Episode 202: The Red House on Mississippi (with Suzy Weiss)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Suzy Weiss to discuss the movement to save a black family from eviction in Portland, Oregon. Plus, dating while problematic, the spread of polyamory, and Suzy makes an argument in favor of good old fashioned cheating.

https://twitter.com/SnoozyWeiss

Tyler Austin Harper: “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad”

OPB: “A racist history shows why Oregon is still so white”

Willamette Week: “Armed Activists Seized Three Blocks of a North Portland Residential Neighborhood. Here’s What It Was Like Inside the Encampment.”

The Oregonian: “Portland family’s path to ‘red house’ foreclosure was long, filled with bizarre twists”

OPB: “Editors’ note: On the Red House, we got one wrong”

The Oregonian: “Sovereign citizen ideology embraced by Kinney son, mother in ‘red house’ legal fight: ‘This case is a political case’”

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0:00.0	This is blocking and reported. I'm Katie Herzog and sitting in for my
0:13.9	side kick Jesse Single while he is off on a mission trip to the Sentinel Islands.
0:18.6	Today we have guest host Susie Weiss. Susie is a former writer for the New York Post and a current writer for the Free Press,
0:27.0	where she has reported some of my very favorite Free Press stories,
0:31.0	including ones we've discussed on this very show before the story
0:34.6	about the Park Slope Panthers.
0:36.2	Oh yeah.
0:37.2	That was a hilarious piece about her time with an upperclass vigilante group that was attempting to make
0:44.6	Park Slope safer for golden retrievers and people. She also recently wrote
0:49.4	about her time with Fergie Chambers, an heir to the Cox Family Fortune who is spending his millions, bankrolling
0:55.4	bail fronts for Oberlin students and other causes like, of course, ushering the impending
1:01.1	Communist Revolution any minute now.
1:03.9	Susie also contributes to the much-loved free press column
1:07.0	T GIF and is, I believe, the brains or at least the brawn behind the whole
1:11.3	operation and I am absolutely delighted to have her sitting in for
1:14.3	Jesse today.
1:15.3	Susie Weiss, welcome to Blockton reported.
1:17.6	Thank you so much.
1:18.6	I'm so happy to be here.
1:20.0	I think you guys were selling Park Slope Panther merch right? I don't know if
1:24.8	anybody actually bought them but yes we did have them in our horrible March shop
1:29.3	for a while I think I'm the one of the only people who has the OG Park Slope Panthers
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