on top of everything else, the amount of time & energy small publications need to spend on this kind of stuff now really seems unsustainable

Hi folks. We're dropping our paywall on this story about the scourge of AI pitches for the day, so give it a read and share widely. www.coyotemedia.org/how-coyote-a...

Black History Month zine available @oaklibrary.bsky.social Magazines & Newspapers Room. The California Voice was a Black newspaper in Oakland that ran from 1919 to 20??. I went through 20 years of microfilm to find the coolest (mostly) local Black music coverage and ads in the paper. Dig it.

Every organization I work with, including The Flytrap, has noticed this every time we put out an open call for pitches and it gets picked up in an opportunities newsletter, just a deluge of AI slop we have to wade through.

If you're a book creator and people in your life don't understand why book bans are such a sore point for you then by god show them this film. It really gets people fired up.

when @coyotemedia.org lets me write headlines www.coyotemedia.org/area-teacher...

Headline says it all. A short strike diary by @emmaruthless.bsky.social on the community rallies taking place in support of San Francisco's striking teachers.

San Francisco public school educators are striking for the first time in nearly 50 years! @emmaruthless.bsky.social is reporting for COYOTE from Civic Center.

Soleil’s case for the fish sandwich as a canvas for global flavors, from Korean jangajji to Puerto Rican pique, is a thing of beauty. www.coyotemedia.org/san-leandros...

Ahead of today’s Super Bowl, read COYOTE’s @nuala.bsky.social on how monied elites, rampant displacement, political conservatism, and an overturned Grants Pass Supreme Court ruling have changed San Francisco in the decade since the city last hosted the game.

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

It’s been a minute since I’ve clicked on anything this quickly with this much anticipation.

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

From @reveleth.com, a guide to getting started in mutual aid work. It might seem daunting at first. But we've got you. "There is no better day to begin. Talk to your neighbors, your local groups, your clubs. Get yourself connected to the networks around you." www.coyotemedia.org/there-is-no-...

When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...

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...

I see now my timing could not have been worse.

So many things are bad right now, but I interviewed @maggietokudahall.bsky.social about painting pigeons and small acts of survival. 📸 by @estefancy.bsky.social

Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here. Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

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

I chose Colette’s book for COYOTE’s favorite reads of 2025 roundup. It’s terrific. www.coyotemedia.org/the-15-books...

Service journalism at its finest subscribe to @coyotemedia.org

I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

It's our first End of Year List Week at COYOTE. Starting off strong with the songs our collective loved in 2025.

Betty was one of the most generous people I had the privilege of interviewing. An extraordinary person who lived an extraordinary life.

another reminder that we're opening a worker-owned radical bookstore & cafe in astoria! you can help by: following our instagram: www.instagram.com/nobordersbooks subscribing to newsletter: noborders.beehiiv.com donating: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-a-wo... shopping: bookshop.org/shop/NoBorders

it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...

Soleil hints at this in the piece, but we were on the verge of bringing Alice’s Teen Vogue column to COYOTE after its cancellation. Our crew loved and admired her and her work more than I could begin to tell you. I still can’t believe she’s gone.

: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

We asked furries to rank the Bay Area’s sports mascots. The judges did not disappoint. ✍🏻: @reveleth.com

I was rooting for the Sedimental Value headline! Still, I love this photo @amir.photo took of jazz singer Mechelle LaChaux in front of Oakland’s legendary Esther’s Orbit Room.

wrote about @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s new book and the necessity of full personhood for children, who should receive both support and have agency in ways that even liberal society seeks to deny (and that the christian nationalist project is explicit about trying to control)

if you're not hiring Brittany to report on pop music, conduct interviews, and write deeply interesting profiles that actually rise above the noise, then you're doing it WRONG. BRITTANY IS THE BEST.

Suds from the Palestinian Soap Cooperative, pickle-scented candles from Dear John—COYOTE's local gift guide has a little something for everyone and not a penny for monopolies.

May I also recommend a book that some of you might have missed that came out last year that’s outstanding? “Imagination: A Manifesto” by Ruha Benjamin wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Daymé’s timbre floors me every time I hear it.

friends! @coyotemedia.org is dropping our paywall for December so you can see what we’ve been up to even if you have none dollars. All of our posts are currently free to read. Come check us out & spread the word? www.coyotemedia.org

TONIGHT! SF! Join us at Casements in the Mission for food, drinks, a live DJ set from @bff.fm, priceless gossip with journalists and indie music folks, tote bags… what more could you want, truly luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...

The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:

“Ceremony is where we share stories, break bread, and take care of each other. Not ‘Thanksgiving’ — a fiction that covers up the fact that colonizers used to feast after scalping us and destroying our villages.” www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...

“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.” Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community. How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

Getting to read @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social’s rap criticism for COYOTE is always such a joy, man. I just know I’m in for hit after hit.

“[The album] is as much a spiritual hymn as it is a hyphy resistance… especially when Bank$ veers into anger. ‘Oakland Unified’ facetiously points to the loss of Black residents who’ve been pushed to the geographical and cultural fringes (‘Oakland n***** don’t die, they move to Sacramento County’).”

Oakland People's Arms Embargo is stepping up the campaign to get Port Commission to ban weapons parts shipments that transit through the Oak airport to Israel for use in its genocidal war against Palestinians. Rally today at 3 ahead of 4pm public comment at Port.

COYOTE’s service journalism will always be free to read, including today’s guide to helping someone who might be overdosing.

Please send submissions to [email protected]. Written submissions should be under 250 words, while voice memos can be 1–2 minutes long. If you want to share a photo of yourself with Alice, or a memory in another form, please do. We may edit lightly for clarity as needed. Thank you! (3/3)

We are especially interested in hearing from disabled individuals of color, and disabled individuals in general, and will prioritize their responses. Please let us know of any communication needs you may have, or anything else we can do to help you share your memories of Alice. (2/3)