The 1986 Petition Substack was sent by one of my staff members without my express approval. I was shocked when I learned it had been launched as my last communication was this is NOT ready.
I am livid this happened and have notified my staff it must never happen again.
The article itself should have said: US only.
The survey itself should have said: US only.
The survey should have made it clear the phone number is optional and explained what the phone number would be used for.
There should be no CAPCHA because this was sent to my subscribers.
There should be no unexpected errors on form submission.
And so on.
And the very first time I saw the draft, it was missing a link to the survey which I pointed out.
I said this was not ready to be sent out.
The next thing I knew it was launched by a staff member.
Sadly, Substack allows anyone to edit drafts AND launch. No separate controls for launch.
I am very upset this happened.
A lot of you wrote in pointing out the errors. Thank you for doing that, I’m sorry this happened, and I have made it crystal clear this should never happen again.
Every VSRF staff member will be educated on this incident.
A Michigan Court of Appeals overturned the convictions of two people connected to a plot to kidnap Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, deciding it was obligated to follow a previous ruling.
The court ruled Monday that Pete Musico and Paul Bellar’s convictions would be overturned, due to the legal definition of “act of terrorism.” Musico and Bellar, along with Joe Morrison, were sentenced in 2022 for providing material support to an act of terror, according to FOX2. Bellar received seven years, Musico 12 years and Morrison 10 years. Morrison’s conviction was overturned last month. All three were alleged to have held secondary roles in the plot as members of a paramilitary group that earlier trained with Adam Fox, the Associated Press reported.
The trio were convicted of three charges — providing material to an act of terror, committing a felony motivated by gang membership or association, and possession of a gun while committing a felony. The appeals courts vacated the convictions and remanded their cases for additional procedings.
The key charge was “providing material support for an action of terrorism.” During the original ruling, kidnapping was included as an “act of terrorism.” However, the court ruled that kidnapping is not included as an act of terror because it is not defined as a “violent felony,” according to Michigan Anti-Terrorism Act (MCL – Section 750.543a).
Musico, Bellar, and Morrison were all part of the Wolverine Watchmen, a paramilitary organization, FOX2 reported. Whitmer was not kidnapped or injured in connection with the plot. Details later emerged in court that no less than 12 FBI informants were tied to the investigation, with undercover operatives reportedly taking part in meetings with defendants and discussing plans.
Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel put out a statement after Morrison’s ruling, calling the ruling “irredeemably nonsensical, outrageous, and irresponsible.”
“That this panel of judges found a way to excuse from these crimes their foundation in violence irresponsibly and unfathomably diminishes and whitewashes the crimes of Joseph Morrison and his many codefendants. It sends a deeply dangerous message, in a fraught and perilous time.”
In response to Monday’s ruling, Nessel said, “A previous ruling used linguistic gymnastics to overturn the conviction of an extremist. Now, that broken precedent has legally bound this Court of Appeals panel to reverse the convictions of two more dangerous criminals.”
“We have already started the process to appeal the disastrous decision in Mr. Morrison’s case, and we will not hesitate to do the exact same for Mr. Musico and Mr. Bellar.”
Fresh evidence recovered from the remote New Mexico forest where Los Alamos National Laboratory administrative assistant Melissa Casias was found has blown major holes in the suicide narrative.
An independent team hired by her own family discovered bones, torn and bloody clothing, orange peels, strands of what appears to be horse hair, shredded paper that may contain her handwriting, and a tobacco pouch—none of which New Mexico State Police recovered after clearing the scene.
Casias, 53, vanished from her Ranchos de Taos home on June 26, 2025. She left without her purse, keys or wallet. Surveillance captured her walking alone eastward on State Road 518 around 2:20 p.m.
Both her work and personal phones were found at the house, factory-reset and wiped of all data. A blood drop was also discovered inside the residence. Nearly eleven months later, on May 28, 2026, a hiker located her skeletal remains in the McGaffey Ridge area of Carson National Forest next to a handgun her family says did not belong to her.
