Recruitment Profile: Mariam Kone
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Editor's Note:
The following set of documents comprises the second set from the TankThink data leak. It is the second of five detailing the candidates.
TANKTHINK RECRUITMENT DEBRIEF
CANDIDATE: Mariam Kone
DATE: December 15, 2024
INTERVIEWER: [REDACTED]
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
INTERVIEWER: Describe your academic status at the University of Chicago prior to your recruitment.
MARIAM KONE: Three years of perfect grades. Then everything fell apart after Chrissie died. I was set to graduate with highest honors. Now I'm on academic probation. Am I still? I think I might be expelled, whenever the Dean of Students wakes up.
When I joined the Liam campaign, it wasn't just politics for me. It was... purpose. I believed we were changing things. Really changing things. Then eleven people connected to the campaign died in three months. Eleven. And everyone just accepted the official story that Chrissie killed them herself, hired a bunch of bitcoin assassins? That's when I knew.
The university advised I go to counseling. My adviser kept scheduling meetings I didn't attend. Emily left after telling me I was "poisoning myself with theories." I couldn't sleep. I could barely eat. But I could see the patterns everyone else refused to acknowledge.
I've spent the last nine months on Oppossum, documenting everything. The timing of the deaths. The connections between victims. The statistical impossibility of that many spectacular deaths concentrated around one campaign. No one doubts there's a conspiracy—they just misidentified the actor. Everyone focuses on that narrow set of visible victims, but what's really happening is a systematic clearing of the left in Chicago by a conspiratorial far-right force. And if you follow the money, it all leads back to Luk Lukas. The technolibertarian transhumanist "ultragenius" billionaire who's been buying up political influence for years.
INTERVIEWER: Tell me about when you first encountered the TankThink advertisement.
MARIAM KONE: I was at rock bottom. Locked out of my apartment during a polar vortex, sitting in Bixler Park at minus ten degrees. I had just spent my last cash on weed, which was in my apartment that I couldn't access. The realization that I'd burned another quarter academically was sinking in. I was refreshing Oppossum, posting my latest findings about the $andycrotch connection, when this sockpuppet notification appeared. At first, I thought I was hallucinating from the cold and the cannabis.
OPPOSSUM BOARD POST: "CHRISSIE WAS SET UP—PROOF that a SHADOW NETWORK HAS A KILL LIST"
Posted by: @TruthSifter (Mariam Kone) Date: December 11, 2024 - 17:22
TRUTH VECTOR: DUBIOUS, POINTING TOWARD REALITY
Breaking discovery in $andycrotch data: Two murder-for-hire contractors associated with deaths in COMPLETELY DIFFERENT cases both confessed to finding their contracts through the gig economy platform during its first operational week.
Looking at the blockchain data provided to CPD (which they IGNORED), we can see that the same cold wallet funded both contracts—and nine others between January-April. These transactions perfectly align with the timeline of the 11 deaths surrounding the Liam campaign.
This is not coincidence. This is confirmation of what I've been saying for months: Chrissie Liam was systematically isolated through targeted elimination of her support network. She did NOT kill those people, and she did NOT kill herself in custody.
The broader pattern reveals a systematic liquidation protocol targeting specific disruptive political operatives across multiple campaigns. I've identified similar patterns in at least three other cities where insurgent campaigns suddenly collapsed after key staffers died under "suspicious circumstances."
Attached is my full analysis linking the cold wallet addresses to $chmucksCap-affiliated VCs who simultaneously funded both $andycrotch AND three super PACs opposing Liam's platform. Wake up, people. The evidence is right here.
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EMAIL FROM ACADEMIC ADVISER
From: sarah.maldonado@uchicago.edu
To: mariam.kone@uchicago.edu
Subject: Urgent - Academic Status Update
Date: November 28, 2024
Dear Mariam,
This is my seventh attempt to reach you regarding your academic standing. You have not responded to any previous emails, phone calls, or the note left at your residence.
I must inform you that your situation has become critical. You are currently failing all courses this quarter, which will trigger automatic academic dismissal if not addressed immediately. The deadline for withdrawal without academic penalty is December 2.
The Dean of Students has authorized exceptional accommodations in your case, including:
Retroactive medical withdrawals for Spring and Winter quarters
Extended deadlines for incomplete coursework
Residential hall placement despite your prior issues
These accommodations reflect our recognition of the personal trauma you experienced with the Liam campaign and your former relationship. However, we cannot help if you do not engage with us.
Professor Lorne has specifically requested a meeting with you before the end of term. She remains committed to helping you regain your academic standing despite your recent challenges.
Please contact me immediately to schedule an appointment.
