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After a brief discussion of Katie’s new hobby, Jesse tells Katie the truth about the Jacob Blake shooting. Then the cohosts critique the very specific (and very narrow) brand of “moral clarity” employed by the journalists who continue to bungle the story to this day. If you’re a paying subscriber, you can comment on this article here. (Correction: Remarkably, Jesse made a fleeting reference to “the Blake killing” at 1:08:49 in the version of this episode we released early to our premium subscribers. That’s now been snipped out. Thank you to the listener who flagged the error.)Show notes/Links:Video of the shooting: The Kenosha DA’s report: https://www.kenoshacounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/11827/Report-on-the-Officer-Involved-Shooting-of-Jacob-BlakeThe Noble Wray report: https://www.kenoshacounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/11830/Use-of-Force-Expert-Noble-Wray-Independent-Evaluation-and-ReportFeds say no charges: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-close-review-officer-involved-shooting-jacob-blakeACLU: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-issues-statement-following-charging-decision-kenosha-district-attorney-shootingInfo on Prof. Keith Taylor: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/keith-taylorOriginal “moral clarity” column: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html“Shot in front of his kids”: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22jacob+blake%22+%22in+front+of+his+kids%22&sxsrf=AOaemvJsyGnLfxa4a4AsUBwJCQ4Q_OLLCw:1638560306185&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKt_jnsMj0AhUIlIkEHV5wAvUQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1707&bih=837&dpr=1.13Times on decision not to charge: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/jacob-blake-kenosha-rusten-sheskey.htmlWashington Post on same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/05/kenosha-police-charges-jacob-blake/AP: https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-pleads-not-guilty-cf6228f55a4f2a5fdd66978e5523a912CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/us/jacob-blake-police-shooting-kenosha-emergency/index.htmlStudy showing liberals severely overestimate how common police shootings of unarmed black men are: https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-CUPES-007.pdfSearches showing how little media love Noble Wray got:NYT: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com+%22noble+wray%22+blake&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS953US953&oq=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com+%22noble+wray%22+blake&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6424j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8WaPo: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+%22noble+wray%22+blake&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS953US953&sxsrf=AOaemvLxrGrPhFdlaKc07sXjFovCCkJNvQ%3A1638564763273&ei=m4OqYY7-D52rptQPy9200A0&ved=0ahUKEwjOt5-1wcj0AhWdlYkEHcsuDdoQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+%22noble+wray%22+blake&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBQg8EgExSgQIQRgBSgQIRhgAUMAEWOYIYKcJaAFwAHgAgAExiAGOApIBATaYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=gws-wizCNN: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+%22noble+wray%22+blake&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS953US953&sxsrf=AOaemvLxrGrPhFdlaKc07sXjFovCCkJNvQ%3A1638564763273&ei=m4OqYY7-D52rptQPy9200A0&ved=0ahUKEwjOt5-1wcj0AhWdlYkEHcsuDdoQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+%22noble+wray%22+blake&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBQg8EgExSgQIQRgBSgQIRhgAUMAEWOYIYKcJaAFwAHgAgAExiAGOApIBATaYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=gws-wizJesse’s new thing: https://www.callin.com/show/singal-minded-conversations-IIrXnblInMMore info on Callin: https://www.callin.comImage: KENOSHA, WISCONSIN - JANUARY 05: National Guard troops stand watch as demonstrators protest outside of the Kenosha County Courthouse following the announcement by District Attorney Michael Graveley that no charges would be filed against Police Officer Rusten Sheskey in the shooting of Jacob Blake on January 05, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Sheskey shot Blake seven times in the back while responding to a domestic dispute, which led to several days of rioting and unrest in the city. (Photo by Scott Olson/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

An annoying West-Coast trend hits Jesse’s home region, a discussion about fake babies and ALLEGED BUT LEGALLY UNPROVEN cult affiliations, and a rather disgraceful attack led by online buffoons against a young academic. If you’re a premium subscriber and would like to discuss this episode with other BARPod listeners, you can do so here.Show notes/Links:The battle between furries and NFT bros escalates:More: https://candid.technology/usd-100k-nft-meme-war-twitterReborn doll basics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll#Social_issues_and_reactionshttps://www.reborns.com/https://old.reddit.com/r/RebornDollCringe/top/Nopenopenope: Start of the feud: The plot thickens: ALLEGED evidence here: http://nlovewithreborns2011.org/lawsuitdonationsThe plug incident: The book about MAPS (or whatever you want to call them): “A Long, Dark Shadow Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity”More Noah Berlatsky background than any healthy human could possibly want or need: Berlatsky interviews Walker:Outrage appears to have started with 4W: https://4w.pub/old-dominion-university-assistant-professor-comes-out-in-support-of-destigmatizing-pedophilia/November 11 Libs of Tiktok: Famous people join the pileon: Let’s get them fired:James Lindsay quote-retweets, simply saying ‘groomer’:Lindsay is really losing it:He also went after one of Allyn’s coauthors, with a tweet reading: “Allyn Walker didn't work alone. Who is Vanessa Panfil, and why is she a sexual predator disguised as a scholar?”:On November 16, Old Dominion puts out a statement:https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/11/a_statement_from_old#.YZZpU9DMJPZOld Dominion University has placed Dr. Allyn Walker on administrative leave, effective immediately, from their position as assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice. Reactions to Dr. Walker's research and book have led to concerns for their safety and that of the campus. Furthermore, the controversy over Dr. Walker's research has disrupted the campus and community environment and is interfering with the institution's mission of teaching and learning. "I want to state in the strongest terms possible that child sexual abuse is morally wrong and has no place in our society," said ODU President Brian O. Hemphill, Ph.D. "This is a challenging time for our University, but I am confident that we will come together and move forward as a Monarch family." The actions we are taking today are motivated by our obligation to maintain a safe and conducive learning environment for our students, faculty, and staff.By October 17th, the story has gone completeley mainstream and gets written up in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/11/17/old-dominion-professor-allyn-walker/The president is quoted as saying in a message to the campus: “Many individuals have shared with me the view that the phrase ‘minor-attracted people’ is inappropriate and should not be utilized as a euphemism for behavior that is illegal, morally unacceptable, and profoundly damaging. It is important to call pedophilia what it is.”The Milo Outrage Cycle: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-breitbart-is-milking-the-milo-yiannopoulos-campus-outrage-outrage-cycle.htmlJezebel interview: https://jezebel.com/professor-on-leave-after-comments-about-people-attracte-1848089269Thomas Hubbard outrage campaign: https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professors-writings-about-pederasty-enraged-students-so-they-protested-at-his-home/Walker resigns: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/11/24/allyn-walker-odu-professor-resigns/FIRE’s involvement: https://www.thefire.org/in-joint-statement-old-dominion-and-professor-allyn-walker-signal-end-to-campus-controversy-walker-thanks-fire/The lead image, of a creepy-looking fake baby with the catch phrase “So Truly Real” above it, comes from Ashton Drake. 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

Jesse and Katie talk about their chaotic day, an INCREDIBLE gift a musically talented listener gave them, rapidly multiplying accusations of bigotry within the College Democrats of America, and the mercilessly bad takes that followed the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. If you are a paying subscriber and would like to discuss this episode, head on over to the discussion thread.Show notes/Links:DJ Sac O'Judaea - Blucked and Suckported (feat. Jew-Z) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VOoL7ETyZ5ajgk2hW5Y0-UF7p6jizMRW/view?usp=sharingSource material:https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/qfyk7p/techno_heads/https://www.discogs.com/release/13517924-Traxmen-Basement-Traxx-Vol-IIICollege Dems chaos: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/college-democrats-of-america-dnc-522864Bad ACLU takes:https://www.aclu-wi.org/en/news/aclu-responds-not-guilty-verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-caseJesse on Bari’s podcast: https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/3085b7c4/the-medias-verdict-on-kyle-rittenhouseJesse’s early writing about the shootings:NOOOOOOOOOO:MAKE IT STOP:$#@*)$)@@:On the other hand, some good reporting:New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilanteWashington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/11/19/kenosha-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse-interview/New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/magazine/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-wisconsin.htmlImage information: KENOSHA, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 19: Judge Bruce Schroeder, right, listens as the verdicts are ready by Judicial Assistant Tami Mielcarek in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 19, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges in the shooting of three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, claimed self-defense who at the time of the shooting was armed with an assault rifle. (Photo by Sean Krajacic - Pool/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

After Katie asks Jesse if she did a cancel culture, she takes him on a disturbing and nonconsensual journey involving conservative and possibly Nazi-sympathetic furries. Then the hosts discuss the newly launched University of Austin and the reaction to it from very sane people online.Show notes/Links:Hey Microsoft: Do 👏 Better 👏:Did Katie do a cancel culture?:Deleted but was originally on this list: https://www.kexp.org/anti-racist-and-social-justice-resources/Right-wing furries:https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Foxler_NightfireThe suspect armband:“The Furred Reich: The truth about Nazi furries and the alt-right”:https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2017/02/furred-reich-truth-about-nazi-furries-and-alt-rightFurry Raiders rules: https://furryraiders.org/pages/tosPano Canelos announces plans to “build a university in Austin dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth”:The website: https://www.uaustin.org/Kathleen Stock situation: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-59084446Will Bunch doesn’t like it: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/university-of-austin-wokeness-on-campus-20211111.htmlWhy grifting is now in fashion: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/10/molly-roberts-grifting-is-so-on-trend/Guardian column is critical: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/12/bari-weiss-university-of-austin-free-speechDavid French says Bari Weiss has gotten a bad rap on the Columbia stuff: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/the-sliming-of-bari-weiss/The Root with a very Root-y take: https://www.theroot.com/hogwarts-for-wypipo-acclaimed-caucasian-race-theorists-1848025585Katie on higher ed: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/04/24/40000161/free-public-college-is-great-free-job-training-is-betterThe BLS’s (inexplicable) Fastest Growing Occupations chart: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htmA “proliferation of administrators” at Yale: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-part-of-its-leadership-to-lead-yales-administration-increases-by-nearly-50-percent/“Rittenhouse’s trial is yet to begin, but ever since he chose to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and hunt down anti-racist protesters with an assault rifle, he has received significant far-right support, including from government forces and, it now appears, the judge presiding over his case.”: https://theintercept.com/2021/10/30/kyle-rittenhouse-charlottesville-far-right-violence-courts/Excellent Washington Post minidoc with background info on both Kyle Rittenhouse and Joseph Rosenbaum: Jesse early on in this controversy: DeepFuckingValue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_GillGlenn Greenwald on media coverage of the Rittenhouse case: Image credit for the lead photo, of the Austin skyline: AUSTIN, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 07: General view of atmosphere during the Austin FOOD & WINE Festival at Auditorium Shores on November 07, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/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