Initial CT scans showed no gunshot wound and no projectile in the skull. No casing was recovered at the scene. The remote location is difficult to reach on foot, requiring multiple rest stops and water.
Now, new details have raised further serious questions.
Family attorney David Adams of Parnall and Adams Law said an independent search conducted in late June—after police had already cleared the area—turned up the additional items. “The family really wasn’t expecting to find any additional information… it certainly turned out to be something much, much more,” Adams stated.
He noted the presence of possible horse hair and the rugged terrain: “In my mind, when you see that, you kind of go, okay, well, I could see that you would need a horse to get her up there if you were moving a body, for instance, because how you would otherwise do that.”
Law&Crime Network@LawCrimeNetwork
Melissa Casias, missing for years, was found dead in a New Mexico forest, with her family uncovering shocking new evidence that upends the initial investigation. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber @jessecordweber reports.
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Adams also questioned the tobacco pouch, pointing out Casias did not use tobacco, and raised chain-of-custody concerns: “There becomes a question of a chain of custody… Could law enforcement have spat a tobacco pouch in the crime scene? I mean, certainly possible. I mean, that would be an example of just poor training.”
The family has rejected claims that Casias intended to disappear or end her life. Earlier reporting revealed she left home with her toothbrush and thyroid medication—items one investigator described as “things that might indicate you’re planning to stay alive.”
Adams said the family hired his firm after spotting multiple red flags. The new evidence has been turned over to authorities.
The official cause of death remains pending from the Office of the Medical Investigator nearly two months after the remains were identified. The FBI, ordered to examine possible links to other cases, has had no contact with the family according to Adams.
Former FBI agent Ben Hansen assessed the Casias case as roughly “80 percent foul play” and floated the possibility of directed-energy weapons or voice-to-skull technology that could influence behavior without leaving conventional ballistics.
Casias is one of several New Mexico individuals connected to nuclear facilities who disappeared under similar circumstances.
Her case sits inside a larger cluster that first drew national attention when retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland—widely described as a UFO “gatekeeper” with oversight of top-secret space weapons and advanced aerospace programs—vanished from his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026, just days after President Trump ordered full disclosure of all UFO and UAP records.
Subsequent cases included a NASA nuclear propulsion expert found charred inside a crashed Tesla.
A NASA-linked aerospace engineer and his family killed in a plane crash.
The death of anti-gravity researcher Amy Eskridge (who had reported directed-energy harassment).
The disappearance of JPL rocket scientist Monica Reza.
And additional personnel tied to nuclear components, rocket alloys and classified aerospace work, including the vanishing of Steven Garcia, a nuclear contractor with top clearance.
By mid-April 2026 the documented total had reached at least eleven. Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker previously noted that administrative staff in high-clearance labs “would basically be in the know on what’s going on” and that it “wouldn’t be the first time their administrative assistant has been targeted.”
Two major sets of previously classified UFO/UAP disclosure files have since been released under the Trump administration. President Trump has publicly addressed the string of cases, stating there is “not much of a connection” and describing many as individual matters while pledging a full report.
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NOW – Trump says string of missing and dead scientists are not connected: “There’s not much of a connection.”
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The latest reporting on the missed evidence at the Casias scene only deepens the questions surrounding both her death and the wider pattern. Officials continue to treat each incident in isolation. Families and independent investigators keep finding anomalies that do not fit the tidy explanations being offered.
America’s nuclear and advanced-technology workforce is not disposable. When personnel with access to the most sensitive programs keep vanishing or turning up dead under irregular circumstances—especially amid long-overdue transparency on related technologies—the public has every right to demand answers that match the seriousness of the losses.
Customs officers spent three days building a border examination for the man at the center of the COVID origins fight – until Biden’s FBI put a stop to it with a single email.
