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”
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It’s pronounced “noo-lah”
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“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.”
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
“Our ‘Thanksgiving meal’ is usually to the tune of gas station roller hotdogs and chips, supplemented with caffeine and cigarettes,” writes Lydia Grijalva, who heads to Alcatraz Island every year to greet the sunrise with Native comrades and elders. www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...
Every Thanksgiving We Drive to Alcatraz. Except This Year
My Thanksgiving tradition includes Alcatraz Island, chain-smoking elders, and gas station hotdogs.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.”
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O
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“Our ‘Thanksgiving meal’ is usually to the tune of gas station roller hotdogs and chips, supplemented with caffeine and cigarettes,” writes Lydia Grijalva, who heads to Alcatraz Island every year to greet the sunrise with Native comrades and elders. www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...
Every Thanksgiving We Drive to Alcatraz. Except This Year
My Thanksgiving tradition includes Alcatraz Island, chain-smoking elders, and gas station hotdogs.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Our ‘Thanksgiving meal’ is usually to the tune of gas station roller hotdogs and chips, supplemented with caffeine and cigarettes,” writes Lydia Grijalva, who heads to Alcatraz Island every year to greet the sunrise with Native comrades and elders. www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...
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San Francisco! Come hang with @coyotemedia.org worker-owners and @bff.fm DJs on Tues December 2nd at Casements in the Mission. Drinks, swag, the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting indie media instead of outlets funded by shady billionaires, what more could you want luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...
COYOTE x BFF.fm Holiday Bash · Luma
Join us for music, community, and a celebration of independent media!
Details
Dress code: Layers! It’s outdoors in December, but there’ll be heat lamps
Entry:…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
San Francisco! Come hang with @coyotemedia.org worker-owners and @bff.fm DJs on Tues December 2nd at Casements in the Mission. Drinks, swag, the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting indie media instead of outlets funded by shady billionaires, what more could you want luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...
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Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
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Healthy democracies require protests. But how do we do it safely? I made this guide to help us navigate the risks.
Check it out, and please share with your networks. @coyotemedia.org's First Aid Kit stories are always paywall-free! ✊
Check it out, and please share with your networks. @coyotemedia.org's First Aid Kit stories are always paywall-free! ✊
The Bay Area’s protest legacy runs deep, but there are new risks: militarized police, more surveillance, higher stakes. In this First Aid Kit guide, @cecilialei.bsky.social breaks down how to stay safe, what to say (or not) if you're detained, and how to protect your rights if you’re risking arrest.
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Stay Safe at a Protest
Know your rights, know the risks, and know what to do if you’re arrested.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Healthy democracies require protests. But how do we do it safely? I made this guide to help us navigate the risks.
Check it out, and please share with your networks. @coyotemedia.org's First Aid Kit stories are always paywall-free! ✊
Check it out, and please share with your networks. @coyotemedia.org's First Aid Kit stories are always paywall-free! ✊
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up.
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up.
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
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Olivia Nuzzi addresses the worm: defector.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm | Defector
On Monday, Vanity Fair published the first excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s monograph to sexting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a book titled American Canto. The book, as Nuzzi claimed in a glamorized profile…
defector.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age
This is some weapons-grade nonsense
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age
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Love this interview between @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social.
Is it perimenopause, parenthood, the pandemic, or the collapse of the American empire? In this conversation,
@emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social unpack post-40 hormones, the failure of Western medicine to serve people with uteruses, and what's keeping them up at night.
@emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social unpack post-40 hormones, the failure of Western medicine to serve people with uteruses, and what's keeping them up at night.
Perimenopause, Fascism, and Other Reasons We’re Not Sleeping
Emma and Nuala try to figure out if they’re perimenopausal, wonder if it’s anxiety or the end of the American empire, and designate Tori Amos as their menopause cult leader.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Love this interview between @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social.
Even when @coyotemedia.org was just a little baby pup of an idea I knew I wanted service journalism to be a major part of it. Today I'm thrilled to introduce our First Aid Kit: an acknowledgement of today's challenges, and a rejection of despair.
Introducing COYOTE's First Aid Kit
A how-to guide to surviving in the Bay Area.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Even when @coyotemedia.org was just a little baby pup of an idea I knew I wanted service journalism to be a major part of it. Today I'm thrilled to introduce our First Aid Kit: an acknowledgement of today's challenges, and a rejection of despair.
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stay tuned for more investigations from me and @nuala.bsky.social, @coyotemedia.org's resident perimenopausal detectives. We forget all names and facts we learned 5 minutes ago, great slapstick www.coyotemedia.org/perimenopaus...
Perimenopause, Fascism, and Other Reasons We’re Not Sleeping
Emma and Nuala try to figure out if they’re perimenopausal, wonder if it’s anxiety or the end of the American empire, and designate Tori Amos as their menopause cult leader.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
stay tuned for more investigations from me and @nuala.bsky.social, @coyotemedia.org's resident perimenopausal detectives. We forget all names and facts we learned 5 minutes ago, great slapstick www.coyotemedia.org/perimenopaus...
Tori Amos once said “Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame.” As the senior citizens of COYOTE (AKA the over-40 contingent), @emmaruthless.bsky.social and I try to figure out what lessons our chaotic hormones are teaching us as we lie awake covered in sweat at 4am.
Is it perimenopause, parenthood, the pandemic, or the collapse of the American empire? In this conversation,
@emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social unpack post-40 hormones, the failure of Western medicine to serve people with uteruses, and what's keeping them up at night.
@emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social unpack post-40 hormones, the failure of Western medicine to serve people with uteruses, and what's keeping them up at night.
Perimenopause, Fascism, and Other Reasons We’re Not Sleeping
Emma and Nuala try to figure out if they’re perimenopausal, wonder if it’s anxiety or the end of the American empire, and designate Tori Amos as their menopause cult leader.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Tori Amos once said “Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame.” As the senior citizens of COYOTE (AKA the over-40 contingent), @emmaruthless.bsky.social and I try to figure out what lessons our chaotic hormones are teaching us as we lie awake covered in sweat at 4am.
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In today's Yap Zone newsletter: What do Stormy Daniels and investigative reporter @nuala.bsky.social have in common? www.coyotemedia.org/yap-zone-q-a...
Yap Zone: Q&A with COYOTE's Resident Horse Girl
What do horses have to do with journalism?
www.coyotemedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In today's Yap Zone newsletter: What do Stormy Daniels and investigative reporter @nuala.bsky.social have in common? www.coyotemedia.org/yap-zone-q-a...
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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
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
Senior Editor, Business
New York City, United States
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November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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
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
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?
Last week the “D.C. Sandwich Guy” was found not guilty of misdemeanor assault. We can’t foresee the full implications of this verdict yet; only time will tell the true meaning of this acquittal as precedent. But from where we’re sitting: sure seems like sandwich terrorism is now legal in the USA.
Sandwich Terrorism Is Now Legal. Also, Here Are Some Sandwiches We Like
COYOTE does not condone violence, only sandwiches.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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?
Hey look it’s @coyotemedia.org 👀
This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hey look it’s @coyotemedia.org 👀
This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
This piece by @melbuer.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
“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.”
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.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“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.”
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!
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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!
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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.
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.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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.
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?
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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?
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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.
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.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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.
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.
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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
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
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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
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
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 🐕 🚑 🚨
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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 🐕 🚑 🚨
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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-...
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?
www.coyotemedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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-...