Josh Sternberg
@joshsternberg.com
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.
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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.
When I get low, this always lifts me up.
Reposted by Josh Sternberg
The Reuters article is more illustrative than the headline of course, but “DOGE doesn’t exist anymore” is a misleading premise because more than 100 former DOGErs have become deeply embedded in federal agencies to generally fuck around with our data and arbitrarily disrupt budgets.
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Reuters article is more illustrative than the headline of course, but “DOGE doesn’t exist anymore” is a misleading premise because more than 100 former DOGErs have become deeply embedded in federal agencies to generally fuck around with our data and arbitrarily disrupt budgets.
Reposted by Josh Sternberg
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Reposted by Josh Sternberg
CATHY by Cathy Guisewite debuted in newspapers #OTD in 1976.
It ran until 2010, was collected in more than 20 books, and inspired 3 animated TV specials and tons of licensed products! Ack! #ComicStrip #Comics
It ran until 2010, was collected in more than 20 books, and inspired 3 animated TV specials and tons of licensed products! Ack! #ComicStrip #Comics
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
CATHY by Cathy Guisewite debuted in newspapers #OTD in 1976.
It ran until 2010, was collected in more than 20 books, and inspired 3 animated TV specials and tons of licensed products! Ack! #ComicStrip #Comics
It ran until 2010, was collected in more than 20 books, and inspired 3 animated TV specials and tons of licensed products! Ack! #ComicStrip #Comics
One of those seconds that change the course of society.
As an aside: there used to be a time when there would be an evening edition. Imagine two print newspapers today? Can barely imagine one.
As an aside: there used to be a time when there would be an evening edition. Imagine two print newspapers today? Can barely imagine one.
On this day, 60 years ago.
My fam has been collecting newspapers of important days for about a century. Here are the front pages from 11/22/63 and 11/23/63.
joshsternberg.com/2013/11/20/n...
My fam has been collecting newspapers of important days for about a century. Here are the front pages from 11/22/63 and 11/23/63.
joshsternberg.com/2013/11/20/n...
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of those seconds that change the course of society.
As an aside: there used to be a time when there would be an evening edition. Imagine two print newspapers today? Can barely imagine one.
As an aside: there used to be a time when there would be an evening edition. Imagine two print newspapers today? Can barely imagine one.
Gotta say it’s pretty wild that he’s now hit the mainstream. Really built it over the last several years.
(Also weird to see him on an Ovation guitar!)
(Also weird to see him on an Ovation guitar!)
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Gotta say it’s pretty wild that he’s now hit the mainstream. Really built it over the last several years.
(Also weird to see him on an Ovation guitar!)
(Also weird to see him on an Ovation guitar!)
I do appreciate how Bluesky has now become my town square, where people converse in the discourse of the day with winking knowledge that everyone else “gets it”.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I do appreciate how Bluesky has now become my town square, where people converse in the discourse of the day with winking knowledge that everyone else “gets it”.
Just stumbled upon this story of Amazon lawyers run amok. Will have to see if this was reported out. Because this a wild and troubling story of a corporation and DOJ appear to want to bring one innocent person down…for what seems like no reason.
Wild.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UFV3WV/
Wild.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UFV3WV/
Replying to @DonkerDave so this is as short as i can make it to cover a four year saga of my husband’s journey working for jeff bezos #amazonemployee #amazonworker #amazonian
TikTok video by Amy Nelson
www.tiktok.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just stumbled upon this story of Amazon lawyers run amok. Will have to see if this was reported out. Because this a wild and troubling story of a corporation and DOJ appear to want to bring one innocent person down…for what seems like no reason.
Wild.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UFV3WV/
Wild.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UFV3WV/
“And while sometimes I wish I could unknow it, the least I can do is share the parts I believe you should know too.”
Oh, buddy.
Oh, buddy.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“And while sometimes I wish I could unknow it, the least I can do is share the parts I believe you should know too.”
Oh, buddy.
Oh, buddy.
Ok but January 6 was right there.
BREAKING
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will be resigning from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will be resigning from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ok but January 6 was right there.
The Dept of Education no longer classifies Nursing or Accounting degrees, among others, as "professional" when considering reimbursement for federal loans.
Two professions where shortages are rampant. Ain't gonna get better with this!
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Two professions where shortages are rampant. Ain't gonna get better with this!
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Nursing Excluded as 'Professional' Degree By Department of Education
The Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill" excludes nursing from graduate degree programs deemed as 'professional.' The move impacts loan funding, healthcare delivery, and patient care access...
nurse.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Dept of Education no longer classifies Nursing or Accounting degrees, among others, as "professional" when considering reimbursement for federal loans.
