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This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss leaks at the New York Times and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. NYT: “‘Screams WIthout Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7”NYT: “U.N. to Study Reports of Sexual Violence in Israel During Oct. 7 Attack”The Intercept: “New York Times Holds “Daily” Episode… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by novelist, poet, and critic Leigh Stein to discuss scandals in the worlds of sci-fi fantasy and poetry. Leigh Stein: Self-CareHugo Awards voting processLA Times: “How did ‘Space Raptor Butt Invasion’ by Chuck Tingle become a Hugo finalist?”Esquire: “Hugo Awards 2024: Inside the Censorship Scandal That Rocked Sci-Fi and Fantasy's Biggest Awards”File 770: “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”File 770: “Zimozi Natsuco Guest Post: The Hugo Awards’ Evil Fall is a Watered-Down Affair, and Certain Issues To Watch Out For”https://www.moonslake.com/Alex Reisner on AI and booksLillian-Yvonne Bertram: A BLACK STORY MAY CONTAIN SENSITIVE CONTENT To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

In this very special Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Aella’s very happy birthday party and the self-immolation of an American GI. “U.S. Airman’s Winding Path Ended in Self-Immolation to Protest Israel”Aaron Bushnell’s RedditShadi Hamid: “How can one suicide protest be heroic and another crazy?”Jesse: “Awareness is Overrated” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Mike Pesca to discuss California's failed experiment with Woke Kindegarten and the resulting school board battle. Plus, Sandwichgate. https://www.mikepesca.com/https://www.mikepesca.com/thegistAdam Rubenstein: “I Was a Heretic at the New York Times”James Bennet: “When the New York Times lost its way”… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Robert Moses’s allegedly racist monkeys in New York. Plus, Bret Weinstein has some thoughts. Katie: “After Evergreen” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

In this emergency broadcast, Brad Polumbo joins Katie to discuss the collab no one asked for: Taylor Lorenz and Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Richik. To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist and commentator Brad Polumbo to discuss the latest allegations against Libs of TikTok. Plus, an intersectional pile-up featuring non-binary influencer Jeffrey Marsh and Muslim comic Shumirun Nessa. https://twitter.com/brad_polumbohttps://www.instagram.com/bradpolumbo/?hl=enDamage Control“Anti-Trans Policies Draw Scrutiny After 16-Year-Old’s Death in Oklahoma”“Libs of TikTok under fire after nonbinary Oklahoma student's death”“Lawmaker accuses education board and Libs of TikTok of having blood on their hands over Nex Benedict death”“Family member shares messages sent by 16-year-old Owasso student day before death”“No, There’s No ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

As a bonus to BARPod listeners, here’s the audio of a February 20 live event at the Village Underground where Jesse interviewed Rob Henderson about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, which you should definitely buy. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by fan favorite Helen Lewis to discuss a schism in the British gender critical movment. Plus, goblin porn. https://www.theatlantic.com/author/helen-lewis/https://twitter.com/helenlewishttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlewis.bsky.social“Why it’s ok for boys to play with dolls”Posie Parker: “John Lewis and the dreadful little emperors”Janice Turner: “Debbie Hayton: the trans woman taking on the trans activists” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Larry David’s actual literal abuse of a human child. Plus, Emily Gould has regrets, WHYY forces a black rapper out for using the n-word (“ninja”), a very gray weed market, inconvenient hate crimes, and more. “Surveillance shows vandals who wrote racial slur on cars at Providence College”“Police… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Suzy Weiss to discuss the movement to save a black family from eviction in Portland, Oregon. Plus, dating while problematic, the spread of polyamory, and Suzy makes an argument in favor of good old fashioned cheating.https://twitter.com/SnoozyWeissTyler Austin Harper: “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad”OPB: “A racist history shows why Oregon is still so white”Willamette Week: “Armed Activists Seized Three Blocks of a North Portland Residential Neighborhood. Here’s What It Was Like Inside the Encampment.”The Oregonian: “Portland family’s path to ‘red house’ foreclosure was long, filled with bizarre twists”OPB: “Editors’ note: On the Red House, we got one wrong”The Oregonian: “Sovereign citizen ideology embraced by Kinney son, mother in ‘red house’ legal fight: ‘This case is a political case’” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, man’s best friend Tracing Woodgrains joins Jesse to discuss a strange case of government DEI gone wrong. Plus, personals are back, baby, and