As I originally posted weeks ago, the number one source the Democrats used to go after me in my Senate hearing was generated by Heidi Beirich, who has now been indicted because she was in a sexual relationship with a Neo-Nazi and allegedly laundered SPLC donor funds to fund their lifestyle together. But I don't care that the Democrats used Beirich's dossier against me, because I expect them to consort with the lowest of the low. The bigger question is why Sen. Curtis was doing Beirich's dirty work on the right in opposing me in committee ,and Why Senator Risch (Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee) and his team couldn't be bothered to put up a case to defend my nomination. Look, this isn't about me. I'm perfectly happy back in Montana with my family, writing, which is what I love to do. But the Sen. Curtis and the Foreign Relations Committee leadership, in not preparing a case to defend me in my hearing, showed absolute contempt for the judgment of President Trump who nominated me (twice!) for this Assistant Secretary of State position, for Secretary Rubio and his team who had strongly supported me, for the late Charlie Kirk, who was one of the biggest boosters of my nomination, and Ronald Reagan's late Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who employed me as his right-hand man for almost a decade. I am fully confident that if Shultz and Kirk had been alive to advocate on my behalf, things would have gone much differently. But the real question, the question that gets to the heart of GOP senate failure more broadly, is why some of our "leading" Senators trusted the judgment of Neo-Nazi gal pal Beirich and the rest of the crew that was getting paid to attack me, rather than President Trump and the conservative titans who actually knew me well for years and wanted me in this role. xitter.cf/techno_fog/status/2087…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the US needs to "completely transform" its education system to prioritize highly technical vocational training and testing systems that address "different forms of intelligence": "Vocational [training] has a bad, weird vibe here. Like, vocational training in Germany is very technical. The people building cars at BMW, or even in the French version of Airbus — [they're] very complicated jobs." "They didn't go to college. They went to a very, very high-end high school and they come out without any debt." "All of our tests were built around things that were valuable in the Industrial Revolution. You want to pull out all the dyslexics, all the neurodivergents, everybody who can't sit, or needs to build, or wants to build, [and have them] go into a separate slot."