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Caitlin McLean

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

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h
We’ll see you in the streets on October 17: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
The Michael Jordan “…and I took that personally” meme but it’s the No Kings logo responding to a headline from The Hill: “Trump not ruling out invoking Insurrection Act around midterms”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23h
We have three goals for the next No Kings Day on October 17: 1) Boosting vote turnout to the biggest it’s ever been for the midterms. 2) Getting our communities prepared to organize against election sabotage. 3) Creating a mandate for the reforms and accountability we want to see next year.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/10/2026
As Trump speculates about the destruction of US cities, we know the regime will do everything it can over the next 28 days to cling to power. But we’re prepared to win the midterms and protect the results.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"As we've said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions of Americans at the hands of a foreign power shouldn't warrant such a severe response." buff.ly/utv8fhC
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
There are now more than 2,200 No Kings events on the map for October 17! We hope to see you in the streets again with millions of Americans to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms.
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/09/2026
Today marks 50 years since Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, banning abortion coverage in Medicaid. Hyde has taken a deeply personal decision away from millions of people, especially women with low incomes and women of color. Congress must pass the EACH Act to end this cruel policy now.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I recently met Faulkner’s ghost in New Orleans. He's a nice guy, a little weird, though thefutureisprint.substack.com/p/saying-hi-...
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Saying hi to Faulkner’s ghost
My visit to Faulkner House in New Orleans only to discover that the real Faulkner House is in Oxford, Mississippi which makes sense but still
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026
Stopping the fascists from sabotaging the midterms is what the next No Kings is all about. On October 17, we need millions of people in the streets putting the regime on notice that We The People won’t accept any of Trump’s bullshit: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
NOKINGS.ORG
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/09/2026
Ban Flock cameras. Ban Axon cameras. Ban Motorola cameras. Ban ALL automatic license plate readers. That was our message to the Senate today. The American people agree that it's time for Congress to take immediate action.
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Ted Rall @tedrall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bombs Away rall.com/comic/bombs-...
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Bombs Away
The American people are constantly being told that they can’t have universal healthcare or high-speed rail or free college or any number of other great things citizens of other countries have because ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes, it's illegal, but even its proposal by a sitting president degrades our democracy and our freedom. Let there be no mistake about who they plan to use it on.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This guy meets
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Major media finally grows a spine!
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Major TV networks suspend White House pool coverage after Trump ban
In response to President Trump's ban on three media outlets, majors TV networks have pulled out of the White House television pool.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Abortion bans kill women. Keep that in mind next time someone tells you they're "pro-life"
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/09/2026
With just under one month to go until the next No Kings, there are already more than 1,000 events on the map. That means October 17 will be the largest early vote activation in American history. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026
Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
however much you think the iran war is sapping u.s. military readiness, it's probably more than that. a free link for you, the people www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Iran Blockade’s Growing Price Tag Is Draining America’s Global Military Power
The cost of naval operations since the buildup began in January has topped $7.1 billion — not including all the US assets being used to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026
Sure, sure, because this makes sense. Deregulate all pollutants, unless it's abortion medication in drinking water...
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 13/09/2026
With mail-in rules uncertain, here’s how Californians can prepare to vote in November The Supreme Court is weighing President Trump’s plan to limit universal mail-in voting with just seven weeks until the November election. California officials are urging people to vote early.
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With mail-in rules uncertain, here’s how Californians can prepare to vote in November
The Supreme Court is weighing President Trump’s plan to limit universal mail-in voting with just seven weeks until the November election. California officials are urging people to vote early.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/09/2026
In the months after 9/11, Congress hastily passed unconstitutional laws like the Patriot Act that supercharged the mass surveillance state we're fighting against today. 25 years later, it's time to rein in the government's out-of-control spying and reclaim our right to privacy.
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9/11 launched a new era of surveillance. 25 years later, AI is making it smarter
Flock cameras and other controversial policing technologies grew out of the post-9/11 shift toward mass data collection.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/09/2026
Police use reverse warrants to demand the identity of everyone who used a search engine to look up a particular word or phrase — without any evidence they've done anything wrong. Delaware's ban on these dragnets should be celebrated and replicated across the country.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"What if, instead of killing everyone, we made it so that you’re technically still alive and only wish you were dead?" 😆😆😆
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/09/2026
The first three No Kings were about sending a message that we wouldn’t back down to a wannabe dictator. October 17 will be about organizing locally to prevent the fascists from sabotaging the midterms and consolidating power. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/09/2026
If Trump or his allies attempt to undermine the results, they will face the largest, best-trained, and most prepared pro-democracy election-defense volunteer corps we've ever built. Sign up for the No Kings kickoff call at www.mobilize.us/noki...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A (partially) humorous take on Ms. Magazine in honor of the late, great Ms. Gloria Steinem thefutureisprint.substack.com/p/ms-magazin...
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"It’s just that I still am deeply concerned about the management of New York City, a place I’ve never visited and have no connection to at all." 😆😆😆
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
FEMA’s buyout program can help homeowners move to safer accommodations after catastrophic flooding. But trailer owners are often excluded, leaving people in the country’s largest source of affordable housing to fall between the cracks.
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Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.
Residents of a riverfront trailer park in the Appalachian Mountains have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again.
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s the creepy tall one #flock
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If voting didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop us from doing it Get ready, y'all #BlueTsunami
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/09/2026
We’re in a 60-day sprint to defeat the fascists. And not only do we need to win the midterms, but we must also be ready to protect the election results from the regime’s sabotage. That will take a lot of grassroots energy — and we’ve got a grassroots army that has quadrupled in size since 2024.
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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I spoke to three moms who lost all of the food in their fridge and freezer during the blackout in Gary Indiana. They all had their replacement SNAP benefits denied. Experts told me they are concerned about how the state is operating the program after the disaster. 19thnews.org/2026/09/gary...
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Families lost weeks of food they couldn't afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.
As the city of Gary recovers from a devastating power outage, advocates say Indiana has a simple fix at its fingertips that could get parents the help they need.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem. My God, what a loss. 💔 A full life dedicated to women's rights. Her fingerprints across so many victories. She is needed now more than ever and we must do everything we can to continue her legacy. I could never read the dedication of her memoir without weeping. I mean, oooof 😭
This book is dedicated to Dr John Sharpe of London who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion, a 22-year-old American on her way to India.

knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said "you must promise me two things. first, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death I've done the best I could with my life. This book is for you. 
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a social activist and feminist icon who spent decades advocating for civil rights and equality. As a trailblazing journalist in the 1960s and 1970s, her work brought national attention to critical issues including gender-based workplace discrimination and abortion rights.
Black graphic with an image and quote from Gloria Steinem, who lived from 1934 until 2026. Underneath the photo it reads "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps MOREOVER, using "emergency" conditions to degrade the conditions in concentration camps was partly how death rates went from a few percent to catastrophic (via www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...)
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The U.S.’s top military brass are warning that the U.S. cannot and should not prolong this illegal war in Iran any further—as it is straining our forces, our readiness, and weapons supply and creating unacceptable global security risks. This war must end now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You can’t say you weren’t warned
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/08/2026
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)
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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We’re in Washington D.C. with our partners from the National Action Center and Drum Major Institute to defend the sacred right to vote, fight for our civil rights, and demand economic justice for our families and communities. #MarchOnWashington2026
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Caitlin McLean @caitcmclean.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lovingly dedicated to all those who have suffered the indignities of traveling through Dulles thefutureisprint.substack.com/p/in-which-i...
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In Which I Learn What a “Mobile Lounge” Is
Plus all the print love this month
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/08/2026
For the next 70 days, our job is to unify against the fascists to win the midterms — and anyone who doesn’t understand that is helping the fascists.
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