Shannon McCarthy

Bleeding-heart liberal. Comics convert. Sports enthusiast. Lover of books, the internets, snark, and coffee. She/her. Opinions are my own.

[Shannon McCarthy @ShaMac13]

Since I've gotten some queries lately, just wanted to put it out there for my publishing friends that I'm available for freelance editing!

[Lindsey Wasson 📸 @lindseywasson]

Thousands and thousands silently marching from Judkins Park during an official #BlackLivesMatter #Seattle march. No end in sight

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

those four words explain essentially all of Trumpism.

[Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa]

Today is the anniversary of the Pulse massacre.

[Mike Baker @ByMikeBaker]

The citizens of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone have created some new artwork. via @kylekotajarvi

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

Extremely noticeable that cable news spent the early days of protests covering them nonstop while condemning the burning and looting and then stopped covering the ongoing protests once there was no burning and looting

[Rawnaeris @rawnaeris]

Oh look the rich people feelings graph has noticed that everything is still on fire

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

This isn't just a wink to white supremacists—he's throwing them a welcome home party.

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

'We would not be giving local police departments who are undertrained a tank if we didn't give the military too much money to have extra damn tanks lying around to begin with' — @AOC

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This is why tear gas is banned in war.

[Casey Martin @caseyworks]

Sunday night: tear gas & flash bangs

Monday night: police leave

Tuesday night: dozens peacefully sit in the street and quietly watch a documentary about systemic racism

#seattleprotests

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

The police don’t realize their actions and arrogance have been the most effective anti-police campaign we’ve seen. They haven’t adjusted or changed their behavior despite the technology. Just think: All black people are saying is stop killing us. And their response is ...

[LeBron James @KingJames]

Everyone talking about “how do we fix this?”  They say “go out and vote?”  What about asking if how we vote is also structurally racist?

[JP @jpbrammer]

"I hear you on defunding the police, but what if instead we give the police hundreds of millions more dollars and it will cheer them up so much that they will stop"

[Shannon McCarthy @ShaMac13]

@marsastronomica @annundriel @reireisen it’s true, your honor. the BEST kind of texting menace, tho

[Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog]

If cops shoot tear gas at you, that’s “crowd control”, but if you pick it up and throw it back, that’s “assault with a deadly weapon”. Got it.

[Brett @BrettRedacted]

I don’t want to live in a world where justice depends on whether or not the Twitter video goes viral enough to reach the mayor

[julia dupuis @juliaxdupuis]

After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: "Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice—I can make this much worse for you." In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: "You have no rights here."

[jay korviday ♿️ @korviday]

they're raiding gay bars. police. are. raiding.
gay. bars. during. pride. month.

[Adam Serwer 🍝 @AdamSerwer]

President Snowflake built a Safe Space around the white house because he was Triggered by Free Speech https://t.co/gR3lCmi1Hb