Any recs for nature cnf essays, flash or collections?

I know this is not the point but what the fuck are we even doing here "buying groceries for my neighbors in hiding" and we all understand it and are like "yeah, of course". What the fuck.

Know I’m not the only one channeling my fury into writing right now…there’s a call just for us!

“I stare at the odd-shaped box, likely the doggy-bag from a meal you shared with your girlfriend.” Leave it to @sudhab.bsky.social to bring detailed relationship dynamics with a satisfying ending. So much packed into a flash!

“In college, Amanda uses the DMC to buy drugs and she racks up enough points to win prizes:…” Catching up on this pitch-perfect piece by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social. So good!

What's a little 5 below wind chill? Still fighting the good fight in St. Paul. ❄️✨️

Book mail days are my favorite mail days. This one is courtesy of @aaronburch.bsky.social & @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

The world is on fire & ICE is in my immediate neighborhood, but I worked on my manuscript today. Please clap.

“I find pleasure in the ritual of it. The rinsing of bottles, the peeling of labels, the folding of ramen cups once they are dry.” Don’t miss this quiet beauty by @zaryfekete.bsky.social

Cone. Of. Shame.

Mercado Central, a cooperative of small Central American businesses in Minneapolis, is still raising money to try to save itself from closure. It’s an institution and makes this community much richer. www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

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Book mail! The beautiful new memoir by @jacgorelick.bsky.social

More “STOP ICE” signs popping up in Minneapolis/Saint Paul

Quick update

Just remember that DHS is building concentration camps, and, if you built it, they will get filled.

Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121

This has been a good week to dust off all my angry stories.

“…my Uncle Joe called her a fucking snowflake and my Dad told him to shut the fuck up, and Uncle Joe laughed and said, what are you going to do, hit me?…” Don’t miss the spectacular drama in this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social flash!

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Occupation journal 2026.02.07: Ran into longtime Palestinian-American acquaintance. Greeted each other not with “how are you?”—a question that has stopped making sense—but “how are you weathering things?” Said life here reminded him of the temporary checkpoints in Jerusalem that became permanent.

“I sit in the pew, handwritten eulogy of lies crumpled in my fist. The ink smears across the skin of my fingertips, just like your mothering did…” Gorgeous lyricism and sustained tension in this flash by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social

“We fed, feral, and, for once, we were not the ones disappearing. We grew strong.” Talk about a story landing at the right time. Live the dream in this new flash by @ramccafferty.bsky.social

For the evening crowd

Practice yoga, help Minnesota families.

The real groundhog’s day has been the never-ending ICE occupation

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Stop scrolling for a minute. Read this micro by @djpoissant.bsky.social. Feel your own heart expand as the story does.

@smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com

the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime

Hey US friends - in addition to calling your senators to tell them to abolish ICE, it’s also a great day to tell them to vote NO on HJ Resolution 140 that would strip environmental protections from public lands surrounding Minnesota’s Boundary Waters. Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121

Oh, you know, just a metro daily newspaper running a service journalism roundup of munitions the government has used against its own people

TRUTH

This kicks off on Wednesday. So many amazing opportunities here, with plans to do some good. Let’s get to work. 💪🏽 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Do yourself a kindness. Turn off autoplay. You do not need to traumatize yourself watching a paramilitary execute someone even once, much less over & over. Take social media breaks as needed. Call a friend. Hug your kids. Make art.

March on, march on

Happy to be with so many of my fellow Minnesotans in the bitter cold to chant “No hate, no fear. ICE is not welcome here.”

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

5 concerts I’ve seen, no order: Fugazi Cocteau Twins Catherine Wheel Jane’s Addiction Tragically Hip

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

Indie booksellers in Minneapolis and St. Paul have joined community efforts to fight ICE.

Something possibly permanently fracturing happened today within the family & spilling the tea would not help but it is taking every last ounce of self-restraint not to write & pitch a timely personal essay about it because OMG.

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

We needed this art sled rally Powderhorn park is one of a kind

Minneapolis snowman