Claudia Putnam

2 friends w young trans kids and an old friend who came out decades later

And they will get it

(between images of a map showing the nearly 3,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

We’re rapidly approaching 3,000 No Kings Day events, which means March 28 is going to be the biggest protest in US history. Let’s make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

A still from a video of a tiny white horse the size of a large dog. Its forelock is braided. It's wearing a little blue vest/cape. It has tiny black booties on it's itty bitty hooves.

I just want to make sure everyone knows Mayo Clinic has a therapy miniature horse named Blue Sky

I read a decade+ ago that war w Iran would tank the world economy. If you’re not prepared for war, you negotiate, as did Obama.

Idk how a future D administration fixes this tbh

Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

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www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

really want to get some of the MAHA Moms who think the mercury we took out of vaccines 20 years ago is an urgent health hazard but the mercury we're about to put back into the air itself is fine.

can confirm, i had a client as a copywriter where my whole job was to fix all the horrible AI copy that a previous agency forced on them with no warning, totally riddled with basic factual errors

Thx

I've always been kind of obsessed with U.S. fake efficiency. U.S. corporate power especially models itself as a textbook efficient but it's mostly people wiggling their mouses and hosting purposeless meetings for hours on end to meet arbitrary metrics to no useful end. A country of artifice.

I spent many years in NYC corporate legal IT and got a very intimate education on illusory productivity. Meetings where you walked out knowing less than you did when you walked in. People paid gobs of money for efficiency improvements that didn't improve efficiency. AI is an accelerant for that.

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Literature is the only “homeland“ that doesn’t carry guns or rely on the destruction of Others.

Not *us*. The directors of the companies. When prices are high, there’s more incentive to drill domestically and sell it wherever. I don’t care who benefits. I only care about environmental impacts. On top of war itself, they’re extreme.

So gross. They really think they can take it w them

The Oil Price Shock Is Here. Its Arrival Provides a Familiar Warning. - Inside Climate News With gasoline and oil prices rising, U.S. consumers already are already feeling the effects of the Iran conflict and the consequences of a slow transition to cleaner alternatives.

“The biggest lesson: Oil - much like coal and gas - is a commodity. Its price will always fluctuate based on geopolitical whims.
Solar, batteries, heat pumps, induction stoves are technologies. They can only get better and cheaper over time.”

insideclimatenews.org/news/0903202...

MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732.

Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers.

newrepublic.com/article/2076...

And it becomes more cost effective for American O & G to drill baby drill, destroying the last refuges on earth

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

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The good news is my Wednesday biopsies may be cancelled! :) The bad news is that Trump’s tariff policies and wars left the local hospital without biopsy needles for hundreds of other patients into April. So critical healthcare is cancelled — but war and crypto and the genocide are well-funded.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

When the president discards the Constitution to rule as a dictator, and Congress allows him to do so, the Constitution of 1787 has ceased to exist. That is where we are now. Any new settlement, whether allowing the president to be a dictator or not, will by definition be post-constitutional.

🫁 Edward Robitzek, a lung expert, won a #LaskerAward in 1955 for establishing the efficacy of isoniazid drugs in the treatment of #tuberculosis. Discover more: http://ow.ly/Nar350CfQCe

#MedSky #SciSky 🧪

This might be in my budget

The third thing is touching a book with your name on it and flipping through it and going "wowww how cool"

It’s OUR time. Today I’m announcing my run for state senate in WA’s 43rd district because we know we can win a Washington we can all afford - but politics as usual won’t get us there. People-power & leadership as visionary as our district will. Learn more and join us at hannahforwashington.com.

I guess the ghost of Pegi Young