News about Gavin McInnes

Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes, the far-right, fringe mind behind the Proud Boys, began in print in 1994 before transforming into one of the most prominent brands in all of digital media. The tech-focused Motherboard, female-oriented Refinery29, and cable television show Vice TV were all part of the Brooklyn-based company's umbrella, as well as its website Vice News. However, in the time since, the online empire's house of cards has been slowly devolving, reflecting the more general challenges facing web-based publishing. Years of financial challenges and executive departures, including McInnes in 2018 over a cultural divide with a millennial focus, culminated in the demise seen Tuesday.

Hamline University in Minnesota has been named one of the worst colleges in the United States for free expression after a professor was suspended for showing a 14th-century portrait of the prophet Muhammad in a course on Islamic art. Lia Thomas' University of Pennsylvania, one of the top ten schools, was cited for attempting to muzzle a professor's anti-immigration and affirmative action remarks. The University of Oregon has been put on a list of workplace members who must pledge allegiance to 'diversity, equity, and representation.' Since school administrators took over traditionally student-run activities on campus, the prestigious Texas A&M remains in the top ten. This is based on a recent list compiled by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a non-profit civil rights group, and it is based in the United States.

Only days after hundreds of members of a white supremacist party completed their 'national run' in Victoria, the legendary Finks bikie clan shot the former leader of a white supremacist party in a bizarre rap video. Jarrad Searby, who performs under the stage name Jazza 66, was released on YouTube on Tuesday and is full of crass lyrics and slang terms pertaining to 'outlaw's life.' The music video features heavily tattooed people in the background and is cut together with videos of motorcycles It begins with Harley Davidson doing a burnout, and other patched-up club members' video on their phones.

After a 'comedy function' featuring him and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, Alex Stein, a self-proclaimed professional troll, called a female Penn State student who spat on him a 'Penn State cutie', he was canceled at the school. After Stein and McInnes drew an army of protesters who eventually led to the provocateurs to leave the scene on Monday night, officials at Penn State were compelled to cancel the performance at the eleventh hour. 'Due to the danger of increasing violence surrounding tonight's occurrence, Penn State University Police decided that canceling the speaking engagement in the interest of campus security.' On Monday night, it was scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. About an hour before, the cancellation was announced. Uncensored America, a free-speech group headquartered in Penn State, sponsored the festival. Since the evening had been announced, demonstrators had called on activists to cancel it. Those calls were ignored by school administrators who were unaware.

After a 'comedy' featuring him and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, Alex Stein, a self-proclaimed professional troll, called a female Penn State student who spat on him as a "Penn State cutie," he and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes were suspended at the academy. After Stein and McInnes attracted an army of protesters who later compelled the provocateurs to leave the scene on Monday night, officials at Penn State were forced to cancel the performance at the eleventh hour. Penn State University officials said in a short statement, 'Due to the danger of increasing violence surrounding tonight's appearance, Penn State University Police decided it was imperative to cancel the speaking engagement in the interest of campus security.' On Monday night, it was scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. Around an hour before, the cancellation was announced. Uncensored America, a free-speech group headquartered in Penn State, sponsored the event. Since the evening was announced, protesters had called on protesters to cancel it. Those calls went unheeded by school administrators.

On Thursday, Jeremy Joseph Bertino, 43, (left), entered a guilty plea in federal court for the District of Columbia, and as part of the agreement, the parties agreed to cooperate with the government's ongoing probe. Bertino's cooperation could help other Proud Boys arrested in the January 6, 2021 riot, including the group's former national chairman Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio (right). Bertino, also known as 'Noble Beard,' is a member of a prestigious Proud Boys cell dubbed the 'Ministry of Self Defense' (MOSD), and he participated in encrypted group chats discussing attempts to prohibit Congress from certifying the 2020 election.

After faking his own arrest on television, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, 52, has appeared on a boat in the south of France. According to a LA Times article, the Canadian writer and media mogul released a shirtless snapshot of himself in floral swim trunks at the helm of a boat with a cool beer on Monday in Marseille, where he is holidaying with his family. During a live taping of his 'Get Off My Lawn' podcast, McInnes was swarmed with scathing remarks about reportedly staging his own arrest two weeks ago.

On Monday, a Maryland man who worked with the far-right Proud Boys jihadist group was sentenced to more than four years in jail for storming the United States.