Emma Silvers
@emmaruthless.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org Erstwhile arts / culture / music editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies emmasilvers.com
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rmac.bsky.social
Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined.

The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange.

www.businessinsider.com/california-e...
California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation
The new legislation comes after a 2023 Business Insider investigation into sexual misconduct at a California high school.
www.businessinsider.com
emmaruthless.bsky.social
feel fairly certain that “You’re So Vain,” among others, could actually be fact-checked if necessary….. but the point stands
joshuajfriedman.com
"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."
The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.
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jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
I don't understand why the press has not been preparing the public for this for the last six months. You can see it coming from five miles out.
radleybalko.bsky.social
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC
President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday
www.mediaite.com
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lataco.bsky.social
The 'Punk in the Park' ethical dilemma: When punk's anti-establishment spirit funds a Trump supporter amid a Trump-sponsored ICE siege of Los Angeles and terrorizing of immigrant Brown communities.

By @theglutster.bsky.social

The full story: lataco.com/punk-in-the-...
emmaruthless.bsky.social
kinda ready to be swallowed up by a massive crack in the earth tbh. go big or go home
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾
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nuala.bsky.social
I wrote about some good! news!! for low-income artists and unhoused folks in SF. We need some joy in this terrible moment, and @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social is delivering. Check out my latest piece on what the purchase of a building on Market Street means for the future of artmaking in the city.
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NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco
‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists
Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.
www.coyotemedia.org
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coyotemedia.org
NEW: @hospitalityhousesf.bsky.social has purchased 1009 Market St., the building housing its fine art studio. In a time of economic insecurity, a rise in anti-homelessness sentiment, and an affordability crisis, this acquisition is a rare win for low-income artists in San Francisco
‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists
Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.
www.coyotemedia.org
emmaruthless.bsky.social
people’s hero Anna Roth, folks
this image is even darker and funnier than I remembered
emmaruthless.bsky.social
I couldn’t find the photo BLESS YOU
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sahotchkiss.bsky.social
Here's my commentary piece on the Big Art Loop, and what it means to hand our public space over to a billionaire and his choice of 100 pieces of existing, large-scale art.

And for god's sake: Send your opinions to the agencies/nonprofit/org involved, not to me!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398217...
Who Has a Say In the Flood of Public Art Coming to San Francisco?
The Sijbrandij Foundation’s plan to install 100 pieces of large-scale art around the city needs public oversight.
www.kqed.org
emmaruthless.bsky.social
just said this out loud and am now laughing alone in my kitchen thank you
emmaruthless.bsky.social
Glenn Zuehls, the publisher who killed the SF Bay Guardian, wrote “commitmet to excellence” on a whiteboard during one of his standard completely insane staff meetings in 2015, and I think about it every time I write the word commitment
webuiltthiscity.bsky.social
In high school, 35 years ago, our track coach once wrote “DON’T FROGET” on the board and to this day, every single time someone says “don’t forget,” I hear “don’t froget” in my head. But I can’t remember the name of a person I met 10 minutes ago
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reveleth.com
Hey if you have Money and want to give some of it to @coyotemedia.org now is a great time!!! Support indie media, make an actual difference.
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coyotemedia.org
We're spotlighting Bay Area worker co-ops, starting with Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF, "a place where Karens drift through the aisles like hungry ghosts, aimless without a manager at whom to direct their ire. At Rainbow, the buck stops with the 200 or so worker-owners." ✍️: @soleilho.com
Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store
Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.
www.coyotemedia.org
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kimkelly.bsky.social
support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can