John Finch🇺🇸
Historian. Educator. Advocate for democratic constitutionally based government, public education, national health care, social security, women’s rights, and human rights.🇺🇸 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇦🇺🇦🦋☮️🇺🇳🏳️🌈🇫🇷🇿🇦🇳🇿
These are the times that will test our fortitude (Thomas Pain, 1776).
- Sir Ian McKellen destroys Trump on Colbert, performing a Shakespeare monologue from Sir Thomas More. The play was not published or performed at the time, quite possibly because it was censored. More asks the rioters to imagine themselves in the shoes of the immigrants they are attacking in a riot.
- These are the times that must bring us together.
- Nigeria is Africa’s most populous state with a diversity of cultures and wide geographic differentiation. Trump’s threats will have little impact there and sending in troops could touch off America’s next ten year military debacle.
- Reposted by John Finch🇺🇸“With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for ‘the positive affirmation of peace.’” — The Nation
- The immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, which gained notoriety last week for holding Minnesota resident 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, is now the site of an active measles outbreak.
- It was difficult for Germany’s Nazi government to recruit low level Gestapo agents, but they did not wear masks to enable command and control by the officers in charge. Anonymity gives secrecy to disobedience of orders and mistreatment of victims. One Nazi reward was no duty on the western front.
- Is the long awaited release of the Epstein file’s actually going to change Trump’s “I can get away from anything” trajectory?
- To impeach or not to impeach? 🚨ABSURD: Trump says he wants to sue the Epstein estate for “political harm.” Read that slowly. A man whose name appears in the Epstein records 38,000 SO FAR, now wants to sue the estate of a dead sex trafficker for damaging his image. You truly can’t parody this.
- This is Fred Biery, a United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas. He is the judge who ordered the release of Liam Ramos and his father and he wrote a scathing opinion targeting the Trump Administration.
- Just wait until the measles outbreak reaches ICE’s DHS holding cells: epidemic especially among children,
- The measles cases at the Dilley “Immigration Processing Center” were detected Friday, DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News. ICE facility houses parents and children taken into federal custody over alleged violations of immigration law www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ice...
- ICE Attacks NOT Accidental “This is no longer just a series of accidents that could have been due to someone being badly trained or being a bad apple. This is a systematic assault on constitutional rights," says Walter Olson, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
- Reposted by John Finch🇺🇸NEW: A federal judge has ordered 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father RELEASED from the Dilley detention center. www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/u...
- 🇨🇦 Hundreds in Vancouver protest Hootsuite's contract with U.S. Homeland Security(ICE-Gestapo) Two U.S. citizens were 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 by ICE -the protest comes as Canadian companies that do business with ICE are facing increasing blowback for supporting Fascism. #CanadaSky🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- December producer price inflation came in at 3 percent, well above expectations of 2.7 percent. Core PPI inflation jumped to 3.3 percent, also higher than forecast, and now sits at its hottest level since July 2025. Americans feel them every time they buy groceries or fill their gas tanks.
- Defund ICE!
- Breaking news 1/30/26, 6:00PM CDT.
- BREAKING: New Jersey Governor Sherrill is creating an online portal for New Jersey residents to report encounters with ICE agents. She wants you to record as much as you can! “We are also going to be (setting) up a portal so people can upload all their cellphone videos and alert people.”
- Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
- In an era when too many powerful voices are staying silent, Bruce Springsteen just made it very clear whose side he’s on. Stay free.
- South Carolina measles outbreak grows to 789, surpassing the West Texas outbreak. The South Carolina outbreak increased by 89 cases in the past 4 days. Stephanie Soucheray (Stephanie Soucheray is a news reporter for CIDRAP News.) www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/sout...
- “As the nation shudders on the edge of Trump's police state, we’re gaining stronger unity against it and taking more responsibility for the well-being of each other. In the darkness of Trump, we’re finding the light of America,”states Robert Reich (Substack.com 1/27/26).
- “The question isn’t whether Stand Your Ground and the Second Amendment can coexist. They already do. The question is who gets to survive that coexistence — and who the law quietly decides is expendable.” We are left with a legally ambiguous doctrine that ultimately expands the police state’s power.
- “Mexico has cancelled a shipment of oil to Cuba, the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, appeared to confirm on Tuesday, but she insisted the decision was “sovereign” and not a response to pressure from the US.” Cutting oil shipments to Cuba could hurt her at home (TheGuardian.com 1/27/36).
- It took long enough for Minnesota’s big businesses to react: “Chief executives of Target, Best Buy, General Mills and Cargill were among more than 60 large Minnesota companies to issue a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state.” (NY Times.com 1/27/26).
- MPR News: 1/27/26: ICE Saga Part 2: Minnesota’s chief federal judge is ordering the head of ICE to appear personally in a Minneapolis courtroom on Friday, with the judge saying that ICE has failed to comply with dozens of court orders.
- MPRNews (1/27/26) The ICE Saga in Minnesota: Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday as the Trump administration reshuffles leadership of its immigration enforcement operation and scales back the federal presence after a second fatal shooting.
- This is Trafalger Square in London. The anti-ICE protests have gone international! The whole world is standing with Minnesota. They’re speaking up for Alex Pretti, Renee Nicole Good, Keith Porter and all the other people killed at the hands of ICE. They’re watching and they won’t be silent.
- 🚨BREAKING: America’s LARGEST labor union says ICE must leave Minnesota - OR ELSE. What the AFL-CIO is preparing could shut down economic life to save lives. Share this and subscribe so ICE knows labor is closing them down for business.
- 🚨BREAKING: We can now confirm Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large,” and it gets worse. He was just notified he has lost access to his DHS social media accounts which used to respond to people who criticized him over Pretti’s death.
- Walz meets with Trump 1/26/26: Trump said Monday morning that he’d spoken to Gov. Tim Walz… Walz called the meeting productive. The governor’s office said Trump agreed to look into reducing the number of federal agents in the state. MPR News.
