Bill DeBaun
@billdebaun.bsky.social
Senior Director of 📊💡at the National College Attainment Network. Jack of some trades, including dot connecting. Devoted FAFSA data dork. The snark is mine; my views could also be yours! Happy to chat, reach out!
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Welp
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Welp
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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.
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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.
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There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.
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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.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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?
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"
@kenjennings.bsky.social: "correct, still your pick"
Q: Is any work being done on a Republican solution to the healthcare cliff?
MIKE JOHNSON: When I say that Republicans have been working on a fix for healthcare, we've been doing this for years. We're doing right now what we have been doing.
MIKE JOHNSON: When I say that Republicans have been working on a fix for healthcare, we've been doing this for years. We're doing right now what we have been doing.
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"What is, 'nothing'?"
@kenjennings.bsky.social: "correct, still your pick"
@kenjennings.bsky.social: "correct, still your pick"
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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.
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.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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.
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Our president is working overtime to hurt one of our country's most successful export industries (one that I happen to work for).
Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education.
2024 soybean exports to China: $13B.
Higher Ed: $14B.
Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.
2024 soybean exports to China: $13B.
Higher Ed: $14B.
Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.
Bessent says China to delay rare earths rules by a year, buy U.S. soybeans reut.rs/42YJMO9
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Our president is working overtime to hurt one of our country's most successful export industries (one that I happen to work for).
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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🤢✅
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🤢✅
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🤢✅
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🤢✅
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"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...
Thank Goodness for Mississippi (and Louisiana)
States like New Jersey can copy their playbook for educational improvements
www.chadaldeman.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"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...
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"Let childhood infectious diseases run wild" and "Kids with disabilities deserve nothing" are two parts of a single, terrifyingly coherent philosophy.
All workers except a small number of top officials are being fired at the office that implements the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the employees union said.
Special education oversight, civil rights enforcement hit hard in Education Department layoffs
All workers except a small number of top officials are being fired at the office that implements the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the employees union said.
bit.ly
October 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"Let childhood infectious diseases run wild" and "Kids with disabilities deserve nothing" are two parts of a single, terrifyingly coherent philosophy.
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Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!
Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!
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Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries
September 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
October 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Can I RT this twice
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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
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
Fuckin yikes, man
October 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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
"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...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"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...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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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
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
September 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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
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
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By no means is this hyperbole 👉
September 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Good for Craig Melvin, asking harder questions and following up in a way the WH Press Corps apparently has lost the taste for.
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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
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
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
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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
September 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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
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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.
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.
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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.
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.
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it’s hard to see ezra’s actions as anything other than a shameless attempt at self-preservation
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
it’s hard to see ezra’s actions as anything other than a shameless attempt at self-preservation