After America’s leading political analysts, Katie and Jesse, talk about the election results in Seattle (voters don’t like police abolition!) and Virginia (voters don’t like CRT, maybe, if they know what it is?), they turn their attention to two highly potent instances of online b******t: the recent LIEberal media’s attack on the LGB (Let’s Go Brandon) community, and a story Jesse still can’t quite wrap his mind about involving NFTs (?) and Lindsay Lohan (!?) and furries (!?!?!?!?). God help us all. (Image source.)(NOTE FOR PREMIUM SUBSCRIBERS: We have a new commenting system in place that will help us sort out some technical issues, most notably episodes showing up twice in feeds. If you want to comment on this episode, you’ll notice you can’t do so here. Rather, head on over here, to a post dedicated solely to discussion of this episode. This will be the system going forward and we’ll explain it more in our next premium episode.) Show notes/Links:Lucali: https://www.lucalibrooklyn.com/What a pie there looks like (one of the actual pizzas Jesse ate with his uncle):The Soup Nazi: Nicole Thomas-Kennedy tweets: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/toxic-tweets-show-why-nicole-thomas-kennedy-is-unfit-to-be-seattle-city-attorney/The Dispatch on Loudoun County: Let’s Go Brandon origin: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/30/1050782613/why-the-lets-go-brandon-chant-turned-meme-can-be-heard-on-the-floor-of-congressSW Airlines pilot says it: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-43c44e78dd04397a2b4e673387551976Person who heard it was AP reporter already writing on that subject: Normal stuff:Actual furries unimpressed with Lohan’s thing:Furry Porn Against NFTs: A Call to Forearms (basically 2021’s Martin Luther/church door): https://soatok.blog/2021/10/01/furry-porn-against-nfts-a-call-to-forearms/Thank you, @tracewoodgrains! 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

Katie’s previous life is uncovered, an update is provided on the Loudoun County situation is provided, the cotton ceiling is discussed, Jesse becomes increasingly disconsolate, Huma Abedin’s “sexual assault” is discussed, and the passive voice is used in the episode description. (Note: this is the free version of this episode. If you’re a premium subscriber looking to access the comments section, you want this version instead.)Show notes/Links:Loudoun County rape case update: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/in-case-at-center-of-political-firestorm-judge-finds-teen-committed-sexual-assault-in-virginia-school-bathroom/2021/10/25/42c037da-35cc-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.htmlEmail from police officer: Scroll to the very bottom.BBC on the cotton ceiling: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57853385.ampExplanation from a sympathetic source: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Cotton_ceilingPlanned Parenthood Toronto joins in on the fun: https://www.facebook.com/PPToronto/posts/in-january-of-2012-planned-parenthood-toronto-in-partnership-with-other-local-pr/10150615471958021/Linda Riley says it never happens and people respond with their stories of it happening:Shoddy survey: http://www.gettheloutuk.com/blog/category/research/lesbians-at-ground-zero.htmlJoanna Harper/IOC: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-racing-discover-how-gender-transitions-alter-athletic-performance-including#CisiswiththeT backfires: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CisWithTheT&src=typeahead_clickDawn Ennis in The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bbcs-ignorance-about-trans-women-and-sex-is-disgusting-and-dangerous(Big Jesse fan: https://lifeafterdawn.medium.com/we-warned-the-atlantic-about-jesse-singal-but-they-ignored-us-beaee469d3f8)Huma Abedin experience described as ‘assault’: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/26/huma-abedin-sexual-assault-us-senator-book-memoirNY Post yells at Abedin: https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/huma-abedin-makes-a-mockery-of-real-sexual-assault/But she doesn’t even want to call it ‘assault’!Email from cop:I just wanted to share some context on sexual assault investigations, as I have seen them happen. It would be entirely normal for the SRO in the case of the Loudoun county incident to handle the entire initial investigation themselves. That may sound odd given the seriousness of the crime, but for most sexual assaults the process would look something like a patrol, or in this case a school officer being dispatched to someone wanting to make a report. The initial officer would take a basic report, often not even a full interview (if the case gets handed off the detectives are going to need to do a full interview and it doesn't make sense to traumatize the victim by making them go through every detail unless you have to). This report would basically try and establish whether or not there was a crime scene or evidence that needed to be preserved, and whether or not a forensic exam at a hospital would be of any value. It's only if you needed to preserve a crime scene that you would be calling for additional officers to do that. This all gets more complicated with minors. I don't know how Virginia's laws around medical consent work, but it may be necessary, or at least wise to get parental consent before administering a SA kit, it is after all a pretty invasive exam. Also while it may seem odd to have a school cop handle such a major incident, they at least in theory, are going to have special training on interacting with and interviewing juveniles. On the occasions I have had to do these investigations, it's training I feel an acute lack of. Lastly, it's best practice, though I have no idea if it is derigur in Loudoun County, for interviews of juveniles who have been sexually assaulted to be interviewed by a psychologist or doctor with forensic training. A police detective will monitor the interview, and may ask for some specific followup, but its understood that people with particular expertise in working with kids are better suited to getting full answers without causing any unnecessary trauma. My opinion is that everything I heard about the initial investigation seemed more or less above board. It's only what came after that got fucked 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

In the wake of some important new information, Jesse and Katie follow up on last week’s Loudoun County rape scandal segment. Then they talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Netflix walkout, and the violence committed by YouTube Vito Gesualdi in the service of his ultraright ideology, “Jokes are funny.” (This is the public version of this episode — for the premium version, with comments enabled, go here.)Show notes/Links:Original Daily Wire reporting: https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-saysJesse gets the logs:The Daily Wire doubles down:https://www.dailywire.com/news/records-suggest-loudoun-sent-team-of-police-to-deal-with-upset-parent-not-alleged-rape-of-studentThe school knew early on that an assault had occurred: https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/10/email-from-loudoun-co-superintendent-alerted-school-board-on-day-of-bathroom-assault/Nikole Hannah-Jones breaks the news of her cancelled talk:“Some months ago, a dear friend asked me for a favor. Her former boarding school, Middlesex, wanted me to come speak as part of BHM. Speaking at this type of school is not something I typically do, but she’s my friend. I said yes. I just learned the Pres & board canceled my talk.”SHE was really cancelled: “So, you actually got cancelled unlike the people who complain about bring cancelled on mainstream platforms?”Let’s get back to her thread from a moment. NHJ says: Vito Gesualdi: https://www.youtube.com/c/vito/aboutAt Berkeley:Trying to bring everyone together with Pepsi, like Kendall Jenner did:Trying to sell ol’ fashioned popped corn:Video of Vito Gesualdi getting attacked and pleading for tolerance (of jokes): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AaOHBpExuqy-SHq-qIBial6z9hSXdjML/view?usp=sharingVariety’s insane, now-apologized-for tweet: “At times, the #NetflixWalkout situation threatened to devolve as counter protestors pushed against trans speakers.”Apology:Jesse’s step-by-step debunking of “Comedian and videographer Vito Gesualdi screams profanities as he engages with peaceful protesters begging him to leave”What he actually said: “I’m just here to say that jokes are funny, people. Dave Chappelle’s a funny guy. I love Dave! I don’t know why all the violence, I don't know why all the hate. I just LOVE DAVE CHAPPELLE! DAAAAAVE CHAPPEEEELLE! WOOOOO!”AP’s correction:“Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout”:https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avke9/netflix-fires-trans-employee-who-was-organizing-walkout-over-chappelle-special“Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout”:https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fires-organizer-trans-employee-walkout-dave-chappelle“Netflix Has Fired a Pregnant Organizer of the Trans Employee Walkout”: https://gizmodo.com/netflix-has-fired-a-pregnant-organizer-of-the-trans-emp-1847874257“Netflix fires employee trans activist for allegedly leaking internal documents”: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/15/netflix-fires-employee-trans-activist-for-allegedly-leaking-internal-documents“Trans people are in the middle of a holocaust”: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/577649-netflix-protesters-clash-with-chappelle-supporters-amidEveryone ran with the 1,000-employees figure:Lead image caption, which has plenty of editorializing: “LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 20: Vito Gesualdi, center, yells as Netflix employees gathered outside a Netflix location at 1341 Vine St in Hollywood Wednesday morning in support as members of the Netflix employee resource group Trans*, coworkers and other allies staged a walkout to protest Netflix's decision to release Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special, which contains a litany of transphobic material. Hollywood on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times 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

Katie and Jesse follow up with just a bit more KidneyGate discussion, then talk about Netflix employees’ reactions to Dave Chappelle’s special. The second half is an in-depth look at an astonishingly bad scandal in the Loudoun County, Virginia public schools. This is the public version of the episode — if you’re a premium subscriber and want to comment on the private version, click here. (Image via Haley Milon Bour of Loudoun Now.)Show notes/Links:Shoutout to ChocoRaisinBoi: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/q6njk1/so_you_dont_have_to_listen_for_15_minutes/New version he made for us:The meme’s origin: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/friendship-ended-with-mudasirDo we owe an apology to Dawn Dorland?: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/q85brs/pod_owes_an_apology_to_dawn_dorland/KidneyGate account, which is worth following: https://twitter.com/kidneygateGreat tweetstorm on class element of KidneyGate — thanks to listener Katherine on our site for pointing it out:Terra Field tweetstorm:Pretty misleading headlines:Ted Sarandos denies that Netflix content causes real-world harm: https://variety.com/2021/film/news/ted-sarandos-dave-chappelle-defense-1235088647/Netflix fires walkout leader for leaking data: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fires-organizer-trans-employee-walkout-dave-chappelleLoudoun County 2016 and 2020 election results:https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2020%20November%20General/Site/Presidential.htmlhttps://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2020%20November%20General/Site/Presidential.htmlAntiracist enemies list: https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/03/parents-group-says-theyve-been-targeted-for-opposition-to-teachings-of-racial-equality-in-loudoun-co-schools/Gym teacher who doesn’t want to abide the new rules: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/loudoun-teacher-transgender-pronouns-cross/2021/06/08/567edf5e-c7b5-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.htmlLocal coverage of school board meeting chaos: https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-school-leaders-board-meetinghttps://loudounnow.com/2021/09/24/loudoun-school-board-tightens-reins-on-public-commenters/Fairly clear video of entire Scott Smith altercation:CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/loudoun-county-school-board-meeting/index.htmlNew gender-identity policy passes in August: https://www.loudountimes.com/news/loudoun-school-board-passes-transgender-policy-8040/article_6a583872-faff-11eb-9a3f-e7f735eb41ab.htmlNational School Boards Association letter to Joe Biden calling for his administration to use the PATRIOT Act and other tools to rein in out-of-control school-board protesters: https://nsba.org/-/media/NSBA/File/nsba-letter-to-president-biden-concerning-threats-to-public-schools-and-school-board-members-92921.pdfExplosive Daily Wire story (paywalled): https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-saysNewsweek followup: https://www.newsweek.com/loudoun-county-school-assaults-students-1638899Washington Post followup: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/loudoun-schools-sex-assault-allegations/2021/10/13/02d3f144-2c61-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/loudoun-virginia-school-assault-apology/2021/10/15/10853e8e-2ddc-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.htmlBeth Berts is out (happened after we recorded): https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/loudoun-school-board-member-beth-barts-resigns-her-position/2021/10/15/87608c52-2deb-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.html 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

