Immigrants as a Weapon

1 month ago | yasha.substack.com | Yasha Levine

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:01Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. We recorded this in bed over a week ago while we were in Miami — mostly for our ourselves…to talk through some ideas and concepts. We weren’t going to release it. But I gave it a listen and I thought we had a great conversation — genuine pillow talk before going to bed.

1 month ago | yasha.substack.com | Yasha Levine

"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give."—Philip K. Dick, "Our Friends from Frolix 8”Not all is well in the Dick-verse. As you know, we are a family of total Dick Heads. Yasha introduced Evgenia to Philip K. Dick years ago, and she’s become an even bigger Dick Head than him.

1 month ago | yasha.substack.com | Yasha Levine

We record an emergency ep to talk about Sean Baker’s sweep at the Oscars with his new film Anora. We talk about Sean Baker’s sentimental style and his “changemaker” interest in stories of marginalized people. He comes from good New Jersey suburb but the only layer of American society he’s interested in are the lower classes — the delivery workers, trans prostitutes, third rate porn stars, strippers, poor immigrants.

1 month ago | yasha.substack.com | Yasha Levine

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:35:13Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. We continue our discussion of Red Scare’s turn into a real red scare platform. We have been doing deconstruction of their rhetoric on Twitter the past week, which has been going viral and has been drawing all the nastiness and poison of the Red Scare universe to the surface for everyone to see.

2 months ago | yasha.substack.com | Yasha Levine

On this third anniversary of the war in Ukraine, I want to repost an essay Evgenia wrote a few months after it all started. I reread it today, and even now, all these years later, it provides a necessary and mostly missing background — both political and cultural and historical — to understand this conflict…well, at least from the Russian side. You won’t read anything better. —YashaI was shellshocked by the war like everyone else. Now after my initial panic has subsided I wanted to say a few things.