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Repression and resistance

Scotus is considering Greenlighting Conversion therapy. The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ “treatments” are ineffective and dangerous.

Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached

The major cases in October and November address the role of race in elections, conversion therapy and the Trump tariffs. Later cases include campaign finance and transgender sports.

The Debt Collective is leading the charge against the real estate behemoth Equity Residential.

Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.

Vietnam’s Slippery Slope (1950), History-Changing Hurricane (1780), Saying ‘No’ to Real Un-Americans (1960), Live, from New York! (1975), The Army Against Civilians Isn’t New (1925), Deer Island or Devil’s Island? (1675), She Sure Had Rhythm! (1930)

District Court Judge Karin Immergut – a Trump appointee – issued an opinion that shows courage in judging, without rhetoric or defiance—only the quiet insistence that facts still matter.

“If You Don’t Understand Me, You Have Four Months To Learn”

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.