Emma Silvers
Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org
Erstwhile arts / culture / music editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com
- “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.
- Unwelcome statues, beaches full of trash, homeless sweeps, and a $5M price tag infuriated many in SF when the Super Bowl came to the Bay Area in 2016. 10 years later, as the big game circus returns, the city is quiet. @nuala.bsky.social asks, what’s changed? www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
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- when i was a 16yo girl i thought i was an adult. coaching 12-17yo girls as a 28yo really hammered home how much i was wrong about being an adult at 16 and how obvious it is to actual adults that a 16yo is not an adult. if they say they cannot tell they are lying because they are a creep.
- I am literally in a coffeeshop surrounded by 16 year old girls who have just gotten out of school and can’t convey the extent to which they are children
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- 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.
- Sign tapping will continue until morale improves.
- Thought I was done writing about the bullshit that outside media says about S.F. But this pair — making fun of unhoused people in wheelchairs — coaxed me out of retirement. On loving the city, and the fragility of visiting adult male Patriots fans. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
- One big difference at COYOTE: We promise that none of our worker-owners will invest millions of dollars into allowing billionaires to continue avoiding paying into CA’s social safety net!
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- no one who appreciated Kit Kat the way you did could be capable of such a thing www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...
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- 1 subscribe = 1 heartfelt wish for Jeff Bezos to step full-force on a lego coyotemedia.org?ref=coyoteme...
- no like literally I am sitting on so many stories that I don't have the legal protection to run at my newsletter and I can't find a newsroom with the money or resources to commission them
- Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.
- COYOTE's featured alongside a handful of our fellow worker-owned outlets in @niemanlab.org today, talking about the reality of doing democratically managed journalism. Summary: It's a lot of fucking meetings! www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
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- Yes! Cute
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- u can call my husband and talk about bass
- I'm screaming
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
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- From @reveleth.com, a guide to getting started in mutual aid work. It might seem daunting at first. But we've got you. "There is no better day to begin. Talk to your neighbors, your local groups, your clubs. Get yourself connected to the networks around you." www.coyotemedia.org/there-is-no-...
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- i am so proud of @coyotemedia.org for being a place that can run stuff like this without pulling punches and i also feel it should be known that @soleilho.com wrote this powerful piece in like two hours *with the flu*
- "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."
- married to the cause, in sickness and in health
- 'What's happening in Minnesota right now is a test case. The Trump admin is learning what it can get away with, probing the limits of resistance, manufacturing pretexts for further occupations. If this becomes normalized in one city, it will spread to other places.' Stellar read from @soleilho.com
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- A+, teachers!
- part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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- The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
- The Star-Tribune is taking donations to help fund the purchase vital newsroom supplies and equipment, including protective and tactical gear for street reporters and photogs. If you live in MSP, pls subscribe. If you don't and want to help, here's a way -- www.startribunecompany.com/donate-payme....
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- Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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- 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
- "Having a space like this really took a burden off me," says Stone Selseth of his permanent supportive housing unit. In our latest Homeless to Housed story, Stone shares how his tiny room is "a reflection of me." ✍️ @nuala.bsky.social 📸 @estefancy.bsky.social
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