Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’
Posted on | January 30, 2025 | Comments Off on Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’
A “be-on-the-lookout” (BOLO) alert has been issued for Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, the 32-year-old “Zizian” who purchased the guns used in last week’s Vermont shootout that left a Border Patrol agent dead.
There have been several other developments in the radical vegan transgender death cult story, many of them covered in Andy Ngo’s exclusive story just published by the New York Post:
Killing of border patrol agent appears linked to ‘Zizian’ radical leftist trans cult
Well, we can forgive the New York Post editors for failing to get “vegan” in that headline, because what’s important is that this is the biggest media coverage so far to include the transgender aspect of the “Zizian” cult. This is not a trivial factor in their crime spree, which has already killed at least six people, including two members of the cult.
It must be understood that the cult around Jack Lasota (a/k/a”Ziz”) originated in his dispute with the leadership of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), specifically Eliezer Yudkowsky and Anna Salamon. Lasota’s transgender identity was central to that conflict. “Anna discriminates against trans women in CFAR’s employment and inclusion in sponsored workshop events,” Ziz wrote in a flyer printed up for a 2019 protest against CFAR. In that flyer, Ziz labeled Salamon “a trans-exclusive radical feminist” (TERF). In a blog post, Ziz wrote:
A MIRI employee told me in a joint MIRICFAR staff meeting for AISFP [AI Summer Fellowship Program], that Anna said I should be disinvited, she had a bad feeling about me, when asked for details, saying I wore “black clothes, took supervillains as role models, and came up with dangerous plans.”
OK, here is a copy of the 2018 post by Ziz (“Intersex Brains and Conceptual Warfare”) based on attending a MIRI/CFAR workshop and then deciding to “declare war” on CFAR director Anna Salamon.
cc @DrTechlash @davidzmorris https://t.co/gSogRZKUsj— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 29, 2025
Because of Ziz’s transgender identification, Anna Salamon’s criticism was interpreted as transphobia. Basically: “Anna is a TERF!”https://t.co/p7Tb47124n
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 29, 2025
Andy Ngo perceives that the media are ignoring the transgender aspect of the “Zizian” cult because of political bias. My point is that transgenderism is fundamental to the whole thing. Were it not for Lasota/”Ziz” being transgender, and the accusation of transphobia against the CFAR director Anna Salamon, this bizarre splinter segment of the “rationalist” movement would not exist. A few excerpts from Andy’s article:
The murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused of killings across the country. . . .
Authorities now say the guns used by [Tersea “Milo”] Youngblut and [Felix “Ophelia”] Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender “geniuses” who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.”
Bauckholt was a biological male who identified as trans and used feminine pronouns. He was an award-winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany, who later graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Around 2021, he was hired as a quantitative trader at Tower Research Capital in New York. It is believed Baukholt was in the US on an H-1B visa. . . .
Youngblut is a biological female who identifies as trans and lists having neo-pronouns as “xe/xem/xyrs” on social media. Youngblut was a University of Washington student studying computer science. . . .
In November 2024, Youngblut filed a marriage application with a 22-year-old fellow Lakeside alumnus named Maximilian Bentley Snyder.
Last week, Snyder, an “any pronouns” computer science whiz from a wealthy Seattle family, was arrested in Vallejo, Calif., for the murder of an elderly key witness set to testify in an upcoming attempted murder trial against alleged members of the trans extremist group.
That group, the “Zizians,” are highly-educated trans vegan “rationalists” who hold fringe, esoteric ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights.
Their leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. He also used the name Andrea Phelps, and is accused of influencing followers to kill. LaSota’s archived prolific blog writings ramble about the use of violence and radical anarchist tactics to achieve various ends.
LaSota has a warrant for an arrest in Delaware County, Pa. after skipping out on court hearings on an open criminal case.
A source with knowledge says LaSota was living with Bauckholt and other members of the group in an AirBnb rental in Chapel Hill, N.C., since 2023.
A Jan. 27 motion by federal prosecutors to deny Youngblut bail strongly suggests links with the group.
“Her [Youngblut] associations with other individuals suspected of violent acts also warrants caution,” prosecutor Matthew Lasher wrote in a court filing.
“The individual who purchased the firearms the defendant and Bauckholt possessed on January 20, 2025, is a person of interest in a dual-homicide investigation in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.”
That person of interest is bioinformatics researcher Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, according to the ATF.
All of these “geniuses” were drawn into Ziz’s orbit because of his blogging about artificial intelligence (AI) and related topics. This includes Zajko, whose elderly parents were murdered at their Pennsylvania home in January 2023. At her blog, “Plum of Discord,” Zajko had written about suffering abusive treatment from her parents. Zajko also wrote a post, in February 2022, about being afraid that Ziz would murder her. At some point, Zajko purchased land in Vermont, not far from where the Border Patrol agent was shot. The Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union reports:
Police are searching for a 32-year-old woman suspected of purchasing the semiautomatic handguns used by two people involved in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent last week in northern Vermont. She is also a person of interest in the 2023 murder of her parents in Pennsylvania.
Michelle J. Zajko, who has ties to Vermont, Pennsylvania and Boston, is considered armed and dangerous and also adheres to an “anti-law enforcement ideology,” according to police records obtained by the Times Union. Police agencies in multiple states were told to be on the lookout for Zajko on Jan. 22, two days after 44-year-old Border Patrol Agent David Maland was gunned down during a traffic stop in Coventry, Vt., not far from the northern border.
A day after the fatal shooting, federally licensed gun dealers received a bulletin from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives urging them to contact that agency’s office in Vermont if they had information about any firearms that have been sold to Zajko.
A multi-state police bulletin issued last week indicates Zajko is a “person of interest in a double homicide that occurred in Pennsylvania in 2023” and said she may be driving a green 2013 Subaru Outback with an expired Vermont registration. . . .
Zajko’s ties to the Border Patrol agent’s death are referenced in court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Vermont. The records do not implicate her directly to that incident but allege — without identifying her by name — that she may have provided at least two semiautomatic handguns to the man and woman who were involved in the shooting. Those semiautomatic handguns, a .40-caliber and a .380-caliber, had allegedly been purchased by Zajko in February 2024 from a gun store in Mount Tabor, Vt. . . .
Around 11 p.m. on Jan. 14, Youngblut and Bauckholt checked in to the Newport City Inn and Suites in Newport, Vt. . . . only a few miles from the U.S-Canadian border. . . .
Public records indicate Zajko owns property about 10 minutes away from the inn in Derby. Addresses associated with Zajko also include a home in Orleans, about 20 minutes away.
There are layers and layers to this story. What is this “anti-law enforcement ideology” to which Zajko allegedly adheres? Is she also likely to die in a police shootout? And while we’re asking questions: Where is Jack “Ziz” Lasota now? As the purported mastermind behind all this violence, shouldn’t there be a “BOLO” for him, too?
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- January 27: Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death
- January 28: Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update
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