Jan 28 • 1HR 20M

Episode 149: The NYT Restarts Trans Kids Discourse And A Dimes Square Movie Gets Canceled For Transphobia And Matt Gaetz Is G**

And another white woman spontaneously turns into a native American and Katie wants to kiss Chris Rufo and Chuck Tingle gets brought up... and more on the pod's longest episode to date*

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In this week’s record-shattering episode of Blocked & Reported:

  • The epidemic of white women transforming into Native Americans continues

  • Katie: “I love Chris Rufo. I want to hug and kiss him”

  • Recurring COVID whistleblower/serial fabulist tries to make Matt Gaetz into Matt G**tz

  • Chuck Tingle, inexplicably, comes up somehow???

  • NYT (re)starts the discourse on trans children in school

  • Drama at The Music Box when an indie film gets canceled

  • The rat king of circlejerks takes place in Dimes Square

Return of the Grifter

Rebekah Jones exposes Matt Gaetz

Twitter avatar for @GeoRebekah
Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah
!!!BREAKING!!! Matt Gaetz is believed to be having an affair with his press secretary, Joel Valdez, according to three independent sources. Gaetz' office and his wife have not responded to requests for comment. This is not Gaetz' first affair, nor is it his first w/a man.
9:01 PM ∙ Jan 24, 2023
7,300Retweets

The NYT’s “When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.html

The Road to Terfdom

https://lux-magazine.com/article/the-road-to-terfdom/

A representative tweet from close personal friend of the podcast Jeet Heer

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1617208577919254529

Jesse claps back

Singal-Minded
On Teachers Letting Kids Transition Gender While Keeping It A Secret From Their Parents
The New York Times just published a big story by Katie J.M. Baker about the question of whether and under what circumstances it might be appropriate for schools to hide from parents the fact that their kid is seeking to change their name and/or pronouns and/or other stuff because they believe they are trans…
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2 months ago · 198 likes · 178 comments · Jesse Singal

NYT On Trans Youth

NYT Opinion: “Trans Kids Deserve Private Lives, Too”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/opinion/trans-kids-privacy-gender-identity.html

An Instagram post from Chase Strangio

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0PIPkASUh/

Betsey Brown

What is Dimes Square?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/dimes-square

Peter Thiel’s “anti-woke” film festival

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/peter-thiel-anti-woke-film-festival-trevor-bazile

“This movie is transphobic and reeks of violence. I pulled my film from fests that were playing it.”

Twitter avatar for @janeschoenbrun
Jane Schoenbrun @janeschoenbrun
This movie is transphobic and reeks of violence. I pulled my film from fests that were playing it. Hey @musicboxtheatre this is a bad look :-(
Twitter avatar for @kryandwhisper
Jack 📉 is in Chicago 🎃🎃🎃 @kryandwhisper
to the programming team at @musicboxtheatre https://t.co/6h8xAk3dEU
4:36 AM ∙ Jan 13, 2023
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A privated twitter account says something about the movie, IDK

https://twitter.com/kryandwhisper/status/1612870613047119875?

Crumplar’s scathing review of the film

Crumpstack
Crumps Meets Betsey Brown and the Ion Pack
Last month, Buzzfeed published Joe Bernstein’s article on last year’s NPCC film festival, the one notoriously funded in part by Peter Thiel, right around the time I started writing these “downtown scene” critique Substack posts. These things evidently got the attention of the Ion P…
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a year ago · 44 likes · 6 comments · Mike Crumplar
Eyes on the Right
The Red-Pill Pusher
This public post is cross-posted at Persuasion. Since it is roughly double the length of a normal post from me, I will return in a few days with just one additional item for this week. Eyes on the Right is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and suppo…
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2 months ago · 48 likes · 27 comments · Damon Linker

Crumpstack
My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual
This past Friday I attended the filming of Peter Vack’s new movie, www.RachelOrmont.com, and I found myself in a literal theater of cruelty self-destruction psychosis. What I thought was going to be a “filmed party” where I would be interviewed for 60 seconds and then float around observing people turned out to be an hours-long public humiliation ritual…
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8 months ago · 697 likes · 291 comments · Mike Crumplar

Air Mail’s Downtown Set

https://airmail.news/issues/2022-11-19/the-downtown-set

*I never bothered to check if this true but it sounds convincing, and that’s what matters.

Images courtesy of Getty.

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