Hannah Levintova
@h-lev.bsky.social
Special Projects Editor & reporter at Mother Jones focused on business investigations. Spreadsheets are my love language. hlevintova@motherjones.com, DM for Signal.
*Do not miss* this infuriating new investigation by @h-lev.bsky.social and @acleek.bsky.social, who have relentlessly reported how profit-driven health care is making a select few rich—while putting patients at extreme risk
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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1/ Last summer, @acleek.bsky.social and I started getting emails from staffers of a company called American Healthcare Systems. They told us that their hospitals were in financial chaos and that they were struggling to care for patients. So we started digging: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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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
Did birth control make my depression worse?
What I wish I'd known about my IUD.
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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...
How Venture Capital Benefits From Zombie Bankruptcies
Inside the rise and fall of Foxtrot, a popular convenience chain that liquidated—and then reopened a near carbon copy of itself.
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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...
Trump's SEC is going after fewer Wall Street crimes
The agency released long-delayed data that confirmed a steep drop in enforcement.
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@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...
Senators demand Bill Pulte explain allegations from Mother Jones story
Our reporting uncovered a strange donation made by Pulte's charity.
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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...
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...
What was Bill Pulte’s charity really funding with this mystery donation?
It gave $65,000 to a nonprofit that records suggest is an LLC linked to Trump's legal defense.
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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...
What was Bill Pulte’s charity really funding with this mystery donation?
It gave $65,000 to a nonprofit that records suggest is an LLC linked to Trump's legal defense.
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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.
What was Bill Pulte’s charity really funding with this mystery donation?
It gave $65,000 to a nonprofit that records suggest is an LLC linked to Trump's legal defense.
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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.
Robert Smith@bondhack.ft.com · 6mo ago🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨 Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
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.
David Sirota@davidsirota.com · 7mo ago🚨NEWS: The Fed has quietly delivered nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS of no-strings-attached bank bailouts in the last few months, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis TARP bailout. www.levernews.com/the-federal-...
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...
Eight Journalists Win Investigative Reporting Grants from Newmark J-School - Newmark J-School
Eight veteran journalists have been named the latest recipients of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism.
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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...
Why you should care about Trump’s war on the Fed
"Jay Powell is not corrupt. The people prosecuting him are."
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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.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7mo agoBREAKING: The Trump administration is suspending $10 billion intended for child care and poor families in five blue states. www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
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.
Philip Eil@phileil.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm not an influencer, and I don't aspire to be one. But I will summon whatever online power I have to help keep Thayer Street businesses afloat.
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...
Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting
What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.
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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.
Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting
What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.
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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...
Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting
What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.
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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...
Bill Pulte promoted a memecoin run by an influencer facing fraud charges
“Getting involved in that space,” said one expert, “is not the best sign of sound financial judgment.”
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a young man in a pink shirt is smiling in a classroom with other students .
Alt: Zack from Saved By the Bell
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Hannah Levintova@h-lev.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew 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...
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...
Bill Pulte promoted a memecoin run by an influencer facing fraud charges
“Getting involved in that space,” said one expert, “is not the best sign of sound financial judgment.”
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