Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Federal Weapons Charge Indictment

Posted on | June 20, 2025 | Comments Off on Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Federal Weapons Charge Indictment

Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz”

Wednesday press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office:

Today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment, charging Jack Amadeus LaSota, 34, of Fairbanks, Alaska — aka Andrea Phelps; Ann Grimes; Anne Grimes; Canaris; Julia LaSota; Ziz — with being a fugitive from justice in possession of firearms and ammunition.
Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the indictment with Acting Special Agent in Charge Amanda M. Koldjeski, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Baltimore Field Office.
According to the indictment, LaSota possessed several firearms, including a GM6 Lynx .50 caliber rifle, a black HS Produkt, model Hellcat, 9x19mm handgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. At the time, LaSota was knowingly a fugitive from justice and therefore was not permitted by law to possess a firearm or ammunition.
If convicted, LaSota faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. . . .
U.S. Attorney Hayes commended the FBI, the Allegany County State’s Attorney’s Office, and the Allegany County Sheriff’s Office for their work in the investigation. Ms. Hayes also thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared M. Beim who is prosecuting the federal case.

Via Andy Ngo, who reminds us of the background:

[LaSota] remained a fugitive until being caught in western rural Maryland in February amid a manhunt of the Trantifa terror cult’s members.
Since then, he has been in custody after being denied bail, along with two fellow Zizian members, Michelle “Jamie” Zajko and Daniel Blank. In Maryland, LaSota faces local charges of trespass and firearm offenses.
He has an open criminal case in Pennsylvania related to the obstruction of an investigation of a double homicide in 2023 and a 2019 riot-related case in California.
Currently, three other Zizian members are in custody in California for two murders. Another member, Seattle woman Teresa Youngblut, is in custody in New Hampshire over the homicide of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in January.

By the way, with the cult leader and two of his accomplices in custody, I’d sort of backed off coverage of the Zizians and, in the process, missed out on two excellent accounts of the cult: “The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians” (Evan Ratliff, Wired, February 21) and “‘Show her the body’: Alleged kill orders, cult behavior inside the Bay Area Zizians” (Katie Dowd and Andrew Chamings, SFGate, February 26). Both of those stories are worth reading because they mention Alice Monday, who was Michelle Zajko’s girlfriend from 2018 to 2022. Zajko and Monday at one point lived together in Vermont, but Zajko claims Lasota ordered her to murder Monday who, apparently, fled the country and is now living in Chile. Also, our friends at Kiwi Farms have a complete text of Michelle Zajko’s “Open Letter” (which I’d partially quoted in April), in case you wanted to get the paranoid delusion straight from the kook.

Like I keep telling y’all, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

PREVIOUSLY:

January 27: Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death
January 30: Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’
February 1: Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large
February 2: Scott Siskind Didn’t Start the Fire: Rationalism, NY Times and the Zizians
February 16: Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Gets Mainstream Media Coverage
February 17: ‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal
February 17: BREAKING: Cult Leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota and Michelle Zajko Arrested in Maryland UPDATE: Third Suspect Also Captured
February 17: MUGSHOTS: Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, Daniel ‘Hastur’ Blank
February 18: Bail Hearing Today for Cult Suspects
February 19: ‘Ziz’ Misgendered and Other Highlights of Tuesday’s Court Hearing for Cult Suspects
April 21: Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

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In The Mailbox: 06.19.25 (Abbreviated Juneteenth Edition)

