Caitlin McLean

Caitlin McLean

@caitcmclean.bsky.social

Humor and historical fiction writer 📖 my work ⤵ www.caitlincmclean.com Creator of The Future is Print: https://thefutureisprint.substack.com/ Currently hawking a feminist, coming-of-age WW1 novel w/ 💔⚓💪 and a 🐱 #amquerying

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Nobody wants to look back at this election and regret not doing more. We can’t afford to take anything for granted with the midterms while Trump threatens to sabotage them.

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BREAKING: We're challenging the DOJ’s attempt to preemptively block Alaska from certifying their election results if President Trump’s preferred candidate doesn't win.   The Trump administration doesn't get to reject election results it doesn't like.

Ever wondered what Trump/Congressional Republican's war on immigrants is costing you personally? Check this out and remember it next time someone says we "don't have money" for education, or health care, or child care, or or or www.epi.org/deportation-...

epi.orgThe Cost of Deportations CalculatorThe Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.

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Talarico: Elon wants our land. He's already trying to buy one of our beautiful state parks down in South Texas. He wants our water for these AI data centers. And he wants his very own personal United States senator — and that's what he thinks he can get with Ken Paxton.

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

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Eight days ago, less than a month before an election, Trump's DOJ raided @repilhan.bsky.social’s home in what we know is a fascistic attempt to denaturalize & deport her.   We cannot become numb to these blatant abuses of power. Failure to call this for what it is, is complicity.

washingtonpost.comU.S. probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on birth date, citizenship papers, people familiar sayThe Department of Homeland Security declined to move forward with an investigation years ago based on similar allegations, said one person, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss informatio...

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Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

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Major media aren’t warning the public that Republicans are in the process of establishing a dictatorship. Is it because the media don't think it’s really happening? No. It’s because they *do* think it’s happening and fear being in the crosshairs of the dictator.

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Thank you for making No Kings Day the single largest early vote activation in American history! This is how we will stop Trump’s election sabotage.

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Today, millions of Americans hit the streets for the BIGGEST early vote activation in US history! Next, we're going to make sure every vote is counted, the election results are certified, and the winners are seated in January. Join our mass call to learn more: bit.ly/whatsnext1021.

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Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

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Despite assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found the government has turned its vast security and surveillance apparatus against the Tohono O’odham Nation. “The drones flying over us all day,” one tribal member said, “it’s a lot.”

propublica.orgAs Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and DronesFor decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...

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Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

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I swear to god the administration is going down the list of reasons pundits said it wasn’t fascism and doing them all one by one

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👇 spread this news far and wide

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when I have it.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

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Taylor: He has turned the presidency into a side hustle. He has turned the White House into a deposit box for bribes, and he has turned your government into, forgive my words, a fucking ATM machine. So no, we don't want his name on the buildings.

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❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

jan6memoryproject.orgThe January 6 Memory ProjectA public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comHe Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

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Cliff Albright: Our early vote is an act of resistance! Our early vote is a way of fighting and pushing back against the suppression that we're seeing and the sabotage that we're seeing all across the country.

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UNCG, A&T, Bennett and Greensboro College students walked to the polls yesterday. Here’s just UNCG students leaving campus to walk the 40 minutes to their new polling location. You’ll recognize a familiar face with them — Judge Toby Hampson! ⬇️ #SpartansVote

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243 years ago, George Washington resigned his commission & made one thing clear: We will have no kings in America. Today, we have a president who's ripping up our Constitution & trampling over our democracy. We must show him that he won't get away with it. NO KINGS!

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The coalition behind nationwide anti-Trump protests is shifting its strategies this weekend to focus on voter turnout. Organizers say Saturday's events are a nonpartisan effort to get people to the polls. n.pr/4hR9WtV

n.prNo Kings turns its focus to voting this weekend. Here's what we knowThe coalition behind nationwide anti-Trump protests is shifting its strategies this weekend to focus on voter turnout. Organizers say Saturday's events are a nonpartisan effort to get people to the polls.

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By terminating research grants like Kelton's to censor views it doesn’t like, the NIH is blocking scientists from work that would advance public health for all of us. We're pushing back. Tell Congress to demand the NIH restore the grants and stop its censorship campaign at aclu.org/nih_censorship_

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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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“It’s all been building towards this moment.” After almost two years of Trump defying courts, ignoring the Constitution, and punishing dissenters while he and his friends get even richer, We The People are ready to take back power. Join us tomorrow for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Leya, a Cuban immigrant, said her boyfriend gave her a black eye and was arrested once before on suspicion of abuse. But after he called 911, she was the one who was detained by ICE, separated from their nursing daughter.

propublica.orgThese Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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According to a new NYT investigation, at least 44 governors, 70 US senators, and 185 House members have faced violent threats over the past two years. Their staff and families as well. A key source of this danger is Donald Trump, as I documented earlier this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comHow Trump is using violent tragedies to divide AmericaICE shootings, assassinations, mass attacks, and other traumas all serve as ammo for the demagogue in chief.

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Shocking abuse of power from a fascist regime flailing in the lead up to an electoral wipeout. Accountability can't come soon enough.