Rebecca Ostriker

The DEA touted a Sinaloa Cartel takedown in New England. An investigation found they arrested shoplifters and addicts. - The Boston Globe A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against suc...

Trump administration claims of 171 'high-level' Sinaloa Cartel arrests in New England were overblown. An investigation by @globespotlight.bsky.social found they arrested shoplifters and addicts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m... @bostonglobe.com

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Markey, Sanders, Blumenthal Introduce Legislation to Protect Health Systems from Predatory Real Estate Investment Trust Deals | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Bill Text (PDF) Washington (October 8, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on...

In related news, ICYMI: @markey.senate.gov, @sanders.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov introduced the Stop Medical Profiteering and Theft Act to protect hospitals from predatory sale-leaseback deals with REITS. Yes, that's Stop MPT, after the Steward debacle. www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...

So happy to win the Loeb Award for local reporting with my amazing @globespotlight.bsky.social colleagues! @bostonglobe.com

The late, great @bostonglobe.com classical music critic Richard Dyer’s final gift to the Boston music community: an astounding library of 20,000-plus records, in a pay-what-you-can sale this weekend at his Cambridge condo. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/a...

Trump’s shadow looms over Blue Jays-Yankees ALDS showdown - The Boston Globe In Canada the term “Yankees” stands as shorthand for the citizens of the country that twice sent Trump to the White House.

Sox fans wanted to beat the Yankees, but that’s nothing compared to how Canadians feel: “The nemesis here isn’t Bucky Dent. It’s Donald Trump. And among Canadians, the two men share the same deprecating middle name,” says David Shribman www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

The rowdy colonists you never heard of, and how they might have changed the world: Terrific take on Thomas Morton and a demented piece at the the Boston Public Art Triennial
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/a... @bostonglobe.com

I led the civil rights unit at the US Attorney’s Office in Boston. Its dismantling leaves an alarming void. - The Boston Globe If your civil rights are violated, there may be no one at the federal level left to call.

“If your civil rights are violated, there may be no one at the federal level left to call,” writes Jennifer A. Serafyn, former chief of the civil rights unit at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. @globeopinion.bsky.social
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Dr. Derrick Todd has been accused of abusing patients. He could have been stopped sooner. Hundreds of women allege Dr. Derrick Todd sexually abused them over a decade. A Globe Spotlight investigation found the state’s medical establishment missed key warning signs.

🧵 Nearly 250 patients have filed civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by Dr. Derrick Todd, a renowned doctor at top Boston hospitals. He also faces two criminal charges of rape.

A @globespotlight.bsky.social report found he could have been stopped earlier.

‘Yankees suck!’ The rise, fall, and healing power of Boston’s most famous chant. - The Boston Globe Once Boston’s loudest battle cry, "Yankees suck!" has kind of lost its sting — and maybe become a wellness hack instead.

‘Yankees suck!’ The rise, fall, and healing power of Boston’s most famous chant, from the great @bethteitell.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/l... @bostonglobe.com

Opinion: The only real progress in sorting through the greed and corruption that propelled the Steward empire has come recently in a Maltese courtroom, where officials continue to pursue a case against former Steward executive and Brookline resident Armin Ernst, who led Steward’s international arm.

Trump targets faux criminals; Steward chief still unscathed - The Boston Globe Justice Department can’t tell the good guys from the bad.

The DOJ has begun to work on Trump’s enemies list, starting with Comey. But when it comes to actual bad actors—like Ralph de la Torre, who drove a hospital chain into bankruptcy, endangering lives, Pam Bondi can’t seem to find the time. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

It's a wonderful piece @karenkrussell.bsky.social

Karen Kenyatta Russell: Renaming Charlestown Bridge after my late father Bill honors Boston, too - The Boston Globe Karen Kenyatta Russell says the choice of Bill Russell’s name is fitting. His relationship with Boston was, in many ways, like a bridge itself.

“Bill Russell is a bridge,” writes daughter @karenkrussell.bsky.social of the newly named span connecting Boston and Charlestown. “His relationship with Boston was, in many ways, like a bridge itself. At its best, it was proud, glorious, and unifying.”
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Jimmy Kimmel is returning. Here’s why he should just go solo. - The Boston Globe The waning of network power may mean that the best way for stars to survive and thrive is by becoming individual brands.

“As I was saying before I was interrupted”: Kimmel’s first words in his return echoed Jack Paar in 1960. “There have been two pivotal moments in the history of late-night television." With both "it didn’t take long for the tide to turn.”
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Boston Mayor Wu: “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures....Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law.” Meanwhile under Trump, “good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/m... @bostonglobe.com

Sometimes you just have to throw your sandwich - The Boston Globe The Internet’s latest folk hero reminds us that food can be a powerful tool of protest.

