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Kurt Andersen@kurtandersen.bsky.social |
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Co-creator Command Z (with Steven Soderbergh), author Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century, etc., previously host/co-creator Studio 360, columnist New Yorker, editor New York, co-founder Spy www.kurtandersen.com/
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Kurt Andersen
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Horrible MO Senator Josh Hawley is beatable. Lucas Kunce—working-class 13-year USMC veteran who served 3 tours in Iraq & Afghanistan, Ivy League-educated lawyer, is the man to do it. He’ll win🤞🏻the primary on 8/6. I encourage you to support him any way you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MumX...
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Tim Miller: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Ezra Klein: Klein: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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I’m a fan of Ezra Klein & Tim Miller’s podcasts. But their latest episodes are just what I needed: thoughtful substantive conversations between smart, honest, fair-minded Replace Biden hosts and their smart, honest, fair-minded Keep Biden guests—Jamelle Bouie and Bakari Sellers.
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I get and empathize with these scared guys’ reactions. And they’re cute. But they’re also sad and foolish. 🙉🙊🙈
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Apart from SCOTUS immunity decision impacts on Trump’s prosecutions & a Trump presidency, aren’t real conservatives who know there will indeed be future Democratic POTUSes (i.e. aren’t counting on an end to free elections) concerned about the prospect of an immune leftist POTUS?
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Agree with Ezra Klein about taking the risks of nominating someone else, and the upside opportunities for excitement & attention. On the optimal openness of the nomination process: 🤷♂️.
And I have yet to see a Stick With Biden essay remotely as strong. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/o...
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Great! Although he's still (closely) behind in 6 of these 8 states and much further behind than he was before in a very important 7th, Pennsylvania. Because even though I think it'd be better to nominate somebody else, if it's Biden I'll be rooting like crazy for him (and all Democrats) to win.
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Well, the Times is part of an independent free press that publishes facts and analyses that aren't meant to consistently serve a particular partisan interest--so not an ally in that propaganda sense, no. On the other hand, its editorials and regular opinion columnists are emphatically anti-Trump.
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Not for me it isn't, as I believe I've made extremely clear in many different way in the many thousands of words written and spoken over the the last nine years. Can't speak for the "pundit class."
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Cool. Bye.
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Wow, that fact makes me even MORE impressed by your glamorous career, Jack. For a year or two in the early 70s whs was my very favorite.
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Reporting (and opinions) by people in the news media are part of politics and always have been. Up to citizens to parse it all out as best they can and make their choices.
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🙉🙈🙊
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Excellent President Biden = King Lear parallel by Maureen Dowd today.
And it made me think: the ultimate tragic ending would be if Biden's vanity and blindness result in our own Richard III--corrupt, sadistic, deformed, evil Donald Trump--succeeding him. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/o...
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Wow! I didn’t dare let myself believe this might actually happen. Just amazing. And he won 55% to 45%! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/w...
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If you believe the best chance of beating Trump (& maximizing down-ballot wins) is Biden, okay, there are reasonable arguments for that belief. But if you’re also now complaining Stephanopoulos was unfair, you are (as Colbert put it) accusing reality of having a political bias.
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Six @nytopinion columnists were asked to make pitches for who’d make the best Democratic nominee. One of them, conservative Ross Douthat, proposes former Democrat Joe Machin. What a dumb and disrespectful fuck-you to his editors’ premise. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...
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Next Parliament membership per exit polls: LEFT Labour 63% center-left Liberal Democrats 9% RIGHT Conservative 20% far-right Reform UK 2% Heartening to see. And ironic: day we celebrate breaking away from them, and 3 days after SCOTUS decides presidents may act like kings.
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Kurt Andersen
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Is there a new movie in theaters right now, Hollywood or indy/foreign, that one should see in a theater and I might like a lot? (Inside Out an obv candidate.)
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Just saw the new production of Cabaret on Broadway. After, read the NY Times review that I knew had been a vicious pan. I’d also (surprisingly?) never seen any production of Cabaret, stage or screen. I thought it was great. Lesson: coming to a famous cultural work with few expectations is a treat.
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Just discovered that rock stars who die young do so at age 27. And during the warmest 6 months of the year, mostly on the 3rd, 4th or 5th of the month. Brian Jones 7/3/69, Janis 10/4/70, Jimi 9/18/70, Jim Morrison 7/3/71, Kurt Cobain 4/5/94 and Amy Winehouse 7/23/11.
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.
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Americans approved and rejoiced — for 4 days, until Martin Luther King was assassinated, prompting riots in 100 cities, and then Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, both events turning 1968 into a nightmare. And in the end the Democratic VP very narrowly lost to the anti-chaos candidate.
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If the ex-POTUS & de facto nominee asking SCOTUS to give him immunity from criminal prosecution had been a Democrat, with facts identical to those in Trump v. U.S., would their decision be very different, much much more restrictive & sane? I think so. And probably unanimous, 9-0.
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As someone who talked up Al Franken in 2017 as the perfect Democratic nominee to run against Trump in 2020, I very much enjoyed this piece by my friend and former colleague Nell Scovell. www.thedailybeast.com/no-joke-why-...
