FYI, at Bluesky I’m @kurtandersen and at Threads I’m @kurtbandersen.

BREAKING: CNN Senior Data Analyst Harry Enten just exposed stunning new polling showing Americans believe our economy is weaker than ever before due to Donald Trump’s leadership. Wow.

In the final 2025 Sophia Lecture Dr Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein explores the deep interplay of genes, culture and consciousness in shaping humanity’s path: consciousness, he argues, is an evolutionary tool for novelty, enabling us to build civilizations that outlive each of us.

Just finished my first @CharlestonLit visit, and I second Joyce.

“Something that makes no sense” They’re keeping the government closed over an 80-20 issue

My auto-boilerplate for all such binary left-right Whither Democrats journalism. https://t.co/xT8qEiNbGK

The hardest working & most honorable generation among us are Baby Boomers. These men fought in 'Nam & won the Gulf War while their wives raised the family. Millennials benefited from the sacrifice of boomers but then sought to destroy the traditional gender norms of prosperity.

Another interesting historical fact from @pbump: 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁.

"Housing costs not a problem" is my favorite category.

I knew that West Virginia, now one of the reddest, Trumpiest states, was a swing state back in the late 20th century. But here’s an astounding fact I just learned: in 1988, dweeby Massachusetts liberal governor Mike Dukakis won West Virginia! The past is a foreign country.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

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In my 2020 book Evil Geniuses I explain how big business and the rich since 1980 have used complex, obscure tax and other systemic changes to keep making only the rich richer and our economy more and more unfair and unaffordable to most Americans. They’ve just done it again.

"Wow! What an impressive piece of work! The history, the science, the thriller pacing, the cool tech--just great. Your characters are crystal clear and your prose is engaging and compelling. Could not put it down. — L. K." Renaissance Paradox - History Prime Wherever books are

Americans are paying attention. Source: CNN/NBC/Fox exit polls)

Happy that he lost. Happy that these guys wasted $55 million. Happy that money failed to buy an election. https://t.co/pEnRt1bHQ2

Good, informative piece. Americans could have nice things too! https://t.co/HjF8T8Xnfv

Two votes for Eric Adams in the Gracie Mansion precinct

Updated jmp (w @Henkel_JLuca) 1) Longer-horizon match quality data 2) Extended AI mechanism analysis 👇

All else aside, it's just weird that the most powerful country in the world has a president who is completely disconnected from reality.

...and very apologetically asks if we'd move to a different table, across the room. Because Andrew Cuomo was now coming and demanding *this* table. We moved. Cuomo arrived, came over to the new table and, with no apologies, unctuously greeted Tom. Asshole then, asshole now.

My wife and I were out for dinner at a little restaurant in a Bedford, New York, inn with our old friends Tom Brokaw and his wife, who lived nearby. Seated at a prime table they'd reserved by the fireplace. Suddenly the flustered maître d' comes over, kneels down to speak... 2/3

Cuomo's dark, graceless concession speech might as well have been a regular campaign speech. (He again mispronounced the name of the guy who just beat him again.) It made me decide to tell this story of my one little encounter with him, days after he first became governor. 1/3

At the Donald Trump Epstein Memorial Ballroom, every day is a wonderful secret.

Hilarious panicky confusion from Ohio’s Republican governor nominee: the party raising prices of imports and about to make health care impossibly unaffordable must somehow now make affordability *their* #1 issue. Instead of making unabashed bigotry their brand.

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