So far, we've learned:
- Twitter employees are basically left-wing activists
- Twitter had a lot of ex-FBI/ex-CIA people moderating content
- Twitter was shadow-banning, despite denials to the public and Congress
Notably, James Baker, a key Russia collusion figure, had his hands on everything -- the censorship and the cover-up -- right up to the present.
Some have said it is starting to look like the government either used Twitter (and, presumably, other social media companies) to shut down speech in a way the First Amendment would not allow it to do directly; or, going further, that law enforcement and intel agencies used social media to influence elections.
I don't think the government can legally or constitutionally evade the First Amendment this way -- which is the subject of ongoing litigation by Trump.
The next Congress will also have to call the FBI, CIA, NSA etc. onto the carpet to explain themselves. They will try to lie, as in the past, but it's worth asking.
More to come.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