On February 2, 2021, a national targeting security specialist at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center circulated a referral to colleagues across the agency. The subject was Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, scheduled to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport three days later aboard Qatar Airways flight 701 from Doha, arriving 2:25 p.m. He was returning from the World Health Organization’s mission to Wuhan investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
The referral asked that Daszak be considered for a Tactical Terrorism Response Team examination – a secondary inspection that can include questioning and a review of electronic devices. Which, now we know, never happened.
Senator Rand Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the underlying records Monday. They show CBP flagged Daszak as “an extremely high person of interest,” built out a formal targeting event, and then stood down two days before his flight at the request of the FBI’s New York Field Office.
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian
Rand Paul releases docs that reveal FBI halted border inspection of virus researcher over Wuhan lab links | Louis Casiano, Fox News
Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were preparing to question a British zoologist and disease ecology expert upon his return to
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According to the materials, officers noted Daszak’s affiliation with Zhengli Shi – the WIV virologist known as “Bat Woman” – and that EcoHealth and Daszak had been working with her for more than fifteen years. They listed him as principal investigator on two NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grants: 1U01AI151797-01, “Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Viruses Emergence in EID Hotspots of Southeast Asia,” and 2R01AI110964-06, “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” running June 2014 through June 2024. A search of the latter grant, the officers wrote, returned 19 publications, many authored by Shi – who listed the grant on her own resume despite not appearing as a principal investigator on it.
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The assessment that has drawn the most attention is blunter: “Much of the funding DASZAK receives is put towards gain of function research.” The officers defined the term in the document itself as experimentation aiming to increase a pathogen’s transmissibility or virulence.
They also flagged EcoHealth’s contracts with the Department of Homeland Security’s Chemical and Biological Threat Division, noting that much of what the organization studied was likely subject to nondisclosure agreements or export controls – a live concern for someone crossing a border. And they noted NIH had publicly asked Daszak to retrieve the original type-specimen WIV used for genetic analysis and return it to the United States, along with explaining aspects of the collaboration including cell phone data.
The request section reads like a deposition outline. Why was Daszak chosen for the WHO team? Where in China did he go, and where did he stay? Did the team visit the WIV – and if so, which areas did it inspect, and whom did it meet? Did it visit the Chinese Center for Disease Control? Did it meet any other Chinese government officials?
Then the physical questions. Did Daszak collect biological samples during the trip? Was he traveling with any? Had he mailed samples back to the United States? Had he taken materials with him to China? Had he maintained contact with anyone at the WIV, and if so, how often and about what?
The final line asks about the purpose of separate travel between January 4 and January 7, 2021 – a trip the documents do not otherwise explain.
On February 4 at 12:16 p.m., a CBP deputy chief officer serving as the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison sent a message to a long list of recipients, the addresses now redacted. It was brief. “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject below.”
The subject line of the referral chain was amended to read “DISREGARD.” A follow-up instructed colleagues to disregard the inspection request and said the subject would be routed elsewhere for any requests. The National Targeting Center’s own summary of the episode closes the matter in eight words: “FBI requested not to stop subject. No further NTC action.”
The documents do not say why. No rationale appears anywhere in the release. An FBI request of this kind can reflect an active investigation the bureau does not want disturbed, an interest in protecting sources or methods, or a separate arrangement already in place. None of that is in the record, and Paul’s release does not claim to know. Fox News reported that the bureau did not respond to its request for comment.
Nor are these classified records, despite some coverage describing them that way. The pages carry a Law Enforcement Sensitive / For Official Use Only caveat – restricted handling, but unclassified.
Daszak was then president of EcoHealth Alliance, the New York nonprofit that routed NIH funding to bat coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and one of ten members of the WHO team whose selection drew criticism at the time given his financial and professional entanglement with the lab the mission was meant to examine.
