FMJRA 2.0: The Cost of Victory

Posted on | April 26, 2025 | No Comments

After last week’s crushing losses, it was glorious indeed to rise up and smite not only the Reds but the Red Sox on the road. Spaceman Lee lost the opener against the Reds, but the bullpen came through in Games 2 and 3, getting a win for Charlie Hough in Game 2 (which sent Vic Harris to the DL for a week) and saving Joe Coleman’s tenth win in game 3, which cost us Jimmy Northrup for a week. We also lost Jim Kaat and Blue Moon Odom to the DL in that series. Pat Dobson lost the first game at Fenway because our hitters couldn’t touch Jerry Reuss, but in Game 2 Spaceman Lee returned to form for his 11th win, backed up by two monster shots from Dave Kingman over the Green Monster. Game 3 was tougher: Joe Coleman gave us a quality start, but Bob Johnson almost blew the save, allowing a two-run homer to Willie Davis in the bottom of the ninth. He got the last out and the save, though, and that left us 4-2 for the week and just 1.5 games behind the A’s. Next up are the Phillies, who are 36-63 against the league and 1-2 against us. We’ll see if RFK is friendly to us this week.
In other news, because I wasn’t paying attention, I wound up with five extra copies of Eric Weathers’ Battle Brick Road #2, the second book in his SF retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic tale. These are all Cover A, and one has a mini-poster with other extras. That one is $25; the rest are $20, including media mail shipping. E-mail me if you’re interested.
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In The Mailbox: 04.21.25
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In The Mailbox: 04.23.25
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In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.25.25
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Top linkers for the week ending April 25:

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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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In The Mailbox: 04.25.25

Posted on | April 26, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Gators in the News
EBL: Armenian Genocide, MAGA vs. Democrat Tyranny (sue them) , and The Case for Christ
Twitchy: Writer Claims Draft Overlooking Shadeur Sanders Is Like Whipping A Slave, FOIA Reveals Biden White House Labeled Libs Of TikTok & Gays Against Groomers As Extremists, and Epstein Accuser & Abuse Survivor Virginia Giuffre Found Dead By “Suicide”
Louder With Crowder: Another AWFL judge has ruled against election integrity, Scott Jennings goes scorched Earth on Democrats’ latest judicial warfare, and Donald Trump makes a “cameo” at the NFL Draft in the way of a hilarious joke at the expense of Chicago Bears fans
Vox Popoli: The End of the Middleman, An Observer’s Perspective, and The End of Monster Hunter
According To Hoyt: Study War No More, The Time Spiral — Reading The Future of The Past, What’s Been Going On, and Updates and Notes on Stuff
Upstream Reviews: Laws & Prophecies, also, Liberty Station
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Oh, it’s a day ending in “Y”
Gab: Why they fear us

