<<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.

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.

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

Obama on Artificial Intelligence

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

Coming Soon — Spy at 40

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

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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.

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

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 5d ago

🤡 Trump Explains Trade Deficits: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” /BrianAllen

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...

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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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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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...

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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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.

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."

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

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

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...

The two pieces I wrote right after 9/11. www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/m... time.com/archive/6664...

Fallout (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 ...

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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...

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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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.

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

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.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

what is the world is going on with Trump's hair? (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)

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.

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.

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.

Dan Osborn@osbornforne.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Pete Ricketts drinking game just dropped. Please drink (and vote) responsibly.

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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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An absolutely brilliant piece by @polgreen.bsky.social, the finest, most interesting and surprising @nytines.com columnist. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o...

Opinion | Democrats Have an Identity Politics Problem. Just Not the One You Think. (Gift Article)

Instead of rallying around their candidates, Democrats are falling out among themselves.

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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