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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15h

In the average of the seven most reliable and recent national polls that asked voters what they think of Trump, 64% said they disapprove and only 33% approve. His worst polling numbers ever. Maybe we are finally, truly at the beginning of the end.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time. As well as the stupidest President and probably sloppiest White House ever.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Note to @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social producers: please write Natalie Harp into sketches as often as possible because Ashley Padilla plays her brilliantly, and please cast someone other than Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And in Nevada, of the total of 185 supposedly noncitizen voters the DHS identified, the Republican state government just reported that every single one of them, 100%, were in fact U.S. citizens.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Texas used Trump’s federal database to check all its registered voters, which falsely flagged 578 US citizens. Last week they filed a brief supporting Trump, announcing they’d referred 117 names—a negligible .00065% of 18M voters—to AG Ken Paxton for “investigation of *potential* noncitizen voting."

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In this instance i think it’s more the Stupidity than the Crazy.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m spending the week in Omaha, my now-Democratic hometown in red Nebraska. In 2024 their genius election yard sign was the elegant blue dot. This time in yard after yard it’s the blue dot with a wave.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We always need to manage our election hopes, but Nate Silver’s latest polling aggregation and analysis is very encouraging. (FLIPR is his latest model, which runs thousands of simulations across a range of possible outcomes for each prediction.)

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

<<Which party’s House or Senate candidate will you vote for in this election and/or which party do you want to control the next Congress?>> In the most recent polls followed by the @nytimes.com, Democrats are preferred by an average of 7-8%. Early voting is underway. Vote.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Make-believe Fantasyland justification for his stupid, ugly, expensive, monumentally self-glorifying ballroom last winter — drones! snipers! military command post! — repeated now for his stupid, ugly, expensive, monumentally self-glorifying arch.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can and must elect an intelligent, thoughtful, truthful, sensible, lucid president again. ihttps://youtu.be/Ask5wzUo9kQ?is=_ZefUbLghFfFsFc1

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Obama on Artificial Intelligence

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Subscribe now! Daily posts, starting October 5th, finishing early November. Commemorating Spy magazine’s 40th anniversary. substack.com/@spymagazine...

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Coming Soon — Spy at 40

Spy Magazine’s Anniversary Chronicle of a Certain Short-Fingered Vulgarian

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

His dreams have all came true: most famous person on earth, in countless millions of minds every day, pulling off a multi-billion-dollar grift in plain sight. Yet still a miserably unhappy clown. Loathed and laughed at, throwing tantrums 24/7 as he heads toward lame-duck doom.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As I’ve said for a decade (as in this 2016 Venn Diagram), the stupidity is fundamental. As well as continually astounding.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Presidential vote in her consistently 70% Hispanic Dade County district: 2012 Obama +16 2016 Clinton +17 2020 Trump +0.3 2024 Trump +15 Does this anti-Trump swing reflect her constituents’ swing back to Democrats? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

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G.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump in Ad Criticizing the Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)

Representative María Elvira Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024. Her ad suggests worry among some Republicans about their standing with His...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WOW. Even in our jaw-droopingly Onionesque era, these win the month, maybe the year. Both in @us.theguardian.com right now.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The constitutional litigator and ex-Republican @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social details how the “corrupt machinations” of Missouri Republicans show “exactly how MAGA attempts to fix elections” and that the Republican Party’s “perfidy is limited only by its creativity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

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Opinion | The Fix Was Almost In (Gift Article)

The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From The Shining to The Royalton and Temple Bar in the 1980s, and then before long every swank bar on earth. Our neo-noir 2nd Gilded Age, early Reagan to late Trump.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The ever-present Special Assistant to the President really does resemble the daughter he agreed in an interview is “a piece of ass” and “stacked…voluptuous,” and in another said that if she “weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It sold out, now the 2nd printing is in stores, 3rd printing coming soon. 🙏

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Two stories in the @nytimes.com right now. I look forward to collecting the complete set of 12.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This hour-long conversation about The Breakup I had yesterday with the remarkably smart, thoughtful, fun Connecticut NPR hist Colin McEnroe may be the best long live media conversation I’ve ever had about anything. www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of New York! Please join me tomorrow night at 8:30 at the Under St Marks Theater in the East Village. An event for The Breakup like no other — actor-comedian-writer Iris Bahr and I will talk about it AND perform scenes from it. Guaranteed fun. Tickets here: tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

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IRIS BAHR IN CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR KURT ANDERSEN

Join best-selling author Kurt Andersen, and award-winning actor, author, comic and founder of Neurotica Fest, Iris Bahr, (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hacks) as they performs excerpts from Kurt

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I occasionally look at his posts on his enormously unprofitable little website. The last 15 minutes: of his five posts, four are AI-generated self-glorifying comic-book fantasies, and the single reality-tethered one is about his ballroom.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey, look, it’s my first political cartoon ever! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Natalie sent him a note saying she’d love to see him with a nice chestnut/auburn (level 5-6, warm/red base) instead of the old platinum blonde (level 8-9, cool/ash base). “Like that dreamy President Bartlett when I was a little girl.”