In the intro, Jesse makes a strong pro-Karen case. Then Jesse tells Katie about an amazing story from the frozen, mystical land of Kahn-a-da involving a very righteous book-burning. Then, a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. In the final (and best) segment, author Kat Rosenfield joins to talk about her new book, No One Will Miss Her, her deranged enemies in YA Twitter, and, of course, the Bad Art Friend story. (This is the public version of this episode. For the version with comments enabled for our premium subscribers, go here.) (Image via Getty plus Jesse’s expert illo skills.)Show notes/links:No One Will Miss Her is great!: https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Will-Miss-Her/dp/0063057018Canada’s residential system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_systemBook burning first reported by Radio Canada on September 7 in some indecipherable code: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1817537/livres-autochtones-bibliotheques-ecoles-tintin-asterix-ontario-canadaLuckily that same day The National Post wrote it up in English: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario-francophone-schools-as-gesture-of-reconciliation-denouncedRuh roh!: https://torontosun.com/news/national/warmington-school-board-says-it-got-burned-in-indigenous-book-burning-projectResignation: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-peoples-commission-resignation-1.6168910Is ‘Two Spirit’ really a common thing?: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2016/10/13/two-spirit-tradition-far-ubiquitous-among-tribes/Kat’s big piece in Vulture about YA insanity: https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.htmlJesse on same subject:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-a-twitter-mob-destroyed-a-young-immigrant-female-authors-budding-careerhttps://reason.com/2019/05/05/teen-fiction-twitter-is-eating-its-young/YA authors and others wrote in to Jesse about how insane it is: Who Is the Bad Art Friend?: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html 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

Frederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York City: After dealing with a Satanic AirBnB host, a racist woman on the street, and racist editors and producers, he is the victim of the latest Central-Park-Karen-style incident. The hosts discuss his super real and honest stories. Then: Jesse interviews Kathryn Paige Harden, the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, about her research and the perils of debating fraught scientific and societal subjects online. (Note: Due to a minor scheduling snafu I'm late getting you your patrons-only episode, but I'll have it for you by tomorrow morning at the latest. Also, keep an eye out for a longer cut of the Harden interview that we're releasing just for patrons, which I'll post momentarily. -Jesse)Show notes/Links:Job listing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/were-hiring-56634428 Original Frederick Joseph video: Insider’s coverage: https://www.insider.com/woman-accused-telling-black-dog-walker-stay-in-hood-fired-2021-9Derek Andersen has said problematic stuff himself: People won’t leave Joseph alone: Man Claims United Airlines Offered Woman $1,000 Voucher to Put Her Feet Down: 'The Audacity of White Privilege': https://www.newsweek.com/white-privilege-united-airlines-feet-table-845387Anna Merlan general background (not petty): https://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387 Merlan on Joseph on AirBnB satanists: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jnmb/we-talked-to-the-host-accused-of-doing-satanic-rituals-in-his-airbnb Joseph’s claim about black-author quotas: Paige Harden’s faculty page at the University of Texas - Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/prc/directory/faculty/kh24738Paige Harden’s book, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality: https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Lottery-Matters-Social-Equality/dp/0691190801Giden Lewis-Kraus’s profile of her in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-mattersFreddie deBoer on his related book The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/22 Lothian Birth Cohorts: https://www.ed.ac.uk/lothian-birth-cohorts 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

(Apologies -- initially uploaded this with the wrong episode number/URL, so here's a corrected redo.)An update on Katie's face, Catie's Correction Corner, the world's only black nonbinary conservative, the bizarre newspeak pertaining to females being embraced by major liberal institutions, personals, and Ellen Pao's very strange New York Times op-ed about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.Show notes/Links:Full, correct context for Daniel Lavery criticizing someone for reporting a home break-in: https://www.reddit.com/r/DearPrudence/comments/lzge8x/comment/gqdp0vzTroubled Daily Beast piece about Carson Griffith: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-commentsThe articles notes in its subhed: “The new site’s only two full-time writers exited Wednesday in protest of editorial director Carson Griffith’s offensive remarks about everything from race to penis size.”There is no subsequent explanation of the claim that Griffith made an “offensive remark” about penis size — instead, she forwarded an email thread in which other people were joking about someone’s penis size, but which also contained information pertinent to a potential story idea.Tani writes: “Kosoff additionally told HR of an exchange in which Griffith took a dismissive stance towards the recruiting of a writer who identifies as non-binary. Kosoff, who was tasked with recruiting some new editorial staff, wrote in a Slack message that she was going to meet with a potential staffer ‘who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns).’ When she returned from the meeting two hours later, Griffith initially laughed off the preferred pronouns. ‘lol is [name redacted] a girl?’ Griffith asked.” But Slack logs included in Griffith’s complaint show that when Griffith said that, it wasn’t in the context of responding to this individual being nonbinary, but was rather simply a question about their sex/pronouns: https://postimg.cc/yJwcRZ6kNow, this screenshot doesn’t include the mention of “who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns),” so it’s unclear when that was said. But there’s no evidence, within this excerpt, of Griffith responding directly to the applicant being nonbinary.Tani writes: “The two reporters also relayed to human-resources instances in which they believed Griffith—who holds a management role at the site—expressed an uncomfortably negative attitude on issues related to workplace diversity. In a Slack message reviewed by The Daily Beast, Griffith seemed to brag to Gawker staff that she had gotten them out of a company-wide diversity training session, though neither Kosoff nor Breslaw had asked her to do so. The two ended up attending.”Griffith claims she did not know this was a diversity meaning, and sure enough in the Slack log in question there is no mention of that aspect of it — she simply says she got them out of most of a long meeting that had been blocked off on their calendar (apologies for low quality): https://postimg.cc/PvqDsz2V/483230faACLU tweet: https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1439259891064004610Interview in The Atlantic in which Emma Green asks the ACLU’s Louise Melling about language like “pregnant people”: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/pregnant-people-gender-identity/620031/AOC on AC360 (note that she uses “menstruating person,” not ‘menstruator’ as Jesse says in the show): https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/09/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-texas-abbott-abortion-ban-ac360-intv-sot-vpx.cnnTranscript: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/acd/date/2021-09-07/segment/01Lancet tweet/cover: https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1441372277786951681Who Ellen Pao is: https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/ellen-pao-silicon-valley-sexism-reset-excerpt.htmlHer complicated departure: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/10/11614622/pao-out-as-reddit-ceo-co-founder-huffman-takes-over“The Perverse Incentives That Help Incels Thrive in Tech”: https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496 Even crazier: https://www.wired.com/story/ellen-pao-the-perverse-incentives-that-help-incels-thrive-in-tech/ Her crazy NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/elizabeth-holmes-trial-sexism.htmlActual information about what Holmes did: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/podcasts/the-daily/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos-silicon-valley.htmlDoJ release noting she was was indicted alongside Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani who is very much male!): https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/theranos-founder-and-former-chief-operating-officer-charged-alleged-wire-fraud-schemesTom Cotton op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html 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

The Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-alongHelp! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/dear-prudence-daughter-girlfriend-armed-robbery-murder.html Help! My Husband and I Can’t Agree On What To Name the Baby We Might Get!: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/having-sex-with-nephew-advice.html My Daughter Is Pretending to Be Demonically Possessed… and I Can’t Take It Anymore!: https://slate.com/podcasts/dear-prudence/2020/07/is-it-weird-to-love-giving-gifts-all-the-time-dear-prudence-podcast Previous BARPod coverage of Prudie: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/71The Goose Post: https://www.thechatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives Fox News on the sex-masking study: https://www.foxnews.com/health/couples-face-masks-sex-study Texas's insane new abortion law: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/id/2395961After our show went up, our tipster pointed out that he had already done a post about this -- we would have credited him had we known at the time!: https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/how-one-tight-knit-circle-of-internet-troublemakers-convinced-professional-journalists-they-were-ac05459aa4c5 “Random strangers can sue any 'abettor' to an abortion anywhere in Texas and collect a minimum of $10,000, plus attorneys’ fees”: https://slate.com/podcasts/dear-prudence/2020/07/is-it-weird-to-love-giving-gifts-all-the-time-dear-prudence-podcast "Reddit Bans Abortion Bounty Hunter Forum": https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg83bg/reddit-bans-abortion-bounty-hunter-forum And Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-shuts-down-forum-for-texas-abortion-bounty-hunters-2021-9 Kendall Brown tweet: https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1433588701385400327 Steve Silberman: https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1434223870035169282"Hey Gunslingers come join us on /TXBountyHunters, a new community dedicated to fighting, and profiting from, those who would break the law of our beautiful state": https://rdrama.net/post/12798/hey-gunslingers-come-join-us-onThe subreddit was here -- quickly banned and we can't find an archived version: https://www.reddit.com/r/TXBountyHunters Celebration: https://rdrama.net/post/13597/vice-gets-bounty-hunted"I think the key takeaway here is when these journos and abortion enthusiasts see a 'Christian' their brains malfunction and they lose what little ability they had to think rationally": https://taytay.life/post/13597/vice-gets-bounty-hunted/272219//?context=5#contexMostly complete transcript, with some minor spelling/other issues cleaned up here and there:Jesse: Hey -- I'm a journalist who cohosts a podcast about internet b******t. We were tipped off to this whole Bounty Hunters thing. I'd love to send you a few questions about it -- particularly about what it's been like to watch this blow up in the way it has, and to see so many people taking it seriously. Any interest? -Jesse https://jessesingal.substack.com/aboutSCD: Text or call?Jesse: Your call. I can send you a URL to the thing we use to record the podcast -- that way we could talk by voice but keep you anonymous if you wanted.SCD: I’m at work and won’t be free until Sunday really, if you wanna shoot some questions here on drama I’ll answer, but tbh I don’t know if I have anything that interesting to add.Jesse: All right let's maybe chat Sunday. In the meantime, just send me anything you're cool sharing about why you did the original post and what it's been like watching it blow up. Thanks.SCD: [I did it] [f]or laughs, that’s literally it. I don’t believe in taking the internet seriously, never have. I grew up using 4chan, where nothing was off limits, nothing was sacred, and the only real rule was “the first to take it seriously loses.” I guess I never really grew out of that mindset. I’m older now, have a career, a fiancé, and a life, but I still like to view the internet as the Wild West it once was. A place where you could say anything, be anyone and act as retarded as you like. Many who saw the post probably assume I’m pro-life, I’m not. The truth is my online positions and my real life ones rarely line up. In real life I’m pro-choice, vote Democrat, vaccinated, and a loving partner. Online I’m often pro-life, avid Trump supporter, and a misogynist, because these are the positions most likely to cause drama in today’s zeitgeist.Jesse: What was your reaction to it blowing up?SCD: Surprise. I made the sub one day before work in about 12 minutes before work, posted the thread, and only had time to check it once or twice before it got banned six hours later. It really just speaks to the current state of the culture war that this thing was ever taken seriously by anyone. So many people on both sides are searching for that next 5-minute hate so hard that whether it’s even real or not is often an afterthought. I’ve lost a lot of respect for journalists, even 2 minutes of digging through my