What the WHO team’s critics did not know at the time was the full contents of a proposal Daszak had assembled three years earlier. In March 2018, EcoHealth submitted a $14.2 million bid to DARPA titled “Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses” – DEFUSE – with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Ralph Baric’s lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, and several other partners. The proposal set out plans to build full-length infectious clones of bat SARS-related coronaviruses, to screen for receptor binding domains suited to human cells, and to insert proteolytic cleavage sites into bat coronavirus spike proteins, testing the results in mice engineered to carry human receptors. Early drafts later obtained under FOIA show the authors were specifically interested in furin cleavage sites at the S1/S2 junction. DARPA rejected the bid, citing in part gain-of-function concerns. The following year, a novel bat-derived coronavirus carrying a furin cleavage site at precisely that junction began infecting people in Wuhan – a feature absent from every closely related sarbecovirus catalogued to date.
DEFUSE never officially became public through Daszak. It surfaced in September 2021, when the online research group DRASTIC obtained leaked copies and The Intercept published an account – eight months after the WHO mission he sat on had returned from Wuhan, and seven months after CBP’s targeting package was quietly shelved. Daszak’s defense has been consistent and narrow: “The DARPA proposal was not funded. Therefore, the work was not done. Simple.” EcoHealth has argued the project required a budget and multi-lab coordination it never received, so the experiments could not have been performed. The counter-case is equally specific: internal drafts show Daszak advising Baric and Shi that he wanted the proposal to emphasize the American side of the work to keep DARPA “comfortable,” even though WIV would do much of it – and separately, virologist Kristian Andersen, a prominent advocate of natural origin, has argued the formal proposal specified cleavage sites at a different position on the spike than the one SARS-CoV-2 carries. None of that was disclosed while Daszak was helping investigate the lab in question.
What followed is now well documented. After the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic found EcoHealth had failed to report gain-of-function experiments at WIV, ignored oversight requests, and filed a required research report two years late, HHS suspended the organization’s funding in May 2024 and opened debarment proceedings. In January 2025 it formally debarred both EcoHealth and Daszak personally for five years. EcoHealth terminated his employment effective January 6, 2025, and the organization is now defunct. Daszak has never been charged with a crime, has consistently denied wrongdoing, and has argued the investigations were politically driven. He now heads Nature Health Global, a nonprofit working on ecological research and pandemic prevention.
The intelligence picture also moved. The FBI assessed with moderate confidence that a laboratory incident was the likely origin; the Department of Energy reached the same conclusion with low confidence. Last year the White House published a comprehensive origins report naming a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research as the most likely explanation.
“They told the public a COVID lab leak ‘wasn’t plausible,’” Paul wrote on X. “Their own private messages say otherwise. Today I’m launching The Reading Room where the public can review records related to my ongoing investigation – not just conclusions but the actual documents.” He added: “This isn’t the whole story. It’s the start of one.” The archive sits at paul.senate.gov/readingroom and will be updated on a rolling basis.
Senator Rand Paul@SenRandPaul
🧵They told the public a COVID lab leak “wasn’t plausible.” Their own private messages say otherwise. Today I’m launching The Reading Room where the public can review records related to my ongoing investigation – not just conclusions but the actual documents.
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The timing is not incidental. As Just The News noted, the documents landed just over a week before Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify before Paul’s committee on whether he misled Congress about NIAID funding for gain-of-function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
One detail in the file is easy to miss. The email chain was forwarded internally on September 3, 2025 – four and a half years after the fact, and presumably in response to the committee’s records demand. Whatever the FBI’s reason for calling off the stop in February 2021, it stayed inside CBP’s system until a Senate chairman went looking for it.
Tonight on VSRF Live, we’re taking a close look at one of the most talked-about emerging treatment approaches for people suffering from persistent symptoms after COVID infection or COVID vaccination.
Millions of people continue to struggle with chronic fatigue, neurological problems, cardiovascular symptoms, brain fog, and other debilitating conditions months—or even years—later. Many feel they’ve run out of options.
Joining me tonight are Dr. Kevin McCairn, the neuroscientist behind the Edogawa Protocol being developed in Japan, and Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, who has treated thousands of COVID patients and continues to care for individuals with persistent post-COVID and post-vaccination illness.
