Data Collection & Analytics Research Fellow – @NASorg

Spelunking in Plato's Cave
Joined May 2020
My new report with @NASorg shows a slew of suspicious devices in China, Iran, and Russia hovering around a small college working on missile technology. This report will hopefully be the first of many. Master thread below; link to article here: nas.org/report/checking-the-…
Three years ago, my colleagues @NASorg broke the story: Alfred University, a small college in upstate NY, was one of the very few institutions left to host a Confucius Institute, a node in the Chinese Communist Party's international influence operations and espionage activities. 1 dailysignal.com/2023/06/01/n…
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The Pentagon recently announced the results of its research security audits of major American universities and the termination of dozens of collaborations between universities and Chinese entities of concern. Chairman @RepMoolenaar released the following statement:
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"Universities have not formally announced their partisanship, but they are clearly an informal part of the Democratic Party," NAS President Peter Wood warns as university staff direct record-breaking cash to key Senate races worldtribune.com/were-at-war…
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When people first began 3D printing Glock frames, we knew the gun grabbers had effectively lost. Even if you could mandate that printers recognize and refuse to print gun parts when sold, someone somewhere will just create their own firmware and reflash their printer.
JUST IN: New AI tool called "GatGPT" reportedly allows users with little firearms knowledge to design & manufacture 3D-printed guns.
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You need to understand how Right-wing people under 40 view the Left. When we think of Leftists, we do not think of Barack Obama or Ezra Klein. Yes, these guys are on the Left, but younger Millennials and Zoomers on the Right do not think of Leftists in their own age bracket as polished technocrats. These are not the sort of people that make up our Left-wing counterparts that we grew up with, went to school with, or work with. When we think of Leftists, the first thing that pops into our head are a bunch of disgusting, depraved, spiteful mutants who want to destroy everything around them as payback for the crime of being born. We think of Discord troons that invaded our hobbies, Reddit mods who are drunk on the most insignificant power imaginable, that one girl from high school or college who became a literal Communist, and that friend or family member who cut off all contact because we refused to treat their mental illness like a status symbol. We think of people who, if they ever became a majority of the country and actually managed to possess political power, would inevitably kill tens of millions of people out of blind envy and petty cruelty. Younger people on the Right come across as impatient and anxious in their mindset and mannerisms because they understand what will eventually happen when these people succeed their Gen X and Boomer predecessors in the Democratic Party. They know what is to come if their own generational cohorts on the Left actually take power, and they feel incredibly exasperated that it seems like none of their parents or grandparents understand just how late the hour truly is.
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This is a very important work, which I read twice. A powerful case study of conspiracy theories and how they work, and exclusive translated excerpts of Alexander Dugin’s Conspirology.
Out now! The lie that Jeffrey Epstein ran a sexual-blackmail operation for Israeli intelligence has convinced millions of Americans that their leaders are compromised and their wars are fought on Israel’s orders. In The Epstein Conspiracy, David Reaboi, a longtime writer on political warfare and information operations, shows that Russia very likely manufactured, laundered, and activated it as information warfare. Its real target is America’s capacity to reason about its own national interests.
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BREAKING: Stanford's Saudi Student Group Backed & Guided by OpenAI Spying Defendant Starting in March 2025, leaders of the Saudi Arabian Association at Stanford publicly thanked Abdulrahman Alfozan for his "generous support," "backing," and "guidance." They hosted him as a panelist at Stanford's business school. On the day he was arrested, he was scheduled to speak at another one of their events. My investigation for @StanfordReview 🧵
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"Wait til Biggus Dickus hears about this" - @USAttyPirro is running the DOJ's version of the Department of Hurty Words. @MichaelRCaputo @EagleEdMartin
John Cleese is referred to Prevent and hauled before Officer Pilate of the Department of Hurty Words for questioning over his online conduct. The allegations are serious. The bureaucracy surrounding the interrogation is rather less so. {satire}
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“Though Xi’s offer may seem benign, the risks associated with allowing 100,000 American students to study in China far outweigh the benefits in multiple respects.” Read my latest for the @thehill (link in comments) 👇
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Concerning article. CCP infiltration is deep inside the university system.
"Checking the Classifieds" is an investigation into foreign espionage on American campuses. Using advanced Advertising Intelligence (ADINT), we uncover evidence that the CCP may still be siphoning hypersonic missile tech from Alfred University. nas.org/reports/checking-the…
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This is one of the most innovative demonstrations of data journalism I have ever read. Kudos to @GoadMason for adapting such sophisticated methodologies to higher education.
"Checking the Classifieds" is an investigation into foreign espionage on American campuses. Using advanced Advertising Intelligence (ADINT), we uncover evidence that the CCP may still be siphoning hypersonic missile tech from Alfred University. nas.org/reports/checking-the…
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December 3rd is a Thursday. Plan accordingly.
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Not good. Not surprising either.
2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey is out! 🚩 1 in 5 college students believe America deserved 9/11 🚩 4 in 10, a plurality, prefer socialism to capitalism 🚩 Almost 5 in 10 believe Cuba and the Soviet Union provide a better economic model than the United States
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Two years ago:
Students for Justice in Palestine's (SJP's) leadership, membership, and bed fellows have enjoyed hiding behind relative anonymity---masking their faces, organizational structure, and allied groups---as they've caused chaos on college campuses these last several months. That ends today. But first, some background... 1/
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Can confirm. It's accurate.
Someone discovered a new Amazon AI feature that summarizes what it knows about you and I am crying of laughter
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TERRIFYING: A three-year-old boy was found with a loaded handgun last week at a daycare in Michigan. The firearm was passed around between toddlers and discovered by a teacher. No one was harmed, but this could have been so much worse. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/ch…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
It is pertinent information that the father of 3 year-old found with the gun is employed as a police officer with the Detroit Police. The department placed the officer on administrative leave and will further review the incident with disciplinary measures to be considered. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/…
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BREAKING: 🧵The Haverford College professor arrested and charged for antisemitic online harassment is alleged to have used anonymous X accounts to repeatedly harass an unnamed victim from October 2025 to May 2026. The details from the federal indictment are truly vile:
BREAKING: A Haverford College professor has been “arrested and charged with online harassment and intimidation.” The “heinous online attacks…were antisemitic in nature.” The professor, Guangtian Ha, is a member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
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This is what happens when the British Home Secretary is Muslim Brotherhood. We can no longer depend on the British government to protect our military assets on British territory. This is a huge danger to @NATO. We can no longer trust MI5 under this Home Secretary.
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I've seen enough: Three years after SFFA v. Harvard ruled racially discriminatory admissions were illegal, universities are still discriminating. The only solution is to crush them. Link: cremieux.xyz/p/still-discrim…
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Since USAID was dismantled, the left has not won a single election in Latin America, by the way.
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There was no life saving equipment in the execution chamber? Say it ain't so.
There was no medical oxygen or mask in the execution chamber where Tennessee tried and failed to kill convicted murderer Christa Pike, which meant staff had to go and get it when things went wrong, according to a source who witnessed what happened. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-me…
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