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Top Russian General Killed by Car Bomb
American Greatness: Dem Lawmakers Planning Trip to El Salvador in Effort to Bring Back Illegal Alien Gang Member, Deported MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Detained For Human Trafficking in 2022, Father of Stabbing Victim Austin Metcalf Kicked Out of Karmelo Anthony Press Conference, DNI Gabbard Must Reverse “Stupid” US Intelligence on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program, and Catholics Turn on the Democrats
American Thinker: Is Jamie Raskin Having a Psychotic Break?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Sperm Races Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 25
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, Trump cuts apparently shutting down NASA’s climate office in New York, Curiosity’s recent travels as seen from orbit, Rocket startup MaiaSpace picks Polish institute to build its rocket’s upper stage engine, and Your smartphone apps are tracking you
Cafe Hayek: Comparative Advantage Prevails, also, Order Your Copy Soon!
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The BoBo Manifesto
Dana Loesch: This Needs To Stop,
Don Surber: Trump v. academia
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Butchery in Mughalistan
The Geller Report: Obama Judge in California Blocks Administration Effort to Cut Funding to Sanctuary Cities, FBI ARRESTS Democrat Milwaukee Judge For Helping Illegal Defendant Avoid Arrest, DOJ Strips UNRWA of Immunity, India Strikes Back After Horrific Islamic Attack, USA and Israel Send Military Aid, and Trump Orders Investigation of Illegal ‘Straw Donors’ and Foreign Funding in Elections In Wake of ActBlue Fraud
Hollywood In Toto: It’s Official – Fantastic Four Has a Rachel Zegler Problem, Revenge of the Sith Showed Lucas at His Creative Peak, and Why The Shrouds Is Quintessential Cronenberg
The Lid: Only 44% Think ‘Due Process’ Should Halt Deportations of Criminal Illegals
Legal Insurrection: Muslim Group CAIR Wants Biden ‘War Criminals’ to Lose Academic Gigs, Yoga, Chopsticks, and the Myth of Cultural Appropriation, Columbia Responds to Plans for New Anti-Israel Encampment, Chinese Garment Factories Supplying Fast-Fashion Company Shein Shutdown, and Anti-Israel Mob Receives a Taste of Its Own Medicine in Brooklyn
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – The Debate Over Transgender Military Service,
Outkick: Shedeur Sanders Says NFL Draft First Round Snub Is Only ‘Fuel To The Fire’, Are Schools Really Going After NIL Buyouts In College Sports? Arkansas Lawmakers Sign ‘NIL’ Bill That’s A Slap In Face To Residents, Orlando Takes Big Step In Bringing MLB Team To Central Florida, and Brooks Nader Lets It All Hang Out, Adam Schefter Tries Too Hard At The NFL Draft & Miss Congeniality Nailed It
Power Line: Again with Mary Moriarty, Our Rogue Judges, Today’s good news, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Bilirakis Launches American-made Medicine Caucus
Shot In The Dark: Lucky’s Gonna Lucky
The Political Hat: Free to Choose Friday – I, Pencil
This Ain’t Hell: VA Home Benefit Cancelled, Valor Friday, Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow military transgender ban, DNC Chair Says No DNC officer should attempt to influence primary election outcome, and Enough politics?
Victory Girls: Two Judges Now Under Arrest For Aiding Illegals
Watts Up With That: The Green Revolution is Destroying UK Jobs, Livelihoods and Communities, The Climate Empire Strikes Back – The Climate Realism Show #154, Bookmark This: Buried Biden-admin Bombshell 2.0, and Supreme Court Case Could Spell The End For California’s EV Mandate
The Federalist: Here’s The Federalist’s Guide To This Year’s Biggest Supreme Court Cases, Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools, The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids, Judge Strikes Down Illinois Law Requiring Pro-Life Doctors To Promote Abortion, and SCOTUS’s Refusal To End Leftists’ Judicial Coup Is Damaging Its Credibility More Than The Media Ever Could

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In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 25, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Nothing Is Ever the Fault of the Woke
EBL: Larry David and Bill Maher – My Dinner With Adolf, Natalie Winters, and Illegal Alien Deported After Injuring Endangered Heron
Twitchy: More Details Released About “Maryland Man” Abrego Garcia’s Boss, TPUSA Chapter Leader Assaulted By Radical Leftist At West Chester U, and “He Doesn’t Have The Balls!” UK Tory Leader Wrecks PM Stürmer Over Gender
Louder With Crowder: Biden’s anti-American “Disinformation Czar” resurfaces in Europe, pleads with EU to RESIST Donald Trump and free speech, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s excuse for why grade school LGBTQ indoctrination is constitutional is almost too silly for words, and Elie Mystal Claims He Does Not Give “Constitutional Weight” To Laws Passed By White People
Vox Popoli: India Evicts Pakistanis, The 25-26 Home Jersey, and Commentary Question
Toni Airaksinen: Jews Are Slave Dealers, Says Berklee College Of Music Prof
Stoic Observations: A Lack Of Finesse

