Marthine Satris

Illuminati list just dropped: Bohemian Grove camp members from 2023 leaked The full 2023 retreat member list was published by an independent journalist. Many, many Bay Area pooh-bahs are on it.

In case you need a distraction, Bohemian Grove’s membership list leaked: sfstandard.com/2026/02/25/n...

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

Yes

“We are lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s. I cannot brisk myself up to deal with it.” -Virginia Woolf as publisher at Hogarth Press, quoted by Francesca Wade in Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (which I’m loving). Relateable, girl.

going down a grunion run rabbit hole....

Check out the art show and tonight celebrate the 2nd issue of the Adams Point Zine in tandem!

Today’s warmth was made 5x more likely by climate change, according to @climatecentral.org. Climate ≠ weather but shifting extremes can make individual events more or less likely today than previous decades.

So hot

Haaaaaaa let typos always express the truth.

So weird. Same people who were in the I heart billionaires parade??

Oakland (83°F) and Half Moon Bay (79°F) broke maximum winter temperature records Friday. Temperature data dates back to 1970 in Oakland and 1939 in Half Moon Bay. San Francisco’s high of 75°F was the city’s warmest winter day since February 2022. #CAwx

Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end California's snowpack remains much smaller than average after months of extremely warm conditions across the West.

Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end

Ok, so in the past week we've gone from freezing weather through rain to intense fog yesterday too hot and muggy? Bay area weather people, what is up with this?

Learn salamanders & frogs & their ecology w/ Dr Emily Taylor tonite, whose decades of field research & teaching in the classroom have informed her 3 great books with @heydaybooks.com, & whose wonder & curiosity & great sense of humor makes her the BEST storyteller & teacher!

What's happening in Oakland City Hall, on the podcast Catch up on Oakland news while walking the dog or cooking dinner with Oaklandside 510.

Catch up on Oakland news while walking the dog or cooking dinner with Oaklandside 510.

Oh thank goodness! No ousd teacher strike phew

Wasn't that like the big difference between winter institute and BEA? The further was publisher - bookstore relationship building and the latter was a trade show? I have never been to either, but with BEA dead, has WI morphed into like a Frankenstein of the two?

In Conversation: Kija Lucas and Banu Subramaniam This event took place on Saturday, October 11, 2025 Bay Area based artist Kija Lucas and author Banu Subramaniam discuss the ways in which plant science has been…

Kija, Banu Subramaniam, and I were in conversation last fall at the SFAC gallery if you want a taste of her beautiful art practice and the brilliant thinking behind it: vimeo.com/1131022540

Kija Lucas also is featured at the DeYoung 3/7! A Talk on Photography with Artist Kija Lucas share.google/yCleTghvDizH...

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Sometimes it's a night when you just listen to a hundred versions of The Parting Glass.

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought www.bbc.com/news/article...

Black women led slave revolts. History tried to erase it.

On Law and Disorder, Dr. Rebecca Hall talks women led resistance, colonial punishment, ancestral memory, and the link between slavery and modern incarceration.

Listen at kpfa.org #KPFA #BlackHistory @wakerevolt.bsky.social

'I'm honestly scared': Eviction deadline looms for last farmworker families in Point Reyes

As a landmark settlement ends most ranching in the seashore, a handful of longtime tenants remain without housing — and time is running out.

"capital needs to punish & discipline insolvent cities precisely because the act of denying certain debts might threaten the underlying sovereignty of contract, might suggest that there are situations in which a city might prioritize its citizens’ needs over what it legally owes to capital."

Oh man, CA govt & teacher retirement funds calPERS & CalSTRS built & profit from a coal fired power plant in Ohio!

@meganwachspress.bsky.social this line! "Like the fine dust emanating from train cars rattling through a port, coal has been dispersed across the great fluid flow of capital"

As Megan writes, the decisions so far prioritize the city's relationship with businesses over people: "A city is not a shared endeavor, the judges essentially ruled. It is a business partner."

Reminds me of Lurie celebrating Vanderbilt taking over CCA too.

... and its actions were constrained not by fundamental law or individual rights but by its contractual obligations, which took priority over its obligations to protect and represent its denizens"

Finally spending serious time with the coal export explainer, and this is so striking.

Unpaid Debts In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/

"OBOT decision makes contract the fundamental act of government, and thus its obligation. Once Oakland had entered into the developer agreement it had ceased, in some meaningful sense, to be a city; it had become something else—a landowner, perhaps—...