Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic
Columnist | The Guardian
Author | The Right of the People (2025)
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Author | The Right of the People (2025)
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.com
· Jul 12
Tour dates for The Right of the People are out now! Hope to see some of you on the road.
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Reposted by Osita Nwanevu
still think usaid is the biggest story of the year
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
still think usaid is the biggest story of the year
The plot has been fully lost. Here's hoping we find it again.
![“There’s a reason Hendrix, Dylan, and McCartney experimented with substances in their creative process,” Ruddwall says. “I thought it would be interesting to translate that to a new kind of mind—the LLM—and see if it would have the same effect.”
While it sounds ridiculous, Ruddwall also wonders whether AI agents one day might be able to buy the drugs for themselves using his platform. Amjadi, meanwhile, predicts AI could be sentient within a decade. “From a philosophical standpoint,” she asks, “in the event that we actually reach AGI [in which an AI would intellectually surpass humans], are these drugs going to be almost necessary for the AIs to be free and feel good?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ylgbet7hkz6ntdh6eljnsri/bafkreighz4hcmwp7ivjvc4plbqg5efimfcs3tcye6vawy4peoll25cfuv4@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The plot has been fully lost. Here's hoping we find it again.
Reposted by Osita Nwanevu
The country deserves a better, more principled publication that has the place in our media industry that 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 does. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 could one day occupy that role, if our growth continues as it has. Help us take our first real steps down that long road: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The country deserves a better, more principled publication that has the place in our media industry that 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 does. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 could one day occupy that role, if our growth continues as it has. Help us take our first real steps down that long road: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
I wonder if we're going to war this week.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I wonder if we're going to war this week.
There are fewer and fewer essential publications every year. Liberal Currents is one of them. Help them keep it going.
We are close to $30,000 raised in the first 12 hours. It's a good start.
We like to think the same can be said of our growth as a publication—that it's a good start.
But as we head toward 2026, 2027, and 2028, we need to do much more. Give now to push us onward: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
We like to think the same can be said of our growth as a publication—that it's a good start.
But as we head toward 2026, 2027, and 2028, we need to do much more. Give now to push us onward: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
There are fewer and fewer essential publications every year. Liberal Currents is one of them. Help them keep it going.
I am once again calling for the adoption of a "tough on crime" agenda against the grifters, scammers, and quacks deranging American society. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
![It is hard to quantify exactly how many babies have died in FBS circles, because many “loss moms”, as they’re known, disappear in the wake of their tragedies. Most do not respond to journalistic inquiries.
Within the Lighthouse alone, around eight women appear to have experienced stillbirths or neonatal deaths in the last year, in a community of around 600 women, many of whom were not pregnant.
As part of this Guardian investigation, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 mothers who suffered late-term stillbirths, neonatal deaths or other incidents of serious harm after they or their birth attendants were heavily influenced by FBS. Their accounts were corroborated through interviews with friends, family and partners, and supported by journal entries, medical notes, video footage, message threads or legal documents. In all 18 cases, the evidence suggests FBS played a significant role in the mother or birth attendant’s decision-making, leading to potentially avoidable tragedies.
They include Adair Arbor, who never would have considered an unassisted birth before encountering FBS, and whose daughter, Ilex, was stillborn in January 2021 following a 115-hour labor, and Amalia Hernandez, who nearly bled to death in March 2024 after refusing to call an ambulance, believing her post-partum bleeding would resolve itself at home. The same year, Haley Bordeaux went blind and suffered several strokes following a four-day labor in which she was in contact with Saldaya, in phone calls and text messages via a friend. When Saldaya was later informed that doctors had concluded Bordeaux’s temporary vision loss was due to severe pre-eclampsia, she replied: “She doesn’t have severe pre e[clampsia], that’s so entirely retarded.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ylgbet7hkz6ntdh6eljnsri/bafkreibvoc4qne4oeq7cqauzorzonfgp5zb3phienvkuvwfcna3lfkhdoq@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I am once again calling for the adoption of a "tough on crime" agenda against the grifters, scammers, and quacks deranging American society. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Journalism is not for everybody.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Journalism is not for everybody.
