@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)
Propulsive storytelling featuring chapters alternating between the perspectives and voices of two protagonists. Chekhov’s gun appears early yet when it goes off, it’s a surprise that made me audibly gasp. Highly recommend. #Booksky 💙📚
01.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When the world is upside down, books help me make sense of it all.
In 2024, I re-read The Handmaid’s Tale.
In 2025, I re-read 1984.
In 2026, it’s Fahrenheit 451.
I wish they didn’t hold up so well.
#Booksky 💙📚
An incredibly valuable framework and inspiration from @cecilymak.bsky.social. #BookSky 💙📚
18.01.2026 20:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Martian meets Murderbot with a dash of Her and a twist of Edgar Allan Poe. #BookSky 💙📚
27.12.2025 03:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An absolute gem of a novel. #BookSky 💙📚
24.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You know that rare book, the kind you might find once a year, that you literally hug when you finish reading it? Yeah. This is one of those. Pre-order it now. You’re going to love this one. #BookSky 💙📚
06.12.2025 17:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
03.12.2025 03:01 — 👍 9228 🔁 2807 💬 320 📌 151
The most un-put-down-able memoir I’ve read this year. If you’re resisting because you’re not into running, get over it. An extraordinary read from @nicholas and a phenomenal Chrismukah gift for the book lover in your life. #Booksky 💙📚
01.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 💙📚
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 💙📚
05.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Better late than never in coming to the Murderbot series #BookSky 💙📚
28.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0# 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
They misspelled Epstein again.
27.09.2025 14:01 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0When 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.
26.09.2025 03:45 — 👍 179 🔁 78 💬 7 📌 1
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 💙📚
07.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jackbooted thugs
16.08.2025 17:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But if that was ham, a grand jury will indict him.
13.08.2025 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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“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 💙📚
03.08.2025 18:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Judge 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.
29.07.2025 01:41 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Holds up. Unfortunately.
#booksky 📚💙
Beep beep
26.07.2025 23:59 — 👍 147 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Love this.
30.05.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump'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.
It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉
30.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 5296 🔁 1651 💬 403 📌 608
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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...
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.”
