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Several different documents are being prepared for publication and submission over the coming hours and days. They fall into three distinct categories: Constituent Services requests, to identify the appropriate mechanisms, jurisdictions, responsible offices, avenues for action among others. Reports to law enforcement leadership, including the NYPD Police Commissioner and other appropriate officials. These are necessary because reports cannot simply be handled at the local station level when reports are being obstructed, not taken, not investigated, or when law enforcement itself is implicated in the conduct being reported. This is not a statement about every law enforcement officer. It is about the need to move reports up the chain of command when these problems arise and to create a channel that can circumvent those barriers. Letters regarding capability assessment, threat assessment, preparedness, operational response, and related institutional planning, addressing whether the relevant institutions have the capabilities and plans necessary to identify, investigate, and respond. Each letter or contact will be published online after submission. More shortly. #PoliceAccountability #PMSCAccountability #Oversight
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After, I posted the Gillibrand case on social media platforms and began working on a letter to the NYPD Police Commissioner, NYPD Office of the Inspector General / NYC Department of Investigation, Civilian Complaint Review Board, New York County District Attorney's Office I heard 3 taps on the wall from room next door. Next I was hit through the wall with something that caused me to experience physiological symptoms. They use symptoms as data so I will not recount that here. The point is, I continued to be harmed. Some members of law enforcement are participating in this harm which prevents myself and other victims similarly situated from reporting what is happening and having an investigation initiated or having anyone held responsible. This harm came from the room next door to me in 1010. The perpetrator(s) are in rooms on my floor and guests in the hotel on other floors. Yet, I am forced to endure psychological torture that includes slamming of doors corresponding with unidentified disruptive emerging technologies, infrasound/vibration, scents/toxic exposure that cause emotional dysregulation and or sedation and who knows what else. Imagine being subjected to 24/7 or however long you are in a space, vibration. Vibration as you try to work or sleep. I just said to myself I was getting this done now, today. Getting these letters out today. Initiated that and was subjected to harm. This goes on 24/7. What is even more troubling is you have members of law enforcement participating in this harm. They obstruct victims filing reports and getting their harm investigated. I am having to reach out to the commissioner and others to report a death threat and the harm I am experiencing. I have been experiencing vibration since June 8th when I arrived back in the states from Europe on top of everything else they are subjecting me to. I want to scream, cry, kick in the floor but the only thing that will stop this nightmare is to continue to reach out in hopes that someone will stop this. So, that is what I am doing. This is not right. Victims are being driven to suicide. If they display pain or suffering as a result of the criminal acts being perpetrated against them, they are institutionalized or incarcerated. Enough is enough. The jig is up. #Enough
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Subsequently, as I kept working on the NY Police Commissioner report, they pushed a scent into the room. I believe they are using scents/toxic exposure to control manipulate and impair my cognition and to cause other physiological harm to prevent me from engaging in advocacy. They rotate between 2 distinct subtances. When this first started a year ago, there were 5 distinct signatures as well as a timing and a dosing schedule.
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This post documents a constituent services case submitted to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s office today. The case submitted is below: I am experiencing unlawful surveillance, monitoring of my devices consistent with intrusive spyware, tracking, harassment and covert harm by private military and security contractors working in tandem with other actors. The covert harm involves infrasound or vibration; what appear to be scents intended to manipulate or adversely influence the nervous system, including cognition; and an unidentified device or mechanism that appears to be able to penetrate drywall, a car door, and glass and cause a physiological effect, which may be an RF or EMF spectrum portable device. Without specialized detection or diagnostic tools, it is not possible to verify exactly what is being used. There may be lawful authority for particular surveillance, device monitoring, or tracking activities, subject to legal limits and oversight. But national security or investigative objectives do not authorize torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, extrajudicial punishment, or the intentional infliction of covert physical or psychological harm on civilians. Any accusation of wrongdoing must be addressed through lawful procedures that protect due process rights. I was involved in an operation with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department last spring. Private military and security contractors were supporting that operation. I do not know whether the operation was formally authorized, documented, supervised, or subject to an identifiable local, state, or federal oversight structure. I reported the matter to the Seattle FBI Field office when I returned from overseas on June 08, 2026. I recently went