
Blocked and Reported
Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires. www.blockedandreported.org
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Feb 9, 2023 • 12min
Premium: Hormones, Headlines, and ChatGPT: Unpacking the Controversy Surrounding the Trans Kids Study
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 2 Years of Hormoneshttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297?query=featured_homeThe press releasehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976601NBC: “Hormone therapy improves mental health for transgender youths, a new study finds”https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/hormone-therapy-improves-mental-health-transgender-youths-new-study-fi-rcna66306Stat News: “Mental health benefits of gender-affirming hormones for teens persist for two years in new study”https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/18/mental-health-benefits-of-gender-affirming-hormones-for-teens-persist-two-years/SELF: “Yet Another Study Shows That Trans and Nonbinary Teens Benefit From Gender-Affirming Care”https://www.self.com/story/gender-affirming-hormones-teenagers-mental-healthThe Salt Lake Tribune on Utah’s moratorium on youth transitionhttps://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/02/01/kevin-m-korous-systematic-review/Leon Sapir’s tweetstorm on the topichttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1618582382034161664.htmlThe 2013 paper mentionedhttps://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/355235The AAP’s activism-filled 2018 statementhttps://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2018/aap-policy-statement-urges-support-and-care-of-transgender-and-gender-diverse-children-and-adolescents/ To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Feb 6, 2023 • 1h 23min
Episode 150: Katie Harbors A Pedophile, Gawker Dies Again, And Eliza Bleu's Big Lie
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 us* Jesse and Katie are blamed for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill* Jesse describes his lived experience as a detransitionerThe Owens UpdateCandace Owens’ beef with Steven Crowderhttps://www.mediaite.com/news/pray-for-him-candace-owens-takes-steven-crowder-beef-to-slimy-new-depth-warning-she-has-information-on-him/Jesse’s piece on Owens (it always comes back to GamerGate, doesn’t it)https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-social-autopsy-fell-for-gamergate-trutherism.htmlOwens’ unhinged, allegation-packed email to Jessehttps://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1621555606552199171Variety: Gawker Is Shutting Down (Again)https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/gawker-shutting-down-1235509262/Bustle: My Partner Wants Me To Wear A Diaper During Sex. Help!https://www.bustle.com/wellness/diaper-play-sexThe New York Times on Gawker’s relaunchhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/business/media/leah-finnegan-gawker.htmlNu-Gawker: “I couldn’t stop writing fake Dear Prudence letters that got published”https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-alongNu-Gawker: “Failure to Cope ‘Under Capitalism’”https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capitalismLeah Finnegan mourns Nu-Gawker’s demisehttps://twitter.com/leahfinnegan/status/1620785743139590144Is Jesse a detransitioner? (Yes.)https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/10mvzb9/why_did_i_think_that_jesse_was_a_detransitioned/Eliza BleuBleu’s story on MySpacehttps://mcrumorcontrol.livejournal.com/67332.htmlThe Daily Beast: Eliza Bleu’s Own Friends Aren’t Buying Her Trafficking Storyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230201124439/https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-storyEliza Knows: I Refused A Booking Request To Have Sex For $150,000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnfQAPsf58Eliza Bleu tweets about Satanic pedophile ringshttps://twitter.com/Stew27774095/status/1602078059699769344NBC: On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily foundhttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-twitter-elon-child-abuse-material-rcna63621Bleu claims nonconsensual photos of her have been posted online (currently private)https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1616629662511161344What happens when you try to link to the Eliza Bleu music video on TwitterElla Irwin: “we can’t give specific details”https://twitter.com/ellagirwin/status/1619740363622866944?RedState’s now-removed article on Bleuhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230128015015/https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2023/01/27/activist-eliza-bleu-cancels-creators-appears-to-ramp-up-twitter-censorship-n694751 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

