Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)

I don't always use Twitter.
But when I do, I prefer to
shitpost memes on
Rubio's insipid tweets.

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#NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA

Russian Officer First Ever Named by Ukrainian Prosecutors for Bucha Massacre Ukraine has identified a Russian commander as a suspect in connection with the Bucha civilian killings, indicating progress in accountability efforts.

🔴 Ukraine has named a Russian platoon commander as a suspect in the 2022 Bucha civilian killings—the first commander identified in the case.

This is why you have to support Ukraine.

Every donation helps:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

The moment a missile struck a building in Ternopil.

👀🇺🇦🇺🇸 50 Ukrainians were deported from the US to Ukraine, – State Border Service of Ukraine.

We are talking about people without US citizenship. The reason for the deportation is still unknown.

I have a poem shortlisted for pick of the month here…. Check the link to read it and the other finalists. Voting open to 6pm Wednesday, if you like one of the poems.

Death in Ukraine Has Become More Accessible than Salt - Nicole Yurcaba The deathless are the dying, the dying are the deathless—one is living the other’s death, one is dying into the other’s life.—Heraclitis Andriy finds it in the marketplace, touches it with...

A couple of months ago, my poem "Death in Ukraine Has Become More Accessible than Salt"--a poem I penned in 2022, was published in Black Horse Review. Seems appropriate to share this today.

www.blackhorsereview.com/poetry/death...

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A short and not very sweet indictment of the world's feckless cowards.

My review of Emilia Hart's breathtaking novel THE SIRENS, published by @stmartinspress.bsky.social, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/the-sirens-b.... I cannot recommend this novel enough.

So proud to see two of my poems forthcoming in the upcoming issue of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social!

Hello friends of NAFO! Do you have a Ukraine related patch collection? Share a picture of your patch collection down below! Everyone loves to see it!

Thanks a lot for all your support to the Star Battalion of the 22 Mechanized Brigade to get what they need @sudetsoleil.bsky.social 💫💙💛

An Unexpected History: "Capturing Kahanamoku" by Michael Rossi - Chicago Review of Books Human history is full of popular ideas that have gone on to be debunked. The earth used to be the center of the universe. Doctors once smoked in the exam room and didn’t bother washing their hands. Bu...

"Rossi’s practiced, expository style unearths the roots of eugenics in the United States."

Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

My poem "It is Apple-Picking Season & You Cannot Help" appears in the Halloween issue of @newversereview.bsky.social! I am so honored the editors chose this poem: www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...

Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!

Schedule for September 29-October 5
Monday-Friday
Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm
Saturday and Sunday
Lafayette Park 5-7pm
🇺🇸🇺🇦
Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine

No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief Nicole Yurcaba’s haunting poem explores how grief can leave us struggling to change.

My poem "No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief" has published at
@apricotpress.bsky.social
: apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :)

A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!

HAHA. THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT!

If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!

If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!

❗️explosions in Sumy and Poltava regains reported earlier ❗️drone attack

Next site, artworks by Ukrainian artist Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (Василь Григорович Кричевський). He was born in what would become Kharkiv Oblast in 1873. He was a designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, and banknotes.
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

Just $2 (or more!) can help the 72nd Brigade in #Ukraine save lives with excavators and crane trucks. Please help if you can. Every dollar counts. 💛🇺🇦💛

Looking forward to victory – but focused on daily life: a review of Andrey Kurkov’s Our Daily War - New Eastern Europe Our Daily War adeptly tackles the identity issues that emerged for Ukrainians since 2014, when Russia began tearing Ukraine apart.

Доброй рано! Such exciting news this morning. My review of
Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at
@neweasterneurope.eu!

I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication.

neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...

#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...

My review of Andrew Lipstein's novel SOMETHING ROTTEN, which I consider to be 2025's best novel, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/something-ro...

librarians are generals in the war on ignorance

Live your life in such a way that you don’t give a shit about the Cracker Barrel logo.