This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist and commentator Brad Polumbo to discuss the latest allegations against Libs of TikTok. Plus, an intersectional pile-up featuring non-binary influencer Jeffrey Marsh and Muslim comic Shumirun Nessa. https://twitter.com/brad_polumbo https://www.instagram.com/bradpolumbo/?hl=en Damage Control “Anti-Trans Policies Draw Scrutiny After 16-Year-Old’s Death in Oklahoma” “Libs of TikTok under fire after nonbinary Oklahoma student's...

As a bonus to BARPod listeners, here’s the audio of a February 20 live event at the Village Underground where Jesse interviewed Rob Henderson about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, which you should definitely buy. Enjoy! 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, Katie is joined by fan favorite Helen Lewis to discuss a schism in the British gender critical movment. Plus, goblin porn. https://www.theatlantic.com/author/helen-lewis/ https://twitter.com/helenlewis https://bsky.app/profile/helenlewis.bsky.social “Why it’s ok for boys to play with dolls” Posie Parker: “John Lewis and the dreadful little emperors” Janice Turner: “Debbie Hayton: the trans woman taking on the trans activists” To hear more, visit...

This week on the the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Larry David’s actual literal abuse of a human child. Plus, Emily Gould has regrets, WHYY forces a black rapper out for using the n-word (“ninja”), a very gray weed market, inconvenient hate crimes, and more. “Surveillance shows vandals who wrote racial slur on cars at Providence… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Suzy Weiss to discuss the movement to save a black family from eviction in Portland, Oregon. Plus, dating while problematic, the spread of polyamory, and Suzy makes an argument in favor of good old fashioned cheating. https://twitter.com/SnoozyWeiss Tyler Austin Harper: “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad” OPB: “A racist history shows why Oregon is still so white” Willamette Week: “Armed Activists Seized Three Blocks of a North...

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, man’s best friend Tracing Woodgrains joins Jesse to discuss a strange case of government DEI gone wrong. Plus, personals are back, baby, and did Elon kill cancel culture? https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/175… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by longtime radio and podcast producer Andy Mills to discuss the scandal that nearly killed his career. The Daily Caliphate The Witch Trials of JK Rowling NYT: “New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards” NYT: “Two Journalists Exit New York Times After Criticism of Past Behavior” A Note from Radiolab The Daily: “Delilah” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the attempted cancelation of Canadaland publisher and host Jesse Brown over allegations that he’s a genocidal monster. Plus, news from the very online state of Oklahoma, Dear Prudence revisits the past, and a podcast announcement. (Update, 1/28/2024: At around 59:56 in the original version of this episode published for premium subscribers, in a brief digression that touched upon violent hate crimes linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict...

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a particularly ambitious crossover between leftist streamer Hasan “Nepo Nephew” Piker and alleged Houthi pirate and/or terrorism-tourist and/or freedom fighter Rashid Al Haddad aka Timhouthi Chalamet.… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the case of Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and technologist attempting to live forever who was recently sued by his former girlfriend for being a giant prick (and not in a good way). Plus, aphantasia, polyamory, and Jesse complains some more that Substack doesn’t have enough Nazis. MartyrMade: “God’s Socialist: The Rise and Fall of Peoples Temple” MartyrMade: “Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem” Bryan Johnson’s statement...

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a recent article by former New York Times editor James Bennet on the infamous 2020 Tom Cotton column that got Bennet fired. Plus, toilets. Tom Cotton: “Send In the Troops” James Bennet: “When the New York Times lost its way” BARPod episode 13: The Be… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie dig into allegations that Substack is sheltering Nazis like so many Jews in an attic. Plus, world’s best/worst Wife Guy Bill Ackman continues to post. To support the show: become a Primo subscriber and get three extra episodes a month and more. Jonathan Katz: “Substack Has a Nazi Problem” https://substack.com/content Patrick Casey archive Substackers Against Nazis open letter Substack Shouldn’t Decide What We Read open letter To hear...

