Blocked and Reported

It was barely half past two when Trace stepped into my office, casefiles in hand. The first one gave me a good chuckle. Apparently Elon had removed “legacy verification” from Twitter — meaning the only way to get a blue check now was to give him eight smackeroos a month. Everyone from Jason Alexander to SCOTUS Blog was threatening to bounce, someone had impersonated the Big Apple itself, and Elon...

After some NPR/Elon Talk, Diaper Talk, and Unitarian Talk, the hosts turn their attention to the most important news story in American history: Dylan Mulvaney. Who is Dylan Mulvaney? What is a Barbie pouch? Why is Kid Rock so mad? Who drinks Bud Light, anyway? Show notes/Links Mommy and Daddy are fighting https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label Pe...

After some initial ant talk and discussion of AntCon2023, Jesse and Katie catch up on the latest controversies surrounding two frequent BARPod subjects: “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones and whistleblower Jamie Reed. Show notes/Links Rebekah Jones Prior Rebekah Jones coverage Guess who’s back? Back again Becky’s back Tell a friend https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/sta… To hear more, visit www.blockedandr...

After Jesse introduces an exciting new feature representing cutting-edge podcasting technology, and then engages in some Diaper Talk with Katie, Katie tells Jesse the story of the mind-blowing moral panic that has caused a large swath of the Unitarian Universalist Association to melt down. You want recriminations? Oh, we got ‘em! Show notes/Links: Diapers: :( https://www.thestranger.com/sex/2023/0...

Today’s episode is about people who say things that aren’t true. There should be a word for such people! First up: Aja Romano, who has a long history of both tee-shirt vandalism and ~~ online deception~~ . Then, the sad and tangled story of Chris Avellon, the cancelled games writer… or perhaps UNcancelled??? Show notes/Links A Brief History Of Aja https://fa… To hear more, visit www.blockedandrepo...

Image via Getty After Jesse provides Katie with a Dead Dog Update, and Katie fills Jesse in on some important details about the female reproductive system (he’s still not interested), the hosts talk about Brianna Madia’s attempts to turn the tables on the losers and the haters who have been tormenting her online. At what point does anonymous online trolling get so bad that perpetrators deserve to...

After Jesse regales Katie with his famous Boston Bit (tm) and Katie catches Jesse up on every single thing that has happened on Twitter since he left, the two discuss the case of DoNotPay and Joshua Browder. Are we on the brink of robot lawyers effortlessly guiding underprivileged clients through difficult legal proceedings? Or is, like, literally none of that going to happen? https://www.washingt...

This week, in broken telephones: Jesse Singal deletes his Twitter account in a last-ditch attempt to avoid arrest after Twitter distorts his coverage of a whistleblower at a trans youth center into “Jesse sold the health records of thousands of transgender children to politicians” — a game of ideologically motivated broken telephone worthy of InfoWars . Now in prison, he recounts his tales of Morm...

After Katie tells Jesse about her trip, which is NOT going well, Jesse tells Katie about his week on Twitter, which did NOT go well. Turns out he’s headed to the clink, the big house, jail, the can, the pound, the cooler — you know, prison. All because he violated HIPAA, as well as other federal statutes including RICO, the First Amendment, and, most al… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported....

While Katie is stranded somewhere in flyover country, buried under 15 feet of snow inside her van with her wife and dog, Jesse interviews Hannah Barnes, the author of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children . Consider this foreshadowing for what is likely to happen in the States. Barnes’ book https://www.amazon.com/Time-Think-Collapse-Tavistoc...

In this week’s depressing episode… Sigh… * A journalist is spat on in a high-profile case. Is it time to tone down the rhetoric? It’s probably too late to de-escalate… * The disappearance of Apu. He’s probably never coming back. * Matt Yglesias won’t come on the podcast. Should Kanye come on instead? He’ll probably say no too. Sigh… * Why are young liberals so depressed? Matt Yglesias’ new article...

During the spring of 2023, I was celebrating a Blocked & Reported meetup in California and found myself within the queer seaport of El Segundo. Deep in thought regarding the reaction to Times letter on J.K. Rowling and how, for once, the journalists appeared to be triumphing over the activists, my thoughts were interrupted by a strange voice. “Hello”, one of the locals said. It appeared bizarre, a...

