@lillyanafowler
Director of Communications @ Seattle Social Housing Developer. Teaching journalism @ University of Washington. Missing 🇲🇽Stories at NPR, Seattle Times etc. Reach me lfowler@seattlesocialhousing.org https://lillyfowler.journoportfolio.com Personal Page
On “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, even if it requires traumatizing children.” It’s good to hear about community stepping up www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
LOVE IT “Then I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this.” www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.
50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members, 45% of Black members, and 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...
Tax For Social Housing Brought In Twice the Original Estimate, Mirroring Early JumpStart Results
With $115 million (almost) in hand, the social housing developer says it's ready to start buying up apartments.
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I didn’t understand the Lady Gaga element. Why HER? Cardi B was right there. They could have performed “I Like It.” Lady Gaga already had her own Super Bowl performance, & it was great, but she didn’t need to be in this one.
ICE doesn’t make our communities safer.
I like watching The Pitt because any work stress I experience seems silly in comparison.
1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
At the 2026 Grammys, Bad Bunny became the first artist to win the album of the year award for an all Spanish-language release. Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga also took home major awards. n.pr/46kTlZ5
the fact that he pointed to his 6,000-square-foot South Seattle water-view home in front of a reporter. why do this article at all? it’s pure candy for Bruce Harrell haters. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!
“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
“The recent events in Minnesota have taken this un-American activity to an entirely different level,” Ferguson said. “Now, they are killing Americans for holding a camera. ICE is, to be blunt, completely and totally out of control.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram
Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
BREAKING: an immigrant’s death at an ICE detention center has been ruled a homicide.
Detainees saw guards choke the man to death. Trump’s DHS denied it. An independent autopsy has confirmed it was a homicide.
We need an independent investigation NOW.
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“This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
"Be petty and incredibly annoying with authority." Yes yes yes yes yes yes
Following the killing of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, @ddayen.bsky.social argues that ICE agents can and should be charged with murder.
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Mike Solan, the high-profile and divisive president of the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild, is no longer seeking reelection, he announced last week. His second term ends next month.
what was the last year that started without some disaster ? 2019 ? :/
Katie Wilson was sworn in as Seattle mayor Friday, becoming the youngest mayor in a generation.
Man was One Battle After Another good or what … viva la revolución
Some of my favorite music from the year.
On Nov. 30, Sefer Lopez, 32, alleged on Instagram that her granduncle and The Station co-owner Jose Luis Rodriguez harassed and touched her without consent. Others later commented, alleging similar experiences.
The Emerald reviewed these allegations. Read the full story here: soseaem.org/3MFnOKM
Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J
last week to vote for your favorite
albums of 2025 ! we’ll be counting them down later this month www.kexp.org/countdowns/b...
Holding both women and men to the same journalistic standards is not sexist. Sleeping with / having a romantic relationship w sources is a fireable offense for both. And it’s alarming this isn’t obvious to everyone !
Unhinged to describe the criticism of her journalistic ethics as a "freaksome lynching" when she has not denied any of the allegations and admits to most of them in her book.
