1/ Last fall, I pitched my bosses @MotherJones on a project that would try to illustrate the depth of private equity’s investment in our daily lives, and its real-life impact. That package, with contributions from much of our newsroom, is out today: motherjones.com/privateequit…
A scoop from me and @dfriedman33: 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. motherjones.com/politics/202…
If you want to support the amazing journalists who lost their jobs at the Washington Post today, please consider contributing if you can gofundme.com/f/standing-toge…
I talked to @jasonfurman 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!) motherjones.com/politics/202…
Thank you @H_Lev for writing this. It’s been so difficult for me to articulate how unfair it feels to have a place you love so much be so deeply misunderstood and widely criticized by those who had never had a thought about us otherwise.
This is Providence. This is who we are:
ALT Screenshot from the article by Hannah Levintova this tweet quote tweets. It reads “That safety and openness have long extended to Providence. The city’s nickname is “the Creative Capital,” because it is a place that embraces difference.”
ALT Screenshot from the article by Hannah Levintova this tweet quote tweets. It reads: “It is bursting with enormous murals and artist communities and underground music. Providence is one of the most ethnically diverse midsize cities in the country. Most weekends in the spring and summer, there is a huge festival celebrating a different one of the city’s immigrant communities, from Cape Verdean to Dominican to Armenian. Parks and institutions around the city are named after Roger Williams, a Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island and Providence as a refuge for “liberty of conscience” and a rebellious experiment, a defection from the strict Puritans in Massachusetts, and made it the first government in the Western world to guarantee religious freedom.”
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: motherjones.com/politics/202…
I may be biased because she's a friend, but this piece by @H_Lev is the best first-person account I've read summing up the mood in Providence right now motherjones.com/politics/202…
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: motherjones.com/politics/202…
And if I may—I deliberately put a lot of links to local coverage into this piece, from @projo especially. In moments like these, please read and subscribe to the local journalists doing this work! providencejournal.com/live-s…
This past summer, @H_Lev and I published an episode of Reveal digging into why a bunch of hospitals all owned by one real estate company, Medical Properties Trust seemed to be struggling
revealnews.org/podcast/medic…
New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But 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. 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 hospitals. /1 shorturl.at/TcvV7
…12 more moms and newborns who died. And 21 who suffered severe injuries. Their stories lay bare the line from corporate greed to shattered lives. But what we rarely get a chance to see is the long arc of devastation from these business decisions; the months and years after. /4
@atwaheed and @LailaAlarian@AJFaultLines decided to turn this reporting into a film. I'm so grateful to them. We travelled around the world to follow two families whose lives were torn apart, including Sungida’s husband and daughter /5 youtube.com/watch?v=EXkEwqKM…
Making a final plug for my feature on how election officials from both parties have prepared for possible chaos in order to keep you—and your vote—safe today.
motherjones.com/politics/202…
From ending Public Service Loan Forgiveness to hampering Pell Grants, a Trump administration would decimate efforts at debt relief and college affordability. My latest: motherjones.com/politics/202…
Negative projections about Trump 'off the charts' tariff plans:
-- Cost to typical family: $2,600/yr (Peterson Institute);
-- Cost could be as high as $7.6K/yr (Yale budget lab)
-- Gas price hike: 75 cent/gallon (GasBuddy);
-- Poorest pay 6% more as share of income (ITEP);
-- US stock contraction: ~10% (UBS);
-- ~20% decline in GM earnings (Evercore);
-- 684K fewer full-time jobs (Tax Foundation)
Full story:
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