Under Trump, the EPA scrapped nearly all of Biden’s 2024 carbon rules for coal and gas plants. The agency figures ratepayers could save about $310 billion through 2047. Those Biden rules pushed coal toward shutdowns, blocked new baseload gas, and bet on carbon capture that still isn’t ready. Critics say they also sidestepped the Supreme Court’s 2022 West Virginia v. EPA ruling, which limits how far the EPA can go in remaking the power sector. Deputy Administrator David Fatouhi says bills should fall and generators can put money back into the grid, so hospitals, businesses, and families still have power at peak. The EPA also wants the remaining power-sector greenhouse-gas standards gone, which it says would save another $370 million in direct compliance costs. Winter makes the timing obvious. NERC expects peak demand to rise about 20 gigawatts. Winter Storm Uri already showed what a strained grid looks like: blackouts in Texas, more than 200 dead, billions in damage. The pitch is simple. Keep the lights on. Pull back the rules stacked onto the power bill. $310 billion is an EPA projection, not cash in hand. Whether coal and gas actually stay online for peak demand is what this winter will start to test.

U.S. Army veteran runs a California “surrogacy factory,” helping wealthy Chinese clients have American-born kids in bulk. The New York Post reported on September 21 that Patriot Conceptions, a surrogacy agency in Irvine, California, was founded by 37-year-old U.S. Army veteran Haotian Bai. The company mainly serves wealthy Chinese clients: their embryos are implanted in American surrogate mothers so the children are born in the U.S. and automatically get U.S. citizenship. Surrogates are often recruited on Instagram and similar platforms and paid about $60,000 to $120,000. Total cost to clients is roughly $120,000 to $200,000. After birth, the children are usually taken back to China to be raised. In wealthy Chinese circles, having a U.S.-citizen child is treated as a status symbol. Bai is originally from Lanzhou, China. He came to the U.S. around 2012, earned a master’s in environmental engineering at Iowa State, then joined the Army and obtained citizenship that way. He rose to first lieutenant and was stationed in Hawaii. In 2019 he first started Pacific Surrogacy, later launched Patriot Conceptions, and rolled out a TrustUS app for cross-border payments. The company says about 40% of its clients are international. The website is in Chinese and English, and clients are mainly contacted through WeChat. In 2024 he also received a Hoover Institution veterans fellowship at Stanford. The story drew attention after a surrogate using the alias “Judy” came forward. She carried a child through the agency and only later learned from CBS News that the father was Xu Bo, the reclusive billionaire founder of Chinese gaming company Duoyi Network. An ex-girlfriend has alleged Xu used U.S. surrogacy to have a hundred or even three hundred children; the company has acknowledged “a little over a hundred.” Judy said she thought she was helping a single father who wanted to grow his family and felt misled. The agency said it only arranged this one case for Xu, that it discloses the intended parents’ nationality to surrogates, and that it welcomes outside scrutiny. The report notes this is currently fully legal: California’s surrogacy rules are relatively loose, and the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause was recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court. The agency even lists 25 states it considers more “friendly” for obtaining U.S. citizenship. Responding to the press, Bai declined to break down clients by nationality and said “the parents being foreigners does not, by itself, mean the arrangement was made just to get citizenship.” The model has sparked debate over surrogacy transparency, the commercialization of birthright citizenship, and national security and population policy. Similar stories have been reported before, including birth tourism in the Northern Mariana Islands and other large-scale Chinese-client surrogacy cases in California. The agency stresses that it also serves military families and offers them discounts.

A friend told me they’ve been working remotely for more than two years. I asked why. They said the whole company — the factory included — shut down. I asked if it went under. They said no, it just moved out of state, because California protects workers too much… That hit me like ice water. If California keeps going like this, it really will turn into a third-world state. The only way this place has a shot at being fixed is by voting Republican. @SteveHiltonx — elect him governor. This is our last hope.

For years I’ve wondered why we even pay sales tax when we eat at a restaurant. Eating shouldn’t be taxed. On top of that, having to leave a tip is pretty unreasonable too. Say lunch is $50. I shouldn’t have to add $7 in sales tax and another $10 for the tip. That’s at least $67 for one meal. For that money I can go to the supermarket and get beef, lamb, chicken, pork, shrimp, salmon — even lobster — plus fruit and vegetables. That’s enough food for a week. So why would I eat out? That’s why sit-down restaurants struggle while fast-food places do fine. Then Americans eat more burgers, drink more soda, get heavier, medical bills go up, and we get taxed even more. It’s a vicious cycle. Vote for him 👉 @SteveHiltonx. He wants to scrap the restaurant sales tax so restaurants can do better, and so people actually feel like they can walk in and sit down without getting hit with extra charges.

