When my brilliant colleague @julialurie.bsky.social took out her IUD, she felt happier than she had in years. In true Julia fashion, this sparked an investigation: about birth control, mental health, and the work by scientists who are scrutinizing birth control to improve it: bit.ly/3SPQsMf

bill pulte? the anti-poverty crusader? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Given the news that Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, it feels timely to revisit the three different episodes of financial impropriety by Pulte that I’ve reported on in the just last six months! Let’s recap:/1

@whatsitlike.me reports on a new tactic favored by venture capital and private equity to shrink debt and walk away from risky investments virtually scot-free: Chapter 7 bankruptcy, using the example of the popular convenience chain, Foxtrot. /1 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I know there is a lot happening <gestures wildly at all this> but we should all be worried that America's main Wall Street watchdog quietly announced last week that it is prosecuting way fewer financial crimes: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@dfriedman.bsky.social and I recently published a story about a mysterious donation by Bill Pulte's charity that might have been funneling money to help Donald Trump. Today @warren.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov are demanding answers from Pulte himself: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My @motherjones.com investigation with Fault Lines into deadly births at Steward's for-profit hospitals just got nominated for an Emmy?! I'm still in awe that @atwaheed.bsky.social @lailaalarian.bsky.social took a chance on turning this into film. Watch it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXkE...

Nothing to see here!

Why did Bill Pulte's charity give $65,000 to a supposed nonprofit, "One World Love LLC," that doesn't seem to exist? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From me and @dfriedman.bsky.social: Why did Bill Pulte’s charity give $65K to a nonprofit that doesn’t seem to exist? The recipient may actually be an LLC with ties to Trump’s lawyers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SCOOP from @h-lev.bsky.social + @dfriedman.bsky.social: In 2023, Bill Pulte's charity donated $65K to a nonprofit called One World Love LLC. But records show One World Love is tied to a law firm that represented Trump in his efforts to prove election fraud and avoid paying damages after January 6.

Tresasury Sec Scott Bessent just told the House Financial Services Committee that there will be a Super Bowl ad this weekend for the new Trump accounts for babies. Who is paying for that pricey commercial?

A secret family office is quite something. Wow.

Wow, this story. It is so telling of the news landscape we live in that a not-so-mini bank bailout seems to be happening as we speak and...almost no one has noticed.

I am so thrilled and grateful to get this funding from the McGraw business journalism fellowship @newmarkjplus.bsky.social to keep reporting on for-profit healthcare with @acleek.bsky.social ! www.journalism.cuny.edu/2026/01/inve...

I talked to @jasonfurman.bsky.social about the Trump admin's decision to launch a first-in-history criminal inquiry into Fed chair Jay Powell—and what happened in other countries when leaders compromised central bank independence. (Tl;dr it wasn't good!) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The administration is freezing $10B in child care and anti-poverty funding in five states—putting care for hundreds of thousands of working-class families at risk. Cuts or delays this large will strain providers, disrupt quality care for children, and could force working parents out of their jobs.

YES. Thayer Street businesses need our $ right now and East Side Pockets is the absolute GOAT. My go-to order is a gyro-falafel combo wrap! Also low-key the best waffle fries in Providence.

Providence people - I’m working on a story about how residents first learned about the Brown shooting. Word of mouth, social media, official alerts? Feel free to DM me if you’re willing to share your experience (would need to use your full name)

may be biased because she's a friend, but this piece by @h-lev.bsky.social is the best piece I've read summing up the mood in Providence right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The longer that the Brown shooter goes un-caught, the more room there will be for the spread of conspiracy theories, misinformation, AI junk, and all manner of racist/xenophobic speculation. This worries me. And we're already seeing it.

A lovely, sad, and haunting piece about Providence and Brown University—before and after the shooting—from @h-lev.bsky.social.

