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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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Blocked and Reported Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

    • Society & Culture

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.

www.blockedandreported.org

    Premium: Should White People Be Allowed To Wear Blackface Or Be History Professors?

    Premium: Should White People Be Allowed To Wear Blackface Or Be History Professors?

    This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest in race news. First, a journalist goes undercover in blackface. Then, a progressive white academic complains that he can’t get a job due to discrimination, and everyone responds with charity and understanding and nuance.
    Seven Shoulders
    David Austin Walsh
    The case of the angry history postd…


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    • 11 min
    Premium: Tracing Keffals

    Premium: Tracing Keffals

    This week on Blocked and Reported, we say goodbye to man’s best friend, Tracing Woodgrains. Plus, Trace weighs in on the worst people on the internet, the New Dissident Right, and, for our Primos, we find klosure with Keffals.


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    • 48 min
    Episode 216: Emmett Rensin on Going Insane in America

    Episode 216: Emmett Rensin on Going Insane in America

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by writer Emmett Rensin to discuss his new memoir about living with psychotic disorders as well as the smugness of the American liberal (unrelated).
    The Complications: On Going Insane In America:
    HarperCollins
    IndieBound
    Amazon.com
    *
    The smug style in American liberalism - Vox


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    • 1 hr 19 min
    Premium: Faker News

    Premium: Faker News

    This week on the Primo episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the latest in fake suicides and race-faking. Plus, a disturbing artifact is unearthed.
    https://twitter.com/GreatCheshire/status/1788282943611228440
    AFSC Diversity Leader Misrepresented Her Own Identity
    Open Letter
    Raquel Evita Saraswati pretended to be a woman …


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    • 18 min
    Episode 215: Making a Martyr (with Nancy Rommelmann)

    Episode 215: Making a Martyr (with Nancy Rommelmann)

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist Nancy Rommelmann to discuss her trip to Alabama to discover the story behind the Bubba Copeland story. Plus, Nancy’s cancellation origin story, and why is Portland so Portland?
    To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
    Nancy Rommelmann, Author at Reason.com
    Controversial YouTube Show Lands Portland Coffee Company in Hot Water - The Stranger
    Portlandization: It Can Happen to a Place Near You - Tablet Magazine
    Bubba Copeland | 1819 News
    America's tragic war on LGBTQ+ people extends its collateral damage - Los Angeles Times
    Alabama Mayor Bubba Copeland Kills Self After Right-Wing 1819 News Outs His Cross-Dressing
    Bubba Copeland Death: How His Outing and Right-Wing Media Brought Tragedy


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    • 1 hr 18 min
    Premium: The Case Of The Salted Garden

    Premium: The Case Of The Salted Garden

    This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss a garden sabotage in the UK. Plus, Zadie Smith’s latest essay melt brains.
    War in Gaza, Shibboleths on Campus | The New Yorker
    Mother on disability benefits feeds 800 people after turning flowerbeds into vegetable allotment | Daily Mail Online
    Gary Lineker among donors to …


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    • 24 min

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