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Red flags raised over Chinese communist academics inside U.S. colleges developing advanced tech

A new watchdog report is raising concerns that elite American colleges developing advanced technology with military applications have been “infiltrated” by academics who are card-carrying members of the Chinese Communist Party.

The conservative, nonprofit American Accountability Foundation reported it found nearly two dozen Chinese academics working at elite U.S. schools and labs “who, because of the dual-use threat of their research, close ties to the military research sector in China, and/or clear ties to the Chinese Communist Party should be expelled from the United States or never be re-admitted.”

A review by Just the News found at least three Chinese academics affiliated with U.S. universities who have been repeatedly described as members of the CCP, and another Chinese scientist tied to an American college who is a leader within another CCP-controlled Chinese political party.

The new report came out the same week it was revealed that an illegal biolab in California inspected by federal authorities in 2023 and a separate hazardous lab inside a Las Vegas garage searched by the FBI this weekend. Both labs appear tied to a CCP-linked Chinese national who is currently in federal detention awaiting trial for fraud, false statements, and the adulteration of medical devices.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, told Just the News that the explosion of the number of Chinese academics on U.S. soil was a direct consequence of the Biden administration’s open borders policies and its decision to shut down the FBI’s main counterintelligence program vetting Chinese threats inside U.S. academia.

“Whenever I read these stories, I think back to the start of the Biden administration, where they canceled the program within the Department of Justice to investigate the theft of U.S. intellectual property and universities,” Johnson said in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. 

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Montana Tech professor teaches class that takes serious look at UFO phenomenon

Here on the campus of Montana Tech, you can study science, mathematics, engineering, biology, even nursing, but here in the Chemistry Biology Building in this classroom, you can learn about UFOs. Yeah, I’m serious, and so is Dr. Michael Masters, so let’s go check out his class.

“Fiber optics technology may have come from reverse engineering these craft,” Montana Tech Professor Michael Masters told his class Thursday morning.

The Butte university is one of only a handful of colleges around the country with a class on unidentified flying objects.

“One of my students was very honest and said that she saw the posters and thought it was a joke and registered to see if it was actually a joke,” Masters said.

It’s no joke. The anthropology class studies the history and science behind the UFO phenomenon.

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NYU Prof Wants ‘Nuremberg Trials’ for ICE and Trump Officials When Dems Retake Power

NYU professor Scott Galloway recently appeared on the Pivot podcast with the absolutely miserable leftist Kara Swisher, and said that when Democrats retake power, he wants ‘Nuremberg Trials’ for ICE agents and people in the Trump administration.

Swisher agreed with him as she nodded along.

The Nuremberg Trials took place after World War II, when the Nazis were put on trial for war crimes involving the systematic murder of tens of millions of innocent people.

Galloway, Kara Swisher and other people like them are completely insane, not to mention reckless and dangerous.

Mediaite has details:

The Pivot podcast lambasted President Donald Trump following the shooting death of Alex Pretti last weekend, with co-host Scott Galloway arguing Democrats should put Trump administration officials on trial — just like the ones Nazi war criminals faced after World War II.

“I think there should be something equivalent to the Nuremberg Trials once this is all over,” Galloway said. “And to make it clear: once we’re back in power — which we will be — this is going to happen. And the statute of limitations on murder is never.”

He shared his suggestion on an “emergency” Pivot episode on Sunday, one day after Pretti was shot and killed after a fight with Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

Galloway wasn’t the only one who saw parallels between the USA and Nazi Germany following the shooting, either.

His co-host Kara Swisher said Trump gets most of the heat for his administration’s immigration enforcement policies, but she does not want people to give adviser Stephen Miller a pass. She said Miller is like “Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi regime,” referring to the architect of the “Final Solution.”

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Nigerian professor pleads guilty to stealing $1.4 million from Grand Rapids preschool nonprofit

A highly acclaimed Nigerian professor at Aquinas College is facing two decades in prison after she admitted to swindling more than $1 million from taxpayers and poor minority children in West Michigan.

Nkechy Ezeh, founder and CEO of the Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative, pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud and tax evasion in a scheme that forced the nonprofit to shut down after a dozen years preparing about 8,000 preschoolers for kindergarten in Kent County, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, WOOD reports.

Ezeh worked with ELNC bookkeeper Sharon Killebrew to create nearly $500,000 in fake invoices, as well as created fake daycare businesses to siphon off hundreds of thousands of dollars more, which Ezeh used for personal travel to Hawaii, Nigeria and Liberia, according to court documents cited by the news site.

The case comes amid sprawling investigations into fraud in government funded child care programs in Minnesota, Ohio and other states.

The investigations are motivated in part by a viral YouTube video last month that featured what appeared to be a largely vacant “Quality Learing [sic] Center” in Minneapolis that collected $4 million in recent years to provide child care services to the Somali community, Fox News reports.