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Smart young guy I like a lot who fixes things in our building and fills in as a doorman said this morning he watched the first 10 minutes of the debate but had to turn it off because he found it so depressing. I.e. it ain’t just the punditocracy & bedwetting Democratic elite.
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A half century later, thanks to a Republican-appointed majority, the Supreme Court rules that Republican-president-pardoned Republican president Richard Nixon was right after all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Yu...
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Of course now. Neither half of the Beltway crowd, the half who thinks we must stick with Biden as the nominee, or the half who thinks we shouldn't. Just saying the criticism should focus on the arguments they make, not them.
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GOP co-chair & Trump daughter-in-law: "If they remove Joe Biden from the ticket and do not have Kamala Harris as their nominee, and try to plug someone else in...I can’t think of a bigger assault to our democratic process."
The Trump and Biden families find common ground. x.com/thehill/stat...
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People committed to defeating Trump & his GOP: yes, debate the uncertain & imperfect means, listen, hear & weigh the arguments, accept the outcome, then work to win. DON’T waste time & energy slagging allies in the fight who you consider tactically mistaken as bad-faith enemies.
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I respect anyone who believes in good faith the best chance to beat Trump is nominating Biden. But such silly false equivalence to complain about anti-Trump commentators (eg @nytopinion) not now calling for Trump to step aside. Earnest plea with possible impact vs symbolic whistling in the wind.
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Dispatch from Fantasyland, a Trump rally in Virginia with his supporters who think real life works like fiction: Biden’s debate performance and resulting talk of picking a new nominee was just the playing out of the Democratic puppetmasters’ plan. Perfect. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/u...
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People ignorant of political tactics and strategy confidently asserting authoritative opinions and predictions about political tactics and strategy is such an annoying feature of social media. All the moreso when they’re not entirely stupid people and/or have biggish followings.
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Good clear persuasive call by Biden’s old friend and ally and NY Times columnist Tom Friedman for him to step aside and let one of the many strong alternative Democrats be nominated and run and win. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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Kurt Andersen
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Well, at least all the public candor from our side about Biden’s performance tonight proves we’re not a cult.
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In this conversation published today in the New York Times, alas, Olivia Newsom nailed it. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/o...
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All the ways our media-sphere bends around the black hole of Trump. Here are serious NYTimes columnists, Bret Stephens & Michele Goldberg, explaining to columnist Frank Bruni why J.D. Vance & Tom Cotton are too homely and Elise Stefanik too fat to be his running mate. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/o...
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What an interesting majority and minority—Brown Jackson plus 4 of the 6 conservatives vs Roberts & Kavanaugh plus the 2 other liberals dissenting. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/u...
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I know Saud is the family name. But if they wanted to rebrand properly, simultaneously modernizing and retro-romanticizing their image to attract tourists and global partners while also declaring themselves the regional hegemon, they’d drop the Saudi, and just call it Arabia™️.
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Bowman loses Dem primary in NY district Biden won by 51% in 2020. Sure to lose her old Trump +6 district, Boebert switches to Colorado’s most right-wing district that Trump won by 16% and wins GOP primary. Big-tent national governing party vs doomed freak-dominated cult party.
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This headline made me think I was going to seriously disagree with the piece. But I didn’t, because it really isn’t the case the nuanced and complex column makes. Another unfortunate case of Clickbait Syndrome. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
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Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/b...
BTW, amazing to me CNN these days has only 600K primetime viewers—same as just the *broadcast* audience my public radio culture show Studio 360 had, not counting our podcast listeners.
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Obviously the debate stands to be exceptionally consequential politically. But also such a huge last-chance reset opportunity for @cnn as well, after years of flailing & failing, to prove it can be THE compelling, essential, old-school but modern, neither-left-nor-right U.S. news channel.
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I was a fan of Jane Coaston on her NY Times podcast. Just listened to her with Tim Miller on his Bulwark show, and man, being a guest instead of a (Times) host, she’s smart as ever but looser, faster, more opinionated & fun. Bulwark should make her a regular. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Tornado warning here in NW Connecticut, Weather Service Go to the basement! so we obeyed. First time in decades. Did it often as a kid in Nebraska, but then I was unable to entertain myself while hunkering by watching this, as I just did. youtu.be/_8OE89KXyB4?...
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The @nytimes.com is an outlier.
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This is insane and interesting and, in its old-fashioned encyclopedic way, very beautiful. (Each of these screenshots is just one of six.) calculatingempires.net?pos=17620.24...
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I know Topic A concerning the @washingtonpost is the publisher’s unethical behaviors. But a fundamental problem they probably don’t even realize is a problem: the digital design (incoherent mess) and non-news headlines (generic, unsophisticated, dumb) are like c. 2003 artifacts.
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Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.
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When it comes to trying to turn America into an over-the-top dystopian caricature of itself, Donald Trump really is a visionary. He announced his latest Idiocracy-meets-Mad-Max concept to an evangelical Christian political group today in Washington.
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