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INTRODUCING: A Braver Way Oct 24, 2023

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Today we’ve got a special dispatch from our friends at Braver Angels, the largest cross-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to bridging our political divide. In this episode of their brand new show, host Mónica Guzmán sits down with some very special guests to discuss their political differences: two Trump-supporting, Mexican immigrants who also happen to be her mom and dad.

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Episode 187: Oh Good, The Explosion Understanders Have Logged On Oct 21, 2023

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss how our most trust-worthy disinformation experts correct the record except when they don’t. Plus, conservative hero Tim Ballard faces the wrath of the nicest people on Earth.

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(CORRECTION: In the original version of this episode that Primos heard before it went up for everyone else on Monday morning, I misunderstood some of the evidence suggesting Israel wasn’t responsible for the attack on the Gazan hospital. I’ve now re-recorded that bit with the below corrections, and if you scroll down to the tweet from Marc Garlasco, you’ll see my mistake: He was talking about the width of the crater, not its depth. Many thanks to the listener who wrote in to point this out, and I apologize for the error. -Jesse

Corrected version, with old, false material struck through and new, correct material in bold:

~9:56: "And you can see an impact crater which is only about one meter 30 centimeters deep wide or so. And he basically said, and again, this is a guy who is highly qualified on these issues, that this could not have been caused by Israeli weaponry, because that weaponry tends to leave nine-meter-deep wide craters, and there's a big difference between one meter 30 centimeters and nine meters.")

NYT: “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh: Tracing a Bullet to an Israeli Convoy”

https://twitter.com/marcgarlasco/status/1714590544620408909

https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1714336863740104879

https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1714652254832140636

Robby Soave: “Disinformation Reporter Ben Collins Failed To Correct the Gaza Hospital Story”

Better NBC News coverage of same

Glenn Kessler: “Human trafficking statistics: Politicians love them though they remain imprecise”

Meg Conley: “Called by God: In 2014, I went on a vigilante raid to “save” kids sold for sex. What we did haunts me now.”

Vice

Blaze News: “What really happened with Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad?”

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Episode 186: Our Most Controversial Take Yet: Hamas Is Bad Oct 16, 2023

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss Hamas’s unprecedented massacre of civilians. Well, the online b******t component of it, at least.

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Nicholas Kristof: “Seeking a Moral Compass in Gaza’s War”

Eric Levitz: “A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed”

Politico: “AOC knocks ‘bigotry and callousness’ of Times Square rally for Palestinians”

Politico: “‘Unacceptably devoid of empathy': DSA is facing an internal reckoning on Israel”

NYT: “At Harvard, a Battle Over What Should Be Said About the Hamas Attacks”

Harvard Crimson: “As Students Face Retaliation for Israel Statement, a ‘Doxxing Truck’ Displaying Students’ Faces Comes to Harvard’s Campus”

NYT: “N.Y.U. Law Student Sends Anti-Israel Message and Loses a Job Offer”

Image: Supporters of Israel (L) face people rallying in support of Palestinians in Times Square in New York on October 8, 2023 after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Israel, reeling from the deadliest attack on its territory in half a century, formally declared war on Hamas Sunday as the conflict's death toll surged close to 1,000 after the Palestinian militant group launched a massive surprise assault from Gaza. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP) (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

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Premium: Abolish The Seasoning Police Oct 12, 2023

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This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the perfect venue for people who work out their racial anxieties: FoodTok. Plus, an Only Fans model who may or may not be real may or may not be missing.

Daily Star: “Model goes missing but 'cryptic' post sparks wild theories about if she exists at all”

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Episode 185: Does the Decline of Ibram X. Kendi Mark the End of the Racial Reckoning? Oct 09, 2023

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie look back on the Racial Reckoning™ and discuss the implosion of Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Anti-Racism Research. Plus: Trevor Bauer gets the last word.

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The Athletic: “Graphic details, photos emerge in restraining order filed against Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer”

Bauer video

The Athletic: “Trevor Bauer settles legal dispute with woman who accused him of sexual assault”

Lindsey Hill on The Blaze

BU Daily Free Press: “Amid mass layoffs, BU Center for Antiracist Research accused of mismanagement of funds, disorganization”

New York: “The BLM Mystery Where did the money go?”