Naturalized U.S. Army veteran admits selling Bradley, Stryker, and HIMARS secrets to buyers in China On September 16, 2026, Ruoyu Duan, 41, of Hillsboro, Oregon, pleaded guilty in Portland federal court to conspiracy to gather and transmit national defense information. Sentencing is set for December 10. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. This is not a green-card gray area. Duan served in the U.S. Army from 2013 to 2017, was trained to handle sensitive and classified material, and became a U.S. citizen through the now-defunct MAVNI program, which fast-tracked foreign recruits with special skills into citizenship after military service. He was medically discharged after an on-duty injury and was collecting VA disability at the time of his arrest. Prosecutors say that from November 2021 until his arrest in March 2025, Duan acted as a middleman. He paid active-duty soldiers—including Capt. Li Tian and Sgt. Jian Zhao at Joint Base Lewis-McChord—to collect Army operational material: technical manuals, training files, intelligence reports, computers, and hard drives marked Secret and Top Secret. The haul included data on Bradley and Stryker combat vehicles and the HIMARS rocket system. He then passed it to people in China and moved the money. Tian and Zhao have not pleaded guilty. FBI agents arrested Duan at his home on March 6, 2025, and seized devices containing files matching reports Tian had sent him. A U.S. passport and an Army uniform are not a license to sell the country’s weapons data. Duan already admitted the conspiracy. Watch the December sentence.

DOJ: Summer crackdown finds $245 million in COVID loan fraud; 80+ charged The Justice Department posted a video of Attorney General Todd Blanche on September 14. He said that from June 12 through August 31 — working with about 40 U.S. Attorneys’ offices and 20 federal and state agencies — investigators uncovered about $245 million in losses from pandemic loan programs. More than 80 people have been charged so far in that slice of the work. Broader reporting on the same briefing puts the full “Heartland fraud surge” (June 12–Sept. 1) at more than 160 defendants and the same $245 million in intended losses. That includes new felony charges against nearly 80 people (~$100 million), about 43 guilty pleas (~$44 million), and about 40 sentencings (~$100 million). Vice President JD Vance, Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced the results in Kansas City. What the schemes look like Officials tied the cases to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL): Claims for employees who did not exist Fake businesses and fake payroll or revenue Identity theft EIDL applications for damage that did not happen Concealed foreign ties on applications Blanche: “Pandemic loan relief was meant to keep American small businesses alive during government lockdowns — not line the pockets of fraudsters.” One highlighted case: Jamie Gray, charged with wire fraud and money laundering in an alleged scheme involving nearly $56 million, including applications for dozens of businesses that prosecutors say were not operating before the eligibility deadline. One listed firm, “Fur Lives Matter,” existed but had no connection to him. The much larger SBA cut-off Alongside the criminal cases, Vance announced that the SBA is suspending about 870,000 borrowers tied to an estimated $39 billion in suspected pandemic-loan fraud. They are barred from future SBA loans and related programs. That is an administrative ban, not a mass conviction. The SBA inspector general had previously estimated well over $200 billion in potentially fraudulent PPP/EIDL loans across the whole program. PPP and EIDL together paid out more than $1 trillion after the 2020 CARES Act. The 10-year statute of limitations means cases can still be brought into the early 2030s. Same-day context: Patel also announced the Vietnam arrest of Emylee Thai in the separate Medicare genetic-testing case. Two different pots of taxpayer money, same enforcement push.