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Bergoglio’s Covid Shame
American Conservative: Saving the World is Not America’s Responsibility
American Greatness: What Is Democratic Legality? Unsung Heroes – For the Last 6 Months Amish Volunteers Quietly Rebuild Devastated NC Town, Catholics Turn on the Democrats, China Would Lose a ‘Trade War’ With the US—’Gradually, then Suddenly’, and Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?
American Power: Chainsawed Trees Spark Anger Over Downtown L.A.’s Decline, also, Weimar Republic Is Calling
American Thinker: Four Years, Five Fiascos: The Toll of Government Overreach, also, The Death of the Center-Left in America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily ‘Where’s Joe?’ News, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Democrats, NGOs And The Deep State, Eat The Bugs, Pay For The Water, and Prepping Sales Tax Holiday This Weekend
Behind The Black: A telescope picture of blackness, Viasat wins contract to build ESA lunar communications constellation, China launches three astronauts to Tiangong-3 space station, Transiting exoplanet appears to be losing matter with each transit, and Trump cuts to NOAA include major shake-up on how it gathers weather data
Cafe Hayek: Fair Trade Is Grossly Unfair
CDR Salamander: SECNAVY Phelan – First Person Spoken Word
Chicago Boyz: History Friday: 18 Minutes on a Day in April , also, Will America Drown in Anger?
Da Tech Guy: Doing the “Pope is Dead” stuff Wrong, also, DaTechGuy Unexpectedly on the Radio Saturday 8-11 AM on WCRN’s Conservatively Speaking
Dana Loesch: Paying People To Have Kids Is Welfare
Don Surber: Journalism today
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an a**hole to do things right, Good news out of Philadelphia, and Shouldn’t a professional writer who ‘wonders’ about something know enough to Google the answer?
Gates Of Vienna: Renaud Camus and British Misgovernance, Muslim Women – Out of Sight, Out of Mind, The Muslim Brotherhood in France Part 11, Justice, Swedish-Style, for the Rosengård Koran Rioters, and The Bangkok Earthquake and the Chinese Connection
The Geller Report: New York Muslim Says He ‘Has a Right to Punish Jews,’ Stabs Barber with Scissors, Muslim Community Patrols Continue Sharia Policing New York Neighborhoods, U.S. Tariff Revenues Hit Record $15 Billion in April, Surging Over 60%, Penn. Air National Guardsman Mohamad Hamad Charged in Islamic Bomb Plot, and Corrupt Democrat Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Proof of Citizenship Requirement to Vote
Hollywood In Toto: From Louis to Larry – Why Comics Keep Calling Trump ‘Hitler’, Will Mountainhead Join AOC’s Billionaire Bash-a-Thon? Patti LuPone Is Huge Reason Why We Lack ‘Dissenting Views’, Megyn Kelly Torches Clooney, LuPone Over ‘Journalism’ Taunt, and Nikki Glaser’s Anti-Trump Tirade, Explained
The Lid: Democrat Judge Resigns after Gang Member Found Hiding in His House, also, Utah Police Arrested 2 Hondurans with 4,500 Fentanyl Pills
Legal Insurrection: FBI Raids Homes of Anti-Israel Activists From University of Michigan, Newcomers to White House Press Corps Shake Up the Status Quo, Yale Anti-Israel Activists Blockade Campus, Hurl Bottles at Israeli Official, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) Will Reportedly Retire After This Term, and Report: DNC Chair Expected to Crack Down on David Hogg Over Primaries
Outkick: Physicians Warn of Medical Risks In Trans Youth Study Allegedly Funded By Nike, New Curling League Hopes To Make People Care About The Sport More Than Two Weeks Every Four Years, Steelers Pass On Shedeur Sanders And So Does Everyone Else In First Round, Phillies Manager Accuses Edwin Diaz Of Faking Injury, and Antje Utgaard Slips Into Twins Gear & Stuns MLB Baseball Nerds, NFL Draft Memes & LeFraud Is Busted Faking It
Power Line: Down With Yeti Cup Democrats, Uncovering Ellison, and Who’s minding the store?
Shark Tank: “The [Florida] Democratic Party Is Dead” – Senate Minority Leader Scott Pizzo Goes Independent
Shot In The Dark: If They Held A State Of The State & There Was No Donald Trump, Too Obvious, Undue Process, and Blast From The Past
The Political Hat: Flatly Addressing Manufacturing Questions Directly, Quick Takes – Euthanasia Death Toll, and Womb Transplants: Transgenders? No! Catgirls? Yes!
This Ain’t Hell: For you armor nerds, Dominican Republic 1965, Task force launched to root out anti-Christian bias in VA, Hegseth’s body man’s qualifications questioned, and Fort McCoy Commander relieved in aftermath of chain-of-command wall blunder
Transterrestrial Musings: Reforming NASA, also, Faking Pr0n
Victory Girls: 60 Minutes Producer Quits, Cites Loss Of Journalistic Independence, also, Yale Derecognizes Students For Justice In Palestine Chapter After Latest Protests
Watts Up With That: The Plagiarism Problem Plaguing the “ExxonKnew” Lawfare Lawsuits, Wrong, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Disrupting Blood Supplies, Trump’s Example to the World: Cull Activists to Achieve Energy Abundance, New York Climate Act Reckoning is Inevitable, and The Nuclear Imperative
The Federalist: The Papal Conclave Is A Battle Not Just For The Catholic Church But For Western Civilization, Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS To Block Lower Court Injunction On Military ‘Trans’ Policy, The Media Have A New Conspiracy Theory About Trump’s Interior Decorating, Democrat Representative Urges Protesters To Harass Congressmen At Church, and Trump’s Fight To Fire Leftist Bureaucrats Is A Supreme Battle Worth Fighting
Mark Steyn: Of Pontiffs and Poseurs, Stürmer’s Political Prisoner, and Miracles Large and Small

