Episode 195: A Morbid Tale Involving Bari Weiss, Destiny, The IDF, And A Very Angry Squirrel

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss allegations of Literal Murder against perpetual Twitter villain Bari Weiss. Plus, the Zei Squirrel vs Destiny origin story.

Refaat Alareer: “My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’”

NYT: “In Gaza, a Contentious Palestinian Professor Calmly Teaches Israeli Poetry”

EuroMed: “Israeli Strike on Refaat al-Areer Apparently Deliberate”

Drew Pavlou on Alareer’s tweets: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1733107027013210553.html

Haaretz on false claims undermining true claims: https://archive.is/nqIHM#selection-5725.0-5733.396

Jesse on Monica Foy: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/victim-of-a-scary-web-shaming-speaks-out.html

BBC on Alareer’s death: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67656787

Ryan Grim on progressive infighting: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/

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0:00.0	Hey Jesse, how you doing?
0:11.0	Good Katie.
0:12.0	How would you like to hear a story from a Brooklyn media party?
0:17.8	So there I was at my friend's holiday party.
0:22.1	I'm talking to my friend and he texts during our conversation, he has to send a text.
0:27.0	I see the name he is texting is whistleblower Mike.
0:32.8	That's his name in the phone whistleblower Mike.
0:34.2	I don't think I wasn't Mike.
0:35.4	I make it Mike, but some whistleblower something.
0:38.4	And I asked him, like, whoa, you're texting with, he's a journalist.
0:42.4	So I'm like, you're texting with a whistleblower, but you call him whistleblower in your phone.
0:46.8	Isn't that like not?
0:47.8	It's a bad upset.
0:48.8	It's not a good idea.
0:49.8	He's like, no, no, no, no.
0:50.8	I don't know.
0:51.8	His first name is whistleblower.
0:52.8	I got it.
0:53.8	Right.
0:54.8	He named him whistleblower.
0:55.8	It's a nominative determinism.
0:56.8	No.
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