Yasha Levine

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Founder and Writer at Immigrants as a Weapon

Articles

Manufacturing consent? What consent? What manufacturing?

6 days ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE! event on the death of journalism is gonna happen tonight at 7pm at the KGB Bar. With the war that Donald Trump unleashed on Iran last night, we’ll probably be tweaking our focus just a little bit. The attack on Iran, the genocide in Gaza, the political nihilism, general powerlessness of journalism…they are all connected. We were out last night at a friend’s comedy show, and I heard the news afterwards and then saw Trump’s press statement at a bar.
Israel, Iran, and Tucker Carlson's plans for domestic regime change

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

Was watching the Tucker-Ted interview everyone is raving about, and there was one bit that stood out to me. It didn’t have to do with Iran or Israel directly — but really was about Tucker’s bigger politics.
We're all sovereign citizens running our own intelligence agencies

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

I want to add another thought to my growing list of meditations on the Vampire Castle and the politics of the internet…For the last few days — like a lot of people — I’ve been glued to social media, watching the next phase of the Israeli-American addiction to death and dominion unfold in Iran. And I have to say the level of psychosis on that platform is off the charts right now. Everyone is posting, everyone is fighting, everyone is on edge. It’s understandable.
DON'T BOMB IRAN

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

We do some pillow talk about Iran — discussing the year Evgenia spent going native in Tehran, her education as an “Iranist,” and about her experiences and her thoughts on a society that America and Israel now want to obliterate. Most people in the west know next to nothing about Iran and picture it is some kind of barbaric repressive society full of terrorists. Iran is obviously not that. But this ignorance makes it easy to sell people a war. —YashaCome to the next NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE! NYC.
Come see D8DDY

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

Remember we said we’re gonna be showing a surprise film at our event this coming Sunday? Well, we finally have a teaser ready for you. It’s Evgenia’s latest. D8DDY. The story of the first journalist on OnlyFans. Get your tix. The screening will be followed by a discussion with veteran journalist Moe Tkacik, who cofounded Gawker’s Jezebel, about the death of journalism, the influencer economy, and much much more. And we’ll have plenty of time to hang out and talk. —Yasha
With the vampires

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

We lie in bed, do pillow talk about our attempt to put a pie in Curtis Yarvin’s face and the cowardice of today’s media personalities — and how all fights are purely online now, no one does anything in real life. We also discuss the degeneration of the Red Scare women — who went from being genuinely popular and open to how they are now: keeping the details of shows secret and only inviting tiny groups of adoring fans to their events.
Armageddon

2 weeks ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

One more thing before I log off for Friday night…As readers know I’ve been slowly writing a sci-fi novel about zionism — about the world that created it and the world that it wants to create. I did a big edit of the first half the book and am now working on the second half. Radiance takes place in our world, but just slightly in the future.
Bari Weiss: Toady Queen of Substack

2 weeks ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

I’ve seen a lot of Substack guys around lately (and it is usually guys) extolling the culture-healing potential of the Substack platform. I’m sure you’ve seen them around if you spent any time on Notes, the Twitter clone that Substack launched and which is now starting to blow up. It’s hard to keep track of these guys but they’re constantly popping up in the feed. I’ve seen Ross Barkan, a journalist and budding novelist, doing it.
Way mo' burning

2 weeks ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

A note on the burning Waymos in LA everyone was talking about. I first encountered them when we briefly moved to SF a few years back and saw these cars cause havoc on the road — comically shutting down, packs of them getting stuck in one location, blocking fire trucks, trapping people at the local Whole Foods parking lot… Now they’ve expanded to more cities: Austin, LA, Phoenix. But Waymo isn’t some cute little company. Waymo is Google. These are Google cars.
Genocide can be live-streamed because social media has pacified us

2 weeks ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

I want to add something to what I wrote yesterday about social media and the Vampire Castle (so read it first) — about how this technology is designed to pacify us by trapping us in endless loops of conflict, outrage, and desire…and about how this technology wastes our lives and limited energy while giving us the illusion that we’re engaged in politics and meaningful social interaction.