Show notes/Links:Jesse's review of Trans: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html Wi spa incident: https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ Max Read on Gawker: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html Crackstarter: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/27/mayor_rob_ford_crack_video_scandal_gawkers_crackstarter_hits_200000_goal.html Random girl singing N-word: https://www.gawker.com/white-kid-caught-ecstatically-singing-nigga-by-coache-1697520011 Bryan Goldberg buys Gawker: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/gawker-acquired-bustle-bryan-goldberg-1202871999/ "The Relentless and Well-Deserved Mockery of Bryan Goldberg": https://www.gawker.com/the-relentless-and-well-deserved-mockery-of-bryan-goldb-1325205558 New Gawker meltdown: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments We got bigots reviewing bigots out here!: https://www.gawker.com/media/bigot-reviews-bigot-for-nyt-book-reviewWhat's Jesse Singal's F*****g Deals?: https://jezebel.com/whats-jesse-singals-f*****g-deal-1826930495 Carey Callahan on informed consent: https://mariacatt42.medium.com/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f The terrible Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ Jesse's review was 'violent': https://twitter.com/britnidlc/status/1435323903199649797Murders: https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1435722753156468737 HRC's fearmongering: https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2021 Polling on self-ID: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/16/where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights Judith Butler interviewed in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender Original, pre-cuts version: https://archive.is/jds9K Judith Butler wins the Bad Writing Contest: http://www.denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm Martha Nussbaum demolishes Butler: https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody Eoin Higgins: https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1435355735056162826 Jezebel explains what happened: https://jezebel.com/the-guardian-says-edited-judith-butler-interview-was-re-1847636842 Nathan Robinson says he lost his Guardian gig for being harsh on Israel: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/how-the-media-cracks-down-on-critics-of-israel Widespread claims of censorship: https://twitter.com/search?q=guardian%20censor*&src=typed_query ...but no (thread): https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1435674221586305027 Critique of gender identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVNxYkawao&ab_channel=HelenHeaton WoLF folks on a panel at Heritage: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conservative-group-hosts-anti-transgender-panel-feminists-left-n964246 Gender Now: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/gender-now 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

An urgent investigation.Show notes/Links:Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77aOld version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essay, which linked to Berlatsky's work: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-woke-world-is-world-of-snitches.html?m=1 New version, which appears to have excised this reference: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops Berlatsky: Katie Halper said we focus too much on anti-Semitism when discussing the Holocaust: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maybe-taking-of-13515855 Carl Beijer on Berlatsky vs. Halper: https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/some-pretty-egregious-misrepresentation-from-noah-berlatskyBerlatsky Berlastskying his review of "The Coddling Of The American Mind": https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1039654096515616768 "Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Chait to Chapo and Brooks to Breitbart": https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF Berlatsky has stories about Jesse but no receipts: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1085910748159565825 * as of when we're posting this episode, his tweets are protected, so you may not be able to read them until he goes public againAll the kids are talking about is Jesse's Atlantic article: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1281662776759537675?lang=en The (official) Jesse Singal Resource Page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-singal-20353892 Negative coverage of Berlatsky and Prostasia: https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/meet-noah-berlatsky-prostasia-foundation-wonder-woman-rutgers-university-press-author-normalising-pedophilia/https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/amp/?__twitter_impression=trueSome of his Prostasia stuff: https://prostasia.org/blog/author/noah/https://prostasia.org/blog/the-science-behind-adolescent-autonomy/"parents are tyrants": https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1338586940157927427?lang=en This American Life on virtuous pedophiles: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/522/tarred-and-feathered/act-two-0 Jesse's coverage of pedophilia:https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/salon-shouldnt-have-unpublished-its-pedophilia-article.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/britain-has-a-hotline-for-pedophiles.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 Katie's:https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/20/29453977/online-support-groups-can-keep-pedophiles-from-offending-but-they-keep-getting-shut-down https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/07/15/40768104/jeffrey-epstein-is-a-horrifying-person-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-a-pedophile Canadian effort to get pedophiles help: https://talkingforchange.ca/ Same deal in Germany: https://undark.org/2021/06/07/radical-and-controversial-treatment-for-pedophilia/ MAP Support Club: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/Only tangentially connected to PF: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/map-support-clubs-partnership-with-prostasia-foundationBackground on policy on minors: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/our-decision-to-instate-the-minors-channel-and-switch-out-dms-for-minorsCan maybe help with suicide: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/About Minor Attraction: https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org/about-minor-attraction.htmlThomas Arthur:https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/crime/thomas-arthur-terlingua-website-child-sexual-abuse/513-88345e1d-abb7-4e1e-8654-deddb9cf8af4https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-40-years-prison-running-child-obscenity-websiteThe criminal complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6548074-Thomas-Alan-Arthur-Criminal-Complaint.htmlProstasia's statement about this whole thing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pYCRHMdbwsjMzEJCX0z2adAh4Lv9jOgDvj8jc9OJ6HY/edit 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

After Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women."Show notes/Links:Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation: https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9BXqm3eKI&ab_channel=NintendoThe Daily Dot’s coverage: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/boyfriend-dungeon-kitfox-games-content-warning/Kotaku Australia article running down the original complaint:https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/08/boyfriend-dungeon-consent-discourse/Voice actor harassment:https://screenrant.com/boyfriend-dungeon-eric-voice-actor-harassed/Tyler, the Creator on cyberbullying:https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tyler-the-creators-cyber-bullying-tweet Meghan Murphy on Joe Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yc6AIMf3JqLWygLQJ4WrgMore on her: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48366184Women-Only Rape-Relief Shelter Defunded, Then Vandalized:https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/women-only-rape-relief-shelter-defunded-then-vandalized/Meghan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-04S1vzWPy3G8omi0wVvA And Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/meghanmurphy 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

After Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, producing some questionable journalism and cringeworthy ads. (Apologies to patrons that we couldn't get this to you as early as usual -- it was just a matter of not posting Ethan's announcement too early.)Show notes/Links:Katie's vacation: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1427026657903214592 Original 'grooming' allegation: https://www.tiktok.com/@lovelyleobrie/video/6995546733497306373?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 The Daily Beast's coverage: https://www.thedailybeast.com/4-accusers-speak-out-about-how-broadway-star-alice-ripley-traumatized-her-young-fans Kevin Durant does not like Ethan Strauss: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/kevin-durant-accused-reporter-trying-rile-steph-curry-fans House of Strauss: https://houseofstrauss.substack.com/ Nike ad that ended the patriarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP9Zd_LUp1Y&t=4s&ab_channel=%E5%8C%97%E6%BC%82%E7%BB%93%E6%9D%9F%E7%9A%84%E5%85%AD%E7%BA%BF%E5%B0%8F%E9%95%87%E9%9D%92%E5%B9%B4 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

Hey guys -- it's me. Jesse. (Singal.)I think I instigated some confusion this week. My thought process was Well, this isn't a new episode to patrons, so I'm not going to drop it in the premium feed. Then a lot of people were confused as to why they weren't seeing a new episode this week, and I couldn't tell whether there was a genuine technical issue or people were responding to not seeing an episode in their premium feeds. I remain confused -- even more so than usual. ANYWAY. Here's this week's episode. It's a rerun. I probably should have just stuck it in here to keep everything simple and clear and continuous. Sorry to pop into your feeds without a new episode, but you guys will have both a new early free episode and a new premium one by late Friday or Saturday, so hang in there!The show itself: Katie and Jesse discuss Katie's mushroom hunting, the downfall of @piney_the (the latest -- and most hilariously incompetent -- Twitter account run by a white person pretending to be a person of color), and Rain Dove, the nonbinary model, activist, and Instagram celebrity who appears to make a lot of stuff up. (Original published October 5, 2020 for our premium subscribers.)Show notes/Links:Rundown of @piney_the tweets, evidence, etc.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKW-7LnY62mrCefWWJl4i8sofAop6zYidf0iXwPMN84/edit Evidence thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drama_science/status/1310688504876273664 NBC: Rain Dove admits to selling TMZ incriminating Asia Argento texts - https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/rain-dove-admits-selling-tmz-incriminating-asia-argento-texts-n1103466](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/rain-dove-admits-selling-tmz-incriminating-asia-argento-texts-n1103466 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

After the hosts discuss Katie's recent nonconsensual conversion to Judaism, they bring on Carole Hooven to discuss the deep, potentially permanent damage she has done to Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology by suggesting males can't get pregnant. Show notes/Links:Serious allegations against Katie: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1422977840157532160 Carole's book, "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us" - https://www.amazon.com/Story-Testosterone-Hormone-Dominates-Divides/dp/1250236061#:~:text=T%3A%20The%20Story%20of%20Testosterone,9781250236067%3A%20Amazon.com%3A%20Books Carole on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6aMsWsbPNlnipKF5w48fp2 Her recklessly violent call for discourse: https://twitter.com/hoovlet/status/1421149204018307072 Daily Mail coverage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9845639/Harvard-evolutionary-biology-prof-blasted-diversity-chief-dismissing-term-pregnant-people.html 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

After Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political beliefs, and talk about a memorable blowup in the world of TV writing. Plus: more personals.Show notes/Links:Beware The Likes Police: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-faves-alt-right New NPR policy: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/07/29/1021802098/new-npr-ethics-policy-its-ok-for-journalists-to-demonstrate-sometimesNadria Tucker's firing: https://twitter.com/NadriaTucker/status/1324718215629467649HuffPo's coverage: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nadria-tucker-cw-superman-and-lois-hollywood-toxicity_n_603d5eb8c5b6ff75ac3ea433TV types respond:https://twitter.com/brianscully/status/1419763285491019777https://twitter.com/jillybobww/status/1419834042287984644 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

The hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm).Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-nextScott Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz, a bit skeptical of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-people-have-multiple-personalities/Input on the DID subculture on TikTok: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dissociative-identity-disorder-did-tiktok-influencers-multiple-personalities @theasystem and @systemspouse:https://www.tiktok.com/@theasystem/video/6987819970646265094https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6987084259601157382https://www.tiktok.com/@systemspouse/video/6985581388808473862One of the stranger subreddits you'll see: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIDCringe/Science-Based Medicine's very bad and error-riddled coverage of Irreversible Damage:Novella and Gorski: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/ Lovell: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/ Eckert: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-part-two/ Jesse's responses:https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-based-medicine-botched https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-based-medicines-coverage Leaked email about Jesse that treats Gorcenski and James as credible sources: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1412511853067051010 Gorcenski: "If you wonder if there's anyone who I dislike more than the Nazis who assaulted me and nearly killed me, there is at least one person and his name is Jesse Singal."https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9eed6bf4-fa8c-4802-80ea-282818a0b26d_952x419.png Jesse on Gorcenski: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-sorta-quick-response-to-the-errors Some background on Andrea James: http://alicedreger.com/in_fear Longer but free, and tells the whole story: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/ Rebecca Watson Wikipedia page with some information on Elevatorgate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Watson Her account of what happened:https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/10/sexism-in-the-skeptic-community-i-spoke-out-then-came-the-rape-threats.html 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

Jesse regales Katie with tales of meeting Joe Rogan, not meeting Alex Jones, and being scared of guns (while shooting them). Then Katie provides an antiracist monkey-removal update, Jesse tells Katie about the Rachel Nichols incident at ESPN, and Katie more than returns the favor with a deep dive into the drama tearing at the very stitchwork of Lolita YouTube, which probably isn't what you think it is.Show notes/Links:-Jesse on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iNgd3IPIK0OEXfyEQqZA8?si=f552ab61f07f4222&nd=1 -"Dead-enders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QxtzW_e9vk&t=62s&ab_channel=PowerfulJRE-Alex Jones is goddamn insane: https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-joe-rogan-war-meltdown-conspiracy-theory-baby-organs-harvested-1347887 -Planned Parenthood fetal tissue harvesting conspiracy theory: https://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/ -And from PPFA itself: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/fd/de/fddee2ba-5ae1-4a89-9c4f-7e72c8a4db02/210218-fact-sheet-cmp-fetal-tissue-backgrounder-prod.pdf -Ralph Northam conspiracy theory: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/1/18205428/virginia-abortion-bill-kathy-tran-ralph-northam -Our last episode on those Seattle monkeys: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/39 -Rachel Nichols situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/sports/basketball/espn-rachel-nichols-maria-taylor.html -Intro to lolita: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7V3CVEa80E&ab_channel=LovelyLor-Good explainer from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/dn69f5/lolita_fashion_how_to_mistake_a_1500_dress_for_a/-Rundown of the two main characters: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/jfcm7p/hobby_scuffles_week_of_october_19_2020/g9tq2p8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 -Lovely Lor's full apology video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzabyBy3dQ&ab_channel=LovelyLor-Origins of Harlem shake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdXdehsdO_o&ab_channel=BadBoyEntertainment-Viral dance thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f7wj_RcqYk&ab_channel=GoodClipsDailyTyler Willis's no-holds-barred reaction video to the Lovely Lor controvery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmCgf12s9A&ab_channel=TylerWillis-Possible motive: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/jfcm7p/hobby_scuffles_week_of_october_19_2020/g9tq2p8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 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

After the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career.Show notes/Links:Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_channel=barnabydixonPhilip the Philosofish interviews Sasha Ayad: https://youtu.be/Uvqg5wBOrqMMore info on Ayad: https://inspiredteentherapy.com/ "Responding to Criticism": https://youtu.be/5yQ8XYvA2Q4No, desistance has not been 'debunked' (Jesse's newsletter): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-accidentally-invented 13 important points in the campus & K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate: https://www.thefire.org/13-important-points-in-the-campus-k-12-critical-race-theory-debate/ Salon is crazy: https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/ Chris Rufo on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/322-w-chris-rufo-banning-critical-race-theory-robin-diangelo Kmele Foster of The Fifth Column teams up with ideological friends and foes alike to oppose the bills in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/we-disagree-on-a-lot-of-things-except-the-danger-of-anti-critical-race-theory-laws.html 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

After Katie and Jesse discuss their July 4th plans, the hosts talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones winning her tenure battle, Barclays' cringeworthy contribution to Pride discourse, and the complicated tale of the publishing and unpublishing and re-publishing of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter," aka "Helicopter Story."Show notes/Links:Nikole Hannah-Jones stuff:https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/06/university-nhj-tenure-decisionhttps://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/06/nikole-hannah-jones-will-not-accept-position-without-tenurehttps://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011880598/after-contentious-debate-unc-grants-tenure-to-nikole-hannah-joneshttps://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-unc-board-of-trustees-vote/https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1410326615876378626?s=20Slate advice columns:-Racist white son wants to learn Spanish: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/maximizing-sleep-with-infants-parenting-advice-from-care-and-feeding.htmlStraight woman in a Classic Millennial Sex Pickle: https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/straight-woman-dating-on-grindr.htmlKatie's response: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/30/42716089/do-straight-women-belong-on-gay-datings-apps-no Note back to Katie: “Hey! I'm the odious Slate letter writer you covered in this piece - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/30/42716089/do-straight-women-belong-on-gay-datings-apps-no. Just wanted to say that your take was 100% accurate--I was being very shitty and very dumb. Should have accepted being straight and worked on my own gender-role-angst instead of trying to drag queer people into my b******t a LOT earlier in my life, good lord. Anyway! Belated thanks for the wakeup call, and sorry I'm opting for the anonymous-reddit means of contacting you, like a coward - just going this route because I am, in fact, a coward.”More classic Slate advice columns:https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/child-sociopath-counseling-care-and-feeding.html“We live in a very multicultural and socioeconomically diverse area in South Florida. We are white, and both my husband and I are well-off professionals. Our 4½-year-old daughter has grown up socializing with all types of children and has a close friend who is black and one who is Brazilian. …”https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/colorblind-parenting-race-care-and-feeding.htmlMy family is white, and we live in a predominately white neighborhood. However, our kids (twin boys) went to a local public charter elementary and middle school that was very diverse. When it was time for high school, our twins were lucky enough to have their closest friends from elementary and middle school attend the same school. Each of the boys had a diverse group of friends, and they were taken aback, as freshmen in high school, by the way other kids sat at tables in same-race clusters. The kids who’d gone to our (small) middle school, where tables were assigned by grade, continued to hang out at lunch together as a mixed group.https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/10/kid-police-obsession-care-and-feeding.html“My lovely, outgoing son is 5 years old. For the past year or so, he has been absolutely obsessed with police officers. He loves their uniforms, cars, and dogs. He tells everyone he wants to be a policeman when he grows up, and whenever he sees a police officer, he runs up to them and says hi. In our overwhelmingly white suburb, this is always well received; cops are usually idle and don’t mind letting him touch their cars or look at their outfits…”https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/01/cop-brother-friends-harass-about-police-brutality-dear-prudence-advice.htmlQ. My brother, a police officer, is getting blacklisted by my friends: My brother (he’s older by two years) is a police officer. This was his childhood dream, and he’s dedicated his entire life to making it happen. Prudie, he’s wonderful. He leads his department’s restorative justice seminars, he was fighting for anti-bias training three years ago before it was widespread, and he spends much of his free time at the local rec center mentoring at-risk youth.https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/kimono-cultural-appropriation-care-and-feeding.html“My husband’s closest friend from childhood is Japanese American, and although he moved back to Japan after college, they are still very close. He’s our daughters’ godfather, and they think of him and his wife as another uncle and aunt (we’re also called “Uncle” and “Auntie” by his kids). For our daughter’s fifth birthday, they sent her a sweet gift of a box full of Japanese candies, a stuffed toy, and a kimono in her size. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but I’m hesitant to let her wear it, as much as she’s begged us to let her dress up and show it to her friends. I know how big of an issue cultural appropriation is, and I don’t want to let her think that somebody else’s culture is a costume. She has a lot of anti-racist children’s books, and books about ki

After Katie describes how she and Jesse had their First Amendment rights literally murdered by an NYC venue and Jesse provides a weird update to last week's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/Akwaeke Emezi episode, the hosts talk about some reparations-related drama at Seattle's Pride and "Code Switch"'s strange decision to join the pileon against Majdi Wadi, a Palestinian-American businessman who did nothing wrong.Show notes/Links:-when the government literally arrested everyone associated with Blocked and Reported: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1406043541525073920-Emezi on her transition: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html-Are Twitter trolls mentally ill?: https://unherd.com/2021/06/are-twitter-trolls-mentally-ill/ -Taking Black Pride: https://www.seattlepride.org/events/taking-black-pride-Seattle HRC responds:https://twitter.com/SeattleHRC/status/1405767042330812419https://twitter.com/SeattleHRC/status/1405767189634818048-Lorena González drops out: https://twitter.com/MLorenaGonzalez/status/1405968795567497219https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2021/06/after-complaint-against-black-pride-events-reparations-fee-wave-of-cancellations-hit-tiny-capitol-hill-prides-big-plans-for-in-person-festival/-affirmative action bake sales: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/03/40096408/uw-college-republican-affirmative-action-bake-sale-draws-resistance-and-controversy-BARPod patrons-only episode on Holy Land Brand/Majdi Wadi: https://www.patreon.com/posts/destroying-small-38100907 -“Code Switch” on same: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/892974522-Bari Weiss on same, via her new podcast “Honestly”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-cultural-revolution/id1570872415?i=1000524764029 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