FBI’s 6th Most Wanted Fraudster Arrested in Vietnam: Houston Lab Owner Accused of Stealing Nearly $100 Million From Medicare** FBI Director Kash Patel announced on September 14, 2026 that Emylee Thai — accused of defrauding Medicare of more than $100 million — has been arrested in Vietnam. She is the sixth person taken off the bureau’s new Most Wanted Fraudsters list since it was created about three months ago. The FBI says it is working with partners to bring her back to the United States. A reward of up to $150,000 had been offered for information leading to her arrest. FBI wanted poster and mugshots: Another photo used by U.S. media: ### What she is accused of According to the FBI wanted page and a July 2022 indictment, Thai owned a Houston laboratory (some reports name it ApolloMDx). Beginning around 2019, she contracted with marketers to send signed doctors’ orders and Medicare beneficiaries’ DNA samples to her lab in exchange for a cut of the reimbursements. The genetic tests often cost Medicare several thousand dollars each. Authorities say they were frequently **not medically necessary** and often never used in a patient’s treatment. The lab billed Medicare about **$142 million** and was paid about **$95 million**. Charges include conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, paying and receiving kickbacks tied to a federal health program, plus later counts for destroying or altering records in a federal investigation. ### How she fled She was indicted and arrested on July 11, 2022, then released on bond with a GPS ankle monitor. On December 8, 2022, the monitor was removed and agents could not reach her. Her last known ping was Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. A warrant for tampering with a GPS device was issued the next day. Investigators concluded she left the country on a private plane using a false identity and went to Vietnam. In July 2023 she was charged separately with destroying and altering records. In June 2026 she was added to the Most Wanted Fraudsters list. The FBI believed she had been hiding in Vietnam. FBI description: born August 27, 1984 in Vietnam; aliases include Kelsey Tan, Thu Anh Thai, and Kimberly Le-Thai; about 5'1"–5'2". ### Why this arrest matters Patel said the six fugitives captured in three months were tied to more than $2 billion in alleged fraud and had been on the run a combined 4,000-plus days. The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud amplified the announcement. This case fits a larger pattern of Medicare genetic-testing kickback schemes: marketers get a cut, labs bill unnecessary tests, taxpayers pay. Cutting off an ankle monitor and leaving on a private jet also shows how high-dollar bond and weak monitoring can fail. She is in custody in Vietnam. Extradition is still in process. The charges have not been proven in court. Whether the money can be recovered is a separate question.

On July 17 Iran put ballistic missiles into Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Three U.S. soldiers died. The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, says Tehran obtained high-resolution satellite pictures of that base from Chinese entities before the strike—and kept getting imagery after it. Officials call it the clearest link yet between Chinese-side support for Iran in this war and dead Americans. They did not name the firms in the story. They did not accuse Beijing of ordering the attack. That hedge does not wash the pictures off the targeting stack. In May Washington already sanctioned three Chinese remote-sensing companies—MizarVision, Earth Eye, and Chang Guang—for collecting, publishing, or supplying imagery Iran could use against U.S. forces. State had already flagged Chang Guang for feeding the Houthis. Officials say they warned Beijing. Beijing asked for proof and would not admit the companies were in it. Trump, on Air Force One coming back from Ireland, declined to turn that into the lead item for the Sept. 24 meeting with Xi. “They basically do what we do.” “China spies on us? You’re right. We spy on them too.” Xi has “behaved reasonably well.” Spying on each other is the old game. Selling or handing high-res pictures of a U.S. base to the country that then fires on that base is not the old game. It is an eye on a kill chain. The summit can still happen. The three coffins are not a talking point. They are the bill.

Sacramento. Home Depot parking lot. Federal agents rolling an enforcement op in the California sun. One guy read the scene and missed the statute. He thought this was theater: sanctuary state, phone out, slash the tire, walk off a hero. One hiss. Rubber gone. He turned like the bit was over. The people behind him did not come to debate whether immigration is a human right. Camo, masks, plates. In a few seconds the activist became a ragdoll on hot asphalt. Pepper spray painted his beard and eye sockets orange—clear on camera. His wife screamed that he was a U.S. citizen. The agents did not pause. Citizenship is not a coupon for vandalizing a federal vehicle. They drove the wounded SUV off on its rims. The operation did not stop. Same sweep, people in cuffs, including a Mexican national with sixty-seven California jail bookings and a fentanyl record. Nobody in that lot bought an extra minute of freedom with a knifed tire. That is the line on the post: This is what I voted for. Not voting for street court against federal officers. Voting for this: you put a blade in the tool they use to do the job, they put you on the pavement. California can write sanctuary memos. A Border Patrol vehicle is not a prop on your driveway. Slashing the tire is damage to government property. The spray in the face is what happens when you run. It is not a snuff film. Someone online will type “excessive force.” Usually the someone who was not in the chase and did not pay for the tire. The satisfaction is short and simple. For four years obstruction was performance art. The show is over. Handcuffs. Chili in the eyes. The hero bit lasted seconds. The tire lasted less. The clip is shorter still. The part where he goes into the car—that is the feature.