Reposted by Osita Nwanevu
there are about a million different incentives for Zohran to play this the way he did, it's very funny that there's basically no reason for Trump to behave this way except that 1. he loves celebrities 2. is obsessed with being liked in New York City and 3. was clearly charmed... and that worked
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
there are about a million different incentives for Zohran to play this the way he did, it's very funny that there's basically no reason for Trump to behave this way except that 1. he loves celebrities 2. is obsessed with being liked in New York City and 3. was clearly charmed... and that worked
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
Ok, but what if you don't feel like it and think you can make a lot of money if you don't?
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Ok, but what if you don't feel like it and think you can make a lot of money if you don't?
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Look, I'm sure the money was a key reason why so many people were willing to associate with Epstein. But we're not really short of wealthy donors in this country. Clearly, a lot of Epstein's connections genuinely liked him, didn't think he did anything all that bad, and even sympathized with him.
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Look, I'm sure the money was a key reason why so many people were willing to associate with Epstein. But we're not really short of wealthy donors in this country. Clearly, a lot of Epstein's connections genuinely liked him, didn't think he did anything all that bad, and even sympathized with him.
Phone Didion
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Phone Didion
2005 discourse: Sexism? A pay gap? Well, have you considered that men might just be a little more driven and logical than women and, in fact, more inclined to genius?
2025 discourse: If we do not create a National Task Force on Pornhub, no man may ever be employable again
2025 discourse: If we do not create a National Task Force on Pornhub, no man may ever be employable again
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
2005 discourse: Sexism? A pay gap? Well, have you considered that men might just be a little more driven and logical than women and, in fact, more inclined to genius?
2025 discourse: If we do not create a National Task Force on Pornhub, no man may ever be employable again
2025 discourse: If we do not create a National Task Force on Pornhub, no man may ever be employable again
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This wasn't always the case, but god its trended this way in recent years as there's just less people writing on this and a lot of us who have the network to draw from this are all freelance.
People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This wasn't always the case, but god its trended this way in recent years as there's just less people writing on this and a lot of us who have the network to draw from this are all freelance.
As far as critics are concerned, the typical American leftist is at once:
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
As opposed to existing elites who KNOW it is their birthright🙄
These kind of amoralist insinuations are so funny because:
1) No aspirational egoist in the US would ever be stupid enough to hitch her wagon to socialism.
And
2) If anything self-righteous moralism is the real vice of the left.
These kind of amoralist insinuations are so funny because:
1) No aspirational egoist in the US would ever be stupid enough to hitch her wagon to socialism.
And
2) If anything self-righteous moralism is the real vice of the left.
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As far as critics are concerned, the typical American leftist is at once:
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
Likelier to happen when you believe having strong, inflexible principles should be avoided in the first place.
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Likelier to happen when you believe having strong, inflexible principles should be avoided in the first place.
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i don’t think people realize how straight up delusional a solid proportion of democratic senators are regarding our politics. i don’t mean that as hyperbole. they are actually untethered from reality
I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
i don’t think people realize how straight up delusional a solid proportion of democratic senators are regarding our politics. i don’t mean that as hyperbole. they are actually untethered from reality
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Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Reposted by Osita Nwanevu
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
Just asking again: Is the Democratic Party going to take a loud public stance on whether we should go to war with Venezuela or no?
"Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House. "
Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days
The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Just asking again: Is the Democratic Party going to take a loud public stance on whether we should go to war with Venezuela or no?
I'm in Providence tonight, folks! Stop by if you're around.
Join us on Thursday Nov. 13th at 7pm as we host Osita Nwanevu in conversation with Philip Eil to discuss his latest release, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm in Providence tonight, folks! Stop by if you're around.