Maria Hill
@mariaehill.bsky.social
#BlueCrew, writer, cultural system coach, healer, and artist. Woke AF, humanitarian, feminist, pro-democracy, supporter of the Commons Movement, animal and nature lover. Looking forward to meeting like-minded people. No DMs. https://mariahill.substack.com
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Stop deportation through database search.
He Was Hired To Catch Election Fraud. Then He Reported His Republican Boss.
Also: a search-history ban, an insurance industry forced to pay, and 151 vetoes in one session
open.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Stop deportation through database search.
No, No, and No again!
“Please clap”
Vance's midterms pitch: "Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years"
September 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
No, No, and No again!
Still a good system that needs strengthening, though.
September 17, 2026
In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Still a good system that needs strengthening, though.
Thank you! "The story of how U.S. judges have behaved is a testament to how courage and professionalism can be maintained in very difficult circumstances."
U.S. Judges Stand Up to Authoritarian Threats and Attacks on Democratic Notions of the Law
Mimi Rocah is Friday’s Guest to Discuss Trump Admin Attempts at Judicial Capture
lucid.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Thank you! "The story of how U.S. judges have behaved is a testament to how courage and professionalism can be maintained in very difficult circumstances."
The world is leaving the US behind and we will all feel the effects.
Fear Strikes Out
But the hatred remains
paulkrugman.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:33 PM
The world is leaving the US behind and we will all feel the effects.
Reposted by Maria Hill
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
September 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
How can we ratchet down population size and consumption??
A future of ‘fewer and less’ may be unavoidable. But how do we get there humanely?
With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions: We need to replace fantasies of endless growth with ideas about mana...
www.resilience.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM
How can we ratchet down population size and consumption??
Important
The Gestapo Meme That Became a Trump Executive Order
Are you on the citizenship list that doesn’t exist?
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Important
An investigation is necessary, the sooner the better.
Jared Kushner Is Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent Who Bills Saudi Arabia Through a Private Equity Fund. New York Can Prosecute Him for the SEC Filings That Hide It.
I filed the complaint with Letitia James's office, and you can too. The points to cover are at the bottom of this article.
cmarmitage.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
An investigation is necessary, the sooner the better.
Worth a read.
The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack
Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Worth a read.
Reposted by Maria Hill
We did it! A million signers at stoptheracetoreplace.org?bsky -- still time to add your name and share this campaign widely...
September 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
We did it! A million signers at stoptheracetoreplace.org?bsky -- still time to add your name and share this campaign widely...
"Jobs are for machines. Life is for people. And the tax code should reflect that."
A 4-Day Workweek, Medicare for All, and the Tax That Gets Us There
How a Pigovian automation tax can turn AI’s productivity gains into a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare
scottsantens.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"Jobs are for machines. Life is for people. And the tax code should reflect that."
ICE and this administration should reflect n their behavior choices and stop worrying about everyone else.
September 14, 2026
This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
ICE and this administration should reflect n their behavior choices and stop worrying about everyone else.
The playbook on how to fail at everything.
Why Is Trump Still Boosting AI?
Because it’s the only thing he has left
paulkrugman.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The playbook on how to fail at everything.
Follow the money, indeed!
Why Trump Loves AI
Follow the money
robertreich.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Follow the money, indeed!
I love this also.
September 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I love this also.
Finally SCOTUS stood up.
Trump Said He Didn’t See Them. Ireland Made Sure He Would.
A Texas county admitted why it moved the lines. The Supreme Court refused to save Trump’s ballot rule. And FEMA’s head of personnel spent Christmas trying to save 303 jobs.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Finally SCOTUS stood up.
Geez, stop the craziness.
The Latest Right-Wing Revolt Against Markwayne Mullin Is the Wildest Yet
Years of unsupported claims convinced MAGA that deporting Ilhan Omar would be easy. Now they’re demanding the DHS secretary get it done.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Geez, stop the craziness.
Mini coups change the conversation.
Get Yourself a Mini Coup
The right took school boards and county commissions by running for seats nobody else contested.
cmarmitage.substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Mini coups change the conversation.
Declaring a phony emergency is not working anymore. This is progress.
Trump Just Went 0-4 In Court. Even A County Water Board Beat Him.
A professor, a VA employee, and an attorney general who filed eleven times before a court answered
open.substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Declaring a phony emergency is not working anymore. This is progress.
Might be worth viewing.
The Proud Boys next door
"Homegrown" digs into American extremism—and argues it's far more familiar than we let on.
www.motherjones.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Might be worth viewing.
"Imagine with me, if you will, that there have been times and places where humans didn’t rely upon profit to stay alive. Where setting out to gain or take advantage through one’s interactions would have been seen as stealing from the larger current of Life."
The Profit Imperative
Greetings Neighbors and Strangers,
peasantryschool.substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
"Imagine with me, if you will, that there have been times and places where humans didn’t rely upon profit to stay alive. Where setting out to gain or take advantage through one’s interactions would have been seen as stealing from the larger current of Life."
A consortium of democracies should own and regulate AI.
September 13, 2026
On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
A consortium of democracies should own and regulate AI.
What happens when we stop looking for rescuers?
The Cake is Baked
Abandon all hope, Ye who enter here.
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
What happens when we stop looking for rescuers?
Will we restrain ourselves in time?
The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanity
On AI and climate, it’s the same story of mass destruction
paulkrugman.substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Will we restrain ourselves in time?