Steve Sternberg

Journalist, ex-U.S. News & World Report + USA Today. Fourth Grade PE baseball teacher. #1 Fan of @ClaudiaKalb.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The next generation stands up for media independence: Journalists at @ACTheogony, the student newspaper at Alexandria City High School across the river from DC, are protesting a policy making the principal their top editor reviewing stories. @karina_elwood https://t.co/UZ6IkFW8XQ

[Steve Sternberg @StevenSternberg]

@Nationals Franny is family, I get it. He’s a part of Nat’s history. But he isn’t funny and half the time he’s incoherent.

[Steve Sternberg @StevenSternberg]

@BBGreatMoments Mel Allen, Phil Rizzuto, Red Barber

[Antonio Falconieri @AULaw24]

About the best European perspective on Russia you’re going to get. An amazing presentation and taste of what it looks like to have an intellectually sound and thoughtful president.

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act this week. If the bill passes, more than 21 million Americans could be blocked from voting. 1/

[Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH @DrRobDavidson]

As an ER doctor, I treat people when other systems fail. Now, we're watching those systems get dismantled on purpose: 20,000 jobs slashed at HHS. Vaccine and prevention programs gutted. And Congressional Republicans voting to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks. 1/10

[Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH @DrRobDavidson]

Public health isn’t partisan. It’s basic humanity. And right now, it’s under attack. Speak up. Organize. Protest. And in 2026, get ready to vote. Because silence is complicity—and people will die if we don’t stop this. /END

[Steve Sternberg @StevenSternberg]

Lakshmi Chilukuri helped create a pilot course on race, ethnicity and gender in biology and medicine. Her son in law is JD Vance.
https://t.co/McJFM9hjTZ

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

.@HHSGov has canceled the March meeting of outside experts who were to advise @US_FDA on what next winter's #flu shots should target. The irony of this: Canceling #VRBPAC makes the US more reliant on the @WHO -led strain selection process. https://t.co/cNFsUK9Zr2

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @CIDRAP did write! https://t.co/EH4xGF9M5a

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected.
Measles will spread if we give it the chance. https://t.co/OFC2kqRP3P

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump's DC reminds @sbg1 of Putin's Moscow 25 years ago -- "the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the president’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative." https://t.co/5GQnND2efy

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

"Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative…the largest donor to anti-malaria programs…worldwide, have been fired…incl some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world.”

[Alexander Tin @Alexander_Tin]

Influenza levels nationwide are now highest on record since peak of 2009 swine flu pandemic

Per figures published Friday by @CDCFlu, based on percent of outpatient respiratory illness from ILINet

https://t.co/xC0y7n2Bip

[Steve Sternberg @StevenSternberg]

Because authoritarian leaders thrive on spectacle and because he can silence dissent in the arts.

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

Serious question... why does Trump care about the Kennedy Center?

[bostonteaparty @bostonteapartyd]

@PeteButtigieg Remember when Republicans actually cared about America…

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

FBI agent writes urgent letter warning Americans about Trump.

Agent who stopped terrorist airline plot, prevented school shooting, and infiltrated sex traffickers — on top of investigating Jan 6 — has a dire warning you.

Full letter transcript👇
Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice
Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.

Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware of. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.

This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep-cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of prediction and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?

#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

[Brandon Richards 🐻 @BrandonRichards]

As we end the week, I wanted to share some really good local reporting on how President Trump's water actions in California are being received by locals...

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