As a Brown alum and Providence resident, I have been trying to find the right words to capture the vast grief layered across this community and the people who love it. In the end, I’m not sure if it’s really, fully possible to articulate. But I tried: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why does it matter that Pulte promoted $ZACK to his 3 million followers on X? As one expert told @h-lev.bsky.social, "The only people who make money are the people who usually get in before the coin is even launched.”

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: Inside the curious case of FHFA head Bill Pulte and the memecoin $ZACK www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me: The mysterious tale of Bill Pulte and a memecoin named after Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

With news that there is no suspect in custody for the Brown shooting, Providence isn't just a grieving city. It's an *anxious and scared* grieving city. A dreadful time. And all of this is magnified for folks at/affiliated with Brown U.

Proud of the BDH journalists serving the mission under tough and tragic circumstances.

The new Real Housewives of Rhode Island trailer is at the perfect nexus of unhinged and deeply Rhode Island specific. 10/10 no notes! www.instagram.com/reel/DRIKraR...

Congrats to Bill Pulte for being named this week's Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division)

My latest: The flood of revelations this week against FHFA Director Bill Pulte will make your head spin! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I grew up in Allston as part of a family of immigrants. BU students are temporary guests in a corner of Boston that has long been a hub for immigrants from around the world. To do this (and to claim allegiance to the neighborhood along the way) is abhorrent.

Not only is the GCB the perfect dive bar, but it is also a nonprofit, plus the owners will let you throw a rager of a wedding reception (I would know!). Glad it is getting its time to shine: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/m...

This July, @acleek.bsky.social & I made a radio show about a major hospital landlord named Medical Properties Trust. Now, we’ve unraveled MPT's aggressive effort to silence and surveil its critics as they tried to raise alarm, using docs leaked to @occrp.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, he did not file a required disclosure form tied to the role with the SEC—the same kind of paperwork error he has used to attack Trump's political foes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some of the wishes on this list include getting rid of state regulation of children's online safety (to decrease costs, ofc), ending *all* state regulation of banking, and eliminating minimum and fair-wage requirements. Quite the lineup!

This account is journalism on weekdays, but Rhode Island clambakes on the weekends

Bill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trump’s political enemies, including economist Lisa Cook. However, critics argue that Pulte's abuse of office is "a far, far greater offense than any personal mortgage occupancy fraud by a federal official."

This study, published earlier this month, is quite striking. Especially because studying the impacts of PE ownership on hospitals is quite hard. The industry is opaque; plus, PE firms buy and then sell off the properties so fast that it's hard to track when something is or isn't PE-owned.

@h-lev.bsky.social and @melissa.news scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals in nine states. We found 469 cases involving 83 patient deaths. The chain's bankruptcy means many of these patients can't pursue justice: bit.ly/455xC7O

Sungida Rashid died after giving birth at a Massachusetts hospital run by the for-profit chain Steward Health Care. She wasn't alone: @h-lev.bsky.social and @melissa.news uncovered 12 more instances of moms and newborns who died at these hospitals over the last 14 years: bit.ly/455xC7O

It's impossible to read this story about a mom dying after childbirth and not be devastated and furious about everything that @h-lev.bsky.social found in her jaw-dropping investigation about America's biggest for-profit hospital operator www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the rise and fall of Steward Health Care—fueled by a private equity firm, a real estate trust, & multimillionaire executives. The saga is a stunning indictment of what happens when financiers try to squeeze huge returns from the places that save people's lives. /1 shorturl.at/TcvV7

A DOGE staffer involved in dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau holds as much as $365,000 worth of shares of companies that the CFPB can regulate. Ethics experts say his actions are a potential violation of federal ethics laws.

Never a bad moment to revisit our blowout issue on private equity, kicked off by this banger of an essay by @h-lev.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The roughly $2.5 billion California's insurer of last resort (FAIR) said it had lined up for quick claim fulfillment in 2024 is not even half of its nearly $6 billion exposure in the now-charred Palisades. www.motherjones.com/environment/...