Fake news from Elon Musk - is this what free speech is - the right to makeup any facts you want?

 https://thehill.com/homenews/3752982-cnn-to-elon-musk-after-sharing-fake-headline-be-better/

Musk’s tweet contained a screenshot of an image that falsely showed that CNN had run a chyron on the air saying that “Elon Musk could threaten free speech on Twitter by literally allowing people to speak freely.”

Readers online quickly pointed out that the image, first created in April, was fake and that no such headline had run on the network, and a link to an AP Fact Check was attached to the billionaire’s tweet.

“CNN aired no such report about Musk ‘threatening free speech,’ and the chyron was digitally altered to add the text,” the April fact check read. “The image purporting to be from a CNN broadcast originated on a satirical website.”

Teacher must be angelic?

 Malachi (02:07)For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek Tora at his mouth: for he is an angel of G-d. 

Moed Koton (17a) If the Teacher is like unto an angel of G-d, they should seek the law at his mouth; but if he be not , they should not seek the law at his mouth’

Chagiga (15b) For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts? This means that if the teacher is like an angel of the Lord of hosts, they should seek the Law at his mouth, but if not, they should not seek the Law at his mouth! — 

Mishneh Torah (Torah Study 4:1) One should not study from a teacher who does not follow a proper path, even though he is a very wise man and his instruction is required by the entire nation, until he returns to a good path, as implied by Malachi 2:7: "For the priest's lips shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek Torah from his mouth, because he is an angel from the Lord of Hosts."

Shulchan Orech (Y.D. 246:8) A teacher who does not follow a proper path, even though he is a great scholar and everyone  needs him - one  should not be his student  until he  corrects his ways

Aruch HaShulchan (Y.D. 246:22) וכן הרב שאינו הולך בדרך טובה, אף על פי שחכם גדול הוא וכל העם צריכין לו – אין למידין ממנו עד שיחזור למוטב. כן פסקו הרמב"ם והטור והשולחן ערוך סעיף ח (שולחן ערוך יורה דעה רמו, ח), ומקורו ממועד קטן (מועד קטן יז א), עיין שם. ואף על גב דבחגיגה (חגיגה יב ב) דמקשה על רבי מאיר שלמד תורה מאחר, ומתרץ: הא בגדול הא בקטן. כלומר: דאדם קטן אסור ללמוד מפיו שמא יכשל, אבל אדם גדול מותר, דתוכו יאכל וקליפתו יזרוק, עיין שם. ולמה לא חילקו בכך? דיש לומר דאין למידין מגדולת רבי מאיר לדורות שלנו, וכולנו נחשבים קטנים. (ש"ך סעיף קטן ח, ועיין שם שתירץ עוד בשם אביו דאין הלכה בזה כרבי מאיר. ותמיהני: דאם כן הוה ליה להש"ס לומר "ולא היא?" כמו שאומר בברכות כח א במעשה דרבן גמליאל.)

Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/donald-trump-shied-away-from-criticising-nick-fuentes

Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said.

Trump has had a long history of delaying or muting criticism of white supremacy, drawing moral equivalency in 2017 between neo-Nazis and counter-protesters at the deadly unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, and refusing to denounce the far-right Proud Boys group at a 2020 presidential debate.

Steve Bannon Blasts Trump Staff Over Nick Fuentes, Kanye West Dinner

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-blasts-trump-staff-over-nick-fuentes-kanye-west-dinner-1762539

 Bannon, a former Trump strategist, questioned during an episode of his War Room podcast on Saturday why Trump's staff allowed the controversial meeting to take place, describing it as a setup to tarnish Trump's image.

"Did the staff think that this was a good idea?" he asked, describing the dinner, in which West, who legally changed his name to Ye last year, offered Trump a spot as his running mate on his own presidential run as a "trolling operation."

White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Admits The TRUTH About Trump

POLITICO Playbook: Trump world reels after white nationalist dinner

 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/11/26/trump-world-reels-after-white-nationalist-dinner-00070831

Trump’s unwillingness to criticize those who’ve been complimentary towards him is nothing new — even when condemnation is merited, and even when his refusal to do so explodes in his face, as with his comment that there were “some very fine people on both sides” after white nationalists marched on Charlottesville, Va.

Trump's former US ambassador to Israel blasts meeting with Ye, Nick Fuentes: 'You are better than this'

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-former-us-ambassador-israel-blasts-meeting-ye-nick-fuentes

Prominent Jewish leaders are slamming former President Donald Trump after he hosted a dinner at his Florida estate that included rap artist Kanye West, also known as Ye, and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Both have been accused of antisemitism after comments they made about Jewish people.

