Because I’m a retard who can’t remember his passwords, there was no blogging from Salt Lake City Thursday and Friday. I was there for the Ark Press rollout of Larry Correia’s American Paladin, which unlike the new Uwe Boll flick is all killer and no filler.
In the world of Dynasty League Baseball, we’re just weeks away from the 1975 draft in Pete’s league. I’m hoping it’s not on the 17th, because I’m going to be a little bit busy playing host to Tim Powers and a few dozen of my closest friends. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
The Revolutionary Black Panther Party (RBPP) “is an active, Marxist-Leninist black nationalist organization in Michigan,” according to an AI summary. The Michigan chapter of the RBPP is part of a nationwide organization reportedly founded in 1992. Saturday they staged an armed rally in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, to protest the police shooting of Da’Quain Trey Johnson. That got my attention.
VIDEO THREAD: Armed Black Panthers led a march for Da’Quain Johnson this afternoon in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Johnson was shot by police while being bitten by a police dog.
Da’Quain Johnson was 32 years old when he was fatally shot by police around 9:30 p.m. February 18 after a pursuit that began after police received a complaint that Johnson was carrying a firearm. He was riding a bicycle at the time, and your first thought might be, “Why is a grown man riding a bicycle on a February night in Michigan?” Probably his driver’s license had been revoked, although I have been unable to find his full criminal history, but my point is that an adult man riding around Grand Rapids on a bicycle that time of night in February — yeah, a police officer might take notice of that behavior. However, police had not randomly noticed Da’Quain Johnson, but rather had specific information that he was armed, and that fact needs to be emphasized:
Immediately after he shot and killed a man, a Grand Rapids police officer said he saw the barrel of the man’s pistol pointed at him.
Police Chief Eric Winstrom provided video clips on Thursday, Feb. 19, from body-worn and in-car cameras of the violent encounter that led to the fatal shooting Wednesday night on the city’s Southeast Side.
Winstrom said police rushed to release three videos to counter false narratives spreading on social media.
“There’s a lot of inconsistencies or outright falsehoods being spread on social media,” he said.
“And I think when false information is being spread on social media and we have the opportunity to get some accurate information out, we should take that opportunity.”
He said he had not reached any conclusions where the K-9’s officer’s actions violated the law or department policy. He fired three shots, with the man struck in the chest.
Police would not disclose the man’s identity, but his mother identified the victim as Da’Quain Johnson.
Winstrom said police acted on an officer-initiated complaint that the man was armed with a handgun. It was not clear if the officer witnessed the man with the gun or acted on information from an informant.
The video showed police trying to stop the man who was riding a bicycle. As they neared the parking lot of Eastern Lofts on Eastern Avenue SE, the K-9 officer released the dog.
Two officers approached and told the man to “stop reaching,” and threatened he could get shot.
“Stop reaching, man. You’re going to get shot. Hey, he’s got a gun. He’s got a gun in his hand.”
The officers involved have not yet been interviewed by investigators but that should happen within the next two days.
Winstrom said the man was on parole for weapons violations. A pistol was found at the scene.
The man’s gun was underneath him.
Winstrom said it was fortunate that no officers were injured but said the man’s family suffered a tragedy.
“… I know that there’s a family that’s hurt that’s going to miss this young man,” he said.
He said that the man was undergoing surgery when he died early Thursday. Medical staff worked for probably three hours trying to save his life.
Winstrom said the man led police on lengthy pursuit on his bicycle. He did not know why the man fled but noted he was on parole.
“I don’t know if that plays into it. I don’t if parole (agents) had a hold on him or something. I know he had past (arrests) for weapons violations and things like that. But, you know, I can’t assess his intent or what his motivation was. … Obviously, you’re on parole for a gun, you’re not legally allowed to carry a gun. So that could have been part of his fleeing.”
Having previously been convicted of a weapons violation, Da’Quain Johnson was out on parole when police got a tip that he was armed with a pistol, a crime that would send him back to prison, and that “could have been part of his fleeing,” the police chief says, stating the obvious.
