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Have you enjoyed the Great Pedo Referendum of 2026? (As in, the midterms)
If you watch enough brain-warped TV ads and “debate” theatrics, it’s not hard to detect the talking points that have been cannily crafted for both Democrats and Republicans with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, the beloved deceased financier, whose life and times have strangely become the central thematic through-line in our exciting national referendum: call it the Great Pedo Election of 2026.
Spectator Diary: “Am I the most hated man in liberal America?”
This dainty little “diary” — authored by me — appears in the latest print edition of The Spectator magazine. Yes, they have a regular “diary” section, where some contributor is asked to compose a “diary” — usually a bit on the light-hearted side, I gather — about all the hijinks they’ve been up to over the preceding month. (I don’t choose the headlines, FYI!) As luck would have it, I also did the Spectator “diary” for May of this year, I’m pretty sure.
GQ Magazine says I’m a Very Bad Man
Le sigh… another Highly Prestigious Media Outlet has yet again chosen to produce a snide little featurette thing about me. Which would be way too redundant to even bother mentioning at this point — if not for the novel public service I can unfortunately provide by giving bemused, weary insight into how these journalistic negging exercises get formulated.
Am I the most hated man in liberal America?
I’ve had hexes put on me by a university professor, had online vigilantes send packages of dogshit to my childhood home in New Jersey and been hounded by the trauma-informed journalists of the New York Times. CNN, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and other estimable sources have credited me with starting a dark new anti-#MeToo movement. Along the way, I have received tens of thousands of rabidly embittered phone calls, emails and texts.
Michael Tracey on X: "Bizarre situation happening in Ohio where an Oberlin professor and his wife were just found murdered, and the suspect (his son) had to be carried in and out of court like this"
Bizarre situation happening in Ohio where an Oberlin professor and his wife were just found murdered, and the suspect (his son) had to be carried in and out of court like this
“Sex Trafficking” laws are a disgrace to America
Alexander Brothers in Manhattan federal court, October 27, 2026 — sketch by Jane Rosenberg/Reuters Exiting the Manhattan federal courthouse yesterday, I tweeted: I was sleep deprived at the time, so now having recuperated somewhat, here are some expanded thoughts.
Another random podcast with some gay rightoids
I did another random podcast thing on Saturday, having little or no information about what I’d actually agreed to do, but recognizing that the in-house studio thingamajig was only like 20 minutes away from where I live in NJ, so there would be really no reasonable justification for refusing. It turned out to be pleasant enough — I was not sexually assaulted or otherwise harmed.
Letter to the editor of “The Appalachian” newspaper
My genuine sympathies if you find this way too self-involved and/or repetitive by now — but really, what else am I supposed to do? I can’t find a public email address for Christa Price (which is slightly odd for any journalist, but whatever) so had to send the message below to the general “editor” inbox at “The Appalachian” newspaper, which is affiliated with Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
Discussing Women’s Issues on Red Scare podcast
Monday evening I drove straight from Ithaca, NY to the Red Scare flophouse, to give the ladies an urgent update on all the latest Women’s Issues that have dramatically taken the Nation by storm: Cornell, Gang Rape, Epstein, Lindsay Clancy, and so on. A splendid time was had by all. The ladies have placed this episode behind their paywall, but graciously agreed that I could also make it available to my own paid subscribers — a kind of cross-pollinating reproduction exercise, if you will.
New footage shows a carnival of stupidity, hysteria, and rank defamation at Cornell
Cornell administrators belatedly put out audio and video of its October 14, 2026 meeting of the Faculty Senate, which readers may recall I tried to attend in person, but was relegated to milling around the perimeter with a gaggle of other mediocre journalists, as we waited for professors to come out and enlighten us about what went on. Well, to absolutely no one’s shock, it turns out the actual meeting was a carnival of preposterous defamation and hysteria.
Letter to the Editor of the “Ithaca Voice”
After I was swarmed by an Angry Mob earlier this week at a “Justice for Jane Doe” rally in Ithaca, NY, the scant local media on hand did its thing: produce quick hit news-style reports that characterized the events with maximum uncharitability toward me, and maximum ideological deference and/or credulity toward the “organizers.” This is nothing new, of …
Cornell Community Members Give Their Gang Rape Takes
Below is a compilation of the impromptu interviews/exchanges I had this week on the campus of Cornell, mostly with an assortment of professors who staggered out of the “critically important” Faculty Senate meeting on Wednesday, where they’d debated whether to oust the University President for his perceived failings in dealing with the Jane Doe Gang Rape crisis.
Talking to Cornell Professors about Gang Rape
Nerissa Russell, professor of anthropology at Cornell, emerges from the Faculty Senate meeting on October 14, 2026, where a motion of No Confidence in the University President was debated.
