Washington Post national political reporter Felicia Sonmez spoke out against management at her own publication for barring her from covering sexual assault stories.

Sonmez, a sexual assault survivor, accused the Post of failing to support her and survivors of assault. She was reacting to a Politico story about an internal townhall-style Zoom call, which was intended to offer support to fellow Post reporter Seung Min Kim following racist attacks online.

“I wish editors had publicly supported me in the same way," wrote Sonmez in the company-wide chat.

“I was stunned to see that the same editor who has silenced me from defending myself online, said nothing when I had to leave my home amid threats and continues to bar me from fully doing my job was being quoted as an authority on protecting female journalists,” she wrote as part of a 16-tweet long thread Sunday.

A number of Sonmez's supporters agreed with her assessment that the Post was applying an overly broad conflict of interest policy: it makes sense to prohibit her from working on a story about the man she alleges assaulted her, but not an outright ban on the entire topic of #MeToo and sexual assault.

It couldn't have been easy to speak up -- about her assault or to criticize her employer -- and Sonmez deserves kudos for her courage.

It really has been just a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month for Sharon Osbourne.

She was loudly criticized for a spat with her co-hosts on the CBS chat show The Talk, in which she defended Piers Morgan's comments about Meghan Markle. Osbourne insisted Morgan was not racist and then demanded that her Black co-host Sheryl Underwood not cry and "educate" her on what Morgan did that was racist. The segment devolved into a shouting match and led to CBS temporarily suspending her.

And the backlash only grew as more reports came in about Osbourne using racist, homophobic slurs against her colleagues.

Soon, CBS decided enough was enough, and it was announced that Osbourne would be leaving.

"As part of our review," said the network in a statement, "we concluded that Sharon’s behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace."

Morgan tried to defend Osbourne but seems to have only made it worse, in a Daily Mail op-ed declaring neither of them is racist, but then claiming that the "woke mob" is guilty of "lynching" her.

Probably best -- for both of them -- to just take a break and quietly reflect.