Blocked and Reported

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Premium: The Attempted #MeTooing Of A BookTube Star May 08, 2025

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This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the story of Daniel Greene, a BookTuber who faced allegations of coercion, manipulation, and assault. Plus, drama at the Montreal Anarchist Book Fair.

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Episode 259: A Gen Z #Resistance Meltdown May 05, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Gen Z influencer Dean Withers and the undoing of the Unf*ck America Tour. Plus, a playground racist makes bank, and a fight over public masturbation in Seattle.

Neighbors report masturbation in Seattle park where children play (The Independent)

Who was the anonymous donor behind the controversial kid playground at Seattle's Denny Blaine? (KUOW)

Seattle Wants to Put a Playground Next to a Historically Queer Nude Beach (The Stranger)

City Hall Is Back on Denny Blaine (The Stranger)

The Photos Denny Blaine Donor Stuart Sloan Sent to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (The Stranger)

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The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal (Eventbrite)

How Breitbart Is Fueling the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus Outrage Outrage Cycle (New York Magazine)

Professor Watchlist (Turning Point USA)

Hasan Piker Is Building a Media Empire on Twitch and YouTube (The New York Times)

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Premium: Whose Fault? Our Fault! Apr 30, 2025

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This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie decide which podcasters are blame for… all this. Plus, an ABDL medical supply store/sex shop goes to court.

Young at Heart (The Stranger)

The Anti-Woke's Inner Circle (New York Magazine / Intelligencer)

The Dissident Right’s Next Move (The New York Times)

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Episode 258: Another Autism Episode Apr 26, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss RFK Jr’s plan to find the cause of autism. Plus, Elon shadowbans his enemies, revisiting “Hinds Hall,” and Slam Frank, the musical.

DIRECTIONS ON LOCKING IN THE CURRENT PRIMO PRICE HERE

Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says (New York Times)

The Sundial Report, 3.31.2025 (Columbia University Senate)

Columbia Hamilton Hall Protests (New York Times)

Police and University Officials Release Report of 13 Non-Affiliates Arrested in Hamilton Hall, Protesters Disagree (Columbia News Service)

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (New York Times)

Trans Wikipedia Activists control the "facts" on Youth Gender Medicine (LGB Courage Coalition Substack)

Research into trans medicine has been manipulated (The Economist)

RFK Jr. and the Autism-Vaccine Debate (New York Times)

Autism Data & Statistics (CDC)

Telepathy Tapes: Families, Autism, KY Dickens (The Cut)

Chasing the Intact Mind (Oxford University Press)

RFK Was Right: Severe Autism Can Be (Persuasion Community)

The Problematic Obsession With Curing Autism (The Cut)

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Premium: The Free Speech President Vs. Jihad On The Quad Apr 22, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie look back at the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University and how that conflict intersects with the Trump administration’s fight against free speech.

Columbia University Israel-Hamas Protests (The New York Times)

General Studies student allegedly assaulted in front of Butler Library, suspe…

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Episode 257: Faux POC Poetry (with Leigh Stein) Apr 21, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by writer Leigh Stein to discuss her new book, the personal essay boom and bust, the ethics of deletion, "The Vanishing White Male Writer,” and a race-based hoax in the poetry world.

If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein (Penguin Random House)

The Diana Tarot : Handmade Products

Jennifer May Reiland art

Fired from Richual

Control, Alt, Delete (Splicetoday.com)

Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World)

Echolalia Review: An Anti-Poetry Collection

The Best American Poetry Controversy (The Best American Poetry Blog)

The Vanishing White Male Writer (Compact Magazine)

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Episode 256: MAGA Maoists Celebrate Liberation Day Apr 14, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the right’s very online reaction to Trumpnomics™. Plus, NaNoWriMo closes shop, and only slightly more vore.

Vore fan art (Do not click this link at work, at the library, on an NSA server, or anywhere near your children and/or parents. You have been warned.)

‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error. | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Bill Ackman’s main fund drops 15% this year as trade war hits holdings

Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself - The New York Times

Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream | The Verge

Trump brags in Oval Office that his billionaire pals made a killing in stocks after he pulled the plug on tariffs | The Independent

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Premium: The Death Fakers Apr 09, 2025

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This week on the Primo episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the phenomenon of online pseudocide and Munchausen by Internet, including the case of legendary gamer/mercenary the Dark Id, who tragically did not die of cancer.

This American Life

Your Guide to Faking a Life and Death Online

Warrior Eli Hoax Group – Finding The Fakers One At A Time

The Long, Fake Lif…

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Episode 255: She Is Risen Apr 07, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the untimely death of VTuber Amiaryllis Bloo. Plus, defunding NPR and introducing… Notes.

https://www.drinkyourwaysober.com/

https://jessesingal.substack.com/events

The Gist

Aslo The Gist

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Episode 254: The Unbelievable Heroism Of Nikita Amber Abbas (With Espen Goffeng) Mar 31, 2025

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by Norwegian journalist Espen Goffeng to discuss the remarkable story of one woman’s heroic actions after a terror attack in Oslo.

(Quick note from Jesse: If you’re interested in the April 28th Village Underground event I’m doing with David Zweig about his book An Abundance of Caution American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, please buy tickets right away. I know it’s almost a month away but I really really need to get the book preorder in because it takes forever. Tickets are just under $33 and come with a copy of the book, which lists for $40! Tickets here. Thank you.)

Iranian-born Norwegian man gets 30 years for Oslo Pride shootings | LGBTQ News | Al Jazeera

How gang violence took hold of Sweden – in five charts | Sweden | The Guardian

5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe

Norway is in denial about the threat of far-right violence | Sindre Bangstad | The Guardian

Immigration to Scandinavia: Will Norwegian and Swedish Social Democrats follow the tough Danish line?

Oslo shooting near gay bar investigated as terrorism, as Pride parade is canceled | CNN

Jeg har muslimsk bakgrunn, en funksjonshemning, og jeg er skeiv | Nikita Amber Abbas

SalamNorge (@salamnorge) • Instagram photos and videos

Løgnhistorier som medier ukritisk publiserer | Human Rights Service

»Nu följer ilskan mot medias ansvarslöshet«

Meninger: Ingen er fri før alle er fri!

Begard Reza, Salam | Vi kan ikke bare feie oppdiktede historier under teppet

25. juni-angrepet, Nikita Amber Abbas | Dømt til fengsel for falsk forklaring

Dømt til fengsel for falsk forklaring | Human Rights Service

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