Blocked and Reported
206 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -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.
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Episode 106: Possibly The Craziest And Most Infuriating #MeToo Story You Will Ever Hear
March 12, 2022 16:00 - 1 hourPlus: People got super mad at a New York Times column about campus free speech This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 105: Everything Continues To Suck
March 05, 2022 16:11 - 1 hourThe hosts discuss all the brains that have been melted by Russia’s invastion of Ukraine, the role of race in determining how local populations respond to refugees, and the all-too-common collision of trans rights and lithium mining. If you’d like to discuss this issue with other premium subscribers, click here. Nuclear stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/europe/nuclear-plant-fire-zaporizhzhia-video.html Thursday night, CBS tweeted, alongside an article, https://www.nature.com...
Episode 104: How Wokeness, Toxic Masculinity, White Privilege, And TERFs Forced Vladimir Putin To Invade Ukraine
February 27, 2022 16:18 - 1 hourPlus: DSA drama and Texas AG Ken Paxton's anti-trans memo This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 103: Truckers, Perverts, And San Franciscans
February 19, 2022 19:47 - 48 minutesThe holy trinity This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 102: Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Keep On Trucking
February 13, 2022 18:44 - 1 hourPlus: We should end all work and abolish capitalism This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 101: Should Joe Rogan And/Or Critical Race Theory Be Deplatformed And/Or Executed?
February 05, 2022 01:37 - 1 hourFree speech, bros This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 100: The Wrath At Khan
January 29, 2022 03:51 - 54 minutesStephen Jay Gould was such a dick This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 99: How Slate Became An Embarrassing Basket-Case Shell Of Its Former Self (With Mike Pesca)
January 21, 2022 18:16 - 1 hourOne of the dumbest and most unfair media nontroversies in recent history This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 98: On Hereticon, Michael Tracey's Egregious Crimes Against K-Pop, And NPR's Manufactured Racism Issues
January 15, 2022 00:31 - 1 hourPlus: Jesse has some thoughts on X Æ A-12 This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 97: Alberto Gullaba Jr. Thought He Might Be Headed For Literary Stardom — Then His Agent Found Out His Race
January 09, 2022 19:47 - 1 hourA very messy story This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 96: Just Enough Fresh Content That It's Not *Technically* A Clip Show Under U.S. Podcasting Law
December 24, 2021 23:27 - 1 hourLet’s look back on the last year and run down listeners’ top five favorite segments. If you’d like to discuss this episode with other paying subscribers, click here. Episodes clipped from: Image: Feet in wool socks near fireplace - stock photo (Via Getty) This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 95: Allegedly Anti-Semitic Mukbang, The Latest J.K. Rowling Freakout, And The Fuzzy Science Of Masks
December 18, 2021 20:35 - 55 minutesIn this relatively special episode, the hosts talk about a ginned-up anti-Semitism controversy involving a troubled internet figure, the latest explosion of outrage surrounding J.K. Rowling’s online opinions, and an article in The Atlantic article highlighting the gaps in our knowledge about masking as a form of coronavirus protection. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here. Show notes/Links: Archived version of tweet accusing weird YouTuber of anti-Semitism: htt...
Episode 94: If You Troll Into The Abyss, The Abyss Trolls Also Into You
December 11, 2021 00:13 - 41 minutesOr: Troll not lest ye be trolled This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 93: It's Crazy We Have To Do A Debunking Episode About The Jacob Blake Shooting In December 2021 And Yet Here We Are
December 04, 2021 06:00 - 1 hourAfter a brief discussion of Katie’s new hobby, Jesse tells Katie the truth about the Jacob Blake shooting. Then the cohosts critique the very specific (and very narrow) brand of “moral clarity” employed by the journalists who continue to bungle the story to this day. If you’re a paying subscriber, you can comment on this article here. (Correction: Remarkably, Jesse made a fleeting reference to “the Blake killing” at 1:08:49 in the version of this episode we released early to our premium subsc...
Episode 92: MAPs Of Meaning
November 26, 2021 19:47 - 1 hourAn annoying West-Coast trend hits Jesse’s home region, a discussion about fake babies and ALLEGED BUT LEGALLY UNPROVEN cult affiliations, and a rather disgraceful attack led by online buffoons against a young academic. If you’re a premium subscriber and would like to discuss this episode with other BARPod listeners, you can do so here. Show notes/Links: The battle between furries and NFT bros escalates: More: https://candid.technology/usd-100k-nft-meme-war-twitter Reborn doll basics: htt...
