Caitlin Gibson
@caitjgibson.bsky.social
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
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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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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The show Heated Rivalry only exists because of an article by Rachel Kurzius inspired Jacob Tierney to reach out to Rachel Reid. Today @washingtonpost.com laid Rachel off.
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Hockey romance novels are in the news. Here’s why they’re so popular.
The subgenre captured mainstream attention after a brouhaha involving NHL player Alex Wennberg.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The show Heated Rivalry only exists because of an article by Rachel Kurzius inspired Jacob Tierney to reach out to Rachel Reid. Today @washingtonpost.com laid Rachel off.
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www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...
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I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
February 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
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Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change
www.theringer.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
This whole thread. Please read it.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 5, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This whole thread. Please read it.
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Please contribute to this GoFundMe to support the hundreds of my talented Washington Post colleagues laid off today.
I am heartbroken. I stand with them in their fight for fair treatment through the layoffs. I am honored to have worked alongside them.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
I am heartbroken. I stand with them in their fight for fair treatment through the layoffs. I am honored to have worked alongside them.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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February 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Please contribute to this GoFundMe to support the hundreds of my talented Washington Post colleagues laid off today.
I am heartbroken. I stand with them in their fight for fair treatment through the layoffs. I am honored to have worked alongside them.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
I am heartbroken. I stand with them in their fight for fair treatment through the layoffs. I am honored to have worked alongside them.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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Join us Thursday for a rally to #SaveThePost!! The rally will run from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at 1301 K St. NW!!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
February 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Join us Thursday for a rally to #SaveThePost!! The rally will run from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at 1301 K St. NW!!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
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I want to do the best writing I’ve ever done and I’d be honored to have you as my reader
First proper electronic missive goes out Monday, February 9
Subscribe here:
thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
First proper electronic missive goes out Monday, February 9
Subscribe here:
thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE | Chris Richards | Substack
Music reccos/rants/prayers/curses by critic and co-listener Chris Richards. Click to read THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE, by Chris Richards, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.
thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I want to do the best writing I’ve ever done and I’d be honored to have you as my reader
First proper electronic missive goes out Monday, February 9
Subscribe here:
thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
First proper electronic missive goes out Monday, February 9
Subscribe here:
thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
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Graceless pivot to survival: I’m launching
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Graceless pivot to survival: I’m launching
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
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I’ve been laid off by The Washington Post
Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy
Endless solidarity to my righteous colleagues, endless gratitude to our faithful readers
Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy
Endless solidarity to my righteous colleagues, endless gratitude to our faithful readers
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I’ve been laid off by The Washington Post
Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy
Endless solidarity to my righteous colleagues, endless gratitude to our faithful readers
Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy
Endless solidarity to my righteous colleagues, endless gratitude to our faithful readers
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I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
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A lot of the people had never been tear gassed before. I talked to someone in the center of the cloud who had never been gassed and had only been to big protests like No Kings. She said the march had felt like the exact same vibe, right up until she was gassed for the first time in her life.
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
A lot of the people had never been tear gassed before. I talked to someone in the center of the cloud who had never been gassed and had only been to big protests like No Kings. She said the march had felt like the exact same vibe, right up until she was gassed for the first time in her life.
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.
wapo.st
February 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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
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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.
So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.
February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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.
So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.
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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.
nyti.ms
January 31, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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.”
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“.. 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...
@nytimes.com #Ramos
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 PM
“.. 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...
@nytimes.com #Ramos
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
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DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
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Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
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🚨 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-...
Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
January 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
🚨 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-...
Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
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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...
🔗 Read more: www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-a...
January 30, 2026 at 5:19 PM
@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...
🔗 Read more: www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-a...
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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
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.
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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:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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-...
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