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17 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Suggesting that the left/liberal critique of Limbaugh is that he was *bad at doing radio* is quite a reach.
I listened to Limbaugh some when I was young. What leaps out in memory is how unreliable he was—how obvious it always was that he wasn't giving an honest account of his own views, never mind those of his enemies.
He was a bigot and a bully, yes. Always. But he was also a *panderer*, constantly, obsequiously flattering his audience while encouraging them to revile and disrespect those they disagreed with.
Limbaugh was a liar who revelled in his lies, a blowhard who never stopped preening, an ugly presence who sought to make other people uglier.
Oh, look, here's an example. studentactivism.net/2012/03/03/lim…

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I think the idea that "everyone" should do ANYTHING at least once is deeply silly. (Trivially obvious exceptions excepted.)
I love Casablanca with all my heart, but one of the main characters is an unrepentant serial rapist, and the movie treats it as a charming foible. Deeply fucked up! Not for everybody!
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I’ve asked Byers to clarify, but as I read this tweet, it seems that Bret Stephens included an unredacted use of the n-word in his column this week to make a point, and the column got spiked—maybe as a result?
Four times. The column used the n-word (in the context of a quote) four times.
For context: In 2019, a Times reporter was reprimanded for several incidents of racial insensitivity on a trip with high school students, including one in which he used the n-word in a discussion of racial slurs.
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You know what would be a great way for an outfit like @Slate to write about romance? Pair a romance reader with a romance skeptic, have the reader curate a novel for the skeptic to read, and run the conversation that ensues.
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If you're teaching college during the pandemic, it's really important to remember that some of your students may be in this situation, and that it's your job to lighten their load. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
And being there for students with childcare issues doesn't just mean responding well when they bring them up, because they may not trust you enough to bring them up. It means saying—and showing!—that you can be trusted to work with them from Day One.
It means telling them it's okay to leave their video cameras off. It means telling them they won't be penalized if they have to dip out of class. It means making class audio available. It means making it clear that you're not going to be upset if you hear a kid in the background.
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Number of columns David Brooks has written in support of Black Lives Matter: Zero.

Number of times David Brooks has tweeted in support of Black Lives Matter: Also zero.
We are witnessing the "I supported Dr. King" rewriting of history in real time.
BTW, I'm not arguing that Brooks is entirely wrong about opening schools here. (You can tell, because if I were making that argument, I'd be making it.) There ARE real costs to keeping schools closed—as many educators, parents, and advocates for kids have noted.
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Specifically, it would raise the minimum wage to $9.50 on the day of passage, then by $1.50 one year later, increasing by $1.50 each year until it reached $15 in 2025.
One other detail that the NBC screenshots leave out: After 2025, this bill would index the minimum wage to median wages, raising it automatically every year.
Here's the full text of the bill. edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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