Sincerely,
Sarah Maldonado
Academic Adviser
College Academic Advising Office | The University of Chicago
Alumni House, 5555 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Rm 244B
she/her/hers
I work on the traditional unceded homelands of the Council of the Three Fires.
TEXT EXCHANGE WITH EMILY SAETANG
Date: September 8, 2024
EMILY: It's been 3 months, M. I need my stuff back.
MARIAM: So you're alive. Convenient timing right after I posted about the money trail connecting $chmucksCap to the DNC fires.
EMILY: Just need my birth certificate and passport. You can mail them to my parents.
MARIAM: You disappear for months and that's all you have to say?
EMILY: I'm not having this conversation again. Not everything is a conspiracy.
MARIAM: I found the blockchain records, Em. The same wallet funded the $andycrotch hits AND paid for your rehab admission. Pretty fucking coincidental.
EMILY: I'm in rehab, Mariam. Have been for weeks. I'm trying to get better.
MARIAM: Bullshit. Saw your post on OpenSea yesterday.
EMILY: That wasn't me. I don't even have access to my accounts here.
MARIAM: Rehab lets you text but not access social media? More lies.
EMILY: I get 15 supervised minutes of phone access daily. This is it for today. Please just send my documents to my parents.
MARIAM: You were there that night at the United Center. You helped me. Now you're pretending it never happened?
EMILY: That's exactly why I'm here. What we did was wrong. You need help too.
MARIAM: Guess they got to you too.
[Emily is typing...]
[Emily has stopped typing]
MARIAM: Exactly.
FINANCIAL TRANSACTION REPORT - MARIAM KONE
PERIOD: September-November 2024
BANK WITHDRAWALS:
09/20/24: $400 - ATM (Hyde Park)
09/30/24: $500 - ATM (Hyde Park)
10/03/24: $400 - ATM (Pilsen)
10/12/24: $600 - ATM (Hyde Park)
10/27/24: $800 - ATM (Hyde Park)
11/04/24: $600 - ATM (Logan Square)
11/12/24: $700 - ATM (Hyde Park)
11/20/24: $800 - ATM (Hyde Park)
11/28/24: $900 - ATM (Hyde Park)
DISPENSARY PURCHASES:
GreenMind Dispensary (09/20): $390 - Premium Indica, Tinctures, Edibles
Elevated Chicago (09/30): $485 - Premium Hybrid, Concentrates
Mission Dispensary (10/03): $380 - Premium Sativa, Concentrates
GreenMind Dispensary (10/12): $575 - Premium Indica, Tinctures, Edibles
GreenMind Dispensary (10/27): $775 - Premium Indica, Tinctures
NuEra Dispensary (11/04): $580 - Premium Hybrid, Concentrates
GreenMind Dispensary (11/12): $680 - Premium Indica, Tinctures, Edibles
Elevated Chicago (11/20): $760 - Premium Hybrid, Concentrates, Vapes
GreenMind Dispensary (11/28): $870 - Premium Indica, Tinctures, Edibles
ACCOUNT BALANCE: $47.63 (as of 11/30/2024)
TANKTHINK RECRUITMENT DEBRIEF - EXETER RELATIONSHIP
CANDIDATE: Mariam Kone
DATE: December 15, 2024
INTERVIEWER: [REDACTED]
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
INTERVIEWER: I understand you and Jacky Stein-Garde have history. Can you elaborate on that relationship?
MARIAM KONE: [laughs softly] Jacky. Yeah. Yeah. I was a sophomore at Exeter when she arrived. She was this twelve-year-old prodigy who skipped two grades, brilliant but clearly desperate for connection. I was vice captain of the debate team, headed to nationals with Model UN. Our coaches paired us immediately.
For three years, we were inseparable. I took her under my wing—my brilliant little sister. We demolished every team we faced in debate. At Model UN, we could read each other's minds, coordinate our positions without speaking. Everyone thought we'd rule the world one day. Back then, I thought Jacky would follow me anywhere. I guess she didn’t think of herself as my sidekick. Selfish, right?
INTERVIEWER: That doesn’t explain the animosity you showed each other that night. Was there conflict in your relationship?
MARIAM KONE: Look, we both love politics, but… she wants to gamble and win. She really knows, I think, knew, back then, that what she wanted was really to be powerful, that was maybe how she’d one-up me, since I was always focused on, I guess problem solving, innovation, thinking about the plan and what was happening. And she liked power, she liked strategy, she liked that more–it’s just sort of the other kind of brain. Politics for people in politics is also their vision of history, and I think I have a vision of history that’s about movements and forces and ideas, and hers is about people and contingency and resources.
