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Kurt Andersen

@kurtandersen.bsky.social

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Novelist and historian: The Breakup (2026), Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Heyday, Turn of the Century, etc. Co-created Command Z (with Steven Soderbergh) and Studio 360, New Yorker writer, New York editor-in-chief, Spy co-founder https://www.kurtandersen.com

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING:
President Trump Admits He'll Spend Eternity In Hell

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1h

The frequency of mentions in all the books that Google has digitized.

Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 7h

Such a smart, frank, likable good egg. Here’s my talk with Diane Keaton on Studio 360 twenty years ago. www.wnyc.org/story/112860...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 8h

Huh. I hated Civil War. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 9h

Karin Immergut, lifelong prosecutor and judge and a registered Republican since 2001, is a kind of hero we need. A real conservative, reality-based, truthful, brave. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 9h

One Battle After Another is indeed a masterpiece. Like a great 70s or 80s movie but rigorous, none of the excessive shagginess or smug self-indulgence. Riveting drama, sentiment but not sentimentality, comedy and fun in exactly the right amounts. Epic. 👍🏻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQ...

One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1d

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Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Republicans really are hellbent on screwing their own working- & middle-class voters to pay for their huge tax cut for the rich. If they get their way and end Obamacare subsidies, healthcare premiums for 23 million people double on January 1. The shutdown stakes Dems made their red line.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 2d

Source: www.sciotoanalysis.com/news/2025/3/...

Which states rely the most on federal employment? — Scioto Analysis

With federal workers in the crosshairs of the new administration , the United States’s 2.3 million federal employees have been thrust into an era of the greatest job insecurity they’ve faced in dec...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 2d

Of the 25 states with the highest percentages of federal workers in their labor forces, 15 are Trump-majority red states. Thousands of federal workers in every Republican congressional district. Where the new *permanent* mass firings Trump has decided to make—unrelated to his shutdown—will hit hard.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder: because the veteran prosecutor nominated by Trump as U.S. attorney and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee after 8 months on the job found no basis for indicting James Comey or Letitia James, Trump replaced him 3 weeks ago with an insurance lawyer he met at one of his golf courses.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 3d

Thomas Pynchon, snubbed again. And tine’s running out—he’s 88.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 3d

www.npr.org/2016/03/07/4...

Decades Later, 'Spy' Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump

No journalists have scrutinized Donald Trump more — or infuriated him more — than Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen during their days at Spy magazine.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 3d

When @JBPritzker.bsky.social joked on Tuesday, "I'm asking any of you to come visit me in the gulag in El Salvador,” I thought back to when that was not yet a meme and more of a pure joke. Specifically back to the 2016 conversation Graydon Carter and I had with NPR about about Trump and Spy.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss's reported remarks to the CBS News staff on the daily morning call yesterday had a certain Logan Roy flavor. According to Semafor, she told them she wants to "win" and finished by saying "Let's do the fucking news!" Logan's TV newsroom pep talk in episode 2, season 4:

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to Republicans gutting Obamacare, the average annual health-insurance premium for the 22M Americans covered will increase 114% starting January 1, $888 to $1,904. And will triple, quadruple, almost quintuple for the neediest in 10 super-GOP states.

Dems are playing hardball to stop that.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent summing-up by @Schiff.senate.gov of the U.S. attorney general’s just-for-Dear-Leader WWE-style performance at the Senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 5d

Sen. SCHIFF: You’ve refused to answer questions about ethics, the Qatari plane, the Epstein files, Tom Homan’s alleged bribery, political prosecutions, military authorization…

Bondi: *tries interrupting*

Schiff: Excuse me. This is an oversight hearing. We demand answers.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 4d

This “thought of the day” from @AOC.bsky.social is A+ true and prefect. And I think that not just because she accidentally mentions the title of my last book. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMBg5D6U/
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AOC lays into Republicans in new video.

TikTok video by COURIER

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 5d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 5d

Declaring attempts by the military (and other nonprofits) to reduce bigotry against nonwhites, women and gays excessive is an opinion. But Christopher Caldwell’s assertion that “D.E.I. has wound up…making businesses concerned as much with social justice as with profit” is just factually ludicrous.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 7d

Hegseth today: “If you let the beards go and the bellies go and the uniforms go and the fitness standards go, pretty soon the big stuff goes.”

The commander-in-chief snd his next in line.