Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).

Third consecutive OPD report listing zero homicides. Oakland is on track to have of its lowest homicide totals in a decades, with one of the lowest numbers of police in decades also. The how/why should be the number one focus of Public Safety Committee discussions and isn't.

Reposting with alt text because yeah, I remember the discourse around what Black voters would and wouldn’t go for

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

From all of us at @coyotemedia.org, thank you NYC for making every centrist Californian politician reading the news last night shit their pants.

Aside from being stoked for all my NYC pals, I'm also happy that Mamdani offers another vision of the future. One that doesn't include Gavin fucking Newsom. Also please enjoy my photoshopping of an Aretha hat on our coyote (which was @rahawahaile.bsky.social's idea).

I need someone to bring Aretha’s hat out of retirement IMMEDIATELY

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

This is, pardon my language, FUCKING BULLSHIT! @leximcmenamin.com is a top tier journalist who had a great interview with Mamdani THIS WEEKEND!!! The kind the NYT could never do. It’s bullshit of Anna Wintour to destroy the TV politics desk on the eve of a mayoralty they were born to cover

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Bumping this essay for the weekend crowd.

Real talk? The Flytrap team were a big inspiration to me and others at @coyotemedia.org this year while we were getting off the ground. Please toss these amazing folks some coin, Bluesky. (And don’t forget to renew your membership if you backed them on Kickstarter!)

One reason it took me so long to write this @coyotemedia.org essay is I kept trying to find a positive, productive note to end on. All I really got is “fund the goddamn bus.” www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...

What can a very loud stadium of monster trucks offer us right now? Maybe, oddly enough… catharsis. Check out @rahawahaile.bsky.social's first feature for COYOTE! 🛻💨

For my first feature in years, I wrote about Monster Jam as an echo of place and what that felt like in Oakland in 2025.

Not seeing much on Bluesky vs Twitter but St. Elizabeth parish in Jamaica is devastated after Hurricane Melissa made landfall there yesterday. This is the government’s official support site, which is quite well organized.

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-...

Just updated this list! So glad to see more restaurants answering the call for help.

Casually sneaking short stories into COYOTE's newsroom like www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...

For Halloween Week, we’re running a horror flash fiction today by @reveleth.com. It’s our first short story at COYOTE, but it won’t be our last (editor’s note: that is extremely correct - @rahawahaile.bsky.social)! www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...

“At COYOTE, we want to introduce you to sports and regional teams that you may not have heard of, but that we think are a blast to watch.” First up: the California Derby Galaxy, a regional coalition of derby leagues. (The Oakland Outlaws face the San Francisco Rolling Dead tomorrow! 🛼🛼)

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

Aaron’s long essay on the People’s Park mural and Telegraph Ave in Berkeley + @reveleth.com’s recent reporting on the quest to save Esther’s Orbit Room’s iconic West Oakland facade make for one hell of a double feature on what gets remembered and why in the East Bay.

Alan traces the evolution of Bay Area airbrushing through three generations of artists: from a decades-long flea market vendor to Deandre "Airballin" Drake, painter of Formula 1 cars and Playboy bunnies. www.coyotemedia.org/spray-area-t...

I'll go to my grave saying D'Angelo is the most underrated artist of his generation and for all the love Black Messiah got, it's even better than advertised.

after getting over the initial shock I got a follow-up "oof" remembering he was just in the Sly Stone doc talking about how white rock stars get to grow old and comfortable RIP to the man with the greatest three-albums-in-20-years career in music history

“One of my favorite varieties of hip-hop is the deeply subterranean kind. The sort you stumble upon by accident: a barely discernible but promising little secret stubbing against your toe. And then you dig.” - @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social for @coyotemedia.org

tried to write a breezy lil show preview for @coyotemedia.org about Mabuhay Gardens’ reopening party wound up twisting myself into knots over SF’s musical nostalgia issues and how to reconcile the words “tech week coworking space” with “birthplace of SF punk” www.coyotemedia.org/mabuhay-gard...

Something nice: I was delighted to edit Caroline Van Hemert's latest for @highcountrynews.org, about the changing soundscapes of Arctic Alaska, and even more delighted that we could embed some bowhead whale songs in the online version of the story. Have a read + listen!

I checked in on homeless sweeps in Oakland, more than a year after the Grants Pass ruling and found the city had become more aggressive than ever. In one horrifying incident caught on video, the city almost destroyed a structure with a woman inside nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

This investigation by @reveleth.com is pure delight and the kind of story that basically every large legacy publication has stopped commissioning. Read it and support @coyotemedia.org so we can have more: www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...

This kind of community journalism—tracking down a mystery around local landmarks—is EXACTLY why I subscribed to @coyotemedia.org

I had the best time editing @reveleth.com's deep dive into John Jagger, a weirdo sculptor and pie maker, and the case of his missing 18-foot dandelions. cc @longreads.com

“I’ve been looking for this for my whole adult life, really. And finally, I feel like I’ve found something,." A grassroots group for Palestine started with bake sales and street protests but has grown into something much deeper: a mutual aid support system, and a source of life-changing friendships.

Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.

love this! I want to add that one of the best things about starting @coyotemedia.org was getting so much great advice from fellow worker-owned news outlets. we support each other in a way I’ve never experienced in corporate news & it’s so life-affirming

INVEST IN THE JOURNALISM YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD

Now seems like an excellent time to support independent media, like the new Bay Area journalism collective @coyotemedia.org. Smart coverage including arts and sports. Looks to be both hard-hitting and fun, a great combo. I just subscribed, highly recommend. www.coyotemedia.org/hello-from-c...

On Ballhalla and beyond @coyotemedia.org today. #wnba

"One health worker expressed concern for the dozen or so homeless clients they used to see each day, who they would provide with prescriptions for high blood pressure, colostomy bags, or insulin for diabetes. 'Where are those people getting their medicine now?' they asked.”

Introducing COYOTE: A worker-owned Bay Area media collective. Our stories will be public for the first two weeks. Read ‘em and subscribe! www.coyotemedia.org

In case anybody wants an explainer on what this means (it's complicated) I wrote one for the Tested newsletter: buttondown.com/tested/archi...

It’s the final week of Coyote’s fundraiser! Support us in creating an independent Bay Area journalism powerhouse if you can!

I know the dude behind the AP’s overcrowded refugee boat NFT from 2022 must be fuming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

awooooo we're starting a publication in the Bay Area with a STACKED team (@amir.photo‬ @rahawahaile.bsky.social‬ @nuala.bsky.social‬ @estefancy.bsky.social @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social‬ @soleilho.com‬ @emmaruthless.bsky.social‬ @dannymlavery.bsky.social‬ AND MORE)! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

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)

Join me in supporting Coyote Media Collective, a new worker-owned publication stacked with some of the most talented writers in the bay area and launching later this summer. Cannot wait to read this.

For the night crowd :)

Exciting news, Bay Area friends! A brand-new worker-owned indie newsroom with the spirit of an alt-weekly plans to cover the whole region (not just SF!)—with talented writers including @rahawahaile.bsky.social @dannymlavery.bsky.social @soleilho.com @roseveleth.com Donate to support their launch!

Okay so excited to finally share that I'm part of this really cool team of people trying to spin up a new worker owned publication in the Bay Area! We're fundraising now and it would be so rad if you supported us! Awoooo!!