When I got to UChicago and started engaging with real leftist politics, with the Kenwood Movement, I mean, I was right there with History, big H, volunteering with the most successful leftist movement since… I guess the trade unions? So I wasn’t waiting for Jacky to join me, I just sort of… thought, or assumed, assumed she’d follow. That she’d come around, or see Power and a chance to get at it with Liam. I thought I’d you know, make introductions for her. In the back of my mind. Then she arrived a year later with this... HRC energy. All pantsuits and power-broker ambitions. Big balls, padded shoulders–I mean, really padded shoulders. You’ve seen how she dresses now. She wore Moschino and Lululemon in high school.
I never understood why Jacky was so obsessed with power games, with strategic maneuvering, when there were actual problems for Power to solve—global poverty, environmental collapse, systemic exploitation. And look, it’s not like I’ve got unserious politics that she’d reject. I’m not conventional either. When I talk about poverty, the environment, and exploitation, I’m not talking global warming and weak unions and Foxconn, I’m talking about serious issues that matter, not jokey Democrat issues on MSNBC. Think top soil collapse in the developed world, desertification in Central Asia, drug cartels running on slave labor being the secret gas pedal for manufacturing across ASEAN. Huge sections of the knowledge economy in SEA are fake, and just launder the superprofits from the meth trade to create shadow forex for China to support the renminbi with.
So after the Liam campaign fell apart and I started seeing all those invisible hands behind everything... I started to understand her worldview better.
By the time we both ended up in that room in Pick Hall, we were practically strangers. Different ideologies, different circles. But I still felt this... connection. Like we were still those girls at Exeter, ready to take on the world. Only now we were enemies. Sort of.
[pause]
It's funny. I spent years judging her for being obsessed with Power, and now look at me.
EXETER ACADEMY MODEL UN EMAIL EXCHANGE (2019)
FROM: mariam.kone@exeter.edu
TO: jacqueline.steingarde@exeter.edu
SUBJECT: Georgia position paper
DATE: October 12, 2019
Jacky,
I'm having serious issues with your draft of the Georgia position paper for the conference. Your ultra-aggressive stance on South Ossetia is exactly what got their territory annexed in the first place. Georgia can't realistically take this position without somehow dragging America into a direct conflict with Russia, which is a logistical absurdity.
We're supposed to accurately represent Georgia's actual diplomatic stance, not craft some high-risk fantasy scenario. This kind of brinkmanship might be exciting in theory, but it ignores the reality of what Georgia can actually achieve in its geopolitical position.
Can we please revise this to reflect a more pragmatic approach focused on international pressure and EU integration?
-Mariam
FROM: jacqueline.steingarde@exeter.edu
TO: mariam.kone@exeter.edu
SUBJECT: Re: Georgia position paper
DATE: October 12, 2019
That's exactly what makes this strategy brilliant, M. I'm planning to bluff Russia into retreating by playing America and Russia against each other at the actual conference. The Georgians would do this if they could—they just don't have the diplomatic capital, or the balls, or the raw intelligence. They’re feckless morons, their political system selects for corruption and mental deformity.
Model UN isn't about just regurgitating the safest possible diplomatic stance. It's about winning. My strategy gives Georgia leverage it wouldn't normally have. You think Russia doesn't understand brinkmanship? That's literally their entire foreign policy. And I can run circles around whatever chump thinks they can negotiate from strength as America.
If you want another boring conference that’s us perfectly mimicking State Department talking points, go ahead. I'm trying to win the Best Delegate award with something actually innovative.
-J
FROM: mariam.kone@exeter.edu
TO: jacqueline.steingarde@exeter.edu
SUBJECT: Re: Georgia position paper
DATE: October 12, 2019
This isn't about getting a safe grade. Lives were literally lost in South Ossetia, Jacky. Real people died. My aversion to high-risk diplomatic gambits in the game world of Model UN isn't cowardice—it's what being an actual diplomat is about.
The job of diplomats isn't to manufacture crises or play chicken with nuclear powers. It's to find solutions that prevent more coffins from being filled. Bluffing Russia might win you Best Delegate, but in the real world, it would win Georgia more funerals.
Your mom may think provocative strategies make for better academic papers, but there's a reason actual Georgian diplomats don't implement them. It's not because they lack imagination—it's because they understand consequences.
I'll help write this position paper, but I want it noted that I oppose this approach. Some of us take the responsibility of representation seriously, even in a simulation.
-Mariam
TARDI SYSTEM CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT: KONE, M.
