Hannah Gais

2 months ago | postsfromunderground.ghost.io | Hannah Gais

I've been recovering from a flu I picked up in Florida for the past several days, and thus failed to subject you all to the usual self-promotional rounds. But I have a new piece out in The Baffler on a real diehard in the MAGA world, Jack Posobiec. I read his book Unhumans, which, despite being co-bylined with a professional ghost writer, had the writing chops of a pile of trash bags baking in the New York City heat in July. I tried to do a really deep dive into its intellectual arguments.

2 months ago | thebaffler.com | Hannah Gais

On an unusually frigid day last month, masses of Donald Trump supporters stood in line outside of Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., watching the inauguration on their phones. From a podium in the Capitol Rotunda, besieged by his followers just over four years ago, Trump promised to upend the status quo. “The scales of justice will be rebalanced,” he said.

Jan 19, 2025 | postsfromunderground.ghost.io | Hannah Gais

It's inauguration weekend in Washington, D.C., and there's a line of black SUVs loitering along 16th Street several blocks away from the White House. I spotted a few stray MAGA-hat-wearing tourists wandering around the mall on Friday as workers set up barricades and bleachers that would soon be pointless decorations. Hours later, Donald Trump announced that he would be moving his swearing in ceremony indoors. Compared to Barack Obama's first inauguration, it's not set to be that cold.

Jan 13, 2025 | postsfromunderground.ghost.io | Hannah Gais

The U.S. government has designated the Terrorgram Collective, a loose-knit network of neo-Nazi channels on Telegram, and three of its overseas affiliates as a terrorist group, citing its ties to the perpetrators of multiple violent attacks and plots.

Nov 6, 2024 | postsfromunderground.ghost.io | Hannah Gais

I woke up this morning after getting four hours of sleep to the smell of cigarettes. For the first time in nearly a decade, I smoked half a pack of Dunhills in a night. When you're a former smoker, it's easy to forget how much the habit stinks — and how, back in the day, you used to just live like this, followed everywhere you go by the stench of stale tobacco. You never truly appreciate it until you quit. In the moment, you're used to following it everywhere you go.