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In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 24, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thursday seems to be catchup day around here…

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

White House, DOJ announce lawsuit against Democrat money laundering site ActBlue

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Saint George, also, The Public Enemy
Twitchy: Trump Walking Into The Lion’s Den Once Again Up Against A True Hater, Jessica Tarlov Sounds Super Insurrectiony, and Trump 2028 Hat Drops And The Left’s Freakout Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Louder With Crowder: Man shoots bear to save wife and kids, so of course his blue state government had him arrested for it, Scott Jennings explains why so many Americans don’t trust CNN slow enough for even CNN to understand, Eva Longoria Claims DEI Is A “Moral Imperative” And “Good Business”, and Rosie O’Donnell clues us in as to why she moved to Ireland
Vox Popoli: The 17th Nicene Centenary, Mailvox: Three Catholic Questions, The Man Who Loved His City, Talk to the AI, and Walking Away is the Right Move
Stoic Observations: Word Speed
Gab: We Built The Only Right-Wing AI. Now We Need You
Jim McCoy: Dwarves of Elvenshore
Upstream Reviews: Acheron’s Fall

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Five Points of Pentagon Reform?
Don Surber: Trump vs. the imperial judiciary
Matt Taibbi: A Recap Of Trump’s First Three Months,

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The True Definition of ‘Objectivity’

Posted on | April 24, 2025 | No Comments

Perhaps you’ve forgotten John Paul Neumann, a/k/a “Chloe Sagal,” whom I wrote about in 2018 (“Death by Social Justice: Transgender Scammer ‘Chloe Sagal’ Commits Suicide”), after he/“she” died by self-immolation, having set himself/“herself” on fire “in a downtown Portland park across from the Multnomah County Courthouse after reading a manifesto about homelessness and mental health.” Frankly, I’d forgotten about him/“her” myself, until the other day I got a message from a relative thanking me for the “very fair and balanced article” I’d written. The relative explained that John/“Chloe” was alienated from his/“her” family in Illinois, but not by the family’s choice. They “found out, by happenstance, that he changed his name” and “tried to find him,” but John/“Chloe” had eliminated his/“her” social media profiles and “flew under the radar,” so it was impossible for the family to reach him/“her.”

Neumann had tried to become an independent game developer, but this venture failed and, in 2013, “Chloe” started an online fundraiser:

Claiming that a near-fatal auto accident had left toxic metal embedded in his/“her” body, resulting in chronic pain, Neumman/“Sagal” said he/“she” needed $30,000 for a “life saving surgery.” But there was no accident and no toxic metal; Neumman/“Sagal” used the money for sex-change surgery.
A videogame industry journalist named Allistair Pinsof discovered the deception, but Neumman/“Sagal” threatened to commit suicide if he reported the story. Pinsof consulted with his editors, who were hesitant to go with the story, and Pinsof ultimately decided to go public with the truth on his own social-media account. Pinsof was fired and blacklisted by the videogame journalism industry, accused of wrongfully “outing” a transgender person, for reporting the truth about someone perpetrating online fraud. This was one of the scandals that preceded the #GamerGate controversy, involving so-called “social justice warriors” (SJWs) colluding with journalists to distort coverage of the videogame industry.

Wow, time flies. #GamerGate was more than 10 years ago, and it’s been nearly seven years since Neumann’s fiery suicide, and I was surprised to get the thank-you message from Neumann’s relative — mainly because I’d forgotten all about him/“her.” As I explained in replying to Neumann’s relative, my habit is to work in “file-it-and-forget-it” mode. Stories come and go, and when I finish with a story, I move on without thinking about it again. There have been occasions when some hitherto obscure person comes to my attention (usually because they wrote something stupid/offensive on social media) and when I do two or three posts about the controversy, the person will play the victim card by claiming that I’m “obsessed” with them, that they are being “harassed,” etc. In fact, I don’t even care about them; it’s just a story I’m covering and, when it’s over, I’ll completely forget about them. The true definition of “journalistic objectivity” is I don’t give a f**k about these people.

