Now that it is clear Mike is going to CBS/CNN to work for Bari, what will his legacy be?
reddit.comu/Diligent-Koala-846 — 8 hours ago
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Episode 315: You Down With DAC?
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the milkshake-ducking of a New York coffee shop after the owner’s failed shaming of a congressman deemed insufficiently anti-Israel. Plus, crazy lady/future Rep. Darializa Avila Chevalier and what the DSA revolution in New York City means for the Dems, and the Supreme Court weighs in on trans athletes.
Show notes:
The Supreme Court’s Utterly Mainstream Ruling on Women’s Sports - The Atlantic
DOJ opens investigation into Brooklyn coffee shop after banning Rep Goldman | Fox News
Rep. Dan Goldman addresses Brooklyn coffee shop banning him over his views on Israel | CNN Politics
NYC coffee shop tells Rep. Dan Goldman he’s not welcome over his pro-Israel views
Inside the 2025 NYC Mayoral Primary: Strong Support for Economic Justice and Palestinian Rights
How Crazy Is Darializa Avila Chevalier on a Scale From “Yowza!” to “Ay Caramba!!!”?
Capitalism Has a Brand Problem
Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans’ Middle East Sympathies
u/SoftandChewy — 1 day ago
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I’d like a Taylor Swift Derangement ep
I have a bluesky account and the number of people on there who are chronically mad about Taylor Swift having a billion dollars is insane. They are like ‘she shouldn’t be allowed to amass that much money I don’t care if she gives it away!’ it’s like Taylor Seift Derangement Syndrome
She endorsed Kamala, which backfired. Since the party in power isn’t taxing her she’s literally giving away millions. During her tour she gave huge donations to food banks here and in the UK. She paid huge bonuses to her tour workers, like in the six figures level bonuses. All of these bluesky people are mad about stagnant wages; she’s been paying people what they’re worth for adding value to her career. I’m not even a fan I’ve just worked in the entertainment business and still keep an eye on trade publications/entertainment news. She’s incredibly responsible compared to most of the rest of the music industry.
There are also straight up insane takes ‘how dare she shut down part of the city in the hottest week, the 250th birthday of the country’ etc
People LEAVE THE CITY in July. Esp the kind of people who can afford to live in the ‘good’ parts of manhattan. They often can rent a lake or beach place in Maine or RI for a week, or they have a ‘country home’ in Milan NY or somewhere. There’s LESS traffic in midtown right now. Like they’ve def never lived in NYC, these critics.
Other lower paid workers often have the 4th off (and the 3rd this year, the Friday before) and so they go hiking outside of the city (my roommate, a waitress, used to do this when I lived in NYC, metro north is not that expensive) or if you have a metro card you can easily get to a beach like Coney Island for the 4th.
These are just bizarre takes because if you’re going to seek a permit to shut down a Manhattan street IMO this is a pretty decent time to do it. The fourth isn’t a restaurant or shopping day. There’s already less traffic than normal in midtown Manhattan on the 4th, at least there was when I lived there. City workers in a lot of offices will not have needed to get to offices Friday or Saturday this week, things like that.
My first job ever as a teen in the northeast was in a drycleaners. They would shut down the plant for the hottest forecasted week of the year, usually in July. The machinery at the plant would break down if they didn’t, due to the heat. So this was planned, like customers knew in advance, and no one was working doing pressing in those conditions. Like a lot of very working class people will probably not actually be working in this heat because you can’t; the machines will stop working. And Manhattan doesn’t even have much industry left: the land got too valuable. so like: what poor person is being terribly inconvenienced by any of this? Probably like, none, TBH.
The know nothing activists of bluesky just do my head in. I was a casual stagehand at one point, I was out of work and someone got me on ‘the list’ for the summer festival season. I worked a 4th of July weekend, I was making $46/hr due to holiday OT. Thats with no seniority! That’s a few years ago, in a smaller market than NYC, with a lower cost of living. Swift used MSG an **entirely union** venue; anyone who worked at this wedding setting up or taking down will have made like real money.
