The Cyber Populist

The Cyber Populist

The Continuum

I spent $340,000 to put a grandmother and a firebomber in the same database. Then I showed the database to DHS. They were grateful.

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Peter Girnus
May 26, 2026
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On April 10, 2026, Daniel Moreno-Gama of Spring, Texas threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home. He then appeared at OpenAI headquarters with additional incendiary devices and a manifesto. He was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

On the same day, a woman in The Dalles, Oregon posted on Nextdoor asking if anyone else’s water pressure had dropped since the new construction started on the hill.

This is the story of how they ended up in the same database. Who built the database. Who paid for it. And who showed it to the federal government as proof that America was under attack.


Every flagship confession gets an extended version. A longer arc. More of the system exposed.

The X version is the VP’s confession — how he built the continuum and what the continuum did. The Substack version is the full architecture: the eight-tier scale, the four-page glossary, the PTA meeting flagged as a threat cluster, the Jackson Hole offsite where six people who score 90%+ on silencing communities celebrate together 200 miles from the nearest data center they built.

The file on GardenGramJudy is still open. The file on the PTA mothers is still open. The file on you — if you’ve ever posted about water, noise, or construction within 40 miles of a proposed facility — may also be open.

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