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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 · 48m

What if the frame were: It was never a shift, but instead, the tech billionaires who try to play God (and in some cases believe they are actually a god), were always in favor of this and now believe they have air cover to say what they really believe.

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

The benevolence remains, but the liberal leanings do not. In a wide-ranging interview, Mr. Benioff said this week that he avidly supported President Trump and thought National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco — an action that city leaders would consider beyond the pale.

Mr. Benioff’s shift serves as another example of a prominent Bay Area tech executive acceding to the Republican president’s view of the world. Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, gave Mr. Trump a 24-karat gold gift and heaped praise upon the president in an August visit to the Oval Office. Last month, at a White House dinner for tech barons, the OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Mr. Trump he was “a very refreshing change.”

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 56m

Not a big fan of the “Brands Must Comment on Everything” era.

A video of a sunset brings out Slim Jim, Uncrustables, IMAX, Eggo, and Mr. Peanut.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1h

This is my former synagogue! Was a member from 2005-2018, ending when we moved to NJ. The year we had High Holiday services at the church on 7th bc our roof caved in, Schumer sat right in front of me. And it was odd to see the back of his head while also staring at the large mural of Jesus.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1h

This is my synagogue & the conspiracies about why Zohran is appearing today are wild First, all major candidates were invited. (Sliwa is speaking tonight.) Was he supposed to come over the high holidays? Can't imagine people would've been okay with that. It's 3 weeks before the election. It's fine.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

Screenshot from Tali Goldscheft:

PROTEST today at 1 pm!!! 📢📢📢

At the same time as hostages are hopefully being finally released, Zohran Mamdani is speaking at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope.

Beyond outrageous.

A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community, including CBE congregants and former congregants, will be taking place.

IN BROOKLYN? Join us, rain or shine!!!

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1h

The Jets will wind up winning just enough games to get the 3rd or 4th pick instead!

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1h

My goodness the Jets are bad. Like 0-16 bad.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2h

“Who was president between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021” continues to be one of the most important questions of our era.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2h

It’s pretty cheeky that the NFL, an organization that chose to let a star player hang out to dry because he took a knee as a signifier, places “it takes all of us” in the back of every end-zone—and has brought it to London.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21h

You know it!

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22h

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 · 1d

Christmas in October in Costco

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

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

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1d

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

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

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

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.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AfqYBh/

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

TikTok video by JLPATISSERIE

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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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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."

buttondown.com/cmonstah/arc...

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...

buttondown.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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 · 2d

"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"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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