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Blocked and Reported

Premium: The Free Speech President Vs. Jihad On The Quad

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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)

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0:00.0

Hello, you're listening to a preview of a premium episode of Blockton Reported. This is a very free

0:06.0

speechy one. We talk about Colombia, the student protests, the attempted deportations, the funding

0:13.8

issues, just a lot going on. A lot going on with Trump versus universities. We also talk about

0:18.6

Harvard at the end. If you want to hear the whole episode, go to Blockter imported.org where for just $5 a month and up, you can become a premium

0:25.4

subscriber, gain access to extra episodes like this one every month, as well as a lot of awesome perks.

0:32.4

Either way, I hope you enjoy the preview.

0:43.6

Okay, Jesse, so let's have a little, let's have a little check-in.

0:50.8

Yeah, let's do that. Okay, so yesterday, I got a text from you, and you said that you had invited the vice president, J.D. Vance, on the podcast. And I was like, okay, whatever,

0:55.9

like as long as you can do housekeeping, that's fine. It's never going to happen, but whatever,

0:59.6

it's fine. And I had assumed that you had reached out to the White House or even, I don't know,

1:06.2

DMD him to invite him on the show. Katie, you are so outdated.

1:12.0

That's not how new media works.

1:13.2

Everything is out in the open now.

1:14.0

Yeah.

1:21.0

So hours later, I logged into Twitter and I had all these notifications because every time you do something dumb, I get tagged a million times because people think that I'm your

1:25.9

mother.

1:27.1

And I look and I see that you

1:29.7

are getting dragged by J.D. Vance. And you responded to this by calling him dude, the vice

1:37.1

president. You called him dude. You said, debate me, bro. And then you said that his followers...

1:42.6

Well, I didn't say debate me, bro, in so many words.

1:45.0

I said... Stylistically, it was slightly different, but you basically were like, debate me, bro.

1:49.6

And then you called his followers dumb. So I think my first reaction never going to happen. I think I was

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