did Elon kill cancel culture? https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrainshttps://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/175… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by longtime radio and podcast producer Andy Mills to discuss the scandal that nearly killed his career. The DailyCaliphateThe Witch Trials of JK Rowling NYT: “New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards”NYT: “Two Journalists Exit New York Times After Criticism of Past Behavior”A Note from RadiolabThe Daily: “Delilah” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the attempted cancelation of Canadaland publisher and host Jesse Brown over allegations that he’s a genocidal monster. Plus, news from the very online state of Oklahoma, Dear Prudence revisits the past, and a podcast announcement. (Update, 1/28/2024: At around 59:56 in the original version of this episode published for premium subscribers, in a brief digression that touched upon violent hate crimes linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict in the United States rather than Canada, we mentioned the Palestinians shot in Vermont. As it turns out, at the moment there’s little evidence to support the idea that this was a hate crime; the alleged perpetrator seemed to struggle with mental illness, had a violent past, and his politics were all over the place, including, based on his social media posts, sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Since the segment in question was about Canada rather than the U.S. anyway, we’ve simply snipped the whole brief mention out, and the free version of the episode won’t contain it. -Jesse)The Oklahoman: “Oklahoma bill would require 'furries' be picked up from school by parents, animal control”Rep. Justin Humphrey on the furry problemPrudie on PrudieToronto Star: “Journalist Jesse Brown is quick to expose the failures of Canadian media. But what about his own?”Jesse Brown: “The time I “faked” a CBC scene”Mark Bourrie: “Jesse Brown and Canadaland should be removed from the NewsMedia Council”Canadaland: “Duffy, as Senator, Paid Journalists”Mark Bourrie respondsJesse Brown’s TwitterCanadaland: “Jessica Yaniv, Transphobic Fever Dream.”Canadaland: “Is Jesse a Zionist?”Canadaland: “Burning Down the Jewish Deli is not Kosher”Canadaland statementCanadaland Union statementNOTE: After this episode went out for Primos, Jesse Brown requested we clarify that the pilot in which he fabricated a scene for the CBC was never published (it was killed after he told the executive producer about the re-creation, as he explained in an interview). He also requested that we update the episode with additional context about Mark Bourrie, who Jesse claims has a personal vendetta against him because Canadaland published allegations that Bourrie took money from embattled politician MIke Duffy. (You can read Canadaland’s piece here and Bourrie’s response here.) The episode has been updated and I apologize to Jesse and the listeners for missing that context. KH To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a particularly ambitious crossover between leftist streamer Hasan “Nepo Nephew” Piker and alleged Houthi pirate and/or terrorism-tourist and/or freedom fighter Rashid Al Haddad aka Timhouthi Chalamet.… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the case of Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and technologist attempting to live forever who was recently sued by his former girlfriend for being a giant prick (and not in a good way). Plus, aphantasia, polyamory, and Jesse complains some more that Substack doesn’t have enough Nazis. MartyrMade: “God’s Socialist: The Rise and Fall of Peoples Temple”MartyrMade: “Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem”Bryan Johnson’s statement Vanity Fair: “Bryan Johnson’s Antiaging Quest Has Made Headlines. But There’s More to His Story”Trace’s threadBryan’s response This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a recent article by former New York Times editor James Bennet on the infamous 2020 Tom Cotton column that got Bennet fired. Plus, toilets. Tom Cotton: “Send In the Troops”James Bennet: “When the New York Times lost its way”BARPod episode 13: The Be… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie dig into allegations that Substack is sheltering Nazis like so many Jews in an attic. Plus, world’s best/worst Wife Guy Bill Ackman continues to post. To support the show: become a Primo subscriber and get three extra episodes a month and more. Jonathan Katz: “Substack Has a Nazi Problem”https://substack.com/contentPatrick Casey archiveSubstackers Against Nazis open letterSubstack Shouldn’t Decide What We Read open letter To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the ongoing saga of Claudine Gay, the scholar, plagiarist, and former president of Harvard University. Plus, updates. Scientific American: “The Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and Inaccurate”https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/how-the-unitarian-universalist-churchKate Rohde: “The Ideological Takeover of the Church I loved”https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-118-every-podcaster-is-bihttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-172Philly Mag: “WHYY Ordered to Give Fired Comedian Jad Sleiman His Job Back”WaPo: “The plagiarism allegations against ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay, explained”Washington Free Beacon: “'This is Definitely Plagiarism': Harvard University President Claudine Gay Copied Entire Paragraphs From Others’ Academic Work and Claimed Them as Her Own”https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1737209215738069232?s=20https://nitter.net/drvolts/status/1742296213628788970 To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss an evergreen debate on the internet: surrogacy. Julie Bindel: “The Pimping of Pregnancy”Julie Bindel: “Surrogacy Stories”Julie Bindel: “End Womb Trafficking” “The Conservative, Pro-Life Case Against Surrogacy”“I… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Returning champion Helen Lewis is back with our traditional Christmas quiz about the dumbest online events of the year. Plus: the Satanic Temple goes nuts. “A Satanic Rebellion: Social justice collides with the Satanic Temple.”“The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat”“How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-obsessed State Fall For An Authoritarian Governor?”https://www.theatlantic.com/author/helen-lewis/twitter.com/HelenLewisThe quiz (answers here)* In January, kickboxer Andrew Tate started an online beef with climate change elf Greta Thunberg. On what email address did she suggest that he contact her to tell her more about his 33 cars, including a Bugatti? * [email protected] * [email protected] * [email protected] * [email protected]* From which Covid-cautious journalist’s book on online life is this a real quote? “Building on the Digitour experiment, Magcon had reset the equation.” * Susan Meachem wrote books including “Losing Him and Finding You,” “Chance Encounter,” and “Finding Faith.” Then what did she do for two years? * Jack Monroe’s cookbook, Thrifty Kitchen, was branded dangerous because it suggested various questionable kitchen hacks. Which of these is NOT one of her suggestions:* Glue a ring-pull to your handbag to secure your sunglasses * Using the fluff from your navel to make firelighters * using a frozen glass bottles filled with water as a rolling pin* Using a large clean square of cotton to drain rice and pasta* In 2021, Bennett Madison claimed to have written two dozen fake letters to Slate’s Dear Prudence advice column, written by Daniel Lavery. Which is NOT one of the letters Bennett claimed to have written?* Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts* I Wonder If My Wife Likes Her Girlfriend More Than She Likes Me* My Mother Is Trying To Convince the Guests At My Gay Wedding To Come Dressed As Disney Characters* Help! My Husband Won’t Remove His Mask, Even For Sex!* WHO AM I? I graduated from Kansas State University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering and vocal music. I claim to have been subjected to conversion therapy as a child. I enjoyed brightly coloured clothing, sometimes of African origin. * How much money was conservative personality Steven Crowder offered by the Daily Wire, an amount he described as a “slave contract”? * In March, Jordan Peterson posted a clip with the caption: “Such fun in unbelievable techno-nightmare CCP hell.” What did it actually show? * On Dylan Mulvaney’s 75th day of girlhood, she described her journey of adventure finding out about tampons. What topical phrase did she use to refer to a vagina? * To which of your rival podcast hosts did Spotify’s Bill Simmons refer to this year as “f*****g grifters”?* Thanks to a lawsuit, who was revealed this year to have texted a colleague about a video of a protester getting beaten up, saying: “It’s not how white men fight.” * Which fox-bothering legal eagle told a journalist this year: “I identify with the great protesters in history, people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King.” * “I’m done, I’m dead, you don’t understand, I do it to blow off steam,” a Penn State professor told cops in June this year after being arrested for bestiality with his dog. What breed was the dog? * What is the name of the magazine I used to work for, which ran competing articles on “what is a woman,” which you pronounced wrong in your episode on the subject?* Everyone was welcome at the Pink Peacock, a “a queer, yiddish, anarchist café & infoshop in glasgow’s southside” except two groups of people. Who were they? * In 2009, under the pen name Richard Hoste, who wrote the following in the comments section of a blog: “What is interesting to me is whether there are a lot of high IQ people who simply CAN’T do manual labor. “As a teenager I tried working at a pizza place and MacDonalds [sic]. I was the worst employee there. I actually felt sympathy for low IQ kids, knowing that this is what they must’ve felt like in school.” * What did the same pundit describe this year as the “trans of traffic”? * In the glorious socialist future, what did leftie Malcolm Harris say would not be available to people in Columbus, Ohio? * Here are four redacted tweets about a popular internet personality. To whom are they referring? You get more points the quicker you guess the right answer, starting at four points and dropping to one.* “I have a theory that X scratches the same “my favorite bloviator” itch for a certain type of resistance liberal culture warrior as Rush Limbaugh did for a certain type of perpetually-affronted conservative”. * “The only person I know blocks me is X and I only know that because he uses a burner account to check my tweets and complain about them and then when his idiot followers start tweeting at me I can’t see the original thread (until I go into my burner account lol)”. * “the biggest thing I learned from this episode is