to the NY FBI Field office to follow up and provide additional details. I was told that Seattle has opened an investigation as of June 26 which remains ongoing. So, NY FBI is deferring to Seattle to handle the investigation. I have received 2 death threats. One, while overseas submitting a UN Human Rights complaint to the human rights council in Geneva, Switzerland regarding this matter. The second, the morning while en route to the FBI. A woman appeared in front of me wearing what appeared to be a custom or DIY t shirt that said "get ready to get killed." I have not been able to obtain any information to date regarding FOIA and/or public records request(s). I have submitted another round of requests and am waiting for results. I have no criminal record. I have received no notification, and no one has contacted me to explain why I am being subjected to the conduct and harm noted above. I have not been informed of any allegation, basis, or process through which I can respond, provide information, clear my name, or seek relief from conduct that I believe I should not be experiencing. As a result, I have not been afforded due process. I would like to know if constituent services can provide guidance or assistance with the following: 1. Seattle FBI submission process I have been told that an investigation was opened June 26 and remains open. Can the senator’s office make an inquiry to Seattle FBI as to the method or process for me to submit the additional information that New York FBI declined to accept because it said Seattle was handling the open investigation? 2. Federal agency jurisdiction / relevant information Can your office assist me in determining which federal agency or agencies have jurisdiction or may have relevant information concerning the matters I am reporting? 3. Right reporting and oversight destination Can your office assist me in identifying the appropriate federal agency, agency component, oversight office, and complaint or review process to which I should report the conduct I have described? 4. FOIA and Privacy Act status/procedural issues Can your office assist me with obtaining status information and resolving procedural issues concerning my existing federal FOIA and Privacy Act requests? 5. FOIA/Privacy Act referral status Can your office determine whether any of my federal records requests were referred to another agency or component, and, if so, identify the receiving agency or component and the applicable tracking number? 6. DHS or other federal redress process Can your office assist me in determining whether there is a DHS or other federal redress process applicable to the concerns I have reported? 7. Contractor oversight mechanism If private military and security contractors were involved in an operation with a local law-enforcement agency, and I am subsequently reporting surveillance, device monitoring, tracking, harassment and covert harm involving those contractors, what federal oversight mechanism applies? 8. Federal connection / contractor determination Can your office assist me in determining which federal agency or agencies maintain relevant contracting, funding, procurement, operational, or other records or have responsibility for determining whether the private military and security contractors involved had a federal connection? 9. Contractor misconduct reporting process If a federal connection is identified, can your office identify the appropriate federal office for reporting alleged contractor misconduct and the process through which an affected civilian may submit a complaint and seek review? 10. Written confirmation of referrals and next steps Can your office request written confirmation, where available, of the appropriate agency or office, the correct submission or complaint process, any referral made, and any next step required from me? 11. Interagency coordination Where matters potentially involve more than one federal agency, can your office assist me in identifying which federal agencies are involved and/or whether the matter has been referred, coordinated or otherwise shared with another federal agency? #ConstituentServices #DueProcess #FederalOversight
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CLEAR at CUNY Law reached out today. They will follow up shortly with a day and time to meet with me. #NeverGiveUp
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It is a disgrace for the U.S. to be clapping as Netanyahu addresses the U.N. General Assembly, saying Israel will “continue winning,” while Gaza is experiencing genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The ICJ is considering the genocide case, while the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity. They should be walking out. #UNGA81 #ICC #ICJ
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I stumbled upon a Dennis Bushnell presentation today. This slide presentation is dated July of 2001. One slide caught my attention in particular, as several of these modalities appear to be in use with respect to the harm that I am experiencing today. What is apparently "Legal" in the context of the slide as presented? A physical phenomenon can be lawful to generate or use without every intentional application of that phenomenon to a person being lawful. Radiofrequency energy exists legally. Sound exists legally. Vibration exists legally. Chemicals and odors exist legally. That does not establish that deliberately directing one of those modalities at a person to incapacitate, injure, impair, harass is lawful. International humanitarian law (IHL) expressly treats the weapon and the manner in which it is used as separate questions. IHL is primarily the law governing armed conflict. What is not clear from Bushnell's presentation is he referring to IHL, domestic U.S. law, or some narrower military or legal interpretation. The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) explains that a weapon's legality does not depend solely on its design or intended purpose, but also on how it is employed. A weapon can be permissible in one circumstance and unlawful in another. So, in 2001, these modalities were explicitly being discussed and categorized in a presentation as forms of future weaponry, including anti-personnel applications (weaponry intended to effect human beings). 25 years later, I and others similarly situated are experiencing this harm in several of the forms listed here. Let that sink in. Dennis M. Bushnell, NASA Langley Research Center, Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare (Circa 2025), July 2001, “What is Apparently ‘Legal’” slide. #Legal #HumanRights #CivilRights #WeaponsResearch
