This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse re-examines the case of the Citibike Karen who wasn’t. Or was she? Then, Katie tells Jesse about the outrage over two Lululemon employees who were unjustly fired for reporting thieves to the police. Or were they?Become a Primo here. NY Post: “NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer”NBC New York: “Bellevue Worker in Citi Bike Fight Video Has Receipts Showing She Rented It: Lawyer”NewsOne: “Mother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’”The Guardian: “Billion-dollar Lululemon under fire for promoting 'resist capitalism' event”National Review: “Lululemon Fires Atlanta Employees for Calling Police During Robbery”Business Insider: “Ex-Lululemon staffers say they were fired for reporting robbery to police”Sky New Australia: “'Absolute insanity’: Lululemon staff fired for calling cops to report robbery”Free Beacon: “Lululemon Fires Two Employees Who Called Police on Masked Robbers”11 Alive News: “Lululemon employees fired after robbery for breaking policy, they say”Daily Mail: “Lululemon is slammed for FIRING staff who confronted masked thieves as they brazenly ransacked Georgia store and dashed out with armfuls of pricey yoga gear - because they 'broke employee policy'” 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 discuss the concept of community within marginalized groups, the controversy surrounding referring to females as 'boys', their favorite characters in the game 'Slay the Spire', and the lack of conservative guests on the show.

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie Herzog tells Jesse Singal the about the birth, death, and rebirth of Toronto’s Anarchist Cafe, and then the two discuss recent recent events in Karen-land. To become a Primo, join here. Toronto Star: “The Anarchist, Toronto’s anti-capitalist cafe, is closing after getting scalded by capitalism”Inc: “Of Course the Anarchist Café Closed for Lack of Profits, Funding. But Anti-Capitalism Didn't Doom It”NYT: “Uber’s Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity”NBC New York: “Video of NYC Hospital Worker's Citi Bike Confrontation Under Review, Bellevue Says”NY Post: “NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer”NBC New York: “Bellevue Worker in Citi Bike Fight Video Has Receipts Showing She Rented It: Lawyer”NewsOne: “Mother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse Singal explains what the kids are up to these days, and—content warning—it’s gaming and it’s disgusting. Plus, Katie Herzog goes full lib woketard on a panel about free speech by arguing that the government should not, in fact, ban underwater gender basketweav… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

In Part 2 of our series on the unhinged five-year harassment campaign against Patrick Tomlison, Katie and Jesse discuss the suspects. (Listen to Part 1 first.)Jackie Singh: “The Swedish Connection: Unraveling America’s Swatting Terror” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the show, Katie Herzog tells Jesse Singal how a tweet about Norm MacDonald led to an unhinged five-year harassment campaign, and the woman trying to solve the mystery of who is behind it. Jackie Singh’s HackingButLegal.comWashington Examiner: “Senior Biden campaign cybersecurity expert participated in racist internet troll group”Weev on Singh aka JaxJackie Singh: The Swedish Connection: Unraveling America’s Swatting TerrorVice News: “A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America”Encyclopedia Dramatica on Patrick TomlinsonDaily Beast:  “Internet Trolls Have Tormented This Sci-Fi Writer for Years—and He Can’t Stop Them”Patrick Tomlinson: “How Trolls Hack Twitter to Silence the Rest of Us” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