To counter “false narratives spreading on social media,” the police wasted no time releasing the bodycam video:
The Grand Rapids police officer who fatally shot Da’Quain Johnson just over six weeks ago will not face any charges tied to that shooting. The other officer on scene at the time of the shooting was also cleared by Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker.
The decision to rule the deadly use of force as justified, came Thursday afternoon [April 2] during a press conference six weeks after Johnson died from his injuries. . . .
Becker cited findings that Johnson was armed with a loaded gun, which Becker said Johnson pointed at an officer during the struggle.
An audio recording of officers relaying information from a confidential informant, who told police Johnson was traveling around the southeast side of the city with a gun. Officers used that tip to locate Johnson near Miss Tracy’s Liquor Store.
Becker then played multiple video recordings of the the pursuit and struggle between Johnson and officers. Among the new videos included a recording from a security camera at the apartment complex where officers caught up to Johnson.
Also shown was video from the dash camera of one Grand Rapids Police Department cruiser and the body camera from one officer, both of which had been partially released by the department in February. Becker walked through those videos, highlighting how Johnson’s hand positioning would indicate he was reaching for something on his right hip. After officers shot Johnson, the gun can be seen in the videos fall out of Johnson’s right hand.
In his explanation, Becker said the officers acted within Michigan law to use deadly force against a person armed with a deadly weapon. The prosecutor expressed his belief that no jury would be convinced the officers should be convicted of charges when they were effectively acting in self-defense. . . .
According to the MSP report, the Grand Rapids Police Department later recovered a tan and black 9mm pistol on the ground near Johnson’s body, loaded with “eight rounds in the magazine and one round chambered.”
The report also said, while attempting life-saving measures, healthcare workers found on Johnson’s body a plastic bag containing around 10 grams of suspected crack cocaine.
The convicted felon was dealing crack near a liquor store when police, acting on a tip that he was armed, located him and then chased him four blocks to the spot where they caught up with him.
Here is the full 40-minute press conference by the prosecutor:
Was this what cops call a “good shoot”? Were the tactics used by police consistent with best practices in law enforcement? Hindsight being 20/20, you can argue about that however you want, but the point Becker made is this: In order to prosecute the cop, he would have to disprove the officer’s self-defense claim, despite the fact that Da’Quain Johnson had a loaded pistol in his hand, with a round already chambered.
Sorry, no jury is going to vote for a conviction in such a situation.
The Revolutionary Black Panther Party held another rally at Calder Plaza Saturday afternoon, again demanding for prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the shooting death of Da’Quain Johnson.
This is the second such rally, with one held in May. At that rally, the party said they wanted the investigation reopened within 30 days. Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker has not reopened the investigation.
Now the Black Panthers said they’re heading to Lansing to ask the Attorney General’s office for a formal recusal of Becker. They say his handling of the case was unethical.
“Not only was it unethical, but if you actually look at laws and procedures in this state, It was prosecutorial misconduct. And not only was it prosecutorial misconduct, he actually had a bias, but it was in favor of the police. It was in favor of law enforcement. Not only was it in favor of law enforcement, it acted against but not only was it in favor of law enforcement, it acted against the people that his office says he’s supposed to protect victims,” said Dr. Alli Muhammad MD, national leader of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party.
They are also asking for the arrest of all officers involved in the shooting and the suspension of the department’s K-9.
Not gonna happen. Nobody is going to riot on behalf of a convicted felon dealing crack who got shot with a loaded 9mm in his hand. You can march on the state capital if you want, but your demands are irrational and even the kind of people who might be looking for any excuse to loot the local CVS aren’t buying this one. Better luck next time.
Many of the comments over at Instapundit indicate some readers did not read the whole thing before reacting. Otherwise it would be obvious that Da’Quain was not shot to death merely for riding a bicycle around Grand Rapids, nor simply for being armed. Felon in possession of a firearm (Section 750.224f of the Michigan penal code) carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. Considering that Da’Quain was out on parole for previous felonies, and appears to have been dealing crack cocaine at the time, other sections of the Michigan penal code would also apply. However, police were just investigating on the basis of a tip from an informant, and there was no reason why that should have led to a shooting, except for Da’Quain’s failure to cooperate. When the cop yells “drop the weapon,” you should do what he says.
