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Caitlin Gibson
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Feature writer at The Washington Post, focused on families and children | caitlin.gibson@washpost.com |
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Caitlin Gibson @caitjgibson.bsky.social · Jul 31
I am grateful to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social for trusting me with her story at this moment of consequence, as she advocates for the children of Gaza and follows in the footsteps of her own childhood hero, Mister Rogers.

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Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy.
The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.
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Just in case anyone needs one more reminder of why accountability journalism is more essential right now than ever, here is a gift link to this today's jaw-dropping story about a secretive legal weapon that DHS is is using to attack free speech, by @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social: wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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postguild.bsky.social
It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report.

So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.
February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Liam Ramos’ classmates miss him, so they decided to write letters to the ICE agents who took him. “Dear ICE,” one student wrote, “You are scaring schools, people and the world.”
Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.
Letters from students living in fear.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery .. condemned ‘the perfidious lust for unbridled power’ and ‘the imposition of cruelty.’”

@nytimes.com #Ramos
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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jaketapper.bsky.social
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States.

Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
January 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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@rcfp.org's statement on the arrest of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were charged with violating federal law while covering a protest inside a Minnesota church.

🔗 Read more: www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-a...
RCFP's Gabe Rottman: “It’s obviously concerning any time journalists are arrested in connection with their reporting. To our knowledge, it’s unprecedented for the Justice Department to deploy the federal laws it has previously cited in this case against journalistic activity. Historically, the limited number of cases that have been brought against a journalist documenting a protest on private property have been handled as trespass cases at the state level. Those charges are almost always dropped, or if the cases go to trial, the journalists typically prevail.”
January 30, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 4d
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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This is an absolutely exquisite piece of writing by Julie Weil about the power of stories to reach us, even in moments of immense grief, and I so hope you'll read it. It is worth your time. Sharing with a gift link. wapo.st/3OafdAa
Column | How the Anne of Green Gables books guided me through grief
I reached for my childhood literary heroine after my son was stillborn.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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One week later, he's still at Dilley detention center: “It’s a horrible place. The drinking water is putrid and often undrinkable, and the meals have contained insects, dirt, and debris... not a place where you would want to leave your child for even 15 minutes.” english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-...
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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#SaveThePost, Jeff Bezos.
This image shows a logo of The Washington Post Guild and our statement: The Post Guild vehemently opposes any more cuts to the staff of The Washington Post. As we’ve seen in recent years, continuing to eliminate scores of workers who make this storied institution what it is only stands to weaken the newspaper, drive away readers and undercut The Post’s mission: to hold power to account without fear or favor and provide critical insight into communities across the region, country and world. If Jeff Bezos no longer supports that mission, then The Post and its readers deserve a steward who does. If you value The Post’s journalism and its renowned past — if you care about its future — we ask that you join us in our call to #SaveThePost.
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Gaza: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Iran: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Ukraine: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

#SaveThePost
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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sarahkaplan48.bsky.social
My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.

If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
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Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:15 PM
caitjgibson.bsky.social
It has never been more important to understand what is happening in our world, and @washingtonpost.com's foreign reporters regularly sacrifice their own wellbeing and safety to bring us those vital stories. I'm so proud to share a newsroom with them. We need them more than ever. #SavethePost
January 26, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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drewharwell.com
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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"'He had one problem,' Trump said. 'At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?' He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him.

'Alzheimer’s,' Leavitt said."

Must read from Ben Terris. The kicker! nymag.com/intelligence...
‘The Superhuman President’
A good-faith attempt to ascertain the truth about Donald Trump’s health.
nymag.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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Now is just really not the moment to show me my (abysmal) weekly screentime report, phone
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
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January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM