Joshua Grossberg
banner
jgrossberg.bsky.social
Joshua Grossberg
@jgrossberg.bsky.social
Filmmaker on the hunt for Orson Welles’ lost print of The Magnificent Ambersons. Longtime Phan and also Price Is Right and Publisher’s Clearing House winner (yes, really!) 🇺🇦
Pinned
I’m excited to join Bluesky and add my voice to a community where engagement isn’t all about the clicks.

Instead I’m here for the ideas and diversity of opinion - as opposed to the dumpster fire over there on Billionaire’s row (aka X, formerly Twitter).

So let’s chat!
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
Madeleine Dean is great.
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why is it animal cruelty when a man kills his pet peacocks but it’s not when we kill a billion chickens a year in a heinous industrial process akin to the Holocaust?

How about we arrest Purdue and Bell and Evan’s CEO as well.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Florida man killed and ate his pet peacocks, authorities say
A man from Florida's Gulf Coast has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing, cooking, and eating two of his pet peacocks
abcnews.go.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Gotta watch out for those illegals swimming across Lake Michigan.

GTFOH
ICE GOONS patrol the Chicago River in gunboats.
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
“Show us your warrant!”

“Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔

*busts in the door with babies crying*
September 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
Erasing history. Another characteristic of autocrats and dictators.
July 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
So there it is. They finally managed to kill someone in one of their Rambo cosplay events. Stephen Miller is responsible for this needless death. Theses thugs who in many cases were able to get legit police jobs think they’re doing a bin Laden compound raid or something.
July 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Citizens United is the crux of all our problems.

Get big money and corporate power out of politics and Congress will start functioning again - for the People.
It’s time
June 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
Brutal.
June 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.
June 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
With its sale to Concord Originals, I hope RKO Pictures returns to making seminal movies and backing daring artists as they once did with Orson Welles.

As my doc The Lost Print will show, even despite the awful re-editing, they still greenlit The Magnificent Ambersons!

deadline.com/2025/06/conc...
Concord Originals Acquires Historic Studio RKO, Along With Derivative Rights To Classics Such As Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion’
Concord Originals has acquired historic film studio RKO Studio, thereby securing derivative rights to numerous classic films from a bygone era.
deadline.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
RIP George Wendy, aka Norm on Cheers. A brilliant Everyman whose beer quips made Thursday nights Must See.

I’m sure God has a barstool reserved up there for ya.

I raise a glass and toast to your wonderful life and career.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...
George Wendt, the Beer-Loving Norm on ‘Cheers,’ Dies at 76
Jason Sudeikis' uncle earned Emmy nominations six years running after getting started on Second City in his hometown of Chicago.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Here’s a direct link to New Zeland Radio’s story and interview on my latest film.

Give it a listen!

www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...
The search for Orson Welles' lost masterpiece
Josh Grossberg, a New York-based documentarian and journalist, has been on exhaustive search to find the “Holy Grail of cinema.”
www.rnz.co.nz
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
HAPPENING NOW: Bail hearing for Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts PhD student who remains in detention in Louisiana after she was taken from her home in Massachusetts by masked immigration authorities.

The hearing is before a Vermont judge. Ozturk is appearing virtually from Louisiana.
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is certifiably insane.

Trump isn’t trying to save Hollywood, he’s going to destroy it, prob to stick it to libs.

Does this mean we tax Chris Nolan’s The Odyssey or the next Mission Impossible for filming all over the world? Or using VFX houses in New Zealand?

deadline.com/2025/05/trum...
Donald Trump Says He’s Pursuing 100% Tariffs On Movies Produced Outside U.S., Calling Runaway Production “A National Security Threat”
UPDATED, with addition comments from the president: Donald Trump said that he is ordering the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department to begin the process to impose a 100% tariff on impo...
deadline.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Those Russians responsible for this abomination and others must be prosecuted for war crimes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Joshua Grossberg
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
April 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM