Eddy Conroy

Turns out it is possible to make financial aid simpler for students! The FAFSA is working, more students are applying for and qualifying to college, and qualifying for aid. @donmoyn.bsky.social was nice enough to have me guest author for Can We Still Govern donmoynihan.substack.com/p/good-news-...

These are in my opinion the most important graphs in Brendan's new (phenomenal) paper (that you should read). The United States is a very rich nation. But those riches don't redound to our poorest citizens. We must address that.

“Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry — among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

This is what happens when you use the Calista Gingrich filter before the age of 50

Folks, don’t punish yourself like Jesse, there are good tacos to be found in the DMV.

When you’re a nerd who thinks Saruman was the good guy for creating the Uruk Hai. techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/b...

It takes real effort to read Tolkien’s writing and decide that Sauron was just misunderstood.

Hard agree!

Calling @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Let’s be like Brazil

People know that not becoming a a parent is ok, right?

I am consistently vexed by the fact that elite consensus is more interested in holding US colleges and universities accountable for things that they have a little control over - white color wages, rent in Santa Barbara - than things they can influence - campus safety, instructional approach.

The article is rightly more nuanced than this post. The main driver of that headline figure is housing. Yes tuition is a challenge, but it’s not what has pushed cost of attendance over $50k.

You’d really think a professor would have a firmer grasp of what “self awareness” means.

Posting here on the chance that I know someone who knows someone who can use their Pace University login to download and share their Common Data Set for 2025-26. Please DM me if you have access to that super secretive doc that most universities just publish on their websites for the world to see.

Rough day yesterday. RIP Copper AKA Salty B. Manger of the house and all around bossy ball of spice. You were so loved and will be sorely missed.

I’m surrounded by nothing but scorpios

The meme made real. “Surý, who lives in Czechia, does not work for the PHP Foundation. But alongside his day job as director of domain-name-system engineering… he maintains and helps automate patches for the coding language.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Real great sales pitch here for foreign militaries. “Buy our thing! Comes complete with a guarantee that our insane CEO will kill your access in the middle of a war if he doesn’t like your attitude.”

Do you know how bad the abuse has to be for a judge to remove kids from their birth mother? Just saw Amy Acton’s CNN interview about that Ramaswamy ad and , listen, I lived in NC through the Willie Horton ad era. I’m not precious. This is so disgusting that I wish I believed in hell. I really do.

This is why the Alliance for Higher Education was set up. We have a lot to do. allianceforhighered.org

It’s striking how much of the higher ed organizing on the political Right is focused on the epistemic content of teaching and scholarship - and how there is basically not much of a response to that from either scholarly associations or the political Left.

We still have a long way to go, but this is why the Alliance for higher education was set up. allianceforhighered.org

FYI - the initial Dept staff recommendation was also to give 12 months - #NACIQI members voted to deny recognition

“AI, for when you suck at your job”

When CEOs are getting twitchy about inequality, you know it’s bad.

I believe I have repeatedly, kindly and respectively offered some non-economic factors. But I could be wrong.

I see the writers of 2026 have brought Aaron Sorkin in, with a literal West Wing subplot.

Inflation has really upped the Stasi’s budget

When dumb shit is the only thing echoing

Not just papering over a crisis of trust, papering over decades of neoliberal rot. The idea that AI can become civic tech without a massive, generational investment in civic infrastructure is just more scam politics.

“Deliberate” is doing world’s strongest man level heavy lifting here.

Well, that’s the best thing that’s gonna happen in my evening

IN TEXAS Republicans are literally suing to block ads tying them to Trump.

@kevincarey1.bsky.social I’ve found an interview question you can ask candidates for the CEO role

Nationalizing, not naturalizing 🫠

If ever there was a case for naturalizing a company.

Look, we can talk about the chemical brothers, But do you disavow the White Power Ranger?

LowerEd was, and continues to be one of the reasons I do the work I do. We were making some (modest) progress, and now, if I’m lucky, I’m gonna spend the rest my career unfucking shit.

Excellent thread

Getting a say in foreign policy decisions as a defense contractor is a pretty good example of why billionaires existing is a policy failure.

Where are all the folks yelling about the evils of Shariah Law when you need them? I presume this will includes classes on why we should stone people for wearing clothing of mixed fibers and the like. www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

The Scaramucci has now been superseded as a unit of time by the Zacharia.  www.politico.com/newsletters/...