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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

Due to budget cuts, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog are forced to create yet another bottle episode, looking back on previous episodes and new developments in their cases.Unsurprisingly, they’ve only worsened with age.* Jesse and Katie become reactionaries* Moose gets hospitalized after eating too many beets* The Carrie Jade Williams case only gets more elaborate and bizarre* Katie enters the Gaytrix and stumbles across a network of fake doctors on Twitter* Jesse continues to refuse to listen to the X-files theme* Katie goes to see the clownselor* The insane, upsetting misconduct that made the Loudoun County case possible* The Basecamp insanity gets… saner?BARPod merch is back!http://barpodmerch.com/The latest saga in the world of psychologyhttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-143-how-bidens-rogue-deputyThe Carrie Jade Williams sagahttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-135-a-monstrous-french-familyDr. Robert Honeymanhttps://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1602552409079054337Our episode on The Twitter Fileshttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-the-twitter-files-the-truthThe Loudoun County casehttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-86-more-dave-chappelle-fallout-afbThe meatier episode on the Loudoun County casehttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-87-hes-got-a-weaponThe Washington Post article Jesse mentionshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/07/loudoun-superintendent-scott-ziegler-fired/The grand jury proceedingshttps://www.loudoun.gov/specialgrandjuryThe email regarding the school district’s actions regarding aforesaid sexual assault (WARNING: graphic)The Washington Post article Jesse mentionedhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/loudoun-schools-sexual-assault-cases/2021/11/15/6502e79a-461e-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.htmlThe indictementshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/3-trials-to-be-held-against-loudoun-school-administrators/2022/12/13/d0288c82-7b42-11ed-bb97-f47d47466b9a_story.htmlThe Basecamp episodehttps://www.blockedandreported.org/p/jesse-makes-a-friend-a-racist-albeit-12cThe ADL’s pyramid of hatehttps://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of-hate.pdfImage: A normal day for the average subject and/or creator of an internet drama podcast (Getty) 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

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Join captain Katie Herzog (and her first mate, Moose) on the high seas as we pursue Sam Brinton, Biden’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy And Lover of Unreasonably Long Titles. The notorious nonbinary air pirate has been declared an outlaw for plunderin’ an airport of its luggage… again. But Katie takes a closer look and finds their crooked ways go back years, having fooled even us.Then, less-important co-captain Jesse Singal investigates what happened when German psychologist Klaus Fiedler took the helm at the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science — and how his quartermaster’s criticism of its race obsession led its American crew to mutiny. Doing so, he crosses paths with the notorious Dark Pirate Jussim and his evil steed, a racist mule whose mere mention is said to bring a ship a thousand years of bad luck.Turns out Jesse’s not the only Jewish heterodox psychology writer on the high seas of Twitter…ARRataThe piece referred to in #103 regarding Brinton’s torture in gay conversion therapy came from LGBT Nation, not LGBT News. Here it is:https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/08/survivor-mit-grad-student-samuel-brinton-remembers-ex-gay-therapy/Caught Rad-HandedOur coverage of Sam Brinton:A picture from the Brinton 2019 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference With An Unreasonably Long TitleNYPost: Sam claims to have stolen the bag by accidenthttps://nypost.com/2022/11/28/non-binary-biden-nuclear-official-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-airport/LGBTQ Nation: “Has Sam Brinton’s story always been too good to be true?”https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/sam-brintons-story-always-good-true/Brinton is on leave due to charges of grand larceny (region-locked article for whatever reason)https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/energy-department-official-accused-of-stealing-luggage-from-las-vegas-airport/Dark Pirate Jussim Sails AgainThe article in questionhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620927709Figures from the articleJussim’s Twitterhttps://twitter.com/PsychRabbleOn the