$40 million in gold in the basement. In court, the charge is timesheet fraud. Former CIA officer David J. Rush has a plea deal in principle with federal prosecutors. Not because the gold has been fully tried. The opposite: both sides want the case closed before an indictment, so classified material never hits an open courtroom. On May 18, the FBI searched his Virginia home. In the basement: 303 one-kilo gold bars, valued at more than $40 million, about $2 million in cash, and roughly 35 luxury watches, most of them Rolexes. Rush was a senior official in the CIA’s science and technology division. When he was arrested, he was still doing highly classified work for the CIA and the Pentagon. U.S. officials later said he invented a fake classified program that only a handful of people were allowed to know about, and used that secrecy to stockpile the bars. The full picture, they say, emerged after the arrest. The FBI said he obtained the gold from the U.S. government as “work-related expenses.” The only formal charge on the docket is theft of public money. The affidavit is about timecards and diplomas: 744 hours of military leave claimed after an honorable Navy discharge in 2015, and degrees from Clemson and Rensselaer that he did not have, used to inflate his pay. His lawyer has called the gold “a sensational tidbit” and said that charge is not about the bars. Friday’s joint filing was blunt. There is a plea agreement in principle. They asked to move the indictment deadline from September 17 to October 8 so they can finish an agreed statement of facts. A pre-indictment deal, they wrote, serves the public interest and avoids classified litigation. What he would plead to, and for how long, is not public. That is the ugly shape of the case: a national-scale cache of gold in the evidence room, a payroll-fraud count in the complaint. The reason to go to trial is the secrets. The reason not to go to trial is also the secrets. Forty million dollars has already left the basement. The story is being written to end before the indictment is printed. By October 8 the paperwork either lands or the delay gets another draft. Where the bars came from, who signed off on the fake program, and what count he finally admits—none of that is in the open record. The larger the blank, the less this looks like a reckoning, and the more it looks like a seal.

A lot of China’s military secrets have, in effect, been loaded into American AI. Not every war plan walked out the door. The pipe did. Users thought they were talking to Kimi or DeepSeek. The backend was Claude. Surveillance video, internal code, live credentials, police matching systems—and scenes Anthropic flagged as likely military-linked—landed in a U.S. company’s logs. Secrets are not mainly lost to hacking. They are lost when your own people paste them into a “domestic” interface. People ask: China is not short of talent. Tsinghua, USTC, returnees—why can’t it break through the way the United States did? The shortage is not brains. It is soil. What grew OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google was three things stacked: capital willing to burn for a decade, labs allowed to fail, and a space where firms both cooperate with the state and fight it. A frontier model is not a quarter’s slide deck. It is compute, data, engineering, safety constraints, and years of wasted runs. Nobody gets a guarantee they can IPO next season. China has the people. The soil is thin. Bosses, as a rule, have no patience. They want a demo now, a raise now, a leaderboard win now. Distillation, wrappers, relay stations, fake accounts in Singapore—same instinct: someone else already paid the training bill; we just move the answers and stamp them “self-reliant.” Fast, yes. It also moved users and sensitive work into the other side’s server room. Shortcuts are not a tactic. They are a culture: “catching up” means looking the part; “breakthrough” means the spreadsheet looks good. The CCP’s deep grip on private firms salts what soil is left. Chips restricted. Data export restricted. Model filings restricted. Talking points restricted. At the same time the demand is: ideologically correct, technically sovereign, results immediately. Companies are crushed between three impossibilities: they cannot legally plug into U.S. models, they cannot take years to train from scratch, and they must still ship something that can fight under the right slogans. The rational short-term move is gray-market proxies, fake accounts, and pass-through. The tighter the controls, the sweeter the shortcut. The sweeter the shortcut, the easier secrets leak. So it is not that Chinese people are stupid. The system will not let anyone finish the stupid, slow work. Talent splits. Some leave. Some join big firms and grind apps. Some learn to sell a wrapper as innovation. People willing to burn five years on their own reasoning chain get squeezed out by quarterly reviews and inspection packets. America is impatient too, and full of foam. It still leaves a layer that can protect a lab from the trading desk. That layer is what China lacks. Then the loop closes: The louder the talk of self-reliance, the more the product depends on stolen outputs.
The louder the talk of secrecy, the more internal questions leave the country through a patriotic app.
The louder the talk of concentrating power to do great things, the more those things become free labeling for Anthropic. Military secrets in American AI are not mainly the work of traitors in the field. They are what you get when “fast” is the only KPI and the soil has been replaced by approvals and slogans. The talent is still there. There is nowhere to turn talent into a breakthrough—only into freight. Freight can win a quarter of headlines. It cannot win a real model war. The keys are already in the other pocket. The fix is not another post that says “we did not distill.” It is patience, room to work, and legal compute and data so the slow work can actually get done. Without those three, the next dump will only be larger.

