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Episode 156: Hey Jude (Doyle) (Shupe, Shupe-ba-doop Remix)

Apologies for the poor audio quality. Due to ongoing Twitter drama, this week's episode has been recorded over a prison telephone.

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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, in broken telephones:

Jesse Singal deletes his Twitter account in a last-ditch attempt to avoid arrest after Twitter distorts his coverage of a whistleblower at a trans youth center into “Jesse sold the health records of thousands of transgender children to politicians” — a game of ideologically motivated broken telephone worthy of InfoWars.

Now in prison, he recounts his tales of Mormon underwear shortages and podcaster prison gangs over the prison phone, before finally quashing his beef with Jesus. Katie Herzog fills Jesse in on what he’s missed, including a hitpiece from Jude Doyle and triple agent Elisa Shupe. Finally, Katie tries to convince Jesse to hand over his Twitter password before it is lost forever once his execution date arrives.

Help Jesse buy one last pizza from the prison canteen:

https://barpodmerch.com/

The FBI Took Jesse Away

The tweet that landed Jesse in prison

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Bradford Pearson @BradfordPearson
Terribly infuriating thread that I hope leads to Jamie Reed and Jesse Singal’s prosecution. Just total malpractice.
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Jennifer Harris Dault (she/her) @jennintheattic
I was asked to share my story about Jamie Reed. Roughly two years ago my older daughter knew herself better and let us know who she is. The news was not at all surprising and completely surprising all at the same time. 1/
1:00 AM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
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Whatever you do, DO NOT read Jesse’s coverage of Jamie Reed, the whistleblower at a St. Louis transgender center, and the resulting drama

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I can do reporting like this only because of the paying subscribers who support this newsletter. If you find this work at all useful, please consider becoming one or giving a gift subscription. This probably goes without saying, but if you have any information about the gender clinic under discussion here, whether positive or negative, please…
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17 days ago · 237 likes · 188 comments · Jesse Singal
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Gender-Clinic Whistleblower Jamie Reed Has Provided A Detailed Account Of Her Most Controversial Claim, Including The Names Of Those Involved
I can do reporting like this only because of the paying subscribers who support this newsletter. If you find this work at all useful, please consider becoming one or giving a gift subscription. This probably goes without saying, but if you have any information about the gender clinic under discussion here, whether positive or negative, please…
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14 days ago · 194 likes · 80 comments · Jesse Singal
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They Will Never, Ever Stop Lying About Everything, But Don't Give Them The Attention They Want
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9 days ago · 304 likes · 104 comments · Jesse Singal
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That Might Have Been The Strangest Thing That Has Ever Happened To Me On Twitter
Friday was a busy day for me: I woke up in Oakland, recorded a podcast, took a call while cleaning up the tiny house my friend generously let me stay in, lost track of time during said call, rushed to BART convinced I would miss my plane, made the flight, hopped on the flight, landed at The Secret L.A. Airport I Hope People Don’t Find Out About Because …
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Brianna Wu shows up in the comments of the Destiny subreddit and it does not go well

https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/11taosr/destiny_should_moderate_a_debate_between_brianna/

Shupe’s Heel-Face-Heel Turn

Shupe: I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/

Shupe: My New Life After Transgender Despair

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/10/my-new-life-after-transgender-despair/

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James Shupe (Formerly Jamie Shupe) @NotableDesister
Signs being displayed against HB 1365, The Vulnerable Child Protection Act, seems to be popular in Florida media articles, so here's mine.
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11:32 AM ∙ Feb 4, 2020
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Jude Doyle’s piece, with emails leaked by Shupe

https://xtramagazine.com/power/detransition-terf-movement-elisa-shupe-247592

The Mother Jones article

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/

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