MJ Devaney

#handsoff Wiliamsburg, VA

Hands Off, Williamsburg, Virginia

The official fundraising site for the government of Ukraine.https://u24.gov.ua/

Satire is over as a genre.

Is this real life?

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

Good news out of Virginia!

Propaganda is the tool of a failing state.

Another reason to admire and respect Rev. Budde.

From the annals of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

1944 VP Wallace's essay "The Danger of American Fascism" is worth a read: "American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery."

What exactly do they think is going to be accomplished by insisting that there are only two sexes? Do they think that simply asserting it is going to just magically make all the nonbinary and trans people disappear?

Error 404 when you go to the Office for the Gun Violence Prevention's page. www.whitehouse.gov/ogvp/

Robert Reich predicting Musk won't last the week. It will be interesting to see if he's right (even if it's not as soon as the end of the week).

Democracy in our economy is the antibody against oligarchy. Rich men have the power to lay off thousands of workers, purchase politicians, and make decisions that affect you directly. Who elected them? Support labor unions, worker-owned businesses, and cooperatives to counter oligarchy.

I despair.

It's that time again.

The oligarchs supplicate. And it's a dark day when a major newspaper owned by one of the oligarchs in question decides to censor a political cartoon. To quote Hamilton (the musical), "there will be a revolution in this century."

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? (ok!)

Beef Wellington perfection!

It's that time of year again! Homemade cinnamon buns for Christmas morning. It smells heavenly in here.

"You will be visited by three spirits."

This is grotesque.

A non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

Get me my popcorn STAT.

Just what a populist with aspirations to dictatorship does. Soon his image will be muraled across buildings like in other shithole countries run by dictators. It's a familiar historical pattern.

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London friends who like theater, specifically musical theater, I urge you to try to see this (the run is sold out, but they have a lottery among other ways to obtain tickets). I so wish I had the means to fly to London and find a way to see it.

A conjoint experiment using a nationally-representative sample of Americans finds that they mostly support workplace democracy, even when exposed to framing emphasizing the costs of democratization. The absence of democracy at work is therefore inadequately explained by worker preference.

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong says his bias meter will use an A.I. patent called the “Reasoning Engine.” “The meter will be displayed atop a piece of writing to tell readers where it ranks on a scale that will range from ‘far left’ to ‘far right.’” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Shaking my head at all the suckers who voted for him because he said he would lower grocery prices. h

I don't know how health insurers sleep at night.

Ken Klippenstein is claiming that this is what Mangione's manifesto says (www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...).

In a world where exploitative billionaires and corporate interests seek to increase their authority over us, it is now more important than ever to support our community and worker-owned businesses, to build solidarity and support networks so that everyone can live fine and free. go.bsky.app/UsAcPoV

One solution to the insanity of the US health care insurance industry: health care cooperatives. health.coop/wp-content/u...

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

If you see this post, can you please help spread this information? #ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US. People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women! Let’s spread word! ❤️✊

Daniel Kibblesmith, TV writer and author, received this from his agent last week. Just no.