We’ll discuss the science behind the Edogawa Protocol, including Double Filtration Plasmapheresis (DFPP) and the biological mechanisms its developers believe may contribute to persistent illness, such as neuroinflammation, immune dysregulation, vascular dysfunction, and mitochondrial impairment.
We’ll also tackle the practical questions many patients are asking: How does DFPP actually work? What results have physicians in Japan observed so far? What are the potential risks and limitations? What research is still needed? And what would it take for this treatment approach to become available in the United States?
You already know this is wrong. So why haven’t you signed this petition? Only 4.5% of you have. That’s the problem. You’ve seen the data. You’ve read the arguments. This isn’t about awareness anymore. It’s about whether you’re willing to act.
This video is narrated by Dr. Jessica Rose, a PhD computational biologist, a relentless advocate, and a true friend of VSRF… someone many of you already trust. She’s not speculating. She’s walking you through the actual safety testing data.
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If a product is safe, it should hold up in civil court.
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A rural New York school district on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to become one of the first in the United States to place a lifelike humanoid robot in front of high school students.
Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will introduce “Sally,” an M-Series robot built by Realbotix, to assist in coding, robotics, and AI classes for 11th and 12th graders.
Sally comes with brown hair, silicone skin, a Western New York accent, upper-body movement, and facial expressions. She remains seated and cannot walk the room. Students will log in with unique identification codes so the machine can recognize them and pick up previous interactions.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
New York school district to become one of the first in the United States to introduce a humanoid robot in the classroom.
‘Sally’ will have a Western New York accent and will teach 11th and 12th-grade students at Salamanca High School.
Sally costs less than the average teacher’s
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The full package—robot plus the accompanying Optio AI tutor platform—cost the district $57,590, a discounted figure below the average New York teacher salary and well under the company’s listed starting price near $95,000.
“The Realbotix educational robot will never replace teachers, staff members, or meaningful human interaction,” the Salamanca City Central School District stated. Instead, they describe it as an instructional tool loaded only with district-approved curriculum, historical information about Salamanca, and content designed to encourage critical thinking rather than simply spit out answers.
The system reportedly operates offline with no internet connection, collects no personally identifiable information, records neither video nor audio, and transmits nothing back to the company. If asked something outside its knowledge base, it is programmed to reply “I don’t know.”
New York Post@nypost
NY school to introduce first humanoid robot in US classroom – and vows ‘Sally’ will never replace teachers trib.al/RpiaspU
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Realbotix CEO Andrew Kiguel called the deployment “a landmark moment for both AI and humanoid robotics.” He added: “We are moving beyond lab demonstrations and pilots to deliver real, embodied AI directly into classrooms, supporting teachers, engaging students, and proving that advanced robotics can thrive in live educational environments. Salamanca marks the beginning of a new era where humanoid robots and intelligent AI assistants become standard tools in STEM education.”
Superintendent Dr. Mark Beehler expressed enthusiasm for giving students “a safe, Salamanca-specific AI tutor” and educators customized tools. The pilot begins with students in the district’s Woz ED AI and Robotics pathway—curriculum inspired by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak—and could expand to roughly 500 high school students if deemed successful.
Students will also interact with digital avatars of the robot on laptops for after-hours tutoring, homework help, and support in multiple languages.
The company behind Sally has a more colorful history. Realbotix previously acquired the parent firm of RealDoll, the well-known manufacturer of hyper-realistic sex dolls and companion robots. Officials stress that the education division operates separately in staff, facilities, and technology, with a planned ownership separation, yet the connection has not gone unnoticed.
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Step forward Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, which, according to Techspot, will spend $57,590—”discounted from the $95,000 list price,” so that’s nice—on a thing called “Sally.”
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Your Child’s Next Teacher Could Be a Sex Robot
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Reactions on X captured the skepticism. One popular reply asked bluntly, “Why does the robot have lip injections?” Another observed the contradiction in officials promising robots will never replace teachers while simultaneously noting the machine costs less than a human educator.