correspondence with Robertshttps://www.chronicle.com/article/i-am-the-victim-a-journal-editor-is-under-fire-after-a-diversity-debate-is-derailedThe PsyArxiv of the emailshttps://psyarxiv.com/xk4yuTwitter responds to the article exactly how you’d expect it toThe open letter to the Association for Psychological Science, denigrating it for “racism, general editorial incompetence, and abuse of power”https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O212esQJDYVuiuvN3OQLg7YOD58PbhlmFjfYV3nREU4/editThe counter-letter from Europe: “An expression of grave concern”https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fxcdNhzuikb4S2OHFTTNP8s2KPqhbxKAlIB_q_XVpjk/editThe email Fielder got from the APS, requesting his resignation:Image description: Brinton flashes the victory sign to their crew after successfully capturing the USS Trevor and her precious cargo of over 500 designer suitcasesThis text has been edited for minor grammatical tweaks. 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

Get ready to bear witness to Milo Yiannopoulos’s return to the world of internet drama, alongside internet “journalists” Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. Today, we delve into the shadowy and malicious role Yiannopoulos allegedly played in the legendary dinner between former president Trump, the rapper formerly known as Kanye, and the white nationalist zoomer influencer currently known as Nick Fuentes.Also discussed: the online outcry over a Balenciaga photoshoot that spilled over into the mainstream media, spurred on by YouTuber-cum-Twitter-influencer Shoe0nHead (June Lapine) and the bipartisan outcry that ensued… and why it’s all quite silly.Et tu, Milo?Links:ErrataUPDATE: Balenciaga has since dropped the suithttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-02/kering-s-balenciaga-drops-lawsuit-over-ad-referencing-child-pornographyGeorge Takei’s Mastodonhttps://universeodon.com/@georgetakeiThe BalenCIAga ConspiracyThe document in question: Scalia’s opinion from United States vs. Williamshttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/553/285/#tab-opinion-1962658Note the dates on the chart and teddy bear (bottom-left)Note the Borremans book on the deskThe closest I can get you to Borremans’ Fire From the Sun without hotlinking an image (obviously NSFW)https://www.google.com/search?q=fire+from+the+sun+michaelThis diploma either reads “John Phillip Fischer” or “L is real 2401”Fischer’s sex crime convictionOli London’s tweet, accusing Balenciaga’s owner of profiting from CPThe sculpture in question, controversially being auctioned by the company that is owned by the company that also owns Balenciaga (NSFW)https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5335329Fox’s indictment of Balenciagahttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6316362543112Slate: “Oh, Dear: Fox News Kind of Has a Point About Those Balenciaga Ads”https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/11/balenciaga-scandal-child-teddy-bears-fox-news.htmlNBC: “TikTok users protest Balenciaga's holiday campaign by destroying bags and shoes”https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/balenciaga-backlash-tiktok-users-destroying-products-rcna59672The Calvin Klein ad from the 90’sAllegedly, it angered even President Clinton!https://www.vogue.com/article/calvin-klein-jeans-90s-ads-kate-moss-mark-wahlberg-controversyI Miss The Old KanyeRecap: Kanye goes “Death Con 3” on the Jewshttps://www.timesofisrael.com/kanye-west-says-hell-go-to-death-con-3-on-jewish-people-after-instagram-ban/The ADL on Fuenteshttps://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-knowAxios: “Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner”https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-knowWATCH: GOP leaders condemn Trump-Fuentes dinnerHe said, Ye said: Ben Shapiro, Kanye West clash over Trump dinner with Holocaust denierhttps://www.jns.org/he-said-ye-said-ben-shapiro-kanye-west-clash-over-trump-dinner-with-holocaust-denier/Fuentes announces he’s taking a break from his stream to join Ye’s campaignhttps://cozy.tv/nick/replays/2022-11-26The Guardian: “Milo Yiannopoulos claims he set up Fuentes dinner ‘to make Trump’s life miserable’”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/milo-yiannopoulos-nick-fuentes-donald-trump-dinnerTheWrap: “Milo Yiannopoulos’ Rise and Fall, From GamerGate to Pedophilia Comments”https://www.thewrap.com/milo-yiannopoulos-timeline-rise-fall-gamergate-pedophilia-breitbart/Milo once owned Dangerous.com!https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/milo-yiannopoulos-sold-website-dangerous/Jesse in NY Mag: “How Breitbart Is Milking the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus-Outrage Outrage