I don’t even like this woman’s music! I’m not her target audience! I just don’t understand why Oprah is a billionaire & gave us crackpots like Dr Phil; Selena Gomez is a billionaire from her beauty/cosmetics whatever that is; Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk are billionaires who seemingly aspire to be Bond villains; but Taylor Swift and her success and her wedding bring out the ire of all these ‘activists‘. ‘How dare she use planes to travel for her tours’ like: WHAT? Why do they care? This is for work! record label execs used to take helicopters around NYC for shits and giggles, just because they could. It wasn’t really even faster for them! They’re mad that someone who has a huge audience and draws money to cities took a plane for legit work reasons? huh?
Like do they just hate her for being successful? Is it jealous fat girl thing, is she just blonde enough and just pretty enough they can’t stand her? I’m not even a fan of this woman but my god WTF they SHOULD like her, she ticks a lot of their boxes. She pays living wages, endorsed a Dem, gives to literacy programs and food banks, uses unionized venues. WTF!? Where’s the issue?
sorry for the rant but my god. The hate she gets for like, giving money away and doing things at convenient times is bizarre. And is bluesky like an elon funded op? is he paying people to be annoying there so Twitter can keep chugging along? or does it just attract the worst people in the world organically for some reason?
u/Special_Clothes_3987 — 1 day ago
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What other false narratives would you like to see BaR debunk like they did the Marcia P Johnson first-shoe-at- Stonewall myth?
I'll start. I live in Seattle and a city right on the outskirts, Skyway, opened a Black Panther Party Park in March. About a week later the county announced they were renaming Cesar Chavez park because of the accusations that came out about him committing sexual assault. Yet we don't have to take the word of an accuser that there were high profile BPP members that committed sexual assault. All you have to do is read Eldridge Cleaver's autobiography Soul on Ice where he talks about being a serial rapist first of black women than of white women. And being a human trafficker.
Then there is the claim that he ordered the torture murder of Alex Rackley.
Then there is Huey Newton murdering a 17-year-old prostitute for calling him baby. The murder of volunteer Betty Van Patter which turned left-wing activist David Horowitz into a right wing activist.
Then there's killing a couple cops. Robbing some banks.
But of course all of this is excused because "they gave poor kids free breakfast". In Seattle they are also given credit for starting the first, and still operating, black health clinic. While they certainly pressured the city to fund this Clinic, it's dishonest to say they started it, since they had no money or skills to operate it. Taxpayers funded it, and many health professionals, many of them white, donated their time and expertise.
As far as the free breakfast. The Black Panthers extorted from businesses and this is true in Seattle just like it is nationwide. They did so under threats of violence. I'm cynical of how this claim is exploited because I've seen a pattern in my life of activists doing seriously shady things and then weaponizing the poor, elderly, minorities to claim that they were being persecuted for just helping these needy people.
So I tend to think that the free breakfast program gave them cover to commit crimes such as extortion, robbery and so on and make themselves out to be like Robin Hood. There's this narrative that some conservative politicians said they were the biggest danger in the US simply because they were giving hungry kids food. But it's very well established they use their breakfast program to promote their propaganda and make themselves seem sympathetic to the public. And to introduce people to far left black ethno nationalist politics. And to present themselves as kind and caring when their behavior was often exceedingly violent and disturbing. Their 10-point program of demands ranges from unrealistic to insane.
It isn't much different than if the KKK started a breakfast program for poor children in which they tried to instill in them the beliefs of the group along with trying to manipulate public opinion through their charity.
Now in addition to that park Seattle earmarked $900,000 funding a Black Panther Museum located at the home of the two brothers who founded the local chapter, a BPP Interpretive Center just opened, and a wall mural commemorating the BPP (including some members who are involved in the behavior I mentioned above) recently became a protected historic landmark.
That Interpretive Center for instance makes claims that they got their start by protecting black and Asian students from knife-wielding White mobs at a school. Historical documents show there was rumors to the effect that were quickly shown to be untrue. There was a fight between a black and white student that does not appear to be racial in nature. There is no indication a knife was involved. And the white student was suspended quickly ( the website claims administration did nothing).
I feel this follows certain trajectories we saw during the BLM era. There were some claims that were true and really horrible. There were many that were mostly or entirely fiction though. And if we were living in another era where we did not have such access to differing opinions we would very likely believe that Mike Brown was brutally murdered by a racist cop while screaming "don't shoot". We would also believe that Trayvon Martin was a little child who was walking back from the store and some crazed white racist saw a black male in a hoodie and just decided to take him out.
