1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

ED Issues New List of Professional Degrees After Court Order https://bit.ly/440YLqT

A smarter endowment tax would give super wealthy colleges a choice between increasing enrollment of students from the bottom 80% of income or funding success programs at public colleges.

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

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It's been 3 years since the Supreme Court's decision in SFFA v Harvard & UNC. We built a dashboard so you can see the impact on enrollment. www.joinclassaction.us/post/the-pos...

I'm sure this has been posted a million times already. Sue me. I'm a Gen X man.

Meta sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling

Arizona ESA advocates said participation gaps by neighborhood income would shrink over time. The state's own data tell a different story: the richest-poorest neighborhood gap is widening each year.

Fun! britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

More on "immigrants do not steal jobs ..." This is from the very un-woke folks at Cato. www.cato.org/blog/haitian...

I really wish the consequence of making a political donation wasn't having your contact info sold to political campaigns across the country.

This is a terrific response.

ICYMI, now with a better title!! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

The college endowment tax is pretty dumb. My colleague at Class Action and I argue here that the next Congress should make it smarter so it increases access and promotes completion at public colleges and universities. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

The harm DOGE did to the Dept of Education

Crossing my fingers there's a Pacman Fever in there. pitchfork.com/news/you-can...

I need to write a blog post on this sometime. IPEDS and Carnegie classifications aren't helpful in separating four-year and two-year colleges. Novice analysts and people looking for quick PR just don't know that.

This is good stuff from @mattbarnum.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/23/s...

Treasury just waived oil sanctions on Iran for 60 days — citing "progress." Iran could rake in up to ~$10 billion off that decision alone. In contrast, the Obama admin didn't lift sanctions until a deal was signed and the IAEA independently verified Iran's nuclear compliance.

19% of US Catholics say Pope Leo has been too critical of the Trump administration; 51% of US Catholics say Trump has been too critical of Pope Leo. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The best site on the internets right now is maptap.gg.

A great thread on what grades mean and what the "grade inflation" discourse is really about.

The US player with the most goals so far would be denied citizenship if Stephen Miller had his way. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

I’m not sure anything encapsulates LA and the Would Cup more than the conga line going around this brewery, celebrating Mexico’s defeat of Korea, being led by a Korean guy

tl;dr today's SCOTUS ruling

It's quite something that the only civil rights investigations ED announces are about trans people or higher ed admissions practices. Maybe they're just not announcing all the other ones?

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

White Americans who were eligible for the GI Bill, or had fathers who were, benefitted massively, while the equivalent Black Am benefitted much less on average bc they were funneled into using it on vocational schools (or scam “schools”) Paper estimates that accounts for *5 pp* in sons’ college gap

Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran. Today, he delivered on that promise.

How many parents? What are the demographics?

One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote: The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M. The contact hypothesis holds up well! Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social

I no longer feel self-conscious about the number of pictures I take of our cat.

omg ffs we just want healthcare

She's mad for editing the footage in a way that makes her look bad?

Very important and exactly the reason no governor, R or D, should be signing onto this and no responsible organization should be advocating for it until we see the details.

Sátántangó & Cash

because of woke you cant even denigrate an entire nationality wholesale anymore without being called a racist

"But so concentrated is Grad PLUS funding that just 15 institutions—led by Nova Southeastern, the University of Southern California, and Liberty University—use more than half of all Grad PLUS funding disbursed to graduate schools of education each year." www.educationnext.org/new-caps-on-...

I can't recommend reading this piece from 2006 enough on one of the great higher ed problems of the day: professors getting emails from students. www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/e...

Spike still doing the right thing.

What Do We Know About Who Isn’t Reporting Race on College Applications? A new report from the higher ed nonprofit Class Action aims to illuminate how many students really are opting to withhold their race and why. https://bit.ly/4xgvnKs #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd