Kevin Carey
@kevincarey1.bsky.social
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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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
I wrote for @theatlantic.com about Trump’s plan to purge Black people from the Ivy League.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
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lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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Elwood Watson of East Tennessee State takes the measure of various college rankings and finds @washingtonmonthly.com to be the best for most students. www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: A different way to rank colleges — Elwood Watson
Commentary: Washington Monthly has published rankings with the intent of avoiding what the most prestigious rankings seek to reward: an institution’s wealth, prestige, and exclusivity.
www.myjournalcourier.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Elwood Watson of East Tennessee State takes the measure of various college rankings and finds @washingtonmonthly.com to be the best for most students. www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/arti...
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Hi folks. My round up of views here: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
The logic behind low teacher salaries
SCHOOLED | Friday, 11/7/25
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November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hi folks. My round up of views here: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
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"You go through the gate. If the gate's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people."
-Nancy Pelosi, the 🐐
-Nancy Pelosi, the 🐐
So much I could say, but I’ll just say she convinced her caucus to vote for something they hated and knew they’d lose their jobs over, on the promise that it’d be amended in some unknown way later through reconciliation. Nearly 40 million people have health insurance because of her. 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"You go through the gate. If the gate's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people."
-Nancy Pelosi, the 🐐
-Nancy Pelosi, the 🐐
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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T admin death count
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
T admin death count
I have to admit it’s fun to watch the Trump administration get beaten over the head with Biden v. Nebraska.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I have to admit it’s fun to watch the Trump administration get beaten over the head with Biden v. Nebraska.
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The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...
In 2001, America had the great misfortune of being led by exactly the wrong man at exactly the wrong moment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
In 2001, America had the great misfortune of being led by exactly the wrong man at exactly the wrong moment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
There's a common thing where people who are unusually beautiful and talented are kind of empty or blah in person, and then I listen to Rachel Zegler on the Blank Check Podcast and she's somehow also a more insightful film critic than people who do that for a living?
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There's a common thing where people who are unusually beautiful and talented are kind of empty or blah in person, and then I listen to Rachel Zegler on the Blank Check Podcast and she's somehow also a more insightful film critic than people who do that for a living?
The problem with fooling people into thinking downtown DC is a crime-ridden hellhole is that those same people don't understand which part of the White House you're demolishing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The problem with fooling people into thinking downtown DC is a crime-ridden hellhole is that those same people don't understand which part of the White House you're demolishing.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Another all timer from @rayratto.bsky.social defector.com/yoshinobu-ya...
Yoshinobu Yamamoto Will Not Be Denied | Defector
The Toronto Blue Jays sent 57 batsmen to the plate in the 25 hours between Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s last pitch of Game 6 of the World Series and his first pitch of Game 7, so it isn’t like they didn’t hav...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Another all timer from @rayratto.bsky.social defector.com/yoshinobu-ya...
This game is going to be decided by a barely discernible glance off the fair pole
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This game is going to be decided by a barely discernible glance off the fair pole
Truly fate will decide now
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Truly fate will decide now
A game of millimeters
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A game of millimeters
Such a treat to watch two great teams trade punches all the way to end.
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Such a treat to watch two great teams trade punches all the way to end.
Vlad Guerrero is like a ballet dancer out there
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Vlad Guerrero is like a ballet dancer out there
No purer measure of pop culture success than the costumes 2,000 children choose to wear when arriving at your house for candy, and after 15 minutes I’m already calling it for Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
No purer measure of pop culture success than the costumes 2,000 children choose to wear when arriving at your house for candy, and after 15 minutes I’m already calling it for Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.