Episode 91: A BARPod Musical Milestone, A College Democrats Meltdown, And Rittenhouse Goes Rittenhome
November 20, 2021 20:55 - 43 minutesThis week was not unbusy This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 90: KEXP Promotes An Anti-Semitic Group (For Social Justice), Exploring The World Of Conservative Furries, And A New College We Weren't Invited To Teach At
November 15, 2021 11:00 - 1 hourIf you wanna attend the University of Nonconformity, first you're gonna have to learn the rules This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 89: Defending The LGB (Let's Go Brandon) Community And Launching Our War Against Each And Every Individual Furry
November 05, 2021 18:13 - 58 minutesAlso: Jesse tries pizza for the first time This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 88: As Proof That Existence Is Meaningless And Without Value, Here's Our Cotton Ceiling Segment
November 01, 2021 10:00 - 1 hourKatie’s previous life is uncovered, an update is provided on the Loudoun County situation is provided, the cotton ceiling is discussed, Jesse becomes increasingly disconsolate, Huma Abedin’s “sexual assault” is discussed, and the passive voice is used in the episode description. (Note: this is the free version of this episode. If you’re a premium subscriber looking to access the comments section, you want this version instead.) Show notes/Links: Loudoun County rape case update: https://www....
Episode 87: HE'S GOT A WEAPON!
October 25, 2021 13:59 - 1 hourEveryone is spreading misinformation, especially us This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 86: More Dave Chappelle Fallout And An Astonishing Scandal In Loudoun County, Virginia
October 18, 2021 10:00 - 1 hourKatie and Jesse follow up with just a bit more KidneyGate discussion, then talk about Netflix employees’ reactions to Dave Chappelle’s special. The second half is an in-depth look at an astonishingly bad scandal in the Loudoun County, Virginia public schools. This is the public version of the episode — if you’re a premium subscriber and want to comment on the private version, click here. (Image via Haley Milon Bour of Loudoun Now.) Show notes/Links: Shoutout to ChocoRaisinBoi: https://www.r...
Episode 85: We Have A Big Announcement And We're Celebrating With A Book Burning (With Kat Rosenfield)
October 12, 2021 16:00 - 1 hourListen now (84 min) | Plus: A pro-Karen argument This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 84: Frederick Joseph, As Himself, In: The McKaren Park Karen, And An Interview With Paige Harden About Genetics
October 01, 2021 01:58 - 1 hourFrederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York City: After dealing with a Satanic AirBnB host, a racist woman on the street, and racist editors and producers, he is the victim of the latest Central-Park-Karen-style incident. The hosts discuss his super real and honest stories. Then: Jesse interviews Kathryn Paige Harden, the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, about her research and the perils of debating fraught scientific and societal subjects online. (...
Episode 83: Historically, The Anatomy And Physiology Of Bodies With Vaginas Has Been Neglected (early access, ad-free)
September 25, 2021 20:23(Apologies -- initially uploaded this with the wrong episode number/URL, so here's a corrected redo.) An update on Katie's face, Catie's Correction Corner, the world's only black nonbinary conservative, the bizarre newspeak pertaining to females being embraced by major liberal institutions, personals, and Ellen Pao's very strange New York Times op-ed about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Show notes/Links: Full, correct context for Daniel Lavery criticizing someone for reporting a home brea...
Dear Prudence, Help! I Can't Stop Pretending To Be A Texas Abortion Bounty Hunter Online
September 20, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBJesse vents about some super serious drama going on with his dad, who doesn't respect his career choices, Katie talks about a delightful Gawker article about a Dear Prudence fakester, some personals go down (from about 29:30 - 36:15), and Jesse runs down his interview with a gleefully unapologetic troll whose chaos-generating online forum seized control of the Texas abortion conversation. Show notes/Links: The Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along (http...
Episode 82: Dear Prudence, Help! I Can't Stop Pretending To Be A Texas Abortion Bounty Hunter Online
September 18, 2021 14:16 - 57 minutesThe Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/dear-prudence-daughter-girlfriend-armed-robbery-murder.html Help! My Husband and I Can’t Agree On What To Name the Baby We Might Get!: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/having-sex-with-nephew-advice.html My Daughter Is Pretending to Be Demonically Possesse...
Judith Butler's Gender Bubbles
September 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBAfter Jesse and Katie follow up on some pedo stuff from last week's episode (hooray), they talk a bit about the response to Jesse's New York Times review of Helen Joyce's Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. Then they address a burning question: Did The Guardian censor Judith Butler because she spoke truth to TERFy power, or did nothing like that happen at all? They also discuss Butler's theory of an alliance between gender-critical feminists and neo-fascists. Show notes/Links: Jesse's review...
