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Delta pilots to protest nationwide for improved pay, protections, and scheduling

Julie Johnson
Washington Examiner
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:07 UTC
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© Fox 9Delta pilots picket in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
Delta Air Lines pilots nationwide will picket for better pay, protections, and scheduling on Thursday.

"Hundreds of off-duty pilots are scheduled to attend picketing events at the following airports: ATL, DTW, LAX, MSP, JFK, SEA, and SLC," a press release reads.

Capt. Jason Ambrosi, chairman of the Delta Master Executive Council, a unit of the Air Line Pilots Association said:
"Delta pilots were front-line leaders during COVID and the recovery. We helped our airline recover by flying record amounts of overtime and spending more time away from our families than ever before to get our customers safely to their destinations. It's time for management to recognize our contributions. If Delta can invest billions in foreign airlines and its subsidiaries, it must invest similarly in its pilots."
The pilots are seeking to resume contract negotiations that were paused indefinitely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Today is an important milestone for the Delta pilots. It's been two-and-a-half-years since our contract became amendable and three-and-a-half years since the Delta pilots last had a pay raise. Meanwhile, our quality of life has eroded due to management's unwillingness to schedule the airline properly."
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Best of the Web: The unhinged reaction to US abortion ruling has gone too far

Memoree Joelle
RT
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:36 UTC
Students protest Roe v. Wade
© AFP / Alex KentStudents march to protest against overturning Roe v. Wade, which guarantess the right to abortion access, in New York on May 19, 2022
Since the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the hysteria coming from the left has been in full force, with extreme reactions that have taken the pro-choice movement to pro-abortion cringe.

Frustratingly, there is a lot of misunderstanding as well as downright ignorance about what the Supreme Court decision means in the first place. The court did not ban abortion, as so many Twitter keyboard warriors seem to think, and they have no authority to do so. They are not legislators. What the justices did was determine that the previous precedent for Roe was not constitutional, or rather, that the right to abortion is not explicitly granted by the Constitution - which it isn't (incidentally, our Constitution DOES grant the right to bear arms quite explicitly, yet many on the left want that to be ignored. Go figure).

Now, if you want abortion legal in your state, voice your opinion to your elected representatives. Codify it into law at the state level. That's how 'We the People' are meant to govern ourselves in America. For all the cries about 'attacks on our democracy', I'm hearing a lot of calls for federal overreach - the very antithesis of democracy.
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NPC

Get woke, go broke: Halifax is slammed for introducing pronouns to staff name badges despite backlash over 'nonsense' gender identity move


Daily Mail
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:30 UTC
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© Twitter/Alamy
Halifax customers have threatened to close their accounts after the firm added pronouns to its staff name badges in a move that was branded 'nonsense'.

The bank announced on Twitter yesterday that it was making the change, but said it would be optional for staff.

Beneath a post that read 'pronouns matter' and the hashtag 'ItsAPeopleThing', it showed a photo of a female staff member's name badge which featured 'she/her/hers' in brackets.

Some customers immediately said they wanted to close their accounts as they hit out at the move.

One wrote: 'For a moment there, I was hoping this was a joke photo on a parody account, then I saw the verified tick now I'm thinking I should close my Halifax account and take my money elsewhere.'

Another simply asked: 'How do I close my account?'
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Black Magic

Cornell library removes Gettysburg Address, Lincoln bust after anonymous complaint

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC
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© Randy Wayne, For The College FixThe copy of the Gettysberg Address and a bust of President Lincoln were removed from Cornell University Library after an anonymous complaint.
"Someone complained, and it was gone."

That's all Cornell University biology Professor Randy Wayne said he has been able to determine so far about the whereabouts of a longtime display in the Ivy League school's Kroch Library of a bust of President Abraham Lincoln in front of a bronzed Gettysburg Address plaque.

Wayne, a frequent visitor to the library, which houses Cornell's rare and manuscript collections, said when he stopped in several weeks ago he noticed the display had been disappeared.

"It's been there since I can remember," he told The College Fix in an interview.

Comment: The creeping tentacles of the woke claim another historic and cultural icon.

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Loopy CNN guest says Trump 'was responsible for 9/11'

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:42 UTC
Alice Stewart trump 9/11
© CNNAlice Stewart, clearly a Never-Trumper Republican
A CNN guest made an unfortunate gaffe on Monday while discussing former President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.

Alice Stewart, a Republican Strategist, appeared on the network to discuss the public hearings of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and blamed Donald Trump for the 9/11 terror attacks.

"I think it has not been good for the former president," Stewart said. "I think we've made a case that he was responsible for 9/11."

Comment: The case must be desperate if the Committee supporters are descending into bombast. But the show trials must go on, no matter how many civil rights are trampled in the process.

