Hannah Levintova

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.

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.

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.

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 !

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Why you should care about Trump’s war on the Fed "Jay Powell is not corrupt. The people prosecuting him are."

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...

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.

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.

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)

Thank you Phil!

Thank you! And what an incredible photo

Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.

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...

And if I may—I deliberately put a lot of links to local coverage into this piece, from The Providence Journal especially. In moments like these, please read and subscribe to the local journalists doing this work! www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...

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.

Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.

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.

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...

Poppy Alexander, an attorney who specializes in matters that involve cutting-edge financial frauds, including those involving cryptocurrency, said that niche memecoins are almost always pump-and-dump schemes: “The only people who make money are the people who usually get in before the coin is even launched.” A report from crypto-tracking company Solidus Labs published this year echoes this assessment: It found that 98.6 percent of the memecoins launched on the exchange where $ZACK was started were pump-and-dump schemes.

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.”

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.”

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.”

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...

With news that there is no suspect in custody for the Brown shooting, Providence isn't just a grieving city. It's an *anxious and scared* grieving city.

A dreadful time.

And all of this is magnified for folks at/affiliated with Brown U.

Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University Serving the Brown University community since 1891

Proud of the BDH journalists serving the mission under tough and tragic circumstances.

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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...