making sure I have all my tools updated and downloaded, full block chain, deadman files
Find the orders on who called them up, State or Feds and you will know who controls them.
The only reason to edit your host file is because you had modified it in the first place. Very unlikely there is many people doing this and they should not if they do not know what they are doing.
Nothing, you probably have not changed anything in the first place.
BTW xkeyscored on hop 7 ae0-3356.nyk10.core-backbone.com
[4.35.80.194] so this route would comp tor possibly.