This week on the Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the ongoing saga of Claudine Gay, the scholar, plagiarist, and former president of Harvard University. Plus, updates. Scientific American: “The Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and Inaccurate” https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/how-the-unitarian-universalist-church Kate Rohde: “The Ideological Takeover of the Church I...

This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss an evergreen debate on the internet: surrogacy. Julie Bindel: “The Pimping of Pregnancy” Julie Bindel: “Surrogacy Stories” Julie Bindel: “End Womb Trafficking” “The Conservative, Pro-Life Case Against Surrogacy” “I… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Returning champion Helen Lewis is back with our traditional Christmas quiz about the dumbest online events of the year. Plus: the Satanic Temple goes nuts. “A Satanic Rebellion: Social justice collides with the Satanic Temple.” “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat” “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-obsessed State Fall For An Authoritarian Governor?” https://www.theatlantic.com/author/helen-lewis/ twitter.com/HelenLewis The quiz (answers here) * In January, kickboxer Andrew Tate started an...

This week on the premium edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest YA blow-up, this one involving racism(?), review bombing, and an evil Star Wars stan who was just trying to be a good friend. Pushups Kat Rosenfield: “The Toxic Drama of YA Twitter” Kat Rosenfield: “Twitter Forces a Rising Star to Self-Cancel” To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss allegations of Literal Murder against perpetual Twitter villain Bari Weiss. Plus, the Zei Squirrel vs Destiny origin story. Refaat Alareer: “My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’” NYT: “In Gaza, a Contentious Palestinian Professor Calmly Teaches Israeli Poetry” EuroMed: “Israeli Strike on Refaat al-Areer Apparently Deliberate” Drew Pavlou on Alareer’s tweets:...

This week on the premium edition of Blocked and Reported, a gay bar in Chicago unionizes and the saga of the Bad Art Friend concludes. To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To get our very popular merch, shop here. The Nation: “Chicago’s Labor Movement Is Looking Very Queer These Days” … To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the recent Congressional hearings on antisemitism and free speech on campus. Plus, NaNoWriMo updates (sorry). To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To get our very popular merch, shop here. Jonathan Chait: “The College Presidents Were Right About Campus Antisemitism” NYT: “College Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism” “FIRE to Congress, university presidents: Don’t expand...

This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Calla Walsh, a young activist who got her start stumping for establishment Democrat Ed Markey before pivoting to a career as a freedom fighter. Plus, Communist heir Fergie Chambers. To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss an ongoing diaper-loving drama within the NaNoWriMo fandom (starts at 21:45). Plus, a Deadspin writer and Portland anarchists find themselves in the s**t. Also: Jesse turns 40 and has a wild story about eggplant parmesan that really captures the onset of middle age. To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To get our very popular merch, shop here. WaPo: “Half of evangelicals support Israel because they...

This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the long-anticipated cancellation of Ireland’s most aggravating export since U2: Paddy Cosgrave. Plus, your letters.  To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.  “… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Andrea James, the stochastic terrorist trans activist with a website and a grudge. Plus, gay furry hackers target a nuclear lab and Saira Rao gets canceled. Jesse’s fifth-grade yearbook page: And in cake form: Engadget: “Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear” lab Jesse: “The rage behind Transgender Map” Alice Dreger: Galileo’s Middle Finger Alice Dreger: “The controversy surrounding The man who would be Queen: A case...

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the furor over a self-described autogynephile who wore a dress to a gender conference. Also, Zoomers discover 9/11. To support the show and get extra content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here. Nat Geo: “‘The perfect revenge'? Birds are building fortresses from anti-bird spikes” Yashar with some breaking 9/11 news Tablet: “The Franklin Prophecy” Osama bin Laden’s Letter to America Alice Dreger:...

This week on the Primo epsiode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie decuss a new article in the Journal of Controversial Ideas and decide once and for all if zoophiles should be imprisoned far from animals for life or given a paw print on the Pride flag. To support the show and get extra content an… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org