CLASSIFICATION: PRIORITY RECRUITMENT
Subject exhibits exceptional pattern recognition capabilities combined with intense paranoia stemming from actual political trauma. Mapping indicates 92% probability of breakthrough performance if paranoia can be redirected toward productive intelligence gathering.
Core personality architecture reveals unusual resilience to contradictory information with simultaneous hypersensitivity to perceived betrayal. Campaign collapse and romantic abandonment have created optimal conditions for loyalty transference following initial resistance phase.
Cannabis dependency presents manageable complication - provides both vulnerability lever and self-medication pathway that can be exploited during recruitment process.
RECOMMENDATION: Deploy Validation Protocol with Controlled Disclosure. Subject requires external confirmation of conspiracy theories (partial) to establish trust, followed by redirection toward actual power structures. Estimated success probability: 88.7% with proper handling of paranoid episodes.
UNIVERSITY POLICE INCIDENT REPORT
INCIDENT #: UPD-2024-12-11-003
REPORTING OFFICER: Sergeant James Wilson
DATE/TIME REPORTED: December 11, 2024 / 23:17
COMPLAINANT: Dr. Fiera Lorne, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
LOCATION: 5760 S. Harper Avenue, Chicago, IL
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Unlawful Entry, Battery, Unlawful Restraint
SUMMARY OF COMPLAINT: Complainant reports that at approximately 17:45, student Mariam Kone (F/20) arrived at her residence claiming to be locked out of her apartment in freezing temperatures. Complainant allowed subject entry. Subject asked to use the bathroom and subsequently prepared tea. Complainant believes the tea was drugged with medication from her own medicine cabinet (Klonopin and Zolpidem found disturbed). Complainant reports experiencing dizziness, confusion, and eventual unconsciousness.
Upon regaining consciousness at approximately 22:30, complainant discovered she had been locked in a hall closet. No property appears missing, but complainant's phone shows evidence of unauthorized access and car trunk was found open.
Complainant believes this incident may be related to subject's deteriorating mental health and fixation on conspiracy theories related to the Chrissie Liam campaign. Subject has missed multiple academic appointments and recently posted "disturbing content" online regarding political assassinations.
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE:
Tea mug with residue (collected for analysis)
Duct tape residue on door latch
Fingerprints from various locations
Medicine cabinet with disturbed contents
ACTIONS TAKEN:
Residence secured
Evidence collected
BOLO issued for Mariam Kone
Dean of Students notified
STATUS: Active Investigation
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT: KONE/LORNE CONFRONTATION
SOURCE: Automatic recording from TankThink app on Mariam Kone's phone DATE: December 11, 2024 TIME: 17:52-18:14 CST LOCATION: 5760 S. Harper Avenue, Chicago
LORNE: I don't invite students into my home because they got stoned and forgot their keys.
MARIAM: That's not what happened, listen, you have to listen to me—
LORNE: Absolutely not. No. This is not appropriate, it's not right. I don't know if you have some crush on me or something.
MARIAM: I really forgot my keys!
LORNE: That makes it even worse. I know you're a bright girl. But you haven't done anything this quarter. Your thesis is stalling and I'm going to have to fail you.
MARIAM: Are you joking? You're telling me this now?
LORNE: I've been emailing you for weeks.
MARIAM: You know I don't use plaintext email, I only do PGP encrypted emails.
LORNE: You think I'm stupid? I saw your post today.
MARIAM: You read my Oppossum board? Really?
LORNE: Yes, and I have to ask, are you insane? Is it the drugs? I mean I can tell you're high, I can fucking smell it on you. And. Look. Look! It's...
MARIAM: So what if I'm high! Everything is gone! Ok! I lost so much! And Emily disappeared! [sobbing]
LORNE: Listen. You could become anything. Anything you want. But you can't become anything doing what you're doing now.
MARIAM: [continued sobbing]
LORNE: The water's already on for tea. Is it about your parents... or?
MARIAM: About the discrepancy in exotic murder rates.
LORNE: I'm going to be honest with you and try to help you here, because you are orbiting right back to fucking crazytown. Chrissie Liam was a murderer. Ok. Accept it. Get out of the delusional world you're constructing for yourself. Don't act on those beliefs ever again. Act as if. I don't care. But you cannot devote your life to a dead person. Assassination Studies is not a serious field. The Kennedy people were right, but they were cranks in the end.
MARIAM: The Church Commission—
LORNE: No. Shut up. Don't change the subject.
MARIAM: Stop yelling at me.
LORNE: You're staying here, right? You need to listen to me then.
MARIAM: Can I vape?
LORNE: No. You have to listen to me. I am angry that I had to sit on the sidelines while you devoted yourself to being in crisis this quarter. I'm a teacher, but I knew you and thought you were really a special student. So what are you doing, making dossiers and running analyses on the crime data in Chicago?
