It’s 2019 and Female Pilots Are Still Fighting Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace
Airlines are “no stranger to sex stereotypes,” but a group of pilots and flight attendants are pushing back on that.Thomas_EyeDesign/Getty Back in 2013, Shannon Kiedrowski was 11 years into her dream job as a pilot at Frontier Airlines when she gave birth to her second child. On her first day back from maternity leave, a…
Kamala Was a Cop. Black People Knew It First.
Kamala Harris, then California’s attorney general, with Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell (left), Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore, and Los Angeles interim County Sheriff John Scott at a 2014 event. AP Photo/Nick Ut In a roundtable discussion hosted by Blavity in October, Sen. Kamala Harris briefly addressed the meme that had beset…
Inspector General’s Report Shows Trump’s “Spygate” Conspiracy Theory Was the Real Hoax
Evan Vucci/AP Sorry, Donald Trump. Sorry, Rudy Giuliani. Sorry, Devin Nunes. Sorry, Jim Jordan, Sorry, Sean Hannity. Sorry, Fox News watchers. There was no Deep State conspiracy to cook up a Russia investigation to sabotage Trump’s campaign and, then, his presidency. There was no witch hunt. There was no hoax. The Obama administration did not,…
OIG Report Says FBI Is Incompetent, But Harbors No Anti-Trump Bias
A Justice Department report has concluded that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s links to Russia was entirely justified: Investigators uncovered “no documentary or testimonial evidence” of political bias behind official actions related to the investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, said the report, which totaled more than 400 pages. The F.B.I. had sufficient evidence…
The Republican Impeachment Counsel Just Made a Blatantly False Claim
Republican counsel Steve Castor with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Rep Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)Susan Walsh/AP In his presentation during Monday’s House impeachment hearing, Republican counsel Steve Castor deployed a thoroughly debunked talking point to argue that President Donald Trump did nothing wrong when he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Trump’s political enemies. Several…
Supreme Court: Kentucky Abortion Seekers Must Listen to Fetal Heartbeat
J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a Kentucky law to go into effect that requires doctors to perform an ultrasound on patients seeking an abortion and play the sounds of the fetus’ heartbeat. The 2017 law forces physicians to give patients seeking an abortion an ultrasound regardless of whether the patient wants one.…