The Supreme Court’s Landmark LGBTQ Civil Rights Ruling Will Extend Far Beyond Employment Law
The Supreme Court’s decision to protect gay and transgender Americans from employment discrimination comes in the midst of the Trump Administration’s attack on the LGBTQ community.Kevin Wolf/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, the Supreme Court handed LGBTQ Americans one of their biggest civil rights victories…
“I Refuse to Transport Radical Youth to Jail”: More and More City Bus Drivers Are Done Helping Cops.
An arrested protestor looks out of a bus at a Brooklyn protest against the police killing of George Floyd on May 29, 2020. (Joel Marklund/Bildbyran via ZUMA) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Bus drivers around the country are refusing police demands to cart detained protestors to jail—and…
Chicago PD Made Bus Drivers Ferry Them to Protests. One Driver Is Suing His Bosses to Fight It.
Amid protests over the Minneapolis Police Department’s killing of George Floyd, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver Erek Slater, a 14-year veteran of the city’s transit system, is filing a federal lawsuit against his employer—for allegedly cracking down on a rank-and-file effort to resist driving Chicago police. Days of rallies and sit-ins across the city…
Here’s What Gig Companies Say They’ll Do If You Get Arrested for Delivering Past Curfew
A video of a Caviar delivery person being arrested for violating curfew, as the man yelled that he is an essential worker, prompted a swift backlash on Thursday night. Even Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who has seemed ready to lick the boot of the cops kettling, beating, and harassing protestors, called out the arrest. Same goes for journalists…
A Dollar General Analyst Complained About Store Workers Getting Screwed. He Got Fired.
A Dollar General store in Vallejo, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.One day in early March, Rebecca told her manager at a Dollar General store in South Carolina that she was starting to feel sick. She had a fever, some difficulty breathing. At the time,…
There Is a Way to Bring Back Most Restaurants
Aja Koska/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over on Eater, Hillary Dixler Canavan has the scoop on how Noma, the legendary Copenhagen fine-dining temple, plans to adjust to the COVID-19 crisis: by re-opening as an outdoor burger-and-wine bar. For us in the United States, the saddest part…