Nitish Pahwa

last month, before That Ad made it to air, I went down to Ohio to figure out why Vivek Ramaswamy seemed to be struggling so much in his home state. the South Asians of Columbus, the bored students of OSU, and the hecklers of the Cleveland 'burbs all helped me understand: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Ofcom published a report today that pretty much declares the Online Safety Act a complete failure

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

…………………………………………………… www.wsj.com/business/hos...

FWIW, Anthropic admits its current margins may not be representative. There's a bit of lucky timing here: big revenue growth while on the tail end of cheap compute contracted more than a year ago. Their future compute is... not so cheap. (1st pic their S-1, second are my graphics based on S-1.)

[trevon brazile does absolutely anything]

Good morning. Monday morning. slate.com/news-and-pol...

lameloooooooooooooooooo

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

👀 Inside Vivek Ramaswamy’s Historic Ohio Flameout "As Ohio State University professor Pranav Jani has written, Ramaswamy may be “skinfolk, but so not our kinfolk.” Unfortunately for the campaign, there are many others who feel this way." 🧾 slate.com/news-and-pol...

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

man is this huge loss. RoW was filling in essential gaps in tech coverage, especially in the global context. (you can thank them for clarifying the digital stakes of the Brazilian election, for just one.) I hope they can continue in some form

Supporters of Serbia's student-backed protest movement celebrate in the streets of Belgrade as veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat for his ruling party in snap elections. The vote is the culmination of nearly two years of student-led protests

@nameshiv.bsky.social guess where

spare a thought for a millennial about to move back in with his dad

[Nic Cage voice] LUUUULAAAAAAAAAAAAA

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

Bolsonaro’s own goal on eve of vote: he mocks Lula. "Lula's response now is a firm outburst from someone who's always taken the joke in stride, but who, deep down, even as the most powerful man in the country, still feels the pain of the accident he suffered while working to avoid starving to death"

I did not collect Garbage Pail Kids so that Art Spiegelman could make AI slop

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

"There is a self-confirming circularity to the whole business: the premises determine what counts as reasonable, and what counts as reasonable is then offered as proof of the premises. You can call it reasnonableness—ness" www.unpopularfront.news/p/through-a-...

here, i made you this horrible turd in the shape of an explainer on Ethan and Hila Klein: slate.com/life/2026/10...

In-depth, on-the-ground reporting from the Buckeye State, where Vivek Ramaswamy, with the help of his own abhorrent ads, "could be the first Ohio Republican to lose a gubernatorial bid in 20 years" (fingers crossed) slate.com/news-and-pol...

Threading the needle of cultural identity and political controversy is a tough job. Great story. Love what @nitishpahwa.com did here. (That anecdote about the heckler who wanted *legal* immigrants to be rounded up by the military, though … Scary stuff.)

in my experience, people who were exposed to severe Christian homophobia in the 2000s were protected against "Just Asking Questions" transphobia of the 2010s precisely because we realize that it never stops at "these are human beings" and always goes to cruelty

Fantastic reporting by @nitishpahwa.com and worth your time.

danny mcbride really said

Everything going great for Vivek during his town halls with Christian White Nationalists lmao @nitishpahwa.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Knicks could repeat as champs — if their billionaire owner doesn't screw the whole thing up. My latest (including a *shocking* confession) in @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/story/knicks...

This is cool, nice to be able to link to a couple of different writing archives without making my profile look like a deranged GoFundMe

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.