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Blocked and Reported

Blocked and Reported

By: Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
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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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  • Premium: Before The Brick (Part 1)

    Premium: Before The Brick (Part 1)
    Jun 24 2026

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Part 1 of our two-part series on the Stonewall Riots and the mythology of Marsha P. Johnson. Plus, warring lesbian history accounts, a Father’s Day cartoon breaks brains, and fact-checking the Seattle LGBTQ Commission and Erin Reed’s bad stats.

    Lesbian_Herstory

    Lesbian Herstory Archives

    Opinion | What I Learned About Par…



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    18 mins
  • Episode 313: How A Gay Jewish Boob-Hypnotherapist Built A Coalition With Burqa-Wearing Islamists

    Episode 313: How A Gay Jewish Boob-Hypnotherapist Built A Coalition With Burqa-Wearing Islamists
    Jun 22 2026

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Zack Polanski, the former hypnotherapist who turned a fringe environmentalist party into Britain's fastest-growing coalition of Corbynites, BDSM enthusiasts, and first-gen Islamists.

    Can you really THINK your boobs bigger?

    Politics was never part of the plan. | by Zack Polanski | Medium

    Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim

    Most UK Muslims define themselves by faith first

    Green candidate for Makerfield by-election quits after 12 hours



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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 312: The Last Straight Woman (with Phoebe Maltz Bovy)

    Episode 312: The Last Straight Woman (with Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
    Jun 13 2026

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by author/columnist/podcaster Phoebe Maltz Bovy to discuss her new book, The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men. Plus, funny business at The New York Times, Helen vs Helen, and, for Primo subscribers, an AMA.

    The Last Straight Woman by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

    The Great Feminization | Compact

    The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote - The Atlantic

    The Men Who Fear Women? Is ‘Masculinism’ Actually a Real Thing? › American Greatness

    This Is What a Queer Family Looks Like | Advocate.com



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    1 hr and 18 mins
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Jesse, Katie and their guests bring humour and perspective to a variety of stories with major emphasis on online madness and the characters populating the reactive, polarised war-zone of social media. They bring refreshing irreverence and healthy skepticism to everything they cover with a background touch of personable (if lovingly insult heavy) chat that adds character and a string of continuity.
Overall highly enjoyable, but not for the easily offended!

Informative and irreverent in the best way

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