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Nuala Bishari

@nuala.bsky.social

Opinion columnist. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org. I write about LGBTQ issues, public health, homelessness, and sometimes birds. It’s pronounced “noo-lah” nuala@coyotemedia.org

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Senior Editor, Business New York City, United States

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor.

You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!

job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233

12.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 320    🔁 210    💬 7    📌 10

Things one should consider when selecting sandwiches for projectile purposes: Is it from a business I feel strongly about supporting? Will the sandwich make a significant impact? Will I be very sad to have lost the opportunity to eat said sandwich?

10.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1

Oh hi hello ! 🥰 what a nice surprise

09.11.2025 04:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What it’s going to take is a courageous set of radical idiots who are willing and able to potentially burn their own careers down in service of rebuilding this industry

What it’s going to take is a courageous set of radical idiots who are willing and able to potentially burn their own careers down in service of rebuilding this industry

Hey look it’s @coyotemedia.org 👀

This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥

www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...

08.11.2025 23:37 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

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Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Proof We Don’t Have to Settle for Newsom 2028 The Bushwick bisexuals have it! We can ask for so much more, and at COYOTE we plan to.

“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.”

05.11.2025 17:41 — 👍 37    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
Certificate of achievement that I completed DARE. “Name” has completed curriculum in drug abuse resistance education and has made a personal commitment to avoid the pressure to begin using drugs.

Certificate of achievement that I completed DARE. “Name” has completed curriculum in drug abuse resistance education and has made a personal commitment to avoid the pressure to begin using drugs.

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!

05.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Proof We Don’t Have to Settle for Newsom 2028 The Bushwick bisexuals have it! We can ask for so much more, and at COYOTE we plan to.

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.

05.11.2025 06:10 — 👍 313    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 0
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The Twitter Wildfire Watcher Who Tracks California’s Blazes When fire ignites, the race begins to alert the state’s residents of the path of destruction. One of the leading voices lives on the other side of the world.

Still no idea. I wonder how much the govt shutdown affects fire alerts? I just want CAFireScanner on Bsky 😭 www.wired.com/story/califo...

05.11.2025 05:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll download this, thank you! Neither is a match. There is a small controlled burn happening 60 miles away but that’s all I’ve got 🤷‍♀️ would be surprised if it reached us

05.11.2025 00:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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?

04.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

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.

03.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 28701    🔁 8324    💬 2117    📌 2359

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

31.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 1907    🔁 481    💬 24    📌 24

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 🐕 🚑 🚨

29.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?

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-...

29.10.2025 19:21 — 👍 51    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

"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." 😭🐱

29.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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!

28.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 948    🔁 774    💬 9    📌 7
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Halloween as Self-Care Who says haunted houses don't count as antidepressants?

We're leaning into 🕷️HALLOWEEN 🧛‍♀️ this week to bring you some spooky stories! ☠️🫀🦟🤡

First up: a killer comic from @janelleblarg.bsky.social 👀

27.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

come over! I have gas 😏

25.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A raccoon stands on its back legs in the grass looking up at a wooden platform holding an orange cat and two glowing food and water containers

A raccoon stands on its back legs in the grass looking up at a wooden platform holding an orange cat and two glowing food and water containers

Me: optimistically googling “raccoon-proof feral cat feeder” as if such a thing is even possible

Wayfair: on it, $153.99

25.10.2025 03:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!

23.10.2025 02:56 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

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

22.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 27    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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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

22.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

A gauntlet of despair !

19.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

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

18.10.2025 04:53 — 👍 2501    🔁 480    💬 4    📌 29

Underbabied

17.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 96    🔁 10    💬 9    📌 1
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COYOTE Calendar: October 16-22 Traditional tattooing, ecosexuals, free suits for trans folks, comics, and more.

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...

16.10.2025 04:06 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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 😬

14.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And @coyotemedia.org !

13.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s been a few years! I find it works best for me if the physical spaces don’t overlap. Day books on the sofa, night books in bed, audiobooks in the car.
I love it though — the more stories I lose myself in the better!

10.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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