After Jesse offers a mass amnesty to the individuals he wrongly (?) blocked, Katie, in a surprising move, comes out in favor of murdering adorable innocent puppies with big watery eyes. Then, as part of the podcast's seemingly bottomless obsession with drama surrounding Nigerian novelists, the hosts discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's viral essay about how horrible Online is and debate whether it's okay to attack her with machetes.(UPDATE: This essay provides a lot of background on Akwaeke Emezi and I'm annoyed we missed it while prepping this episode. We'll talk about it one way or another, either by updating this episode or in the next one. The short version is that Akwaeke had their uterus removed because they believed themself to be possessed by an evil spirit: https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html -Jesse )Show notes/Links:Slate article on behavioral euthanasia: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/dog-bite-training-behavioral-euthanasia.htmlGlenn is being mean: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1404194591117557763 CNA says trans women are trans women: https://www.channel4.com/news/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-feminism CNA's sorta-apology: https://www.facebook.com/chimamandaadichie/photos/a.469824145943.278768.40389960943/10154893542340944/?type=3&theaterTransracialism: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html MACHETES: https://twitter.com/azemezi/status/1346268453221658624 CNA's viral essay: https://www.chimamanda.com/Oh God a Vox take on it: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apologyWhat literally even is a woman anyway: https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1405661319903289344 Akwaeke Emezi's creepy response: https://twitter.com/ItsLithaAfter9/status/1405030628978999299 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

Katie (white) and Jesse (white) talk about the perils of Whiteness, a situation in which one's soul is colonized by a mayonnaise-devouring demon who makes you hate other races and ask your neighbors to turn the radio down. They also talk about the ACLU and (more importantly) Harambe.Show notes/Links:Katie and her wife own real goats now: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1402012125845889024 Katie on the Yale speaker who wants to murder white people: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white"On Having Whiteness": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34039063/ The scary event that launched Harambe to posthumous stardom: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/us/gorilla-killed-after-child-enters-enclosure-at-cincinnati-zoo.html NY Mag and Vox run down the meaning of the meme:https://www.vox.com/2016/8/17/12457468/harambe-meme-social-commentary-explained https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/harambe-forever.html Oral history of Weird Twitter:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-historyMore on harambe: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1259654-harambe-the-gorillaOur call for memes produced some good ones: https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1402715518109372426 Run Run Harambe: https://soundcloud.com/markcrozier/run-run-harambe?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingTop 20 Political Assassinations of the 20th Century: https://twitter.com/basementpoli/status/1402715854731632643/photo/1“This is the photo of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo doesn’t want you to see”: https://twitter.com/metalg33k/status/1402721720419618820Michael Powell on the ACLU in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.htmlResponses to that piece:https://newrepublic.com/article/162674/new-york-times-aclu-free-speech-culture-warhttps://twitter.com/gingi0/status/1402304533569708039?s=20https://twitter.com/carltakei/status/1401655639114489859?s=20https://twitter.com/DavidColeACLU/status/1402245242636718083?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

Katie regales Jesse with some Pride history. Then Jesse talks about why he came back to Twitter and why he immediately left again. The, in the meat of the show, Katie interviews one of the more interesting people you'll ever learn about. Is Andy Ngo absent from this show? Ngo way. Not by a lNgong shot.Show notes/Links: Colonialism and the Holocaust: continuities, causations, and complexities (Jesse's post-Twitter palate-cleanser): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2013.821229?journalCode=cjgr20 Robby Soave's debunking of a dumb Ngo rumor: https://reason.com/2019/09/03/andy-ngo-video-antifa-patriot-prayer-attack-media/ Ngo's statement: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1400266501601513475 White people accosting Asians who they think look like Andy Ngo, for antiracism: https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1282899087134584832https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/05/29/portland-protesters-chase-tackle-and-punch-someone-they-believe-to-be-andy-ngo-until-he-hides-in-the-nines-hotel/ Yaseen stuff:His extended book review of Ngo's book on The Motte: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/nox63f/book_review_unmasked_andy_ngo/The Bailey podcast: https://soundcloud.com/thebaileypodcast Profile of the PSJBGC where they interview members about Will: https://news.wfsu.org/all-npr-news/2020-07-23/i-am-antifa-one-activists-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-leftPortland 2017 Train trial: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/jeremy-christian-guilty-on-all-counts-in-max-stabbings-trial.html 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

Self-explanatory! Enjoy. Lotsa links below about Ben's work and the stuff discussed in this interview. We'll be back with a new K+J episode soon.-latest book, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-Comedians-While-World-Burns/dp/1789045479-Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByZMNYpHFEetI0s3deYH2g-Bernie Sanders’ unreasonably Vermontian demands: https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/book-reveals-bernies-hotel-demands-king-size-beds-and-60-degree-rooms/-Bernie Sanders criticized for ‘touting’ Rogan clip: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-endorsement/index.html-Ben Burgis and Michael Brooks on why Rogan’s endorsement was good: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/its-good-that-joe-rogan-endorsed-bernie-now-we-have-to-organize-Tom Cotton column: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html-National Guard deployment to Kenosha:https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/national-guard-ends-deployment-to-kenosha/article_61a44f06-43cd-5db8-992f-23f1bcbb5188.html-$1-2b in damage from the George Floyd riots:https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html-attacks on federal courthouse in Portland:https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2020/07/24/fires-set-inside-portland-federal-courthouse-fence-18-arrested-on-federal-charges/-Matt Taibbi’s book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another:https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/1949017257-Ben Burgis/Jacobin Bestner article on ‘insurrection’:https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/trump-capitol-riot-fascist-coup-attempt?fbclid=IwAR1CVU3AKhMhXufL6OfwDiu_UEIFcghIZ0osMlS-uFST8rmdT7dQ9w69vVU-2019 DSA convention ‘highlights’:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRxu3XrsHg&ab_channel=Mitchollow-JFC, tankies: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie 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

After Jesse discusses his imminent Upstate death, the hosts turn toward a 60 Minutes segment on detransitioners and the rather unhinged response to it. Then they talk about the lab-leak hypothesis of the coronavirus’s origins, which may have been preemptively debunked by overeager journalists seeking to protect us all from racism and Trumpism.60 Minutes segment: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/transgender-health-care-60-minutes-video-2021-05-23/#xMore background on it:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-transgender-health-care-issues-2021-05-23/GLAAD freaks out: https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1396665047645138945Chase Strangio also unhappy: https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1396828255639019524Jack Turban stuff:-he wanted to know where 60 Minutes found its sources: https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1396992770733056001-Turban’s Pediatrics study correlating desire/receipt of puberty blockers with suicidality:https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/145/2/e20191725“After adjustment for demographic variables and level of family support for gender identity, those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation,” but when it came to all the other variables examined in this model — “past-year suicidality, ... past-month severe psychological distress, past-month binge drinking, and lifetime illicit drug use” — the link was statistically insignificant.In the episode Jesse slightly misdescribes this finding, making it sound like the researchers found a link between puberty-blocker access in this group and their general mental health. That link was non-significant, though. The significant link was between puberty-blocker access and lifetime (but not past-year) suicidality. This doesn’t affect Jesse’s argument that one could just as easily look at this data and conclude that some of these cases are explained by clinicians being unwilling to put actively suicidal kids on puberty blockers. There are plenty of other potential explanations, too — zeroing in on one particular causal story (in this case, the kids became suicidal because they couldn’t access hormones) is a common and well-known error when interpreting this sort of correlational finding.From On The Media:Transcript: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/trans-formations-on-the-media“There are a set of criteria that an adolescent needs to meet and they need to have this diagnosis of gender dysphoria. And that diagnosis requires identifying as a gender different than your sex assigned at birth for at least six months. Many clinics will, on top of that diagnosis, require much more assessment and evaluation before they'll offer any kind of medical interventions. Once kids reach, usually age 16, but in certain clear cases age 14, they might start estrogen or testosterone. General surgery is not offered until adulthood. Often these things are all conflated. You'll hear things like seven year olds having genital surgery or little little kids being given estrogen, but that's not how it works.”One example of many of the surgery claim being false: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29507933/And we have numerous examples of kids being given blockers and hormones on a far hastier timeline than what Turban lays out here. There is no mention of providers who don’t follow the proper guidelines. That said, Turban is correct that some clinics go too far in the other direction.“There are a very small number of people who do regret the interventions, but from all the research we have so far, this seems to be on the order of like less than 1 percent.”There does not appear to be a single study published by an American affirming clinic on regret rates. This isn’t nitpicking, because there has been a genuine revolution in youth transgender care in recent years that is a major shift away from ‘gatekeeping.’ So past studies on regret rates, whether youth or adult contexts, simply can’t tell us much about how to gauge the performance of contemporary American gender-affirming providers.There’s at least some evidence, from one very-well-known affirming clinic, of a high lost-to-followup rate — above 40% — which offers circumstantial evidence of kids discontinuing their hormonal treatment: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29056436/That said, it’s also possible they continued treatment elsewhere, or that some other explanation can account for this. Either way, a lost-to-followup rate of 40% is quite high and might be a warning sign.-Turban has exhibited basic unfamiliarity with the DSM-IV versus -5 criteria for gender dysphoria, as he subsequently seemed to acknowledge by correcting one of his articles: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1341502177920073731Lab leak hypothesis:Long NY Mag piece: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.htmlChait: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/lab-leak-liberal-me

Katie has big news about her faith. After she delivers it, the hosts discuss a pair of media controversies involving Nikole Hannah-Jones and Emily Wilder. Also: Is Kamala Harris Asian? An investigation.Show notes/Links:NC Policy Watch on NHJ: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/05/19/pw-special-report-after-conservative-criticism-unc-backs-down-from-offering-acclaimed-journalist-a-tenured-position/ Washington Post on Emily Wilder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/20/emily-wilder-associated-press-palestine/https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/20/emily-wilder-associated-press-palestine/ SFGate interview with her: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Emily-Wilder-Associated-Press-Israel-Palestine-AP-16192391.php Politico on Kamala Harris's Asianinity: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/kamala-harris-asian-americans-489213 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

After a heated debate over Slack and hummus/Hamas, Jesse and Katie announce a repivoting of the podcast. Then they discuss a gas shortage that almost stranded Katie in an unmentionable hellhole and the careful, measured, polite reaction to a column by the incorrigible Liz Bruenig, who had the temerity to argue, grossly, that she loves her kids and is glad to be a mom.Show notes/Links:International Hamas day: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1392901563207897101?s=20On the pipeline hack: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/Subpar reporting on it: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392108492773810176Fact-checking the bag thing: https://nbc-2.com/news/2021/05/12/fact-check-viral-twitter-photo-of-plastic-bags-full-of-gas-was-taken-in-2019/Bruenig's hate-crime of a column: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/motherhood-baby-bust-early-parenthood.htmlEveryone is completely out of their goddamn minds:https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1391816713008607235 https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391353803174199299https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1391354461566685186 https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391382397585928192 https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391457783506259969https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391459272261779458https://mobile.twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1391540579197235201FdB is correct: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/all-this-s**t-is-high-school 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