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A lemming leading the lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the terminal collapse of the anti-war left

Jonathan Cook
Mint Press News
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Slavoj Zizek
© Mohammed Zaatari | AP
Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp?

It is now hard to remember that many millions marched in the U.S. and Europe against the attack on Iraq. It sometimes feels like there is no one left who is not cheerleading the next wave of profits for the West's military-industrial complex (usually referred to as the "defense industry" by those very same profiteers).

Washington learned a hard lesson from the unpopularity of its 2003 attack on Iraq aimed at controlling more of the Middle East's oil reserves. Ordinary people do not like seeing the public coffers ransacked or suffering years of austerity, simply to line the pockets of Blackwater, Halliburton, and Raytheon. And all the more so when such a war is sold to them on the basis of a huge deception.

So since then, the U.S. has been repackaging its neocolonialism via proxy wars that are a much easier sell. There have been a succession of them: Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Venezuela and now Ukraine. Each time, a few more leftists are lured into the camp of the war hawks by the West's selfless, humanitarian instincts - promoted, of course, through the barrel of a Western-supplied arsenal. That process has reached its nadir with Ukraine.
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Abortions can continue in Texas after judge temporarily blocks pre-Roe ban

Oriana Gonzalez
Axios
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:50 UTC
abortion protest austin texas
© Sergio Flores/Getty ImagesProtesters march in the street during an abortion rights rally on June 25 in Austin, Texas.
A Harris County judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a pre-Roe abortion ban in Texas that was being enforced while the state's "trigger" law is yet to take effect.

Abortion providers had sued state officials to stop the pre-Roe ban from taking effect, arguing it had previously been declared unconstitutional. With this temporary restraining order, abortions can continue in Texas up until the sixth week of pregnancy.

Texas' trigger law is scheduled to take effect later this summer, after the Supreme Court's judgment is officially issued, which is a separate order typically released at least 25 days or longer after the court's opinion.

Comment: See also:

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Frustrated NYC detectives leaving 'insane' NYPD, have 'had enough'

Tina Moore
New York Post
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:50 UTC
detective jay caputo
© Daniel William McKnightDetective Jay Caputo retired from the NYPD’s 105th Precinct after 18 years with the NYPD.
More than 100 NYPD detectives have retired in June — and another 75 plan to put their papers in next month — as many become frustrated by revolving door justice and rules that hamstring them in the Big Apple, officials and detectives told The Post.

"That's going to have a major impact on investigating crimes," Detectives Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo said. "The detective squads are down now as we speak and are investigating more cases. It's going to have an impact on public safety."

So far this year 250 detectives have retired, leaving the total number at about 5,600, which is nearly 2000 less than two decades ago.

Comment: Is this really a surprise? With the amount of anti-police rhetoric coming out from leftist politicians, the police literally have no support. Why would anyone risk their lives doing a job that is essentially useless?

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'A lot cheaper to get rid of them': Tucker Carlson says corporations are telling people they can't have children

Nicole Silverio
Daily Caller
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:06 UTC
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Tucker Carlson
Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson said Tuesday that corporations are telling their employees that they can no longer have children.

The host said large corporations are paying for abortions because paying for maternity leave and other family oriented services are a financial burden to them. These companies and media networks want the American middle class to "reset" their "unrealistic expectations" of raising a family, Carlson said.

"Now they're telling you that you cannot have the one thing that most people want more than anything else; the one thing that biological instinct drives all of us to want, and that's children," Carlson said. "The most reliable source of meaning and joy in human existence, a family, is now out of reach for the American middle class, and you should accept that is inevitable. In fact, you should embrace it."

The host played a clip of MSNBC host Katy Tur suggesting that having a baby takes a toll on a woman's "body" and "livelihood." Carlson also showed NBC News Business and Tech correspondent Jo Ling Kent saying that abortion will be an economic burden for women with estimated costs being roughly $105 billion per year nationaly.
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Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in Epstein sex abuse case

Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! News
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:34 UTC
Ghislaine Maxwell
© Jane Rosenberg/ReutersMaxwell attends her sentencing hearing Tuesday.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite who was convicted late last year of helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison.

"A sentence of 240 months is sufficient and no graver than necessary," U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan said while issuing the verdict.

Nathan addressed those gathered inside the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, including Maxwell and some of her victims.

"Ms. Maxwell directly and repeatedly and over the course of many years participated in a horrific scheme," Nathan said. "Ms. Maxwell worked with Epstein to select young victims who were vulnerable."

The judge said that Maxwell, 60, played a "pivotal" role facilitating "heinous and predatory" abuse. Nathan also imposed a $750,000 fine, the maximum amount possible under the law.

Outside the courthouse, Maxwell's lawyer told reporters she plans to appeal.
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