Posted on | June 20, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.19.25 (Abbreviated Juneteenth Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The older I get, the harder the drive to and from Las Vegas gets.
It’s here! The Summer 2025 Based Book Sale!
Because I missed it yesterday: the man who could have been Duke of London introduces Iron Maiden.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Truth hurts, eh Teach?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry License Holder Stops Crime Spree
EBL: Why destroying Iran’s nuclear program is so important, Anne Burrell, RIP, “This Was Their Finest Hour…”, Cleaner, and Waterloo
Twitchy: Nashville Mayor Doesn’t Think Doxxing ICE Agents Puts Them In Any Danger, On Juneteeth, Democratic Socialists Claim Their Cause Is Inseparable From Black Liberation, and Florida AG Proposes New “Alligator Alcatraz” For Illegals
Louder With Crowder: Elder millennial emo rocker announces Christians and Trump supporters are BANNED from his shows, NY Governor pledges $50 million in taxpayer-funded legal services for ILLEGAL immigrants, Remember the man whose 175-year-old farm was being seized for affordable housing? The Trump Admin is coming to his defense, Chuck Schumer gets asked about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline cover-up, responds with bizarre claim about Americans, and Whoopi Goldberg Claims Being Black In America Is The Same As Living In Iran
Vox Popoli: The Science is Settled, Iran Has Nukes, There is No “We”, Kemosabe, The War Drums Get Louder, and Why the USA is Under Pressure
Stoic Observations: Transhumanist AI Fiction
Gab: The Next Chapter For The American Right
Toni Airaksinen: Hawaii Surgeon Calls For Zionists To Be “Deleted” Off Earth
Cedar Sanderson: A Glimpse of Heaven

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: We Have a CNO
Dana Loesch: What’s The Point Of Complaining About Juneteenth?
Don Surber: Shouldn’t it be World War 6 or 7 by now?
Matt Taibbi: Optimism, The Last Taboo, also, Activism Uncensored – Protests, Riots, & The Army Parade,

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YUGE Win for Trump: Illegal Immigrant Population Has Dropped by 1 Million!

Posted on | June 19, 2025 | 2 Comments

Remember how in 2012, during a Republican primary debate, Mitt Romney was mocked for saying he was in favor of “self-deportation”? The audience actually laughed, as Romney explained that it would not be necessary to “round people up,” but rather that enforcement of the E-Verify system for employment would cause illegal aliens to leave the country voluntarily. Liberals treated this idea as if it were some kind of joke, but Romney’s point — that if the U.S. ever got serious about enforcing our immigration laws, this would encourage illegals to leave — has now been vindicated. Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies report:

Our analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows a large decline in the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) between January and May of this year. The decline was caused by a falloff in the number of non-citizens from Latin America who arrived in 1980 or later, a population that overlaps significantly with illegal immigrants. We preliminarily estimate that the number of illegal immigrants has fallen by one million since the start of the year, perhaps due to their leaving in response to President Trump’s election and stepped-up enforcement efforts. . . .

• Based on the CPS, published figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the number of foreign-born individuals in the labor force declined by 601,000 from January to May 2025.
• Our analysis of the raw data shows the total foreign-born population, both in and out of the labor force, declined 957,000 from January to May 2025. This is one of the largest declines over a 4-month period in the foreign-born in the last three decades, but it is not unprecedented.
• The decline was entirely among non-citizens. The number of naturalized U.S. citizens in the data did not fall from January to May of this year.
• In particular, non-citizens from Latin America who indicated they arrived in the United States in 1980 or later show a 1.07 million decrease from January to May of this year and a 1.45 million falloff since December 2024.
• It is well-established that the post-1980 Latin American non-citizen population overlaps significantly with the illegal immigrant population.
Our preliminary estimate is that there are 14.8 million illegal immigrants in the country in May 2025, one million fewer than we estimated in January of this year. . . .

You can read the whole thing. Let’s extrapolate a bit from this analysis. If the number of illegal immigrants decreased by one million in about five months, that’s an average decline of 200,000 every month — roughly 2.4 million per year. So if the current trend could be continued, by the time the 2028 election rolls around, the number of illegals in the United States will be less than it was when Joe Biden took office in 2021.

