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Misty Heggeness

@mlheggeness.bsky.social

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“I’m having fun. Leave me alone.” Author of SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy 📚 Pre-order here: https://a.co/d/dDydwxe. Currently: co-director Kansas Pop Center & associate professor, KU. Formerly: Census|NIH|USDOL.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Apr 18

🎆Come one, come all! 🎆 SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy is now available for pre-order! a.co/d/hZLsS95 @ucpress.bsky.social #swiftynomics

Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 19h

Trump inefficiencies [on repeat]

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, some of the CDC layoff notices are being reversed, HHS claiming they were "in error." Unclear how many are reversed. Updated story by @lenasun.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 22h

This same scenario happened to me in 2008 with a work trip to Panama. I missed the conference entirely.

Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 1d

Documentary! You heard it here first.

taylor swift is wearing a blue dress and a gold chain necklace .

ALT: taylor swift is wearing a blue dress and a gold chain necklace .

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 1d

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 7d

Do you know what is too big to fail? Our families and the communities they live in. Motherhood, for example, is too big to fail. What are our leaders doing about it?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7d

The ‘Too Big to Fail’ author returns with an eye-opening account of the banking titans and practices that led to financial disaster on.ft.com/476eZRL

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❤️‍🔥 katie 🐈‍⬛️ @sk8tie.bsky.social · 7d

His name was kitty
Made his money being pretty and witty
They gave him the key to this city
Then they went and said his litter was shitty

My tuxedo cat soup lounging In his cat tree

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 10d

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Jessica Pellien @jessicapellien.bsky.social · 10d

Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy by @mlheggeness.bsky.social is now available on @NetGalley for review. Media and bookstores, request a copy here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

@swiftynomics.bsky.social

#Economics #Feminist #Books 💙📚

Swiftynomics

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 11d

The Kens are Kenning again…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 13d

So generals came back only to learn that our authoritarian leader is going to train them to turn them on civil disobedience? 👀👀👀

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Apr 6

🚨For the past two years, we have worked feverously to create a solid set of starter statistics on the economics of care. I couldn’t be prouder of what our small but mighty team has created for y’all. Check it out below, download data, and follow us @thecareboard.bsky.social! 🚨

The Care Board

The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

thecareboard.org

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 18d

Same

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 20d

Food for thought…

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21d

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 25d

Quotes by moi! www.glamour.com/story/are-yo...

Are You Mom Enough to Stay Home?

It’s a growing trend—the romanticizing of stay-at-home motherhood as the pinnacle of true happiness. But at a time when American moms are reaching their breaking point—and right-wing values are infilt...

www.glamour.com

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 26d

We are hiring at The Economist.

This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The Economist’s finance and economics internship

We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme

www.economist.com

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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 28d

Sripriya Balasubramaniam left her job at Oracle to raise her son. She was worried about getting back into the workforce, but turned an internship into a full-time role.

I took an 11-year career break to raise my son. At 41, I took an internship and landed a senior role after 3 months.

Sripriya Balasubramaniam left her job at Oracle to raise her son. She was worried about getting back into the workforce, but turned an internship into a full-time role.

www.businessinsider.com

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 29d

Goldman estimates underlying pace of job growth has decelerated to ~ 25k jobs/month. The breakeven rate of job growth - needed to keep unemp from rising - is ~70k jobs/month, reflecting immigration slowdown & less cyclical upward pressure on labor force participation than previously anticipated.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

Reviewing residential segregation

Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

www.aeaweb.org

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to allow it to move ahead with firing Lisa Cook from the Fed's board, in an attempt to stop her from taking part in the central bank’s meeting on interest rates next week

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · Sep 9

This was a pretty interesting read.

VERY high-ups at JP Morgan were, like, hanging out at his ranch and island even when he wasn't there, and then ignoring red flags.

When they finally decided to fire him, the head of the private bank went TO HIS HOUSE to tell him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...