Kurt Andersen

Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.

He also said that Putin told him that “no country has mail-in voting.” Trump is a credulous moron. But surely Putin knows the truth, and if he actually said this he was just lying for fun to his most useful idiot ever.

If this is how deranged he is and they are 217 days in, what is the madness 1,242 days from now? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Russia, Russia, Russia.

Bravo, @60Minutes.com, on your big scoop — finslly, definitively, finding that the alleged microwave ray weapon, apparently Russian-made and used against U.S. government employees overseas, is real. share.google/fZkItq1j9HBf...

Occasionally conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Reminder: Epstein’s former BFF Donald Trump was president when he died in federal custody. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Occasionally conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Reminder: Epstein’s former BFF Donald Trump was president when he died in federal custody. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Such sweet schadenfreude.

Last October in the elevator at 30 Rock I gave in to fandom and took my first and possibly last selfie ever. Go, @jamestalarico.bsky.social, go!

Every Accusation A Confession Hegseth this morning: “Iran negotiated in bad faith, stalling, scheming, and preparing to strike.” Trump yesterday:

At Spy we reported on and satirized Trump correctly, relentlessly and, as it turned out, presciently. Lately these bits have seemed especially apt and well-aged —from from our first cover story (1986) and a brilliant cartoon by @BruceHandy.bsky.social for our NBC TV show. youtu.be/oCN_uISlJ-k?...

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Cornyn spent $75 per vote he received in a primary he didn’t win. “The red wedding begins’” his senior advisor said of the 12-week runoff campaign starting today against the opponent they call a “wife cheater and fraud now wrecking another home, sleeping around with a married mother of seven.”