Keep in mind that the average population of a Congressional district is about 760,000, so that for every 2.3 million illegal immigrants you deport, you’re taking away three House seats (and three Electoral College votes) from states that have large illegal populations. The Top 10 of these include five “blue” states: California (2.6 million illegal aliens), New Jersey (490,000),Illinois (420,000), New York (410,000) and Washington (340,000), as well as two “red” states — Texas (2.1 million) and Florida (590,000) — and the “swing” states of North Carolina (360,000), Georgia (340,000) and Arizona (290,000). Thus, if strict enforcement could reduce the illegal alien population by 7 million by the time the 2030 Census arrives, the chances of Democrats winning the Electoral College (or a House majority) in the 2032 election would almost certainly be diminished — and perhaps by a significant margin.

Democrats know this, of course, which is why they’re pulling all kinds of stunts to try to stop Trump from enforcing the law.

Hey, did I mention the Democratic Party is going broke?

Good times, my friends — good times!

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In The Mailbox: 06.18.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | June 18, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Occasional Cortex learns about Iron Dome.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Lesson About Shotguns in Self-Defense
EBL: Deep Cover, Iran 1970s, Black Sarcophagi Matter, and Iranian state TV attacked while on air
Twitchy: Not So Classy Responses to Kristi Noem’s Hospitalization by The Bulwark & Daily Mail, Food Network Chef Anne Burrell Dead At 55, and Gov. Hairgel Finds Scapegoat as “Peak Fire Season” Begins In California
Louder With Crowder: Chicago Mayor announces taxpayer-funded grants to citizens…but only if they’re Black, Meat packing plant loses employees to ICE raid, suddenly Americans are lined up looking to fill the jobs, We just heard Greta Thunberg’s popstar sister desecrate a Whitney Houston classic, now you have to as well, Donald Trump debuts new nickname for Tucker Carlson, and Ilhan Omar attacks America (again), this time claiming we are the “worst country”
Vox Popoli: A Reality Check, Your Own Private AI, Mass Deportation Order, Remember Who Owns the Media, and Sacris Solemnis
The Bugscuffle Gazette: “Mostly Peaceful”
L’ Ombre de L’Olivier: Thanking Yahya Sinwar
Upstream Reviews: The Tale of Alain

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Three Interesting Tidbits So Far From The Israeli Strikes On Iran
Dana Loesch: This Is Stupid,
Don Surber: Was Minnesota assassin a hit man?
Matt Taibbi: Let’s Have A War,
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – The Revenge of SALT,

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In The Mailbox: 06.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 17, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Last call for the Summer Based Books Sale!

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“Honey, I had the strangest dream last night.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: LA Police ‘defunded, defamed, and demoralized’
Director Blue: Top 20 Posts From Today’s Slow News Day
EBL: Mad Anthony Wayne, Tim Walz’s Murderous Appointee Apprehended, 134 year old tortoise becomes a father for the first time, No Father’s Day for Anti-Ice Activist Martin Santoyo, and Pride Month: Why Did Mohammed Hate Dogs?
Twitchy: Trump Says He Won’t Call “Whacked Out” Tim Walz, He Got Some In & Out All Right, and For A Warmonger, Bill Kristol Has No Idea About The Men & Women Who Serve
Louder With Crowder: Donald Trump vs. Tucker Carlson on whether Israel is Dragging the US into War Against Iran, Boomer freaks out on a Trump doll to reduce his anxiety, thinks he’s the normal one, Seattle Police Chief pledges to do everything in his power to help illegals break the law, Local government is threatening to seize this man’s 175-year-old farm so they can build affordable housing, and Dude gets angry car in front of him at drive-thru is a Trump Supporter… so he calls the store to WARN them
Vox Popoli: Delta Narcissism Confirmed, A Test of Three Tales, Vietnam Becomes BRICS Partner, The Boomers’ Last Boom, and America or Israel First?
Toni Airaksinen: This Jewish Student Passed Out Copies Of Alan Dershowitz’ Book, And Now He’s In Trouble, Sydney Professor’s Shocking Tweet Triggers Investigation,
Jim McCoy: The Prince of Ileria
Upstream Reviews: Holding The Line
The Bugscuffle Gazette: In Which Your Humble Scribe
Defending The Wood Perilous: So Much Gratitude!
Stoic Observations: Grok Stoic Observations
Cedar Sanderson: Publishing’s Bellwether

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Begotten, DNA,
CDR Salamander: Israel Buys Itself, The World, & Iranians More Time,
Dana Loesch: Welp, The Socialist Movements Behind The LA Riots, and Ladies & Gentlemen…We Got Him
Don Surber: Trump 53, Media 31
Elizabeth Nickson: This Is How The Rockefellers Stole Our Future, Engineered Hate – This Is How It Happened To Me, and Independent Media Crushes The Summer of Hate Under Its Heel,
Glenn Reynolds: “No Kings” – Just Commissars?
STUMP: Men’s Health Week – Men & Suicide In The U.S., The Week In Meep – Da Pope, The Trinity, & Father’s Day

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Minnesota Assassin Captured: Exactly Why Did Vance Boelter Go Crazy?

Posted on | June 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Minnesota Assassin Captured: Exactly Why Did Vance Boelter Go Crazy?

This story broke late Sunday:

Suspected political assassin Vance Luther Boelter was captured Sunday following an intense manhunt for the gunman accused of murdering a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding another, state officials announced.
Boelter, a 57-year-old former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was sought by police for allegedly wounding Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and killing former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.
“After a two-day manhunt and two sleepless nights, law enforcement have apprehended Vance Boelter,” Walz said during a press briefing.
The armed accused killer was taken into custody without incident in a rural, wooded area in Sibley County, southwest of Minneapolis, after authorities received a tip about a possible sighting hours earlier, state officials announced Sunday night.
Officers from multiple agencies, including SWAT teams, combed the area for hours and were assisted by helicopters using infrared cameras and drones, officials said.
It was a resident’s trail camera he passed in a rural town that tripped him up, according to the Star Tribune.
“Most of the search had concluded then,” Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said. “But the trail cam picture alerted SWAT teams to go to the area, search a perimeter and with the help of drones, identify his location.”
Boelter’s capture ended the “largest manhunt in the state’s history,” which lasted around 43 hours, involved at least 200 officers and utilized a federal, state and local partnership, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley told reporters.

Boelter is “in the custody of U.S. Marshals as he awaits his first court appearance in federal court Monday afternoon”:

Boelter will now appear in federal court at 1:30 p.m. [Central time, 2:30 p.m. ET] after initially slated for a first hearing at the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is scheduled to share statements about the federal case at 11 a.m.

There are many mysteries surrounding Boelter’s motive, and we’ll get to that, but first notice what Hennepin County prosecutor Mary Moriarty said in a press conference this morning:

“Political violence is prevalent, and the way we talk to and about each other has raised the temperature to unfathomable levels,” Moriarty said. “We cannot continue on this way in times of tragedy.” . . .
“As our community grieves, I encourage those out there seeking to create additional chaos to stop spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories” . . .

What evidence is there that “the way we talk” about politics had any influence on Vance Boelter? And exactly what kind of “misinformation and conspiracy theories” was the prosecutor referring to?

Having spent most of the day Saturday trying to figure out what motivated Vance Boelter, I am perplexed by Moriary’s seeming certainty that political rhetoric was to blame for his crimes. As someone who is constantly monitoring political discourse, I’ve been exposed to almost every form of “misinformation and conspiracy theories” out there, and yet have never gone on a murder spree. Just now, the acting U.S. Attorney in Minnesota gave a press conference in which he said the “why” of Boelter’s crimes is “not clear.” He said that Boelter had apparently been planning these assassinations for months, and had a list of targets — all of them Democrats. So there’s that. Meanwhile . . .

Boelter’s wife, Jennifer, reportedly worked as an intern for Gov. Tim Walz back when he was still in Congress. On Saturday morning, she was detained during a traffic stop near Onamia, which also involved several of Boelter’s relatives. According to Tom Hauser of ABC 5 Eyewitness News, nearly a dozen police vehicles swarmed the car and held the scene for up to three hours. Hauser’s sources say officers discovered a weapon, ammunition, cash, and passports inside the vehicle.

