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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 6h
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 1d
The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1d
Weirdly my favorite thing about the new iPhone is the little part around the front camera that shows what app is running in the background
Little thing around the front camera

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1d
I feel bad for anyone who didn’t have Listen Without Prejudice Vol I drop their sophomore year in college.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
In a way it's like the second version of Anchorman 2 they released made up entirely of alternate takes, but for The Way of Water.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
He went a lot heavier on the 48 HFR this time

www.vulture.com/article/avat...
There’s Something Weird About the 3-D in Avatar: Fire and Ash
James Cameron’s new film ramps up the frame rate in certain scenes, making them look almost motion smoothed.
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
He clearly had an overflow of characters, settings, and themes, so he just fully abandoned normal story structure and made the whole thing a rolling chase scene guided by James Cameron action movie pacing and staging instincts. The more you think about it the weirder (and better) it seems.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
20 years ago James Cameron figured out how to use CGI, motion capture, 3D cameras, and high-frame-rate cinematography to create incredibly immersive spectacles, and today the list of directors who can do the same is...still just James Cameron.

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Break @ DK Bananza @breakfield01.bsky.social · 2d

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 3d
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d
It’s interesting that Connections is a very popular game played by millions of people who are consistently bad at it.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d
The United States government sold an innocent Venezuelan college student to a Central American torture prison and CBS News doesn't want you to know.
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UPDATE

I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.

Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d
UPDATE

I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.

Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d
Have reached the "JFC Getty Images are expensive" stage of book authorship

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 4d
From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”

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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
www.theverge.com

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 5d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 5d
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
Only about 220 (I've been weaning myself off em-dashes)

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
I just converted my book manuscript from Google Docs to MS Word to submit to my publisher (woo hoo!) and the word count increased from 101,000 to 106,000. What even is truth / reality?

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
I don't think the civics association has any business meddling with a site that's for all intents and purposes in Clarendon, but in fairness that park is open to the public--it's just privately maintained.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 11d
No lie, when I read that book I was reminded of Thick.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11d
Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11d
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 11d
When you’ve loved and lost like Frank has…

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Grant @mksongbird.bsky.social · 12d
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.