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Gap signs Open to All Business Pledge

Today, Gap Inc. announced they are signing the Open to All Business Pledge and urging other business leaders across the nation to add their names and to declare they are Open to All and oppose discrimination. There are over 2,300 Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta, and Intermix stores in the country, spanning all 50 states. Gap Inc. joins Yelp, Levi Strauss & Co., Lyft, as well as more than 1,500 small businesses, and 200 nonprofits, in partnering with Open to All, a public education campaign focused on the longstanding…

FSD’s 2018 Candidate Endorsements

Click here to download PDF version US Senate Congressional Dist. 4 Auditor/Controller DIANNE FEINSTEIN JESSICA MORSE OSCAR J.. GARCIA Governor Congressional Dist. 16 City Council Dist. 3 GAVIN NEWSOM JIM COSTA NO ENDORSEMENT Lieutenant Governor Congressional Dist 21 City Council Dist. 5 NO ENDORSEMENT T. J. COX LUIS CHAVEZ Secretary Of State Congressional Dist. 22 City Council Dist. 7 ALEX PADILLA ANDREW JANZ NELSON ESPARZA Controller State Senate Dist. 8 …

SCOTUS decides Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

June 4, 2018 — This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case where an LGBTQ couple was denied service by a cake baker. In a very narrow ruling limited to this specific case, the Court voted 7-2 in favor of the anti-LGBTQ baker. The good news is that this ruling is very limited and applies narrowly to the unique facts of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. It did NOT create a license to discriminate or overturn existing LGBTQ non-discrimination…

Fired Transgender Journalist Speaks Out

Fired ‘Marketplace’ Reporter Wonders: Is Objective Journalism Dead? Lewis Wallace, former “Marketplace” reporter. (Sam Worley / KCRW) In this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Lewis Wallace, a former reporter fired for questioning objective journalism in the age of Trump. Wallace had been working for the American Public Media show “Marketplace” for months when he was abruptly fired in February. The reason? He’d written a personal blog post, titled “Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it,” in which he explored how journalists will…