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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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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19h
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d
This country used to have some dignity.
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RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 4d
In the 70s, Brazil lived under a nasty dictatorship particularly fond of censorship (do watch "I'm Still Here" and "The Secret Agent"!). Some censored newspapers initially found something innocuous to put in place of what was censored. Later, they began running classical poems and made-up recipes.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d
The Washington Post, formerly a newspaper, reprinted a story in the Metro section today that originally ran last November, with no explanation. Bizarre and sad behavior.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5d
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
Screenshot of the article which reads: Professor Thomas K. Hubbard requested the money for a conference held in April 2016 named “Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape.” Hubbard said he received no money from the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation. Attendance at the conference was required for students in Hubbard’s Mythology of Rape class, according to its syllabus.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 5d
Woo USA cross-country skier medalist, also that Norwegian guy ran up a snow-covered hill on skis faster than I could slide down one

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 5d
Interesting that Georgetown is in that but not the AAU

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 5d
My favorite part of that “Don’t Be A Panican” press release the White House issued yesterday is this sentence “These wins aren’t happening by accident—they come after President Trump lodged the most productive first year of a presidential term in modern history—and aren’t happening by accident.”

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint

www.wsj.com/business/med...
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots. “What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 6d
To all the people angry that teenagers are protesting ICE during school hours:

If they can practice active shooter drills and learn how to tourniquet their classmates, they’re entitled to an opinion on how they’re treated.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
Nobody else saw it, you just got some bad edibles

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Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7d
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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“We cannot just abolish ICE!”

Bestie, you are older than ICE.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 7d
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
The way Ms. Hart sees it, romance writers must either embrace artificial intelligence, or get left behind. "If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who's going to win the race?" she said.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 8d
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
Left: Aug 20 2025 Wapo editorial The Texas gerrymander freakout What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. Right: Feb. 7 2026 Wapo editorial Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 8d
How dirt stupid do you have to be to say "Yeah let's fire the guy who wrote this"

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...
An elite athlete embraces pain: ‘That’s the whole point’
The world’s best cross-country skier knows her limits because she explores and pushes them every day.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9d
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
Byron De La Beckwith was so racist that normal racists were like “Damn, Byron, bring it down a notch.” The man lived like he was competing in a racism contest.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
I wrote this the week after Trump was first elected in 2016 and it's still what I think.

www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Teachers should tell the truth about Trump.
President-elect Trump is a bigot and schoolteachers are right to say so.
www.newamerica.org

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9d
Lindsey Vonn tore her ACL last week. It's a debilitating injury that can take anywhere from six to nine months--hold up

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9d
Here’s a story published yesterday, the day before the current president posted a video depicting the first black U.S. president and First Lady as gorillas.

mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 9d
Interestingly, Kindleberger emphasized this framing of financialization as a symptom of decadence and decline, whereas Wallerstein argues it's a natural outgrowth of a country's productive and commercial dominance attracting global investment capital. Both consider decline inevitable, though.
Opinion | How the Capitalists Broke Capitalism
www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10d
The Pitt is so dedicated to medical verisimilitude that it’s like a play where 1/3rd of the dialogue is performed in a foreign language. I find it oddly soothing.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10d
Or the classic "Gun control is a terrible idea instead we could prevent another Sandy Hook massacre by training third graders bum rush maniacs with AK-47s"

www.thedailybeast.com/theres-littl...
There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre
The things that would work are impractical and unconstitutional. The things we can do won't work.
www.thedailybeast.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10d
See for example "It was good actually that all those people burned to death in Grenfell Tower"

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Beware of Blaming Government for London Tower Fire
Perhaps safety rules could have saved some residents. But at what cost to others' lives?
www.bloomberg.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10d
The Post not only fired 300 talented hardworking journalists but they kept their dimwit libertarian columnist whose only real talent is dull but unerring instinct for being flagrantly wrong when it matters most
ceaubin.com C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10d
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
She's 16. It's not like she's four. And we have now really shifted on how we think about that, I think, in a good way. Right. Right. I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But I think that you're not going to find the evidence of a pedophile ring where he is actively trafficking these girls because until Me Too... It's not like a pedophile, right? There are 16-year-old girls around who are vulnerable and can be exploited, but not in this, like, there is a mastermind who is going on the dark web and selling these girls to you. They're just around, and they're close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably felt like it was okay to hit on them.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10d
raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
Bonkers headline: "We're all in the Epstein Files (feat Ross Douthat)"

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10d
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
She's 16. It's not like she's four. And we have now really shifted on how we think about that, I think, in a good way. Right. Right. I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But I think that you're not going to find the evidence of a pedophile ring where he is actively trafficking these girls because until Me Too... It's not like a pedophile, right? There are 16-year-old girls around who are vulnerable and can be exploited, but not in this, like, there is a mastermind who is going on the dark web and selling these girls to you. They're just around, and they're close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably felt like it was okay to hit on them.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10d
How hard is Nioh on a scale of 1 to Sekiro?