Cycle”https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-breitbart-is-milking-the-milo-yiannopoulos-campus-outrage-outrage-cycle.htmlJesse on his newsletter: “No-Platforming Didn’t Wreck Milo — *Milo* Wrecked Milo”Milo, rocking the most heterosexual haircut I’ve ever seenKanye storms out of TimCast interviewRolling Stone’s coverage of the eventhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-nick-fuentes-milo-yiannopoulos-tim-pool-podcast-1234637817/Politico: “Virulently antisemitic comments by Kanye West spark new GOP criticism”https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/01/ye-antisemitism-republicans-hitler-00071695The mental health argumentUnHerd: “Don’t Punish Kanye West”https://unherd.com/2022/10/dont-punish-kanye-west/RAËLISMhttps://jalopnik.com/kanye-banned-twitter-symbol-ufo-sex-cult-racing-driver-1849847363Kanye got substantially more votes per dollar than even Biden!https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-presidential-run-analysis-9477968/Misc.BAP is not happy with any of the figures involved (WARNING: Slurs. A lot of them)https://t.me/BronzeAgePalaestra/685All involved with the dinner say Trump was impressed with Fuenteshttps://www.axios.com/2022/11/25/trump-nick-fuentes-ye-kanyeContrariwise, none were with Trump’s 2024 announcement speechhttps://web.archive.org/web/20221125044521/A heavily detailed TimCast piece on the whole affairhttps://timcast.com/news/exclusive-details-ye-brings-nick-fuentes-and-karen-giorno-to-dinner-with-trump/The Guardian: “Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/donald-trump-shied-away-from-criticising-nick-fuentesGuess who got that article corrected?Patriots.win describes Fuentes as “a short hispanic homunculi that consorts with homosexuals”https://patriots.win/p/16ZWybOvmZ/i-for-one-want-to-welcome-nick-f/c/The alt-right describes Milo as a “paid Zionist operative”https://mainstreettribune.org/2022/11/ye-2024/ This is a public episode. 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Fans are mad at Katie for insulting Elon Musk, conservatives are mad at drag queens for reading to kids, and journalists are convinced conservatives mad at drag queens caused the Club Q shooting. So there’s a lot to discuss.Notes:Background on Aldrich:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-qbar-shooter/https://www.c… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Jesse Singal returns to his ancestral homeland, only to find it in ruins. (Before that, he was on a trip to Israel.) There is panic in the Twitter streets as Elon Musk takes over and “dismisses” over 90% of the staff, including legendary software engineers Daniel Johnson and Rahul Ligma. Impersonation runs rampant and famous figures are permabanned left and right as Musk’s hasty changes to the verification program end in pandemonium.Certain the site is doomed, the Twelve Tribes of Twitter (including Katie Herzog) set out in search of their fabled home: a previously obscure Twitter clone known as Mastodon. But you know what they say: “out of the frying pan, into the fire…”Links:🔊 Musician With Regrets: KLEZMER INCELCORE (Feat. Jesse Forever Single)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TeYfGbisefuZDgLLf99lbhquQMLz0Oum/viewIt’s insane a Michael Moynihan trip to Israel didn’t end with him narrowly escaping via an airlift off the top of the American EmbassyJesse witnesses Israel’s tragic alcoholism epidemic on his trip:WaPo: “When Eli Lilly’s share price sank 4 percent on Friday — in line with a drop in other health care stocks — many Twitter users credited the fake account”https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/14/twitter-fake-eli-lilly/November 17th: “it seems Musk is concerned that not enough employees are buying into his vision of an“extremely hardcore” Twitter” [sic]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-changes-twitters-remote-work-rules-again-225801061.htmlLiterally the next day: “Twitter sued over Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ work rules”https://www.independent.ie/business/world/twitter-sued-over-elon-musks-hardcore-work-rules-42153638.htmlMusk has dismissed “half of [Twitter]’s workforce and most of its executive suite”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-s-first-email-to-twitter-staff-ends-remote-workSemafor: “Eventually, there will be an issue that has to be addressed by SREs [...] the other issue is that there is basically no security team left.”https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/11/24/2022/black-friday-editionMusk: “Vox populi, vox dei”An assorted sampling of Musk’s shitposts:🤣🤣🤣 please help 🤣 make it stop  🤣🤣 i am in excruciating 🤣🤣 🤣 pain 🤣 lmao 🤣🤣🤣https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aelonmusk%20%F0%9F%A4%A3&src=typed_query&f=livePew: Twitter’s users are more left-wing than the general populationhttps://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/NYT: “Mr. Agrawal tweeted to rebut his claims. Mr. Musk responded with a poop emoji.”