The Story Of Juneteenth
- Jon Stewart, The High Priest Of Cultural Liberalism, Reprimands His Flock
- Kitchen Worker Not Wearing A Mask Properly? The Nuisance COVID Fines That Have Crushed Small Businesses
- When Journalists Declare In Unison That Something Has Been Debunked, Assume The Opposite Is True
- Soliciting Your Story Ideas
- Unsurprisingly, COVID Testing For International Travel Is A Bit Of A Scam
- "What I've Learned" Since The Death Of George Floyd
- Short Respite
- Some Kind Of Heaven
- The Most Ardent Practitioners Of "Identity Politics" Are "Pro-Israel" Advocates
- “America First” Conservatives Declare: “Actually, We Meant Israel First”
- New Documents Show Police Charged Thousands Of People For Petty COVID Violations
- As New Evidence Emerges For COVID "Lab-Leak" Theory, Journalists Who Screamed “Conspiracy” Humiliate Themselves
- CIA Embraces Left-Wing Ideology, Leftists Deny That This Is Happening
- Media Activists Do Not Care About Historic Nationwide Surge In Homicides
- One Year After George Floyd, Minneapolis Is “Murderapolis” Again
- These Robotically Similar Reactions To The Derek Chauvin Verdict Will Inspire You
- Why Media Liberals Have To Lie About “Cancel Culture”
- Biden Blames Russia For The Exact Same “Interference” That US Corporate Media Is Guilty Of
- “Activist” Journalists Have Completely Taken Over The Media Industry
- How To Spot Psychobabble Fads
- Profiles In Journalistic Courage: Marlow Stern of the Daily Beast
- "Traumatized" Journalists Are Now Declaring Themselves A "Marginalized" Group
- Journalists Are “Centering” Their “Trauma” Because It Enables Them To Acquire Power
- Yes, There Is Such Thing As Gender Identity Ideology, And Saying So Is Not "Violence"
- How Boomers Ruined Everything
- How The Censors Won
- Why Journalists Hate Substack
- Officially decamping to Substack-land
- Counter-hegemonic musings
2020 1
2019 26
- The Democratic candidates and foreign policy
- Russiagate redux? Aaron Maté on Ukraine/impeachment
- Why Evangelicals support Trump
- Presidential candidate Joe Sestak on foreign policy mistakes, Joe Biden, and Tulsi Gabbard
- The founder of 8chan on mass shootings and the internet
- Kyle Kulinski on political YouTube and setting up Bernie's interview with Joe Rogan
- Dennis Kucinich on Tulsi Gabbard and the Democratic debates
- Chris Arnade on the dignity of the American underclass
- Trump goes to North Korea, Democrats lash out
- Debate recap from Miami
- Bhaskar Sunkara on socialism, Bernie, and free speech
- Jamie Kilstein on the online culture wars
- Is Tulsi Gabbard a Hindu Nationalist?
- Alan Dershowitz on Mueller and impeachment
- Trump advisor Michael Caputo on being caught in Mueller's crosshairs
- Mike Gravel on his 2020 presidential campaign
- James Bamford on the despicable prosecution of Maria Butina
- Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare on collusion and the media
- Interview with Rob Goldstone, who arranged the infamous Trump Tower meeting in 2016
- Glenn Greenwald on Trump/Russia and media corruption
- Interview with George Papadopoulos
- Michael Tracey Debates Cenk Uygur on the Trump/Russia Debacle
- Looking Back on Russiagate with Aaron Maté
- Matt Taibbi on the Implosion of Russiagate
- Conversation with Jordan Uhl
- Interview with Tulsi Gabbard