From Pliny:

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Milo Yiannopoulos is having money problems.

The far right activist Milo Yiannopoulos was more than $2m in debt during 2018, according to a collection of documents assembled by his former Australian tour promoters and seen by Guardian Australia. Creditors listed in the documents include employees of his company, a wedding venue and his former sponsors, the billionaire Mercer family.

The documents indicate that as of April 2018, Yiannopoulos owed $1.6m to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercers, $153,215 to his former lawyers, $76,574 to former collaborator and Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari, and $20,000 to the luxury jewellery brand Cartier.

As of 2 October, Yiannopoulos owed sums of several thousand dollars to far right writers including Ian Miles Cheong,

Andrew Gilligan in the Times (the real one):

An official who agreed a policy allowing male-bodied sex offenders into women’s prisons was a sex offender who hoarded 22,000 indecent pictures of children.

Gordon Pike, a senior official of the Scottish Prison Service, was one of those responsible for its “gender identity and gender reassignment policy”, documents seen by The Sunday Times show. The policy is significantly more liberal than England’s, stating that transgender prisoners must normally be housed according to the “social gender” with which they self-identify, “whether or not” they have legally changed it.

“Liberal” (in the sense of generous) from the point of view of transgender prisoners but not necessarily anyone else.

Two years after approving the policy,

Very good point.

The current crisis raises some very important questions when it comes to feminism and the Global North/Global South divide. We cannot have a women's rights movement that denounces breast ironing of brown and black girls but supports breast binding for white girls, as "a right".

— RaquelRosarioSánchez (@8RosarioSanchez) December 2, 2018

Women's organisations and feminists in Global North can't act shocked when feminists are jailed and prevented from speaking "in developing countries" when we are seeing leftist politicians and political parties in the Global North veer towards making feminism a hate crime…

— RaquelRosarioSánchez (@8RosarioSanchez) December 2, 2018

And feminist like #MeghanMurphy in Canada or @Womans_Place_UK in UK, face onslaughts of abuse for having meetings. If you

A Vancouver radio station talked to Meghan about the latest bullying:

Meghan Murphy, who is at the centre of a controversy over a talk on transgender rights scheduled for Jan. 10 at the Vancouver Public Library, says a report of a cancellation are not true.

“The only news I have heard of this cancellation upon waking up and reading my email, which informed me that I had sent an email in the middle of the night and cancelled — it sounds like somebody is playing a joke on the media,” Murphy tells NEWS 1130.

The founder and editor of The Feminist Current adds that a report of her receiving a large number of critical emails leading to a decision

Originally a comment by iknklast on Shut her up.

It’s so tiresome to discuss who is a woman and who is a man, you see

The problem is, we are determined to keep a huge distinction between women and men, so we’ll know who is pink and who is blue, who is thinky and who is feely, who has testosterone toxicity and who has that estrogen vibe. We are not ready to get rid of rape culture, so women would feel less need to have women only spaces. We are not prepared to pay women equally, allow them equal access to the corridors of power, and not grope, ogle, or grab them by the pussy, so women need to … Read the rest

More on the relentless campaign to silence Meghan Murphy:

This guy is the president of BCTF, the union representing BC’s public school teachers. He’s very “active” in the anti-Meghan campaign.

https://twitter.com/glenhansman/status/1068347392133451776

He retweeted this

To those upset that Meghan Murphy had her Twitter account suspended for constant transphobic harassment, and who are threatening to also leave twitter in transphobic solidarity with her, I definitely think you should do so. Do fight for your terrible principles… somewhere else.

— Jake Pyne #Free Palestine (@JakePyne) November 24, 2018

and this

https://twitter.com/AmberDawnWrites/status/1067645934190772225

and this

I agree that women’s voices need to be heard. But we have a responsibility to ensure that public spaces are safe for all women. Hate speech from a woman

And, again.

Shame that a diversity of views not allowed at an anarchist bookfair. @helensteel12 and I just chucked out. Literally. What a mess. We'll never be able to reach a compromise on trans rights and women rights if only 1 view is heard.

— Catherine B (@toddybann) December 1, 2018

https://twitter.com/beyondbarsuk/status/1068953501491974144

So anarchists are upset by disruption?

But, more to the point, were the two women disrupting at all? From what I can see they were distributing pamphlets…at a book fair. It doesn’t sound all that disruptive. It could be, in theory; racists distributing pamphlets calling for lynching at an anti-racist or feminist book fair would be disruptive, but feminists don’t call for lynching.

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And don’t let Matt Whitaker try to tell you he thought the company was on the up and up.

(And even if he really did think that, it would be no excuse, because he should have done due diligence.)

He knew damn well it wasn’t.

Months after joining the advisory board of a Miami-based patent company in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker began fielding angry complaints from customers that they were being defrauded, including from a client who showed up at his Iowa office to appeal to him personally for help, records show.

Yet Whitaker, now the acting attorney general, remained an active champion of World Patent Marketing for three years — even expressing willingness to star in national television