Peter Thiel has been running a secret society since 2006, and thanks to a leak, we finally know exactly who shows up for the champagne, the cult building panels, and the group texts about how much data they can pull on the rest of us. It’s called Dialog. Two hundred and twenty two of the most powerful people in the country registered for this year’s retreat, which kicked off today outside Dublin, complete with a reported price tag around sixteen thousand dollars just to walk in the door. Eighty seven of them are first timers, so this club is very much still growing its guest list. Guess who’s on it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the man in charge of regulating financial data, cozied up with Auren Hoffman, the Dialog chairman who built his fortune on companies that harvest your location and identity information for profit. Ted Cruz is there too, chairing the Senate committee that’s supposed to keep the FTC watching data privacy, apparently far more interested in mingling with the people he’s paid to be watching. Then there’s Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs ICE deportation case files and feeds the Pentagon, sitting in the same room as Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and NATO’s top commander in Europe, who has been showing up to these things since 2021. The one Democrat on the list, Jim Himes, happens to be the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee that oversees agencies paying Palantir. Sure, that’s fine, nothing to see here. And the agenda. Panels called “Build a Cult,” “Navigating WWIII,” and “How’s Your Sex Life?” while these same people spend their day jobs lecturing the rest of us about personal responsibility and belt tightening. Not one person on that list registered with a government email address. That is not sloppiness, that is a deliberate move to keep this entire circus legally invisible and off the public record. This is what accountability looks like under this crowd. The people writing the rules and the people cashing in on breaking them are at the same retreat wearing the same wristbands, while the rest of us get told there is no money left for anything that actually helps us.