Caitlin McLean's Avatar

Caitlin McLean

@caitcmclean.bsky.social

Currently hawking a feminist, coming-of-age WW1 novel w/ πŸ’”βš“πŸ’ͺ and a 🐱 #amquerying

150 Followers  |  248 Following  |  141 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024
Posts Following

Posts by Caitlin McLean (@caitcmclean.bsky.social)

Preview
Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz β€œIn announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?

Has your leader eroded trust in elections by attempting to bring them under his direct control and/or stoking false claims of voter fraud?

03.03.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
We're two months into this election year, and Trump has already killed 150 people and launched strikes against 44 boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, deposed the Venezuelan leader, menaced Greenland, occupied Minneapolis, mused about regime change in Cuba and Mexico, proposed canceling US elections, and launched a war of choice against Iran over the opposition of the vast majority of our country.

We're two months into this election year, and Trump has already killed 150 people and launched strikes against 44 boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, deposed the Venezuelan leader, menaced Greenland, occupied Minneapolis, mused about regime change in Cuba and Mexico, proposed canceling US elections, and launched a war of choice against Iran over the opposition of the vast majority of our country.

When the walls close in, authoritarians lash out.

03.03.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 499    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 13

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

02.03.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18464    πŸ” 5417    πŸ’¬ 1132    πŸ“Œ 319
Orange text: "ICE agents don’t get to pick and choose when the First Amendment applies." Orange text: "We have a right to record law enforcement in public." Orange ACLU logo. Black background.

Orange text: "ICE agents don’t get to pick and choose when the First Amendment applies." Orange text: "We have a right to record law enforcement in public." Orange ACLU logo. Black background.

When ICE agents are working, we have a right to film them in public. Period.

03.03.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1547    πŸ” 483    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7

How come β€œHow are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

02.03.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 17236    πŸ” 4157    πŸ’¬ 650    πŸ“Œ 177
White text: "Over 4,400. The number of times federal courts have found that ICE illegally detained people since October 2025." Red ACLU logo. Tinted red photo of immigration and law enforcement in helmets.

White text: "Over 4,400. The number of times federal courts have found that ICE illegally detained people since October 2025." Red ACLU logo. Tinted red photo of immigration and law enforcement in helmets.

A report by Reuters found that courts ruled ICE illegally jailed people more than 4,400 times. The Trump administration's unlawful, anti-immigrant rampage must be checked.

Tell Congress at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks- to hold the line and rein in ICE's abuses now.

01.03.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 710    πŸ” 363    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11
Preview
Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power.

Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

28.02.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1842    πŸ” 736    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 30

"What they don't often tell you is how beautiful the resistance can be."

27.02.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: January 2026: Atrocities 658-730 Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

January 2026 was a particularly corrupt month for the Trump administration, so it took us a little longer to slog our way through compiling this installment. All told, they committed 62 new atrocities. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jan...

27.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

27.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4653    πŸ” 1795    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 83
Post image

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

26.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8846    πŸ” 3531    πŸ’¬ 431    πŸ“Œ 187
Preview
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

26.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 38908    πŸ” 16510    πŸ’¬ 1827    πŸ“Œ 1080
Preview
Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump is inching closer to launching an unauthorized war of choice against Iran. This reckless military escalation would put the lives of US servicemembers and innocent Iranian civilians in danger and...

Tell Congress: No War with Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

26.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

It’s time to make Citizens United history. Montana β€” and now California β€”Β can lead the way. Here's how.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-california-can-neuter-citizens

25.02.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6024    πŸ” 1941    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 127
Preview
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him In an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone.

She goes out looking for him.

"I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."

www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

23.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9865    πŸ” 4789    πŸ’¬ 462    πŸ“Œ 360

"He refuses to be president of the United States but only of the people who voted for him in 2024...If he doesn’t believe he’s my president, why should I treat him as my president and watch his State of the Union?" πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

24.02.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

22.02.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5643    πŸ” 1890    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 34
Preview
Get Involved

The fight for democracy looks different to everyone; what’s most important is that you join it.

