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employees, gave their passwords, and that was enough to acquire god mode over the entire network. Apparently if you had anybody's password if they were in engineering, they gave you god mode over the entire network. Now if you don't believe that's true, apparently there is testimony from somebody who was hired to look into the security. He testified to Congress. This guy named Mudge was his nickn…

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t subject to speculation. And apparently Twitter is built in such a way that it's really hard to catch up and fix all the security problems. So Elon Musk has a big challenge, a technical challenge that's almost unimaginable in its complexity. But if anybody could sort it out, at least the right people are working on it. So that's good.

Texas Governor Abbott is making a clear call for universal school choice in Texas, and he wants something with education savings accounts, etc. The big story here is I don't think anything's going to stop it at this point. I believe that education will just enter the private sphere and the free market will make it work again. Now there will definitely always be people in public schools, I think, but the public schools are going to have to do something different to show that they can compete with private schools. But it's happening. It's happening. So it takes a while, but this is a positive trend.

All right, here's a macro theme. Every time I read a news story that's really good, like it gives me stuff I didn't know and it's pointing to actually source material and it tells a story that really gives me the full rich context and I finally understand a thing, where did I see it? You tell me. I saw something with great context and really good sources. Where did I see it? Twitter threads by individuals who are really good at it. Why do we know about the Twitter files? Because of people like Matt Taibbi, individual citizens who look into stuff and find out. Why do we know as much as we do about the real situation with energy and homelessness and stuff like that? Michael Shellenberger. Michael Shellenberger is unambiguously the best, I guess you'd call him an individual who's doing journalism for the most breadth of different important topics and the greatest depth of research. And there's another, and I'll talk about that in a minute. Kyle Becker. Do you follow Kyle Becker? Any of Kyle Becker's threads are better than the news that night. And it's not just that he's good. He's very good, by the way. You should follow him. But he's one of now I would say close to a dozen. There may be a dozen individuals who will do fairly frequent Twitter threads. They're just far better than anything in the news.

Now let me read you some of these things which we're finding. All right, this is from Kyle Becker's Twitter thread, and I've seen this before but Kyle does a good job of putting it in a real clean package here. So you all know Bob Woodward, right? So Woodward and Bernstein were the two reporters for the Washington Post who broke the Watergate story. It was a story that brought down Nixon. And it was Nixon got some burglars to burglarize a Democrat office in the Watergate Tower and got caught, and then that brought down Nixon.

So here's an interesting thing we find out about Bob Woodward. Right after leaving the Navy, Woodward was hired by the most powerful news outlet and given the biggest news story in the country. So he wasn't a seasoned reporter but he got a job at the most important news outlet, or one of the two, and immediately was given one of the biggest, most important stories in the country. How did he get his sources for that? Well, the source for the Watergate stuff was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt, who also was known to run the FBI COINTELPRO program, which was designed to discredit political actors and the federal agencies that they want to destroy, such as Richard Nixon.

And by the way, there was a lawyer who was working on the staff of the Judiciary Committee during the Nixon inquiry. Do you know who that was? There was an attorney working on that. It was Hillary Clinton. And then Kyle sums it up this way. So if you watch the deep state panic during the Trump years, the Russia hoax orchestrated by Hillary Clinton, two Trump impeachment hoaxes, January 6 charade, FBI Mar-a-Lago raid, and now the Biden classified document scandal, don't be surprised. They've been doing this for a very long time. It's all true. Watergate was just an FBI deep state project to take Nixon out.

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Now Nixon probably did in fact authorize it, so he committed a crime. But my current belief, subject to I suppose I could change my mind later, but I always believed until maybe a year or so ago that Watergate was just what it looked like. Two intrepid reporters dug into it, got this scoop, took down the president. Turns out it was actually a deep state operation. The whole thing was a deep state…

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