This week on the premium edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest YA blow-up, this one involving racism(?), review bombing, and an evil Star Wars stan who was just trying to be a good friend. PushupsKat Rosenfield: “The Toxic Drama of YA Twitter”Kat Rosenfield: “Twitter Forces a Rising Star to Self-Cancel” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss allegations of Literal Murder against perpetual Twitter villain Bari Weiss. Plus, the Zei Squirrel vs Destiny origin story. Refaat Alareer: “My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’”NYT: “In Gaza, a Contentious Palestinian Professor Calmly Teaches Israeli Poetry”EuroMed: “Israeli Strike on Refaat al-Areer Apparently Deliberate”Drew Pavlou on Alareer’s tweets: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1733107027013210553.htmlHaaretz on false claims undermining true claims: https://archive.is/nqIHM#selection-5725.0-5733.396Jesse on Monica Foy: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/victim-of-a-scary-web-shaming-speaks-out.htmlBBC on Alareer’s death: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67656787Ryan Grim on progressive infighting: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/ To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the premium edition of Blocked and Reported, a gay bar in Chicago unionizes and the saga of the Bad Art Friend concludes. To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To get our very popular merch, shop here.The Nation: “Chicago’s Labor Movement Is Looking Very Queer These Days”… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the recent Congressional hearings on antisemitism and free speech on campus. Plus, NaNoWriMo updates (sorry). To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To get our very popular merch, shop here.Jonathan Chait: “The College Presidents Were Right About Campus Antisemitism”NYT: “College Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism”“FIRE to Congress, university presidents: Don’t expand censorship. End it.”Jesse cosplays as an Ivy president: Representative Stefanik, our conduct codes attempt to balance free speech, which is an important value to our university, with the safety and well-being of students. Because of this balance, which can be tricky, there might be instances in which truly grotesque statements — statements that I, as the president of the university, denounce unequivocally — fall beyond the scope of what we can punish. In certain instances, yes, that could even include calls for genocide. Our conduct codes are written in a manner in which a student or student group could be punished for these statements if they targeted individual students or student groups in a pervasive manner, or if they constituted a true threat or incitement to violence, but it really is context dependent. I know that’s an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s the only answer I can give you as a representative of my university. As an individual, of course I find calls for genocide against any group, and particular a group like Jews that have faced genocide in recent history, unbelievably offensive. But that’s a different question from what powers I have to punish these statements without running afoul of our own conduct code, which could lead to legal trouble for my university.Shadi Hamid thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1732419156828463382.htmlLee Kovarsky, UTexas law prof, thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1732423346380521593.html To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Calla Walsh, a young activist who got her start stumping for establishment Democrat Ed Markey before pivoting to a career as a freedom fighter. Plus, Communist heir Fergie Chambers. To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss an ongoing diaper-loving drama within the NaNoWriMo fandom (starts at 21:45). Plus, a Deadspin writer and Portland anarchists find themselves in the s**t. Also: Jesse turns 40 and has a wild story about eggplant parmesan that really captures the onset of middle age.To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To get our very popular merch, shop here.WaPo: “Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy”Deadspin: “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress”NaNoWriMo Forums