Scripting News: Thursday, April 3, 2025
We're doing some research into the origins of my family in Germany, learning a lot. #
Example. Just listened to Brian Lehrer, a news interview and call-in show on WNYC, which I revere, for many reasons. Lehrer is smart, and doesn't dumb things down for his audience. He usually asks the question I'm dying to hear the answer to, which most reporters don't think of or won't ask.#
On the March 27 they had a discussion about Trump's assault on Columbia University, which has now been extended to Harvard and Princeton. In all of them, the main issue is antisemitism at these universities.#
Never in the discussion did they raise this question --#
Do we believe that Trump cares about antisemitism?#
And if he did, there are much bigger antisemites who are much more powerful and much closer to Trump (who is an obvious antisemite himself).#
I'll mention just one -- Elon Musk, who actually did the Nazi salute, twice, from the podium with the Presidential Seal on it, at the freaking inauguration.#
Musk has also backed the German Nazi party (they have a different name but to use that name would be NaziWashing, which I won't do).#
The Occam's truth is that he's tying antisemitism to things because it's fun for him, and because later -- they will blame Jews for everything that's wrong in the US, as they always do.#
The whole thing of Trump being a champion for Jewish people made me really uneasy, until I read a piece in Timothy Snyder's newsletter, which I recommend to everyone. #
Anyway, I trust Brian Lehrer, I don't think he'd shirk a tough question, I just think as a journalist he still isn't thinking realistically about the world as it is now, instead behaving as he did before it got so rotten.#
Linkblog items for the day.
"The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity." bsky.app
Timothy Snyder gave a presentation at the New York Public Library on Monday. nypl.org
Tesla's only growing business was just kneecapped by Trump's tariffs. electrek.co
Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's. theverge.com
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world. politico.com
I've been friends with Om for decades, but he's wrong about Bluesky. It's a clone of Twitter, that's why it's so popular, but it has the same flaw Twitter had — it could be turned against its users by an acquiring billionaire. He and his co-author fell for their hype. crazystupidtech.com
Trump's Fight Against Antisemitism Has Become Fraught for Many Jews. nytimes.com
Trump wanted people to inject chlorine, take ivermectin, to recover from Covid, now prescribes same for the world economy. substack.com
Inside ICE Air: What It's Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant. propublica.org
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