Back when I started out as a reporter, expected to file thousands of words every week — stories about people I’d never met until I was assigned to cover them — the nature of the gig wasn’t something I thought much about. All I was doing was trying to hit my deadlines so I wouldn’t get fired, and after spending years in that mode of operation, I developed an attitude that you don’t find much anymore in the media world, where everything seems to be about some kind of “social justice” crusade.

Why have so many journalists become ill-disguised political activists? Because they have made the mistake of caring, that’s why.

To be truly objective, you have to be able to get enough distance from your personal feelings in order to concentrate on the Three Rules of Journalism: Accuracy, accuracy and accuracy.

In recent months, we’ve witnessed a parade of big-time journalists trying to explain how they somehow overlooked a rather important fact, namely that Joe Biden was far gone in a state of senile dementia. Oh, these journalists tell us now, they were deceived — victims of a conspiratorial cover-up in the White House — even while many millions of ordinary Americans were pointing to the obvious evidence of Biden’s senility and shouting the truth on Twitter, Facebook, etc. These same big-time journalists who, since the election, have freely admitted the truth about Biden’s decayed mental condition, had previously denounced the truth-tellers as agents of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. We were told that videos of Biden’s bumbling and stumbling were “cheap fakes,” and yet now — when the election is over, and there is no longer any advantage to the Democratic Party lost by admitting that Biden’s was unfit to serve as president — these journalists expect us to take them seriously when they claim they had no idea about it, back when the truth mattered most.

They have sold their souls to the Democratic Party, and whatever the Devil paid them, it was more than their filthy souls were worth.

Have I digressed into another pointless tangent? Perhaps so, but my point is that too many journalists got into this business for the wrong reason. They think of themselves as secular missionaries with a pious duty to “make a difference.” Well, hey, sweetheart, how about you just try to get the facts right, collect your paycheck and go have a beer?

Sane people don’t tune into the news in search of a “social justice” sermon or a thinly-disguised campaign ad for the Democratic Party, and yet the media talking heads have gotten kind of herd mentality where everybody’s a wannabe Gandhi. They think of themselves as philanthropists, humanitarian crusaders whose purpose in life is to enlighten those of us lesser mortals who lack The Vision of the Anointed.

Well, enough ranting. What got me started on this long digression was the unexpected message from a relative of John Paul Neumann, a/k/a “Chloe Sagal.” Such a message was unexpected in part because, to say the least, I didn’t go out of my way to care about Neumann/“Sagal.” As a hard-hearted cynic, I began that 2018 post with a blunt observation:

If you can’t afford mental health treatment and can’t pay your rent, but you can afford tattoos and transgender surgery, you’re not a victim of anything except your own bad judgment.

There’s some hard truth for you. Setting yourself on fire after subjecting the witnesses to your “manifesto about homelessness and mental health” is an extreme example of an unfortunate trend in our culture, namely the encouragement of the Victimhood Mentality, where people constantly seek sympathy by proclaiming themselves to be oppressed. When you stop to think that John Neumann engaged in fraud to obtain $30,000 for the surgery that made him “Chloe Sagal,” and then realize that he/“she” didn’t have to be homeless — he/“she” had family back in Illinois, who would have opened their doors to him/“her” — you see how the Victimhood Mentality becomes a hall of mirrors. Obsessed with their self-image as victims of oppression, these people can’t even see the most obvious way out of the trap they’ve constructed around themselves.

John Paul Neumann’s relative wrote in their message to me:

You captured the exact nature of John’s deception mixed with manipulation and mental illness. He was brilliant and squandered it.