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every quarter @Gallup.com asks people if they’re a Democrat, Republican or Independent, and if Independent which way they lean. First two quarters if this year it was 49% Democrats+leaners vs 39% Republicans+leaners, a 10% margin. The last time either party had a margin larger than 6% was 2008.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sure, it's depressing that four out of five people who voted for Trump in 2024 say they're still mostly or very happy about their vote. BUT: 16 months ago just 8% of them had serious qualms or total regret about it––and now that's 21%. I'm betting the Trump remorse is closer to 40% when he leaves.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Great ad. Populist Independent ex union leader Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social vs Republican incumbent son-of-a-billionaire Pete Ricketts, from their first debate in the Nebraska Senate race yesterday.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I sometimes read e-books and I adore the audiobook of The Breakup. But seeing the beautiful physical thing displayed for sale is still the thrillngest. First Light in Austin, Three Lives in the West Village, Spotty Dog in Hudson, Cornwall Library in Connecticut.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Without naming names, I asked Claude about our testosterone-obsessed Secretary of War.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not just talking about my new novel The Breakup with the brilliant actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm) & playwright-comedian Iris Bahr, but PERFORMING PIECES from it with her in a cool little theater in the East Village. Join us! Next Friday evening the 11th. Tickets: tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today in Fantasyland Thursday he said he might change the names of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Now he’s posted an AI video of a make-believe attack in his lost war on Iran which in real life would make the price of gasoline go to $5 or $6 a gallon.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New Yorkers: I’ll be discussing my novel The Breakup with actor-writer-comedian Iris Bahr—and reading (performing?) pieces from it with her!— at the Under St Marks Theater in the East Village, Friday, September 11 at 8:30 pm. Please join us! Tickets here: tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

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IRIS BAHR IN CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR KURT ANDERSEN

Join best-selling author Kurt Andersen, and award-winning actor, author, comic and founder of Neurotica Fest, Iris Bahr, (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hacks) as they performs excerpts from Kurt

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was extremely surprised to be invited on Steve Bannon’s online show to talk for an hour about my new novel The Breakup. Even bigger surprise: 100% thoughtful, engaged, low-key, interesting, respectful conversation. The episode rops Saturday morning at 11 am ET, then archived. warroom.org

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just as I was finishing my American history Fantasyland (2017), he barged into it to become the star of its final chapter, “As Fantasyland Goes, So Goes the Nation.” And a long decade later, he’s now entered his own personal Fantasyland. With the cult of true believers down to the Natalies.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The enthusiastic reception for The Breakup has been staggering. Thank you! And sales so strong Random House sold out the first printing in days. More on the way! But to help meet the demand, they lowered the price—temporarily—for Kindle and the other e-books editions to $11.99. www.kurtandersen.com

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had a great conversation with @joannacoles.bsky.social on @thedailybeast.bsky.social podcast about my new novel The Breakup. In which we also discussed Natalie Harp’s fictional-character qualities. www.instagram.com/reel/Dcb-mwF... youtu.be/y_O3_MT35Gk?...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh, dear Dolly Parton, RIP, you exceptionally wonderful human. I first saw her perform in Omaha when I was 9, and I had the stupendous pleasure of interviewing her in 2006 for my public radio show Studio 360. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/stu...

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Dolly Parton | Studio 360 | WNYC Studios

It's hard not to love Dolly Parton. The songwriter, singer, actress, and icon of country music has been charming fans for years. The Kennedy Center in Washington just recognized her w...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The brilliant @jheil.bluesky.social took me on a stupendously fun, interesting, long, surprising, deep-dive conversation about my new novel The Breakup and other work. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Kurt Andersen, Pt. 1: Visions of America After a Second Civil War

Podcast Episode · Impolitic with John Heilemann · August 21 · 58m

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494...

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

WATCH: @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social is joined by celebrated author @kurtandersen.bsky.social to discuss his fascinating new novel that imagines an America 20 years in the future where AOC is the president, Elon Musk "overdosed en route to Mars," and robots walk among us. #LastWord

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