Paranoid Tree Press

Keep our neighbors safe from ICE! Donate $10 or more to a MN rent relief fund & get a free zine. Email your receipt to hello@paranoidtree.com by February 28.

Rent is due on Monday and many in our Twin Cities community are still trapped at home, meaning they can't work to pay rent.

Can you help us keep our neighbors housed?

Donate $10+ to one of these rent relief funds & we'll send you a free zine as thanks. 💌

Fund links: linktr.ee/paranoidtree

Keep our neighbors safe from ICE! Donate $10 or more to a MN rent relief fund & get a free zine. Email your receipt to hello@paranoidtree.com by February 28.

Rent is due on Monday and many in our Twin Cities community are still trapped at home, meaning they can't work to pay rent.

Can you help us keep our neighbors housed?

Donate $10+ to one of these rent relief funds & we'll send you a free zine as thanks. 💌

Fund links: linktr.ee/paranoidtree

Oh wow, how fab.

Ah!! What an honor to be nominated! <3 thank you so much

Oh, I haven’t had one of these in so long I hardly know what to do with it. 💕💕💕
Thanks @paranoidxtree.bsky.social and congrats to all.
Subscribe if you want a soul-saving zine in your mailbox!

Cc’ing @janstinchcomb.bsky.social & @heyhaylimay.bsky.social & @melissajorndwrites.bsky.social & @judepickledplum.bsky.social!

Best small fictions nominees: GANG OF BABIES by jan stinchcomb MULBERRIES & MOLTS by hayli cox THE CULLING OF THE FOREST, IN THREE PARTS by melissa jornd A PIRATE'S LOVE IS A RUM DO by jude potts

Cheers to our Best Small Fictions nominees! We're honored to be the home for each and every one of these stories. 💌 ⚡

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

❤️

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I'm a resident of the Twin Cities. A small team and I spent 3 days sculpting this for a competition/festival in extremely cold temperatures. We were disqualified for political messaging and one of the organizers defaced it. I have no regrets and I have never been more proud to be Minnesotan. (cont)

We know what's happening here in the Twin Cities is happening across the entire US—and to a far greater extent, in Gaza too.

The support we've seen arise out of this moment inspires us to hope for a safer and more loving world for everyone, everywhere. Thank you for joining us in solidarity. ⚡💚

The amount of free time we used to dedicate to Paranoid Tree has whittled away since ICE invaded us in early December. We've been marching, delivering groceries to our neighbors, handing out hot soup, and watching each other's backs. And too many of our thoughts are occupied by grief and rage.

Paranoid Tree Press (@paranoidxtree.bsky.social) Friends, our community here in MN desperately needs help protecting against ICE. Please join us in donating directly to these orgs that provide food, safety & legal support to MN immigrants. And if…

Alternatively, consider joining Paranoid Tree in donating to these organizations that provide food, safety, and legal support to our communities across Minnesota.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Ask #2: If you have any spare change in your Venmo pockets, please consider donating to a community relief effort here in Minneapolis.

This is one of the most comprehensive resource lists out there: standwithminnesota.com

If you can't pick one, just close your eyes and point. You can't go wrong.

Also: We were so stoked that the SubClub newsletter gave us a shoutout the other week. It led to an influx of over 2x more submissions than we normally get in a month—and we are genuinely excited to read this wealth of writing!!

We are running behind, but we're gonna catch up ASAP, promise. 💕

Ask #1: If you are waiting on a response to a submission, please give us a little extra patience right now. 💌

Our team had planned to meet today to catch up on our queue. But due to the murder of Alex Pretti yesterday, mere blocks from our own homes, we need to take a beat to process and grieve.

Hi friends, just checking in from Minneapolis. Can we put out a couple asks for your support? 💕

Turns out, it's really hard to run a lit mag in your free time when the federal government has besieged your beloved city.

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

“Norman Rockwell Paints ‘Deterrence,” poem by Evan Wambeke, art by Laura Weiler

I think the bomb is / going to drop / any day now / it’s been sitting / up there raindrop-shaped / waiting / to whistle / like / a boy / loose-toothed / in church like an American / robin / tucked behind evergreen / needles / waiting / for the wind / to carry him / out. I think the bomb is going / to drop / real soon / here / you can feel / the air shifting—coming down / the streetlights / warming up / the sun is bound to disappear again we all are I think I love you Is it too late / to say / I always have?

Get the issue online and in print. The artwork features a collage image of a 1950s American town, ripped along the top and bottom edge. A collage bomb is falling from the sky, and a sea of red lies below.

