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Episode 150: Katie Harbors A Pedophile, Gawker Dies Again, And Eliza Bleu's Big Lie

Musk's new ally in the fight against human trafficking on Twitter was once trafficked herself. But is she being truthful about her past?

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Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.
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This week, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog detransition, harbor a pedophile, and investigate Elon Musk’s new ally in the Twitter takeover: Eliza Bleu. As it turns out, she isn’t exactly who she claims to be…

  • Katie harbors a pedophile

  • Candace Owens makes allegations against Jesse Singal

  • Gawker is worth less than an old hat (and dead. Again.)

  • If anyone knows how to pronounce “Leah” please help us

  • Jesse and Katie are blamed for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill

  • Jesse describes his lived experience as a detransitioner

The Owens Update

Our old episode on Owens

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3 years ago · 1 like · Jesse Singal

Candace Owens’ beef with Steven Crowder

https://www.mediaite.com/news/pray-for-him-candace-owens-takes-steven-crowder-beef-to-slimy-new-depth-warning-she-has-information-on-him/

Jesse’s piece on Owens (it always comes back to GamerGate, doesn’t it)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-social-autopsy-fell-for-gamergate-trutherism.html

Owens’ unhinged, allegation-packed email to Jesse

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1621555606552199171

Gawker Dies Again

Variety: Gawker Is Shutting Down (Again)

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/gawker-shutting-down-1235509262/

Bustle: My Partner Wants Me To Wear A Diaper During Sex. Help!

https://www.bustle.com/wellness/diaper-play-sex

The New York Times on Gawker’s relaunch

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/business/media/leah-finnegan-gawker.html

Nu-Gawker: “I couldn’t stop writing fake Dear Prudence letters that got published”

https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along

Our old episode on Nu-Gawker

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Listen now (57 min) | The Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts: https://slate…
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2 years ago · 6 likes · Jesse Singal

Nu-Gawker: “Failure to Cope ‘Under Capitalism’”

https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capitalism

Leah Finnegan mourns Nu-Gawker’s demise

https://twitter.com/leahfinnegan/status/1620785743139590144

Is Jesse a detransitioner? (Yes.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/10mvzb9/why_did_i_think_that_jesse_was_a_detransitioned/

Eliza Bleu

Bleu’s story on MySpace

https://mcrumorcontrol.livejournal.com/67332.html

The Daily Beast: Eliza Bleu’s Own Friends Aren’t Buying Her Trafficking Story

https://web.archive.org/web/20230201124439/https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-story

Eliza Knows: I Refused A Booking Request To Have Sex For $150,000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnfQAPsf58

Eliza Bleu tweets about Satanic pedophile rings

https://twitter.com/Stew27774095/status/1602078059699769344

NBC: On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-twitter-elon-child-abuse-material-rcna63621

Bleu claims nonconsensual photos of her have been posted online (currently private)

https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1616629662511161344

What happens when you try to link to the Eliza Bleu music video on Twitter

Ella Irwin: “we can’t give specific details”

https://twitter.com/ellagirwin/status/1619740363622866944?

RedState’s now-removed article on Bleu

https://web.archive.org/web/20230128015015/https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2023/01/27/activist-eliza-bleu-cancels-creators-appears-to-ramp-up-twitter-censorship-n694751

The episode Katie is referring to

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Listen now (76 min) | Jesse shares a scandalous episode from his past, the hosts discuss a New York Times op-ed by a college student that generated a deranged and telling response from The Twitter Powers That Be, and Kati…
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a year ago · 95 likes · Blocked and Reported

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