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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 · 31m

Protecting pedophiles is very weird to me, too!

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 33m

But also: the Republican party's obsession with genitals and children's genitals is just so weird.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 33m

Oh, so ... Jews? Got it. Cool cool cool.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 4h

I just cannot get into these guys. I've tried, lord knows I've tried. Saw them last year at PNC in NJ. My wife loves em, but they just sound like corportized/sterile Phish. Why choose that when I can listen to ... Phish? Excellent musicians/vocalists. But too Phishy for my tastes.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6h

The Yankees lost. Democracy is losing. But as least I’m having a good beard day today.

A white man with glasses and a very long white and red beard. He’s wearing a green hat and a gray Henley shirt

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 7h

@smoothatonalsound.bsky.social you're doing 'crowd control' today? lol (i got siriusxm recently and phish radio is always on)

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 7h

There's a saying "No brains, no headaches" and sometimes I wish I had no brains, because reading shit like this every day gives me a perpetual headache.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment
For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.

For Mr. Trump, success in this venture is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker — and a pathway to the Nobel Peace Prize he has so openly coveted. By chance, the winner for 2025 is scheduled to be announced just hours before he may be departing to take his victory lap in Egypt and Israel.

If the peace plan moves forward, Mr. Trump may have as legitimate a claim to that Nobel as the four American presidents who have won the peace prize in the past, though with less bombast and lobbying. (They are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, who was awarded one decades after he left the White House.)

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 17h

No 2. Is always and forever Dale Berra.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 18h

Toronto has been very good this series in hitting the ball where the Yankees are not. That’ll win you games and the series.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 18h

Fox played three Phish songs during yesterday’s game and got a “It’s Yankees music” from the announcer, and go on to win.

Tonight, no Phish songs and Yankees are losing.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Omg Yankees take the lead and the bumper music after the inning is Phish’s Tweezer Reprise and the announcer says “It’s Yankees music.”

Amazing.

Now joins Seattle Seahawk music. But for different reasons. Great NFL video on Phish and Seahawks.

youtu.be/-PZyn79QRXk?...

The Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Collides with Phish | NFL Films Presents

YouTube video by NFL Films

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 19h

“This is an observation from an alternate reality because Democrats have in fact abused their power to target President Trump and Republicans,” a Justice Department spokesman said.

Why let a spokesperson, someone whose job it is to speak on behalf of the Dept, hide behind anonymity to spread lies?

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 20h

So of course the weirdest and most alarming thing here is that Trump intended to DM the AG on Truth Social to order her to indict Comey and accidentally posted it publicly. But there are other very weird details within...

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21h

Just turned on Fox and it’s the first time in a long time I saw the pregame and Jeter and ARod and Ortiz and Dontrell Willis (lol) is … a lot.

They all think the Yankees are gonna win.

Good thing they can toss to John Smoltz in the booth.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22h

Introduce a bill to protect people worshiping and not, say, a bill to reduce or eliminate guns. Feels performative!

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 16d

We will never see Trump donors and backers and media elites do the full court press on Trump’s age and lack of brain function the way they did with Biden because they all agree with Trump and want all this.

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 16d

Hey Jake Tapper where you at man? Should we be worried about how old and unhinged this president is or nah?

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23h

If Trump, w/approval by the six conservative SCOTUS justices, can just rescind Congressional budget, why is there even a shutdown? Or talk of a budget negotiation?

Like, didn't SCOTUS rule Trump can withhold $4 billion in foreign aid, as appropriated by Congress?

So why are we doing this charade?

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23h

From the Beltway press: And this is why it's bad for Biden and the Democrats.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Finished the 3rd season, and I enjoyed the narrative liberties the show took wrt The Mule and certain characters.

Again, keeping the 'these aren't the books' top of mind really helped.

And I LOVED the final scene, which is from Foundation's Edge + Foundation & Earth.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

A clear headline. A terrifying reality.

"The Justice Department, now led by Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyers, has fired dozens of career prosecutors, many of whom had worked on cases involving Mr. Trump."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Trump is using the Justice Department to target his enemies

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

ah, im sorry you had to go through it.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

The echoes of 2016's chants of "Lock her up!"

The Beltway press ignored the authoritative language then, or made fun of it. Now, in version two, the president is sending in National Guardsmen from red states into blue states, and telling millions of people a blue state mayor/gov should be in jail.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

yeah, same here. our electric company makes us fill out an application -- literally pen and paper. can't do it online! a hassle, but worth it!

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

feel like when bluetooth works, it's amazing. but the challenge is never knowing which device is connected where. was listening to siriusxm through my alexa and then all of a sudden it was playing in the upstairs bathroom speaker.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

my house is 102 years old, and the last breaker was installed in 1979. i need to do some work around the house (i want to put in ceiling fans lol), and the electrician was like, just get a bigger breaker for all your needs.