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every $ matters so much as we get this rad new outlet off the ground 💕 we’re free from billionaire overlords and outdated hierarchies!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

From the brand-new worker-owned Bay Area media collective Coyote! Read and subscribe: www.coyotemedia.org

For months I've heard crazy stories about SF's reorganized street medicine teams, which are now forced to focus on "the list" — a small number of homeless folks who've annoyed politicians or angry neighbors. This means every day they have to drive past people in urgent need of medical care. 1/3

Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE. 🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Check out newly-launched indie pub @coyotemedia.org! As the former culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and a supporter of Coyote Media, this makes me super happy. Bring that alt weekly energy! Local news and advocacy journalism are more important than ever.

"alt-weekly alumni are everywhere, cosplaying as straightlaced journalists at an outlet near you" 😈

Went down rabbit holes for weeks reporting this piece. Someone please write a book about Margo St. James!!

love the way @nuala.bsky.social explains quoting unnamed city workers in this @coyotemedia.org piece on street health teams. I think it's so important to talk about how opaque cities have become and what it does to accountability when workers can't talk publicly and press statements are vague.

congrats to these guys & a great story to launch w/

WE'RE LIVE!! 11 months ago this idea was born in the corner of a corporate newsroom. I quit my job, we rallied this rad dream team, and dove into the fun and tough parts of building a worker-owned media company from scratch. Today, we have 10 stories we can't wait for you to read: coyotemedia.org

what is sleep, even

Did you know that you can follow all our COYOTE co-founders (who have Bluesky accounts) with just one beautiful click? Here you go!! go.bsky.app/8qE8JRY

I love this piece from the SF Examiner on @coyotemedia.org, and how worker-owned newsrooms offer an appealing alternative to corporate news 💪💕

SF Police Department, this is a reminder that you can't act as security guards for ICE. When you see ICE almost run over & pointing guns at protestors, your job is to protect the protestors - NOT ICE. You are local law enforcement. You do not work for Trump. missionlocal.org/2025/07/sfpd...

“The miracle of birth” which effectively traumatized me for life but taught no one how to avoid birth

Huge thanks to journalist, author, and KQED Forum co-host @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social for being one of COYOTE’s earliest supporters! 🙌 🐺 🥳 You too can join our pack 👀 givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Special shoutout to those who take the time to draw a coyote with their donation 🤩 Should we have a contest? Can you top these illustrations on GiveButter? 🎨🖌️🧑‍🎤 Give it a try! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

"The first year, they wrestled in a tub of lube. The second year, it was crushed tomatoes and cooked noodles. The third? Baked beans."

Awoooo!!

“There’s been a diminishment in compassion for others, and a reassertion of individuality: ‘I don't want it; therefore, it shouldn't be there.’” Tough read, but an important study on how politics and prejudice create barriers to care for people who use drugs 💔 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

seems like a good day to tap the "support independent, worker run, local media" sign

Close All Tabs podcast interviewed @changa.gay and me for their episode about how furries memorialize members who have passed. With @morgansung.bsky.social on KQED, the SF bay area's NPR channel. www.kqed.org/news/1204677...

I’ve been worrying that the list of rural hospitals at risk of closing would include several in New Mexico, where I grew up. Sure enough, the closest hospital to my mom (25 miles from her house) is on the list 😖 www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

In the the middle of this captivating article, this juicy mystery is dropped and never explained 😳 “A Nebraska man spent 2 years trying to change the apparently computer-generated name given to his daughter, Unakite Thirteen Hotel, after a bureaucratic error involving her birth certificate.”

Over $80k raised in ONE WEEK for COYOTE. Some people say journalism is dead. Journalists keep proving them wrong. Indie media projects are raising thousands over and over again. It can be done. You can be the one to do it.

"When media illiteracy and misinformation run rampant, an actionable panacea is straightforward: more independent media outlets. COYOTE, a newly announced SF-based news outlet that’s entirely independent and helmed by a group of award-winning journalists, is already off to a running start."

There’s nothing quite like spending months working nonstop on a secret project — and then having community throw down so hard to help make it happen 😭❤️ Grateful beyond words. Now, we’re thinking BIGGER to build something even BETTER. Can you help us get to $150k? 💫☄️⭐️ givebutter.com/coyotemedia

It’s so wild to me that this critical SF-based study from earlier this year — which shows a relationship btwn arrests of people who deal drugs and overdose rates — is systematically being ignored by the media and city leadership tinyurl.com/4wfxpm8k

There’s nothing quite like spending months working nonstop on a secret project — and then having community throw down so hard to help make it happen 😭❤️ Grateful beyond words. Now, we’re thinking BIGGER to build something even BETTER. Can you help us get to $150k? 💫☄️⭐️ givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Happy Pride!!! 🤮

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.

❓curious about our name❓ We call ourselves COYOTE in homage to: the native Bay Area animal ✌️ the trickster god 🌵🌞 wily coyotes everywhere 🧨 Margo St. James’s 1970s sex workers' rights org 🙌 In a nod to the latter's legacy, we invite you to Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics!

Since I’m here for a hot minute, lemme say y’all should PLEASE back the extremely, EXTREMELY cool @roseveleth.com @soleilho.com @nuala.bsky.social & many others’ new Bay Area indie media group, Coyote!! (They made the $ goal, but like, BACK IT MORE.) givebutter.com/coyote-media...

I kicked in to help @coyotemedia.org launch! San Francisco needs this. (Also they made a sweet nod to San Francisco's original COYOTE....) givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Such a joy to talk about @coyotemedia.org with @sahotchkiss.bsky.social of @kqedarts.bsky.social! Give it a read!

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Another day, another Oakland USPS mail van

very excited to be a founding worker-owner of COYOTE. Aiming for the things I miss about alt-weeklies (like writing fun shit & doing real investigative work at the same time) w/o the things I don’t miss (vulture publishers who knew nothing about the Bay Area or journalism and seemingly hated women)

some of my favorite writers tbh

This is just amazing! Some of my fav writers in the world are teaming up to create an independent news org covering the whole Bay Area. Please support them!!! I'm so excited for this.

hell yes to bringing back alt-weeklies

I was sad to see my favorite writers on the SF Chronicle's editorial side, @soleilho.com and @nuala.bsky.social, leave, but now I see they left to start an independent media collective with some other great journalists. Let's go! givebutter.com/coyotemedia