This week on the Primo, Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal discuss a new profile of Liz (née Elizabeth) Holmes and decide once and for all if the paper of record is laundering Liz’s laundry. NYT: “Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on the show, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog discuss the recent killing of a homeless man on the New York City subway and the less recent killing of a fox in the UK. Featuring: A Michael Jackson impersonator, a marine, the American media, Jo Maugham and Jo Rowling (no relation). Also, please come to this FIRE event with Katie at the University of Washington on May 12th. It’s about free speech and it’s, appropriately, free. Part 1:The subway video New York Magazine: “Daniel Penny Identified As the Man Who Choked Jordan Neely to Death”CNN: "Man dies after being put in a chokehold by another rider on New York City subway, officials say. The DA is investigating”NBC News: "Video shows NYC subway confrontation end with fatal chokehold"NYT: "No Arrest in New York Subway Chokehold Death, and Many Want to Know Why"Roxanne Gay: “Making People Uncomfortable Can Now Get You Killed”Jonathan Rosen: “American Madness”Part 2: Jolyon’s windmillJolyon's recordJolyon’s partyJolyon’s ProjectThe LGB AllianceThe Critic Magazine: Taking the clown seriouslyThe Daily Mail: Is Jolyon the fox-killing Brexit-loathing barrister with a penchant for silk kimonos the most ludicrous man in Britain?The Spectator: Jolyon Maugham’s opening sentence might be the worst of all time 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

Halt, vagrant! Hailest thou from the tribe of the latinx? Or ypipo? LGBTQIA2+ or cishet? Art thou based, or cringe? Don thine helmet and draw thy sword, for this week on Blocked And Reported, we defend our honor! First, Katie Herzog duketh it out with Jesse Singal to determine who shall inherit the kingdom of Blocked And Reported in the event one of them should die. Then, Jesse attacketh the honor of Ed Yong, highly decorated knight of journalism and recipient of a Pulitzer medal. Alas, Jesse striketh at his most subpar front-page article for The Atlantic, laying bare its inaccuracy for all to see. Then, the denizens of Twitter come after Jesse Singal for his coverage of the St. Louis Transgender Center. After Jamie Reed laid bare its most dishonorable treatment of trans children, it attempteth to repair its honor by investigating itself and finding itself innocent! But by doing so, our intrepid duo expose even more of its dishonest acts…And finally, TikToker @jackielabonita is mocked at a baseball game, leading the dezinens of the ‘net to come to the defense of the poor maiden’s honor — including none other than legendary bard Cardius of B. But why hath honor culture suddenly returned to America of all places? What if it were white women who hath mocked a black woman? Do Jewish gamers have honor culture? Listen in as our brave knights don their philologist hats and investigate!Also there are bears f*****g for some reason???The links Katie clickedhttps://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1651039681407078400https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1651279526310166549New York Post: “Conor Skelding loses battle with cancer”https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/new-york-post-reporter-conor-skelding-loses-battle-with-cancer/The episode of ours that led to the viewer responsesThe Ed Yong DebunkingThe Atlantic’s story on 1/5 healthcare workers quitting due to COVIDhttp://web.archive.org/web/20211117011521/https://www.theatlantic.com/The survey citedhttps://morningconsult.com/2021/10/04/health-care-workers-series-part-2-workforce/A debunking of this claimhttps://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/if-1-in-5-healthcare-workers-have-quit-where-have-they-gone.htmlJesse Singal & Bari Weiss EXPOSEDThe callouthttps://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1649784774603468800The article they’re citing, accidentally proving Jesse righthttps://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article274573836.htmlNBC News article on the casehttps://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/st-louis-gender-clinic-accusations-unsubstantiated-internal-investigat-rcna81233Jesse’s articles on the Transgender CenterDefining “reasonable care”https://www.lauensteinlaw.com/news/2017/06/19/defining-reasonable-care-and-negligence/Why you shouldn’t trust the right-wingers’ investigations, eitherhttps://ballotpedia.org/Andrew_Bailey_(Missouri)Missouri restricting transition care for adultshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/us/missouri-transgender-health-care.htmlThe new emergency regulationshttps://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/2023-04-13---emergency-reg.pdfKatie’s leaked yearbook photohttps://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/12woca6/guess_who_in_high_school/TikTokThe “girl-on-girl action” at a baseball game that started it allhttps://www.tiktok.com/@jackielabonita/video/7224738861270715690Twitter’s massive reactionhttps://twitter.com/cupid4joon/status/1649920143290519552Even Cardi B gets involvedhttps://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1649972293093715969Cultures of honorhttps://social.psych.iastate.edu/about-my-research/research-on-culture-of-honor/The Insider article on the blowuphttps://www.insider.com/jackie-labonita-mocked-women-doxxing-backlash-tiktok-2023-4Other commentators weigh inhttps://www.tiktok.com/@t514grl/video/7224989934271122731?q=stitch%20%40jackielabonita&t=1682340093109Freddie DeBoer on online shaminghttps://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/perhaps-a-wave-has-crested 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

