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Bucked.

Hitting “pause” on an article planned for release today as the billion-dollar Marin Community Foundation, formerly the Buck Trust, prepares responses.

Blonde Ambition: How a former KBR/Halliburton war zone contractor with ties to CIA-and-FBI-heavy Huntsville turned Israel’s genocide into a $1.38M political opportunity

Before co-founding Track AIPAC, Cory Archibald was promoted through the ranks of KBR’s Iraq operations during the company’s deadliest, most controversial years. Then she stopped talking about it.

New Editor In Chief of “J.”, Asaf Elia-Shalev, insists his responses to coverage of Santana Row case remain “absolutely off the record”–including his decision to publish naked torso photo of defendant

Biased media coverage in six articles published by the Jewish News of Northern California remain on J's website despite ongoing threats to the young defendants and the Assyrian-American community

“Prowling” Media Goons: What Judge Mayfield, Local Media, and Murdoch's New “California Post” Don’t Want You To Know About Their Handling of Elaine Forbes’ Arraignment

Billionaire-funded media turned the Sausalito city manager’s mental health incident into a clickbait-driven circus – and a temporary judge in Marin Superior Court was happy to grant them media access.

“Six Years A Mercenary”: Was The Predictable Implosion of “Anti-War” Graham Platner’s $16M Senate Campaign Scam Linked To His Own (Undisclosed) Ties To Military Intelligence and to Israel?

Why did media undercount Platner's work as a mercenary by 5.5 years and ignore his work in military intel? Also: How the Platner rape allegation mirrors an allegation against Ronald Reagan.

5 Videos: Billionaire San Francisco Mayor's Police Commission Refuses To Hand Over Meeting Minutes To Mandated Archives. Commission in Tenth Year of Non-Compliance with Municipal Code.

SF Police Commission claims materials are available online, but even Deputy City Attorney Will Rostov conceded in late Monday email that the website's links don't work. How did SF media never notice?

He Was Epstein Before There Was Epstein: Max von Oppenheim as “Father of Jihad”; the Young Turks; and Why Israel Still Can’t Acknowledge the Ottoman Genocides That Set The Stage for the Holocaust

Santa Clara DA Rosen’s over-prosecution of three Assyrian Americans inadvertently uncovers the complicity of early Zionists in the Ottoman genocides of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks

VIDEO: San Francisco's $1.53 Billion "Jewish Federation Bay Area" Is Lobbying for a $1 Billion FEMA Grant for Synagogue Security — On Top of $274.5M Awarded in 2025. Why Isn't Local Media Reporting?

Marin County Confidential takes a field trip to the newly renamed Jewish Community Federation, and breaks down new, additional state and federal grants for which the Federation and JCRC are lobbying.

“It’s Because I’m A Jew”: Claiming To Be Target of Discrimination, “Progressive” District Attorney Jeff Rosen Leverages Two Powerful Pro-Israel Nonprofits to Pursue His Own Targeted Prosecutions

JCRC and JSV amplify Rosen's messaging in under-examined conflict of interest. Meanwhile, ACLU sues Rosen for withholding docs related to disproportionate prosecutions of Black and Latino defendants

The Arraignment: A Week After Judge Paul Ordered Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen Recused From “Stanford 12” Retrial, DA Office Admits It Can’t Charge Hate Crime In Santana Row “Antisemitic” Attack

Alleged Santana Row victim, Israeli Lior Zeevi, charged with felony hate crimes in May 2025 incident. Assyrian Christian community rallies in support of three young defendants smeared as "antisemitic"