Grace Headinger
@graceheadinger.bsky.social
All things FinTech & family enterprises. Strategy & Entrepreneurship PhD Student @LBS. Previously @HarvardHBS @BelferCenter @AsiaMTI. Views are my own.
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These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
August 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
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“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful…
www.propublica.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
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LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.
www.latimes.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
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The Secretary of Homeland Security just said the feds are there to remove democratically elected officials in California and then had a Senator detained. Why is that not in every headline? It's what happened.
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Secretary of Homeland Security just said the feds are there to remove democratically elected officials in California and then had a Senator detained. Why is that not in every headline? It's what happened.
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TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article)
When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
nyti.ms
May 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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“She suffered very severe asthma attacks while there, received inadequate medical care. There has been no religious accommodation...Her hijab was removed without her consent" - @pressley.house.gov tells me about her visit to detained student Rümeysa Öztürk.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/hijab-was-...
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/hijab-was-...
May 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“She suffered very severe asthma attacks while there, received inadequate medical care. There has been no religious accommodation...Her hijab was removed without her consent" - @pressley.house.gov tells me about her visit to detained student Rümeysa Öztürk.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/hijab-was-...
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/hijab-was-...
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Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
April 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
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I’m sure Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss are all over this.
They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I’m sure Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss are all over this.
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"Harvard pushed back on the White House’s claim that it should have checked with the administration lawyers...'It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"Harvard pushed back on the White House’s claim that it should have checked with the administration lawyers...'It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
wapo.st
April 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
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We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus.
by Bill Ackman
by Bill Ackman
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus.
by Bill Ackman
by Bill Ackman
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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From @europeansocreview.bsky.social
"🔔New paper out!
Increased economic inequality lowers life satisfaction among lower earners – but it *raises* life satisfaction among higher earners!
#David_Bartram finds that, contrary to the “spirit level”, wealthy people benefit from inequality!"
From @europeansocreview.bsky.social
"🔔New paper out!
Increased economic inequality lowers life satisfaction among lower earners – but it *raises* life satisfaction among higher earners!
#David_Bartram finds that, contrary to the “spirit level”, wealthy people benefit from inequality!"
March 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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From @europeansocreview.bsky.social
"🔔New paper out!
Increased economic inequality lowers life satisfaction among lower earners – but it *raises* life satisfaction among higher earners!
#David_Bartram finds that, contrary to the “spirit level”, wealthy people benefit from inequality!"
From @europeansocreview.bsky.social
"🔔New paper out!
Increased economic inequality lowers life satisfaction among lower earners – but it *raises* life satisfaction among higher earners!
#David_Bartram finds that, contrary to the “spirit level”, wealthy people benefit from inequality!"
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Guardian: 20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda.
Exclusive: 20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda
New poll also shows that a significant share of Americans will avoid companies that drop social-inclusion policies
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Guardian: 20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda.
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Yes. This aligns with my experience of my MAGA family: their ideology is more important to them than ANY human connection.
Every time I confronted my MAGA relatives during Trump 1 with some grotesque un-American policy of his (e.g. child separation at the border), they chose Trump & cut ties to me.
Every time I confronted my MAGA relatives during Trump 1 with some grotesque un-American policy of his (e.g. child separation at the border), they chose Trump & cut ties to me.
"As she has expressed her disappointment over potentially losing her dream job, some members of her mostly conservative family have unfriended her on social media. Others are giving her the silent treatment. Nearly all favor such cuts even if she’s a victim of them."
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste.
www.bostonherald.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yes. This aligns with my experience of my MAGA family: their ideology is more important to them than ANY human connection.
Every time I confronted my MAGA relatives during Trump 1 with some grotesque un-American policy of his (e.g. child separation at the border), they chose Trump & cut ties to me.
Every time I confronted my MAGA relatives during Trump 1 with some grotesque un-American policy of his (e.g. child separation at the border), they chose Trump & cut ties to me.
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“Three years from now we might be going, ‘Who are family offices and how did they come to control such a huge share of the economy?" - quote from a read on the risks in the rise of the family office by @joshspero.ft.com Owen Walker www.ft.com/content/147a...
March 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“Three years from now we might be going, ‘Who are family offices and how did they come to control such a huge share of the economy?" - quote from a read on the risks in the rise of the family office by @joshspero.ft.com Owen Walker www.ft.com/content/147a...
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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This need to be brought up every time someone talks about cutting social security. They got their cuts the hard way when thousands of people were dying every week.
archive.md/GVwox
archive.md/GVwox
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This need to be brought up every time someone talks about cutting social security. They got their cuts the hard way when thousands of people were dying every week.
archive.md/GVwox
archive.md/GVwox
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1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs.
You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences.
A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social
You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences.
A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social
Musk Allies Discuss Deploying A.I. to Find Budget Savings
A top official at the General Services Administration said artificial intelligence could be used to identify waste and redundancies in federal contracts.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs.
You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences.
A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social
You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences.
A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social
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Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.
In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
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In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
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December 6, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.
In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
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In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
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I don't think it's a generation/age issue primarily, it's that Dem strategists are drawn from a very narrow (elite-college-educated, loved politics from like age 12) pool, and then get socialized/trained by senior strategists.
I wrote an op-ed here: thehill.com/opinion/camp...
I wrote an op-ed here: thehill.com/opinion/camp...
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I don't think it's a generation/age issue primarily, it's that Dem strategists are drawn from a very narrow (elite-college-educated, loved politics from like age 12) pool, and then get socialized/trained by senior strategists.
I wrote an op-ed here: thehill.com/opinion/camp...
I wrote an op-ed here: thehill.com/opinion/camp...