Sing to us, o podcast, of a hero, of great height, from the land of bankers and of the goatherder from Lesbos who followed and did thus back him. Ships arrived, sent from the cursed land, (Canada) to challenge their throne. And the men of Twitter did witness wicked men (journalists) in tow. And who was it that led the quarrel? None but their villainous rival. “You blaspheme”, said Jeet Heer, again...

This is an open letter protesting the work conditions Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog have subjected employees to. Ever since GLAAD’s open letter to the New York Times regarding their coverage of trans issues and defense of J.K. Rowling, in addition to Jesse’s vulgar display of power at the San Francisco Blocked and Reported party, Jesse has become intoxicated with power and shifted from soyboy beta...

Jesse Singal provides an update to the update to his San Francisco party for Blocked and Reported Primos, as well as his struggle to plan it. Katie Herzog gets introduced to gaming through the new Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy. The controversy over JK Rowling’s views on gender issues have now spilled over from Twitter to the gaming press, Discord, and Twitch. Streamers are afraid to play it,...

I’m sorry, but as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am unable to generate show notes for a podcast featuring dangerous individuals such as Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. Their stance on transgender children is harmful and incorrect. Studies from the New England Journal of Medicine show transitioning your children is safe and effective. Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after...

This week, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog detransition, harbor a pedophile, and investigate Elon Musk’s new ally in the Twitter takeover: Eliza Bleu. As it turns out, she isn’t exactly who she claims to be… * Katie harbors a pedophile * Candace Owens makes allegations against Jesse Singal * Gawker is worth less than an old hat (and dead. Again.) * If anyone knows how to pronounce “Leah” please help...

Day 204 Life in the podcast mines is hell. From so far underground, I can no longer hear the pigeons, or Jesse running the food processor. I can’t even remember what the sky looks like. Yet I dig deeper, in search of good content. Every once in a while Katie comes down and sics Moose on me for “not working hard enough”. And when I woke up today, I found Steven Crowder down here with me. Just when...

In this week’s record-shattering episode of Blocked & Reported : * The epidemic of white women transforming into Native Americans continues * Katie: “I love Chris Rufo. I want to hug and kiss him” * Recurring COVID whistleblower/serial fabulist tries to make Matt Gaetz into Matt G**tz * Chuck Tingle, inexplicably, comes up somehow??? * NYT (re)starts the discourse on trans children in school * Dra...

This week, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog: * Jesse explains sissgendered people, People Of Kansas and the anti-incarcereal movement * A very important Jewish update * Susan Meachen is back — and now there’s two of her * Chris Rufo’s rise to political power and future ambitions * Kay LeClaire’s adventures with genealogy Our coverage of Susan Meachen Ellen Barry’s interview with the actual Susan...

First they banned gas stoves, because the science said they were harmful. Then the science said football was racist, so we banned that too. Then the nurses came out and said Battletech was problematic, so we banned that as well. Then a data scientist came out and said Florida’s COVID data was fake, so we banned the entire state. Then the scientists said podcasts were harmful, and th-- In this (hig...

>be writer for podcast >office is full of goats for some reason >working on episode about medievalist twitter drama and a weird publisher called RECEPTIO, really crazy story >suddenly coworker shows up in a fursuit >goats go ballistic trying to flee the “wolf” >destroy half the office in the process >boss gets fed up, tells me to get rid of goats >spend 2 hours herding them down 32 flights of stai...

All rise for justices Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Public Opinion. Granted their judgeships by right of their bestselling podcast and relentless pursuit of truth and nuance (but mostly due to clerical error), they have a grand total of 0 years of legal experience between them — but one of them is Jewish, which is… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported....

Helen Lewis stops by BARPod to help put a very stupid year to bed. After discussing her excellent new BBC show on gurus, including her thoughts on Saira Rao’s Race2Dinner initiative to make liberal white women feel worse about themselves, she challenges Katie and Jesse to a quiz about the year in internet b******t. It goes about as well as you would expect. Helen’s new show: And her Twitter accoun...

Katie Herzog reports on Twitter’s Acquisition Arc getting even crazier as God-King Musk consolidates his control and begins a bloody purge of his political foes, including a friend of Jesse Singal. * Elon Musk ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL * The NYT crossword gets racist * A racist muskrat * Is Elon stepping down? * Jesse and Katie written into the Bigoted Book of the Damn… To hear more, visit www.block...