Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham
@roshanabraham.bsky.social
journalist covering land and housing | bylines at WIRED, New York Times, Baffler, etc I Contributing Editor Next City | member @fspnwu.bsky.social RoshanAbraham.beehiiv.com https://ko-fi.com/roshanabraham Signal: roshan.150 RoshanAbraham.net
💢 Video, satellite imagery, & weapons analysis indicate the US dropped a 2,000-pound on a family home in a densely populated residential neighborhood on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight Thu., The New York Times reported. The strike killed a husband, wife, & their 2-year-old son. Two other children...
what's wild is they made three movies about a man who turns into an ant or something but they can't make a movie about a cool vampire hunter swordsman whose movies made bank even before the superhero craze
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d agoListen. I'm gonna say the quiet part out loud: the only way you "can't figure out" how to make a Blade movie is white supremacy. Full stop. The narrative writes itself, there are plenty of Black actors and martial artists who'd jump at the chance. It's not rocket surgery.
Detention Watch Network is reporting the death of 29-year-old Priciliano Trejo, who had leukemia when he was detained by ICE in NC. ICE initially failed to provide Priciliano with access to medical care. They only released him from custody when he was on his death bed at hospital.
the mayor can have benjamin netanyahu arrested for resisting arrest and then the district attorney can just spend three years putting a case together if he pleads not guilty, pretty easy
patrick stewart has portrayed professor x's death four times in four different movies and now he is getting ready (probably) for a fifth this is elder abuse
i got caught in the rain, i hate this and and i hate pina coladas
“Antitrust laws were designed to stop mergers that may substantially lessen competition before they happen.” That’s why WGAE and WGAW are suing Paramount and Warner Brothers. LFG
WGA Lawsuit to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger | Writers Guild of America East
WGA Lawsuit to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger The WGA has opposed the merger since day one. Read about the latest action to block the merger and our advocacy to date. Updated July 14, 2...
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Kylian mbappè has a cool name, does this mean i should root for france
i just did the math and i need more money
ok this is my first time seeing the postscript to the boycott of the NYT opinion pages. yikes
did anyone else run out of people to root for in the world cup
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Marianne Dhenin@mariannedhe.bsky.social · 3w ago📣 I'm running a subscriber drive for the rest of this month. I want to sign up 40 more annual subscribers—enough to hire a freelance fact-checker to work on all of my original reporting. I'm offering half off annual subscriptions to help make this happen; that's $40 for the year. Will you join me?
Can't tell y'all the bitterness I feel that so few are talking about the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Lebanon. Especially white americans. This is your government doing this and enabling this. Stfu about the reflecting pool already.
Today is what would have been the great June Jordan's 90th birthday. In our latest issue @roshanabraham.bsky.social writes about why the acclaimed poet's land reform novel was never published. hammerandhope.org/article/june...
What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?
For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.
hammerandhope.org
my opinion is leftist anti-imperial news outlets should not be doing rape apologism for blackwater mercenaries
instead of making FIFA less corrupt we should just remove fouls altogether and allow weapons on the field. & every player could have a specialized fatality
The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.
Air conditioning fails at Delaney Hall as heat wave leaves detainees struggling to breathe • The Jersey Vindicator
Advocates say temperatures became unbearable inside one housing unit as the region's heat wave intensified.
jerseyvindicator.org
22 House Democrats just voted with the GOP to kill a resolution from Rashida Tlaib to restrict the U.S. from assisting Israeli military operations in Lebanon.
Great, practical guide to the city's new rental voucher program, by @patrickspauster.com City Hall expects the new vouchers will serve ~ 5,600 households, or 14,000 people, while City Council estimates it could cover 9,600 households, or 30,000 individuals. citylimits.org/city-to-expa...
City To Expand Housing Vouchers in Budget: What You Need To Know - City Limits
Mayor Mamdani and the City Council reached a deal late Monday to expand city-subsidized rental assistance as part of a larger budget agreement.
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this piece is now also co-published on my newsletter House of Tomorrow, read and subscribe here! roshanabraham.beehiiv.com/p/are-nyc-s-...
Are NYC’s Rent-Stabilized Buildings Really in Crisis?
A two-year rent freeze, affecting about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in New York, was just approved. Before the freeze passed, landlords said their buildings wouldn’t survive it. But recent an...
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Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham@roshanabraham.bsky.social · last mo.this piece was co-published with Shelterforce, in case you are shy about giving out your email shelterforce.org/2026/06/24/a...
Read about June Jordan's unpublished land reform novel, based off Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm Cooperative Hot off the presses from @roshanabraham.bsky.social in the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/june...
What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?
For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.
hammerandhope.org
I'm really excited about this one: I went through the archives of my literary hero June Jordan and pieced together the story of a revolutionary novel about land reform that she was working on for decades but never finished. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/june...
What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?
For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.
hammerandhope.org
this piece was co-published with Shelterforce, in case you are shy about giving out your email shelterforce.org/2026/06/24/a...
Are NYC’s Rent-Stabilized Buildings Really in Crisis? — Shelterforce
As New York moves closer to a rent freeze, landlords say their buildings wouldn’t survive it. Recent analyses suggest otherwise.
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Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham@roshanabraham.bsky.social · last mo.the RGB is voting on a rent freeze today, so I wrote a piece for Next City that has a rhetorical question as a headline whose answer is no, as is journalistic tradition nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
the RGB is voting on a rent freeze today, so I wrote a piece for Next City that has a rhetorical question as a headline whose answer is no, as is journalistic tradition nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Are NYC’s Rent-Stabilized Buildings Really in Crisis?
As Mamdani moves New York closer to a rent freeze, landlords say their buildings wouldn’t survive it. Recent analyses suggest the real culprit behind distressed buildings is predatory lending, not ren...
nextcity.org
NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.
Prairieland ICE protesters sentenced to decades in prison
Activists who didn't plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.
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"I do not fear for myself. I fear for you. What will you do? In this time of great failures and great injustices, what will you do? How will you help each other? How will you help yourselves?" prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-wr...
Statement by Benjamin "Champagne" Song - Support the Prairieland Defendants
I don’t Hate. I don’t Hate anyone. I don’t Hate cops. I don’t Hate Trump. I don’t Hate nazis. My beliefs are composed thus:
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The United States, the U.K., and much of Europe are helping Israel slowly exterminate Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians. Palestine’s envoy to the U.N. explains how Israel is deliberately blocking the most basic humanitarian aid needed for survival, more than eight months into a so-called ceasefire.