Talking to Cornell Professors about Gang Rape
Nerissa Russell, professor of anthropology at Cornell, emerges from the Faculty Senate meeting on October 14, 2026, where a motion of No Confidence in the University President was debated.
Compilation of “I am Jane Doe” phone calls
Below is a compilation of “I am Jane Doe” phone calls I’ve received over the past week and a half. It’s only a relatively small percentage, as I haven’t always been in a position where I’ve been able to record. (No one needs to lecture me about New Jersey’s “one-party consent” laws, I’m very familiar.) Calls which I did not record include a handful of guys in their 20s who wanted to just neutrally chit-chat about stuff — not even really specifically about the Jane Doe controversy.
Mr Tracey Goes to Ithaca
Having heard that the mayor of the city was proposing suspending permits for Cornell events to protect locals from hordes of Ivy League rapists, Michael Tracey went to Ithaca to personally call on him to resign. You can watch what happened and read about the adventure here. Michael joins me to stream directly from the Cornell campus. We talk about the media freakout he has inspired, and I question him on whether he’s being recognized as he goes about his business.
Live from Ithaca
Make sure to skip the first little portion with only Richard, I did not sanction that. Sorry if the video quality is not great, I’m on public Wifi at the moment. Perfect weather right now in Ithaca, so that’s something. Here’s a quick little pic from where I’m currently seated: Everyone around me seems to be behaving normally. Which is odd because I thou…
My visit to Ithaca, NY to discuss Gang Rape
Amusing screengrab courtesy of the Daily Mail A local guy in Ithaca, NY messaged me on Signal a few days ago asking if I would please attend last night’s meeting of the Ithaca Common Council, which is Ithaca’s municipal governance body. I would not have known about this meeting otherwise. I agreed and drove the four hours yesterday from NJ to Ithaca.
Michael Tracey on X: "Jane Doe lawyer Thomas Giuffra was already notorious for not doing basic due diligence to check stuff in his sensational rape-alleging lawsuits. Now he's got a random Marine he tried to serve, because he happens to have the same name
Jane Doe lawyer Thomas Giuffra was already notorious for not doing basic due diligence to check stuff in his sensational rape-alleging lawsuits. Now he's got a random Marine he tried to serve, because he happens to have the same name as a defendant, begging the Court for relief Roving journalist, friend to all dogs [email protected] / Signal: mtracey.57 Jane Doe lawyer Thomas Giuffra was already notorious for not doing basic due diligence to check stuff in his sensational rape-alleging lawsuits.
Try unrolling a thread yourself!
NY Post claimed to "exclusively" report that the University of Utah is the most rape-plagued campus in the USA, but failed to note that 81% of these purported rape reports were made by a single "survivor/victim" who reported being "raped by their intimate partner" 260 times • • • Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
Did I accidentally spark the “New #MeToo Movement”?
Well, that’s what various media organs have been proclaiming in recent days. Hilariously. So I guess I’ll take CNN, NYT, AFP, Reuters, and the German national broadcaster’s word for it, and hereby take credit for launching the New #MeToo Movement: #IamJaneDoe. Even though I prefer to call it the #ZombieEpstein Movement. I apparently sparked this historic movement by doing what else — Tweeting.
Note on Jane Doe
After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced. It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end.
Breaking News: Jane Doe has been named
It’s Lucy H. Craig of Birmingham, Alabama. Don’t blame me — the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well. More to come. Share
Troll me about “Jane Doe,” please — not others
Well, I’m apparently the big trending topic right now on TikTok, over my interest in reporting on the Cornell “Jane Doe” and her sleazy profit-seeking lawyers.
Celebrities Rally Behind Cornell Victim Facing Doxxing Threat
AOL.comupdated 15m agofirst covered Oct 1, 6:15 AM ET Read the original ↗ A Cornell University victim is receiving an outpouring of support from celebrities and the online community after facing a doxxing threat from Michael Tracey. The solidarity movement, captured under the powerful rallying cry "We are Jane Doe," shows just how seriously the entertainment world is taking online harassment and privacy violations.
Gloria Steinem and the Satanic Panic
The peak of Gloria Steinem’s influence was before my time. I knew that she was a famous feminist but little else. As it turns out, as Michael Tracey taught me in his article upon her death (see also part II), she was a crazy person who was an important figure in the Satanic sex abuse mass hysteria of the 1980s and early 1990s. Steinem also popularized the idea of multiple personalities. This has all gone unmentioned in the tributes that have come out since her death.
Response to the world’s toughest man, Matt Walsh, on Lindsay Clancy
Yeah, I realize I’m at fault for allowing myself to get baited into this. Oh well: 1. 2. DEAR SIR: I can understand why the concept of “dispassionate” reasoning would seem totally worthless to you. After all, you’re pretty much just a sentient bundle of crude, primal emotions — vengeance, disgust, rage, etc. — which you then pump out onto the internet, hot and raw, in the form of putative political opinions.
Remove these foul creatures from public office immediately
Plymouth County, Mass. Assistant District Attorneys Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham The prosecutors of Lindsay Clancy argued in an October 26, 2023 arraignment hearing that she “did not feel love or connection” toward one or more of her children — aged five, three, and eight months. They repeated this characterization of Lindsay’s unthinkable callousness all the way up to the start of her trial last month.
DEAR FELLOW MEN: You’re making us all look like emotionally-stunted meatheads over this Lindsay Clancy thing
If you only watch or listen to one thing from the ongoing Lindsay Clancy trial, which has now enraptured the entire internet, I strongly recommend making it this: Dr. Phillip Resnick is probably the nation’s leading forensic psychiatrist expert on “filicide” — the killing of a child by their own parent. It’s an extremely rare phenomenon, but one that does occur often enough that somebody’s gotta be an expert on it. (I don’t use the term “expert” flippantly, either.
Can Everyone Stop Being a Complete Moron About the Max Miller Situation?
L-R: Emily Moreno, Max Miller, Bernie Moreno, Donald J. Trump Max Miller, now widely referred to as the “embattled” Republican Congressman from Ohio — since he’s been facing a crush of calls to terminate his 2026 re-election campaign and/or resign from office entirely — was supposed to be appearing at a rally today, August 10, in Strongsville, OH.
Censured for Simping?
Michael joined me today to talk about two Congressional scandals recently in the news: the Chuck Edwards censure, and the abuse allegations being made against Congressman Max Miller by his former wife and former father-in-law, who happens to be Senator Bernie Moreno. I thought the case against Miller looked really bad, but Michael shifted my views on it.
A 'grooming' crisis at the ICC The Karim Khan affair exposes the farce of 'international law'
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has been accused of “adult grooming,” leading to his resignation. Credit: Getty Adult grooming scandalinternational criminal courtinternational lawIsraelKarim KhanMarco RubioSarah HishanThe HagueUkraine Prefer us on Google There is a good case to be made that “international law,” as it presently exists, is a tangled mess of conceptual nothingness.
Debating Housing and More with Steve Hilton
Steve Hilton is one of the two candidates who made it to the runoff in the California gubernatorial election this year. He was in San Diego and kindly agreed to sit down for an interview about his campaign, with Michael Tracey joining us remotely. We start by arguing about housing. Beyond all the back-and-forth, we uncovered a real philosophical difference.
Lindsey Graham Was The Most Effective Political Operator Of The Past Decade
Benjamin Netanyahu reminisced today that when Congress was deliberating the size of a pending Israel appropriations package, Lindsey Graham would often astonish him by “outbidding the Prime Minister of Israel” — that is, by demanding an even larger pro-Israel sum than Netanyahu himself had the temerity to ask for. “I’m not getting a single vote in South Carolina for that,” Graham explained, according to Netanyahu.
Forget "MeToo" -- we're in the "Zombie Epstein" era
In light of recent events, a lot of people have asked me to opine on what stage of “MeToo” we must currently be in. Sorry to quibble, but I think the premise of the question is off — it’s been nearly a decade since “peak MeToo,” which should be considered its own distinct era at this point, and one that occurred in the past. It would shortchange all that is peculiar to 2026 to label it merely an extension of 2017.
One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime
Graham Platner hostage video — July 6, 2026 Graham Platner has been knifed in brutally expedited fashion, and a conclave of Democratic Party officials is already preparing to hand-pick his replacement, through an as-yet-unknown process that will mercifully bypass any inconvenient input from Maine primary voters, who had already voted for Platner in overwhelming fashion on June 9.
Hanania & Tracey Reading Communion, by JD Vance
Michael Tracey told me that he was reading JD Vance’s Communion, so I thought I would also check it out and we’d do a podcast on the book. I was actually sick of thinking about JD Vance and wasn’t planning on reading it, but decided to give it a try. I was nudged by our mutual publisher sending me a copy, though I ended up listening to it on Audible. I’ve written a review that I will publish later this week, but for now enjoy this podcast, where I preview some of the arguments I will make.
“Sex Trafficking” Laws Are Out Of Control
The new reason why January is everyone’s favorite month When Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, it was hailed as a monumental step forward in the critical fight against “modern-day slavery.” And who could possibly be against fighting slavery?
Amy Coney Barrett enrages bitter partisans by once again issuing another perfectly sensible opinion
Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion today as to the permissibility of States counting ballots that are received after Election Day is perfectly reasonable, and well-reasoned. The issue before the Court was a relatively narrow one: whether Mississippi state law, which permits counting ballots “postmarked by Election Day, but received up to five days later” is in violation of federal election law.