"The entire time the man in the pink shirt was yelling, he held in his left hand a floppy parcel wrapped in paper. Call it Chekhov’s bun." @devrafirst.bsky.social on DC's pink-shirted hoagie hero, pitching a Subway like Pedro Martinez in the rough www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/l... @bostonglobe.com

Luxury condo building boom: Boston's towers of wealth Luxury high-rises are sprouting across the skyline. Why is Boston, amid a grave housing crisis, so much better at building homes for the wealthy than those in need?

"There is a housing crisis on the ground, but a surplus in the sky": Two years ago, @GlobeSpotlight found that with so many luxury units hitting the Boston market, developers were sitting on scores of unsold luxury condos, worth over $1 billion. apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/spec...

Why Jon Cronin’s ritzy Seaport condos flopped - The Boston Globe The St. Regis Residences Boston should have been a home run. Instead, the first-time developer whiffed.

A Boston luxury tower tale: "Nearly three years after the first tenants moved in, 40 percent of the 114 units remain unsold." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/n... @bostonglobe.com

A massacre in slow motion: Israel is responsible for mass starvation in Gaza - The Boston Globe Every day that Israel is forcing starving Palestinians to fight over crumbs, more children are dying at Israel’s hands.

"Starvation is an outrage and a scandal — and very often a crime. The unfolding famine in Gaza today is a massacre in slow motion," writes Alex de Waal. @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/07/o...

Everett city lawyer on leave after second drunken-driving charge. It’s his fourth arrest in two years. - The Boston Globe "I’m going to prosecute you because I’m a lawyer," the assistant solicitor allegedly told the patrolman who gave him a field sobriety test.

A top deputy to Everett's mayor faces second drunken-driving charge, his fourth arrest in two years. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m... @bostonglobe.com

New hope for Alzheimer’s: Groundbreaking Harvard study finds lithium reverses brain aging - The Boston Globe The research suggests a new approach to preventing and treating the mind-robbing disease.

“It seems to somehow turn back the clock,” said Dr. Bruce Yankner. New hope for Alzheimer’s: Groundbreaking Harvard study finds lithium reverses brain aging. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m... @bostonglobe.com ‪@kaylazar.bsky.social‬

US must end its complicity in Israel’s annihilation of Gaza - The Boston Globe The tide is turning. Americans want this to end. They do not want to be complicit in an unfolding famine and daily massacres.

Opinion | Bernie Sanders on Israel and Gaza: "This is not military strategy. There is no military purpose to starving children. This is an effort to destroy a people. This is ethnic cleansing." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social ‪@sanders.senate.gov‬

The state’s bill to wrest control of Brighton hospital equity firm is far higher than first expected - The Boston Globe The state has reached a settlement with the investment firm that owned the Brighton campus of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.

Mass. agrees to acquire St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, a former Steward hospital, for $66 million by eminent domain. Investment firm Apollo had wanted about $200M. MPT had bought it for $189M. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/b... @bostonglobe.com

A columnist walks into another columnist’s newsletter… - The Boston Globe This is what we came up with so that our readers can get to know us a little better.

Love this: Renée Graham on her best celebrity story (it's Prince), her biggest journalistic regret, and 5 other answers to probing questions from @globeopinion.bsky.social colleagues
@marcelagarcia.bsky.social and Alan Wirzbicki. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/o...

Ozzy Osbourne, his Boston lawyer, and the bat that got its head bit off - The Boston Globe Joseph Steinfield had never heard of Ozzy Osbourne before he saved a concert at Boston Garden in 1982.

Ozzy Osbourne, his Boston lawyer, and the bat that got its head bit off www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m... @bostonglobe.com

AI music? Give me the human touch. - The Boston Globe The Velvet Sundown recently became wildly popular on Spotify. What does it sound like? Definitively generic. But try it for yourself.

The Velvet Sundown, an AI phenomenon, recently generated a flurry of headlines as it became wildly popular on Spotify. Jon Garelick checked it out. “Yes, AI is making music. And who can tell the difference?”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/28/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

‘The brutal reality’: The typical single-family house in Greater Boston now costs $1 million - The Boston Globe The all-time record prices put Greater Boston alongside New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Southern California.

‘The brutal reality’: The typical single-family house in Greater Boston now costs $1 million, an all-time record. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/18/b... @bostonglobe.com

New filing: Steward general counsel didn’t know Ralph de la Torre was secretly negotiating transaction with MPT and Cerberus that would clear the way for $111M dividend–most of which went to RDLT. Comments of disbelief ensued. More from @globespotlight.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...