[Cross-posted from my substack, https://neverthesamerivertwice.substack.com.]

The whole family was home around christmas time. We were hanging out in the kitchen after dinner. My brother started asking me about national security law. He’d graduated from a well ranked law school about six months before, and I was about six months away from graduating from a slightly higher ranked law school, and both our parents are lawyers, so law was not an unusual topic in our house.

Maybe twenty feet away the family dog, Biscuit, was attempting to climb the stairs. He started having a seizure. This had never happened before, and it was a bit scary. So my mother, my brother, and I piled into the car to take Biscuit to the vet. Unfortunately, the laws of physics stop for no dog, so we had to stop for gas. And while the gas was flowing, my brother expressed his frustration that they had interrupted our conversation. They? The CIA of course, that secretive government agency we had driven past every Sunday on our way to church as children. They didn’t want me to share what I knew about national security law. But the conversation was interrupted by Biscuit's seizure, what [...]

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First published:
December 28th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4vGpJCfhGXLxmGH2u/the-cia-poisoned-my-dog-two-stories-about-paranoid-delusions

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“The CIA Poisoned My Dog: Two Stories About Paranoid Delusions and Damage Control” by River

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