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Executive Editor at Morning Brew Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Mashable, etc etc etc Failed musician. YMMV. Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Mar 11

In April 2020, my then-5yo came up with a song called “Join The Team”.

When I get low, this always lifts me up.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15h

You know it!

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15h

When my son turned 3, he wanted a vacuum for his birthday because Phish’s drummer played the vacuum as an instrument.

And now that he turns 8, he wants a megaphone because Phish has a song where the guitarist sings into a megaphone.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21h

Christmas in October in Costco

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 23h

This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 23h

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22h

i like that she didn't. also, that's what the comments are for :)

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23h

An influencer asked to collab with a Scottsdale, AZ bakery and was told no thanks. Influencer then shows up, leaves a rude and condescending review, so the owner drops this video with receipts about how the include tried to “blackmail”. Wild.

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I will forever dedicate my time and energy to continue to make it right to the people who value my teams hard work and have respected us and supported us since day one. #review #influencer #bakery

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Trust me!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Here's the thread. Worth the read:

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d

1. Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison into the president’s already-poisoned brain.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

I think @editorialboard.bsky.social nailed it yesterday when they said that these are coordinated messages from Trump officials to an audience of one. Keep saying the same lies over and over for trump to hear on TV, bc that is clearly the only thing he pays attention to: what's on the idiot box.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Oh he got the D9 benediction. Wow.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is a recipe for a four year government shutdown

you simply cannot make deals with people who are telling you up front they are going to break those deals and claw back everything you won in them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

More people watched Buzzfeed people tie rubber bands around a watermelon...

More people watched a stationary head of lettuce...

Imagine getting two former Secretaries of State to discuss foreign policy and get fewer people watching than the amount of people who go to a Bar Mitzvah.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Just did a dad joke stack:

7yo: I'm ready for tomorrow.

Me: What's tomorrow?

7yo: Sukot party

Me: Sukot? I don't know her. I know Sue Jenkins and Sue Greenberg. I don't know a Sue Coat.

7yo: It's a holiday!

Me: A day for challah?!

7yo fell to the floor laughing.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Fantastic @cmonstah.bsky.social column that never ran in the WaPo.

"Civil War 2.0, which for now is being fought primarily in media channels, raises familiar conflicts over who is allowed to fully occupy American citizenship, and how history is memorialized."

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The column WaPo didn't run

A detail of a 17th century vanitas by Christian Luycks, which I spotted MFAH earlier this year. One of the more fascinating assignments I landed this year...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

he drafted trump's compact.

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Marc Rowan helped draft the White House compact, echoing his 2023 plan to reform Penn

On Wednesday, nearly two years later, the White House distributed a proposed compact to Penn and eight other universities, offering preferential funding in exchange for signing onto sweeping governanc...

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Folks are pointing out this was made by Sora. Saw it on Reddit and thought it was funny because Phish has a song called Possum.

We're at a point where the cycle goes: Wow that's funny/cute/whatever. Then someone points out it's AI to make you feel bad for sharing it.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

whoa that's terrifying for so many reasons. thanks!

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Living the dream

Bodie the pup under a blanket, in his bean bag chair, just relaxing.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

I haven't gotten to deep with Gizz, but everything I've heard I've really enjoyed. They are, to me, the definition of 'eclectic'. Lots of weirdness, lots of fun.

I've also been listening to Geese (lol, I know), and they're also very fun/good

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

i have a neighbor who goes all out. they make chilli and mac and cheese and sangria. but also full size candy bars. very curious if they cut back at all this year.

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