It is true that the police have covered up instances of serious police brutality. It is true that there are times when the police have acted like violent criminals themselves, sometimes racially motivated and others not. But none of this changes the fact that a lot of their detractors use the understandable lack of trust people have of the police to encourage having blind trust towards the groups who vilify the police who themselves often do not have any credibility either.
I think we see this with a lot of conflicts. That one side points to the other as being corrupt and states that they are noble because they're fighting against that corrupt group. What they are saying might be mostly true but it doesn't stop the fact that the group pointing their finger is not more credible than those they're pointing the finger at. Although in many cases, clearly one party has government power behind them and the other doesn't. But I think there is really good evidence to believe that if the Black Panther Party had power of the cops we would not have a less corrupt or oppressive system.
Sorry for all the meandering here.
u/MissHalfgone — 2 days ago
I think my dog is a democratic socialist.
While out walking past a house with tiny flags lined up along the sidewalk, my dog stopped to pee on them. The owner of the house came out to scream at me but by that time, my dog had seen a rabbit crossing the road and had already moved on leaving me to deal with the blowback. I calmly told this fascist that sidewalks are public property and he was just exercising his free speech. The "what if it were your house?" argument doesn't work with me. I see the best use for yards in general to be used as a dog toilet, and maybe even one for me. The person I live with is constantly in the bathroom watching videos on the phone. Many times I just want to go out on the front yard and then come back later to pick it up with a shovel to throw in the corner. Happy birthday America. 🇺🇸
u/Alive-Basil-391 — 2 days ago
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The Supreme Court’s Utterly Mainstream Ruling on Women’s Sports - Helen Lewis
Friend of the pod, Helen Lewis, in The Atlantic, on yesterday's ruling.
>...the left has become trapped in the position that sports inclusion is at once so existential that it’s worth taking to the Supreme Court, but also a “non-issue” affecting only a handful of students, whose opponents must be therefore motivated by spite. As the center-left commentator Matthew Yglesias puts it, “The conventional wisdom in Dem politics is that the sports issue is simultaneously trivial and also so important that you can’t compromise with public opinion on it.”
unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/6gbbl
u/Throwmeeaway185 — 4 days ago
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West Virginia v BPJ Ruling - Trans Sport
SCOTUS jut released the ruling on West Virginia v BPL - this case covers trans Sports issues. Looks like a broad ruling that affirms biological sex is the relevant classification for women's sports under Title IX. This means the 27 states that have laws banning biological boys from sports is allowed. It will also have impacts to the blue states that allow participation. Still need to digest this but wanted to get a post up to discuss.
Relevance to pod - multiple episodes covering trans sports - Lia Thomas etc...
u/Hilaria_adderall — 6 days ago
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Premium Episode: Marsha Marsha Marsha (Part 2)
This week on the Primo Show, Part 2 of our investigation into one of the most sacred stories in LGBTQ history: the night transgender icon Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick at Stonewall and launched the modern gay rights movement. Or did she?
Show Notes:
Bonus Episode — From the Vault: Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P. Johnson, 1970 | Making Gay History
Full Moon Over the Stonewall: Howard Smith’s Account of the Stonewall Riots - The Village Voice
The myth of Marsha P Johnson - spiked
Marsha P. Johnson & Randy Wicker | Making Gay History
Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson (2012) - IMDb
MARSHA P JOHNSON - PEOPLE'S MEMORIAL
The Death of Marsha P. Johnson and the Quest for Closure | cbs8.com
u/SoftandChewy — 5 days ago
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Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/29/26 - 7/5/26
Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/22/26 - 6/28/26
Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.
u/Blanderama — 7 days ago
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Opinion | I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters. (Gift Article)
nytimes.comu/heterodoxual — 6 days ago
pro-LGBT left wing San Francisco politician Scott Weiner who won his primary to replace Nancy Pelosi in congress is attacked by protestors for being insufficiently pro-pali
u/UnscheduledCalendar — 8 days ago
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Nonspeaking Letter Poker Interviews Woody Brown
Below is a link to an interview by Jason Jacoby Lee, another nonspeaker who uses a letter card HELD by his mother, who allegedly composes high-end, master's level prose, despite no proven background in learning literacy.
Lee says he interviewed Woody Brown via the letter board, and Woody answered via letter board, but that their "communication partners" then typed on a regular computer the questions and answers, forming it into an article that was then submitted to lareviewofbooks.org. It's no coincidence that both Lee's parents are highly educated.
