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Jeanine Pirro being the first minion to stand up and tell the simple truth about one of his most preposterous lies is definitely one of this term’s Top 10 Not On My Bingo Card items. (Along with his Mamdani lovefest.)

Trump’s war on Iran is costing US taxpayers and drivers tens of billions, but it’s minting money for his oil company pals. Exxon Mobil’s latest quarterly profit is $14.5 billion, more than twice what it was a year ago, and Chevron’s shot up 5X from $2.5 billion to $12 billion.

With only 906 days left, he’s got only his shrinking cult. The 15% who still “strongly” approve of him overall. The 17% to 28% who like how he’s dealing with inflation, gas prices, Iran, and the White House ballroom, and say he’s “in touch with the problems of ordinary people.”

Surprised I’d never come across this remarkable statistic until now: “In 2024, Trump received 82% of the white evangelical/born again vote. He lost the rest of the vote by a whopping 18-point margin, 58% to 40%.”

Excellent! As it happens, earlier today I was reading about how the most post-presidentially prosecutable crimes that Trump has committed Involve this very scam.

You should read this article (and watch the videos, including this one www.nytimes.com/video/world/...) because 29-year-old David González seems like a fabulous Cuban hero. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...

The Cuban Throwing Parties to Fight for Political Change (Gift Article)David González has suddenly become the host of Havana’s hottest parties amid its energy crisis. Can he turn them into a movement?www.nytimes.com

My novel comes out in 3 weeks. If you’re in New York, I’ll be discussing it with wonderful Rosanne Cash at the wonderful Mcnally Jackson Books in the Seaport on 8/20. Come! RSVP: checkout.square.site/merchant/MLN... And you can preorder a signed personalized book: mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781984...

Excellent clear-eyed overview of the corner our spoiled, arrogant, insecure, ignorant, incompetent, unhappy stumblebum president seems to have finally, inescapably gotten himself into. By the superb @SangerNYT.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer (Gift Article)A president who thought there were no limits to his power has discovered several, leaving him more frustrated and erratic.www.nytimes.com

The unnecessary years-long U.S. war on Iraq with a WMD pretext that a Republican POTUS declared won and done six weeks in. And now an unnecessary U.S. war on Iran with a WMD pretext the Republican president declared won and done for the 39th time fifteen weeks in, six weeks ago.

In a new @pewresearch.org study of 12,000 Polymarket bettors, one in nine of them placed more than 1,000 bets during the six weeks of the study—25 a day. It reminded me of our cuckoo compulsive president, who averages 27 daily posts on his web site, which is losing $4.5M a day.

How interesting: conservative @nytimes.com columnist Bret Stephens says he’d “vote for any Democrat in 2028 over Vance” for president, including @AOC. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/o...

Opinion | How Can Anyone Trust This Crew With Anything? (Gift Article)JD Vance isn’t going to save us. Neither is Pete Hegseth.www.nytimes.com

Just noticed an uncanny mirror-image symmetry of Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Russian atrocities in Ukraine. The 5th of 5 acts in the 1948 Convention’s genocide definition, “forcibly transferring children,” is the one Russia’s indicted for & the one Israel’s not officially considered to have done.

Are we absolutely sure Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer aren’t the same person?

I asked Google exactly how long each quarterfinal & semifinal World Cup game had lasted. It told me those times—but also gave a precise 90something-minute figure for the Spain-Argentina game. Hallucination? Or glitch in the Matrix exposing the simulation and/or time travelers?

In his 3-hour conversation with the vice-president, Joe Rogan said of Epstein, “Most people think he was Mossad.” Vance apparently agrees with those people: “Yeah, Mossad or C.I.A., or some other deep state,” he replied, “whether in America or Israel or another country.” And then went on. 1/2

My novel The Breakup comes out in a month, and that evening of 8/18 I'll be at @politicsprose.bsky.social in D.C. talking about it with Sean @rameswaram.bsky.social. Join us, Washingtonians! Everybody else, watch online! politics-prose.com/kurt-anderse... www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494...

The Breakup by Kurt Andersen: 9781984801371 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland. “This remarkable book contai...www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Curious, unintentionally very funny @nytimes.com caption for this photo of candidates for the Maine Democratic Senate nomination, one of whom is almost sorta kinda smiling.

Republican ThomTillis’s excellent speech on the Senate floor yesterday afternoon savaging Trump’s desperate last-minute midterm-election-rigging gambit got buried today, but it’s worth watching. A bit of it: www.instagram.com/reel/Da359_d... All 11 minutes: www.c-span.org/clip/us-sena...

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The Breakup is my new novel, and I am so looking forward to this conversation about it. Please join us! RSVP: mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...

Kurt Andersen & Rosanne CashMcNally Jackson is an independent bookstore with five New York locations.mcnallyjackson.com