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Stephanie Mencimer

@smencimer.bsky.social

Senior reporter Mother Jones. Utah native. Send me tips at smencimer@motherjones.com or securely on Signal at smencimer.48 or smencimer@proton.me

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Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.

Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. 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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Andrew Beaujon@abeaujon.bsky.social · 3w ago

“I’d take you upstairs, but there’s a lot of underwear on the floor": A date with Lindsey Graham in the mid-'90s. (The writer also went on a date with Mark Foley.) washingtonian.com/2013/06/14/f...

From the Archives: How To Date a Congressman - Washingtonian

Election Night 1994: The nation's voters control my future tonight. I sit in front of the television watching the returns. Pen in hand, I update my candidate checklist as percentages flash across the ...

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

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Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm gonna keep posting the fact that only $9 million (inflation adjusted) changed hands in Teapot Dome and it was the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate until it stops being relevant.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last mo.

A fund that includes Trump’s eldest sons among its investors has booked hundreds of millions of dollars in paper profits through a playbook that involves taking stakes in a steady stream of small, thinly traded public companies

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last mo.

Every day Sean Duffy doesn’t have to preside over a mass casualty event in the skies thanks to his mismanagement of the transportation department, the odds get better that he will have to

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · last mo.

One day after a Delta Air Lines flight aborted a landing at Logan Airport to avoid a potential crash, a second Delta flight pulled up abruptly before landing and performed a maneuver called a go-around Sunday because another aircraft was still clearing the runway, according to the FAA.

Stephanie Mencimer@smencimer.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is the Utah primary. And it will be interesting! The red state will probably nominate a Democrat who will win in November now that it has eliminated partisan gerrymandering. That vote could help determine which party controls Congress. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

Utah voters finally got a fair map. Republicans are making sure it never happens again.

The GOP has a veto-proof supermajority, even though the state’s demographics have changed dramatically.

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Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scoop with @dfriedman.bsky.social: Trump brought a statue of a slave owner out of storage & hired a contractor to build it a new pedestal in DC. Installing it took ONE day & cost $527K. The Gov't justified the high price tag w/ urgent need to finish by July 4. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump resurrected the statue of a slave owner. Its pedestal cost taxpayers $527k.

Contracting documents obtained by Mother Jones indicate the price was nearly double the government's estimate.

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Hannah Levintova@h-lev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm neither a transportation expert nor a reality TV star. But I am the resident of a red state whose capital city airport regularly experiences 2+-hour traffic jams and has had to ground flights due to insufficient ATC staffing. Please spare us your "boon."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Faulkner: "Sanctuary cities include Boston, Chicago, Denver, LA, NY, Philadelphia, SF. All of those airports handle 1,100 int'l flights per day. They're not just gonna not fly. They're gonna go to red states and cities. A boon for red states. People will just really hate living in blue states."

Stephanie Mencimer@smencimer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's funny how the billionaires don't mind losing money on their sucky vanity projects but when real journalists they employ do real work and it costs money it's a trigger for massive layoffs.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3mo ago

Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter. trib.al/H1LFndd