Every once in a while, a poem lands with you at just the right time.

Thanks to @ewam72.bsky.social & @cutandplaced.bsky.social for sharing the beauty and pain of this imagined—but all too real—Rockwellian scene with us. 🩵❤️

Read the full issue: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-61

We’re donating 25% of our January profits to: Open Arms of Minnesota, Monarca Rapid Response, and Immigrant Law Center MN.

Friends, our community here in MN desperately needs help protecting against ICE.

Please join us in donating directly to these orgs that provide food, safety & legal support to MN immigrants.

And if you’ve been meaning to pick up a zine from our shop, there’s never been a better time. 💌

map with points for raids and other events

To organize local news events we are counting days since Dec. 2, regarded as the beginning of what fed authorities call “Operation Metro Surge.”
The “Twin Cities Metro Activity Dashboard” page shows updates re police activity. It has ~1300 data points.

made some updates to the list. if you want to give to a gofundme, the ones in spanish are getting way less than other, and they are asking for much less

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

Best Microfiction winner: Ani King for “Feels Like Rain”

We’re having a super proud mom moment for @aniking.bsky.social being selected for the 2026 Best Microfiction anthology! 🎉

And huge thanks to the editors of @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social & @dseuss.bsky.social for your hard work and care in selecting these pieces. Congrats to all the winners!

OMG so psyched for you!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Holy crap! Congrats everyone and so incredible to be on this list!!

Paranoid Tree Volume 60 features the story "Feels Like Rain" by Ani King, with art by Kelly Emmrich.

MAYBE I WAKE UP STILL DREAMING ABOUT PEELING A PILE OF TANGERINES, ABOUT EACH PEEL COMING LOOSE IN ONE PIECE, ABOUT PUNCTURING EACH SEGMENT OF EACH TANGERINE, AND THE SOUR STING ON THE SIDE OF MY TONGUE, AND MY HANDS AND CHIN ALL STICKY, SO I WALK UP TO ALDIS AND BUY TWO BAGS OF TANGERINES WITH A BIG HANDFUL OF CHANGE, AND OUTSIDE ALDIS I SEE A GUY I KNOW SITTING ON THE CURB UNDER THE OVERHANG, WITH A GUITAR AND A CUP, SAYS BROTHER, I’M HAVING A HARD TIME, THEN HE PLAYS ME A SLOW VERSION OF “EVEN FLOW,” AND WHEN HE’S DONE I CLAP AND THEN MAYBE I SAY HEY, I’M KEVIN.

MAYBE I OFFER HIM A CUT OF MY TANGERINES, AND HE TELLS ME HIS NAME IS BRUCE AND THEN BRUCE PLAYS ME THE FIRST FEW BARS OF “NO RAIN,” AND WE LAUGH BECAUSE IT DEFINITELY FEELS LIKE RAIN, AND MAYBE WE SIT THERE ON THE CURB AND SHARE THE WHOLE FIRST BAG OF TANGERINES, THEIR PEELS CURLING UP LIKE SHED EXOSKELETONS AT OUR FEET, AND THEN THE PEELS START TO RISE UP ON TORN, UNEVEN ARMS IN THE WIND, AND THEY WAVE THE CURLING ENDS OF THEIR ORANGE FLESH TAILS, SO BRUCE MAKES UP A SONG ABOUT A BAND OF KILLER TANGERINES AND WE END UP SINGING OH BABY, THEY’RE GONNA GETCHA GETCHA GETCHA BLONDIE-STYLE, AS THEY SHIVER, SHIMMY, AND SHAKE ACROSS THE ASPHALT,

AND THE TREES ARE SWAYING AND BENDING IN THE WIND, THE TANGERINE SKINS SKITTER ALONG THE EDGE OF THE CURB, AND TUMBLING AND DANCING OUT INTO THE EDGES OF THE PARKING LOT, AND IT’S REALLY STARTING TO COME DOWN, ALRIGHT, SO MAYBE I ASK BRUCE TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT WITH ME BACK TO MINE, AND I SAY TRUTHFULLY, MY CAR IS WHAT I MEAN BY MINE, AND BRUCE ASKS IS THIS HOW YOU USUALLY PICK UP GUYS, SO I HAND HIM ANOTHER TANGERINE AND SAY YEAH, MAN, SOMETIMES.

It's impossible to isolate just one gorgeous, pithy line from this new story by @aniking.bsky.social. So, here, have them all.

Read the full story and more at paranoidtree.com/read/vol-60.

Wishing you all a warm, dry & well-fed holiday season. 🍊

We’re so excited too!! 🧡💕