U.S. border supervisor accused of gutting Homeland Security computers Investigative journalist John Solomon highlighted a case out of Maine: Terry “Jiajia” Liu, 39, a CBP supervisor at the Calais port of entry on the U.S.–Canada border, has been charged with theft and damage of government property. Media reports describe him as a Guangzhou native. The FBI says he opened DHS computers on midnight shifts, swapped Intel 14th-gen Core i7 chips and other parts for cheaper hardware, and traded the originals through Newegg for store credit. Investigators counted 46 altered machines at three border facilities: 39 with CPU swaps, 6 with RAM changes, and 8 with hard-drive changes. Some were put back on the CBP network. Hidden cameras recorded the work. Liu admitted the swaps, first claiming he was improving performance, then saying he was angry about slow CBP repairs. Current filings charge property crimes, not malware or data theft. Prosecutors want him held, citing frequent international travel and a home near the Canadian line. Restoring parts is estimated at about $20,000; replacing all 46 computers at more than $105,000. Border security is not just the fence. It is also who can open the computers.

Some MAGA fell into the left-media trap. Stay clear-headed. We are nowhere near the 2028 presidential race. First we have to stay united and win the midterms. Left-wing media works every day to split the Trump team. They never stop. Some impulsive MAGA keep taking the bait. Unbelievable. A few days ago they pushed the rumor that the Secretary of War was about to be fired. Yesterday Dan left politely. Then they switched the story: he was Vance’s pick, so Vance must already be Trump’s discarded piece. There are no deadweights on Trump’s team. Each of them can lead. Maybe Dan’s plan just didn’t match Hegseth’s, so it was one or the other—and Hegseth stayed. I admired Vance at that press conference. The answer was clean and the position was clear: he said Tucker was wrong. They are friends. You don’t stage a public breakup in the White House briefing room over a political disagreement. He is vice president first. Tucker is a friend in private. Why jump into a reporter’s trap? If he had announced a break with Tucker on the spot, that would have been immature. He was calm, principled, and direct. That is what a future president should look like. For ten years under Trump, America has been turning. The BLM era that started under Obama tore the country open. Democrats vote almost 100 percent against anything Trump does. They will oppose him even when it hurts the country and the people. Yesterday the House voted to condemn socialism. Only 8 Democrats voted yes. 195 voted no. That level of split is pathetic. I want a 2028 president who can carry Trump’s agenda and also repair the fracture. Vance and Rubio are the first choices. Relations with the rest of the world are tense. I want Rubio, who is more measured, to stay as Secretary of State. I cannot think of anyone better. Most vice presidents are just shadows. Trump is training Vance on purpose and put him on anti-corruption and anti-fraud. He has done that job well. If that doesn’t register, compare the last two. Harris was in charge of the border and never went there. People used brake pedals to pry open the wire and walk illegals in. What did Pence do that was good? I remember a fly on his head, and that he certified an election with obvious fraud. DeSantis looks a lot like Trump right now. That is exactly why I do not want him as the next president. After Trump, America has to get out of TDS, heal, and come back together. Trump has tried. TDS is still too deep. The left barely hears it. Vance has a floor and a spine, but he is not as hard-edged. That is why he is the better successor. So what if Second Lady Usha is Indian American? She was born American. Both parents are professors. She has four children. She is a Yale-trained lawyer. Vance went from unknown to vice president. She made him a better man. India’s real problem is fake H-1B. I do not believe Usha will protect India or block Vance from cleaning that up. She is an American and a mother of four American kids. What reason would she have to sell out the country? 2028 still depends on whom Trump endorses. His read of the country is above ours. Whoever he endorses, I will back all the way. At this stage, stop taking the bait. Stop splitting the Trump team. Getting anything done is already hard enough. Stay together and finish the second half of Trump 2.0. 
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Iran bought U.S. missile-testing equipment and drone cameras. The goods moved through Chinese shell companies. The people lived in Vancouver and Edmonton. The bills were paid in oil and yuan. This is not an immigration story. It is a weapons-procurement pipeline. Iranian buyers sit at one end. Chinese front companies sit at the other. Canada is the middle. Iranian-origin residents become the Western face: bank accounts, trade firms, even government contracts. Goods travel as fake imports. Money clears in oil and RMB, then converts through exchange houses in the Middle East, Canada, or Hong Kong. One Vancouver man spent five years buying restricted U.S. gear for Iran’s defense ministry. He was arrested at the Blaine border in 2018 and sentenced to 42 months in Seattle. Another case is worse. The son of a former Iranian vice president, living in Edmonton as Sal Ghafouri, was flagged by CSIS as part of an IRGC procurement network. His companies still won about $2 million in contracts from the RCMP and National Defence. Border officials marked him in 2017. The contracts kept coming because intelligence could not be used in court and departments did not talk. China pays Iran in yuan. That money returns to the Gulf and is converted into usable currency. Cut the conversion, and the buying stops. Canada’s value is the clean face and the clean paperwork. Same plumbing as fentanyl finance. Different cargo. Follow me. New findings every day.
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⚠️ **SERIOUS WARNING: The CCP is using AI to massively “clone” American voters and test how to manipulate your elections — this is outright interference in U.S. elections‼️** Chinese universities and government-linked institutions are systematically building AI models of American voters and directly testing the effectiveness of political messages. This is not academic research. This is preparation for cognitive warfare. A Fudan University team collected **171 million X posts** (covering about 9.6 million users), inferred age, gender, race, ideology, and party affiliation from public histories, then combined them with U.S. Census and ANES data to create a nationwide “virtual voter pool.” The latest version claims it accurately reproduced **47 of 51 states** and **12 of 15 battleground states**. Researchers can select “Americans” by political stance or demographic traits and hold multi-round conversations with these AI agents to precisely test messages. Even more dangerous: Institutions including the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (a government academy) and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS, subordinate to the Shanghai municipal government) deployed **300 virtual voters** in each of 10 key states, including Pennsylvania. They specifically tested positions such as “raising income taxes for wealth redistribution” and measured real reactions. They have even been drawing a “voter portrait of Trump’s dependable right-wing base” and modeling “America First” attitudes on tariffs and alliances — explicitly stating this provides a “scientific basis” for China’s policy toward the United States. Internal documents from the company GoLaxy are even more explicit: Its system is described as “cognitive-domain confrontation and guidance,” and the company claims parts of the technology have reached Chinese intelligence and PLA units. Its election module ranks influencers, maps swing states, analyzes MAGA content, and builds supporter portraits. **What does this mean?** The CCP is no longer just watching polls. It is using AI to massively simulate, test, and game out how to influence American voters. In their labs they repeatedly experiment with what messages will move Pennsylvania voters and what narratives can undermine the “America First” camp. These tools can be used both to predict U.S. policy and to directly serve information warfare and election interference. This is not a distant threat. The data comes from your public posts. The models are already running. The tests are already underway. The opinions of American voters are being systematically modeled and “trained on” by the CCP. Stay awake. Be vigilant against any force that tries to manipulate your judgment through algorithms and manufactured consensus. America First — never let outsiders decide how you vote.