Jan 31, 2023 • 19min
Premium: If The Daily Wire Loves Freedom So Much, Why Did It Try To Literally Enslave Steven Crowder?
Day 204Life 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 you think things can’t get any worse…* Jesse processes his dick off* Jesse runs a 4-minute mile, plus or minus 3 minutes* Steven Crowder gets enslaved by The Daily Wire* Primo shoutoutsCrowder: "It's time to stop..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTcq4UCTZ-YCrowder: "I didn't want to do this..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG9BFUEoy1IJacobin: “Right-Wingers Like Steven Crowder Need Billionaire Funders Because Their Ideas Are So Bad”https://jacobin.com/2023/01/steven-crowder-billionaire-funds-media-anti-worker-employment-contracts To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 20min
Episode 149: The NYT Restarts Trans Kids Discourse And A Dimes Square Movie Gets Canceled For Transphobia And Matt Gaetz Is G**
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* Drama at The Music Box when an indie film gets canceled* The rat king of circlejerks takes place in Dimes SquareThe NYT’s “When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.htmlThe Road to Terfdomhttps://lux-magazine.com/article/the-road-to-terfdom/A representative tweet from close personal friend of the podcast Jeet Heerhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1617208577919254529NYT Opinion: “Trans Kids Deserve Private Lives, Too”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/opinion/trans-kids-privacy-gender-identity.htmlAn Instagram post from Chase Strangiohttps://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0PIPkASUh/What is Dimes Square?https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/dimes-squarePeter Thiel’s “anti-woke” film festivalhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/peter-thiel-anti-woke-film-festival-trevor-bazileA privated twitter account says something about the movie, IDKhttps://twitter.com/kryandwhisper/status/1612870613047119875?Air Mail’s Downtown Sethttps://airmail.news/issues/2022-11-19/the-downtown-set*I never bothered to check if this true but it sounds convincing, and that’s what matters. 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

Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 4min
Episode 148: Chris Rufo Takes Over New College Of Florida, Plus Adventures In Genealogy
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 genealogyOur coverage of Susan MeachenEllen Barry’s interview with the actual Susan Meachenhttps://archive.ph/WE2KfIs Idaho teaching porn literacy to kids? (No.)https://www.inlander.com/spokane/no-idaho-schools-are-not-teaching-porn-literacy/Content?oid=24569006Media outlets can’t stop botching the CRT debateRufo: “We are recapturing higher education”https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1611406507815636993The Chronicle of Higher Ed describes an attempt to take over the University of North Carolina in the early 1900shttps://archive.ph/l9VnV#selection-2039.16-2043.1Is Hobbes lying or just dumb?https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1615501756498153472Tone Madison’s coveragehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220707041301/https://tonemadison.com/articles/east-side-venues-name-change-decision-follows-months-of-quiet-pressure/LeClare’s followup in Our Liveshttps://web.archive.org/web/20211028174035/https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/not-yours-to-use/The New Age Fraud websitehttp://www.newagefraud.org/about.htmlAdvancedSmite’s post with over 50,000 viewshttp://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5635.0“Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white”https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/Kay LeClaire vs. Kay LeClaireHow white is Madison City?https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/madisoncitywisconsin/LND110210An unearthed post of hers from 2017Further reading on the casehttps://www.wpr.org/node/2051776https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11599353/Race-fakers-two-year-transformation-white-woman-Indigenous-two-spirit.htmlhttps://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/01/11/madison-pretendian-kay-leclaire-resigns-wisconsin-residency-amid-accusations/69778164007/https://nypost.com/2023/01/04/native-american-faker-kay-leclaire-made-up-stories-about-visions/https://madison365.com/indigenous-community-looks-to-heal-weeks-after-a-pretendian-is-exposed/ 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