Whether peacefully marching in protest, volunteering at a local food bank, or talking to members of your community, we have the resources to help you get started:

22.02.2026 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Preview
Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry.

Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

21.02.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

We cannot believe a damn word from DHS. They tried to HIDE their killing of another American citizen.

The victim's family & the American people deserve immediate accountability in this case & for all of DHS's lawless killings.

Kristi Noem needs be fired or impeached, NOW.

21.02.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1328    πŸ” 471    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 14
Preview
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would β€œnever get out.”

β€œI just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.

21.02.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1005    πŸ” 518    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 20
Preview
A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations β€” they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

21.02.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 897    πŸ” 356    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5
Preview
Proposed ICE Warehouse Locations - Google My Maps Proposed sites for industrial warehouses to be used as mass detention centers by the US Department of Homeland Security. Descriptions include current status of each site, and any response from local...

Is the regime trying to build an ICE detention camp near you?

20.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 484    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 21
Preview
β€œI Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings β€” including important documents and irreplaceable mementos β€” when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city β€œsweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

β€œThey took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

20.02.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1807    πŸ” 723    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 61
Meidas Touch Network & MoveOn present
the PEOPLE'S STATE of the UNION
FEB 24 8:00 PM est
MOVEON.ORG/LIVE

SEN. ED MARKEY
SEN. JEFF MERKLEY
SEN. CHRIS MURPHY 
SEN. TINA SMITH 
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN 
REP. YASSAMIN ANSARI 
REP. BECCA BALINT 
REP. GREG CASAR 
REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR 
REP. JIM HIMES
REP. SARA JACOBS 
REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL 
REP. JOHN B. LARSON 
REP. SYDNEY KAMLAGER-DOVE 
REP. CHELLIE PINGREE 
REP. EMILY RANDALL 
REP. MARY GAY SCANLON 
REP. DELIA RAMIREZ 
REP. BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN
& MORE 

HOSTED BY KATIE PHANG & JOY REID

Meidas Touch Network & MoveOn present the PEOPLE'S STATE of the UNION FEB 24 8:00 PM est MOVEON.ORG/LIVE SEN. ED MARKEY SEN. JEFF MERKLEY SEN. CHRIS MURPHY SEN. TINA SMITH SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN REP. YASSAMIN ANSARI REP. BECCA BALINT REP. GREG CASAR REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR REP. JIM HIMES REP. SARA JACOBS REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL REP. JOHN B. LARSON REP. SYDNEY KAMLAGER-DOVE REP. CHELLIE PINGREE REP. EMILY RANDALL REP. MARY GAY SCANLON REP. DELIA RAMIREZ REP. BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN & MORE HOSTED BY KATIE PHANG & JOY REID

Instead of listening to Trump’s litany of lies on Tuesday night, tune into the People’s State of the Union with @moveon.org and @meidastouch.com: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

20.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 638    πŸ” 323    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 14
Post image

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.

19.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6262    πŸ” 2750    πŸ’¬ 413    πŸ“Œ 217

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.

Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

19.02.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26029    πŸ” 5895    πŸ’¬ 798    πŸ“Œ 269
Video thumbnail

Trump & his Admin are threatening everything from federalizing our elections to putting federal agents at the polls to ensure, as Kristi Noem said, the "right people" are "electing the right leaders."

They're doing everything to subvert & intimidate. We can't let that happen.

19.02.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 5
Preview
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

No child should be incarcerated in America. Send our kids home.

www.propublica.org/article/life...

19.02.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1988    πŸ” 614    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 28
Video thumbnail

β€œIt’s gotten old”

The Trumps are tired of people asking about them looting the country and making BILLIONS off the presidency so pls stop! 😬

(From @atrupar.com )

18.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 757    πŸ” 299    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 16