https://cinnamonfridge.tumblr.com/https://twitter.com/Arumi_kai/status/1722007756058574916https://speak-out.carrd.co/https://nanowrimo.org/board-response This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the long-anticipated cancellation of Ireland’s most aggravating export since U2: Paddy Cosgrave. Plus, your letters. To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here. “Is Paddy Cosgrave the biggest w****r in Ir… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Andrea James, the stochastic terrorist trans activist with a website and a grudge. Plus, gay furry hackers target a nuclear lab and Saira Rao gets canceled. Jesse’s fifth-grade yearbook page:And in cake form:Engadget: “Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear” labJesse: “The rage behind Transgender Map”Alice Dreger: Galileo’s Middle FingerAlice Dreger: “The controversy surrounding The man who would be Queen: A case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age”Benedict Carey: “Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege”Jesse: “When Children Say They’re Trans”Axios: “Exclusive: Using data to track transphobia in media”Kickstarter: “This Is What Transphobia in the Media Looks Like”Journalism.co.uk: “Transphobia Project uses data visualisation to zoom in on outlets that spread biased transgender content”Nieman Lab: “The Transphobia Project uses data visualization to “zoom in on outlets that spread biased transgender content”Google: December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google SearchGoogle: A new tool to disavow linksSuper specific information about the image we used: We got the photo of Andrea James from her Wikipedia page. The image includes the following “Permission details” (screenshot below): This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page.The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by a Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2016051210001768.If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the VRT noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2016051210001768On the off chance this becomes an issue, it could not be clearer that Andrea James has given permission for this photo to “be used by anyone for any purpose.” Under Creative Commons, according to the image page, we “must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.” We are following all those requirements: credit goes to Andrea James, a link to the license is contained in this language quoted directly from the photo’s page — “This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license” (click the link and you’ll see that commercial use is explicitly allowed) — and no changes were made, with the possible exception of the photo getting cropped by Substack for the web preview. And obviously we have no reason to believe the licensor endorses us or our use of this image. Thank you, and God bless. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the furor over a self-described autogynephile who wore a dress to a gender conference. Also, Zoomers discover 9/11. To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Nat Geo: “‘The perfect revenge'? Birds are building fortresses from anti-bird spikes”Yashar with some breaking 9/11 newsTablet: “The Franklin Prophecy”Osama bin Laden’s Letter to AmericaAlice Dreger: “Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice”Genspect: The SplitPhil sent Jesse the following as part of a longer email, which we’re going to include for completion’s sake:Good-Vibe CertificationI'm not surprised that you and others felt no weird vibes from me, as even hardened GCs who have prejudice toward autogynephilic males also agreed that my vibes were fine. In addition to your three examples, I also submit five more:From Heather Heying's piece about this:The night before the conference began, many of us were in the vicinity of the hotel bar, and I saw a man walking around in a dress. I would later learn that this was Phil. I did a double-take. I asked the woman sitting next to me—am I seeing this correctly? She looked, nodded. Yep. I was unnerved. What did I not know? Did this person believe himself to be a woman, or not? Why did the answer to that question matter to me?The next night Phil approached my table, offered me a copy of his book, which I accepted, and we talked for a bit. I came away with some answers and intuitions: No, he does not think that he is actually a woman. And no, he does not seem like a creep. None of my hackles were raised. I detected no malice, no glint in the eye, no smirk, outer or inner, that he was having one over on all of us. Of course I could be wrong about these things, as anyone’s intuition can mislead them. One of the despicable truths about gender ideology is that women are being told to stop trusting the very intuitions that we have always relied on, when walking alone, when entering a bathroom or a locker room or a parking garage, when approached by a person we do not know. It is not bigoted to cross the street if you feel a tingle at the base of your skull as you see a man approaching you. It is smart. I have traveled far and wide, often exploring places alone that women are expected not to explore alone, and