This comment suggests to me that we might need an apolitical conspiracies page if such a thing could be sustained.

It seems the simplest method would be to repurpose 4thHorsemanNews if those contributors agreed. That would entail (1) unlock it, (2) appoint a new moderator, (3) verify consensus that it can be "apolitical conspiracies" and what that means. The mod could then restore most all the hidden posts and logs except for what is clearly political, and recontact the original contributors. For me a working definition of political would be reference to political parties, orgs, or agents, but not to generic reference to ideas, positions, or documents.

Other methods are possible but the News generated a great initial mass and a lot of content that is now hidden for unclear reasons (including mine), and I'd like to see all that not wither.

If admin finds it necessary not to comment on how they handle the reported death of a moderator, as usual I seek to understand their silence. It seems here though that this could be one of the cases like those where admin recognized the need to award a community. Obviously that's another admin intervention beyond the one that Conspiracies is thinking about and the one Graph is backhandedly seeking, but something possible if you have time. You might ask LoneWulf for more about his contact with the mod's wife.