The learning center is part of a broader scandal involving alleged social services fraud largely tied to the Somali community in the Twin Cities that U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said last month could exceed $1 billion once investigations into Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program are complete. Officials have followed some of the funds to the Somali terror group Al-Shabab, according to Fox.

Ezeh’s attorney, Mary Chartier, told MLive her client “is committed to taking full responsibility and accountability for her actions.

“She is deeply remorseful to anyone who has been negatively impacted,” Chartier said.

ELNC President Amy DeLeeuw offered a decidedly different perspective following Ezeh’s plea hearing in U.S. District Court on Jan. 14, noting in a statement the former CEO’s “failure to meaningfully articulate the nature and scope of her criminal misconduct.”

“Her theft of million of dollars intended for the most vulnerable of children was brazen, all encompassing and unconscionable,” DeLeeuw said.

“To date, Nkechy has made no effort to repay any of the millions of dollars she stole from ELNC,” the statement read. “I trust Nkechy’s demeanor at today’s hearing did not go unnoticed by Chief Judge Hala Jarbou. I and the board will have more to say in our victim impact statement and look forward to her sentencing hearing on May 13.”

Killebrew pleaded guilty earlier this year to engaging in conspiracy to defraud a federally funded program of $1,170,935 and tax evasion, and was sentenced to four years, six months in prison.

Ezeh agreed to pay $1.4 million in restitution to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Early Head Start Programs and other organizations as part of her plea agreement, which also detailed $390,000 in back taxes, according to media reports.

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Amherst removes officials behind sexually graphic freshman orientation programming

Following the exposé last month by Amherst College student Jeb Allen regarding the school’s sexually explicit freshman orientation programming, it now appears the parties responsible have been let go.

According to a Friday report by The Washington Free Beacon, those removed include the director of the Queer Resource Center and Women’s and Gender Center, the head of the Multicultural Resource Center, and the assistant director for Religious and Spiritual Life.

Activities from the “Voices of the Class” orientation had included students being “encouraged to speak with licensed therapists who ‘specialize in polyamory and ethical non-monogamy,’” discussing “sexual orientation, habits, kinks, and fantasies,” and “roleplaying various casual and drunken sexual scenarios, including sex with strangers.”

Student and administration backlash to Allen’s report was immediate; Amherst officials sent out communiques regarding mental health and other resources, along with notices they were “seeking the removal of the photos, videos, and alarming posts where possible.”

The student government all but demanded disciplinary action against Allen for his “potentially malicious intent to cast [Amherst] traditions in a false light in order to instigate public vitriol.”

It claimed his article violated the Amherst Code of Conduct via its “Harm to Persons” section.

Regarding news of the various officials’ dismissals, Amherst spokesperson Caroline Hanna told the Free Beacon no one was terminated — the college’s moves merely were part of a “long-planned divisional restructuring.”

She did not elaborate, however, on which positions were being “restructured,” nor why no announcement was made about them.

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‘Cruel behavior’: Northwestern U. LGBT community triggered by obscure flag painted on rock

A red cross and a reference to a 15th century French duke has caused an uproar at Northwestern University as LGBT students and professors fear for their safety.

Around Jan. 6, someone painted a “Cross of Burgundy” and wrote “CHARLES THE BOLD DUKE OF BURGUNDY 10 NOV 1433 — 5 JAN 1477” over a “trans flag” on campus. Students regularly paint over “The Rock” with various messages.

Even though the first person to report the cross did not know what it meant,  she felt unsafe for her life. 

“Something felt really off, and that visual cue, especially on a memorial for a trans student, just felt like something was wrong up there,” Smith Yarberry told The Daily Northwestern. Yarberry is gender-confused, sometimes just goes by “S.” and uses “they” pronouns. Her real name is “Sofia.”

The flag caused an immediate reaction as Yarberry, a “sixth-year English Ph.D. candidate” who writes “erotic” poetry,” and other LGBT individuals and allies jumped into action.

“Concerned students and faculty worked together over email chains in the following days to research the markings and allusion to the duke of Burgundy,” the student newspaper reported. “Others reached out to Student Affairs separately to notify the University about the symbol.”

The “chevroned X,” “was adopted by a Spanish pro-fascist group in the 20th century,” the team of researchers concluded.

“It’s one thing to go repaint the entire rock white with a red (symbol) and take away the trans memorial,” Yarberry (pictured) told the student newspaper. “But to use the trans memorial as the backdrop for a symbol associated with Nazism and fascist ideologies, that is a very political statement.”

While Yarberry and others were painting over the X, “a student approached them and took responsibility for painting the cross.”

“[T]he student mostly defended the decision as solely expressing interest in the duke of Burgundy. The person did not identify themself,” the newspaper reported.

That was not enough for the aggrieved LGBT members and allies, some of whom connected it to their broader problems with Northwestern.