🔥Pentagon Takes Direct Action The Pentagon has formally ordered Harvard, MIT, Georgetown University, and a total of 30 U.S. universities — including UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego — to complete a full audit of their academic, financial, and research ties with China, Russia, and Iran by the end of this month. Failure to comply or to cut problematic partnerships could result in the loss of federal research funding. Key revelations: •Harvard received more than $600 million from Chinese sources — the highest amount of any U.S. university. •Harvard-affiliated researchers had 140 research collaborations with Chinese military-linked entities. •A Pentagon-funded weapons-related course was taught in Mandarin to Chinese nationals. •Numerous researchers who worked on Pentagon projects later went to work for China’s military. This is not isolated “academic exchange.” It is systematic infiltration. The Chinese Communist Party’s standard playbook: Use money and partnerships to enter top U.S. universities → acquire sensitive technology and talent → bring the results and people back to serve China’s military-civil fusion strategy. The University of California system is also on the list of 30 universities ordered to audit. Combined with the earlier demand by Rep. Young Kim and senators for an investigation into California’s climate and energy agreements with the CCP, the pattern is clear — from state government to universities, the CCP has been actively working the system. The federal government is finally starting to audit and cut funding. This should have happened much earlier.

‼️American citizen Min Zin, a Myanmar scholar and Ph.D. candidate in political science at UC Berkeley, was invited by the Chinese government to attend an academic conference in Kunming, Yunnan. On June 3, he was detained at the airport and has been held for nearly 11 weeks. China accused him of “espionage” and “endangering national security” — without providing any concrete evidence. Today, the Trump administration formally designated Min Zin as wrongfully detained. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the determination after a thorough review. The State Department is calling on Beijing to immediately release him and all other U.S. citizens who are arbitrarily detained or under exit bans. The safety and security of American citizens is the State Department’s top priority. This is the second American academic recently designated as wrongfully detained by China. China invites people in for conferences, then arrests them at the airport and calls it “handling the case according to law.” This is classic hostage diplomacy. Academic freedom means nothing to the CCP — if your research touches their interests, they can label you a “spy” at any time. The U.S. State Department has been repeatedly warning in recent weeks: traveling to China carries real risks — arbitrary enforcement of laws, exit bans, and wrongful detention. The danger is especially high for Chinese Americans and dual nationals. The CCP does not respect your U.S. passport; it treats ethnic Chinese as its own and can arbitrarily target them. To everyone planning to visit China for family, tourism, or conferences — especially Chinese Americans — think carefully. An invitation from the CCP does not guarantee you will safely return. China must release Min Zin immediately.

