Steve Berkowitz

This is utterly extraordinary. If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more. The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. Gets worse as you read it. 1/

WME Laying Off 30 Staffers, 3% of Headcount, After Going Private variety.com/2026/biz/news/…

OpenAI Shuts Down Sora AI Video, Disney Drops Planned $1B Investment variety.com/2026/digital/n…

Jurors in Santa Fe, New Mexico have ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to pay $375 million for thousands of violations against the state's consumer protection law. Meta has denied the allegations. @DavidMuir reports. abcnews.link/JfUoJJU

New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law yahoo.com/news/articles/…

What did ICE deployments cost American cities? : NPR npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-…

Trump casts a mail-in ballot in Florida special election as he tries to sharply limit absentee voting | CNN Politics cnn.com/2026/03/24/pol…

The Trump administration is considering withholding HIV treatment from Zambia (where 1.3M people rely on it) if Zambia doesn't give the US more access to critical minerals, per a draft memo prepared by the @StateDept's Africa Bureau for @MarcoRubio. nytimes.com/2026/03/16/hea…

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids — ProPublica propublica.org/article/trump-…

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-…

Ohio GOP drag ban cosponsor accused of misconduct with minor tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-gop…

BROWDER: Lifting sanctions on Russia and Iran makes no sense. I’m a financial specialist — I’ve never seen anything so senseless. Two evil regimes, Russia and Iran, are now getting more money for their oil. Something must be going on behind the scenes. Somebody’s benefiting.

A federal judge in Washington will allow a lawsuit to go forward that accuses billionaire Elon Musk of unconstitutionally exercising executive power during his time in the Trump administration last year as a presidential adviser bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Breaking: A record number of American workers are pulling money from their 401(k)s to cover financial emergencies on.wsj.com/4aLxvkk

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 propublica.org/article/trump-…

NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. "If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything." "As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land." Video: Local 12 WKRC

Noah Wyle speaks out against the Ellison family trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery: "These consolidations are usually really great for shareholders, and not usually great for the labor force."

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/5jnFcCt

This is absolutely not enough. Just on the policy piece alone, there are SO many individuals - staff, advisors, consultants, cabinet secretaries, spouses, and more - that can trade on insider information. This is just a fig leaf to deflect from criticism. We need to do more.

Trump Administration Fails to Punish White-Collar Criminals - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/features/…