Shannon O’Mac
Physician. Parent. Your weird queer aunt in the woods (Upstate NY). she/they/🏳️🌈
Mostly thinking about birds, trees, and dirt.
I love the library. 📚
(Not medical advice)
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWe are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacThe Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWe are going to win this, neighborhood by neighborhood, child pick up by child pick up, grocery run by grocery run. We are going to win.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacFascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacYou’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWe can be even more specific here: Black voters. These are all majority-Black cities.
- Reposted by Shannon O’Macthe correct number of DHS agents in Minnesota is zero.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacINBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWe are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacLessons from other eroded democracies show there’re multiple ways to destroy the free press.Yes, you can arrest/intimidate journalists like last week.You can also buy news organizations, destroy their credibility and gut their newsrooms. You can sue frivolously until newsrooms can’t afford to fight.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacJournalism is a public good, as are public health, education, & good governance. Grateful to everyone continuing the work in whatever ways we can in hard times & hope it may lead us through to better times Thinking of everyone affected from USAID a year ago to the Washington Post today
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacI taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacThe Washpost's editor said today that, amid the layoffs, one of the Post's top priorities will be "national security, in DC and abroad." And at the same time, the Post is laying off every journalist in the Middle East. And Ukraine.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacNormal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWorking theory: If one had a chance to improve society by injecting just one piece of knowledge into every human — so that they truly UNDERSTOOD it, not just knew it on a surface level — "the difference between a million and a billion" would be pretty high in terms of return on investment
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Shannon O’Macthe guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.
- Reposted by Shannon O’Macalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacMackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us. Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs. go.bsky.app/FzSc9zat://did:plc:j53elsjlcag3iuran5ezcy32/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l4kbljbmbc2r
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacThe nazis raided and burned the first gender clinic. The Reagan revolution closed down most of the gender clinics in the US and left coverage uninsurable for decades. We've been here before. We'll get through just as we always have. With strength and resilience in community. They can't eradicate us.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWe had a lot of discussion early on about "what if someone requests 100 whistles and doesn't know how to use them effectively" but our inbox tells us that 100 whistles is also dozens of potential interactions with people in their community, along with a new feeling of agency and determination.
- What a delight! This is the future I am here for. 🏳️🌈🦄💖
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacAliyah Rahman: "I continue to hear the word 'bodies' because that is how agents refer to us—'We're bringing in a body'…'We can't use that room, there's already a body in there.' You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body."
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- Reposted by Shannon O’Macwhen i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY
- Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacThread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacSick of this dystopian tech overlord men with no panache and bad haircuts enabling a pants shitting president and bald hitler wannabe trying to undo things that can’t be undone ass reality we are living. They are so tedious and venal. It’s galling.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacThank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
- “You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacWhile the ruby-red males are flashier, I am a big fan of female pine grosbeaks. Their subtle coppery-gold tones are so lovely. #birds 🌿
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- Reposted by Shannon O’MacAll bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacNina Simone sings '𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸' to children on Sesame Street, 1972 #BlackHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacSeen floating around the Internet:
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacIf Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacTear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
- Reposted by Shannon O’MacIt's #WorldWetlandsDay! Here's a Snowy Egret strutting its stuff to celebrate. Those yellow feet!! #birds 🌿
