A Simple Finch

The artist currently known as Finch 28, with special interests in Religion, Leftism, Nature, Culture, Information, and History

[lanfan]

Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO

And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.

With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.

Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.

[tsscat]

I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies

SupportOurFamilies | Linktree

Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito

I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.

[newblogisjacindaelena]

[puppetdaily]

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol at Chichester Festival Theatre

[sword-of-michael]

Dawn

"Someone once said that truth is something secret and inexplicable; instead of having logical sense, this inaccessible truth possesses an ultimate meaning that explains everything, or will explain everything…" - Non, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira, 1990)

The springtime of life demands ready hopes: banners, stars, crosses, sickles and hammers. But the shell of dogma lacks what matters, and so I threw away the easy copes.

Then I reaped the full fruits of my own youth; wolfish, I ate both the sweet and bitter. I found no sense in vomit or glitter, gained nothing in turning away from truth.

My eyes now gaze at what lies past the dark, my soul is an oblation to the night as the flaying of deceit carries on.

Taking is the flood, and giving the ark that ferries us to the terrific light. If love is the Truth, then you are my dawn.

[and-her-saints]

resistance to fascists is obedience to God. [x]

[canonizedandotherwise]

Call of Andrew and Peter

[sword-of-michael]

Two Thirds of God

love sonnets are not in my nature it is much easier to write of shipwrecks to feel the waves pushing against my eyes waves of pain waves of loss waves of fire burning my lungs eager to spill from my pen

I write what I feel I feel what I read

you make me feel what I never read a love too simple write a love poets can only cry in their grief cursing the hole it left behind

teach me to word you gift me something new neat verses, like my sonnets breathe me a rainbow cry me a holy lake refine the simplicity of my joy singing it as intricately as the autopsies of heartbreak I used to write

friend-rival lover-prisioner wife-husband salvation-perdition my sun and moon my hunter my prey my rock

my open sky

old scars turned to psalms praying for what my heart never did what my mind never dared hope for: your healing touch

two folded into one and in one, two

prophet, judge, tyrant, apostle, annointed

waves I can't stop feeling waves I can't stop writing

forever your endless sea

[faithful-christian-walk]

James 5:16 NIV

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

[theundergroundwoman]

the ghosts of the abandoned st. george’s church in luková, czech republic

[autumnsredglaze]

[buildoblivion]

i’m sorry boss I can’t come into work tomorrow they’ve identified the body of a doomed polar explorer

[lvgvcy-deactivated20260523]

worrying is like worshipping the problem

[otabekisautistic]

and brother i’m on my knees

[vitabreva]

[theraccolta]

The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Prophecy of Simeon. (Luke 2:34–35)

The escape and Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13)

The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem. (Luke 2:43–45)

The Meeting of Mary and Jesus on the Via Dolorosa.

The Crucifixion of Jesus on Mount Calvary. (John 19:25)

The Piercing of the Side of Jesus with a spear, and His Descent from the Cross. (Matthew 27:57–59)

The Burial of Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea. (John 19:40–42)

[congregamus-deactivated20250603]

[theinwardlight]

All your boast of religion and knowledge in the letter will not bring you to God, without the Light of Christ, nor can anyone that is in ignorance come to know the way to Life but by the Light of the world, and until man be led thereby he cannot come out of his darkness; even with that Light that reproves the world and manifests your evil deeds must he be led.

James Nayler, The Light of Christ & the Word of Life Cleared from the Deceits of the Deceiver, and His Literal Weapons Turned upon His Own Head (1656).

[tamarrud]

Where's that map that shows how fragmented the West Bank really is by Israeli settlements? Because I need you all to see what the West Bank really looks like and to start to form an idea of what it's like to be in the West Bank, especially now with the the recent escalations of raids and incursions and new checkpoints that seem to be Israel's way of creeping in on Palestinians from the north (Jenin, Tubas, Tulkarem, etc...) and the south (Hebron) simultaneously.

[tamarrud]

Found it: The Palestinian Archipelago

Keep in mind that it's from 2015. The West Bank is far more fragmented today; consider the fact that Israel had approved the largest land grab of Palestinian land in 30 years just this past July, or the fact that Israeli settlers, with the protection of Israeli police, had sized 367 dunams of Palestinian farmland and established 8 settlements just in the month of August, 2024.

So let me say it again, Israel's crimes in Gaza and the West Bank stem from the same colonial goal which is to seize as much Palestinian land as possible and to have the least amount of Palestinians in or around it as possible.