Episode 81: Judith Butler's Gender Bubbles
September 11, 2021 02:09 - 1 hourShow notes/Links: Jesse's review of Trans: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html Wi spa incident: https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ Max Read on Gawker: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html Crackstarter: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/27/mayor_rob_ford_crack_video_scandal_gawkers_crackstarter_hits_200000_goal....
Because God Hates Us Or Is Dead, Here's A Whole Episode About Noah Berlatsky And Pedophilia
September 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBAn urgent investigation. Show notes/Links: Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314 (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314) More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a (https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a) Old version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essa...
Episode 80: Because God Hates Us Or Is Dead, Here's A Whole Episode About Noah Berlatsky And Pedophilia
September 03, 2021 01:17 - 1 hourAn urgent investigation. Show notes/Links: Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314 More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a Old version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essay, which linked to Berlatsky's work: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-woke-world-is-world-of-snitches.html?m=1 New version, which...
What To Do When Your Boyfriend, Who Is A Horny Anthropomorphic Sword, Is Stalking You (With Meghan Murphy)
August 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBAfter Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women." Show notes/Links: Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation: https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/ (https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/) Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon: ...
Episode 79: What To Do When Your Boyfriend, Who Is A Horny Anthropomorphic Sword, Is Stalking You (With Meghan (early access, ad-free, extended cut)
August 27, 2021 16:25 - 1 hourAfter Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women." Show notes/Links: Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation: https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/ Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9BXqm3eKI&ab_channel=Nintendo The ...
Episode 79: What To Do When Your Boyfriend, Who Is A Horny Anthropomorphic Sword, Is Stalking You (With Meghan Murphy)
August 27, 2021 16:25 - 1 hourAfter Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women." Show notes/Links: Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation: https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/ Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9BXqm3eKI&ab_channel=Nintendo The ...
The Half-Baked 'Grooming' Allegations Against Alice Ripley And The Cringeworthy Awokening Of The Sports World (feat. Ethan Strauss)
August 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBAfter Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, producing some questionable journalism and cringeworthy ads. Show notes/Links: Katie's vacation: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1427026657903214592 (https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1427026657903214592) Original 'grooming' allegation: ...
Episode 78: The Half-Baked 'Grooming' Allegations Against Alice Ripley And The Cringeworthy Awokening Of The Sports World (feat. Ethan Strauss)
August 23, 2021 08:01After Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, producing some questionable journalism and cringeworthy ads. (Apologies to patrons that we couldn't get this to you as early as usual -- it was just a matter of not posting Ethan's announcement too early.) Show notes/Links: Katie's vacation: https:/...
Episode 77: Did Rain Dove Fake A Hate Crime? (Unlocked Premium Episode, But In Your Premium Feed, Oh God I Can Explain...)
August 18, 2021 14:28 - 32 minutesHey guys -- it's me. Jesse. (Singal.) I think I instigated some confusion this week. My thought process was Well, this isn't a new episode to patrons, so I'm not going to drop it in the premium feed. Then a lot of people were confused as to why they weren't seeing a new episode this week, and I couldn't tell whether there was a genuine technical issue or people were responding to not seeing an episode in their premium feeds. I remain confused -- even more so than usual. ANYWAY. Here's th...
Did Rain Dove Fake A Hate Crime? (Unlocked Premium Episode)
August 16, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBKatie and Jesse discuss Katie's mushroom hunting, the downfall of @piney_the (the latest -- and most hilariously incompetent -- Twitter account run by a white person pretending to be a person of color), and Rain Dove, the nonbinary model, activist, and Instagram celebrity who appears to make a lot of stuff up. (Original published October 5, 2020 for our premium subscribers.) Show notes/Links: Access to premium episodes: https://patreon.com/blockedandreported (https://patreon.com/blockedandrep...
Let's Do Hate Speech By Talking About How Biological Sex Is A Binary (With Carole Hooven)
August 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBAfter the hosts discuss Katie's recent nonconsensual conversion to Judaism, they bring on Carole Hooven to discuss the deep, potentially permanent damage she has done to Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology by suggesting males can't get pregnant. Show notes/Links: Serious allegations against Katie: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1422977840157532160 (https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1422977840157532160) Carole's book, "T: The Story of Testosterone, the ...
Episode 76: Let's Do Hate Speech By Talking About How Biological Sex Is A Binary (With Carole Hooven)
August 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourAfter the hosts discuss Katie's recent nonconsensual conversion to Judaism, they bring on Carole Hooven to discuss the deep, potentially permanent damage she has done to Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology by suggesting males can't get pregnant. Show notes/Links: Serious allegations against Katie: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1422977840157532160 Carole's book, "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us" - https://www.ama...