How Podcasts Ruined America
I was just speculating for a podcast. I had no personal information. I was just speculating for a podcast.” This was the testimony of Howard Lutnick, the sitting Secretary of Commerce, to the House Oversight Committee on May 6, 2026. For Lutnick, the word “podcast” seems to describe a media format in which aimless speculation is both expected and encouraged.
The hollow ‘accusation’ campaign targeting Graham Platner Whatever happened to evidence?
Vague, unverified claims of toxicity are lodged against the Maine Senate Democratic nominee. 2026 midtermsEpstein filesGraham PlatnerKatie GlueckLisa LererLyndsey FifieldmaineNew York Timespresident trumpSenate RaceSusan Collins Graham Platner’s campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine can come across as pretty rote — mostly just reheated Bernie Sanders mantras. It’s hardly surprising that many in the Maine Democratic electorate would be receptive to such messaging.
Thomas Massie Deserves To Lose
It’s hard to imagine anything more blatantly disqualifying for an elected official than to falsely accuse random citizens of heinous child sex crimes, then once the citizens you’ve accused are confirmed totally innocent, not even have the decency to apologize — and instead blame others for your spectacularly egregious behavior. But that’s exactly what Thomas Massie has done for the past three months.
FULL PANEL: Should we abolish all podcasts? Featuring Michael Tracey, Bret Weinstein, Lauren Southern
As I briefly mentioned yesterday, this panel was a real hoot. For context, it took place May 14 in Vancouver, Canada, at something called the “Web Summit,” which I was semi-inexplicably invited to attend. For much of the “summit,” I had to resist letting my eyes glaze over as various participants explained their AI startup to me.
How a crazy “Jane Doe” scam exposes the fraud at the heart of the “Epstein Survivor” machine
Clockwise: Amy Duffey, Kristy Makuta, Alissa Wimmer, Jeanne Christensen Often it will be suggested that to express misgivings about the defamatory maelstrom of Epstein hysteria, one must be suspiciously concerned with the reputational interests of “powerful elites.” Because even if certain “elites” might get wrongly impugned as child-sex criminals from time to time — what’s the big deal? They have plenty of power, money, and connections to comfortably withstand this minor inconvenience.
Meet the "Jane Doe" caught fabricating evidence, in one of the craziest Epstein scams you'll ever see
Meet Kristy Makuta, also known as Ahava Leah Duffey-Marco, and also known as other variations of that alias. Her date of birth is 7/5/1985. She currently resides in Haymarket, VA, along with her purported “adoptive mother,” Amy Duffey, who is purported to have “adopted” Kristy as an adult in 2022, when Kristy would’ve been 36 or 37 years old. Amy is approximately nine years older than Kristy. Kristy Makuta is many things.
Should we throw people in prison for Russiagate?
Trump and Putin amicably ‘Russiagating’ in July 2018 Not to belabor the point, but on the matter of potential Russiagate prosecutions, here’s something I should’ve mentioned in my unplanned debate yesterday with Matt Taibbi: my general position is that “Russiagate,” broadly construed, is best understood circa 2026 as an unresolved political problem — and one that can now be said to have occurred in the somewhat distant historical past (OK, the relatively recent past).
Should we throw people in prison for Russiagate?
Trump and Putin amicably ‘Russiagating’ in July 2018 Not to belabor the point, but on the matter of potential Russiagate prosecutions, here’s something I should’ve mentioned in my unplanned debate yesterday with Matt Taibbi: my general position is that “Russiagate,” broadly construed, is best understood circa 2026 as an unresolved political problem — and one that can now be said to have occurred in the somewhat distant historical past (OK, the relatively recent past).
"Today's News" 05/01/26: James Comey’s Latest Indictment Turns Into a Debate Over Prosecuting Russiagate
Illustration by Daniel Medina Both Matt and Michael agree that the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over his “8647” Instagram post is a weak case. The conversation then takes an unexpected and somewhat heated turn, shifting into a debate over prosecuting Russiagate and the role of the criminal justice system.
"Today's News" Livestream: The Rumble in the Substack News Jungle
Matt, Michael, and guest Justin Robert Young of “Politics Politics Politics” discuss Michael’s run-in with Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown — and Jim Acosta’s suggestion that he and Michael “step outside.” They also discuss the false media narratives included in the manifesto left by Cole Tomas Allen, the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Racket News is a reader-supported publication.
"Today's News" 04/24/26: The Case Against the SPLC, and the Obsession With Demons
Welcome to Today’s News, the new Racket podcast with Michael Tracey and me. It’s a current events show, where we talk about everything from the war in Iran to sports to our favorite snack foods. Welcome to Today’s News, the new Racket podcast with Michael Tracey and me. It’s a current events show, where we talk about everything from the war in Iran to sports to our favorite snack foods.
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