Yeah. Sad and tragic, but it’s not my job to preach sermons. Best I can do is try to get the facts right, and occasionally remind the readership that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

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In The Mailbox: 04.23.25

Posted on | April 24, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Most of today (0730-1330) was eaten by a virtual meeting of the National Security Site Advisory Board Chairs.
Have I mentioned how much I hate virtual meetings?
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

We are all the media now.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: USAID – The CIA’s Little Sister
EBL: Swan Lake, Earthday’s Co-Founder Murdered and Composted His Girlfriend, and His Only Son
Twitchy: Judge Orders Trump To Bring Back Voice of America & Rehire Everyone, MS-13 Brute’s Wife, Kicked To El Salvador, Snags Safe House, and CO State Senate Passes Bill To Make State Safer For Criminal Illegals
Louder With Crowder: Turns Out Maryland Doesn’t Want “Maryland Man” Abrego Garcia Back, CNN 2024 vs. CNN 2025 Exposes How Little You Should Trust Them, Karmelo Anthony & The Truth About Race Relations In America, Dude Caught Exposing Himself In YMCA Claims He’s A Woman, and Landlord can’t get squatter evicted after not paying rent for THREE YEARS, and of course the Democrat run city won’t help
Vox Popoli: Fake Pope Dies, Failure = Replacement, Gaiman Sues Alleged Victim, Pay Now or Pay More Later, and Who are the Reactionaries Now?
Upstream Reviews: Looking Marvel-ous? also, Prospero Lost
Cedar Sanderson: Tracking The Rain
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Requiescat in pace

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Sen. Tim Sheehy on the Challenges & Opportunities Revitalizing The Navy
Don Surber: Frog around, find out
Matt Taibbi: Trump Vs. Powell – It’s On!, Activism Uncensored,

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In The Mailbox: 04.21.25

Posted on | April 22, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Maybe I should have done that Sunday link dump after all.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The COVID Timeline We Were Never Supposed To See
357 Magnum: What Do You Mean You Don’t Want an AI Spying on Everything You Do?
EBL: The Resurrection of the Lord, Happy Easter, Pope Francis Is Dead, Deadbeat Liar Michael E. Mann needs to pay up, and Companion
Twitchy: Nova Music Festival Responds To Irish Band’s Hateful Coachella Message, Trans Activist Gets Dose Of Truth After Whining Term “Woman” Was Stripped From Him, and Dana Loesch Takes Laura Loomer Apart For Pushing Vile, Repugnant Lie
Louder With Crowder: While teen girl gives tearful testimony over school forcing her to change in front of a boy, board pres snaps “wrap it up”, Jasmine Crockett reduced to literal tears over how mean Trump is to illegal immigrants, Democrat party leader David Hogg diagnoses the real problem with America, Chicago cancels its Cinco de Mayo parade, and of course it’s somehow Trump’s fault, and Why Gina Carano’s Lawsuit Against Disney is Bigger Than Just Star Wars
Vox Popoli: Russia and the Immigration Challenge, Immigration and Empire are Degenerate, It’s Not Andrew Tate, Jesus Has Risen, and The Intelligence War
Bacon Time: Lesley
Stoic Observations: A Toast To Literary Contemplation,
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Oh, for the love of…, Happy Easter, and Oh, Look
Tom Kratman: The Care & Feeding Of Your Right-Wing Death Squad – “When Must We Kill Them?”
Upstream Reviews: Starquest – Space Pirates Of Andromeda,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Two Little-Known Fantasy Books That Changed My Life
Draw & Talk Comics: The Revolving Conversation About Comics Vs. Manga
Jim McCoy: The Final Battle
Gab: The Inverted Morality Of The Modern Age

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Was Pope Francis a Liberal?
American Greatness: Justice Alito Voices Dissent on Supreme Court’s ‘Legally Questionable’ Late Night Order, El Salvadoran President Bukele Tells CNN He Has No Plan to ‘Smuggle’ Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Back to U.S., DOJ Nabs Suspect in Arson Attacks Against Tesla Showroom and GOP Headquarters in Albuquerque, Trump ‘Stands Strongly Behind Pete Hegseth’ Amid Latest SignalGate Controversy, and Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?
American Power: I Used to Hate Trump – Now I’m a MAGA Lefty
American Thinker: Democrats Dying on the Most Desolate Hills, If She’s an Astronaut…I’m a Jet Fighter Pilot, Is it Time to Ignore the Judiciary? Easter: the Resurrection of Jesus Transformed the World Forever, and Is the Jihadist Trojan Horse Winning?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “Big Moves At The ATF”, Somebody’s Lying About Chinese Exports, and Is Austin Stealth Cutting APD Budget?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another classified satellite for National Reconnaissance Office, Soyuz safely returns three astronauts from ISS, Northrop Grumman’s first Mission Extension Vehicle completes first commercial undocking in space, India’s Spadex mission completes second autonomous docking, and SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS; Problems with Tenacity?
Cafe Hayek: Manufacturing Job Openings, Nothing But Ominous Clouds, A Note on the Decline in American Manufacturing Jobs, Fareed Zakaria Nails It, and It’s Stupid to Match Other Countries’ Stupidity With Stupidity of Our Own
CDR Salamander: The PRC Is Not Hiding The Ball
Chicago Boyz: The US Wars with China and the War with Itself, also, Francis
Da Tech Guy: Five Things For A Good Christian in General and a Good Catholic To Remember on Easter
Dana Loesch: Hegseth, SecDef, & DeSantis
Don Surber: Wasting Away In Margarita Gate,
First Street Journal: Easter Monday, also, Requiescat in Pace, Pope Francis
Gates Of Vienna: Bride of ISIS, The Tomb is Empty, It Takes a Mujahid to Exterminate a Village, and A Waqf Call
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Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

