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- NEW INVESTIGATION: A private equity-fueled for-profit chain slashed patient care for years while its executives got rich. So we scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals. And we found how mothers, newborns, and others paid the ultimate price.
- We scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals in the nine states where they operated. We found 469 cases involving 83 patient deaths. The chain's bankruptcy means many of these patients can't pursue justice.
- “One private company…has the power to rewrite the use-of-force standards for America’s largest state, and that’s just unacceptable.” Read our 2020 investigation into Lexipol⬇️
- “We don’t know when, if ever, they will be able to reunite with their family.” Thousands of kids are stuck in immigration facilities—with no end in sight.
- “This bill confirms what we’ve been saying all along, Trump and Republicans have been lying when they claim they aren’t going to cut Medicaid and take away people’s health care,” Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said.
- "After just three short months of the Trump administration, we are contemplating the abdication of US leadership in oceanic and atmospheric science." from @thebulletin.org via @climatedesk.org
- The most jarring aesthetic in this burgeoning MAGA stagecraft is the unbridled embrace of face-altering procedures: plastic surgery, veneers, and injectables like Botox and fillers.
- “If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50 percent of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
- "The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- According to ABC, the White House and Department of Justice concluded that the gift does not constitute bribery because it is “not conditioned on any official act.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
