Maria T. Noth

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets.

Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract.

And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts.

Always follow the money.

Excellent news.

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

If you want to be in a party where no one ever criticizes the president you should join the GOP.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

This week on Noth Things: Confessions of a Reluctant Political Cartoonist open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth/p…

Interesting.

Worth plugging this as well (credit: @imanibarbarin.bsky.social

Plastic Free July bingo board: 1) Take action with Ocean Conservancy; 2) Use a plastic-free product alternative; 3) Donate to Ocean Conservancy; 4) Carry a reusable water bottle; 5) Free space; 6) Pick up trash and record it on Clean Swell; 7) Upcycle clothing; 8) Tell friends and family about dangers of single-use plastics; 9) Wash laundry in cold water

How are you making a difference this #PlasticFreeJuly?

Be sure to mark off your ✖️Plastic Free July bingo board ✖️ and keep us posted on your accomplishments all month long!

Hawaiʻi makes history as first state to charge tourists to save environment A Hawaiʻi vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new “green fee” that the governor signed into law this week.

Hawaiʻi implements a new 'green fee' for tourists, becoming the first state to charge visitors for environmental preservation.
#Hawaii #GreenFee #EnvironmentalProtection

Happy Friday!
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@Imani_Barbarin Eugenics undergirds all of American society and it shouldn’t have taken all this for y’all to realize that ableism is applied not just to disabled people. Ableism is what makes fascism work, not only do y’all not look in disabled people’s directions, but you will cheer on your

@imanibarbarin.bsky.social

Eugenics undergirds all of American society and it shouldn’t have taken all this for y’all to realize that ableism is applied not just to disabled people.

Ableism is what makes fascism work, not only do y’all not look in disabled people’s directions, but you will cheer

Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks

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Amazing!

Supreme Court to hear school disability discrimination case At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specia...

At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?

A couple of yellow-bellied sapsuckers are doing what they do in a tree. The first one gasps and says: "Leaves! Finally! Spring is here! Relief from the misery at last!" The second one goes "Oh, this winter wasn't so bad, in fact, the daily highs were well above average–" but this statement gets interrupted by the thoughts of the first bird thinking "I could kill him. No one would have to know."

Releaf

May 5, 2025 cover of the New Yorker. Expository text: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-05-05

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

Disability Intimacy: 9780593469736 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability exper...

If RFK Jr's relentless eugenics is wearing you out, I suggest diving into the latest book from @sfdirewolf.bsky.social It features stories of gorgeous disabled lives full of complex interdependence (including, yes, dating, sports & helping one another pee)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717123...

C. Jeffery Evans @cjevans.bsky.social Your civil rights is an issue. Denying that isn't rational. The christofascist right has spent fifty years dumbing down the population so that science can't be used to defeat prejudice. Herr Trumpsky's most successful line was the one - "She's for they and them, I'm for you."

you can choose not be this person

you can choose to not look at immigrants & trans people & say “i think your civil rights poll badly so carville is right & we must negotiate with folks who think you should die because messaging about your ickiness seems effective”

(there’s no data it moved votes)

Are there any investigative reporters willing to work with me on a piece?

Trump administration sued over huge funding cuts at Columbia University Two faculty organizations file suit after university makes concessions to Trump officials.

I was hoping Columbia would take action. This will be the first of many lawsuits. We can't keep quiet and take this laying down.

"This is a real-time experiment in how totalitarianism inserts itself into a democratic society..."🧪
Indeed it is.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You have to hear all of this. Mind blowing.

Good work everyone

At the protest for veterans in DC.