How To Deal With Transphobic Alters, How To Survive Your Newsroom's Awokening, And How To Get Ousted From The Screenwriting Industry
August 02, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBAfter Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political beliefs, and talk about a memorable blowup in the world of TV writing. Plus: more personals. Show notes/Links: Beware The Likes Police: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-faves-alt-right (https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-t...
Episode 75: How To Deal With Transphobic Alters, How To Survive Your Newsroom's Awokening, And How To Get Ousted From The Screenwriting Industry
July 31, 2021 01:10 - 57 minutesAfter Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political beliefs, and talk about a memorable blowup in the world of TV writing. Plus: more personals. Show notes/Links: Beware The Likes Police: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-faves-alt-right New NPR policy: https://www.npr.org/sections/p...
The DID Influencers Of TikTok And The Decline Of Formerly-Science-Based Medicine
July 26, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.9 MBThe hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm). Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next (https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next) Scott Li...
Episode 74: The DID Influencers Of TikTok And The Decline Of Formerly-Science-Based Medicine
July 24, 2021 03:21 - 50 minutesThe hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm). Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next Scott Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz, a bit skeptical of Dissociative Identity Disorde...
Jesse Goes On Rogan, A Racial Nichols Incident, And Drama On Lolita Twitter
July 19, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBJesse regales Katie with tales of meeting Joe Rogan, not meeting Alex Jones, and being scared of guns (while shooting them). Then Katie provides an antiracist monkey-removal update, Jesse tells Katie about the Rachel Nichols incident at ESPN, and Katie more than returns the favor with a deep dive into the drama tearing at the very stitchwork of Lolita YouTube, which probably isn't what you think it is. Show notes/Links: -Jesse on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iNgd3IPIK0OEXfyEQqZA8?...
Episode 73: Jesse Goes On Rogan, A Racial Nichols Incident, And Drama On Lolita Twitter
July 17, 2021 02:14Jesse regales Katie with tales of meeting Joe Rogan, not meeting Alex Jones, and being scared of guns (while shooting them). Then Katie provides an antiracist monkey-removal update, Jesse tells Katie about the Rachel Nichols incident at ESPN, and Katie more than returns the favor with a deep dive into the drama tearing at the very stitchwork of Lolita YouTube, which probably isn't what you think it is. Show notes/Links: -Jesse on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iNgd3IPIK0OEXfyEQqZ...
Transphobic Puppets Wreak Havoc And Greg Lukianoff Walks Us Through All These Anti-'CRT' Bills
July 12, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBAfter the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career. Show notes/Links: Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon (https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon) His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_ch...
Episode 72: Transphobic Puppets Wreak Havoc And Greg Lukianoff Walks Us Through All These Anti-'CRT' Bills
July 09, 2021 23:50 - 1 hourAfter the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career. Show notes/Links: Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_channel=barnabydixon Philip the Philosofish ...
Katie and Barclays Give Unsolicited Advice, And An Update To A Story About A Story About Identifying As An Attack Helicopter
July 05, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBAfter Katie and Jesse discuss their July 4th plans, the hosts talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones winning her tenure battle, Barclays' cringeworthy contribution to Pride discourse, and the complicated tale of the publishing and unpublishing and re-publishing of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter," aka "Helicopter Story." Make sure to check out our sponsor, Ground News, at https://ground.news/blockedandreported (https://ground.news/blockedandreported) Show notes/Links: Nikole Hannah-Jones...
Episode 71: Katie and Barclays Give Unsolicited Advice, And An Update To A Story About A Story About Identifying As An Attack Helicopter
July 01, 2021 22:30 - 52 minutesAfter Katie and Jesse discuss their July 4th plans, the hosts talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones winning her tenure battle, Barclays' cringeworthy contribution to Pride discourse, and the complicated tale of the publishing and unpublishing and re-publishing of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter," aka "Helicopter Story." Show notes/Links: Nikole Hannah-Jones stuff: https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/06/university-nhj-tenure-decision https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/0...
Why Did NPR's "Code Switch" Join The Pileon Against An Innocent Palestinian-American Businessman?
June 28, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBAfter Katie describes how she and Jesse had their First Amendment rights literally murdered by an NYC venue and Jesse provides a weird update to last week's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/Akwaeke Emezi episode, the hosts talk about some reparations-related drama at Seattle's Pride and "Code Switch"'s strange decision to join the pileon against Majdi Wadi, a Palestinian-American businessman who did nothing wrong. Show notes/Links: -when the government literally arrested everyone associated with Bloc...