Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. @SFSU. EIC, @JVietnamStudies. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Oakland, CA
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
Broke into tears when I saw this news.
Folks, we’ve got a chance to keep this planet livable. Let’s not fuck it up!
Breaking News: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro to stay president of Brazil, halting the right’s march in Latin America. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4iFMwIg
Martha Lincoln retweeted
When a non-expert writes a history of the Middle East. The very first page of Simon Sebag Montefiore, “The Cauldron: the Making Of The Modern Middle East”. First, nobody refers to Mutanabbi as “a Syrian poet”. He is the classical Arab poet. Secondly, this is a bad translation of his famous line of poetry. Not knowing Arabic, he could not tell. It should have been: “The horses, the night, and the desert know me well;
The sword, the spear, the parchment, and the pen.”
Martha Lincoln retweeted
Given how much people resist even modest food system reforms like the proposed foie gras ban in DC, it can be tempting to moderate our ambitions about this issue. I think this is a mistake. In my view, we should pressure the international community to set a goal of banning industrial animal agriculture by 2050.
Industrial animal agriculture causes massive and unnecessary harm to animal welfare, public health, and the environment. It has no place in modern civilization, and there are ample legal instruments and precedents for coordinating internationally around a global transition over the next quarter century.
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
Vegans are right about everything. We really have no collective moral conscience when it comes to animal suffering. Shameful
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Ocean temperatures up and down the California coast have become disturbingly high, with wide-ranging impacts. sfchronicle.com/california/a…
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American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.
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I am voting yes on I-86 to end the force-feeding of ducks. The practice is needlessly cruel and has been banned in more than 20 countries, including most of Europe and Brazil. To dispel some misinformation that's going around: there are no foie gras farms in DC so no
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River otters make comeback at Bay Area ranch for first time in over 100 years sfgate.com/local/article/bay…
ALT River otters make comeback at Bay Area ranch for first time in over 100 years
Wild. The biggest veterinary compounding pharmacy in the country is recalling almost 4,000 medications (incl. our cat’s medicine) because they mixed them incorrectly. The recalled prescriptions date back to February of this year and the pharmacy does not pick up when you call
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Critics say this is a test case for privatizing public lands.
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This is actually what people who say how great it will be to get a little tech investment and development in Oakland look like to me.
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Jordan isn't a lawyer and evidently cannot parse legal text. His stated concern about overbreadth -- that this initiative would ban the sale of basically all fowl in DC -- is misplaced and downstream of his professional limitations.
Martha Lincoln retweeted
The DC foie gras thing is fascinating, because I know most liberals support animal cruelty with their daily actions, but it is illuminating to hear them support it with their words for once
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mini-exclusive for @insideclimate, a site one former LA official described as “a mini Chernobyl in our backyard” is being demolished despite concerns from families nearby about the dust and its potential to lead to cancer if inhaled (wt Nina Dietz)
insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
Martha Lincoln retweeted
There is no excuse for foie gras in 2026. There are difficult questions about how to feed the world while protecting animal welfare, public health, and the environment, but this is not among them. Nobody should be defending the worst excesses of factory farming in the age of AGI.
This foie gras debate makes me really despair for humanity. This is the very easiest ethics question ever. No gray area whatsoever
