Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 14hIn New York City this year, 203 people have been murdered—the fewest ever. In the first 9 months of last year, 253 were murdered, also an all-time low. Back in 1990 there were a million fewer people, of whom 1700 were murdered in the first 9 months. I’ll never get over this.. 1347
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15hwww.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...nytimes.comDo You Miss Spy Magazine? For One Month, It’s Back. (Gift Article)To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first issue, the long-defunct satirical monthly is resurfacing vintage articles about Trump on Substack. 0236
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Startling today — a daily Substack of the greatest Spy hits about the short-fingered vulgarian. Subscribe here: substack.com/@spymagazine... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...nytimes.comDo You Miss Spy Magazine? For One Month, It’s Back. (Gift Article)To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first issue, the long-defunct satirical monthly is resurfacing vintage articles about Trump on Substack. 24514
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Did the Secretary of War's lifestyle taboo list in his speech last week make anybody else immediately think of his new BFF –– the trannyish, fattyish beardo and weirdo (multiple names & religions) wimp (no sports, Marine PR guy) a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief? 7387
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That, my fellow Americans, is unquestionably the hand of a short-fingered vulgarian. By the way, you can subscribe for free to this daily limited-run Spy magazine Substack. We start publishing on Monday. spymagazine.substack.com/p/coming-soo...spymagazine.substack.comComing Soon — Spy at 40Spy Magazine’s Anniversary Chronicle of a Certain Short-Fingered Vulgarian 3285
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Taking the unprecedented non-stop large-scale corruption to the grotesque next level — not just enriching the Trumps and their cronies at the expense of American suckers/investors, but driving hugely consequential foreign policy. Vote them out. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u... 12514
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In 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. 1247
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time. As well as the stupidest President and probably sloppiest White House ever. 4497
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Note 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. 7538
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not silly. It’s the question. Because noncitizen voting is a make-believe non-problem. 000
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And 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. 13715
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thank you, Omaha Public Library, and thank you, @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. 1206
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Texas 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." 52714
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In this instance i think it’s more the Stupidity than the Crazy. 14310
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’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. 08519
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We 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.) 1112
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. 1224
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Make-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. 56416
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We can and must elect an intelligent, thoughtful, truthful, sensible, lucid president again. ihttps://youtu.be/Ask5wzUo9kQ?is=_ZefUbLghFfFsFc1youtu.beObama on Artificial IntelligenceYouTube video by C-SPAN 1479
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Subscribe now! Daily posts, starting October 5th, finishing early November. Commemorating Spy magazine’s 40th anniversary. substack.com/@spymagazine...substack.comComing Soon — Spy at 40Spy Magazine’s Anniversary Chronicle of a Certain Short-Fingered Vulgarian 3349
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026His 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. 1115339
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As I’ve said for a decade (as in this 2016 Venn Diagram), the stupidity is fundamental. As well as continually astounding. 040
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Presidential 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...nytimes.comG.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... 3153
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026*jaw-droppingly Although I sort of like jaw- droopingly. 2160
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026WOW. Even in our jaw-droopingly Onionesque era, these win the month, maybe the year. Both in @us.theguardian.com right now. 33910
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The 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...nytimes.comOpinion | The Fix Was Almost In (Gift Article)The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last. 1299
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From 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. 2214
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The 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." 34410
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It sold out, now the 2nd printing is in stores, 3rd printing coming soon. 🙏 3472
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Two stories in the @nytimes.com right now. I look forward to collecting the complete set of 12. 6556
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This 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... 1237
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Opposite of hate him, saw and hugged him last night. 000
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The two pieces I wrote right after 9/11. www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/m... time.com/archive/6664...nytimes.comFallout (Gift Article)Author Kurt Anderson describes documents, bits of evidence of mundane living, that float into his backyard in Brooklyn from World Trade Center collapse; photo of document found in Red Hook section of ... 1197
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People 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...tickets.frigid.nycIRIS BAHR IN CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR KURT ANDERSENJoin 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 0132
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And 15 months later, Charles Starkweather went on his 10-victim murder spree with his 14-year-old girlfriend across Nebraska, where I was born and raised. We weren’t allowed outside for days. It’s my first memory.  020
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I 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. 7367
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My AI prompt: “a realistic graphic-novel/comic-book image of Donald Trump, smiling but scary, on the deck of an obviously sinking ship in an extravagantly bemedalled Navy ship captain’s uniform, having corralled a horde of frightened rats to prevent them from getting off the ship before it sinks.” 4143
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Hey, look, it’s my first political cartoon ever! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u... 2196
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Natalie 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.” 64211
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Yes, we did too. And it turns out have been prescient! 010
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Every 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. 24212
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The movement will cease being a movement when he’s gone, they’ll disperse without a cult leader. Which isn’t to say most of the true cultists won’t still be Fantasyland inhabitants. 110
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sure, 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. 8364
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Great 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. 2228
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Well, Trump in particular is GOAT, but sure, aspirational cult members. “ 010