I have honed my intuition, although I am well aware that I can and do make mistakes. Nothing about Phil alarmed me.Lisa Jones, who I talked with a while one of the nights, officially awarded me zero points on a 10-point scale of creepiness:Now, some people online are accusing Phil of being a creepy AGP because he wore dresses at Genspect.On the AGP creepiness scale, I award my doorstep AGP five out of ten stars for moderate creepiness. Phil, by contrast, wins zero stars. I felt no creepiness from Phil Illy.Laura Becker, the detrans woman who was next to me in the photo that kicked of the controversy, also felt safe around me:I’m the young female detransitioner in the photo. I have CPTSD from male abuse. I have vulnerabilities, but I never felt vulnerable around Phil. In fact, we had a strong connection discussing sexuality and gender.How is it that a traumatized young woman like myself can find value in the sexual theory and research of this man’s book, but Genspect gets called unsafe as an organization for allowing him to have discussions about it?That’s far too broad a brush.Leslie Elliot, a centrist YoutTuber, also said my vibes were fine:From the same video, therapist Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, also weighed in. We hung out for a few hours and also shared a ride to the airport. She said that even though she admittedly had some prejudgement about me because I was a man in a dress, she also said I wasn't being creepy at all:I'm sure there are more examples of people saying my behavior was fine, but I think the point is made: my vibes were officially acceptable. To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo epsiode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie decuss a new article in the Journal of Controversial Ideas and decide once and for all if zoophiles should be imprisoned far from animals for life or given a paw print on the Pride flag. To support the show and get extra content an… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a stunning revelation about Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie. Plus, New York Times Magazine witer Jazmine Hughes is forced out after taking a political stand. Again. (Guys, this will be the last episode with audio problems on my end, I promise — it is too boring a story to bother telling but by this time tomorrow I will almost be back at my home setup, where I never have these problems. I am sorry for all the pops. -Jesse ‘Plosive’ Singal)To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.NYT: “New York Times Writer Resigns After Signing Letter Protesting the Israel-Gaza War”Jesse: “Why Did “On The Media” Stoke The Moral Panic Against Innocent New York Times Journalists Rather Than Investigate It?”CBC: “Who Is the Real Buffy Sainte-Marie?”Buffy Saint-Marie responds on FacebookBSM responds on TwitterSekwan Wabasca on birth certificates Jesse: “The Internet Accused Alice Goffman of Faking Details in Her Study of a Black Neighborhood. I Went to Philadelphia to Check.”www.karendian.com To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss culture wars and school board elections, the cross-dressing mayor who was outed in Alabama, and Berkeley students on hunger strike for a very weird cause.To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.(Guys — I … To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, a menace in a gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood. Plus, Jew-hating is back, baby! To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.NYT: “How a Dog’s Killing Turned Brooklyn Progressives Against One Another”Gothamist: “In Greenpoint, a man with severe mental illness is harming neighbors. No one knows what to do.” New Yorker: “Before the Law” NYT: “Relax, if You Want, but Don’t Put Your Feet Up” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and Reported, the Saudi Royal family lures an elite group of cosplayers to Riyadh to whitewash their reputation. Plus, a non-elite podcaster attempts to memory-hole history (it’s Jesse). To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Jesse’s UCLA talkReuters: “Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Cancel Culture: Israel/Palestine Edition. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Jesse is giving a talk at UCLA on youth gender medicine on Monday, October 30th. More details/RSVP instructions here.Tim… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Today we’ve got a special dispatch from our friends at Braver Angels, the largest cross-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to bridging our political divide. In this episode of their brand new show, host Mónica Guzmán sits down with some very special guests to discuss their political differences: two Trump-supporting, Mexican immigrants who also happen to be her mom and dad. Subscribe to A Braver Way here or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss how our most trust-worthy disinformation experts correct the record except when they don’t. Plus, conservative hero Tim Ballard faces the wrath of the nicest people on Earth. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.