The big question that leaps out is if both these men poked out numerous, lengthy, complex paragraphs for questions and answers on plastic alphabet cards (which they refer to as "typing"), then why didn't they just "type" (tap with index finger) everything on a regular keyboard set up for direct email correspondence?
The two research papers that Lee references mean NOTHING. Nice try, Mr. and Mrs. Lee's parents. Here's the link. This is just so NOT believable:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/woody-brown-upward-bound-novel-interview-nonspeaking-autism/
u/Intelligent-Pay7865 — 7 days ago
Olivia just announced she is hosting the Daisy Chain Fields music festival on August 29th
u/Open-Prune-3634 — 10 days ago
How Iran’s Theocrats Allied With — and Then Crushed — the Left
The article discusses how Iran’s theocrats allied with and then crushed the left. The leftists supported Khomeini because they thought he was anti-Western and anti-imperialist, but they did not realize that he was also a religious leader who wanted to impose his own views on society. The leftists also made mistakes by not focusing on women’s rights and human rights, and by not realizing the potential for fascism in Khomeini’s regime. This article is relevant given Sam’s recent commentary about how leftists are being coopted via empathy to adopt ironically conservative islamist views and perspectives that are against many of the progressive an liberal values they claim to protect in the West. Sam referenced this on episode #482: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/482-more-from-sam-the-iran-deal-college-in-the-ai-age-mamdanis-dsa-and-more
u/UnscheduledCalendar — 8 days ago
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Episode 314: Authentic Authenticity On A Silver Platner
This week on Blocked and Reported, (((Jesse))) and Katie dig into Graham Platner: the oyster farmer, Senate hopeful, and working-class rich kid whose Nazi tattoo and wandering eye were so rudely surfaced by the (((lamestream media))) in an effort to protect the (((billionaire class))).
Show notes:
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins | The New Republic
Oysterman, Veteran, Prep-School Alum: A Senate Candidate’s Complex Class Story - The New York Times
Read our full archive of Graham Platner’s deleted Reddit comments
Graham Platner says ‘I am not a secret Nazi’ after photos of his tattoo emerge
Platner says he’ll remove tattoo that resembles Nazi symbol - POLITICO
First Draft: Did the New York Times Just Run an Anti-Platner Hit Job?
Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior - The New York Times
These People Handpicked Graham Platner. He’s Now Democrats’ Biggest Risk. - WSJ
u/Blanderama — 8 days ago
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When Everybody Is LGBT, Nobody Is
> Amir Naaman and Dr Ran Heilbrunn, Israeli writers based in Germany, discuss their new collection of essays Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What are the next steps for queer theory after the impressive gains made by gay rights activism over the last few decades?
Relevance statement: a discussion grown in a lab to be what Katie and Jesse talk about. Central anecdote is one of the speakers going to a Berlin bar that he was told has "all kinds of gay" only to find it was the emo/scene (don't know the difference) kid bar and go up to the bar to ask if any of the guys there actually suck dick.
u/CommitteeofMountains — 8 days ago
Did he say 3 years old?
I think extremely highly of David Cross’s work, which made this (and the fact that I just don’t think I like Maher) and reading the comments really reinforced how silo’s people seem to be — what do you all think about this?
u/RitmoRex — 6 days ago
BBC June 26th 2026: GK Barry explores controversial online forum Tattle Life in new documentary GK Barry: Toxic Gossip
Never heard of this person before she hit up reddit looking for people to take part in what she claimed was a "both sides" documentary but which was/is almost certainly just the usual hit piece disparaging women who dare to drink and also use the Internet.
u/Red_Blooded_Male_123 — 9 days ago
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Puberty blocker trial will help reduce harm, says Cass report author
The same person who so many have cited as support for opposing gender affirming policies has come out in favor of a new trial to determine the efficacy of giving kids puberty blockers.
u/SoftandChewy — 10 days ago
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Behind the Scenes on Bubba Copeland
Episode 215 covers the saga of Bubba Copeland, the cross-dressing Alabama mayor and pastor who advocated transition to minors, wrote explicit content, etc.
This podcast episode covers the story via an interview with the journalist behind it, including some behind the scenes details.
u/salrantol — 9 days ago