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/technology/twitter-changes.htmlCarabello: “Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the app store”Business Insider: “A Twitter engineer said he believed he was fired for criticizing Elon Musk on Slack.”https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-worker-jokes-slack-criticism-social-watercooler-2022-11?r=US&IR=TMusk: "New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.”Musk: “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”DeBoer: “I Assure You, Writers Would Be Fine Without Twitter”Jeong for Vice: “Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?”https://www.vice.com/en/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-itWired: “Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.”https://www.wired.com/story/more-software-isnt-better-software/🔞 Matt Skala: Mastodon WTF timeline (ロリコン vs. 児童ポルノ)https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/335The apotheosis of Adam Davidson:The journalists’ Mastodon instance:https://journa.host/exploreBernstein for The Times: “Mr. Davidson told him he had been suspended [from journa.host] for referring to Ms. Molloy as an ‘activist’”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.htmlImage: NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 31: Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 2022 Hallowe'en Party at Sake No Hana at Moxy LES on October 31, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/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

Julie Bindel, noted hatemonger/advocate for ending violence against women, discusses her feminist activism, encounters with a serial killer, skepticism towards transsexuality, and backlash for addressing men, rape, and violence.

Jesse’s been off in Israel resolving and/or exacerbating tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians, FAR too busy to talk to some distant goy like Katie, so here’s an interview he recently conducted with Katherine Dee, an extremely smart and perceptive writer and podcaster on internet culture. Topics include the very… *particular* nature of rationalist gatherings, the perils of parasocial relationships, and the question of what identity means when it’s severed from any sort of embodied, real-world existence.Links:Aella comes on BARPod: Some of Dee’s favorite articles that she has written:Tumblr Transformed American Politicshttps://theamericanconservative.com/tumblr-transformed-american-politics/ Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1 The brief and wondrous life of a scene.The image is the ace pride flag: https://grpride.org/product/asexual-pride-flag/ 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

Inflation is skyrocketing. The economy is down. Not everyone can afford to go see a show. As such, hosts Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog have decided to give back to the community that has taken away so much from us with this recording of a live BARPod show in NYC. First up is the story of how Andrew Tate, legendary exploiter of virgins and Dean of Hustlers University, got unpersoned on social media. Then comes the tantalizing true story of Antifa’s war against an “incelcore” music festival in Atlanta, complete with PROBLEMATIC lyrics, attempted SWATtings, and songs about being watched by the FBI. Virgins just can’t catch a break, can they?Who The #*@#&$ Is Andrew Tate And Does His Existence Prove There Is No God?*Who’s the most famous man on the net?https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F012ds47h,%2Fm%2F0261x8t,%2Fm%2F0c6qh,%2Fm%2F043p2f2The Andrew Tate Supercut (either a dead link, or it requires you to log in to see it. I’m not making a Vimeo account just to figure out which)Duty callshttps://xkcd.com/386/Upworthy on Andrew Tatehttps://www.upworthy.com/a-terrible-tweet-about-depression-has-the-internet-in-an-uproarThe Observer on Andrew Tate: “Inside the violent, misogynistic world of TikTok’s new star, Andrew Tate”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star VirginFestA livestream of the entire eventNegative XP himselfViral fan video of Negative XP’s “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Ruined a Whole Generation of Women” Negative XP’s “I’m A Nazi”Negative XP’s Hitler tweetLyrics to Negative XP’s “I’m a Nazi”https://genius.com/Negative-xp-im-a-nazi-lyricsVirginFest poster for you to print off and hang up in your room for maximum incel credAtlanta Antifa’s Twitter thread on VirginFestHow the cop raid endedPhoto from the show comes courtesy of Jesse’s cousin, Elon Altman. 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