@michaeljstern.bsky.social
USA Today opinion columnist. Also in: Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Times; Guardian; Boston Globe; HuffPost; Hill; NY Daily News, etc. Former federal prosecutor, state prosecutor, and defense attorney for indigent defendants. 🌊 🏳️🌈 #LGBT
Danger.
"Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world."
A majority of Republican men under 50 think that the Holocaust either didn’t happen or was exaggerated.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...
Trump is fundraising off the death of American soldiers -- while wearing a baseball cap piece of merch he sells.
Really MAGA? What happened to the sanctity of supporting the military?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...
Trump's goons "keep taking extraordinary actions to crack down on news content and entertainment that the president dislikes."
Carr is trying to pressure media into self-censorship by abusing his position. Media have been all too willing to oblige.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/m...
I used to live in this city, where the violent attack on a Jewish synagogue happened -- spurred on by antisemitic hate.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/u...
TACO Trump and his flying monkeys at the Justice Department pound their chests to seem tough, get a few headlines, and then quietly brush their faux outrage and illegal charges under the rug with a whimpering dismissal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Trump is going to blackmail TV stations into giving false, favorable coverage of the war.
He's destroying the most basic American rights, like freedom of the press.
So dark. Kushner raises billions for his fund while the family of a soldier killed in Truml’s war gets help on Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/f/major-alex...
Naming six people killed in the Trump war as "airmen" seems wrong, given that two are women.
I used to live in this city, where the violent attack on a Jewish synagogue happened -- spurred on by antisemitic hate.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/u...
Trump is going to blackmail TV stations into giving false, favorable coverage of the war.
He's destroying the most basic American rights, like freedom of the press.
Trump planned on replacing Iran's supreme leader with a group of other leaders he thought would be better for the U.S. But Trump and Hegseth managed to kill the people they wanted to install into power.
The incompetence is staggering.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/p...
I agree with @jilldlawrence.bsky.social -- James Talarico has a chance of pulling off a Texas Senate victory. It's decency vs. MAGA.
www.thebulwark.com/p/paxton-vs-...
Naming six people killed in the Trump war as "airmen" seems wrong, given that two are women.
This is important.
Trump bamboozled a lot of people, but it's surprising someone like Joe Rogan -- who should be savvy to politicians' lies -- was bamboozled by Trump. Without Rogan, Trump may not have been elected. This is on him.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/p...
There’s a reason that Trump is frantically pushing Republicans to pass the SAVE act that will require complicated voter ID to vote.
He thinks he’s going to lose the midterms unless he can suppress the vote.
Democrats cannot get complacent. We have victory within reach. Every Dem must vote.
MAGA voted for fascism, under the promise that they'd get cheaper gas and groceries.
Instead, they got soaring gas and grocery prices ... and a war in the Middle East, government agents murdering people in the streets, and a dementing president who is trying to suppress voting rights. Good job.
Jared Kushner is a sleazy, unethical crook who is using his position as a U.S. government representative to make billions. I so hope karma pays him a harsh visit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
More violent antisemitism. . . in places you would not expect to see it.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/e...
Anyone surprised?
Russia is helping Iran attack U.S. bases and Americans.
Trump is helping Russia.
You do the math.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/w...
This makes me very sad AND outraged.
What has been hidden from the release of the Epstein files is scary and depraved. Listen.
www.facebook.com/reel/7915871...
This guy is great. All in for @jamestalarico.bsky.social.
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