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Kevin Carey
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VP, Education & Work, New America. Writes about education for the New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, etc. I’ve made my mind a sunless space.

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Kevin Carey is an American higher education writer and policy analyst. He serves as Director of the Education Policy Program at New America, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. He writes regularly on education for The Upshot at the New York Times, and is guest editor of the annual Washington Monthly College Guide. He has taught education policy at Johns Hopkins University, and was a monthly columnist for six years at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been described by New York Times Washington columnist David Leonhardt as “one of the sharpest higher education experts out there” and by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews as “the best higher education writer in the country.” .. more

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · Oct 15
I wrote for @theatlantic.com about Trump’s plan to purge Black people from the Ivy League.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda
A “compact” offered by the administration could devastate racial diversity at elite universities.
www.theatlantic.com

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Grant @mksongbird.bsky.social · 4h
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 11h
Instead of spending $1 trillion on talking Wikipedia can someone invent a robot to clean my kitchen and do the dishes? I would absolutely buy that.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11h
There’s a frenzy of development going on to support the AI revolution, and with it an insatiable demand for debt to fund it.
AI Data Center Boom Sparks Fears of Glut Amid Lending Frenzy
Two data center billionaires minted before anything is even built. A borrower seeking a loan for 150% of the construction cost. And companies that are using financial engineering to keep liabilities off their balance sheets.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1d
I enjoyed parts of Witcher Season 4 but I question the wisdom of having the titular character, played by a new actor, do nothing but stand around going "Ow, my leg"

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
I started my career as a staffer in the Indiana Senate and I’m not surprised this failed. It’s a small-c conservative state—things shouldn’t change much, or quickly—that doesn’t like being pushed around by cities or coasts.
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 2d
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 2d
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
Especially since the source material is an elegiac riff on True Grit and substantially about genocide?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 2d
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d
Some guy with a French accent and a bag full of loose jewels will be first in line
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d
AT LAST
Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d
Trump is helping his billionaire buddies cheat on their taxes
Exclusive: Tax prosecutions plunge as Trump shifts crime-fighting efforts
Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue thos...
www.reuters.com

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 3d
Of all the terrible ideas...

Toledo Public Schools is considering a four-day week. This is a TERRIBLE move for rural schools, but at least you can understand the argument wrt long bus rides. But an urban district? Despicable! www.toledoblade.com/local/educat...
Toledo Public Schools considering sweeping cuts and changes
Toledo Public Schools is bracing for millions in state and local funding cuts beginning in 2026, a shortfall that district leaders say will force sweeping ...
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d
SAVE was legally defensible and would have helped millions of people, but I also think this is, and should be, the end of "Lend people lots of money and then create incredibly complicated schemes for them not paying it back" as the primary strategy for making college affordable.

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Trump administration strikes deal to end Biden’s student loan repayment plan
A settlement between the Trump administration and seven states could soon end the Save program that lowered payments and offered quicker loan cancellation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d
It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors

But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.
www.inquirer.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d
Wait so people whose job is to know these things were surprised by "Germans good at manufacturing weapons, machines"?

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German armsmaker wins big from Trump’s NATO spending demands
Rheinmetall shares have nearly tripled since President Donald Trump’s military spending demands, making CEO Armin Papperger the face of Europe’s rearmament.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5d
Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 6d
Notably, there are no quotes from university officials saying “We’re doing this,” nor anyone from the administration saying “We’re going to make them do it.” So why would it happen?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 7d
I'm not quite sure where to start

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Vox @vox.com · 8d
First off, the good news: The world is a much better place than it used to be, especially for young children.

And now, the bad news: After decades of progress in preventing child deaths, the world is now going in the wrong direction in the very worst way imaginable.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d
“What have I done!” 🤡

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 8d
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
apoorvanyt.bsky.social Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 8d
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 8d
@stanforduniversity.bsky.social decided to essentially spend $3 million a year to keep admitting legacy students in secret.

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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 9d
After the "college admissions scandal" which involved parents bribing boutique sports coaches (who are often underpaid) to give their children recruiting slots for which they simply weren't qualified (as an athlete) I started explaining the easy sources for checking athlete legitimacy in Tennis.

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 9d
Longtime GOP staffer Vic Klatt comes out of retirement to write:

Moving K–12 programs to the Department of Labor is neither smart nor conservative

fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
Moving K–12 programs to the Department of Labor is neither smart nor conservative
The Trump administration recently proposed shifting Department of Education programs to other agencies, mostly the Labor Department. A few of the ideas makes sense. But overall, the proposal is nuts—a...
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Fred, 55e Division d'Infanterie disrespecter @thefred.bsky.social · 10d
1. This is not how anyone talks to an O-10.

2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.

3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.

4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
A few weeks after he took over Southern Command Holsey met with the newly confirmed Hegseth on a secure video conference, and received his marching orders. “You’re either on the team or you’re not,” Hegseth told Holsey, according to notes from a participant. “When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.”