Episode 271: Engagement Bait - Blocked and Reported

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Episode 271: Engagement Bait

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Episode 271: Engagement Bait

MAGA girlies go to war

Aug 09, 2025

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a schism in the anti-feminist right, featuring influencers Sarah Stock, Pearl Davis, Emily Wilson, Morgen Ariel, and one little engagement ring.

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Episode 241: The Helen Lewis Holiday Extravaganza

December 14, 2024

Episode 241: The Helen Lewis Holiday Extravaganza

For our final free episode of the year, Jesse and Katie are joined by Helen Lewis to discuss America, Texas, Joe Rogan, trad wives, and more. Plus, our annual extremely online BARPod holiday …

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Long Covid Can Be Both Psychosomatic And Real

I’m very pleased to be running an excerpt from The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker by Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan. Released earlier this year by Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House, this is a great book and you should buy it. Featured below is the second half of Chapter Two, “Lyme Disease and Long Covid.” The excerpt is almost entirely self-contained — all you really need to know going in is that the “chronic” variant of lyme disease, or CLD, has kicked up a large controversy. Because it sweeps in such a wide range of symptoms, and because sometimes people who believe they have it have no evidence of a tick bite — or even live in a place where there aren’t any Lyme-carrying ticks — CLD is a moving target that is very difficult to pin down. There’s strong reason to believe that some cases, at least, are psychosomatic. This does…

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Deranged MAGA Civil War Erupts Over Engagement Ring Size

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