A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the [2022] shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday that authorities don’t believe she was acting alone.
Michelle Zajko, who has been jailed in Maryland on other charges since February 2025, has been charged with murder, burglary and conspiracy charges in the deaths of Rita and Richard Zajko, Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said at a news conference. The prosecutor said she did not act alone.
Rouse said that Zajko is known to have been among those who killed her parents “to the extent that if she wasn’t the one who actually pulled the trigger, she was certainly aligned with those who did.”
Online court records didn’t immediately indicate whether Zajko had an attorney in the Pennsylvania case as of Wednesday. An attorney representing her in Maryland did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment, and the Delaware County Public Defender’s office declined to comment.
The couple was shot to death in their home on New Year’s Eve after police say a neighbor’s doorbell camera captured video of a car pulling up to their home in Chester Heights, a voice shouting “Mom!” and another voice exclaiming, “Oh my God! Oh, God, God!”
Michelle Zajko has denied any involvement, and in court filings suggested her father might have killed her mother and then himself.
“I didn’t murder my parents,” she wrote in an April 2025 “ Open Letter to the World.”
Authorities, however, had long described Zajko as a person of interest in the double homicide, two of the six deaths linked to a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists who appear to share radical beliefs about veganism, animal rights, gender identity and artificial intelligence.
Murder victims Richard and Rita Zajko.
My suspicion is that authorities traced the bullets that killed Zajko’s parents to one of the guns that she is known to have purchased for her Zizian comrades. None of those currently in custody, including cult leader Jack “Ziz” LaSota and Teresa Youngblut, have cooperated with authorities, and if prosecutors have enough evidence to convict Zajko, she’ll likely continue denying her guilt even after she goes to prison while her accomplices go free. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The 1979 psychological thriller When a Stranger Calls is a cult classic, famous for one line: “The call is coming from inside the house.”
That line came to mind Tuesday night after I learned about an interesting controversy on BlueSky, the left-wing echo chamber where many Trump-haters fled after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022. A Canadian feminist, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, recently published a book The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men. A website published a 23-paragraph excerpt of Ms. Maltz Bovy’s book and, when this excerpt was promoted on BlueSky, the book’s theme and its author were angrily denounced.
Of course, I immediately ordered the book from Amazon. Anything that sends the BlueSky crowd into paroxysms of apoplectic rage must be good. After skimming through the excerpt of The Last Straight Woman, however, I quickly located the nexus of Ms. Maltz Bovy’s problem, specifically in the sentence when she declares “we need to be looking for feminist approaches to female heterosexuality.”
“Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the Long Shadow of the ‘Lavender Menace’,” first posted here in July 2014, became the first chapter of my 2016 book Sex Trouble. What most people don’t understand about feminism is that, almost from the very beginning of the so-called “Women’s Liberation Movement” in the late 1960s, lesbians were influential in the movement’s policies and rhetoric. Lesbians were involved in the creation of the first Women’s Studies programs at colleges and universities, and the curriculum in such programs has always reflected the anti-male/anti-heterosexual bias of the lesbian faculty.
Anyone who cares to research the biography of Charlotte Bunch can understand this. Prior to becoming involved in the feminist movement, Bunch had a husband, but in 1971 she got divorced, came out as a lesbian and founded a radical commune/cult called The Furies. From there, Bunch went on to become a professor at Rutgers University and an adviser to Hillary Clinton. The incompatibility of heterosexuality with women’s liberation was the essence of Bunch’s feminist ideology:
Bunch’s 1972 manifesto, “Lesbians in Revolt” essentially declared universal lesbianism as the end goal of feminism:
Lesbianism is a threat to the ideological, political, personal, and economic basis of male supremacy. The Lesbian threatens the ideology of male supremacy by destroying the lie about female inferiority, weakness, passivity, and by denying women’s “innate” need for men. …
Our rejection of heterosexual sex challenges male domination in its most individual and common form. We offer all women something better than submission to personal oppression. We offer the beginning of the end of collective and individual male supremacy.
