farah eltohamy فرح التهامي

journalist writing about housing, worker’s rights and immigration in WA state. frmr investigative reporter @ cascade pbs. she/her + farah.02 on signal

[farah eltohamy فرح التهامي @farahelto]

this summer, @maiphoang and I dug deep into Hurst & Son LLC — a mobile home management company here in WA state that we found has been responsible for driving up the affordable housing crisis + degrading quality of life for WA’s elderly.

https://t.co/EB11IKR78p

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

Monday was a dark day for local news. But we can weather dark times when we fight together. And we’re going to fight like hell over the next few weeks to get these journalists what they deserve from @CascadePBSNews. https://t.co/852nQR1IP1

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

Nine Guild-represented journalists and their editors have also lost their livelihoods as a consequence of this decision. We are crowdfunding to support our affected colleagues, and you can help by donating to our layoff fund. https://t.co/852nQR1IP1

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

Our News and Investigations teams report deeply on crucial issues — immigration, labor, local politics — and with the elimination of these teams, many of these stories will now go untold. Many voices in our community will be silenced. https://t.co/852nQR1IP1

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

It’s difficult to find words to express how our unit is feeling right now, but we’ll take a stab at it: shocked, disappointed, angry. @CascadePBSNews’ choice to eliminate long-form written reporting is a massive loss for our community in a critical moment. https://t.co/852nQR1IP1

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

https://t.co/aGohLjtmL9

[Shauna Sowersby @Shauna_Sowersby]

“These are painful cuts to make,” said Cascade PBS CEO Rob Dunlop. Worth noting that Dunlop made over $550k last year, an almost $50k increase from his salary in 2023.

[Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

Some light in this world of darkness. Alaa is finally getting out. Save for a few months, he’s been imprisoned since 2013.

[farah eltohamy فرح التهامي @farahelto]

hello!

we’re hosting a screening of our documentary “priced out” this coming tuesday at the university place library! followed by a Q+A session with @Jaelynn_Alexis + me !

use the link below to rsvp. admission is free!

https://t.co/OMdeMu9DAl

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Anas Al Shareef,

Killed by Israel for being a journalist.

[🌻 @curlsoconfusing]

He was a father and a husband.

[Guy Oron @GuyOron]

46 Seattle journalists and media workers have now signed onto our open letter condemning Israel's killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza and calling for their protection

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Do not become numb to Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.

[Nizar_Gaza_🇵🇸 @nizar_almasre]

Corona is back in the Gaza Strip. There is no treatment in hospitals. We are dying in the most horrible ways.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

When journalist Salman Bashir stripped off his press vest to show its futility after his colleague was killed, Israel had killed at least 27 journalists in Gaza.

It has killed more than 200 others since.

No one can claim they didn’t know. The world allowed Israel to do this.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

You know, the killing is so relentless that you almost get used to it. A classroom of children killed every single day. You write about it, you read about it. Someone’s mother digs herself up from the rubble. Someone’s father is split in half. There was a video of wounded man using his arms to crawl across the road. Another man is so hungry he weeps. You read the stories. Each one is more brutal than the next and somehow the brutality is banal. You are numb, for better or for worse. But there are moments in the day, maybe just a singular moment, when you actually contend with the magnitude of the tragedy, when you are able to quantify the loss and in those moments you feel crushed—there are no adjectives. There are people mourning their lovers. Students missing their teachers. Orphans. Widowers. Grandmothers who look just like your own. I cry when I think about the people who were martyred just hours before they could apologize for something, or confess to something, or have something to eat. Or the slain who believed they would survive. And as the rancid rotten people of the world pontificate and debate the definition of genocide, you are at war with yourself, trying desperately to ignore the material meaning of the word. You read the news and you read the news and it is so hard to accept that the dead, the thousands of people they are slaughtering, they are your loved ones and your loved ones’ loved ones. This isn’t just a bad dream.

[Nate Sanford @sanford_nate]

Have you ever wondered if government leaders are writing things with ChatGPT?

Through records requests, I obtained thousands of pages of chat histories from city officials in Washington.

The logs show widespread use of AI — with little transparency:
https://t.co/p5Mepr7WCX

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

Journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi said the Israeli occupation is openly threatening him, with Avichay Adraee, other Israeli media figures repeatedly naming him. He stressed that life is lived only once, either with one’s head held high, broadcasting the truth in audio and video, or in fear, silenced to serve the occupier’s will. “We will not kneel to them, God willing,” he vowed.

a .j.press (IG)

[farah eltohamy فرح التهامي @farahelto]

Allah yer7amak ya Anas … my heart cannot grieve you enough

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Excuse me?

[SUPERB @MajestyRia]

Fact: He traveled there for his cooking show & when they tried to block this one episode, he said he would pull his entire show from the network & this was the first time the world ever saw behind the walls in Gaza 2013