(CORRECTION: In the original version of this episode that Primos heard before it went up for everyone else on Monday morning, I misunderstood some of the evidence suggesting Israel wasn’t responsible for the attack on the Gazan hospital. I’ve now re-recorded that bit with the below corrections, and if you scroll down to the tweet from Marc Garlasco, you’ll see my mistake: He was talking about the width of the crater, not its depth. Many thanks to the listener who wrote in to point this out, and I apologize for the error. -JesseCorrected version, with old, false material struck through and new, correct material in bold:~9:56: "And you can see an impact crater which is only about one meter 30 centimeters deep wide or so. And he basically said, and again, this is a guy who is highly qualified on these issues, that this could not have been caused by Israeli weaponry, because that weaponry tends to leave nine-meter-deep wide craters, and there's a big difference between one meter 30 centimeters and nine meters.")NYT: “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh: Tracing a Bullet to an Israeli Convoy”https://twitter.com/marcgarlasco/status/1714590544620408909https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1714336863740104879https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1714652254832140636Robby Soave: “Disinformation Reporter Ben Collins Failed To Correct the Gaza Hospital Story”Better NBC News coverage of sameGlenn Kessler: “Human trafficking statistics: Politicians love them though they remain imprecise”Meg Conley: “Called by God: In 2014, I went on a vigilante raid to “save” kids sold for sex. What we did haunts me now.”ViceBlaze News: “What really happened with Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad?” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss Hamas’s unprecedented massacre of civilians. Well, the online b******t component of it, at least.To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Nicholas Kristof: “Seeking a Moral Compass in Gaza’s War”Eric Levitz: “A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed”Politico: “AOC knocks ‘bigotry and callousness’ of Times Square rally for Palestinians”Politico: “‘Unacceptably devoid of empathy': DSA is facing an internal reckoning on Israel”NYT: “At Harvard, a Battle Over What Should Be Said About the Hamas Attacks”Harvard Crimson: “As Students Face Retaliation for Israel Statement, a ‘Doxxing Truck’ Displaying Students’ Faces Comes to Harvard’s Campus”NYT: “N.Y.U. Law Student Sends Anti-Israel Message and Loses a Job Offer”Image: Supporters of Israel (L) face people rallying in support of Palestinians in Times Square in New York on October 8, 2023 after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Israel, reeling from the deadliest attack on its territory in half a century, formally declared war on Hamas Sunday as the conflict's death toll surged close to 1,000 after the Palestinian militant group launched a massive surprise assault from Gaza. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP) (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the perfect venue for people who work out their racial anxieties: FoodTok. Plus, an Only Fans model who may or may not be real may or may not be missing. Daily Star: “Model goes missing but 'cryptic' post sparks wild theories about if she exists at all” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie look back on the Racial Reckoning™ and discuss the implosion of Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Anti-Racism Research. Plus: Trevor Bauer gets the last word. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.The Athletic: “Graphic details, photos emerge in restraining order filed against Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer”Bauer videoThe Athletic: “Trevor Bauer settles legal dispute with woman who accused him of sexual assault”Lindsey Hill on The BlazeBU Daily Free Press: “Amid mass layoffs, BU Center for Antiracist Research accused of mismanagement of funds, disorganization”New York: “The BLM Mystery Where did the money go?”Michelle Goldberg: “Ibram X. Kendi and the Problem of Celebrity Fund-Raising”John McWhorter: “Don’t Call Ibram X. Kendi a Grifter”Free Beacon: “Boston University Loaned $600K to a Mysterious Trust Run by Ibram Kendi’s Brother-In-Law” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Premium episode of Blocked and Reported, the knitting community is in meltdown...again. This time, the culprit is a yarn-dyer who made the ill-advised descion to release a Salem-themed yarn collection with one unforunate prop. The yarn dyer who faked her own death (allegedly)r/craftsnark To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, we reexamine American Bully X. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Brianna Wu:https://twitter.com/headassnic/status/1706955256427626982https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1371452139856392196https://twitter.com/longislandviper/status/1371495816649703425SF Gate: “American bully dogs bred as lovers, not fighters”Bully Watch RebuttalBully Watch.link“Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites”“English hospital episode data analysis (1998–2018) reveal that the rise in dog bite hospital admissions is driven by adult cases”“Visual Breed Identification: A Literature Review”Note: An earlier version of this episode contained a math error. I said “nine out of 15” when I should have said "11 out of 15.” Still somehow Jesse’s fault. It has been updated.