That’s kind of weird, isn’t it? The weirdest thing, however, is that while Boelter was married and owned a half-million-dollar home, he was spending several nights a month staying at home shared by several roommates, including his childhood friend David Carlson:

[There were] hints of a growing trouble within, which began after a three-year stint in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where [Boelter] claimed to have multiple business interests tied to his security company, Red Lion Group.
“I thought his demeanor [changed], he wasn’t as cheerful as he used to be. Since he got back from Africa, I guess,” Boelter’s roommate and self-described best friend David Carlson told The Post, adding he got back four months ago and quit his job to go there.
“He came back and he was struggling a little bit. I thought it was normal struggles.”
Boelter calls himself the CEO of Red Lion Group on his LinkedIn page, where he lists the company’s home base as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But besides the passing reference, virtually no information is available about the company.
“His dream was to have a security company,” Carlson said, hinting that his dream was more rooted in delusion than reality.
“He never was or never had a security company. He wasn’t doing security for anybody — it wasn’t his job.”
Carlson noted that Boelter even had two official cars for the alleged company despite having “no clients [and] no employees.” . . .
Carlson said his friend had a tough time landing a job after returning from his most recent overseas trip, sharing, “I thought his thing in Africa was bringing him down.” . . .
Boelter’s apparent obsession with play-acting as a security operations expert extended to another dubious business venture called Praetorian Guard Security Services, ostensibly helmed by his wife, Jenny.
The company website lists Boelter as “Director of Security Patrols,” boasting he’s been “involved” with “security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.”

NEW: The former roommate of the Minnesota shooting suspect joked that he had to “stay sharp” because he was “extracting eyeballs.”

David Carlson called on his friend Vance Boelter to not harm himself.

“He’s still my best friend and I hope he doesn't k*ll anybody else. And I… pic.twitter.com/3kZLdsBTbQ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 15, 2025

I want you to watch this video of the friend of Vance Boelter David Carlson saying that Vance told him "he needs to be sharp,because he removes eyeballs" WHY is he removing eyeballs? Is this case turning into a organ harvesting RED LION GROUP CCP chinese organ harvesting… pic.twitter.com/YhtgVqFM6p

— FLAHUSTLA (@FLAHUSTLA) June 15, 2025

Boelter’s “obsession with play-acting as a security operations expert,” and his inexplicable fascination with Africa are obviously part of the psychological profile here. There was some kind of delusional thinking pattern involved, but what’s with him doing the part-time roommate thing with his childhood buddy? It doesn’t make sense, and law enforcement isn’t giving us much to work with, in terms of figuring out when, why and how Boelter went off the rails.

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Rule 5 Sunday: The Almost Perfect Picture

Posted on | June 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: The Almost Perfect Picture

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What keeps it from perfection is an exercise left to the reader.
h/t kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Don’t Mess With The Bull Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Friday the 13th, MAGA Karoline Leavitt & LA, Stockholm Bloodbath, Brian Wilson RIP, Stick, Sly Stone RIP, Last Breath, Secretariat – “O Happy Day”, and Bridget Fonda

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Oksana Butovskaya, There’s An App for That!, Fish Pic Friday – Sarita Fishes, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Pennsylvania Lad Tackles Major Bay Problem, The Devil Inside Me, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: September in Washington

Posted on | June 15, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: September in Washington

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Ah, September…the month when the rosters expand, the kids go back to school, the miserable sweaty heat lingers over the Anacostia, and the crowds at RFK dwindle as the Senators get beaten like a rented mule. We were hoping for a .500 week, but we got swept by the Hated Yankees and lost two of three to the Twins. The only game we won was Game Three against the Twins, where Carl Morton and Bob Johnson combined to blank the Twins for Carl’s 11th win and Bob’s 23rd save. So now we’re 65-76, five games in back of the second-place Twins and half a game ahead of the A’s. Next week we’ll face the Cardinals (2-1) on Tuesday and the Tribe (5-4) on Friday. Not real sanguine about making the playoffs.
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