Blocked and Reported

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 [https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/prices-are-going-up-up-up] Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says (New York Times) [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/nyregion/columbia-protests-police.html] The Sundial Report, 3.31.2025 (Columbia University Senate) [https://senate.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Reports_2024-25/The%20Sundial%20Report_3.31.2025.FINAL_.pdf] Columbia Hamilton Hall Protests (New York Times) [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyregion/columbia-hamilton-hall-protests.html] Police and University Officials Release Report of 13 Non-Affiliates Arrested in Hamilton Hall, Protesters Disagree (Columbia News Service) [https://columbianewsservice.com/2024/05/03/police-and-university-officials-release-report-of-13-non-affiliates-arrested-in-hamilton-hall-protesters-disagree/] They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (New York Times) [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon-musk-x-suppression-laura-loomer.html] Trans Wikipedia Activists control the "facts" on Youth Gender Medicine (LGB Courage Coalition Substack) [https://lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/trans-wikipedia] Research into trans medicine has been manipulated (The Economist) [https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/06/27/research-into-trans-medicine-has-been-manipulated] RFK Jr. and the Autism-Vaccine Debate (New York Times) [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/rfk-jr-autism-vaccines.html] Autism Data & Statistics (CDC) [https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research/index.html] Telepathy Tapes: Families, Autism, KY Dickens (The Cut) [https://web.archive.org/web/20250423142127/https://www.thecut.com/article/telepathy-tapes-families-autism-ky-dickens.html] Chasing the Intact Mind (Oxford University Press) [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chasing-the-intact-mind-9780197683842] RFK Was Right: Severe Autism Can Be (Persuasion Community) [https://www.persuasion.community/p/rfk-was-right-severe-autism-can-be] The Problematic Obsession With Curing Autism (The Cut) [https://www.thecut.com/2015/09/problematic-obsession-with-curing-autism.html] To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org [https://www.blockedandreported.org?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes-no-free-preview-language]

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) [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/nyregion/columbia-university-israel-hamas-protests.html] General Studies student allegedly assaulted in front of Butler Library, suspe… [https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/10/12/general-studies-student-allegedly-assaulted-in-front-of-butler-library-suspect-arrested-and-charged-nypd-says/] To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org [https://www.blockedandreported.org?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes-no-free-preview-language]

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 [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783037/if-youre-seeing-this-its-meant-for-you-by-leigh-stein/] by Leigh Stein [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783037/if-youre-seeing-this-its-meant-for-you-by-leigh-stein/] (Penguin Random House) The Diana Tarot : Handmade Products [https://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-May-Reiland-Diana-Tarot/dp/B0B859V443] Jennifer May Reiland art [https://jennifermayreiland.com/] Fired from Richual [https://www.instagram.com/leighstein/reel/C35_ET0Sm-F/] Control, Alt, Delete (Splicetoday.com [https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/control-alt-delete]) Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World) [https://substack.com/home/post/p-160393923] Echolalia Review: An Anti-Poetry Collection [https://www.amazon.com/Echolalia-Review-Anti-Poetry-Jasper-Ceylon/dp/1738633926/] The Best American Poetry Controversy [https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2015/09/like-most-every-poet-i-have-viewed-the-publication-of-each-years-best-american-poetry-with-happiness-i-love-that-poem-je-1.html] (The Best American Poetry Blog) The Vanishing White Male Writer [https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-vanishing-white-male-writer/] (Compact Magazine) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe [https://www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

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 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Vore/comments/1ijwq3o/comic_natalie_and_the_trex_by_art_of_venus/](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.) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Vore/comments/1ijwq3o/comic_natalie_and_the_trex_by_art_of_venus/] ‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica | Trump tariffs | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands] President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error. | American Enterprise Institute - AEI [https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/] The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber [https://podpage.searchengine.show/the-puzzle-of-the-all-american-bbq-scrubber/] Bill Ackman’s main fund drops 15% this year as trade war hits holdings [https://www.ft.com/content/9848881d-a8fa-4ed7-8e3d-756c96865d19] Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara.html] Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/news/645131/elon-musk-path-of-exile-2-livestream] Trump brags in Oval Office that his billionaire pals made a killing in stocks after he pulled the plug on tariffs | The Independent [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-billionaire-profits-dropped-tariffs-b2731386.html] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe [https://www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

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 [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/855/thats-a-weird-thing-to-lie-about] Your Guide to Faking a Life and Death Online [https://web.archive.org/web/20010616231208/http://www.anywherebeyond.com/2001/0501/051701.html] Warrior Eli Hoax Group – Finding The Fakers One At A Time [http://www.warriorelihoax.com/] The Long, Fake Lif… [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710025456/https://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-decade+long-internet-cancer-hoax-unravels] To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org [https://www.blockedandreported.org?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes-no-free-preview-language]