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 had footed the bill for LeBron James, Stephen King, and — her?! No way.I gazed at the smoke detector above me, two rectangular holes where its batteries should be, and flipped to File #2. A writer for The Atlantic named Ed Yong had crossed the line from “journalist” to “activist”, going after everyone questioning the narrative on “long COVID”. Something about the evidence he used smelled fishy as hell. I put it to the side — this was one for Jesse to handle.The last file was something else entirely. I took a drag of my cigarette, watching the smoke curl lazily towards the ceiling as I kept reading. An old grandma gets raided by the DEA for traffickin’ human growth hormone. No charges. Turns out what she was pushin’…wasn’t exactly intended for human consumption. Then the FDA busts a lady importing “beauty products” from Hong Kong. Confiscate her cars, her mansions. A spreadsheet she kept shows she moved a whopping $10 million worth of product.“You think they’re connected?”“A listener tipped us off. Said her cat needed meds, but they’re illegal. The dame says her vet pointed her towards a Facebook group that could hook her up under the table. I think they’re the missing link. Real secretive, though. Won’t talk to anyone who’s not a buyer, so I sent them an invite, pretending to be —"Suddenly, the phone rang. A booming voice on the other end spoke. “Your invitation to join FIP Warriors® 5.0 has been accepted.”I stood up and brushed the flakes of weed off my trenchcoat as Trace unholstered his trusty snubnose revolver and adjusted his fedora.“Start the car, Trace. Looks like we’re going undercover.”Blue ChecksThe results of the legacy checkmark removalhttps://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/1649162600826167296https://twitter.com/thatfrood/status/1649179696226000897?s=20https://twitter.com/realrickpaulas/status/1649136628915380226?s=20Musk buys Twitter Blue for Stephen Kinghttps://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1649147510525423626Long COVIDEd Yong’s article on Long COVIDhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/long-covid-symptoms-invisible-disability-chronic-illness/673773/The CDC on Long COVIDhttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/index.htmlEvidence is mixed as to whether vaccines reduce the chances or severity of long COVIDhttps://www.kff.org/policy-watch/long-covid-what-do-latest-data-show/Household Pulse survey on Long COVIDhttps://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htmFederal Reserve report on Long COVIDhttps://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/long-covid-cognitive-impairment-and-the-stalled-decline-in-disability-rates-20220805.htmlSurvey about discrimination against those with long COVIDhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277317Jesse’s response to the articleThe New Republic: We Might Have Long Covid All Wronghttps://newrepublic.com/article/168965/might-long-covid-wrongStuart Ritchie: Does Long Covid really exist?https://unherd.com/2021/06/does-long-covid-really-exist/Ed Yong’s first article on Long COVIDhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/The Kitty CartelThe Atlantic’s 2020 piece on black-market cat remdesivirhttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/remdesivir-cats/611341/Business Insider’s articlehttps://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-treatment-cats-fip-sold-10k-black-market-2020-6?r=US&IR=TRobin says she doesn’t get kickbackshttps://www.reddit.com/r/cureFIP/comments/11qv50c/proof_that_robin_has_previously_claimed_they_dont/OneZero: Inside a Facebook ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ for Cat Drugshttps://onezero.medium.com/desperate-cat-owners-are-buying-illegal-cat-drugs-on-facebooks-black-market-cd40bfe90997Cure FIP exposes FIP Warriorshttps://www.curefip.com/post/drama-fip-telenovelasFIP Warriorshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/804374446995270FIP Global Catshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/595916822107282Zen By Cathttps://www.zenbycat.org/ 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