chelfea
@chelfea.bsky.social
writer. interests: ecology, salmon, rivers, flowers, books, saving what remains
Dusted off Ye Olde Submittable tonight. Looking forward to days of regret and self-doubt, a few months of forgetting, then jolts of remembrance when the responses trickle in.
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Dusted off Ye Olde Submittable tonight. Looking forward to days of regret and self-doubt, a few months of forgetting, then jolts of remembrance when the responses trickle in.
Reposted by chelfea
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
Reposted by chelfea
“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
I wish I believed in anything as much as NFL players believe God cares about football
January 22, 2026 at 2:54 AM
I wish I believed in anything as much as NFL players believe God cares about football
Finally, my time to shine
Wordle 1,671 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,671 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
January 16, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Finally, my time to shine
Wordle 1,671 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,671 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Blessings on the one-man anti-ICE protest happening on the street corner by my house.
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Blessings on the one-man anti-ICE protest happening on the street corner by my house.
Here's a darkly hopeful microfiction by Fiona Jones I enjoyed in terrain.org: www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...
Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place
Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.
terrain.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Here's a darkly hopeful microfiction by Fiona Jones I enjoyed in terrain.org: www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...
"You look like a model in a depression commercial."
--my husband to me just now
--my husband to me just now
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"You look like a model in a depression commercial."
--my husband to me just now
--my husband to me just now
Reposted by chelfea
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Reposted by chelfea
"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
Queried and rejected in less than 24 hours -- on a weekend. Trying not to take it too hard but I really did like that agent. #amquerying
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Queried and rejected in less than 24 hours -- on a weekend. Trying not to take it too hard but I really did like that agent. #amquerying
Having a plan feels like the first step out of this political and moral morass. This article (gift) gives some hope, and I hope we can find leaders who can do this. #eattherich www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Having a plan feels like the first step out of this political and moral morass. This article (gift) gives some hope, and I hope we can find leaders who can do this. #eattherich www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Reposted by chelfea
If you voted for him, you've done this.
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If you voted for him, you've done this.
(There's an insect in my back yard that sounds like toenails being clipped, if anyone wonders what finally drove me over the edge later tonight)
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
(There's an insect in my back yard that sounds like toenails being clipped, if anyone wonders what finally drove me over the edge later tonight)
September 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trump admin can get fucked. This revisionist history is disgraceful and dishonest. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Trump admin can get fucked. This revisionist history is disgraceful and dishonest. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
New author bio inspo just dropped
Someone suggested I look rather like mid-century character actor/singer Frank Fontaine, and I gotta tell ya, I'm not seeing it, there's not much there to go on if you ask me
September 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
New author bio inspo just dropped
Quit being Nazis and we'll quit calling you Nazis
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Quit being Nazis and we'll quit calling you Nazis
Reposted by chelfea
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
This is nothing quite like watching the Cowboys lose to lift one's spirits.
September 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This is nothing quite like watching the Cowboys lose to lift one's spirits.
What if I just give up on my beta readers ever getting back to me and I, like, just send the ms to some agents?
September 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What if I just give up on my beta readers ever getting back to me and I, like, just send the ms to some agents?
I will never understand the pansy-assedness of democrat former leaders. Far as I can tell, Kamala and Obama sit on their butts every day doing jack shit. Obama was a community organizer, for chrissake. Why not go back to those roots? And/or they're both lawyers -- why not take on high profile cases?
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I will never understand the pansy-assedness of democrat former leaders. Far as I can tell, Kamala and Obama sit on their butts every day doing jack shit. Obama was a community organizer, for chrissake. Why not go back to those roots? And/or they're both lawyers -- why not take on high profile cases?
Attempting to radically streamline my timeline and shorten my MS. It feels like this, minus the sexual tension:
a man is sitting at a table with papers on it while another man throws a piece of paper at him .
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with papers on it while another man throws a piece of paper at him .
media.tenor.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Attempting to radically streamline my timeline and shorten my MS. It feels like this, minus the sexual tension:
You never see Cancers into horoscopes, huh
August 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
You never see Cancers into horoscopes, huh
Confession time:
My husband, as All Too Well begins to play on a long car ride: So ... do you really like the long version?
Me: ...Yes.
Him, sensing his imminent demise: Cool, cool. *drives silently for 10 minutes*
#fuckthepatriarchy
My husband, as All Too Well begins to play on a long car ride: So ... do you really like the long version?
Me: ...Yes.
Him, sensing his imminent demise: Cool, cool. *drives silently for 10 minutes*
#fuckthepatriarchy
July 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Confession time:
My husband, as All Too Well begins to play on a long car ride: So ... do you really like the long version?
Me: ...Yes.
Him, sensing his imminent demise: Cool, cool. *drives silently for 10 minutes*
#fuckthepatriarchy
My husband, as All Too Well begins to play on a long car ride: So ... do you really like the long version?
Me: ...Yes.
Him, sensing his imminent demise: Cool, cool. *drives silently for 10 minutes*
#fuckthepatriarchy