—KH This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse explains the world of online disability activism, specfically Cripplepunk. Also discussed: MERDs, TURDs, and TERFs. (Update: Shortly after we posted this, a listener wrote in to point out that one of the TikTok videos we played part of and discussed was published by a 17-year-old. This was my… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie digs into the UK’s recently announced ban on the American Bully XL and discovers some surprising information. Jesse does very little. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Bronwen Dickey: Pit Bull: The Battle over an American IconHal Herzog: Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About AnimalsThe Stranger: “How to Defeat a Pit Bull with Your Bare Hands”Joe Bernstein: “Inside The Most Vicious Conflict On The Internet”The Guardian: “American XL bully dog will be banned, says Rishi Sunak”Bully WatchThe Telegraph: “Half of all XL Bully dogs in Britain descend from 'Killer Kimbo'“The Sun: “BULLY BREEDER'S BLAST: I bred XL Bully Kimbo who half UK’s animals can be traced to – they only become killers when people give them steroids”Malcolm Gladwell: “Troublemakers”NOTE: This episode has been updated. On initial verision that went out to Primos, Jesse said something like, “So American Bully breeders say, if a dog is aggressive, it can’t be an American Bully,” and I said, “Yes, exactly.” I thought it was obvious this referred to registration, but apparently not, and I have updated the episode to clarify: an aggressive American Bully would still be an American Bully because breed isn’t determined by behavior but by lineage, but it would be disqualified for registration in the American Bully Kennel Club or any other legitmate kennel club. Apologies for the confusion.” —KH This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and reported, Katie and Jesse discuss Gays Against Groomers. What are they, who are they, and why are they standing outside the Biltmore House with picket signs? Plus, Bari Weiss, Hasan Minhaj, and a very, very good sandwich.To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.LA Times: “How Grimes won Bari Weiss' sexual revolution debate”The New Yorker: Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”Subject to Change with Russell HoggMichael Moynihan: “When the Tea Party Began”GAG: “In The Wake of ‘Sound of Freedom’: The Parallels Between LGBTQ+ Activism and The Pedophile Doctrine”The Advocate: “Gays Against Groomers Strike West Hollywood with Vandalism and Anti Trans Messaging”Karyln Borysenko: “Yet ANOTHER member publicly quits Gays Against Groomers and blames CEO Jaimee Michell”Weird Ron DeSantis video To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain’s strictest headmistress, and her incredibly stupid fight with MP Jess Phillips, Shadow Master at Law. Plus, an update on Canada’s mass graves.To support the show and get e… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse has a calm, productive conversation with the illustrious hosts of the scientastic YouTube show The Majority Report. It goes so well they all went out for blinis and mimosas after. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.Republican AGs’ briefJesse: “Conservatives Are Lying About What My Atlantic Article On Gender Dysphoria Says”The Precipitating IncidentFull Singal-Seder correspondence showing the issue was very clearly laid out to SederThey keep talking s**t and keep repeating the claimJesse: “On Rashida Tlaib And Chase Strangio’s Ridiculous, Bad-Faith Attack On The New York Times”NYT: “How a Small Gender Clinic Landed in a Political Storm”Jamie Reed Affidavit I identify as an attack mushroomJesse calls in This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Premium edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse tells Katie about an allegedly racist Juneteenth party in Rochester, New York, and the allegedly racist racists who threw it. Plus, alleged Oxford alum Ian Miles Cheong has some thoughts on body hair. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie tells Jesse how a forum on women’s sports led to censorship and bomb scares in Davis, California. Plus, heroes on the streets of D.C. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1695794212686450915Colin Wright: “New Documents Reveal Shocking Surge in Trans-Identified Students in Davis, CA Schools”https://twitter.com/goeke_christina/status/1693409879946588244?s=20https://twitter.com/JZachreson/status/1693492646852059525?s=20https://twitter.com/goeke_christina/status/1693410016706121771?s=20The Davis Enterprise: “We have to let each other talk”https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1693608550373728448?s=20 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe