my colleagues at @racketmn.com are raising funds for a local mom who needs help with rent. the total is $4,785—we’re trying to raise $4,000 as a four-person newsroom. i believe racket readers can do it this weekend!!! V: @em-cassel PP: @biketrouble please share widely and donate if you can! 💗✨

“The Super Bowl seems like a quaint thing to protest during a civil war,” a friend told me. Well, yes. But there's more to the story.

In 2016, the last time the Super Bowl came to the Bay Area, SF residents vandalized statues, threw a nationally-covered protest, and bemoaned the high cost to taxpayers. Why are things so quiet this year? I break it down in @coyotemedia.org.

Running on fumes trying to finish a story and just wrote "hundreds of police officers in riot girl" instead of "riot gear"

Today on @coyotemedia.org, @nuala.bsky.social and @rahawahaile.bsky.social talked to the fine folks at @racketmn.com about what it's like being a worker owned newsroom covering the fascist takeover of their town: www.coyotemedia.org/how-racket-m...

"Minnesotans are doing all they can, but they can’t keep fighting alone," writes @soleilho.com. "It’s time for a nationwide general strike: a coordinated withdrawal of labor across industries and regions until ICE is abolished."

The stained glass community says fuck ICE

what could be possible for all of us if we got help with housing? how many more potential activists, organizers, and artists could there be? I love that this feature shows us how someone could really bloom into their political work, thanks to having that resource available

This is the second story in our Homeless to Housed series, and I love doing these interviews and pulling these pieces together. In this one, we meet Stone, who's designed his tiny one-room space to be a multifunctional home.

wrote a special newsletter today for @coyotemedia.org that's chock-full of mutual aid links for work happening in Minneapolis-St. Paul www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-weekl...

Especially stoked to do this with COYOTE, working with the great @emmaruthless.bsky.social and again with @nuala.bsky.social. Give it a read and support COYOTE!!

This constant whiplash is exhausting. I’m enormously relieved and still so furious this was even considered. Evidence-based solutions to our mental health and substance use challenges should never ever be on the chopping block.

NEW: The Trump admin unexpectedly canceled almost $2 billion in funding for substance use and mental health. Organizations today are forced to lay off staff and scale back lifesaving services, like opioid reversal medications for first responders. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m so amped on the ✨brand new✨ @tlvoice.bsky.social, which launched today! As @laurawenus.bsky.social writes, “the Tenderloin gets talked about a lot, but it rarely gets its say.” The Tenderloin Voice shifts control of the narrative to its residents, and I’m excited to hear what they have to share.

This has always been the weirdest fucking thing

“What does it mean when essential facets of immigrant life, like our food and gathering places — which were traditionally ‘othered’ and sidelined — go mainstream?” asks @cecilialei.bsky.social. Check out her beautiful essay on the Pacific East Mall and the Asian market boom 👇

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I love getting the local paper. There’s no comments section, I get to donate the papers to the herbarium or the parrot rescue after, and you get gems like today’s front-page story.

ICYMI: On Friday, we ran an exclusive interview with the owners of Bottom of the Hill, a beloved SF club that plans to shutter its doors later this year. I've always loved this venue, but it's storied history is so much more fascinating than I realized...

Phew this was quite a #KingTides season. If you haven't uploaded your photos yet, you can do that here survey123.arcgis.com/share/046c76.... We're still catching up with your submissions, and you can see them as they're added to the map: arcg.is/0Gy5Cq. TY for creating this record of coastal change!

Heads up to drivers heading to SF from the East Bay — this is what the right side of the freeway looks like after the toll plaza 😬 King tides are doing their thing!

a loss to San Francisco and to me personally. we played there for years and years until there was really no way for us to play there. "too big" I guess but I will never be bigger in my mind than what the Bottom of the Hill is in my heart.

Heartbreaking exclusive landed by the brilliant @emmaruthless.bsky.social. Bottom of the Hill is closing later this year. The reason? It's complicated, sort of. Read it here:

"There are very few other places in life which unite careful concentration and shower shoes." Read Danny Lavery on bathhouse rules, towel etiquette, and the thrill of plunging into the unknown on COYOTE. www.coyotemedia.org/visting-a-ga...

Re-upping this @coyotemedia.org article from November for my fellow Californians for reasons that speak for themselves.

I remembering this so clearly. I was in sixth grade and I cried! My dad cut the comic out of our newspaper and saved it.

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happy holidays! have this gift from @coyotemedia.org—an illustrated (by me and @reveleth.com) guide to the wildest Bay Area beefs of 2025. plus a bonus coloring book for paid members! www.coyotemedia.org/medium-rare-...

Hmmm how can we replicate this with @coyotemedia.org 🧐

update: one of our readers is buying her kids a nice new record player! awwww yay 💕

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

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The violence over the last few days and the relentless news coverage is taking a toll on my nervous system. If you, too, feel overwhelmed, may I suggest finding a soft creature to cuddle?

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Are you someone who's Very Online, early in your reporting career, and eager to get clips? We're hiring a Breaking News Reporter at @motherjones.com. $65k-$75k salary. www.motherjones.com/careers/brea...

Don’t worry, Biden’s legacy will be enshrined in every museum dedicated to the Gaza genocide. That’s all that will be remembered of his presidency and 50 year political career — that he armed & enabled genocide because he prioritized one group of people over a group who he considered to be subhuman.

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

Is there ~anything~ good that happens during or after menopause?! Because articles like this are not it! Yay bad oral health, sleep apnea, stiffer arteries, heart palpitations, recurrent UTIs, joint aches, vaginal dryness, lower bone density, high cholesterol, I can’t wait.

One Waymo birth does not cancel out one Kit Kat death!

When contractors told Noni Session it wasn’t worth saving the facade of Esther’s Orbit Room, she turned to the community for help. This past Saturday, West Oakland residents came out to (gently) demolish the wall themselves. www.coyotemedia.org/this-oakland...

When we began assembling the COYOTE team, there was one name mentioned over and over: “We’ve got to get Alan Chazaro.” Who was this legend? I’d never met him, but when I started looking at @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social's past work, I realized I’d been a fan for a long time. 1/5 👇

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One of the things I love about being a community-focused media outlet is the freedom we have to pursue little leads that turn into big stories. This piece from @reveleth.com touches on so many critical Qs, including: What historic cultural artifacts should be preserved, and at what cost? 1/3

Really proud of @nuala.bsky.social's work always, and in particular this series she's doing about what it's actually like to finally get housing, and how it changes people's lives. www.coyotemedia.org/homeless-to-...

Over at @coyotemedia.org my colleagues and I are trying to build a new, worker-owned outlet in the Bay Area. We've already broken stories and had impact. To continue that work we need more members, plain and simple. And now you can get a discount! 🎁 Use COYOTE2026 for 15% off an annual membership.