Devon and Cornwall Police seized roughly a million pounds from Andrew and Tristan Tate — unpaid taxes on £21 million the brothers raked in running their misogyny-industrial complex — and handed it straight to programs that reduce violence against women and girls. That is the single funniest sentence written in English this month. The guy whose entire career is built on teaching young men to treat women as objects is now, involuntarily, bankrolling the people trying to undo his damage. He ran the grift, skimmed the receipts, and a U.K. magistrate stuffed those receipts into a women’s shelter. Incredible.
Meanwhile the Trump administration is still running interference for these creeps — literally pressuring Romania to “find compromise” so the brothers could slink back to America as fully-catered guests of the new regime. Because of course. If your politics makes you a natural ally of a man who openly said he moved to Romania because the rape laws are looser there, maybe reconsider your politics. Maybe reconsider everything.
So, a rare bit of good news in a year mostly short on it. One million pounds, extracted like a rotten molar, now doing real work in the world. More of this, please. Every dollar these guys ever touched should end up somewhere they would hate.