Michelle Goldberg: “Ibram X. Kendi and the Problem of Celebrity Fund-Raising”

John McWhorter: “Don’t Call Ibram X. Kendi a Grifter”

Free Beacon: “Boston University Loaned $600K to a Mysterious Trust Run by Ibram Kendi’s Brother-In-Law”

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Premium: This is What a Modern Day Knit-Hunt Looks Like Oct 05, 2023

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This week on the Premium episode of Blocked and Reported, the knitting community is in meltdown...again. This time, the culprit is a yarn-dyer who made the ill-advised descion to release a Salem-themed yarn collection with one unforunate prop.

The yarn dyer who faked her own death (allegedly)

r/craftsnark

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Episode 184: Oh God, No, Not This Again, Please Make It Stop Oct 02, 2023

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This week on Blocked and Reported, we reexamine American Bully X.

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Brianna Wu:

https://twitter.com/headassnic/status/1706955256427626982

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1371452139856392196

https://twitter.com/longislandviper/status/1371495816649703425

SF Gate: “American bully dogs bred as lovers, not fighters”

Bully Watch Rebuttal

Bully Watch.link

“Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites”

“English hospital episode data analysis (1998–2018) reveal that the rise in dog bite hospital admissions is driven by adult cases”

“Visual Breed Identification: A Literature Review”

Note: An earlier version of this episode contained a math error. I said “nine out of 15” when I should have said "11 out of 15.” Still somehow Jesse’s fault. It has been updated.—KH

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Premium: An Introduction to Cripplepunk, Which Is Totally Different From And Exactly The Same As Every Other Online Social Justice Community Sep 28, 2023

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This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse explains the world of online disability activism, specfically Cripplepunk. Also discussed: MERDs, TURDs, and TERFs.

(Update: Shortly after we posted this, a listener wrote in to point out that one of the TikTok videos we played part of and discussed was published by a 17-year-old. This was my…

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Episode 183: American Bully X Sep 25, 2023

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie digs into the UK’s recently announced ban on the American Bully XL and discovers some surprising information. Jesse does very little.

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Bronwen Dickey: Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Hal Herzog: Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

The Stranger: “How to Defeat a Pit Bull with Your Bare Hands”

Joe Bernstein: “Inside The Most Vicious Conflict On The Internet”

The Guardian: “American XL bully dog will be banned, says Rishi Sunak”

Bully Watch

The Telegraph: “Half of all XL Bully dogs in Britain descend from 'Killer Kimbo'“

The Sun: “BULLY BREEDER'S BLAST: I bred XL Bully Kimbo who half UK’s animals can be traced to – they only become killers when people give them steroids”

Malcolm Gladwell: “Troublemakers”

NOTE: This episode has been updated. On initial verision that went out to Primos, Jesse said something like, “So American Bully breeders say, if a dog is aggressive, it can’t be an American Bully,” and I said, “Yes, exactly.” I thought it was obvious this referred to registration, but apparently not, and I have updated the episode to clarify: an aggressive American Bully would still be an American Bully because breed isn’t determined by behavior but by lineage, but it would be disqualified for registration in the American Bully Kennel Club or any other legitmate kennel club. Apologies for the confusion.” —KH

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Episode 182: Gays Against Gays Against Groomers Sep 18, 2023

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This week on Blocked and reported, Katie and Jesse discuss Gays Against Groomers. What are they, who are they, and why are they standing outside the Biltmore House with picket signs? Plus, Bari Weiss, Hasan Minhaj, and a very, very good sandwich.

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LA Times: “How Grimes won Bari Weiss' sexual revolution debate”

The New Yorker: Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”

Subject to Change with Russell Hogg

Michael Moynihan: “When the Tea Party Began”

GAG: “In The Wake of ‘Sound of Freedom’: The Parallels Between LGBTQ+ Activism and The Pedophile Doctrine”

The Advocate: “Gays Against Groomers Strike West Hollywood with Vandalism and Anti Trans Messaging”

Karyln Borysenko: “Yet ANOTHER member publicly quits Gays Against Groomers and blames CEO Jaimee Michell”

Weird Ron DeSantis video

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