**EXCLUSIVE: Dozens of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Pentagon Researchers Later Joined China’s Military — Including Its Nuclear Weapons Complex** White House correspondent and Bannon’s War Room co-host Natalie Winters dropped a major exclusive today: she identified dozens of researchers who worked on U.S. taxpayer-funded Pentagon defense projects or inside American weapons labs — then later went to work for China’s military, including the China Academy of Engineering Physics (the heart of China’s nuclear-weapons complex) and multiple U.S.-blacklisted military universities. This is not normal academic exchange. American taxpayers paid for the research. The Chinese military collected the talent and the know-how. ### The Core Pattern These researchers conducted work at top U.S. universities (University of Illinois, Stanford, MIT, Purdue, Virginia Tech, Northwestern, University of Michigan, and others) under funding from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DARPA, and related programs. The topics were highly sensitive: explosives, shock waves, energetic materials, radar, underwater sensors, laser mapping, nanothermites, battlefield communications under jamming, chemical/biological threat detection, influence operations, and more. They later moved into China’s nuclear weapons complex, blacklisted “Seven Sons” military universities (Beihang, Beijing Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), or projects tied to the Central Military Commission. ### Key Cases from Winters’ Report **Nuclear & High Explosives** - **Yanqiang Yang**: 2000–04 at University of Illinois on three U.S. Army and Air Force projects worth $1.276 million combined, including explosives research. In 2026 he published new work on the powerful HMX explosive from a lab inside the China Academy of Engineering Physics. - **Xianxu Zheng**: 2012 high-speed shock research at Illinois funded by the Army, Air Force, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and a U.S. nuclear-stockpile program. Today he is a deputy director inside the China Academy of Engineering Physics, working on RDX-based explosives and underwater explosions. - **Tingting Zhou**: 2009–18 Navy-supported research on explosive sensitivity and detonation. By 2016 she was already publishing on the military explosive PBX-9501 with a China Academy of Engineering Physics ammunition center. She now works inside China’s nuclear-weapons complex. - **Yiying Zhao**: 2006–07 Navy and Air Force optical-device research at University of Michigan. Joined the Materials Institute of the China Academy of Engineering Physics in 2015. Her bio lists leadership on a military-civil fusion radiation-detector project and a 19.8-million-yuan tritium project; it also notes strategic military, space, and deep-sea uses for isotope batteries. - **Duanwei He**: Multiple positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory (including an Outstanding Innovation Award from Los Alamos and the Department of Energy). A Chinese defense patent in his name for an “Ultra-Thick Penetrating-Projectile Warhead” was filed in 2007 and granted in 2012. He now works at a joint institute connected to the China Academy of Engineering Physics. - **Guowei He**: Visiting staff at Los Alamos 1997–2000. A Chinese Academy of Sciences profile credits his team with the first time-accurate computer simulation of turbulent noise from a standard submarine model. **Aerospace, Propulsion & Radar** - **Yue Jiang**: 2020–22 at Stanford leading Navy-backed research on aluminum combustion and nanothermites. Beihang University was blacklisted in March 2023; Jiang joined its rocket-propulsion department in September 2023. He now works on rocket propellants, metal fuels, and energetic materials while teaching related courses. - **Jiaheng Zhang**: 2013–16 Navy and Defense Threat Reduction Agency explosives research. Joined Harbin Institute of Technology in 2017 (blacklisted in 2020 for military ties and missile-technology acquisition). Later published on hypergolic fuels. - **Huikai Xie**: Summers at the Air Force Research Laboratory, a Pentagon advanced-research award, and later co-led a $785,000 Navy laser-mapping project. Moved to Beijing Institute of Technology (blacklisted December 2020), led a Chinese military technology commission project on 3D optical imaging, and became a research-center chief scientist. - **Zhe Geng**: 2012–19 two Air Force projects on advanced radar, moving-target detection, and radar networks. Joined Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2019; later worked on Chinese moving-target detection and radar jamming. - **Jinling Gao**: 2017–22 two U.S. Army projects at Purdue on protective textiles and damage detection. Joined Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2022; bio lists a protective-structure project for a Chinese naval equipment institute and leadership of a 2022–24 Central Military Commission high-performance woven-materials project. - **Bo Zhou**: 2018–21 $7.5 million Navy project at Virginia Tech on battlefield communications, connected military devices, and operations under jamming or cyberattack. Joined Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in August 2021; one month later began a spectrum-technology project with a Chinese aerospace-defense research institute. - **Xiaowen Shan**: 1991–98 at Los Alamos (postdoc then permanent staff), later visiting fellowship at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Became aerodynamics chief at a research center of China’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, then head of an intelligent-aviation research center. A 2022 report said the center developed a vertical-takeoff-and-landing drone with both civil and military applications. **Other Sensitive Areas** - **Haitao Xu**: Core member of a $6 million Pentagon project at Northwestern aimed at uncovering sophisticated hackers inside major computer networks. His Zhejiang University biography states he now participates in a major science project for China’s Central Military Commission. - **Yikun Ban** and **Ruijie Wang**: Both worked 2021–25 on the same $5.81 million Pentagon “Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking” program focused on detecting organized influence operations, ideological shifts, polarization, and radicalization. Both later joined blacklisted Beihang University and now work on advanced AI, autonomous systems, and machine decision-making. - **Yuzhe Liu**: Navy Young Investigator award; Stanford work on wearable sensors for head impacts and brain injuries. Joined Beihang in 2023. Lab now develops AI wearables and brain-injury models for “defense scenarios,” including a high-performance helmet and head-protection technology platform, with Chinese science and technology commission support. - **Shiyi Chen**: Rose from postdoc to group director and deputy research-center director at Los Alamos (1987–99). Returned to China in 2005; later directed a Peking University lab that co-hosted a detonation conference with a Chinese military lab specializing in hypersonic engines. A 2022 report quoted the lab as having participated in developing “national strategic equipment and hypersonic wind tunnels.” Additional researchers moved into Beijing Institute of Technology (repeatedly blacklisted) working on photonics, rapid chemical/biological threat identification, targeted electrical brain stimulation, and non-invasive brain-computer interfaces. ### What This Means U.S. taxpayers funded research on explosives, propellants, nuclear-related materials, radar jamming, underwater detection, battlefield networks, influence operations, and brain interfaces. The same people then entered China’s nuclear-weapons complex, blacklisted military universities, or Central Military Commission projects. The China Academy of Engineering Physics has long been under U.S. export restrictions precisely because it designs, develops, and maintains China’s nuclear weapons. This is the predictable result of decades of open research systems, loose visa policies, and insufficient security screening on sensitive defense-related work. The pipeline runs one way: American funding and training, Chinese military gain. Winters’ list is only a snapshot. Similar problems have already been documented in broader congressional investigations of Department of Energy collaborations with Chinese military-linked entities. The real questions remain: Why were these sensitive projects not subject to stricter citizenship and security-clearance requirements? Why do blacklisted institutions continue to absorb researchers trained on U.S. defense dollars? This is the reality. America First requires shutting down this one-way transfer of talent and technology. (Source: Natalie Winters’ exclusive X thread, August 18, 2026) Follow me find more👇 @helengmaga @helen_maga99

