Hannah Levintova

Bravo on Instagram: "🚨BREAKING FROM #BRAVOCON 🚨 In a state this small, there are no secrets. Here’s a first look at the Real Housewives of Rhode Island… coming 2026! #RHORI" Get an exclusive look at the upcoming reality TV show, The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, where tight-knit communities and small-town secrets are exposed. Residents of the tiny state reveal their au...

The new Real Housewives of Rhode Island trailer is at the perfect nexus of unhinged and deeply Rhode Island specific. 10/10 no notes! www.instagram.com/reel/DRIKraR...

Bill Pulte is really having a week The revelations against the Trump loyalist keep piling up.

Congrats to Bill Pulte for being named this week's Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division)

Bill Pulte is really having a week The revelations against the Trump loyalist keep piling up.

My latest: The flood of revelations this week against FHFA Director Bill Pulte will make your head spin! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I grew up in Allston as part of a family of immigrants. BU students are temporary guests in a corner of Boston that has long been a hub for immigrants from around the world. To do this (and to claim allegiance to the neighborhood along the way) is abhorrent.

The best bar in Providence that you’ve never heard of (and probably can’t find) - The Boston Globe With a long list of liquors, mocktails, and beers on tap, The Graduate Center Bar, which operates as a private club, is a place where friendships are crafted among the cocktails.

Not only is the GCB the perfect dive bar, but it is also a nonprofit, plus the owners will let you throw a rager of a wedding reception (I would know!). Glad it is getting its time to shine: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/m...

Internal emails show MPT’s top executives referring to the Wall Street Journal reporter who was writing about them as a “deranged, pretend journalist” whose sources, they claimed, were “absolutely fake.”

“I’m tired of this guy, wrote MPT’s CEO. “It’s time we go on the offensive.”

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

One analyst, a finance guy in Connecticut, got barraged with harassing tweets asking if he had security, saying that “his life [was] in danger,” and warning he could end up like a murdered journalist. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of those intelligence firms mounted an effort focused on protecting MPT. It included a fake blog, a planted Reddit user, that bank hack, and orders to dig into MPT critics' “vulnerabilities and pressure points,” including “career, integrity, personal life and identify any potential misconduct.”

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

What we found when we went through these leaked docs, though, is a much broader effort. MPT amassed an army of crisis management professionals to protect its reputation, eventually working alongside 3 crisis PR firms, 5 law firms, and 2 private intelligence firms. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The real estate company gutting America’s hospitals—and making bank A real estate company buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone bankrupt.

MPT owns and rents out nearly 400 facilities globally. A few years ago, journalists and financial analysts began pointing out that MPT might be hiding the fact that its hospitals were struggling under high rents. Things got intense; a critic’s bank account was hacked: revealnews.org/podcast/medi...

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

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...

Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, 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. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I had to Google the Hangi, and yes!

Some of the wishes on this list include getting rid of state regulation of children's online safety (to decrease costs, ofc), ending *all* state regulation of banking, and eliminating minimum and fair-wage requirements. Quite the lineup!

This account is journalism on weekdays, but Rhode Island clambakes on the weekends

The “Mini-Trump” attacking Lisa Cook had paperwork problems of his own Bill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trump's political enemies.

Bill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trump’s political enemies, including economist Lisa Cook.

However, critics argue that Pulte's abuse of office is "a far, far greater offense than any personal mortgage occupancy fraud by a federal official."

Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price. One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

And it is one more data point showing how the private equity business model isn't compatible with providing the best patient care. I wrote about another example for our latest issue, that of the PE-fueled Steward Health Care: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This study, published earlier this month, is quite striking. Especially because studying the impacts of PE ownership on hospitals is quite hard. The industry is opaque; plus, PE firms buy and then sell off the properties so fast that it's hard to track when something is or isn't PE-owned.

Her baby Lilly died. Lisa's lawyer filed a motion to compel Steward to turn over records so she could figure out if understaffing led to this delay. Her filing was *5 days* before Steward declared bankruptcy. That paused the case. Which means she can't get company records anymore. /10

In the case of Lisa Malick, she was pregnant with a healthy baby girl in 2021; it was her ninth pregnancy, after years of fertility struggles and IVF. She had a placental abruption at a Steward hospital. It took nearly 3 hours for someone to perform a C-section while the baby's heart rate fell. /9

Nabil and I talked on Zoom for months, almost weekly. It was a front row seat to the evolution of grief, and the recognition that something so life-altering can flow out of decisions made in a boardroom by people far removed from patient care. /8

In the case of Sungida’s husband, Nabil, 1.5 years later every day feels like a small betrayal. Of the dreams he and Sungida had for themselves and for their daughter in America. This was so apparent when I visited him in Dhaka for the film. /7

Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price. One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

Picking this back up to talk a little more about the two cases featured in this story and film. Both of these families emphasized the wreckage that continues to rip through their lives from the business decisions made at Steward hospitals. /6 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price. One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

@h-lev.bsky.social and @melissa.news scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals in nine states. We found 469 cases involving 83 patient deaths. The chain's bankruptcy means many of these patients can't pursue justice: bit.ly/455xC7O

Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price. One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

Sungida Rashid died after giving birth at a Massachusetts hospital run by the for-profit chain Steward Health Care.

She wasn't alone: @h-lev.bsky.social and @melissa.news uncovered 12 more instances of moms and newborns who died at these hospitals over the last 14 years: bit.ly/455xC7O

Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price. One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

It's impossible to read this story about a mom dying after childbirth and not be devastated and furious about everything that @h-lev.bsky.social found in her jaw-dropping investigation about America's biggest for-profit hospital operator www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Inside one of the largest hospitals scandals in US history | Fault Lines Documentary

@atwaheed.bsky.social and @lailaalarian.bsky.social at Fault Lines 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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXkE...

…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 decision; the months and years of what comes after. /4