Roshan Abraham
@roshanabraham.bsky.social
journalist covering tenant movements & the housing crisis| bylines at WIRED, The New York Times, The Verge, etc I Next City | formerly @motherboard
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· Sep 22
Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center.
www.wired.com
SCOOP: I FOIA'd economic development agreements & the ground lease for Meta's massive data center in Louisiana and found the state secured no explicit mandates for Meta to create locally-hired full time jobs to receive property tax breaks
www.wired.com/story/louisi...
www.wired.com/story/louisi...
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Some journalists get into it because they want to hold powerful people to account, while others just want powerful people to take their phone calls.
From the perspective of reporting the news, it doesn’t strike me that there is a functional difference between a president who answers the phone at 4:30am in the morning but doesn’t answer a reporter’s questions, versus a president who doesn’t agreed to be interviewed.
January 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Some journalists get into it because they want to hold powerful people to account, while others just want powerful people to take their phone calls.
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⭕️ At least 40 people, including civilians & members of the Venezuelan military, were killed in the attack, according to preliminary assessments, a senior Venezuelan official reportedly told the New York Times.
US forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the...
US forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the...
January 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
⭕️ At least 40 people, including civilians & members of the Venezuelan military, were killed in the attack, according to preliminary assessments, a senior Venezuelan official reportedly told the New York Times.
US forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the...
US forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the...
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and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
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January 4, 2026 at 2:22 AM
and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions
crossing out every new year's resolution and writing End U.S. Imperialism over it
January 3, 2026 at 11:11 PM
crossing out every new year's resolution and writing End U.S. Imperialism over it
He's been impeached twice
We have to impeach him.
January 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
He's been impeached twice
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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Rupert Murdoch ran the NY Post for 40+ years at a financial loss. Because it’s critical (and priceless) messaging and influence infrastructure.
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Murdoch's New York Post achieves first profit 'in modern times'
New York Post in profit: CEO Robert Thomson praises title for press freedom victory over Twitter as it posts first profit in modern times.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Rupert Murdoch ran the NY Post for 40+ years at a financial loss. Because it’s critical (and priceless) messaging and influence infrastructure.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-yor...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-yor...
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A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
January 1, 2026 at 1:28 AM
A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
Adams also vetoed the community opportunity to purchase act, which would give certain nonprofits right of first refusal when apartment buildings go up for sale. It passed just short of a veto proof majority, so unless a few council members can be flipped back, it won't be passed till later in 2026
January 1, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Adams also vetoed the community opportunity to purchase act, which would give certain nonprofits right of first refusal when apartment buildings go up for sale. It passed just short of a veto proof majority, so unless a few council members can be flipped back, it won't be passed till later in 2026
A flurry of vetoes from Eric Adams today, his last as mayor. Here's Street Vendor Project on his veto of long-sought reforms to the permitting system, calling Adams an "anti-working-class, anti-immigrant mayor who does not give a damn about the people who run our City."
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A flurry of vetoes from Eric Adams today, his last as mayor. Here's Street Vendor Project on his veto of long-sought reforms to the permitting system, calling Adams an "anti-working-class, anti-immigrant mayor who does not give a damn about the people who run our City."
end of year fundraising email written by cats that begins with meow more than ever
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
end of year fundraising email written by cats that begins with meow more than ever
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Roshan Abraham And The House of Tomorrow | Substack
Critical essays, interviews and analysis on housing, land, decolonization, lost histories and possible futures from a writer and housing journalist. Click to read Roshan Abraham And The House of Tomor...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Tickled pink to be name-checked in @roshanabraham.bsky.social latest newsletter!
Visit Interference Archives for the exhibit on the Glass House squat, and sign up for Roshan's newsletter for access to the musings of a himbo
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Visit Interference Archives for the exhibit on the Glass House squat, and sign up for Roshan's newsletter for access to the musings of a himbo
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Will there ever be a SAGA tv show i wonder
new year's resolution: i will not watch any show that doesn't include a talking cat as an integral cast member. it is 2026, we can demand better than what they're giving us.
December 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Will there ever be a SAGA tv show i wonder
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A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
At my newsletter House of Tomorrow I wrote about the history of NYC's squatters movements and their influence on the present roshanabraham.substack.com/p/i-support-...
I Support Squatter's Rights and Squatter's Wrongs
You may be surprised to be receiving more than one newsletter from me in the course of a month and that’s okay.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
At my newsletter House of Tomorrow I wrote about the history of NYC's squatters movements and their influence on the present roshanabraham.substack.com/p/i-support-...
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You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
Christmas on long Island when the only cafes open are the kosher deli and the qawah house
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Christmas on long Island when the only cafes open are the kosher deli and the qawah house
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
Two Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners taking part in a hunger strike have been taken to hospital, as their next of kin and MPs expressed concern over prison conditions and called for immediate government intervention.
Amu Gib, 30, who was being held at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey while awaiting trial, is on day 50 of the hunger strike and 28-year-old Kamran Ahmed was being held at Pentonville prison in London and on day 42 of his hunger strike. The two are the latest of eight prisoners who have been admitted to hospital since the hunger strike action began on Balfour day, 2 November, according to Prisoners for Palestine. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
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"The historical events that the New York Times has most clearly remembered as genocides, as crimes that demand outrage and accountability, are those where American complicity was not part of the story."
Analysis by Zachary Jablow:
jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
Analysis by Zachary Jablow:
jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
The Genocides The New York Times Forgot
The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.
jewishcurrents.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"The historical events that the New York Times has most clearly remembered as genocides, as crimes that demand outrage and accountability, are those where American complicity was not part of the story."
Analysis by Zachary Jablow:
jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
Analysis by Zachary Jablow:
jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
I feel bad for the fact checkers that go through Kevin Roose's drafts if hes really using ChatGPT as a research tool
December 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I feel bad for the fact checkers that go through Kevin Roose's drafts if hes really using ChatGPT as a research tool
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temporary good news for providers and for anyone homeless relying on HUD's funding: the judge said HUD has to reinstate the automatic 1-year renewal from the Biden administration and can't enforce the funding notice it put out in November. But HUD can (and likely will) issue a new funding notice
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
temporary good news for providers and for anyone homeless relying on HUD's funding: the judge said HUD has to reinstate the automatic 1-year renewal from the Biden administration and can't enforce the funding notice it put out in November. But HUD can (and likely will) issue a new funding notice
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20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hi Folks, we're about $2K shy from the halfway mark. Can you help us get there?