Posted on | April 21, 2025 | No Comments

Michelle Zajko

It’s been two months since I covered the first court hearing for the three members of the “Zizian” cult, currently jailed in Allegany County, Maryland, and there have been a few developments since then worth noting. Last month, various gun-related charges were added to those already faced by Jack “Ziz” LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank.

Then, last week, there was a statement from Zajko:

A former Delaware County [Pennsylvania] woman who authorities say is a person of interest in the 2022 deaths of her parents released a statement earlier this week saying she did not kill them.
Michelle Zajko, 32, released a 20-page handwritten “Open Letter to the World” on Tuesday [April 15]. . . .
Rita and Richard Zajko were found shot in the head, execution-style, in their home in Chester Heights on Dec. 31, 2022. Police have said they consider Michelle Zajko a person of interest in the deaths, but she has not been charged with any crimes related to the killings.
“You, the public, are being lied to,” Zajko wrote . . . “And while I don’t promise to answer all your questions, I think the truth about my friends and I will make a lot more sense than what you’ve been reading about in the papers.”
“I’m viscerally reminded of the witch hunts, of the Satanic Panic, of the mob that burned Joan of Arc at the stake, and of the mob that ripped apart Hippolyta,” Zajko wrote. “My friends and I are being described as like Satan’s lapdogs, the devil & the Manson family all rolled into one. … These papers are flagrantly lying. … I didn’t murder my parents.”
She went on to defend Jack LaSota, a.k.a. “Ziz”, who prosecutors say is the leader of a cult-like, extremist group known as the Zizians. Authorities say the group’s members have been linked to killings in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.
“Ziz is not my leader and I am not hers,” Zajko wrote. “What we have is called friendship, and I love her infinitely more than I could ever express.”
Two other members of the group, Felix Bauckholt and Theresa Youngblut, are accused of engaging in a deadly shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Vermont in January, in which Bauckholt and an agent were killed.
Zajko and LaSota, who identifies as female, were arrested in Maryland in February after police discovered they were camping on private property. Zajko was wearing all black and had on body armor, as well as two firearms and ammunition.
Zajko said she has been treated badly by Maryland authorities, including being denied medical attention after hitting her head during her arrest.
“Everyone here is being subjected to our injustice system designed to grab people off of the streets and coerce confessions and declarations of guilt (in the form of plea deals) out of them, with little to no regard for whether their captives are actually guilty,” she wrote.

More details from the Associated Press:

Zajko . . . was questioned but not charged in connection with the deaths of her parents, Rita and Richard Zajko, who were shot and killed in their Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, home on New Year’s Eve 2022. A few weeks later [in January 2023], LaSota was charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to cooperate with officers investigating the deaths, but Zajko said LaSota was just “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“The police lied to her & told her that I had confessed (to something I didn’t do),” she wrote. . . .
Members of the Zizian group also have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on a California landlord in November 2022 and the landlord’s subsequent killing in January. Maximilian Snyder, who is charged with killing landlord Curtis Lind, had applied for a marriage license with Teresa Youngblut, who is accused of shooting at the Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
“The newspapers do not seem to realize that there are multiple groups, & that my friends & I are not with Snyder,” she wrote.
Youngblut is accused of firing at Maland during a traffic stop and has pleaded not guilty to federal firearms charges. Felix Bauckholt, a passenger in the car, also was killed in a shootout.
Bauckholt and LaSota were living together in North Carolina as recently as this winter, according to their landlord, who also was renting a duplex to Youngblut in the same neighborhood. Zajko’s lawyer said Tuesday that Zajko also had been living in North Carolina before the group moved north to Frostburg, Maryland.

