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The Genocide Case Against Hamas
The word “genocide” has been attached to only one side of this war: Israel. The event that started it, the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel three years ago this Wednesday, appears in discussions of genocide mostly as backstory. This past August I wrote a rigorous primer that examined the word genocide under international law, what is required to satisfy its explicit standards, and why Gaza did not meet that test.
A 9/11 Conspiracy Debunker’s Guide
I spent thirty-eight minutes last week debunking September 11 conspiracy theories one by one with Shabbos Kestenbaum on PragerU’s The Brief. Many of you are familiar with the most popular ones: Jet fuel cannot melt steel; WTC 7 was brought down by explosive charges; a missile struck the Pentagon; dancing Israelis are evidence the Mossad was behind the terror attack.
Debunking the Lie of the Century
Someone I’ve known for twenty years lives a couple of blocks away. I like him and run into him regularly in the neighborhood. He is not a partisan, he does not post about the Middle East, and he is not the sort of person who chants anything. The other day, he told me he respected my article in The Free Press, in which I said I’d leave my longtime publisher, Simon & Schuster, if it stood behind a virulently antisemitic Palestinian novelist.
When Publishers Pick Sides
When Publishers Pick Sides Susan Abulhawa speaks at a 2014 Palestine Festival of Literature event at Qasr al Qassem on June 4, 2014, in Beit Wazan, near Nablus, West Bank. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images) Simon & Schuster can publish whomever it likes, including Susan Abulhawa. But if it stands by her antisemitic views, I will sadly look for another publisher. I hope that others will do the same. Simon & Schuster published my last three books, Miami Babylon, God’s Bankers, and Pharma.
Written for an Audience of One
Every few years, the private record of a powerful government official suddenly becomes public. Not because the official chose to publish it or because a memoir was due. The notes surface because they were preserved by a system the writer did not fully control — and because someone armed with a subpoena or a Freedom of Information Act request finally went looking. The public then reads words never intended for the public. The latest example is Anthony Fauci.
Mengele - Anděl smrti
O knize Mengele - Anděl smrti Toto je celoživotní příběh Dr. Josefa Mengeleho, neblaze proslulého „Anděla smrti“. Mengele, který byl odpovědný za smrt a zmrzačení tisíců vězňů v Osvětimi, zmizel po druhé světové válce do Jižní Ameriky… Kniha Mengele - Anděl smrti v seznamech uživatelů (aktualizováno 1x za hodinu) Citáty z knihy (0) Zatím zde není žádný citát z knihy. Související novinka - Mengele - Anděl smrti Zatím zde není žádná související novinka.
The Nazi Party's Membership List Is Now a Search Box
Somewhere in Germany this morning, someone typed a family name into a search box and learned, in about the time it takes to read this sentence, that a grandfather or a great-uncle had once carried a Nazi Party membership card. It is happening millions of times over. For eighty years the plain fact of who actually joined Hitler’s party lived in millions of paper cards that almost no one could reach.
The Democrats' Tea Party Moment
Note: as I finish this piece Wednesday night, Graham Platner has just dropped his Maine Senate bid amid a sexual assault allegation. That's a real story, but it's a different one from the story below. Platner was never a DSA candidate, and he isn't leaving the race because Democratic voters rejected him — he's leaving because his endorsers fled overnight, not because of an ideological reckoning.
Not Progressive Enough: The Scott Wiener Morality Tale
Gaza has replaced everything. Scott Wiener is the proof. There is a viral video making its way across social media this week that every Democrat who cares about the future of the party should be required to watch. It runs about three minutes. It is not comfortable viewing.
The Hostile Takeover: Mamdani’s Purge of the New York Democratic Party
A Just the Facts dispatch based on election calls in three key NY Congressional races I registered as a Democrat the week I turned eighteen. My first presidential vote, cast in San Francisco in 1972, went to George McGovern. I didn’t think much of it at the time — in the San Francisco I grew up in, there wasn’t really a Republican Party to speak of, so being a Democrat wasn’t a choice so much as the only option on the table.
The Iran MOU’s Three Quiet Problems
The Trump administration read the full text of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding to reporters Wednesday, ahead of a signing expected Friday. By now you’ve seen the summary a dozen times: ceasefire extended sixty days, blockade lifted, Strait of Hormuz reopened, sanctions relief on the table, a nuclear framework to be negotiated. The summary isn’t wrong. It’s just not where the story is.