Jan 16, 2023 • 1h 4min
Episode 147: Scientists Unite Against Gas Stoves, Football, And The State Of Florida
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 (highly illegal) episode:* Jesse chains himself to his gas stove* A bizarre update on Rebekah Jones, serial grifter and former (?) media darling* Is football racist?* Drama within the Battletech community* Jesse threatens to shoot KatieErrata & UpdatesThe Paula Curtis thread mentionedhttps://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1608146988511690753“Whistleblower Rebekah Jones wins dismissal- at a price.”https://www.mynwfl.com/post/rebekahjonescasedismissedIs Football Racist?The closest thing we could find to a video of the collapse on YouTubeDaniel Engber’s article on the topichttps://slate.com/culture/2015/12/the-truth-about-will-smiths-concussion-and-bennet-omalu.htmlTracy Canada: “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football”https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/damar-hamlins-collapse-highlights-the-violence-black-men-experience-in-football/NFL players aren’t as rich as you’d think!https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/207780/current-and-former-nfl-players-in-the-drivers-seat-after-completing-mba-programThe movie about the NFL concussion scandalhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/“Colin Kaepernick in Netflix series likens NFL draft to slavery”https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/colin-kaepernick-netflix-series-likens-nfl-draft-slavery-no-dignity-rcna4312Foolball players wanted to play during the pandemichttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/sports/ncaafootball/coronavirus-pac-12-restart.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/sports/ncaafootball/covid-big-ten-football-season.htmlNCAA: “All student-athletes must be allowed to opt out of participation due to concerns about contracting COVID-19”https://www.wibw.com/2020/08/05/new-ncaa-guidelines-to-protect-student-athlete-well-being-scholarships-and-eligibility/?outputType=ampFootball players were allowed to maintain their scholarships, even if they refused to playhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/sports/ncaafootball/coronavirus-college-football-pac-12.htmlScientific American: “the term ‘JEDI’ is problematic”https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi-is-problematic-for-describing-programs-that-promote-justice-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/Laura Helmuth’s appointment to EIC at Scientific Americanhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/pressroom/pr/scientific-american-appoints-laura-helmuth-editor-in-chief/Her reaction to the article’s pushbackhttps://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1611877742298939394Former NFL player’s reaction to the articlehttps://twitter.com/TonyDungy/status/1611551363212922881BattletechFaith introduces herselfhttp://acekaller.blogspot.com/2020/06/finding-your-faith.html?m=1Faith finds Battletechhttp://acekaller.blogspot.com/2020/12/faith-finds-battletech-it-dawned-on-me.html?m=1Faith is going to be a motherhttp://acekaller.blogspot.com/2021/04/musings-going-forward.html?m=1The truth about “Faith McClosky”https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/the-truth-about-faith-mcclosky/“Blaine Pardoe is a f****** Liar...”https://web.archive.org/web/20210728204225/https://faithmccarron.blogspot.com/2021/07/blaine-pardoe-is-f-liar.htmlAce denies being J, while surprisingly defending him for some reasonhttp://acekaller.blogspot.com/2021/07/no-you-dont-get-to-lie-and-inflate.html?m=1“My Publisher Canceled Me in Favor of an Activist Who Threatened My Life”https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/29/my-publisher-canceled-me-in-favor-of-an-activist-who-threatened-my-life/Statement Regarding Blaine Lee Pardoehttps://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/statement-regarding-blaine-lee-pardoe/msg1853777/?boardseen#newFaith No Morehttps://acekaller.blogspot.com/2022/12/faith-no-more.htmlPardoe’s responsehttps://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/faithless/ 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

Jan 9, 2023 • 56min
Episode 146: >TFW Your Family Makes You Fake Your Own Death
>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 stairs as they lick me the whole time>soaking wet as I return to the office>boss’s dog stares through the window, sad the goats are gone>”actually, bring the goats back, Anon”>call up other cohost for help>”sorry bro I’m busy doing mushrooms on a gay beach with Andrew Sullivan”>spend 4 hours tracking goats down and herding them back into the office alone>worstdayever.jpeg>at least I managed to land that interview with Susan Meachen>check email>she killed herselfThe tweet Katie was sentAella’s tweetMeachen’s Special Deliveryhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36458042-special-deliveryThe anthology dedicated to Susan MeachenThe RECEPTIO AffairPeter Kidd’s website and twitterhttp://manuscripts.org.uk/https://twitter.com/mssprovenanceKidd’s blogposts on the affairhttps://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.htmlhttps://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.htmlhttps://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.htmlCarla Rossi, the director of RECEPTIOhttps://www.carlarossi.info/RECEPTIO’s board members are fake as well!As well as their legal advisor:When people start catching on, RECEPTIO starts pulling the imagesMore #receptiogate researchhttps://twitter.com/hashtag/ReceptiogateSome involved with RECEPTIO actually are real, but listed without permissionMore plagiarismRECEPTIO posts a response video to YouTube of all thingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_H140rgcw 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

Jan 4, 2023 • 17min
Premium: We Judge Thunberg v. Tate And TikTok Psychics v. The Idaho Quadruple Murders
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.org

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Dec 26, 2022 • 1h 9min
Episode 145: Helen Lewis Challenges Us To An End-Of-Year Quiz About Internet B******t
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 account: https://twitter.com/helenlewisSaira Rao has to be seen to be believedhttps://twitter.com/sairasameeraraoImage: CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE - NOVEMBER 02: Jordan Peterson addresses students at The Cambridge Union on November 02, 2018 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Photo by Chris Williamson/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

Dec 21, 2022 • 15min
Premium: Musk's Massive, Miserable Meltdown
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.blockedandreported.org