Allow us to interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you our newest series: ✨Inconsequential Investigations ✨ This week, our reporters are tackling three personal mysteries: A mysterious midnight phone call, a missing film, and a doppelganger 🧵

Sometimes people will ask how I unwind after working on stories that are depressing and infuriating. Listening to stories like this one from @acleek.bsky.social is one method. I love when a journalist's insatiable curiosity is used for something unexpected and sweet. 🥰

While hospitals across the country were falling apart, leaving patients in crisis and facilities severely understaffed, a shocking campaign to silence and surveil critics was underway. Read @h-lev.bsky.social and @acleek.bsky.social's latest investigation into Medical Properties Trust.

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...