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
"It’s time that the Democratic Party’s mega-donor class recognizes that its real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top."
The Real Meaning of El-Sayed's Victory
It's not what you're hearing
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The latest from Erin Brockovich: "That’s the water crisis in this country. The people with the least power over the tap are always the last to know it’s been turned."
Where's The Water?
California, Virginia, and Colorado. A lawsuit, a cover-up, and a collapse. Here's what these three areas tell us about the future of our water.
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Americans are becoming wise to how they are being fleeced.
The Trump Regime Wanted Every Colorado Voter’s File. Jena Griswold Refused.
They sued her. It went badly. Plus a $19 billion walkout and his worst poll yet.
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Getting grounded after last night's primaries.
It’s Still a Blue Wave
The fundamentals still apply after Tuesday night’s primaries. And they look good for Democrats.
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Apparently, the money laundering of the trafficking operation was known and hidden by a number of top banks.
August 4, 2026
On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
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It's worse than we thought. The article includes a link to the full report. #BlueCrew
Wyden Releases New Report on Failure of Wall Street Banks to Blow the Whistle on Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking and Money Laundering Schemes | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Releases New Report on Failure of Wall Street Banks to Blow the Whistle on Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking and Money Laundering Schemes
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DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
"Let’s hope that this time the Democrats, once in control of one or both houses of Congress, will quickly initiate investigations, hearings and, where warranted, prosecutions."
The Oligarchs are Doubling Down on Republicans
And Democrats should make the most of it
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How do we prevent future serial criminality like this?
Twelve Days Before Trump’s Bank Cut Him Off, Somebody Wrote A Memo
Capital One hasn’t released it. The Trumps’ own lawyers described it in a filing nobody read. Plus 25 states in court over the tariffs, and the nurse ICE picked the wrong fight with.
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An excellent article to help us stand up to greed.
Against Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The prize for asking for less is less.
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'Recipe for Catastrophe': Trump Moves to Weaken Arctic Drilling Safeguards www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
'Recipe for Catastrophe': Trump Moves to Weaken Arctic Drilling Safeguards | Common Dreams
"We should be banning drilling in the Arctic Ocean, not making it easier for industry to exploit and pollute."
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It's not a foregone conclusion that if you are conservative, Republican or MAGA, that you win. It should never have been so.
Trump’s Senate Nominee Walked Out On His Own Press Conference. Here’s Why.
The DOJ charged an Olympian, then admitted there was no crime. A judge the regime tried to remove refused to go. And Virginia gave 66,085 people their vote back.
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Wonderful article for anticipating change in the US. Do you think it will breakup? I think a reorganization along bioregions definitely.
Breaking America
The United States will break up in the next 50 years. Maybe sooner.
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If you read nothing else today, or this month let it be this.
Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Basic Income in a World Without Free Will
If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve them is our true moral failure.
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"Dem Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer stood at a Public Citizen forum in DC on Thursday and introduced a bill built to claw back what Trump has taken through corruption." Corruption accountability begins.
Trump’s Lawyers Typed “Challenge Accepted.” One Day Later, A Judge Buried Them.
Plus: Trump’s own judge turned on him, an invoice nobody at the Kennedy Center saw coming, and Schumer’s plan to make Trump pay it all back
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"With ever-cheaper power from the sun, wind, and batteries, this ultimate cycle of the climate fight will look different than the ones before. We’re going to get a last chance to get this crisis at least a little right. We dare not lose it."
High Heat, High Drama
Europe is starting to provide some answers about the next step in the climate fight
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The courts are doing their job of standing up. The amount of time and energy going into dealing with the lawlessness is harming us nonetheless. This cannot continue.
Trump Surrendered This Week and Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice
Eight wins, and the last one is the fight he walked away from
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Ignorance at the heart of the cowboy/warrior ethos. All you need is to feel threatened to act against others. What a discouraging and ugly ideology.
July 31, 2026
Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Peter Nicholas, Gordon Lubold, Katherine Doyle, and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News reported Wednesday that President Donald J.
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The quiet payouts to those undermining the country. No approval by Congress or the voters. Using taxpayer money to undermine us.
Opinion | Todd Blanche is leaving out an important part of the ‘anti-weaponization’ fund story
Congress spent the spring in an uproar over Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. That fight was necessary. But it was also, in a sense, the easy one.
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