Translation: “We’re not in a cult. We just live together like a big happy family, which is totally NOT like the Manson family. And despite the fact that my parents were murdered execution-style, I had nothing to do with that and my cult leader — er, excuse me, I meant to say the friend I love infinitely more than I could ever express — was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” We can all believe this, right?

Peter D’Auria of VTDigger has a bit more:

The 32-year-old Zajko, who once lived in Coventry, Vermont and owns property in Derby, according to municipal records, also faces federal firearms charges in Vermont.
Prosecutors have said Zajko bought the weapons that were in the possession of Teresa Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, also known as Ophelia, earlier this year. In January, the pair were stopped by federal agents on I-91 in a traffic stop-turned-shootout that left Bauckholt and Border Patrol Agent David “Chris” Maland dead.
The letter reads like a hybrid of a manifesto, a list of grievances and a shaggy-dog story about a large group of acquaintances — except that it levels allegations of abuse against multiple people. Zajko expressed fear she was being followed and could be murdered, writing that she had spent the past two years “in homebrewed witness protection.” . . .
Other than denying murdering them, Zajko offered no further details on her parents’ death. She also wrote nothing about her time in Vermont, although she did briefly reference Youngblut.
Zajko wrote that she believes she may be asked to testify against Youngblut, but “I will refuse to participate on principle, as I don’t believe Youngblut is going to receive a fair trial.” . . .
[S]he wrote, “My friends and I certainly don’t call ourselves ‘Zizians.’”
But several paragraphs of the letter are taken up by effusive praise for LaSota, aka Ziz. Ziz “saved my life,” Zajko wrote. “Ziz is not my leader, & I am not her’s. What we have is called friendship, and I love her infinitely more than I could ever express.”
She claimed Ziz “rescued multiple abuse victims” and even once stopped a terrorist attack.
“I’ve never seen her do an evil thing,” Zajko wrote.

The federal firearm charges ensure that Zajko, at least, is unlikely to be released from custody anytime soon, whereas LaSota and Blank are currently charged only with misdemeanors. Meanwhile, there were courtroom fireworks in a California hearing for another “Zizian”:

Alexander ‘Somni’ Leatham

Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, a 29-year-old transgender woman charged with the 2022 attempted murder of her Vallejo landlord, had to be forcibly restrained and removed after she disrupted courtroom proceedings on [April 8], shouting what seemed to be a prepared statement claiming she fears for her life in police custody.
“I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!” Leatham shouted. . . .
After she was coaxed out from behind the inch-thick steel doors that separated her from the courtroom, she produced a piece of paper in her hands and began reading a statement laced with conspiracy and paranoia.
She claims that a specific officer has threatened her life and that her jail has been forcibly de-transitioning her with hormones . . .
Suri Dao, another Zizian charged in the same crime as Leatham, appeared before the court remotely via Zoom, wearing a light blue prison T-shirt. In stark contrast with Leatham, Dao was soft-spoken and cooperative with proceedings. . . .
In 2022, prosecutors claim Dao, Leatham, and fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian faced eviction from a Vallejo lot where they rented space for the retrofitted box trucks they lived in. Two days before the sheriff’s office was scheduled to evict them, Dao approached landlord Curtis Lind for help repairing a leak on the property.
When Lind bent down to look at the problem, someone hit him on the head and he blacked out. He woke up to the three renters standing over him with knives drawn. The right side of his skull was shattered, and his torso was impaled with a samurai sword.
Lind drew his gun and shot, killing Borhanian and wounding Leatham. He survived by flagging down the help of a neighbor, and authorities arrested the two surviving Zizians.
Prosecutors charged Dao and Leatham with attempted murder and murder under the theory that they were responsible for Borhanian’s death.
Lind was set to testify at Leatham and Dao’s trial until he was killed in January 2025 by another Zizian, Maximilian Snyder, who is now awaiting trial for murder.

People keep getting murdered by these deranged wackos, but it’s totally NOT a cult like the Manson family, OK? Ziz just happens to be infinitely loved by his friends, but that doesn’t make him a cult leader, and all these dead bodies that keep turning up around Ziz and his friends — well, that’s just a random coincidence. Don’t believe any of what you read in those stories you find by Googling “Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult.”

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