LORNE: What do you want me to do?
MARIAM: I want you to just, stop. You need to derationalize your beliefs about Liam. Your little quest for truth or whatever—you have to tell me that it was crazy. That you have actually heard me. Okay?
MARIAM: No.
[Kettle whistling]
[Laughter]
MARIAM: Kind of dramatic, wasn't it?
LORNE: I'm being harsh. I'm sorry. Let me pour you some tea.
MARIAM: Can I use the bathroom and wash my hands? I’m a bit particular…
LORNE: Of course, the bathroom is upstairs.
[Sounds of Mariam climbing the stairs]
[Several minutes pass, some stomping, bathroom noises, Mariam returns]
MARIAM: Do you have any Stevia?
LORNE: Yes, let me get it.
[Sounds of cabinet opening, items moving]
LORNE: The Stevia's in here somewhere...
[Soft rustling sound]
LORNE: Found it! [Pause]
[Several quiet minutes pass]
LORNE: You know, Mariam, I’m struggling to find the words to describe how I really feel about this, and part of it is your behavior, some of it’s your thinking. So, I think there’s some misunderstandings you have and I want to talk to you about them gently and not give you some ultimatum, ok? I will try and treat you like an adult. So the thing about political violence is... [words becoming slurred] the truth is always... more complicated than we want it to be.
[Extended pause with occasional mumbling]
LORNE: Sometimes we just have to... [sound of head nodding] ... just have to let the mysteries be mysteries.
[Sound of chair creaking, then soft thud]
MARIAM: [whispered] I'm sorry.
TANKTHINK APP INTERACTION LOG
USER: Mariam Kone TIMESTAMP: December 11, 2024 - 18:27:42
MARIAM: What now?
APP-LICATION SOCK: You gave her 5 of those pills, there's a fair chance she'll wake up and exhibit lots of paradoxical symptoms that come with acute overdose including restlessness, aggressiveness, and sudden bursts of energy. Lock her in a room where she can access water.
MARIAM: I have to pick her up?
APP-LICATION SOCK: Take photos of the IDs and connect me to each laptop in the house. I’ll need a wired connection. Then, go to Pick Hall, 218.
MARIAM: And that's it? I drugged my professor for this?
APP-LICATION SOCK: Remember the wallet addresses you found? The ones connecting $andycrotch contracts to the campaign deaths? I can show you who controls them.
MARIAM: You know who's behind this?
APP-LICATION SOCK: Better. I can show you how to become the person behind the next one. Start by securing Lorne in the bathroom. She can drink from the sink or tub. There’s orange bungee cord she used as clothesline a few months back when her dryer broke. She never went bungee jumping. There are hooks already on the bannisters, connect them, then tie the cable around the bannisters and the doorknob - she won’t be able to pull the door open from the inside.
MARIAM: This is insane.
APP-LICATION SOCK: This is power. Pick Hall, 218. One hour.
TANKTHINK RECRUITMENT DEBRIEF (CONTINUED)
CANDIDATE: Mariam Kone
DATE: December 15, 2024
INTERVIEWER: [REDACTED]
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
INTERVIEWER: Your methodology during the challenge phase showed remarkable adaptability. Walk me through your thought process.
MARIAM: I've spent years mapping networks of power—invisible connections between seemingly unrelated events. Everyone dismissed me because I was following the wrong thread, but the skill set was the same.
INTERVIEWER: And that skill set was?
MARIAM: [leaning forward] Pattern recognition under noise. Most people can't hold more than seven variables in their working memory. I can track a lot more, I think up to 23 simultaneously. It's not genius—it's practice. When you spend every waking moment mapping conspiracy networks, you develop... muscles.
INTERVIEWER: Yet you abandoned your Liam conspiracy theories remarkably quickly.
MARIAM: [laughing] Because you showed me a better one. The truth about power isn't in the spectacular events, the deaths everyone talks about. It's in the quiet moves—the campaign funding redirected overnight, the zoning approval that never happens, the media coverage that frames everything just so. That’s the mystery of Power. I was obsessed with the deaths because they were visible. The real power play was invisible until you showed me where to look.
INTERVIEWER: And Jacky?
MARIAM: [expression darkening] Exeter feels like another lifetime. Looking back, you were right. We butted heads a lot. She always had that... ruthlessness.
INTERVIEWER: Do you think you won?
MARIAM: [smiling] Did I win? What matters is that I'm here, and I can see clearly now. The paranoia was never the problem–well, never the only problem. I wasn't paranoid about the right things.