Think More: Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Beijing's leaked report on 26 US editors, Fauci's diaries, the DNC's debt drama, and Venezuela quitting the ICC.
Lead · Beijing’s American Rolodex
A Leaked Trip Report Shows Beijing Measuring Its Return on 26 American Editors
Natalie Winters | nataliegwinters.substack.com
An investigation of archived records identifies at least 26 American journalists and editors flown to China by the Committee of 100, an organization tied to Chinese Communist Party United Front bodies. A leaked internal trip report on the $60,000 November 2012 delegation records how participants’ views shifted and catalogs the China coverage they filed afterward. The names include David Brooks, Jill Abramson, Fred Hiatt, and John Harris.
Beijing’s American Rolodex
Ways and Means Subpoenas Three Singham-Funded Nonprofits After a Year of Stonewalling
Chairman Jason Smith has served subpoenas on BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum, three tax-exempt groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, the Shanghai-based millionaire whose money reached them through shell companies and donor-advised funds. Public reporting traces hundreds of millions of dollars. A New York grand jury is separately examining the network.
The Record They Kept
Fauci’s Own Diary Tracks His Fame as the Death Toll Climbed
Miranda Devine | New York Post
Senator Rand Paul has released what he says are Anthony Fauci’s diaries, days before Fauci testifies under oath. Miranda Devine reads entries in which Fauci logs press coverage and celebrity praise as Covid deaths mounted, and records persuading Mayor Bill de Blasio to close New York’s schools, a role Fauci publicly disclaimed in 2022.
Judicial Watch Sues for Every Justice Department Record on Robert Mueller
Judicial Watch | judicialwatch.org
Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act suit in Washington after the Justice Department left a March request unanswered. It seeks all records on Mueller, who died in March, covering the FBI’s post-2001 surveillance expansion under his direction and the Russiagate investigation he was appointed in 2017 to continue. Tom Fitton says Americans should judge the record themselves.
The Party’s Balance Sheet
The DNC Mortgaged Its Headquarters While Its Candidates Raised Records
Federal filings show the Democratic National Committee holding $16 million in cash against $18 million in debt, much of it left over from 2024, with its Capitol Hill headquarters pledged as collateral on a $15 million loan. ActBlue moved $586 million to candidates last quarter. Representative Sam Liccardo and Joe Scarborough want Ken Martin gone.
Trump Tells a Michigan Crowd the DSA Has Skipped Past Socialism
Roberto Wakerell-Cruz | The Post Millennial
At a Milford rally, President Trump called communism the gravest threat in American history and warned that DSA-backed Democrats would bankrupt the country within a year. His warning follows a Fox News interview in which co-chair Megan Romer affirmed abolishing the Senate and ICE, and, as a long-term plan, borders. DSA candidates swept several New York primaries.
The two committees’ books: Federal Election Commission filings, late June 2026
$16M
DNC cash on hand
$18M
DNC debt outstanding
$128M
RNC cash, no debt
Who Holds the Keys
Venezuela Quits the ICC, and Chad Follows Within 48 Hours
Caracas has invoked Article 127 to leave the Rome Statute, calling the court’s concentration on African and Latin American defendants a form of lawfare. Chad withdrew two days later, its foreign minister citing a call from an American diplomat. Sarah Anderson credits Secretary Rubio’s campaign against a court that investigated Nicolás Maduro for eight years without result.
Fifty Signatories in a Day: Huang’s Open-Weight Letter Splits the Industry
Jensen Huang’s three-page case for open-weight models drew 50 signatories within a day, among them Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and Andreessen Horowitz. Lyceum‘s editors weigh the safety argument Dario Amodei has made against releasing model weights and conclude that concentration carries its own hazard, and that the holdouts stand to gain a government-built moat.
Citizenship and Its Costs
Denied the Executive Order, a Former Consular Officer Turns to the Visa Window
Simon Hankinson | The American Mind
Trump v. Barbara held that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship and that no executive order can narrow it. Simon Hankinson, who spent years refusing visas abroad, treats legislation and amendment as long shots and would go after the abuses instead: ban foreign commercial surrogacy, screen applicants with AI, and require refundable bonds.
A Rifle Taken From an FBI Vehicle in Minneapolis Draws 54 Months
Raul Gutierrez drew four and a half years and $4,000 in restitution for taking a rifle and ammunition from a vandalized FBI vehicle during January’s anti-ICE riot in Minneapolis. Guidelines pointed to eight years or more. Bill Glahn, who says he was the only reporter in the room, notes that Judge John Tunheim sealed the defendant’s background records for 20 years.
