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Heather Boushey

@hboushey.bsky.social
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Economics. Personal views.

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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans' financial situation." Donald Trump, May 12, 2026 x.com/Acyn/status/... Oh, and investing in sewer systems is now DEI: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
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They Were Promised New Septic Tanks. Trump Called It ‘Illegal DEI.’
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is BFP: What the New Loan Caps Will Mean for Grad Students This Fall www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
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What the New Loan Caps Will Mean for Grad Students This Fall
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft
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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Weird how he chose to defend a surgery which predominately benefits men, while blaming women for not doing enough unpaid work to support the system.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16/03/2026
Greg Bovino won’t just get to walk away — he will be held accountable and responsible for the damage he's done to our nation. We won’t forget, and neither should you. No one is above the law.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/03/2026
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/03/2026
Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate. The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
so in conclusion, the state of the union is actually very bad because a man who tried to end democracy is using the government to personally enrich himself and his buddies while executing citizens and noncitizens alike
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Turning Point USA hosted an event in Alabama recently with two leading abortion 'abolitionists' - extremists who want abortion patients punished with the death penalty. Legislators in over a dozen states (and counting) have introduced their bills. This is no longer a 'fringe' movement
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Clean energy is ready—but it’s stuck in line. Projects wait years in the interconnection queue, even as demand from AI and data centers surges. That bottleneck risks fossil lock-in and higher costs. If we want cheaper, cleaner power, we need to fix the backlog: hboushey.substack.com/p/stuck-in-l...
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Stuck in Line
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
And away we go. @bloomberg.com
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Good news: Happy Kevin walks back his call for NY Fed economists to be disciplined. Bad news: It's bullshit. He says the Fed should stay out of issues like... whether tariffs cause inflation. But inflation is central to monetary policy! He's still saying: The regime shall not be contradicted.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
😕🇺🇸
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"
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How tech turned against women
As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 20/02/2026
Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs. A stitched together majority, as expected. Read along thread here.👇 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court has finally spoken: The President took his emergency powers far too far. The real emergency is Trump's poor management of the U.S. economy. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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Live Updates: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"That a representative body should constrain the executive’s fiscal power dates to Magna Carta in 1215... the framers gave Congress alone the power 'to lay and collect taxes' [because] untrammeled executive power over public money opens the door to tyranny." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Raising Billions in Federal Funds. That’s Not a Good Thing.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
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With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
ICYMI 🤨 Job growth in 2025 rivals lows not seen since crisis years of 2009 and 2020—a sharp turn from the strongest labor market in decades 🤬 The administration has revoked the endangerment finding, dismissing the economic costs of climate change More here: hboushey.substack.com/p/on-fragile...
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On Fragile Ground
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11/02/2026
An image we won't soon forget. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to look at Epstein survivors pictured behind her on the Hill today.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The interview w/Idaho sheriff involved in the raid (who I covered OFTEN years ago) is striking. He disputes zip-tied kids until shown pic of 14YO girl (same pic that made FBI backtrack months ago) Then: "I've gone against gang members who are a lot younger than that" www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...
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A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics
A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Farming sustains millions of livelihoods, but 2025 brought trade wars, market concentration, and climate risks. Rural America is at a crossroads, and what happens on the farm affects us all. Read more on farming economics in my latest Substack: hboushey.substack.com/p/strong-far...
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Strong Farms, Weak Policy
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If only there were a newspaper in Washington, perhaps one owned by a person of considerable wealth, that still employed “metro” reporters who could cover a story of such intense local interest and importance
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Next is "El Apagón" (the blackout) which I could write a whole thread about on its own The song and its video (a mini documentary) are about a lot of things, including the problems with Puerto Rico's electrical grid, which have gotten worse since Hurricane Maria
Backup dancers pretend to fall from electrical poles
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/02/2026
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
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Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 09/02/2026
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
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The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 09/02/2026
power transformers mentioned in halftime show ⚡️
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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
ICYMI. If you can spare a minute, it’s worth getting to know Senator Lucas. Dedicated public servant working for the common good. apps.senate.virginia.gov/Senator/memb...
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Senate Members - Virginia Senate
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Epstein class. That works. I wonder if anyone has cross-checked the Epstein files with the Panama Papers? www.icij.org/investigatio... Great dissertation topic for an aspiring economist … ? @stone-lis.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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The Panama Papers: Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry - ICIJ
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 08/02/2026
Leavitt said the video was “a meme” based on ‘The Lion King’. But there are no apes in the film, people were quick to point out.
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Karoline Leavitt’s Response to Trump’s Obama Ape Post Under Scrutiny
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 02/02/2026
Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Spending power varies across income groups, but every consumer has a degree of agency over when and where to spend. This week, I dug into the evidence behind economic boycotts in this week's Substack: hboushey.substack.com/p/boycott-ec...
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Boycott Economics
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Democrats @democrats.org · 30/01/2026
Donald Trump doesn’t think your housing costs are high enough.
A panel graphic of Trump speaking at a cabinet meeting.

First panel: There's so much talk about, "Oh, we're going to drive housing prices down."

Second panel: I don't want to drive housing prices down.

Third panel: I want to drive housing prices up.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning. *21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity. *Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Not one more cent for DHS and ICE. We have the power to end this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no
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Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It’s about fucking time
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Jay Turner @jayturner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In year one, Trump’s policies have SLOWED - closed, delayed, etc. - 70 clean energy manufacturing projects worth $74B and 68,958 jobs. 109 projects have still ADVANCED - moving toward construction or operation - worth $61B and 61,107 jobs. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s... 🔌💡
Infographic showing clean energy manufacturing projects in the US that have advanced (announced, advanced toward production, received major grant, or been expanded in size) compared to those that have slowed (delayed, cancelled, paused, reduced in size, or loss of major grant/funding).
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Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 21/01/2026
202-224-3121 ^congressional switchboard. Call your rep, call your senator, and ask them why there was illegal use of your social security data. Make this a constituent request for help: should you do something to protect yourself? Is there legal recourse? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data
A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/01/2026
This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!
Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel sitting together in an early childhood education center.Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel crossing their arms while singing with a group of children.A little girl hugs an orange fuzzy stuffed animal.Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel stand with a group of kids.
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