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.

They “had to be carried … Read the rest

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

There’s been a major earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska. I learned of it early because I follow Blair Braverman (Iditarod winner) on Twitter and she’s there* (without the dogs, who are far away and safe). She’s currently tweeting from a car (passenger seat) attempting to get away from a possible tsunami.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 7 magnitude tremor struck about 10 miles north of Anchorage at 8:29 a.m. local time (12:29 p.m. EST) Friday morning. Social media images and videos showed cracked and collapsed roads, as well as cracks in the walls of buildings. It wasn’t immediately clear if there were any injuries.

“At Anchorage Daily News in Midtown, it sent cracks up walls, damaged ceiling panels and

Awww iddn that sweet.

Russian President Putin and Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman embrace and laugh at the G20 in Argentina. pic.twitter.com/DtyNK6RwhI

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 30, 2018

… Read the rest

Oh, that’s how dirty the cops are in St Louis.

When a judge acquitted a white St. Louis police officer in September 2017 for fatally shooting a young black man, the city’s police braced for massive protests. But St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Dustin Boone wasn’t just prepared for the unrest — he was pumped.

“It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” he texted on Sept. 15, 2017, the day of the verdict. “It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s—heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!”

Two days later, prosecutors say, that’s exactly what Boone did to one black protester. Boone, 35, and two other officers, Randy Hays,