Portside

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

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.

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

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

Repression and resistance

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians.

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

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.

Today’s general strike in Italy paralyzed transport and brought two million people into the streets. Even after years of setbacks for organized labor, it staged a historic protest in solidarity with Palestine.

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)