Nuala Bishari

A real actual thunderstorm? In Oakland?? Really???

A must must must read

I have often felt extremely cynical about the idea that "food brings people together." this dinner felt like a very informational stress test of it.

🗣️MELT YOUR LIFE INTO PIECES: Today at COYOTE we're talking death, aquamation, and what it means to dissolve into nothingness. ✍️: @nuala.bsky.social 📸: @amir.photo www.coyotemedia.org/east-bay-wat...

so. so. empty.

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...

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“The good news about fascists is they’re inherently artless.” - @bencollins.bsky.social on the art of humor at Knight Media Forum. There’s a clear winner producing good, smart satire right now — and it’s not them.

I love this resistance to journalistic “objectivity” in Noor Tagouri’s presentation at the Knight Media Forum

How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.

In which @soleilho.com is a nerd about social security numbers and prevents @coyotemedia.org from being scammed 👀

Rose, Nate, and Jules, students at Peabody and Roosevelt, out here for their teachers. “We’re French, so we know how to strike,” Jules’ mom told me. “It’s important to stand up for teachers. We’ve had wonderful teachers.”

a rally with people holding signs that say our students are worth fighting for and pay our teachers a living wage

Emma here. Massive turnout at SF Civic Center rn in support of UESF and the teachers strike. Teachers, principals, parents, students.

San Leandro’s TikTok-Famous Chinese Bakery Sandwiches Herald the Year of the Fried Fishwich Are the viral chicken and fish sandwiches worth the wait? Yes — with some caveats.

The viral fried fishwich in San Leandro is great, @soleilho.com writes. But what IF you took this sandwich to a specialty store in Berkeley that has a wall of condiments, and went wild?!

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!
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omgosh coming from you that is quite a compliment 🥰 thank you!

“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.

SF Hated the Super Bowl in 2016. A Decade Later, What’s Changed? Ten years ago, protesters took to the streets to slam San Francisco’s Super Bowl City and call for an end to homeless sweeps. As the game returns to the Bay this week, why are things so quiet?

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"

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How Racket, Minneapolis’s Worker-Owned Newsroom, Is Covering Its Hometown Fascist Invasion “This is the worst fucking time. But watching people’s response to ICE has been the most affirming thing in the world.”

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...

What We Owe Minnesota We solve this together or not at all.

"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."

A Reddit post showing a hand made stained glass artwork. It’s an industrial ice machine with “fuck” sprayed on like graffiti.

A Reddit post showing a hand made stained glass artwork that reads “fuck ice”

A Reddit post showing a hand made stained glass artwork that shows a melting block of ice with the slogan “fuck ice”

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

Homeless to Housed: Stone's Story A room in a permanent supportive housing unit can offer safety and security, an opportunity to design a space that’s all your own, and the chance to build community.

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.

COYOTE Weekly: Heave ho! Keep pushing.

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!!

The number of people I know today who dropped everything and scrambled to organize, comfort, brainstorm and plan! These surprise decisions have massive ripple effects

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.

‘People will die’: Trump administration cancels up to $1.9bn for substance use and mental health Funding to end immediately for up to 2,800 grantees of US agency that serves thousands seeking help and in recovery

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...