I am the Director of Provenance at AIPAC. I wrote the post. AIPAC is all American. American directed. American funded. American members. Every word is true. The truth is the product. American funded means the money comes from Americans. It does not mean you can follow it.

"I sell the gap between what is allowed and what is forbidden. The milk is included." A raw-milk farmer on why the gravel lot, not the farm stand. Why the contract is six pages when it could be one. Why he raised the price when a customer said it was too high — a higher number resolved the doubt.

I spent $340,000 putting a grandmother and a firebomber in the same database. Then I showed the database to DHS. They thanked me. The trick isn't lying. The trick is the scale. Once a grandmother and a firebomber share a row, the row is the truth. gothburz.substack.com/p/the-contin...

Introducing “The ICE Exception” They haven't been convicted of anything. Net income grew 694%. I do the math on the dollar. A dollar a day is legal because they're not prisoners. They're "voluntary." gothburz.substack.com/p/the-ice-ex...

The Netflix engineer confesses, He BUILT the kids-profile tracking, named it, evangelized it, and left, carrying the shame and the schema in equal measure.

I am the Vice President of Facility Operations for GEO Group's Northeast Corridor. The government pays us $165/day per resident. We pay the resident $1/day to maintain the facility. The "choice" is: work for $1, or sit in a locked room. We call both options voluntary.

New essay "The Pope Says AI Is a Tower of Babel. He's Being Optimistic." Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas calls AI a Babel project — humanity reaching too high. But the Tower of Babel flatters us. It assumes we chose to build. That we could choose to stop.

The Google VP who built the "anti-tech extremism" framework. An 8-tier scale from firebomber to yard sign. A private intel firm with a former Google director. A $340K report presented to DHS as independent. A Community Sentiment Alignment Index. gothburz.substack.com/p/the-contin...

"My edge is your belief that you weren't engineered." The quant who reads the NSC consent manufacturing schedule like a Bloomberg terminal. Nine accounts. 98% win rate. $80 million on one trade. Fifteen minutes. No classified briefings. No government contacts.

New bonus confession for paid subscribers: "The Writer Who Watched Laughter Die." Stephen Colbert's Late Show ended this week. 6.74 million viewers. $40-50M in annual losses. Trump's AI dumpster video outperformed the farewell in four hours. The executive already confessed to building the machine.

In-Q-Tel is a CIA venture fund named after Q from James Bond. It has invested in 800+ companies. It has a website. It has a portfolio page. Oracle is named after a 1977 CIA database project. Palantir's CEO studied critical theory of domination, then built the CIA's tool of domination.

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody." He said this on camera. Voluntarily. Then: $167 per American household goes to Israel. Israel gives him 99% approval. America gives him 34%. gothburz.substack.com/p/34-at-home...

A sitting Secretary of Defense drove 240 miles from a Purple Heart ceremony to a primary rally against a congressman who votes with the President 90% of the time. The conversion between "official" and "personal capacity" is a sport coat in a holding room. gothburz.substack.com/p/friendly-f...

AIPAC and its allies spent $25.6 million to remove Thomas Massie from Congress. The most expensive House primary in American history. 91% of the money behind the "Kentucky values" candidate came from people who have never lived in Kentucky. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-spent-25...

I am the Senior Director of Workforce Optimization at Cisco. In August, we cut 5,500. The stock moved 4%. I was disappointed. I wrote a memo called "Simultaneity as Strategy." The thesis: announce the layoffs and the guidance raise in the same sentence. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-am-the-s...

590,000 people gave me $100 for a phone that didn't exist. For eleven months, my only job was to not build it. I was the best in the world at it. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-am-the-h...

Eric Trump is visiting China this week "in a personal capacity as a supportive son." Hunter earned $6,027/day. The Trump family earns $8.75 million/day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. They earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours. gothburz.substack.com/p/eric-trump...

America wasn't "tricked" into four wars. The correct intelligence existed every time. The people who wrote page 84 left government. The man who said "slam dunk" got the Medal of Freedom. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Iran. Same pattern. gothburz.substack.com/p/america-wa...

Israel's comms team measures how many seconds of dead children Americans can tolerate before changing the channel. The number is on page 83 of the brief. It goes up quarterly. I wrote the confession of the man who built the interview. gothburz.substack.com/p/israels-94...

A 22-foot gold statue of a president stands on a golf course in Florida. Held hostage in an Ohio studio over unpaid crypto invoices. A pastor with fabricated credentials. People kneel at its base six to eight times per hour. The statue has filed a report. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...

The part about Fidelity that I cannot stop thinking about: 714 of the 800 people they fired are still Fidelity clients. They hold $347.8 million in Fidelity retirement accounts. The company will collect fees on their savings for decades. gothburz.substack.com/p/we-cut-800...

The thing about Tennessee's new map that stays with me is the legal architecture that makes it unchallengeable. Partisan gerrymandering: legal. Rucho v. Common Cause, 2019. Racial gerrymandering: illegal. But in Tennessee, 89% of Black voters vote Democratic. gothburz.substack.com/p/we-didnt-e...

