Finch Vandyk
@finchvandyk.bsky.social
activist and community organizer in iowa city. leadership with Indivisible Johnson County
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The fact that we are even considering letting this man finish out his term is ludicrous
May 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The fact that we are even considering letting this man finish out his term is ludicrous
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So, we did a thing. And we're super excited!
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@raygunsite.com, thanks for the great online shop!
Can't wait to see your folks showing up in our Indivisible swag.
#Iowa #Indivisible
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Support us and the greatest store in the universe!
@raygunsite.com, thanks for the great online shop!
Can't wait to see your folks showing up in our Indivisible swag.
#Iowa #Indivisible
www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...
Indivisible Iowa Store
Indivisible Iowa Is nonpartisan and open to anyone in Iowa who believes that unconstitutional, callous political agenda must be stopped. We are committed to achieving this goal through working togethe...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We've got shirts! Help us raise money for things like informational flyers, transportation, Zoom accounts, and all the other cool fun things that keep our operations operating. If you hate fascism and like getting yippy, get your awesome t-shirt and keep us in the fight today!
Enough with the focus on "peaceful" protest. It's nonviolent, because that's what works. It is not peaceful. Don't undermine our power.
May 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Enough with the focus on "peaceful" protest. It's nonviolent, because that's what works. It is not peaceful. Don't undermine our power.
3 elected officials "roughed up" and one disappeared into custody somewhere. If you haven't, join up with a local resistance group.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE facility
The Democrat, who is also running for governor, was involved in a scrum with three members of Congress seeking a tour of Delaney Hall.
www.politico.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
3 elected officials "roughed up" and one disappeared into custody somewhere. If you haven't, join up with a local resistance group.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
god willing this will be a quiet revolution
May 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
god willing this will be a quiet revolution
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Tariff sound off! What have you noticed getting more expensive? We'll start: coffee that was $9 in March is $13 today. What's yours?
May 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Tariff sound off! What have you noticed getting more expensive? We'll start: coffee that was $9 in March is $13 today. What's yours?
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Here's how Trump's budget will effect Iowa. Scary numbers, right?
May 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Here's how Trump's budget will effect Iowa. Scary numbers, right?
not someone we want in that role!
Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer announced Tuesday she will run for state auditor in the 2026 election, Robin Opsahl reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/05/06/l...
Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer launches campaign for state auditor • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer plans to run for the position currently held by Auditor Rob Sand, the only Democrat to hold statewide elected office.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
not someone we want in that role!
Nathan sage has yet to impress me in any way
May 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nathan sage has yet to impress me in any way
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Trump has threatened to arrest Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers. This is not within the purview of his job. This is not what we, the people, hired him to do. He does not have the right to do this and we will not let him continue to commit crimes without consequence.
Dangerous stunts by the Trump Administration to arrest judges and threaten arrest of our governor are an attempt to distract and divide us.
They want to stir up chaos and deflect accountability by scapegoating others in hopes we won’t notice as they starve our communities.
They want to stir up chaos and deflect accountability by scapegoating others in hopes we won’t notice as they starve our communities.
May 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trump has threatened to arrest Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers. This is not within the purview of his job. This is not what we, the people, hired him to do. He does not have the right to do this and we will not let him continue to commit crimes without consequence.
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1. The fact that the district judge deemed the case to have “demonstrated a likelihood of success” is hugely encouraging
2. Where is the statement from the University of Iowa, demanding protection of its students?
1. The fact that the district judge deemed the case to have “demonstrated a likelihood of success” is hugely encouraging
2. Where is the statement from the University of Iowa, demanding protection of its students?
After being temporarily barred from deporting four international students at the University of Iowa who are suing the Department of Homeland Security for revoking their status as students, the agency is now contesting the students’ wish to remain anonymous.
Judge blocks arrest, deportation of UI students; feds want students publicly identified - Little Village
After being temporarily barred from deporting four international students at the University of Iowa who are suing the Department of Homeland Security for revoking their status as students, the agency ...
littlevillagemag.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
2 notes.
1. The fact that the district judge deemed the case to have “demonstrated a likelihood of success” is hugely encouraging
2. Where is the statement from the University of Iowa, demanding protection of its students?
1. The fact that the district judge deemed the case to have “demonstrated a likelihood of success” is hugely encouraging
2. Where is the statement from the University of Iowa, demanding protection of its students?
Here's why you should keep calling your lawmakers: It creates background noise. It creates one more annoying thing that they have to deal with because every contact has to be logged. It's like jogging a cloud of mosquitos who won't leave you alone.
Don't leave them alone. Go forth, and be mosquitos
Don't leave them alone. Go forth, and be mosquitos
May 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Here's why you should keep calling your lawmakers: It creates background noise. It creates one more annoying thing that they have to deal with because every contact has to be logged. It's like jogging a cloud of mosquitos who won't leave you alone.
Don't leave them alone. Go forth, and be mosquitos
Don't leave them alone. Go forth, and be mosquitos
Sand in the gears. Getting in the way works. Make them fight for every single thing. They are not all-powerful and their abilities are finite.
FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration...there is a strategy worth pursuing, one familiar to underdogs the world over: Push the aggressor beyond their limits.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
What the First 100 Days Taught Us About Resisting Trump
For starters, it’s better to push back than to appease.
www.thebulwark.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sand in the gears. Getting in the way works. Make them fight for every single thing. They are not all-powerful and their abilities are finite.
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Incredible photos from Iowa City's #mayday event organized by our partner organization Escucha Mi Voz! Photos taken from their public facebook page
May 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Incredible photos from Iowa City's #mayday event organized by our partner organization Escucha Mi Voz! Photos taken from their public facebook page
A situation to watch closely.
A massive power grab could help North Carolina republicans steal an election
A massive power grab could help North Carolina republicans steal an election
A new GOP majority on the state election board could overturn a state supreme court race.
www.motherjones.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A situation to watch closely.
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The only strategy known to work against a fascist power grab is widespread and diverse pro-democracy organizing. We win by showing up for each other and with each other.
May 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The only strategy known to work against a fascist power grab is widespread and diverse pro-democracy organizing. We win by showing up for each other and with each other.
HUGE shout out to the phone banker who just called me about Medicaid. She made sure I knew what was at stake and then transferred me directly to Miller-Meeks office to leave a message. Way easier than trying to get myself to do it!
May 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
HUGE shout out to the phone banker who just called me about Medicaid. She made sure I knew what was at stake and then transferred me directly to Miller-Meeks office to leave a message. Way easier than trying to get myself to do it!
This is why we have the courts. 6 innocent men are not in a gulag because individual people worked through our court institution to stop them. The regime tried to circumvent them, and it didn't work. They will try again, and we will foil them again, and again, and again. They will not win.
a big new story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social + @nlanard.bsky.social:
A Mother Jones investigation based on firsthand accounts from ICE detainees reveals how Venezuelans were nearly removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act without due process
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A Mother Jones investigation based on firsthand accounts from ICE detainees reveals how Venezuelans were nearly removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act without due process
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men who could be sent to El Salvador next
A Mother Jones investigation based on firsthand accounts from ICE detainees in Texas reveals how Venezuelans were nearly removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act without a chance to contes...
www.motherjones.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is why we have the courts. 6 innocent men are not in a gulag because individual people worked through our court institution to stop them. The regime tried to circumvent them, and it didn't work. They will try again, and we will foil them again, and again, and again. They will not win.
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An EO is not necessarily immediately enforced; however, we at the grass roots must be ready to act should this EO take effect.
Trump lays the foundation for a pivot to martial law in his latest fascist EO:
“When local leaders demonize law enforcement and impose legal and political handcuffs that make aggressively enforcing the law impossible, crime thrives”
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
“When local leaders demonize law enforcement and impose legal and political handcuffs that make aggressively enforcing the law impossible, crime thrives”
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An EO is not necessarily immediately enforced; however, we at the grass roots must be ready to act should this EO take effect.
It's who stands up AFTER the big scary thing happens that's important. Just one judge refusing to hold court creates so much bureaucratic back up. Stand up, fight back, and know that others are doing the same. This is how we win.
Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham announces she’ll refuse to hold court after the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, charged with obstructing ICE. Isham vows to fight back against racial attacks and political interference, stating, “If this costs me my job, I did the right thing.”
'I did the right thing': How one judge is fighting back in support of arrested colleague
Sawyer County, WI Judge Monica Isham on Saturday announced she’ll “refuse to hold court” following the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan “if there is no guidance for … and no support for” ...
www.rawstory.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's who stands up AFTER the big scary thing happens that's important. Just one judge refusing to hold court creates so much bureaucratic back up. Stand up, fight back, and know that others are doing the same. This is how we win.
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Thank you to everyone who shared their story today on the Capitol steps or online. This is how we will stop cuts to Medicaid, this is how we will stop Trump and congressional Republicans devastating agenda, this is how we will rise.
April 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thank you to everyone who shared their story today on the Capitol steps or online. This is how we will stop cuts to Medicaid, this is how we will stop Trump and congressional Republicans devastating agenda, this is how we will rise.
We need a lot less fear of the present and a lot more hope for the future
February 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We need a lot less fear of the present and a lot more hope for the future
I submitted my comment!
Incredibly grateful for the public comments we've received so far on HSB84, which seeks to ban gender identity and sexual orientation from middle and high school.
Subcommittee will be at 12:30 pm today. You still have time to make your voice heard:
www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/s...
Subcommittee will be at 12:30 pm today. You still have time to make your voice heard:
www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/s...
Iowa Legislature - Subcommittee Public Comments
Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch
www.legis.iowa.gov
February 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I submitted my comment!
YOU have to be the one who stands up. You can't sit around hoping someone else will do it. What if someone else doesn't?
February 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
YOU have to be the one who stands up. You can't sit around hoping someone else will do it. What if someone else doesn't?