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Police in Glasgow tried to seize “evidence” from a queer, Yiddish, anarchist vegan cafe. The high crime? Displaying a “fuck the police” tote bag in their window.

The police forced the cafe to removed the bag for “breach of peace” but staff put up an identical bag right after the seizure. Officers challenged co-founder Morgan Holleb when the bag was back up. So, he flipped it around to the Yiddish side, which also reads “fuck the police.” He then wrote “fuck the police” in permanent marker on the front door. The bag and marker remain on the door to this day.

Since the incident, the store has received over $4,400, in donations and purchases of the bag. They sold out within a week but are not available online again at pinkpeacock.gay/product/tote/.

The cafe is now open to everyone, “except cops and TERFs.”

The bag in question:

papa, didn’t you say that we spencers were distantly related to anne boleyn? yes, i read all about her. they even wrote a poem: “she married the king of england, and the king chopped off her head because he met another woman, and he wanted her to be queen—instead.”

I’ve never told you this and it probably means you’ll have to fire me, but… well actually, I’m in love with you. Yes, I mean… I mean in that way. Completely. And I know, I know you don’t see me in that way. It’s perfectly fine. I’m a grown-up. I just thought I’d lighten the gloom with something totally unexpected.

Mostly I’m here because of the press. It was felt we needed to be on guard because of all the silly attention that your Royal Highness is attracting. Their lenses are terribly powerful these days, Ma'am.

“It became clear that we weren’t going to actually find anywhere or want to find anywhere that really looked like Sandringham,” [Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Designer)] says of the Norfolk, England, estate where the royal family spends several days during the Christmas holidays. Ultimately, for the exterior, he selected Nordkirchen Castle in the North Rhine-Westphalia state of Germany. “We wanted this opulent and austere space that on perhaps the first look gave you sort of the ‘wow factor’ of how royalty live. … But at the same time, underneath that thin surface, we wanted a feeling of anguish and isolation and sadness.” (THR)