This argument was expanded . . . by Margaret Small in “Lesbians and the Class Position of Women,” which was cited in such later books as Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana Shugar and The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Katz. In 2015, while researching my own book, I summarized Margaret Small’s argument:
[Small] offered a Marxist interpretation of “lesbian consciousness” as part of a “revolutionary struggle” to end women’s “oppression” in the “relationship of slavery,” as she called marriage. …
Invoking the historical theories of Friedrich Engels (colleague of Karl Marx and co-author of the 1848 “Communist Manifesto”), Small declared: “Class society arose because of the oppression of women. . . . The exploitation of all women by all men made possible the exploitation of some men by other men. The more exploitative the relationship between men and women becomes, the stronger and more vital become the institutions of male supremacy.” …
“In terms of the oppression of women, heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy,” Small wrote. “In order for men to have a justification for exploiting women and an ability to enforce that exploitation, heterosexuality has to become, not merely an act in relation to impregnation, but the dominant ideology.”
Under male supremacy, Small asserted, women “become defined as appendages to men” in a system “which maintains the ideological power of men over women.”
Marriage is slavery, “heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy,” and if you don’t believe that, can you really call yourself a feminist? . . .
Live Gameshow Casinos in the UK: An Expert Review Guide
What Makes a Live Gameshow Casino Stand Out
Live gameshow titles have become one of the fastest-growing categories in the UK online casino market. Rather than spinning reels, players join a streamed studio hosted by a real presenter, with outcomes driven by physical apparatus such as money wheels, ball machines and card draws. The format blends the sociability of a live dealer table with the pacing of a TV quiz show. Discover further information on full guide.
When reviewing these sites, the first thing to check is the breadth of the gameshow lobby. A strong operator will carry the full Evolution and Pragmatic Play catalogue, including Crazy Time, Monopoly Live, Dream Catcher, Mega Wheel and Sweet Bonanza Candyland. Anything less than eight live gameshow titles is a thin offering.
Stream quality matters just as much as variety. Look for studios running at 1080p with latency under two seconds, because a laggy feed ruins the experience on timed bonus rounds. Reputable UK-licensed sites publish their RTP figures openly, and gameshows typically sit between 96% and 97%.
Finally, review how the casino presents its live section. Clear navigation, visible betting limits and honest session tools separate a premium operator from an also-ran. The best sites display the presenter schedule and table limits before you log in, not after.
Bonuses, Stakes and Fair Play in the Live Gameshow Lobby
Live gameshow bonuses work differently from slot free spins. Because the games run on real tables with real presenters, most UK operators exclude gameshow titles from wagering contributions or cap their contribution at 10%. That is a fair structure, but it must be stated plainly in the terms.
A competitive welcome package for live players will offer a deposit match plus live cashback of between 10% and 25% on net losses. Some sites run weekly gameshow tournaments where a £50 buy-in can return prize pools of £10,000 or more, paid in GBP with no currency conversion.
Stake flexibility is a genuine differentiator. The strongest gameshow casinos let you enter bonus rounds from as little as 10p per spin, while high rollers can push £5,000 on a single round of Crazy Time. Review each site’s minimum and maximum bets before committing.
Fair play rests on the licence. Every operator reviewed here holds a UK Gambling Commission permit, which means segregated player funds, audited random number generators and access to independent dispute resolution. That protection is non-negotiable.
How We Score Gameshow Casinos for UK Players
Our review process weighs five factors. Game variety and studio quality account for 30% of the score, bonus transparency for 25%, payment speed for 20%, and mobile performance and customer support for the remainder. Payouts via Faster Payments should land within two hours; anything beyond 24 hours is marked down.
We also test the mobile experience directly. A gameshow stream that stutters on a 4G connection is not fit for purpose, so we score each site on load times and touch controls across iOS and Android browsers.
Responsible gambling tools carry weight too. Deposit limits, reality checks and self-exclusion via GAMSTOP must all be easy to reach from the live lobby. Casinos that bury these controls in account settings lose points.
Use this guide as a starting point, then verify the terms yourself. Read the bonus conditions, check the RTP on each gameshow, and set a budget before you join the studio. Play for entertainment, keep stakes within your means, and treat every live bonus round as exactly that , a bonus, never a certainty.