Jesse has a new best friend and wants to shout his name to the rooftops. Also, Jesse is not-mad-per-se-but-rather-disappointed at Chase Strangio and would like to talk to him on the pod. Then, the thick-cut tender medium-rare meat of the show: At the University of Washington, a controversy over racism. And at Basecamp, a… controversy over racism. Never let it be said that this show does not range widely.Chase Strangi-No!: https://www.gq.com/story/chase-strangio-on-anti-trans-lawsJesse Mad Online once again: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1390019758595117061This cartoon is like something out of Der Stürmer: https://www.dailyuw.com/cartoons/article_dba3d6da-a640-11eb-a8bc-fb9f1a0fa058.htmlAs is this one: https://preview.redd.it/yvd4q5t2ozv61.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=a90dfd1f3c40f2ead992a6a457b65913ace3b830The newspaper apologizes: https://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/article_fbe3722a-a901-11eb-9b60-bfd0ee0e37e4.html(If you want to send the artist behind both cartoons a supportive note — and of course we will not be including this in the public version of the show notes — he is at [email protected], which we got via his website: https://elijahnpasco.com/contact-1)The legend of Eggman7698: https://www.reddit.com/r/udub/comments/n5zavx/me_when_we_go_back_to_campus_next_fall_quarter/ Literary Editor Resigns After Bathing on Zoom in a Mesh Shirt: https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/joshua-wolf-shenk-resigns-after-bath-on-zoom-in-mesh-shirt.htmlBasecamp: https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-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

No show notes this week.https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=sydney-altman&pid=198401366&fhid=5816 https://donate.adaa.org/give/322300/#!/donation/checkout https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=edith-singal-katz&pid=198433772 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

Richard Dawkins did an oppression with his tweets -- what should be done??? Also, new research suggests, shockingly, that making each and every issue about race 100% of the time might have some drawbacks. These issues and more, discussed thoroughly and vigorously.Jesse's Book "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills": https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Show notes/links:Richard Dawkins is no longer 1996 Humanist of the Year: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments If you talk about transracialism, you're gonna have a bad time: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html The Yalies' paper on racial messaging and progressive policies: https://osf.io/tdkf3/ Jesse's paid post on The Daily Beast's ridiculous coverage of the killing of Ma’khia Bryant: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-daily-beasts-coverage-of-the Jesse's mad about this stuff on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1386347467491454985 Washington Post police shootings database: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ 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

After Katie provides an update about her elderly Trump-and-guns-loving neighbor, the hosts discuss a canine controversy Andrew Yang got himself into that features some of the very most annoying people on Twitter. Then they talk about Facebook's efforts to censor a news article about a Black Lives Matter cofounder's real estate holdings. The back half of the episode is dedicated to Lindsay Ellis's recent social-justice troubles, which, if you squint, are really stupid.Show notes/Links:The controversy that will forever haunt Yang: https://people.com/pets/andrew-yang-defends-giving-up-dog-after-backlash-national-pet-day-post/ NY Post article on Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ real estate purchases: https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/ Fox News on the censorship: https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-bans-sharing-new-york-post-report-blm-co-founder-home-purchases Lindsay Ellis's cancel culture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4 Ellis v. MovieBob -- lotsa gaslighting and such: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/lindsay-ellis-moviebob-snub 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

After Jesse makes a shocking announcement (he's leaving the podcast in pursuit of greater glory), the hosts talk about a spate of bad GOP bills seeking to ban puberty blockers and hormones for minors and how difficult it is to communicate accurate, honest information to the public about this subject. Then they discuss a story Jesse wrote for Reason about a particularly crazy campus blowup in which a bunch of innocent white people were traumatized (physically) by disagreement.Jesse explaining why he is against these bills: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender Jesse annoyed at conservatives 180ing his work: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/conservatives-are-lying-about-what Lupron: https://www.ktnv.com/news/investigations/more-women-come-forward-with-complaints-about-lupron-side-effectsReason story: https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/ FIRE: http://thefire.org/Jeffrey Sachs is good on campus free speech... https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs...and was recently on The Fifth Column: https://shows.acast.com/wethefifth/episodes/229-w-jeffrey-sachs-how-to-be-a-dictator-anti-woke-hypocrisy 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

Soul too dead to provide any notes for this one tbh (plus we have notes for the episode we're discussing here). 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

After Katie opens up about a gruesome injury and Jesse tells a story about a listener's travails at an upscale New York City climbing gym, the hosts discuss Jesse's book, which is out on Tuesday. Specifically, they dig into Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, an anti-PTSD Army program that doesn't work, and the implicit association test, an anti-racism test that... doesn't work. Also, it turns out both hosts are kinda scared of bridges, which feels like something they should dig into at some later date.Show notes/Links:THE BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Jesse's AMA on the subreddit about the book:https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/mhyflz/ask_me_anything_about_my_book_the_quick_fix_which/ Jesse's article on the implicit association test:https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html Jesse on the contact hypothesis: https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/the-contact-hypothesis-offers-hope-for-the-world.html The Robin DiAngelo episode:https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/17 The Robin DiAngelo bonus episode, which is an interview between Katie and a survivor of one of these trainings:https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/bonus2 Kelefa Sanneh on This American Life on diversity trainings:https://www.thisamericanlife.org/648/unteachable-moment 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

Jesse and Katie talk about Jesse's inclusion on a very special list of very special bigots, Katie's addition to the ever-growing list of people who got Doyle'd, and an annoyingly one-sided front-page New York Times piece about online censorship. Then they throw to an interview Jesse did with Jon Chait, an excellent writer and thinker who had a big impact on Jesse's own work over the years.Jesse on the disgraceful GLAAD clusterfuck: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previously-disproven Jon Chait - Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html One of Chait's most recent Russia pieces: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ex-kgb-agent-trump-russian-asset-mueller-putin-kompromat-unger-book.html NYT Mag on Robin DiAngelo: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html Chait on that piece and Robin DiAngelo: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html Jesse on left-wing identitarianism: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/slate-pete-buttigieg-and-the-limited Chait - An Elite Progressive LISTSERV Melts Down Over a Bogus Racism Charge: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-racism-racism-progressive-progressphiles-david-shor.html Moral clarity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html The tweet that got Lee Fang in trouble: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1268390704645943297 Chait v. Higgins: https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1329057894164279296 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

After reflecting on the podcast turning one whole year old next week, Jesse and Katie talk about the massive online uproar over his (and others') continuing presence on Substack, Katie's impressive Brianna-Wu-related fundraising, and the underappreciated connection between GamerGate and 4chan. Then the hosts discuss media coverage of the awful massage-parlor shootings in Atlanta, and particularly the rush to slot them into an oversimplified race narrative.Please consider preordering Jesse's book The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Jon Kay's big Quillette piece on the rumors about Jesse:https://quillette.com/2021/03/18/the-campaign-of-lies-against-journalist-jesse-singal-and-why-it-matters/ Ryan Broderick’s dishonest article about Substack: https://www.garbageday.email/p/starting-to-think-we-are-acting-likeAn interview of Jesse's Ryan would have benefited from reading:https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/against-me-laura-jane-grace-playing-north-carolina.html Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about Substack: https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-payJude Doyle’s dishonest article about leaving Substack:https://doyles.substack.com/p/necessary-lossesBrianna Wu HAS RECEIPTS:https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1371452139856392196Katie’s thread on Wu’s DMs about her and Jesse:https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1371484911773700098Wu’s threatening email to Jesse:https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1371470202030936067Jesse’s story on the Kenneth Zucker clinic:https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.htmlHerzog’s impressive fundraising efforts:https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1372583800480301065There appear to be myriad holes in Zoe Quinn’s story about Alec Holowka, who committed suicide after (but not necessarily as a result of) her accusations and his subsequent firing:https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-zoe-quinns-allegations-are-falling-apartFreddie deBoer’s apology:https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/statementFreddie deBoer’s essay about people’s unwillingness to accept his apology:https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/since-you-askedMelissa Jeltsen’s useful and nuanced thread on the massage-parlor shootings and the temptation of simple storytelling:https://twitter.com/quasimado/status/1372536018721734662Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/whiteness-mass-shootings.htmlBasic info on Robert Aaron Long:https://apnews.com/article/georgia-massage-parlor-shootings-leave-8-dead-f3841a8e0215d3ab3d1f23d489b7af81No, a police captain didn’t blame the shooting on a “bad day”:https://reason.com/2021/03/19/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day/Everyone got the Pulse nightclub shooting wrong:https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/5/17202026/pulse-shooting-lgbtq-trump-terror-hate 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

After responding to some reader feedback about their last couple episodes, the hosts revisit one of the fiercer left-of-center Twitter controversies of the last half-decade: Woke Twitter vs. Brocialist Twitter. There are alligators! And corncobs! And forgotten and since-humiliated internet microcelebrities! It's quite. A. Ride.Please consider preordering Jesse's book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills -- pre- and early orders help a first-time author tremendously: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Show notes/Links:No dice for Neera: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/bernie-supporters-seethes-neera-tanden-441603Some of the deleted tweets: https://www.the-sun.com/news/2387776/what-did-neera-tanden-say-in-now-deleted-tweets/"I didn't slug him, I pushed him": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/tanden-sanders-.html Matt Bruenig pointing out the insanity of the Sarah Kendzior claim that set off Jacobinghazi: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/06/08/opportunistic-misreads/ Bruenig calling Kendzior a liar: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/09/23/what-would-it-take-to-make-sarah-kendzior-admit-this-is-not-true/ Wired on The Alligator Tweets: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/wish-unsee-vile-tweet-alligator-attack/ Bruenig loses his job over "scumbag Neera": https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-joan-walsh-hillary-clinton-223439 Matt Yglesias on Bruenighazi: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos German Lopez on Reid-gate-ghazwhatever: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/27/17286392/joy-reid-msnbc-lgbtq-gay-hack Jesse's brave investigative reporting on corncobs: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/why-is-everyone-on-twitter-suddenly-talking-about-corncobs.html Dril: https://twitter.com/dril Al Giordano accusations: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-giordano-sexual-harassment-school-of-authentic-journalism_n_5aeb5113e4b041fd2d24580c 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

