Yesterday, America's brief interim Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by the Trump Administration for refusing to defend his Muslim ban, became what The Daily Beast calls "the early hero of the Trump era."

Until two hours ago when President Trump fired James Comey, America's FBI Director, Sally Yates was the person of the hour, after her professionally dazzling testimony on Monday before a Senate Panel investigating the Russian meddling in America's presidential election.

On Monday, prior to the Senate hearing, NBC reported that in his first meeting with President Obama on November 10, President-elect Trump was advised not to hire General Michael Flynn for a key post in the administration. Trump ignored President Obama's warning and hired Flynn as his National Security Adviser, exposing him to all of America's top secrets.

Yates clarified for Senators and the general public yesterday that upon reading an pre-report analysis of information gleaned by the FBI on Flynn, she was so concerned that she picked up the phone and called White House Counsel Donald McGahn, requesting an immediate in-person meeting.

Yates said, “We believed that General Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians," and that “logic would tell you that you don’t want the national security adviser to be in a position where the Russians have leverage over him.”

The White House fired Yates four days later and only fired Gen. Flynn 18 days later because of a leak to the Washington Post about Flynn's activities with the Russians. In spite of the Trump administration's attempts to paint Sally Yates as a political hack prior to yesterday's testimony, Republican senators led by the committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham found her to be highly credible.

Because of tonight's firing of FBI Director Comey, the plot has thickened dramatically around the aggressive tactics of the Trump administration.

The Troll Who Helped Torment Leslie Jones Off Twitter Just Landed a Massive Book Deal Vanity Fair

Reading this headline and @ Nero's quote "I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building -- but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money", this chick was expecting an advance of millions. $250,000 is pretty paltry for the man -- Milo Yiannopoulos -- who says he was a 'virtuous troll' who was doing 'God's work' in fighting against the 'revolting' body-positivity and feminist movements.

Yiannopoulos, who rose to fame in GamerGate, is writing a memoir with Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions. GamerGate often targeted feminists and girl gamers generally, telling them to get out of the male gaming culture. The writer went on a speaking tour of college campuses, railing against America's pc culture.

Don't expect an ounce of empathy from Yiannopoulos, who has bragged that "I don't have feelings to hurt."

{Quote}: "In an interview with ABC last September, Yiannopoulos expressed no regret in fomenting the attacks on Jones. He identified himself as a “virtuous troll” who was doing “God’s work” in fighting against the “revolting” body-positivity and feminist movements. Since being banned from Twitter, Yiannopoulos’s pro-Trump, alt-right platform has landed him on-air appearances and helped turn a college speaking tour titled “Dangerous Faggot” into a potentially self-parodying documentary deal. "

Forbes writes that the provocateur was the speaker most likely to be disinvited to colleges in 2016 The gay Brit received one quarter of disinvites, as he crisscrossed the country on his Dangerous Faggot Tour.

Simon & Schuster Defends Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal Hollywood Reporter

The publisher is defending its decision to publish 'Dangerous' via its conservative imprint, which has also published books by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and President-elect Donald Trump. Simon & Schuster said on Friday that it in no way condones discrimination or hate speech, but publishing 'Dangerous' is about free speech.

The Chicago Review of Books seems to view the decision as more of a business and profit-driven one by Simon & Schuster, given that in the age of self-publishing and indy imprints, publishing a book to support free speech is easy. 'Dangerous' rose to the top of Amazon's best-seller list yesterday, strictly in pre-orders.

Calling the publisher's decision a "disgusting validation of hate", the Chicago Review of Books said that it will review no books by Simon & Schuster in 2017.

This year the Chicago Review covered 15 of the company's books from various imprints, of the more than 300 books it reviewed. Instead, The Chicago Review of Books said it will choose 15 books from independent and small publishers to cover instead.

Simon & Schuster's UK arm has announced that it will not publish 'Dangerous'.

Senior editors at the UK's top publishing houses told The Guardian that it would be "a toxic book to try and sell here."

"In the U.S. there is a massive market for right-wing writers through talk radio stations, and they also do events where they can sell 2,000 to 3,000 copies at a time," said another. "We don’t have that market here, so it makes it harder to sell."

London publishers also fear the potential for backlash similar to one that is building in the US.