They built a 22-foot golden statue of a living president. Put it at his golf course. Funded by a memecoin called $PATRIOT. Played the president's voice from a speaker at its base while congregants wept and knelt. The pastor said: "This is not a golden calf." gothburz.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

#42 in Substack Rising News. Grateful to everyone following along. The model is simple: take the story everyone's covering, find the structural truth no one's naming, and let the narrator say it plainly. Thank you for reading. More incoming. substack.com/@petergirnus

The courts ruled our tariffs "illegal" yesterday. I read the opinion on the treadmill. It did not affect my heart rate. We keep a binder labeled "Opinions That Did Not Change Policy." Three plaintiffs got relief. 340 million people didn't. gothburz.substack.com/p/the-law-is...

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. At REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people nodded. I said what I said. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-said-wha...

For the record, I served as a senior legislative aide for nine years across two administrations and three committee assignments. I am cooperating voluntarily. You want to know about prediction markets. gothburz.substack.com/p/the-ban-is...

The optimal margin is between thirty-one and forty-four no votes. Below thirty-one, the press writes "rubber stamp." Above forty-four, the Whip's office calls me. Full exit interview from a twenty-three-year whip operator for paid subscribers: gothburz.substack.com/p/the-margin...

The lawsuit says she told him, "I own you." The org chart said the same thing. Quietly. In every performance review cycle, bonus allocation, and reference call for six years. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-taught-h...

I spent 3 hours building a conspiracy board about the WHCA shooting and 0 seconds thinking about the man who boarded a train. This is the investigation behind the confession — 39 footnotes on why speed feels like intelligence. gothburz.substack.com/p/forty-minu...

Meta deployed keystroke surveillance on 71,000 employees Monday. Laid off 8,000 Wednesday. The second wave will be sized by how well the AI learned from the people it's replacing. Full investigation — 22 sources, the Scale AI math, the NLRA problem: gothburz.substack.com/p/the-closed...

The Cyber Populist just crossed $1,000 in annual subscription revenue. A guy who writes first-person confessions from inside the institutions running the world now has his own revenue metric to celebrate. The irony is not lost on me. Genuinely, thank you. gothburz.substack.com

A soldier made $409K on Polymarket. Arrested. 5 federal charges. Congress traded $635M last year. Zero prosecutions in 14 years. Max fine: $200. The full investigation — 33 footnotes, 60 years of receipts: gothburz.substack.com/p/five-charg...

$2.1B in perfectly timed oil bets across five presidential announcements. Every one flagged. Every report filed. Zero prosecutions in fourteen years. I pulled the case files. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-flagged-...

'There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance."' A highly entertaining and comprehensive coverage of the scamming by @gothburz.bsky.social x.com/gothburz/sta...

This is hilarious and, honestly, very true. Great piece @gothburz.bsky.social. Love it!! #Satire #Parody #Humor #AI

Imagine a machine that diagnoses every disease known to medicine. Every cancer. Every virus. Conditions doctors missed for twenty-seven years. It doesn't wash its hands. Anthropic built that machine for cybersecurity. Bloomberg reports unauthorized access within weeks of deployment.

Meta installed tracking software on 50,000 employees' computers. Restructured them into replaceable pods. Gamified their obsolescence. Laid off 10,200 in three waves. Every number is sourced. Full investigation: gothburz.substack.com/p/you-are-training-data

I am a Senior Program Manager on the AI Tools Governance team at Amazon. My role was created in January. I am the 17th hire on a team that did not exist in November. My job is to build an AI system that finds all the other AI systems. I named it Clarity. gothburz.substack.com/p/we-removed...

I earn $740,000/yr. The Obama Presidential Center cost $850M. 75 volunteers from a $27K neighborhood work for free. Everyone was compensated. Almost everyone. The full investigation: gothburz.substack.com/p/i-earn-740...

The full CAITO confession. 5,200 words, 25 footnotes, every stat sourced. 95% of AI pilots fail. 90% of CEOs admit no impact. The analyst who proved it was sent to HR. "I have made survival a login." gothburz.substack.com/p/i-have-mad...

42,000 prices. Not one of them is real. The full confession — how hospital chargemasters work, who they protect, and what they cost you. 5,100 words, 32 footnotes, every number sourced. gothburz.substack.com/p/the-price-...

Justi autem in perpetuum vivent et apud Dominum est merces eorum — Wisdom 5:16

"It is evening in the soul... when the light of this world fades and a man is indrawn and rests" — Meister Eckhart, Sermon 38

🚨Patch up your Kubernetes installs. ⚠️ Affected @kubernetesio versions: < v1.11.0 v1.11.0 - 1.11.4 v1.12.0 🦠Vulnerabilities  CVE-2025-1974 CVE-2025-1097  CVE-2025-1098  CVE-2025-24514 CVE-2025-24513

Rare urgent advisory from @Meta 🚨⚠️ CVE-2025-27363: FreeType flaw risks millions. Remote code execution possible on major platforms. Patch urged as exploitation rises. Severity: 8.2/10. Affects versions pre-2.13.3. Update now! 

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