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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 1d

Check out our new series of spotlights on Bay Area worker coops! In our first installment, @soleilho.com drops in on the 50-year-old Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF to find out what makes it work — and to hear some tasty lore (including a fistfight over what color to paint the store building! 👀)

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.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4d

A Fox News Chyron that says for my antifa member speaks out on the left is Jesse Watters and on the right is skibidi toilet

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 5d

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@lbwatchdog.bsky.social (long beach)
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 5d

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!!

@coyotemedia.org (bay area)
@51st.news (dc)
@racketmn.com (mn)
@autonomynews.co
@505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 5d

if you know a rich dem please ask them to give us money to start a news media network that explicitly is not run by and loyal to republicans

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 5d

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 6d

Well, I'd like to see ol Zohran Mamdani wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Mamdani wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Mabuhay Gardens to Reopen, Attempt to Remain Upright Under Weight of Expectations

The birthplace of San Francisco punk can’t be what it once was. Is it time to let it be something else instead?

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 7d

I am completely enamored with @reveleth.com's intense, all-in deep dive on the low-stakes mystery of what happened to the sculptures that used to be at the entrance of Oakland's little amusement park! also there's a pie recipe here. why? READ ON www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...

Where Did the Fairyland Dandelions Go?

For more than 45 years, three huge steel and bronze dandelion puffs reached for the sky outside Children’s Fairyland only to disappear without a trace. COYOTE went on a quest to find them.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 8d

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel

by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

111 Years Old Antique Toaster Restoration

YouTube video by Odd Tinkering

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10d

The Garfield "Huh, I wonder who that's for?" Meme with Garfield staring at a sign with a picture of himself that has a "NO" circle over it

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10d

love to portland. fuck absolutely all of this.

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 10d

kinda seems that even the most baseline Mexican food in San Diego smacks the shit out of Mexican food in the Bay Area

plate of crispy carnitas with beans and flour tortillas. plate of garnishes and basket of corn chips in the background

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 11d

Weird Al "dives into the music wholeheartedly, elbows out, his grimace sparkling," writes @soleilho.com. "We’re given head-over-heels love that only looks like satire on the outside." Read more about a recent Weird Al show, and Cotati's Accordion Festival, on @coyotemedia.org

Keeping it Weird, Al Yankovic Dazzles at Sonoma State

Let the bellows hit the floor.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 12d

Going independent has meant having the freedom to say that ICE is kidnapping people, to describe our government as authoritarian, and to say more directly when fascism is happening.

I hope we'll start to see this more in large newsrooms before it's too late.

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11d

eeee thank you

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11d

here I recap not only a phenomenal show by @alyankovic.bsky.social but also the Bay Area’s own Cotati Accordion Fest!! www.coyotemedia.org/keeping-it-w...

Keeping it Weird, Al Yankovic Dazzles at Sonoma State

Let the bellows hit the floor.

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 12d

What does Weird Al Yankovic have to offer us right now? @soleilho.com ventured up to his latest show at Sonoma State University to find out. Is it all a joke? Or is there something more life-affirming amid all the fart noises?

Keeping it Weird, Al Yankovic Dazzles at Sonoma State

Let the bellows hit the floor.

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Cecilia Lei @cecilialei.bsky.social · 13d

My first story for @coyotemedia.org is about the towns I grew up in, small cities that even I dismissed as being "too quiet" or "in a bubble."

Read about Albany and El Cerrito for Palestine, a group of neighbors that have created a joyful, mutual aid collective while organizing for Palestine.

Albany and El Cerrito Weren't Known for Protest ... Until Now

In two quiet Bay Area towns, organizers for Palestine are getting loud — and forming deep friendships along the way.

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 13d

If you've legally changed your name and gender marker in California, that info is searchable online. A new bill seeks to seal those records — but does it go far enough?

✍️: @nuala.bsky.social

But What Did They Used to Call You?

A bill to seal the name and gender change records for trans and nonbinary people is set to pass in California. It’s not enough.

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 12d

today on @coyotemedia.org: CA is set to pass a bill to prevent doxing of people seeking gender and name change documents. but.... not for people that have already done it? because it costs $2-3 million in admin fees. that's only like 2 cops! wtf www.coyotemedia.org/but-what-did...

But What Did They Used to Call You?

A bill to seal the name and gender change records for trans and nonbinary people is set to pass in California. It’s not enough.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 14d

The mighty @soleilho.com doing the business here, so read! And reminder: @coyotemedia.org's paywall is down for a few more days, but after that, subscriber-only, so consider pitching in!

COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 15d

“It’s just fucking super Google that destroys the environment.” Today on COYOTE @soleilho.com checks in with an Oakland venue owner who’s fed up with AI-generated show flyers, to talk about what we lose when we normalize the practice (It’s not just braincells!)

DIY vs. AI: The battle for the soul of the show flyer

An Oakland venue owner is fed up with AI-generated show flyers. What's the big deal?

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 15d

“The point of art is to evoke some kind of emotion or feeling or something from a human to another human or to a group”

soleil ho @soleilho.com · 15d

new from me: a treatise on why using AI for every goddamn thing (incl, now, promos for music performances by humans) sucks shit www.coyotemedia.org/diy-vs-ai-th...

DIY vs. AI: The battle for the soul of the show flyer

An Oakland venue owner is fed up with AI-generated show flyers. What's the big deal?

www.coyotemedia.org

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 15d

new from me: a treatise on why using AI for every goddamn thing (incl, now, promos for music performances by humans) sucks shit www.coyotemedia.org/diy-vs-ai-th...

DIY vs. AI: The battle for the soul of the show flyer

An Oakland venue owner is fed up with AI-generated show flyers. What's the big deal?

www.coyotemedia.org

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 15d

“It’s just fucking super Google that destroys the environment.” Today on COYOTE @soleilho.com checks in with an Oakland venue owner who’s fed up with AI-generated show flyers, to talk about what we lose when we normalize the practice (It’s not just braincells!)

DIY vs. AI: The battle for the soul of the show flyer

An Oakland venue owner is fed up with AI-generated show flyers. What's the big deal?

www.coyotemedia.org

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