Annie Levin
@annierlevin
Journalist I Arts Reporter I Essayist I Fiction Writer I Words: @observer @jacobin @CurAffairs @inthesetimesmag @yesmagazine @ParterreBox @muziekgebouw
❓Should everyone who carries our membership card and who pays their dues have the right to decide who our national leadership is? @morematerial on the friendly-amended resolution at the center of DSA convention: 1 Member, 1 Vote for National Leadership. groundworkdsa.com/building-up/me…
Pollan's "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" is still the best popular formulation for how to eat healthily, and I don't care how fake "blue zones" are, there's a reason little old Greek and Japanese ladies who subsist on grains, greens, and oily fish live forever.
I asked ChatGPT to give me the breakdown of a medium cane sugar coke, a cheeseburger, and a medium serving of beef tallow fries at Steak and Shake Apparently this is MAHA now!
Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man
Thinking about this again today because the left is still fetishizing induction cooktops and plastic buildings
Here’s a great example of what a “green” building actually looks like: hand-built from cob, wood, & stone, all sourced onsite, with a passive solar orientation There is nothing “green” about a LEED-certified box of synthetic materials that’s uninhabitable without A/C
My article "The Making of the Anti-Fascist Theatre" is out in @curaffairs! Inspired by seeing the play Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists at @BAM_Brooklyn I interviewed director Tiago Rodrigues and did a dive into anti-fascist plays of the last century.
“It was very frustrating. He speaks well.” nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-…
the "i'm a republican and I'm here to save you from the other republicans by making you more republican" grift is past its sell-by date
Very left wing vibes here at the press conference for the American Federation of Musicians Local 802's endorsement of Zohran Mamdani. Union members play in Mamdani with a rendition of "Solidarity Forever."
Fully agree here. But when campaigns are staff-intensive it's usually because leadership don't want to deal with rank and file organizing. Staff end up as go-betweens, bullied by both sides, and anti-staff rhetoric then gets used by leadership to bust staff unions
Grace notes that Zohran's campaign could not have scaled up with staff-intensive practices Just as in worker-to-worker organizing, scaling up required training hundreds of field leads to take on tasks normally done by staff Have confidence in the capacities of ordinary people!
One of the greatest running jokes in 21st century American life is how cosmopolitan leftists and suburban liberals are really the only ones to still have the kinds of high-trust communities that conservatives fetishize.
Counterpoint: Zohran wins the Democratic primary and suddenly Brooklyn is dancing in circles
I’m not kidding, it’s this block lmao
Counterpoint: Zohran wins the Democratic primary and suddenly Brooklyn is dancing in circles
The tech bro mindset is such an impoverished, Puritan outlook. Very sad to be ruled by such hollow, empty automatons nytimes.com/2025/06/27/bus…
K̶i̶r̶s̶t̶e̶n̶ Karen Gillibrand made absolutely disgusting, racist, and defamatory statements about @ZohranKMamdani this morning. She did it on behalf of AIPAC, which has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to her. She should resign.
Gillibrand is a disgrace.
This is the most racist, absurd, unhinged thing a democrat senator not named Fetterman has said in a long time. Absolutely revolting. In a just world she would be forced to resign.
Getting completely wiped in an election where your opponents send "MAGA Kornberg" mailers to tens of thousands of people.
This is the most racist, absurd, unhinged thing a democrat senator not named Fetterman has said in a long time. Absolutely revolting. In a just world she would be forced to resign.
And now everyone can sadly see exactly what many have known for quite some time.
Ramos man, totally humiliated herself out of jealousy
one under discussed part of the mamdani campaign was the usage of the video filters. every video used the same soft, humanizing tone consistently. it crafted a world around him. an aesthetic, almost utopian one. close shots, warm tones, delicate pacing. it framed him as the…
Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves that powerful, intelligent artistry is key to winning left-wing campaigns at scale. Here’s a throwback to his 2020 primary race, when I spoke with him about how his rap career taught him to campaign as a socialist. indypendent.org/authors/annie-…
can't believe it was only 7 months ago that Zohran was singing socialist holiday carols with my DSA choir to promote his fledgling campaign. good things can happen when we act with solidarity and sincerity ✊ 🫡