Leilani Clark
@leilaniclark.bsky.social
Writer. Chicanx. Californian. Working on a narrative nonfiction book about freeways, displacement, erasure, & survival in East Los Angeles. Published at The Guardian, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED. Comms manager at a Sonoma County environmental nonprofit.
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.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Love this interview between @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social.
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Mainstream media loves doom, despair, and a sensational headline. But hopelessness is their tool, not ours. Meet COYOTE's First Aid Kit, our service journalism series where we'll pursue intersectional, evidence-based, and sometimes light-hearted solutions to the challenges of living in the Bay Area.
Introducing COYOTE's First Aid Kit
A how-to guide to surviving in the Bay Area.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mainstream media loves doom, despair, and a sensational headline. But hopelessness is their tool, not ours. Meet COYOTE's First Aid Kit, our service journalism series where we'll pursue intersectional, evidence-based, and sometimes light-hearted solutions to the challenges of living in the Bay Area.
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Albany and El Cerrito aren’t towns most people think of when they imagine protest. But over the past two years, neighbors have built a grassroots collective for Palestine that’s reshaped their activism and sense of community.
✍️: @cecilialei.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
✍️: @cecilialei.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
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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September 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Albany and El Cerrito aren’t towns most people think of when they imagine protest. But over the past two years, neighbors have built a grassroots collective for Palestine that’s reshaped their activism and sense of community.
✍️: @cecilialei.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
✍️: @cecilialei.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
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Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.
A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch
Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.
www.coyotemedia.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.
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Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.
A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch
Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.
www.coyotemedia.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.
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loved editing this story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social, with photographs by @estefancy.bsky.social
It’s about people feeling scared and uncertain and still doing the right thing for each other, because we’re all we’ve got
It’s about people feeling scared and uncertain and still doing the right thing for each other, because we’re all we’ve got
Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.
A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch
Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.
www.coyotemedia.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
loved editing this story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social, with photographs by @estefancy.bsky.social
It’s about people feeling scared and uncertain and still doing the right thing for each other, because we’re all we’ve got
It’s about people feeling scared and uncertain and still doing the right thing for each other, because we’re all we’ve got
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There is no intel,” says one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Nothing new, that I’m aware of…" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.
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June 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is no intel,” says one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Nothing new, that I’m aware of…" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Nature is so much more interesting than fascism.
June 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Nature is so much more interesting than fascism.
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“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
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A person who works in Whittier, CA, reached out to share that the Whittier police chief said 🧊 will be in Whittier for 30 days and that they are currently posted up in Norwalk, by Cerritos College.
June 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A person who works in Whittier, CA, reached out to share that the Whittier police chief said 🧊 will be in Whittier for 30 days and that they are currently posted up in Norwalk, by Cerritos College.
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And so forth. Elite panic is a thing and elites do too often seem to prize property relations over actual lives.
June 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
And so forth. Elite panic is a thing and elites do too often seem to prize property relations over actual lives.
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Solidarity with David Huerta of SEIU. Working class power, both in and outside of the workplace.
June 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Solidarity with David Huerta of SEIU. Working class power, both in and outside of the workplace.
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Ray of hope if you need one today: New Mexico just earmarked $50 million for new wildlife crossings, the most a state has *ever* appropriated for safe animal passage. #roadecology
www.forbes.com/sites/noelfl...
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New Mexico Okays $50 Million For Wildlife Crossings To Improve Safety
New Mexico lawmakers approved $50 million for wildlife crossings and legislation to create a fund for freshwater conservation.
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June 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ray of hope if you need one today: New Mexico just earmarked $50 million for new wildlife crossings, the most a state has *ever* appropriated for safe animal passage. #roadecology
www.forbes.com/sites/noelfl...
www.forbes.com/sites/noelfl...
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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
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My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.
May 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.
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I honestly don’t even get this. Tuan Phan accepted that he would be deported to Viet Nam. His wife went there to meet him.
The US government arbitrarily deports him to South Sudan, from where he has not been heard from.
Pure sadism.
www.kuow.org/stories/pier...
The US government arbitrarily deports him to South Sudan, from where he has not been heard from.
Pure sadism.
www.kuow.org/stories/pier...
Pierce County man expected to be deported to Vietnam. Instead, ICE flew him to South Sudan
www.kuow.org
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I honestly don’t even get this. Tuan Phan accepted that he would be deported to Viet Nam. His wife went there to meet him.
The US government arbitrarily deports him to South Sudan, from where he has not been heard from.
Pure sadism.
www.kuow.org/stories/pier...
The US government arbitrarily deports him to South Sudan, from where he has not been heard from.
Pure sadism.
www.kuow.org/stories/pier...
I got to spend the day leading observers & doing comms work on a multi-acre LandPaths/Fire Forward prescribed burn at the Grove of Old Trees in Occidental. Still processing the day but will be writing about this later.
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I got to spend the day leading observers & doing comms work on a multi-acre LandPaths/Fire Forward prescribed burn at the Grove of Old Trees in Occidental. Still processing the day but will be writing about this later.
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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
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A friend and I have decided that next year's Met gala theme needs to be quinceañeras. Getting Anna Wintour on the speed dial...
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A friend and I have decided that next year's Met gala theme needs to be quinceañeras. Getting Anna Wintour on the speed dial...
Happy paperback pub day to @manjula.bsky.social! If you haven’t read The Last Fire Season yet, go get yourself a copy! It’s excellent. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711111...
May 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Happy paperback pub day to @manjula.bsky.social! If you haven’t read The Last Fire Season yet, go get yourself a copy! It’s excellent. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711111...
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Appreciated the opportunity to talk about the Press Democrat, my hometown newspaper, with Ericka Cruz Guevarra & the team at The Bay.
Subscribe to a newspaper.
www.kqed.org/news/1203959...
Subscribe to a newspaper.
www.kqed.org/news/1203959...
A New York Hedge Fund Just Bought Sonoma County's Local Newspaper | KQED
North Bay journalists fear that the company will continue its pattern of buying newspapers and then slashing staff.
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May 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Appreciated the opportunity to talk about the Press Democrat, my hometown newspaper, with Ericka Cruz Guevarra & the team at The Bay.
Subscribe to a newspaper.
www.kqed.org/news/1203959...
Subscribe to a newspaper.
www.kqed.org/news/1203959...
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Hearing from a friend how ICE on Tues was hanging out near both campuses of Mundo Verde in DC, a bilingual public elementary school, but never attempted entry.
Why? In part bc "10 parents at each campus" offered to take shifts of working outside the school all day.
That's community right there.
Why? In part bc "10 parents at each campus" offered to take shifts of working outside the school all day.
That's community right there.
May 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Hearing from a friend how ICE on Tues was hanging out near both campuses of Mundo Verde in DC, a bilingual public elementary school, but never attempted entry.
Why? In part bc "10 parents at each campus" offered to take shifts of working outside the school all day.
That's community right there.
Why? In part bc "10 parents at each campus" offered to take shifts of working outside the school all day.
That's community right there.
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Call for submissions! 🗣️
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
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The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
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May 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Call for submissions! 🗣️
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit
As the descendent of a Pershing Square soap boxer of the Wobblie variety, I wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment.
I'm happy that AI is making college obsolete because now we can return to the traditional mode of education, arguing loudly in a town square
May 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As the descendent of a Pershing Square soap boxer of the Wobblie variety, I wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment.