Claudia Putnam
@claudiaputnam.bsky.social
Lit writer: poetry collection @mooncitypress, CNF @splitlippress, novella from neutral zones press. My work is landscape-immersed and character-driven. Interests are broad. NH->CO->WA https://claudiaputnam.com
Kingdom of Olive and Ash is an excellent collection from a wide array of writers on this topic.
In Gaza, "surveillance is constant," says Palestinian writer Mohammed Mhawish. This omnipresent sense of being watched and tracked — through checkpoints, social media, drones, AI and more — creates an "enormous psychological burden" on the civilian population.
Gaza Writer Mohammed Mhawish on Life Under Israeli Surveillance
Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinia...
www.democracynow.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Kingdom of Olive and Ash is an excellent collection from a wide array of writers on this topic.
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Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Infrared radiation may be one of the most ancient plant signals to pollinating insects
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared sensor...
phys.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
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ICE is thug scum
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
ICE is thug scum
First post in my feed makes me wanna check out for the day. Another inane list by a literary magazine about what they’re looking for.
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
First post in my feed makes me wanna check out for the day. Another inane list by a literary magazine about what they’re looking for.
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Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
tr.ee
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
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In some places, winter is a blessing. Living near a deep pool or pond, you greet mornings of savage cold with a smile. It means things will be quiet. It means the Stay Belows are hibernating in the mud. Nobody is going in and nothing is coming out of it today. – William Weston #VOH
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In some places, winter is a blessing. Living near a deep pool or pond, you greet mornings of savage cold with a smile. It means things will be quiet. It means the Stay Belows are hibernating in the mud. Nobody is going in and nothing is coming out of it today. – William Weston #VOH
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“We were too scared to scream.” Survivors fleeing Mali describe rapes and killings they blame on Russia’s Africa Corps fighters.
Girls and women fleeing Mali describe sexual violence by Russian forces
Women and girls from Mali are alleging rape and sexual assault by Russian fighters with Africa Corps, a new military unit under Moscow's control.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“We were too scared to scream.” Survivors fleeing Mali describe rapes and killings they blame on Russia’s Africa Corps fighters.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
Tried watching Star Trek beyond. Just TFR—too fucking ridiculous
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Tried watching Star Trek beyond. Just TFR—too fucking ridiculous
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.”
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
Salmon Rebound After Tribes Fight for Culvert Upgrades - Magic Canoe
An unprecedented project to reconnect fish migration routes in western Washington State is showing exciting signs of ecological and cultural benefits.
magiccanoe.org
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.”
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
@seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language!
Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology
magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
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This is an excellent & balanced overview of recently increased pace of planetary warming. There's much we still don't know, & there are almost certainly multiple causes, but possibility (not confirmed, but real) that these trends portend higher climate sensitivity is disquieting.
In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is an excellent & balanced overview of recently increased pace of planetary warming. There's much we still don't know, & there are almost certainly multiple causes, but possibility (not confirmed, but real) that these trends portend higher climate sensitivity is disquieting.
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The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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This is apropos of absolutely nothing but I have been thinking about best-of-quarter-century stuff and I still say that Free Solo, a documentary about climbing, is one of the five or at worst ten best horror movies of these 25 years.
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is apropos of absolutely nothing but I have been thinking about best-of-quarter-century stuff and I still say that Free Solo, a documentary about climbing, is one of the five or at worst ten best horror movies of these 25 years.
If anyone is hosting something like this that doesn’t start at 5 am pt, lmk!
I've started a Patreon where you can pay $10/mo to join weekday morning writing sessions or $150/mo for writing sessions + one-on-one editing session with me per month (complete with marked up copy).
Would love to have you join me. patreon.com/thirdstory
Would love to have you join me. patreon.com/thirdstory
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December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If anyone is hosting something like this that doesn’t start at 5 am pt, lmk!
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You'll see this article posted a lot today. That's only because everyone should read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You'll see this article posted a lot today. That's only because everyone should read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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They should be pounding on Trump’s culture of corruption instead of creating their own.
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
They should be pounding on Trump’s culture of corruption instead of creating their own.
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@warren.senate.gov and I released a new report showing Trump diverted $2 B from the DoD for his immigration agenda—hurting readiness, morale, and military families.
Using troops for political stunts and raiding funds for barracks & training is dangerous. Congress must act.
Using troops for political stunts and raiding funds for barracks & training is dangerous. Congress must act.
Pentagon Diverted $2 Billion of Military Spending to Immigration Enforcement, Democrats Say | KQED
A new investigation, led by Bay Area Rep. John Garamendi and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, says the President’s immigration agenda may come at the cost of military readiness and morale.
www.kqed.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
@warren.senate.gov and I released a new report showing Trump diverted $2 B from the DoD for his immigration agenda—hurting readiness, morale, and military families.
Using troops for political stunts and raiding funds for barracks & training is dangerous. Congress must act.
Using troops for political stunts and raiding funds for barracks & training is dangerous. Congress must act.
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this is a fantastic point that I hadn’t thought about: when antivaxx was associated with crunchy Marin libs and caused an outbreak at Disneyland what happened? Dems fought back and passed stronger vaccine requirements
now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party
now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party
![California Senate Bill 277 (SB277) is a California law that removed personal belief as a reason for an exemption from the vaccination requirements for entry to private or public elementary or secondary schools in California, as well as day care centers.
The final version of the bill was enacted by the California Legislature in 2015 (passing the State Assembly on a 46-31 vote!][2] and the California State Senate on a 24-14 vote!?]) and was signed
into law by Governor Jerry Brown on June 30, 2015.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
this is a fantastic point that I hadn’t thought about: when antivaxx was associated with crunchy Marin libs and caused an outbreak at Disneyland what happened? Dems fought back and passed stronger vaccine requirements
now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party
now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party
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Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.