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‘She/They’ Research Scientist at the University of Washington Wishes Conservatives Dead for Daring to Ask Questions: “May There Be Tyler Robinsons for You All”

A research scientist, whose role at the University of Washington is ostensibly one that is grounded in scientific understanding, lashed out at a conservative for using a scientific argument against biological men in women’s sports, wishing “Tyler Robinsons” for all conservatives.

Tyler Robinson is the 22-year-old man from Utah accused of assassinating conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis shared a video on Facebook of an exchange with Brandi Kruse, an independent journalist, pressing Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen about allowing biological men in women’s sports.

Kruse asked: “Can you acknowledge that there are biological differences between men and women that would give boys physical advantages over girls in athletics?”

Pedersen responded: “No, I don’t think I could say that definitively. I don’t have the scientific expertise to weigh in on that.”

Mara Maughan, a research scientist at the University of Washington who uses “she/they” pronouns, responded to DeAngelis’ post by wishing death on those who dare to question trans doctrine.  Maughan allegedly commented, “May there be Tyler Robinsons for you all.”

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DID WE LEARN NOTHING? NIH Funds Wuhan-Style Bat Lab at Colorado State University

It has been four years since the world was brought to its knees by a virus that many evidence-based reports now indicate leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. You would think the federal government and the “experts” in the public health establishment would have learned their lesson.

You would be wrong.

Colorado State University (CSU) is moving full steam ahead with a massive, taxpayer-funded “Bat Resource Center.”

This new facility, which is bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the very same agency that funded dangerous research in Wuhan, will import and breed exotic bats to experiment on them with deadly pathogens.

The facility is being touted by the university as a “critical resource” to study how bats carry viruses like Ebola, Nipah, and SARS-CoV-2 without getting sick.

According to documents uncovered by the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, this isn’t just a simple animal shelter. It is a vivarium designed to house huge colonies of bats, the very same animals identified as the reservoir for the COVID-19 virus.

White Coat Project wrote on its website:

We’ve now revealed that the NIH is still eager to move forward with the project minus EHA; and gave CSU an additional $2.3 million to do so just two months ago.

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Federal court reverses release of Columbia Gaza activist Mahmoud Khalil

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s decision that released Gaza activist Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail earlier last year. The step brings the federal government a step closer to deporting the activist.

In a 2-1 decision on Thursday, the appeals court did not rule on the removal of Khalil, but said the lower court that released him from immigration jail did not have jurisdiction in the case. “That scheme ensures that petitioners get just one bite at the apple — not zero or two,” the panel wrote, per the AP. “But it also means that some petitioners, like Khalil, will have to wait to seek relief for allegedly unlawful government conduct.”

Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia who was involved with the Gaza encampment that led to agitators in the encampment occupying Hamilton Hall. Khalil was detained in an immigration jail after being detained on March 8 last year. He spent three months in the jail until a judge in New Jersey ruled that his jailing was unconstitutional and ordered his release.

The Trump administration challenged the ruling as the federal judge was not in an immigration court, which usually decides cases for detention of illegal immigrants in the country as well as deportations. It is not clear if federal law enforcement will not seek to detain Khalil after the order from the lower court was overturned by the panel.

The majority opinion from judges Thomas Hardiman and Stephanos Bibas, both appointed by Republicans, wrote, “Our legal system routinely forces petitioners — even those with meritorious claims — to wait to raise their arguments. To be sure, the immigration judge’s order of removal is not yet final; the Board has not affirmed her ruling and has held the parties’ briefing deadlines in abeyance pending this opinion. But if the Board ultimately affirms, Khalil can get meaningful review.”

The reversal on the order comes as an appeals board in the immigration system is looking at an order that has set Khalil up to be deported from the country. The judge in the immigration case said that he could be deported to Algeria, where he is a citizen, or Syria, where he was born in a refugee camp. His attorneys argue he would be in danger if he returned to either country.

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Minnesota university continues to uphold ‘antiracist parenting’

A professor and her team are in the spotlight after it was found that their “antiracist parenting” research is funded by a nearly $600,000 grant. According to The College Fix, this is at the University of Minnesota, and that professor is Gail Ferguson.

AFN reported previously about how the university’s Culture and Family Life Lab warns of a “whiteness pandemic.” It gives so-called resources for individuals and parents to be antiracist and teach their children anti-racism. One of the key takeaways is “talking the antiracist walk goes hand in hand with talking the antiracist talk.”

Matt Lamb is associate editor of The College Fix.

“The idea of anti-racism in general is that you can’t just not be racist but that you have to actively be opposing racism. And this is from Ibram Kendi who has sort of gone to different universities,” says Lamb.

The research at the institution centers on “an antiracist parenting intervention for White mothers of young White children.” The center uses the acronym CARPE DIEM, which it says is short for “Courageous, Antiracist, and Reflective Parenting Efforts – Deepening Intentionality with Each Moment.”

“This research presupposes that white people — but also like babies, like kids because this is white parenting — that they are racist and that they need to be taught how to not be racist. This is, of course, being subsidized by taxpayers because this is a public university,” states Lamb.

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