JoshHoldsCourt@JoshHoldsCourt
@CollinRugg Why does the robot have lip injections?
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K J Gillenwater@kjgillenwater
@CollinRugg But why does she have to look like a porn star? Why not more like this? A more mom-like figure?
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Done With Democrats@DoneWDemocrats
@CollinRugg Why do they have such botox poofy lips? lol
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DavidHasbun@TheDavidHasbun
@CollinRugg They purchased the robot from a sex robot company.
And are now putting it with children.
I’m not kidding. Look it up.
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Critics pointed to the company’s adult-product roots and questioned the wisdom of placing such technology in front of teenagers in an economically challenged community. Homeschool advocates seized on the moment to argue that parents should simply keep their children out of systems experimenting with this level of automation.
The Democratic Party’s money problems have been an open secret for months. Federal Election Commission filings from around six months ago showed the Democratic National Committee entering the final stretch of last year with barely $12 million in its campaign account and nearly $16 million in debt, most of it stemming from a loan the committee took out the previous month. Donations had slumped just as the party needed them most.
Since then, the political environment has arguably been extremely beneficial for Democrats, with President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings, the war with Iran, and high gas prices. Any one of those should have been enough to give the party the momentum necessary to get them out of their financial slump. Now, instead of turning the financial picture around, the DNC appears to be doing something stranger: hiding it.
According to a report from Axios, DNC officials required senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party’s finances, a departure from the committee’s usual practice. Two people familiar with the conversations said the DNC requested the NDAs ahead of the recent finance meeting. The DNC asked its officers, high-ranking members of chair Ken Martin’s own team, to sign the agreements, the kind of people who typically never sign confidentiality paperwork before sitting down to talk numbers.
The senior officers’ meeting took place on June 25, five days before the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that upended the rules governing how parties fund their candidates. The timing alone tells its own story about how the DNC is managing its message heading into a midterm cycle it can’t afford to fumble.
Martin has spent months fending off a quiet but persistent crisis of confidence among Democratic donors, operatives, and even members of his own committee, all of them watching the Republican National Committee build a fundraising advantage heading into the Nov. 3 midterms that keeps getting harder to explain away. The numbers through the end of May make the gap plain. The DNC held just under $15 million on hand against $18 million in debt, while the RNC sat on $125 million with no debt at all.
The DNC declined to comment on why it required only its officers to sign confidentiality agreements before the finance meeting, and they’re trying to pass it off as inconsequential. Chris Lowe, the committee’s national finance co-chair, claimed that requiring officers and board-meeting attendees to sign NDAs is standard practice in the corporate world. Lowe added that senior DNC staff already operate under confidentiality agreements and argued it would be poor practice to discuss finance and political strategy at the highest levels without them in place.
A DNC official claimed that Martin’s committee has raised more money this cycle than the DNC did in 2017 and 2018, the last time Democrats headed into a midterm without the White House; however, it’s not clear whether that accounts for inflation.
Ultimately, the NDA strategy will not keep the party’s finances hidden, since those numbers will become public through Federal Election Commission filings. The agreements clearly exist for other reasons, such as protecting the internal deliberations, party infighting, donor threats, doubts about Martin’s leadership, and any strategic response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in NRSC v. FEC. The financial numbers clearly aren’t good, but what the party plans to do about them is likely what they’re really trying to hide.
#BREAKING: A man with a history of anti-ICE activity set off an “incendiary device” outside a Manhattan federal building that houses an immigration court, authorities said. The suspect had an incendiary device, a pellet gun and a sign reading “ICE Off Our Streets,” FBI Assistant
On July 17, NBC News televised portions of a lengthy investigation proving that Israeli military forces had attacked medics at least 116 times in South Lebanon over the last several months. On that same day, Reuters reported that eight people were killed and 20 others were wounded when Israeli planes carried out an air strike […]
