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/...

This is exactly what happened in 2001, driven by the tax preparation industry, in order to kill a public option for tax reporting. The goal, then and now, is to force citizens to pay private companies in order to do their tax returns. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...

Trump’s Treasury Secretary nominee comes to the post from the hedge fund world where he lost 90% of the approximately $6 billion of assets entrusted to him. Nine zero. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

So the Republican plan to pay for their tax cuts for the wealthy is to...you'll never guess...kick low-income people off their health insurance! Party of the working class over here. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/h...

Always read @sarahzhang.bsky.social

The Fed has a problem on the right, where it is increasingly seen as an arm of the Democratic establishment rather than as an apolitical technocracy. The political donation patterns of Fed system staff and boards of directors don't help. www.axios.com/2024/11/18/f...

I want to use bluesky to share pieces that taught me stuff. Here's a list of great stories today: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @smencimer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... via @jerusalem.bsky.social

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Matt Gaetz 1 month after Roe was overturned: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

Here goes the earnest personal intro! I’m Hannah Levintova, Special Projects Editor @motherjones.bsky.social, mom, and resident of the Best State™️, Rhode Island. Reporting on business, especially private equity, is my jam (I have an MBA), говорю по-русски. Other loves: 10-Ks, thrifting, New England

I’m sure others have already observed this but it’s hilarious that an efficiency commission requires two co-chairs

I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"

What's the quote about the definition of insanity being doing the same thing and expecting different results? Feeling that today. (Hello new social media platform, I guess I will be using you now!)