Jeff Berman
@jeffberman.bsky.social
Former civil rights lawyer & Senate staff. Current entrepreneur, activist & advocate. CEO and co-host of Masters of Scale. Protect Democracy board. Father of 3. Work in progress. (He/Him)
Most business biographies fall into one of two camps:
📚 Great stories with no lessons — or lessons with no soul.
Dirtbag Billionaire is the rare book that delivers both.
I blazed through this and can’t recommend it more highly.
#Booksky 💙📚
📚 Great stories with no lessons — or lessons with no soul.
Dirtbag Billionaire is the rare book that delivers both.
I blazed through this and can’t recommend it more highly.
#Booksky 💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Most business biographies fall into one of two camps:
📚 Great stories with no lessons — or lessons with no soul.
Dirtbag Billionaire is the rare book that delivers both.
I blazed through this and can’t recommend it more highly.
#Booksky 💙📚
📚 Great stories with no lessons — or lessons with no soul.
Dirtbag Billionaire is the rare book that delivers both.
I blazed through this and can’t recommend it more highly.
#Booksky 💙📚
Wandered into Garden District Bookshop on a recent trip to New Orleans and picked up The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke — first in his Dave Robicheaux series. Hard-boiled, poetic, swampy noir. Raymond Chandler on po’boys and chicory coffee. Ripped through it. #Booksky 💙📚
October 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Wandered into Garden District Bookshop on a recent trip to New Orleans and picked up The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke — first in his Dave Robicheaux series. Hard-boiled, poetic, swampy noir. Raymond Chandler on po’boys and chicory coffee. Ripped through it. #Booksky 💙📚
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# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
They misspelled Epstein again.
September 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
They misspelled Epstein again.
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When Joint Terrorism Task Forces were first set up, people predicted they could eventually be used by an authoritarian government to go after political enemies. And now they are.
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
When Joint Terrorism Task Forces were first set up, people predicted they could eventually be used by an authoritarian government to go after political enemies. And now they are.
What starts as a war reporting satire evolves into a riveting character study of a spiraling young correspondent. Incredibly tough needle to thread setting this in Gaza pre-10/7 but deftly handled. Blazed through it. Hard to believe this is a debut novel. #booksky 💙📚
September 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What starts as a war reporting satire evolves into a riveting character study of a spiraling young correspondent. Incredibly tough needle to thread setting this in Gaza pre-10/7 but deftly handled. Blazed through it. Hard to believe this is a debut novel. #booksky 💙📚
Jackbooted thugs
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Jackbooted thugs
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
“Abundance contains within it a bigness that befits the American project…. It is a determination to align our collective genius with the needs of both the planet and each other.” #booksky 💙📚
August 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Abundance contains within it a bigness that befits the American project…. It is a determination to align our collective genius with the needs of both the planet and each other.” #booksky 💙📚
Judge Boasberg was a prosecutor when I was a public defender. We battled. Hard. He is a paragon of integrity. This attack, to use a technical legal term, is just so deeply fucked.
DOJ escalates its attacks on judges who rule against Trump
July 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Judge Boasberg was a prosecutor when I was a public defender. We battled. Hard. He is a paragon of integrity. This attack, to use a technical legal term, is just so deeply fucked.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
June 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Love this.
For a dose of hope, check out the Courage Project, which gives awards to people performing every day acts of civic bravery: like distributing banned books, or proclaiming - despite the threat of being fired - that everyone is welcome in your classroom. Courage is contagious.
thecourageproject.org
thecourageproject.org
The Courage Project – Submit a Hero in Your Community
thecourageproject.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Love this.
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Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.
It's all out in the open.
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It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉
May 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Sen. Joni Ernst, after an audience member yells, “People will die,” during her discussion on Medicaid cuts at her town hall:
“Well, we all are going to die.”
“Well, we all are going to die.”
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Sen. Joni Ernst, after an audience member yells, “People will die,” during her discussion on Medicaid cuts at her town hall:
“Well, we all are going to die.”
“Well, we all are going to die.”
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Maybe we need US Senators who aren’t actually rooting for you to die.
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
May 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Maybe we need US Senators who aren’t actually rooting for you to die.
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So many snowflakes.
Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard."
(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
May 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
So many snowflakes.
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15 min. ago, Arya Sundaram, "migration reporter for Gothamist/WNYC" tweeted:
"DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St."
That Immigration Court is at 201 Varick Street at Houston St. @aryasundaram.bsky.social of @wnyc.org/ @gothamist.com
Link:
x.com/arya_sundara...
"DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St."
That Immigration Court is at 201 Varick Street at Houston St. @aryasundaram.bsky.social of @wnyc.org/ @gothamist.com
Link:
x.com/arya_sundara...
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
15 min. ago, Arya Sundaram, "migration reporter for Gothamist/WNYC" tweeted:
"DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St."
That Immigration Court is at 201 Varick Street at Houston St. @aryasundaram.bsky.social of @wnyc.org/ @gothamist.com
Link:
x.com/arya_sundara...
"DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St."
That Immigration Court is at 201 Varick Street at Houston St. @aryasundaram.bsky.social of @wnyc.org/ @gothamist.com
Link:
x.com/arya_sundara...
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This is a senior Justice Department official.
Who is in charge of pardons.
And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.
Who is in charge of pardons.
And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.
May 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is a senior Justice Department official.
Who is in charge of pardons.
And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.
Who is in charge of pardons.
And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.