In California, Caution Is About to Become Malpractice
This is another in my occasional series on the pediatric trans industry. Imagine a 14-year-old walks into a therapist’s office and announces she has bipolar disorder. She read about it online, she says. The symptoms match. She wants an antipsychotic prescription medication. No competent therapist anywhere would write the prescription.
The $250 Bill Is a Bad Idea — No Matter Who's President
Mock-up design obtained by The Washington Post Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood at the White House podium this past Thursday and held up a mock design: a $250 bill bearing Donald Trump’s portrait. “I don’t think there’s anything untoward about it,” he said. The bill, he added, would honor the president serving during America’s 250th anniversary. Congress just needs to pass the legislation, and Treasury will print it.
How Rare Are My Opinions?
1. Agree or disagree: Golf should be banned. Agree Disagree 2. Agree or disagree: Disney movies are overrated. Agree Disagree 3. Agree or disagree: Social media is an overall positive for humanity. Agree Disagree 4. Agree or disagree: I'd rather it be too hot than too cold outside. Agree Disagree 5. Agree or disagree: AI technology is, overall, good for humankind. Agree Disagree 6. Agree or disagree: Books are better than movies. Agree Disagree 7. Agree or disagree: Nobody should be a billionaire.
The White House Dinner Exposed a Constitutional Time Bomb
The near-miss at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner put a spotlight on a flaw in American government that has been hiding in plain sight. Seven of the top eight senior officials in the presidential line of succession attended that dinner. Had catastrophe struck the president, vice president and House speaker, the next man in line was 92-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley, the president pro tempore of the Senate, at home in Iowa. This is a constitutional roulette wheel, not a sensible continuity plan.
Why So Many Americans Still Get the JFK Assassination Wrong
My conversation with Ben Shapiro on the JFK assassination, recorded one year ago today. The full interview appears below. A year ago today, a conversation I had with Ben Shapiro about the JFK assassination went viral. That did not surprise me nearly as much as the reason it happened. More than six decades after President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, the case still exerts a strong gravitational pull on the American imagination. It is not simply that people remain interested.
Why So Many Americans Still Get the JFK Assassination Wrong
My conversation with Ben Shapiro on the JFK assassination, recorded one year ago today. The full interview appears below. A year ago today, a conversation I had with Ben Shapiro about the JFK assassination went viral. That did not surprise me nearly as much as the reason it happened. More than six decades after President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, the case still exerts a strong gravitational pull on the American imagination. It is not simply that people remain interested.
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Big Tech’s ‘Big Tobacco’ era has arrived. A Los Angeles jury has now done what regulators and lawmakers have hesitated to do for years—it has assigned legal responsibility to the design of the modern internet. In my earlier reporting, I described this first of a wave of cases as “the internet on trial.” That framing is no longer theoretical. With this verdict, it has become literal. Meta and Google were found negligent and liable for failing to warn users about risks tied to their platforms.
SCOOP: The Quiet U.S. Warning That Blocked Iran’s Nuclear Shortcut
Last summer, as the world focused on Israeli and American air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, Washington quietly sent a warning to North Korea: any transfer of nuclear technology—or an actual nuclear weapon—to Tehran would be treated as an act of aggression against the United States. The message was delivered through diplomatic back channels and reinforced through Chinese intermediaries, according to U.S. sources familiar with the discussions.
The Mossad Dentist Narrative Is Going Viral - But Where’s the Evidence?
Extraordinary claims about secret medical implants demand extraordinary proof. So far, there is none. As the American and Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime unfolds, social media has once again supplied a dramatic explanation for how a Day One precision strike decapitated the senior Iranian leadership. A viral post on X, viewed more than six million times, claims that over the past several years Mossad agents infiltrated Iran posing as dentists and gastroenterologists.
The Mossad Dentist Narrative Is Going Viral - But Where’s the Evidence?
As the American and Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime unfolds, social media has once again supplied a dramatic explanation for how a Day One precision strike decapitated the senior Iranian leadership. A viral post on X, viewed more than six million times, claims that over the past several years Mossad agents infiltrated Iran posing as dentists and gastroenterologists.
The AI Layoffs Have Started - And Wall Street Loves It
Watch that clip closely. This morning, Block, the fintech firm behind Square and Cash App, was “soaring … up about 20%” after announcing it would lay off roughly half its workers. The company’s CFO said it wanted to “move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work.” And CEO Jack Dorsey predicted most companies will soon reach the same conclusion and within a year make “similar structural changes.” Similar structural changes.