In a bonus interview episode, Jesse interviews Dr. Erica Anderson, a trans woman and Bay-Area-based gender clinician with years of experience working with transgender and gender nonconforming youth. The two discuss the white-hot debate over trans kids, including what comprehensive, compassionate assessment looks like in this field, and how clincians decide when a young person is ready for puberty blockers and/or hormones.Please consider ordering Jesse's book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Show notes/Links:Jesse's long article in The Atlantic about youth gender dysphoria: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ Dr. Erica Anderson's website: https://www.drericaanderson.com/ Her Tretter Transgender Oral History Project video: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll97:194?q=%22Tretter+Transgender+Oral+History+Project+Phase+2%22&sort=title_sort+asc%2C+date_created_sort+desc A Washington Post article quoting Dr. Anderson on the 'trendiness' aspect: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-kids-come-in-saying-they-are-transgender-or-no-gender-these-doctors-try-to-help/2018/01/19/f635e5fa-dac0-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html Jesse's newsletter quoting her on the folly of laws banning youth transition, but also the importance of comprehensive, competent care for TGNC youth: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender There's an insane amount of misinformatino on this subject: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-response-to-foreign-policys-deeply Lisa Littman's rapid onset gender dysphoria study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330 The World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc "In Which I Fail to Find You Any Gate-keeping" by Carey Callahan, a detransitioner: https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f "Gender identity is hard but jumping to medical solutions is worse" by Callahan: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/12/03/gender-identity-is-hard-but-jumping-to-medical-solutions-is-worse 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

Let's put a bow on this Donald McNeil Jr. story. McNeil has fired back with a 20,000-word opus about his travails trying to wrangle a group of young prep-schoolers with very strong feelings about social justice -- and without any booze! What did he really say? How did he say it? How did he handle the girl with the Latino/x boyfriend? Katie and Jesse also discuss media unionization and their exciting upcoming orthodontic endeavors.Show notes/Links:Donald McNeil Jr.'s Medium series: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95 The Daily Beast's original reporting: https://www.thedailybeast.com/star-new-york-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-accused-of-using-n-word-making-other-racist-comments 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

The liberal landscape is littered with race-related meltdowns. After a correction and an update to last week's Reply All episode, Katie and Jesse discuss Mike Pesca's suspension from Slate and a long, infuriating article in the New York Times about false accusations at Smith College.Reply All’s “The Confetti Cannon” episode:https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvh64gThe other side of the argument that Reply All got more political:https://www.reddit.com/r/replyallpodcast/comments/ju3ly4/hot_take_reply_all_is_not_getting_more_political/gca58cv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3Fresh Air on the nature of the protest:https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971319812/reporters-video-from-inside-senate-on-jan-6-shows-a-crowd-prepared-for-violenceNY Times on Deadspin’s implosion: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/media/deadspin-was-a-good-website.htmlDefector’s story on Mike Pesca:https://defector.com/mike-pesca-slate-suspended/NY Times on Pesca:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/media/slate-mike-pesca-suspended.html“Eschew the Taboo: The pernicious effects of banning words” by Christopher Hitchens:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/12/hatred-will-always-outpace-linguistic-correctness.htmlTa-Nehisi Coates on use/mention:https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/to-conversate/66929/John McWhorter on use/mention:https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-n-word-as-slur-vs-the-n-wordMargaret Sullivan with a confusing column:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/mike-pesca-donald-mcneil-n-word-media/2021/02/24/fe89d010-76a1-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html?itid=ap_margaretsullivanStefan Fatsis on this debate in Slate alllllll the way back in 2020:https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/scrabble-offensive-words-ban-player-reaction.htmlThe episode of The Gist where Pesca mentions nonbinary pronouns:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/acosta-out-emily-bazelon-charged-kamala-harris-gun-laws.htmlMichael Powell’s crazy story about Smith College:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.htmlThe ACLU ACLU-ing, hard:https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/smith-college-overhauls-policing-practices-after-blackCathy Young on the "Napping Whilte Black" story at Yale, which was significantly more complicated:https://thebulwark.com/standing-up-to-the-moral-outrage-industry/ Jodi Shaw's latter, as published by Bari Weiss:https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/whistleblower-at-smith-college-resigns Katie on disappearing lesbians:https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-lesbians-gone-0a7 Glenn Greenwald on his experience "trending as a transphobe and biphobe":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXXJoOsdoNE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=GlennGreenwald 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

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy. Reply All, an excellent podcast, is melting down. What happened? What does it have to do with Bon Apetit? Why does new keep breaking immediately after Jesse and Katie record an episode? Show notes/Links:Jesse on his rejection:https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1361125261220196356A couple great episodes of Reply All:The Case of the Missing Hit: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bxShine On You Crazy Goldmanhttps://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/2oh933/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldmanAdam Rapaport resigns (not fired, like Jesse says):https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/872697289/chief-editor-at-bon-app-tit-resigns-after-racially-offensive-photo-surfacesTest Kitchen episodes of Reply All:https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhzkdo/172-the-test-kitchen-chapter-1https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awheda3/173-the-test-kitchen-chapter-2Eric Eddings' thread denouncing Reply All's alleged toxicity:https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668 Everyone reflexively agreeing with it without knowing whether it is 100% true:https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668/retweets/with_comments PJ Vogt's apology:https://twitter.com/PJVogt/status/1362233699220258818Sruthi Pinnamaneni's:https://twitter.com/sruthiri/status/1362254842270519296FdB is not A-OK with NYC (media): https://fredrikdeboer.com/2021/02/15/scott-alexander-is-not-in-the-gizmodo-media-slack 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

Should Gina Carano have been fired from her job on the hit Star Wars show "A Candalabra" for being a dumb conservative with Boomerlike posting tendencies? The whole crew gets together to discuss. Also, Katie talks about her relationship with an old Trump supporter and Jesse looks back fondly on his grad-school trip to Israel and Palestine that solved that conflict once and for all.Show notes/Links: Bret Stephens in the New York... Post???????: https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/read-the-column-the-new-york-times-didnt-want-you-read/Haywire trailer aka Gina Carano waiing on dudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpffbDjWlog&ab_channel=MovieclipsTrailersThe redubbing incident: https://www.slashfilm.com/gina-carano-confirms-voice-altered-haywire/ Robby Soave on Carano: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/disney-cancels-the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-over-provocative-social-media-posts/ Deadline: https://deadline.com/2021/02/mandalorian-gina-carano-lucas-film-responds-to-controversial-statement-1234691898/The "anti-Semitic" post that clearly isn't: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1359701663901245442The Freedom for Humanity mural Carano eventually posted a version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_HumanityA Carano-sympathetic take: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/people-are-trying-to-cancel-gina-carano-for-what-exactly/Jesse in Ramallah, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict via the healing power of sport: 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

Jesse and Katie talk about a disturbing bit of listener feedback and the recent departures from the Times, under questionable circumstances, of Andy Mills and Donald McNeil Jr. Are the worst norms of campus culture seeping into major media institutions? To hear the answer, you'll have to listen. (It's 'yes.')(Correction: At around 8:00 in the recording, Jesse originally referred to Rukmini Callamachi as a "woman of color." She isn't one. The error has been snipped out and free listeners will never hear it. Jesse apologizes for the misracing. Also, race is a poisonous fiction.)Show notes/Links:The Cut on Andy Mills: https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/at-wnyc-an-uncertain-path-out-of-scandal.htmlHis resignation note: https://www.andymills.work/resignation The Times on both resignations: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/business/media/donald-mcneil-andy-mills-leave-nyt.html John McWhorter is skeptical of collapsing the use/mention distinction: https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-n-word-as-slur-vs-the-n-wordNHJ not great on anonymous sources...: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1358780440774082561 ...or the question of whether the NYT has published "that word" much: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1358781725652975618 Because it has: https://rb.gy/pm6bpc 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

After Jesse tells Katie a touching story about shoveling food into his face-hole, and the hosts discuss his latest Twitter-feud -- this one with a noted New Yorker food critic (not staff writer) -- the hosts discuss a Slate article about detransition that seems geared at painting that communtiy in a particularly negative and reactionary light. But Cary Callahan, a detransitioner, therapist, and activist (who, to be fair, Katie and Jesse already knew before this all popped up), doesn't think this is a fair assessment, so she joins the pod for a conversation about her own experiences and what she thinks the Slate article misses.Show notes/Links:Jesse criticizes Helen: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1354851768090439684 Helen's thoughtful response forces Jesse to reconsider his position: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1355200463029874693 https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1355974150129655813 The Slate article about detransitioners: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/detransition-movement-star-ex-gay-explained.html Katie's detrans article: https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent Jesse's detrans article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ Carey Callahan's excellent stuff:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CareyCallsBS The Economist: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/12/03/gender-identity-is-hard-but-jumping-to-medical-solutions-is-worse Medium:https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/in-which-i-fail-to-find-you-any-gate-keeping-622c447a835f https://medium.com/@mariacatt42/how-to-do-your-own-differential-diagnosis-and-why-its-total-b******t-that-you-would-have-to-461077985659 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

After Katie tells Jesse about a very disturbing dream she had about him, the hosts perform some valuable service journalism by explaining to listeners the nature of stonks and bons and hedge funs. Then they turn their attention to the story of Lauren Wolfe, a New York Times gig-editor who was fired after tweeting that watching Joe Biden's plane land gave her the 'chills.' Fair? Unfair? Inconsistently applied standards? Lot to unpack.Show notes/Links:STONKS:https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stonks https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/the-complete-morons-guide-to-gamestops-stock-roller-coaster/Lauren Wolfe:Yashar Ali's thread: https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1352471654425743361 Josh Shahryar's thread: https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1353142366656372741 Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/lauren-wolfe-tweet-nyt-dismissal/ Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/inside-the-new-york-times-firing-of-lauren-wolfe Yascha Mounk on the firing of David Shor: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ Katie on Jack Smith IV: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/28/33049349/a-progressive-writer-was-bad-boyfriend-and-then-he-was-fired-for-it 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

Katie and Jesse bring on Ethan Watters, an author and freelance journalist who helped debunk the recovered-memory craze back in the 1990s, to discuss the most recent development in that area: an article in The Cut that Watters does not think does a good and accurate job relating the (scant) scientific evidence for recovered memories. The hosts and Watters also discuss certain arguable therapeutic parallels between the recovered-memory movement and treatment for youth gender dysphoria, as well as the general tendency of liberals to violate their "We <3 Science" stance fairly regulary when moral outrage is afoot.Show notes/Links:The Cut article in question: https://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controversy.htmlAnd the podcast: https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/the-cut-podcast-the-truth-about-false-memories.htmlEthan's books:Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Monsters-Memories-Psychotherapy-Hysteria/dp/0520205839 Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crazy-Like-Us/Ethan-Watters/9781416587095 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