Michael J. Stern

Michael J. Stern

@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

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Princess Diana was a humanitarian. Decency sprang from her quietly, consistently. I remember how great an impact this had. Diana embraced gay people in our darkest hour, when so many turned away from us.

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Important decision. Career civil servants cannot be fired because the administration does not like them or their politics. I was a federal prosecutor for 25 years. We must be free to seek justice, not curry favor with politicians. Hope Comey wins the appeal. www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p...

cnn.comJudge: Maurene Comey was illegally fired from Justice Department | CNN PoliticsA federal judge on Monday found the Justice Department’s firing of Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who presided over several high-profile cases including those of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “...

In the 60s my dad owned a nightclub in Detroit called "The Wisdom Tooth." Before Joni hit it big, she would play my dad's club. Little known tidbit: My mom says Joni was a sewing wiz. She became friends with my mom and would borrow my mom's clothes and sew knockoffs. 😊

It's insane that the Trump administration is paying to cancel development of solar & wind energy. Why's Trump doing this? Lots of his big GOP donors run fossil fuel companies like oil or coal. Trump is selling America's future for the personal gain of himself and other billionaires. Vote Dem.

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Trump‘s Justice Department is again abusing its power with a new charge against James Comey. The fact they filed an information, rather than an indictment from a grand jury, does not look promising for DOJ. Trump always refers to a “witch hunt“. This is it. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/j...

cnbc.comDOJ charges ex-FBI Director James Comey in new caseComey for years has been targeted by President Donald Trump, who fired him as FBI director in 2017.

Using your power as mayor to take over a NYPD gymnasium for a game of basketball for yourself and your buddies, and interrupting recruits’ training sessions, doesn’t sound much like a Democratic socialist to me. Sounds like an abuse of power.  www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

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Another $800,000,000 is being paid to victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of people working for the Catholic church. So spare us all the false Christian claims about drag queens & LGBT people being dangerous to kids. The danger is coming from inside the house. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

nytimes.comNew York Archdiocese Agrees to Settle Sexual Abuse Claims for Over $800 MillionThe Roman Catholic archdiocese might now avoid bankruptcy by reaching a settlement with 1,300 people who said they had been abused by clergy members and lay leaders.

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There is a blatantly antisemitic PAC ad for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social running on TV. A couple in a grocery store say they can't afford food for their kids because the U.S. is taking their grocery money to help Israel and "kill Palestinians." It's vile and Abdul El-Sayed needs to condemn it now!

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Another $800,000,000 is being paid to victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of people working for the Catholic church. So spare us all the false Christian claims about drag queens & LGBT people being dangerous to kids. The danger is coming from inside the house. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

nytimes.comNew York Archdiocese Agrees to Settle Sexual Abuse Claims for Over $800 MillionThe Roman Catholic archdiocese might now avoid bankruptcy by reaching a settlement with 1,300 people who said they had been abused by clergy members and lay leaders.

Important decision. Career civil servants cannot be fired because the administration does not like them or their politics. I was a federal prosecutor for 25 years. We must be free to seek justice, not curry favor with politicians. Hope Comey wins the appeal. www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p...

cnn.comJudge: Maurene Comey was illegally fired from Justice Department | CNN PoliticsA federal judge on Monday found the Justice Department’s firing of Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who presided over several high-profile cases including those of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “...

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David Jolly: "The problem in this environment is not that I used to be a Republican. It's that Byron Donalds still is one."

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wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

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Damn, I watch one caulking video and now every other video that pops up is a caulking tutorial. And don't get me started on the hell that took over my computer after watching ten seconds of The Kardashians.