The Supreme Court Ended the Tariffs. Now Comes the $133 Billion Fight
This is not the end of the tariff wars. It is the beginning of the next, far more consequential battle. Today’s Supreme Court decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump invalidated the administration’s sweeping tariff program — but it did not end the legal and financial consequences set to dominate the months and years ahead. At issue was not merely policy, but constitutional structure.
Sex, Law, and the EU’s 340-141 Vote
On February 12, the European Parliament adopted a resolution by a vote of 340 to 141 calling on EU institutions and member states to guarantee the “full recognition of trans women as women” in all areas of EU policy and law. A subsequent amendment stating that “only biological women can become pregnant” was defeated, with 233 Members of Parliament voting against it. That is not a culture war skirmish. It is a recorded legislative position.
US medicine must choose between a collapsing consensus on pediatric trans surgery and kids’ well-being
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US medicine must choose between a collapsing consensus on pediatric trans surgery and kids’ well-being
After a decade of denial, America’s medical establishment is starting to blink. Two of the country’s most powerful doctors’ organizations now say gender surgeries should generally wait until adulthood — a stunning reversal after years of waving them through on children.
The First Verdict Has Landed in the Pediatric Gender Medicine Scandal Original
After nearly a decade of reporting on institutional medical failures, I have learned to recognize the moment when a story quietly turns. That moment arrived this past week. A New York jury delivered the first successful malpractice verdict tied to pediatric gender medicine, a legal development that may prove more consequential than any policy statement or regulatory review.
Persistence, Truth, and the Anniversary of a Book the Industry Didn’t Want
Nine years ago today, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz was published. My wife, Trisha Posner, had written a searing, deeply researched biography of Victor Capesius — the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, who used his position not to heal, but to profit from genocide. The book was gripping, historically grounded, and morally urgent. No one in the U.S. publishing world wanted it. No agents. No editors.
Against the Noise: Some Lessons Learned from Four Decades of Reporting
Preparing to teach three long-form courses later this month for the Peterson Academy recently forced me to do something I rarely do: stop and look backward. Two of those courses—The Secrets of Big Pharma and The Politics of Cancer—are built directly on years of original reporting. The third, Journalism 102: How to Write a Nonfiction Bestseller, sent me back even further, into notebooks, boxes, transcripts, FOIA files, and interviews stretching across four decades.
When the Supreme Court Has to Ask What Sex Means
The Supreme Court, Title IX, and the Question That Should Never Have Been Asked On Tuesday, I listened to more than three hours of Supreme Court argument on a question that would have seemed absurd when I was in law school — or when Title IX became law more than fifty years ago. The question, stripped of euphemism, is this: Can a state preserve separate sports teams for girls and women without violating the Constitution or federal civil rights law?
Everyone Thinks They Know What Happened in Minneapolis. Slow Down.
The shooting involving ICE agents in Minneapolis is already being treated as a morality play, neatly divided into sides that appear to have reached certainty within hours. On one side, accusations invoking Nazis and secret police. On the other, demands for uncompromising immigration enforcement and blanket exoneration. What stands out is not only the speed of the reaction, but the confidence with which judgments were rendered—despite how little is actually known.
Gerald Posner's CASE CLOSED One Day Sale!
I do not usually use Just the Facts to flag a book promotion. This is an exception. Today only, all digital editions of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK are deeply discounted by the publisher, Open Road Media.
Attend My New Peterson Academy Courses - Live in Phoenix
This is a special, one-off Just the Facts note to let subscribers know about three new courses I will be teaching at the Peterson Academy later this month. If you live in the Phoenix area, or know someone who does, there is a rare opportunity to be part of the live taping of one of these courses. Those who attend will also receive one year of complimentary access to the full Peterson Academy online curriculum.
Iran Is Burning - and the World’s Media Is Missing in Action
One of the most consequential political events of this decade may be unfolding in real time in Iran. And if you rely on legacy media for your information, you may know very little about what is actually happening. Since late December 2025, opposition to Iran’s theocratic regime has escalated into sustained street protests across multiple cities. This is not a single flashpoint or an isolated economic grievance. It is an uprising explicitly directed at the ayatollahs and the Islamic Republic itself.
