“We don’t have to swallow our bile and settle for the nearest centrist with too much hair gel and all-caps Tweets because legacy media tells us to.”

I can’t believe my mom saved my DARE certificate 😂 Las Vegas NM’s police department went all out with this fancy pants font. Too bad the commitment 10 yr old me made to “avoid the pressures to begin using drugs” fell through — sorry Nancy Reagan!

Zohran’s win offers the Bay Area a glimpse at a better future — one where we’re not locked in a room with Gavin Newsom for another four years.

Is #wildfire Bluesky a thing? Folks on Twitter were an invaluable resource for info during NM’s biggest wildfire in 2022. But I’m at my mom’s here now, choked with smoke, and can’t find any info on its source. (We’re super rural, so don’t get much news coverage.) Who are the Bsky fire scanners?

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

Living near a Level 1 Trauma Center means that several times a day I get to hear every dog in my neighborhood howling along with an ambulance's siren 🐕 🚑 🚨

for @coyotemedia.org, I wrote about Uber, Waymo, sexual assault, surveillance, and Kit Kat, the feline mayor of 16th street — who deserved better, as do we all www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...

"When I stopped by the altar that sprung up outside Randa’s Market the next day, Mike — the most stoic corner store owner I’ve ever met in my life — had tears in his eyes. 'He was my baby, he said." 😭🐱

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

We're leaning into 🕷️HALLOWEEN 🧛‍♀️ this week to bring you some spooky stories! ☠️🫀🦟🤡 First up: a killer comic from @janelleblarg.bsky.social 👀

Me: optimistically googling “raccoon-proof feral cat feeder” as if such a thing is even possible Wayfair: on it, $153.99

This has a great round-up of links. Again, support your local news media! These folks just launched a few weeks ago and they've hit the ground running!

The threats are real, but so is our power. ICE relies on fear and isolation. We can counter with preparation and solidarity.

11:47am: SF Chronicle publishes a major story about federal agents preparing to descend on the Bay Area tinyurl.com/4y82zemw 11:57am: SF Mayor Daniel Lurie posts this on X

A gauntlet of despair !

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Underbabied

If you read the @coyotemedia.org calendar you slowly learn things about me like how one time I was reading Annihilation by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and became convinced that my partner was a hallucination. Anyway, go see some events! www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Just went to apply for TSA precheck and the office was decorated for Halloween with huge letters saying BEWARE CAUTION ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK on the door 😬

Litquake (@litquake.org), the Bay Area’s sprawling literary festival, kicks off today! Check out picks from COYOTE staff, including events featuring @annaleen.bsky.social, @susiebright.bsky.social, @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, @janelleblarg.bsky.social & more www.coyotemedia.org/litquake-gui...

SF Streamlined Its Street Teams. Now, Fewer People Are Getting the Help They Need www.coyotemedia.org/sf-wanted-to... @nuala.bsky.social

Reporting from @coyotemedia.org cited in here 👀

I wrote about some good! news!! for low-income artists and unhoused folks in SF. We need some joy in this terrible moment, and @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social is delivering. Check out my latest piece on what the purchase of a building on Market Street means for the future of artmaking in the city.

Glenn Zuehls, the publisher who killed the SF Bay Guardian, wrote “commitmet to excellence” on a whiteboard during one of his standard completely insane staff meetings in 2015, and I think about it every time I write the word commitment

“A billionaire aims to display 100 pieces of large-scale art around the city, which he’s allowed to do simply because he’s paying for it. And the city of San Francisco isn’t saying no to him.” The brilliant @sahotchkiss.bsky.social strikes again 🔥

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

😭 my poor chihuahua 🐾

“It’s just nice [to be reminded] that people still genuinely give a shit about culture." says Joanna Lioce, who's booking shows at the soon-to-be-reopened punk venue Mabuhay. “Have some fucking joy.”

This story goes places you’d never imagine 👀 How does the hunt for missing sculptures from Oakland’s Fairyland lead to a recipe for avocado pie?! You’ll have to read it to find out 👇

“We have safe consumption sites all over the place, they’re just not necessarily sanctioned. It is things like neighbors looking out for each other. That is not a new concept.” Really thorough piece on SF’s shifting position on harm rediction from @sydneyfjohnson.bsky.social

We had some really cool pieces go up this week at @coyotemedia.org! 〰️ neighbors taking care of one another in the face of ICE 〰️ towns not known for protest standing up for Palestine www.coyotemedia.org/albany-and-e... 〰️ a complicated win for trans folks www.coyotemedia.org/but-what-did...

Love this behind-the-scenes interview with my beloved @jachristian.bsky.social about this crazy photo she took in 2020

today on @coyotemedia.org: CA is set to pass a bill to prevent doxing of people seeking gender and name change documents. but.... not for people that have already done it? because it costs $2-3 million in admin fees. that's only like 2 cops! wtf www.coyotemedia.org/but-what-did...

This was such a tricky story. How do you celebrate a huge important change that will help protect trans and nonbinary folks going forward — while also mourning that this protection won’t be extended to tens of thousands of people?

*ahem* would anyone like some kittens? My latest foster litter from Oakland Animal Services is so sweet 🥹💕 they are a little sicky but I will fix them up right quick

I love love love this story from @cecilialei.bsky.social about two East Bay towns organizing for Palestine 💚❤️🤍🖤 “I think we try to bring, in all this darkness, some joy and creativity in the work that we're doing. I'm just having a hell of a good time.”

"The Oakland Review of Books is coming!" it says on our website, and if you haven't noticed, we've started publishing ever-so-slightly-more ambitious things as we ramp up towards really cutting loose. If you'd like to follow along, for the low price of $0 (American), you can get it in your inbox:

"The point of art is to evoke some kind of emotion or feeling or something from a human to another human or to a group… but AI doesn’t know it’s alive."

loved editing this story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social, with photographs by @estefancy.bsky.social It’s about people feeling scared and uncertain and still doing the right thing for each other, because we’re all we’ve got

👇👇👇 seriously every $ matters so much as we get this rad new outlet off the ground 💕 we’re free from billionaire overlords and outdated hierarchies! coyotemedia.org

Yayyy @emmaruthless.bsky.social repping @coyotemedia.org 😍

In 2015, Nef the Pharaoh broke the radio with his debut megahit, “Big Tymin’.” Now, 10 years later, he’s proved that he’s one of the most enduring talents of his Bay Area generation — and his music slaps harder than ever. ✍️: @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social

*corporate media

this is why i give money to @coyotemedia.org and @missionlocal.org instead of the big corporation owned "local" media

Absolutely fucking insane

NEW: "The inequalities are staggering: While WNBA players currently receive just 9.3% of their league’s revenue, NBA players receive 49-51% from their league. Women players’ salaries are also capped at a figure that’s actually less than one-quarter of NBA players’ minimum.”✍️ @roughnotes.bsky.social

Ooof. Was just thinking about this story the other day. The medical examiner’s mistake prevented James from getting disability payments, and his family stopped looking for him. So many heartbreaking “what ifs” here.

I launched a brand new worker-owned media outlet yesterday 🥰 It took us 10 months to get it off the ground and now it’s out in the world. It’s been very hard and very fun and very exciting and I’m very tired 💤 @coyotemedia.org