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Individuals are repeatedly slamming doors and engaging in covert harm. Allies are needed to check into the Pod 51 hotel on E. 51st and ask for a room on the 10th floor or another floor because the more neutral observers not involved in this harm staying in the building limits private military and security contractors and their proxies ability to perpetuate harm with impunity. #Stopthemadness #CalltoAllies
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I will be going live on X momentarily to share my field notes on modern repression and what is going through my mind as I sit here at a hotel just a few blocks from the UN General Assembly. With NYPD, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security operating around the event, my question is this: are they capable of assessing and thwarting threats involving disruptive emerging technologies that may be present inside that building and easily pass through traditional security screening and conventional metal detectors? Join me live. #DisruptiveEmergingTechnologies #UNGeneralAssembly #NYPD #FBI #DHS #NationalSecurity
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This morning at 7am they began introducing an unidentified substance/toxic exposure into the room. It could be coming from any room adjacent to the corner room I was moved to on the same floor yesterday. There was a do not disturb sign on the door next door to me when I moved in. Someone last night began slamming doors after 9 pm. If you open the windows in the room, they target the windows introducing whatever substance they are using, This is beyond sick. It is ridiculous that anyone should have to be experiencing this. I continue documenting the harm and tactics contemporaneously as the information maybe useful at some point in time. It is after 8 am, so the maid is on the floor. They rely on the maid and other hotel staff to inflict the harm during the day. Yesterday, the maid repeatedly slammed doors and appeared to deploy or disperse something unidentified into the room. I am unclear whether it is substance or what. It appears to be able to pierce the door or gaps around it. It has an odor and leaves a residue. Then a man on the staff came and vacuumed for sometime near my room, more than 15 minutes it seemed, while he did so some sort of debris or grit, air entered the room that caused symptoms. Then the maid in the room next to me continued slamming the door of that room repeatedly which was unnecessary and disturbing. I went out to Whole Foods. I came back. A man began slamming doors near my room repeatedly. He was bald, 6ft heavier set, facial hair, beard, blue and white striped shirt light brown or beige pants with a canvas plain tote on his shoulder. He came from 1 of 4 rooms at the end of the hall: 1027, 28 29, 1031. Have to check the room numbers today. My room was changed by the desk. They have to have compromised desk staff to place victims in a room where they can be harmed. This is the point of all of this. Subject victims to harm. The room still had vibration. It is on an end so I just took it. It is on the same floor so the same bad actors from the first night and day still have access to me and who knows who else. After I switched the room, two of the front desk staff appeared at my door unannounced which was bizarre. They asked how the room was. One was wearing the fragrant compound that has been used in this harm for a year. So now we now who is compromised at the front desk. I slept from 4 or 5 pm til the next morning. Not feeling well. They subjected me to vibration and something that felt like a laser hitting you. That means it had to penetrate the floor , the platform bed-frame and mattress to do so. This went on through the night. #PMSC #HumanRights #CivilRights
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I will be going to a police department today to report the death threat from last week. The report needs to be taken. It needs to be formally on the record. #NYPD #NYC #CivilRights
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I will be going to a police department today to report the death threat from last week. The report needs to be taken. It needs to be formally on the record. #NYPD #NYC #CivilRights
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So a male with a uniform shirt on indicating he works for the hotel, just came onto the floor vacuuming near my room. As he vacuumed and unidentified substance or some sort of particles with a gritty feel entered the room. It is unclear whether it entered via the door gap of the front door or penetrated the wall. This is typical. The hotel claims they have one housekeeper per floor. Housekeeping and or maintenance are the individuals commonly perpetuating this harm in hotels. So this experience is no different. I believe there are cameras on each floor. I heard door slamming first. Then a few minutes later the vacuuming began as it appears they may not have gotten the result that they hoped with whatever harm was associated with the door slamming. #HumanRights #AccountabilityGap #CivilRights . .
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