"To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this," David Friedman, who served as Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 2017-2021, posted on Twitter Friday.  "Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable."

Trump team does damage control after he dines with Ye and white supremacist Nick Fuentes

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/f-ing-nightmare-trump-team-damage-control-dines-ye-white-supremacist-n-rcna58780

Even the two Trump advisers winced at how a Holocaust denier like Fuentes was able to wind up with Trump at dinner — even if it was by mistake — along with the rapper, who had just had his Twitter account restored but lost major endorsement deals for making antisemitic remarks.

Nick Fuentes Turns on Donald Trump, Calls for New 2024 Candidate

 https://www.newsweek.com/nick-fuentes-turns-donald-trump-calls-new-2024-candidate-holocaust-denier-1762519

But 24-year-old Fuentes, a vocal supporter of the MAGA movement, has now turned on his former hero. He said: "Conservative media speculates that Ye and I are being used to hurt Trump. It is the other way around.

"Trump and MTG (Marjorie Taylor Green) are being used as bait to lure the base back into supporting people like Kevin McCarthy, Ronna McDaniel, and Rick Grenell. I didn't leave the MAGA movement. The MAGA movement left me."

Israelis shunned at Qatar World Cup: 'You are not welcome'

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-723449

Multiple Israelis have reported an atmosphere of hostility and hatred at the World Cup in Qatar, with fans refusing to speak to Israeli journalists, waving Palestinian flags in the background of their videos and yelling at them.

Moav Vardy, KAN's foreign affairs reporter, was yelled at by a Saudi fan, who told him that "You are not welcome here, this is Qatar, this is our country, there is only Palestine, no Israel."

"We didn't want to write these words, we are not the story here. but after ten days in Doha, we cannot hide what we are going through. We are feeling hated, surrounded by hostility, not welcomed."

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/26/physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-there-are-quite-a-few-areas-where-physics-blurs-into-religion-multiverse

You write that a lot of research in physics, such as hypotheses for the early universe, is “religion masquerading as science under the guise of mathematics”. Could you elaborate on that?

There are quite a few areas where the foundations of physics blur into religion, but physicists don’t notice because they’re not paying attention. It’s a lack of education in the philosophy of science in general. For example, the most commonly accepted story about the beginning of the universe is the big bang, and to some extent this is really just the simplest way you can extrapolate the equations into the past – and then you can add inflation, which is an exponential phase of expansion; or, like Roger Penrose, you can make it a cyclic universe. But maybe it was a big bounce, or it started with the collision of membranes. These ideas are all possible – they’re all compatible with the observations that we have. But I would call them ascientific – the kind of idea that evidence says nothing for nor against.

Also, it worries me that we always talk about how science supposedly self-corrects, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. They’re just trying the same thing over and over again.

Tributes paid after Dayan Ehrentreu dies aged 89

 https://www.thejc.com/news/news/tributes-paid-after-dayan-ehrentreu-dies-aged-89-2vKUKGF8cz5y5ihC9lLZKR

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has led tributes to one of the most influential Orthodox rabbis in Britain in the past 50 years, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu.

The former head of the London Beth Din, who was born in Frankfurt in 1932, died on Thursday morning aged 89.

Trump puts his ego before everything - NY Post editorial

 https://nypost.com/2022/11/26/trump-puts-his-ego-before-everything/

Having driven away every capable aide through paranoia or his bitter fixation on losing the 2020 election, this is now the company Trump keeps. The Groypers, the Proud Boys — Trump won’t denounce any of them. They like him, so how bad can they be? And so — again — Trump puts his own ego before common sense, before tolerance, before judgment, before country. 

Could Herschel Walker be Disqualified From Georgia Runoff Over 'Tax Fraud?'

 https://www.newsweek.com/could-herschel-walker-disqualified-georgia-runoff-over-tax-fraud-1762365

Herschel Walker has been accused of claiming a "principal residence" tax exemption for a property in Texas, despite registering to vote in Georgia which he hopes to represent in the Senate.

The Trump-backed Republican faces a runoff against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock on December 6, after neither candidate secured an absolute majority in the November 8 midterm vote.

Based on an analysis of tax records, CNN reports Walker received a homestead tax exemption this year for a house in Dallas, saving him around $1,500.

To do this, the former NFL star declared the property to be his "primary residence," despite registering to vote in Georgia last year.