Iran Is Burning - and the World’s Media Is Missing in Action
One of the most consequential political events of this decade may be unfolding in real time in Iran. And if you rely on legacy media for your information, you may know very little about what is actually happening. Since late December 2025, opposition to Iran’s theocratic regime has escalated into sustained street protests across multiple cities. This is not a single flashpoint or an isolated economic grievance. It is an uprising explicitly directed at the ayatollahs and the Islamic Republic itself.
What New York’s Mayor Told Jewish New Yorkers on Day One
Within hours of taking office on New Year’s Day, New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, revoked the city’s use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism — a globally recognized framework designed to help governments and institutions identify and respond to anti-Jewish hatred. The decision was briefly announced and then quietly removed from official city channels. But its meaning was unmistakable.
Follow the Money: The Financial Choke Point That Could Shut Down Pediatric Gender Medicine
In a news conference this morning, Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. signed a declaration that proposed removing medical providers from Medicare and Medicaid entirely if they offer gender transition interventions to minors. Just the Facts with Gerald Posner is a reader-supported publication: consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Not just for those services. For all services. That matters because Medicare and Medicaid are the largest healthcare payers in the country.
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Release the Epstein Files
What matters most at this moment is not the specific contents of the Epstein files, but the political and cultural momentum driving their release. I’ve spent years battling governments and institutions for transparency: the JFK and MLK assassination records, Argentina’s Nazi fugitive documents, the Vatican Bank’s World War II archives. One truth emerges every time: the harder governments fight to keep records sealed, the more the public becomes convinced they contain a smoking gun.
How the FDA Just Took Women’s Health Back Twenty Years
Dr. Marty Makary, the FDA’s commissioner, announced yesterday that the agency will remove the black-box warning from all estrogen-based hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) products. New labels will instead emphasize that HRT may offer long-term health benefits if begun within ten years of the onset of menopause. That change overturns more than twenty years of established medical guidance that began after the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) halted its massive clinical trial in 2002.
"Klansmen in Keffiyehs"
University presidents last week finally said aloud what many Americans suspected: the pro-Palestinian uprisings that swept across campuses after Hamas’s October 7 attack were not spontaneous acts of youthful conscience but were well-coordinated and funded. “It’s more than a social contagion,” said Vanderbilt’s chancellor. “They’re organized networks as well.” Syracuse’s chancellor went further: “I really believe [the demonstrations] were encouraged by Iran.
When a Parking Argument Turns Violent
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How to Stand Out at Work and Get Promoted
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“Pritzker’s $1M Win” – The SECRET Behind JB Pritzker’s MILLION DOLLAR Blackjack Win REVEALED! - Valuetainment
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“Sacrifice YOUR Paychecks” – Teamsters Sean O’Brien CALLS OUT Greedy CEOs & Fake ‘Grind’ Gurus - Valuetainment
FacebookXRedditPinterestEmailLinkedInWhatsApp Patrick Bet-David flips the script on Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, asking how he’d run a small business with limited capital and union pressures. O’Brien explains sustainable growth, union health plans, and his philosophy on risk, control, and the fine line between labor and ownership.
“UFC Fighters Aren’t Treated Like People” – Teamsters Sean O’Brien SLAMS Dana White Over Fighter Pay - Valuetainment
FacebookXRedditPinterestEmailLinkedInWhatsApp Patrick Bet-David challenges Teamsters President Sean O’Brien on Karl Marx, unions, and why some industries avoid organized labor. O’Brien defends collective bargaining, criticizes weak bankruptcy laws, and argues why pensions—not 401(k)s—protect America’s workers from corporate abuse.
“1099s SHOULDN’T Exist” – Union Boss CHALLENGES America’s Gig Work Culture - Valuetainment
FacebookXRedditPinterestEmailLinkedInWhatsApp Sean O’Brien argues there should be no 1099 workers—ever. In this intense PBD Podcast debate, Patrick Bet-David challenges the Teamsters president on small business risk, real estate agents, and whether unions and W2 jobs truly benefit the American worker more than independent work.
“Democrats FORGOT About Workers” – Sean O’Brien CALLS OUT Corporate Democrats Over Labor BETRAYAL! - Valuetainment
FacebookXRedditPinterestEmailLinkedInWhatsApp For the first time in 121 years, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien speaks at the RNC. In this powerful interview, Patrick Bet-David dives into why O’Brien accepted, his call-out of corporate greed, his exchange with Trump, and how unions are redefining their role in modern America.
A Quick Take on Why the Science Doesn’t Match the Headlines
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Marijuana’s federal legal status needs to change - but not to the free-for-all advocates crave
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