Two professions where shortages are rampant. Ain't gonna get better with this!
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Two professions where shortages are rampant. Ain't gonna get better with this!
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Brooks should have read the clear-eyed @jeetheer.bsky.social: "[Epstein] was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played a major role in shaping Western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies and diplomats."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Brooks should have read the clear-eyed @jeetheer.bsky.social: "[Epstein] was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played a major role in shaping Western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies and diplomats."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This piece reads as if it's only a matter of time before we find David Brooks in the Epstein emails.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This piece reads as if it's only a matter of time before we find David Brooks in the Epstein emails.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Grok is Dwight Schrute.
I asked Grok if Elon Musk would be better than Jeffrey Epstein at running a private island. Here's part of its answer.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Grok is Dwight Schrute.
We've gone from Prozac Nation to Gaslight Nation
This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We've gone from Prozac Nation to Gaslight Nation
"You’ve written a book about consequences without yet looking directly at your own. This avoidance makes the literary filigree more than decoration, it makes your excesses a kind of lie.
Cut until only the true things remain. That’s where the book starts."
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Cut until only the true things remain. That’s where the book starts."
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition and everything here has real...
newsletter.anamariecox.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"You’ve written a book about consequences without yet looking directly at your own. This avoidance makes the literary filigree more than decoration, it makes your excesses a kind of lie.
Cut until only the true things remain. That’s where the book starts."
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Cut until only the true things remain. That’s where the book starts."
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
"We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning!"
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning!"
An administration whose Defense Secretary has white/Christian nationalist tattoos now says that, allegedly, one branch of the military (though under Homeland Security, not Defense dept) "will no longer classify the swastika...as a hate symbol"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
An administration whose Defense Secretary has white/Christian nationalist tattoos now says that, allegedly, one branch of the military (though under Homeland Security, not Defense dept) "will no longer classify the swastika...as a hate symbol"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Amazon's been making moves to expand its pharmaceutical presence, especially in suburban and rural areas. As we previously reported, about 1 in 3 independent pharmacies are at risk of closure, especially those in rural and underserved areas.
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
Urgent care company Experity partners with Amazon Pharmacy for same-day meds delivery
This announcement is Amazon’s latest expansion into the pharmacy space.
www.healthcare-brew.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Amazon's been making moves to expand its pharmaceutical presence, especially in suburban and rural areas. As we previously reported, about 1 in 3 independent pharmacies are at risk of closure, especially those in rural and underserved areas.
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
Reposted by Josh Sternberg
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Makes all the people who were fired for commenting negatively about Charlie Kirk seem quaint, don't it
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Makes all the people who were fired for commenting negatively about Charlie Kirk seem quaint, don't it
When I was covering adtech, understanding the Lumascape, a slide from a banker about all the companies that sit between publisher and end-user, was an important text to know where the messy middle is, but also the fraud.
They've now done it for AI companies.
They've now done it for AI companies.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When I was covering adtech, understanding the Lumascape, a slide from a banker about all the companies that sit between publisher and end-user, was an important text to know where the messy middle is, but also the fraud.
They've now done it for AI companies.
They've now done it for AI companies.
"Two months after Kirk’s assassination, a gov-backed campaign led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against 600+ people. GOP officials have endorsed the punishments, saying those who glorify violence should be removed from positions of trust."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Two months after Kirk’s assassination, a gov-backed campaign led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against 600+ people. GOP officials have endorsed the punishments, saying those who glorify violence should be removed from positions of trust."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Second verse, same as the first.
(Though I wonder if Disney learned the lesson from last go 'round; losing 3m Disney+ subs and 4m Hulu subs was not great)
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
(Though I wonder if Disney learned the lesson from last go 'round; losing 3m Disney+ subs and 4m Hulu subs was not great)
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Donald Trump Calls for Jimmy Kimmel to Be Pulled Off ABC After Epstein Jokes: ‘Get the Bum Off the Air!’
Donald Trump is going after Jimmy Kimmel again after the late-night host roasted him on Tuesday night over the ongoing Epstein Files saga.
variety.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Second verse, same as the first.
(Though I wonder if Disney learned the lesson from last go 'round; losing 3m Disney+ subs and 4m Hulu subs was not great)
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
(Though I wonder if Disney learned the lesson from last go 'round; losing 3m Disney+ subs and 4m Hulu subs was not great)
variety.com/2025/tv/news...