‼️29-year-old Chinese citizen Dingwei Chen has pleaded guilty in federal court. He attempted to purchase U.S. military-grade satellite modems and radios — sensitive communications equipment manufactured by American companies specifically for the U.S. military. These items are strictly controlled under the Arms Export Control Act and cannot be legally exported to China. Chen worked with co-conspirators inside China. They discussed multiple smuggling routes: first through Switzerland, then pickup in Saipan, and finally planned to smuggle the equipment through Mexico. They already paid more than $40,000 as a down payment, plus another roughly $30,000 in cryptocurrency (USDT). Using encrypted messaging apps, Chen stated this was only the “first deal” and that he had funding ready to buy tens of millions of dollars’ worth of additional military equipment. He was arrested in Saipan in October 2025. He pleaded guilty on August 10, 2026, in federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sentencing is set for October 19. He faces up to 20 years in prison. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was part of the investigative team that brought this case to justice. This is exactly the kind of operation the Chinese Communist Party keeps running: trying to steal America’s most sensitive military communications technology. If they succeed, it directly endangers the lives of U.S. service members.

A Chinese national who illegally entered the United States via Thailand, obtained asylum here, and has been teaching illegal immigrants on YouTube how to obtain gun permits was exposed by Fox News—yet no government agency has launched any investigation. This illegal immigrant remains active in the U.S., openly opposing the American president. Truly mind-boggling. @ICEgov @CIA @FBI @FBIDirectorKash @FBIDDBongino @DOJFraudDiv @WallStreetApes @USAttyEssayli @StephenM @GuntherEagleman