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Yap Zone: What Scares Us
Turns out, there are a lot of things that freak us out. Today, we'll share even more.
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Hey there and welcome to the Yap Zone, our biweekly (that means every other week) newsletter where COYOTE gives you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into our newsroom and lots more. This newsletter is an exclusive offering and extra dose of gratitude for our Yapper- and Howler-tier members. Thank you, and we hope you enjoy!
We're currently in the midst of Halloween Week at COYOTE, the worker-owned publication that we started in order to do themed weeks. Of course, we were going to cover seasonal happenings — local haunted houses for sure — but the freedom of doing our own indie media thing also means we can get weird with it. Reo Eveleth wrote a terrifically creepy piece of flash fiction; today, Rahawa Haile debuted her first COYOTE piece with a cerebral take on the monster truck rally.
While we initially planned to keep things kind of light, a bunch of other freaky stuff happened that compelled us to produce more work than scheduled. There's the interruption of SNAP benefits for low- and no-income Americans thanks to the government shutdown, which is scary in a more material way. And then, when a Waymo killed the Mission District's de facto feline mayor, Emma Silvers reflected on the absurdity of a "safe" transit option-cum-surveillance state tool that can't even avoid running over a cat.
Turns out, there are a lot of things that scare us. Today, we'll share even more. And yes, we're paywalling this so our enemies can't use this intel against us.