Bill DeBaun

Welp

you know, I think most people should not be doing chotiner interviews, but also, I think comms professionals should, on average, fare better than this. yikes.

Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.

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someone please tell me he was pressed to say more about what they are actually asking democrats to vote on right now and how the only thing they've actually put on the table is a CR that now would expire in 3 weeks anyway?

"What is, 'nothing'?"
@kenjennings.bsky.social: "correct, still your pick"

This is a beautiful new locker room at St Pius in Kansas City. They are a private religious school that accepts taxpayer vouchers for partial tuition.

Anyway, the kids at the public school down the road from me learn to run track when they go to track meets — they don’t have a track of their own.

We’re one philanthropic strategic plan refresh away from the funding priority that takes us both to retirement.

I give this away for free on BlueSky can you imagine what kinds of good stuff I would lock away behind a one-time $5 payment?

Is this the right time to point out that he’s also shipping the equivalent of funding a year of the Pell Grant to Argentina for no appreciable reason or is that more ripe for a different chapter of “Dude, Where’s My Students? Self-Owns in the Enrollment Pipeline Circa Mid-2020s,” forthcoming in NBER

Our president is working overtime to hurt one of our country's most successful export industries (one that I happen to work for).

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅

#Ugh🤢✅

dril tweet edited to say: "and another thing: everything i ever sent you is off the record." The tweet originally said: "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."

Thank Goodness for Mississippi (and Louisiana) States like New Jersey can copy their playbook for educational improvements

"I want to double back on Sherrill’s casual slams on MS & LA. Do they have some of the “worst schools” in the nation, as Sherrill claimed? And by implication, is NJ doing better than these states? The answer to both...is no." via @chadaldeman.bsky.social www.chadaldeman.com/p/thank-good...

"Let childhood infectious diseases run wild" and "Kids with disabilities deserve nothing" are two parts of a single, terrifyingly coherent philosophy.

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

Can I RT this twice

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"The norms of political correctness thus set basic ground rules for social life—at least, in politically mixed company. These norms lorded over a motley moral crew." via @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

CHOTINER: When you’re at Chipotle, you get to choose a salsa. Which one do you get?

ME: Well I get the pico. But also the hot

CHOTINER: But on Bluesky you said—

ME: Yes, also the corn. And also the medium

CHOTINER: So (pause) all four?

ME: There’s no rule saying only one, okay?

CHOTINER: Okay

By no means is this hyperbole 👉

Good for Craig Melvin, asking harder questions and following up in a way the WH Press Corps apparently has lost the taste for.

MELVIN: The president repeatedly did say though that he would end the war on day 1, and we are some 250 days into the administration

MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war

MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1

lot of time left on the clock today Eddy

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.

Some of the worst political instincts of all time

it’s hard to see ezra’s actions as anything other than a shameless attempt at self-preservation

This is Blueskyism