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Jon Sternfeld

@jonsternfeld.bsky.social

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Author. Collaborator. Ghost. NYT Bestseller SCENES FROM MY LIFE with Michael K. Williams (Crown); WaPo Book of the Year AN INCONVENIENT COP with Edwin Raymond (Viking); UNPREPARED: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS (Bloomsbury)

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · Sep 6

4 years ago, we lost a giant of a man. He still lives on. #bkbmg

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 5h

Underrated skeet here.

Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 5h

Wait what?

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 6h

So unfairly under appreciated! Possibly because it was the follow up to their most hailed film and because of John Wayne.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6h

The AI bubble is socially, economically, and environmentally harmful, and the sooner it pops, the better. cepr.net/publications...

The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money

The AI boom fuels inequality, inflation, pollution, and political capture. If it’s a bubble, the sooner it bursts, the better.

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 8h

Every news outlet is refusing to sign Pete Hegseth's reporting restrictions at the Pentagon, and @status.news has learned that includes his former employer, Fox News. Details and more in tonight's newsletter: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 8h

Feel like this for a lot of things.
And all to satisfy some tech grifters who want to stop paying for labor.
Depressing.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 9h

Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 8h

What also drove me crazy is that just about EVERY SINGLE STORY on the cease-fire framed it as a story around Trump. Collective brain rot.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 8h

Repeal and Obfuscate is not working.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 15h

A good piece, with a couple of examples of bad NYT headlines undermining good reporting as a bonus.

The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.

Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.

Propaganda.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10h

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

This guy has, inadvertently, identified the exact process that has driven our nation insane, which is that you’re increasingly allowed and encouraged to make up whichever facts make you angriest, and then insist they be treated as true, in the face of any evidence to the contrary.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

I guess we're back to that $10 million payment that was being investigated before the investigation got closed down?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "There was a reason we chose Egypt because you were very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this. You are a great leader. You have very little crime. I want to thank you. He's been my friend right from the beginning during the campaign against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Have you heard of her?"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

I’m part of the problem because I completely forgot about this

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 9h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 9h

Bari Weiss seems to be following the Elon Musk DOGE strategy. Rather than learning from the employees at CBS, and trying to get a handle on this enormous job for which she lacks qualifications, she is asking them to account for their time and trying to intimidate them.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Bari Weiss Memo Sparks Confusion at CBS News: Some Producers Urge Staff to Respond After WGA Says to Wait (EXCLUSIVE)

A memo from Bari Weiss has sparked great confusion at CBS News, as staffers are told by producers to respond and by WGA to refrain

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.