Love this. Absolutely sublime.

LEGO What Shall We Do with the Drunken Hegseth? 🍺 🤮 YouTube video by Drew Ponder

Backward theocratic police state, hilarious instant AI propaganda—the cognitive dissonance is intense. youtu.be/haE2erHRJhU?...

In addition to everything else we know about FBI Director Kash Patel, it turns out that he’s so drunk so much of the time that his colleagues in law enforcement and intelligence consider him a threat to public safety national security. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The standard take on Edward Hopper is that he's the great visual chronicler of the loneliness, alienation, and anomie of Americans and America in the rah-rah American Century. That cliché, like most clichés, isn't entirely untrue, but Hopper resisted it. "The loneliness thing," he told an art journalist who interviewed him near the end of his life in the 1960s, "is overdone." -Kurt Andersen, "Solitude ≠ Loneliness" Spring 2026 The Loneliness Issue Prairie Schooner prairieschooner.unl.edu

Our spring 2026 cover features Edward Hopper's Room in New York. In "Solitude ≠ Loneliness," @kurtandersen.bsky.social reflects on the painting.

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Yes indeed I did.

damn, dark as shit

Or…we can create cheap energy without burning coal and oil and gas. Doubled-edged swords of new technologies.

Raising children who have a Tintin phase is promising parental milestone.

Correct choice.

DM to tell me.

Hmmm.

This is among the greatest moments in the history of Fantasyland. Absolutely perfect chef’s-kiss distillation of our self-satirizing historical moment.

Trump to Maria today: “They misquoted me and said I expect oil to be higher… I think it will be down.”

Trump to Maria 2 days ago: “Oil might even be a little higher.”

Receipts👇🏽 🤥

🙏👏

Easter egg tease.

Thanks so much. Hope you like it.

And the books are kin—in fact, one of the two main characters in The Breakup is the nephew of one of the two main characters in Turn of the Century.

My favorite so far.

Unless you believe in the Antichrist, yes.

Hey! Stephen Soderbergh and I did this in Command Z (2023), a little sci-fi comedy set in the near future. Michael Cera played the tech zillionaire.

Here’s the trailer: commandzseries.com/trailer. And here’s all 8 episodes, 90 minutes in all, for free: commandzseries.com

The very conservative Rod Drehrer, who attended the Catholic baptism of JD Vance: “Not saying Trump is the Antichrist. But he’s radiating the spirit of Antichrist, no question.”

The share of Americans who say their financial situation is worse now than a year ago due to high prices spiked to 54% this month, up from 47% just last month. Higher than mid-Biden—in fact, highest ever.

Note: also works as a chart for House & Senate Republicans’ panic levels.

Not the horse race, but yes politics, which is inherently partisan. And these days only one of our parties is a party of authoritarianism, fantasy, cruelty, and corruption.

Or even in the shortish run.

Reality these days is so often so self-satirizing.

Pope Leo, asked today about last night’s extra-nutty Trump rant last night on Truth

“It’s ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more.”

I’m torn. On the one hand he’s helping Russia as much as he can, which is bad for the United States, but he’s also helping Democrats, which. is good for the United States.

The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time

The Hungarian opposition defeated the Trumpist candidate’s party by a landslide super-majority, over 2/3.

Our turn this fall.

Apart from his compulsive hunger for attention and money, the thread connecting all Trump policy:
Cut off America’s nose to spite its face
• paralyze global economy
• start unnecessary war
• trash allies
• cancel health care
• invade US cities
• mass deportation
• end science research
• tariffs