The True Definition of ‘Objectivity’

Posted on | April 24, 2025 | 2 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 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.23.25

— 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 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.21.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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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
The Geller Report: Securing Election Fraud, Muslims Slaughter and Kidnap Scores of Christians in Nigeria, Leave 100 Dead, Hollywood Film Production Plummets as Studios Flee California, Thousands of Jobs Lost, Muslims to Sue Spain in Strasbourg Over Holy Week Processions, Claim They Offend Islam, and Supreme Court Blocks New Deportations of Venezuelans in Texas Under Alien Enemies Act
Glenn Reynolds: Learning To Live With AI
Hollywood In Toto: Box Office Miracles Power Easter Weekend, The Question Pro-Palestinian Coachella Rockers Can’t Answer, and It Feeds Knows What We Crave from Horror
The Lid: Police Find Mexican Nationals Transporting 180,000 Rounds of Rifle Ammo During Traffic Stop, also, Another Dangerous, Leftist College ‘Professor’ Speaks in Favor of Assassinating His Political Opposition
Legal Insurrection: UK Gynecologists Report Rise in Flesh-Eating Infections of the Vulva, Arizona Gov. Hobbs Vetoes Bill Requiring State to Cooperate With ICE, Rep. Raskin Threatens Countries That Cooperate With Trump, Harvard Sues Trump Over Funding Freeze, and New Mexico Judge Resigns After Housing Alleged Tren De Aragua Member
Matt Taibbi: The Numbers Behind The Government’s “Anti-Misinformation” Explosion, also, In Highest Comedy, Arch-Priest Of Elites David Brooks Calls For “Civic Uprising”
Outkick: Joey Aguilar Signing With Tennessee, Basically Completing Nico Iamaleava Trade With UCLA, TNT Issues Apology After Stating Incorrectly That Former NBA Player Is Dead, Donald Trump Backs School in Fight to Keep ‘Chiefs’ Brand Amid Woke Backlash, WWE’s Paul Heyman Goes ‘Nuclear’ On Pat McAfee’s Show, Dares ESPN To Cut His Mic, and Jennifer Aniston In A Tiny Dress Has Instagram Barking, The NHL Has A New Playoff Boob Girl & Fake Joe Biden!
Power Line: Diverted, Harvard Sues the Trump Administration, and Who Says Democrats Aren’t Pro-Crime?
Shark Tank: Buchanan Commends Trump’s Renegotiation of Trade After EU Visit
Shot In The Dark: The Press Conference I’d Like To See Take 2, also, Like A Walking Hunter Biden Painting
STUMP: For Autism Awareness Month – My Son Diarmuid, Happy Easter 2025!
The Political Hat: Arrested For Complaint In The U.K.
This Ain’t Hell: Pollster Says Occasional Cortex most likely 2028 Democratic presidential nominee, Democrat game plan, Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday, She coulda been a SEAL, and Here we go again
Transterrestrial Musings: Looking For Water On The Moon, “It’s Very Pro-Commercial Space Right now”, Honoring Heinlein, and Could It Happen?
Victory Girls: Will Vatican Move Back To Center After Pope Francis Death?
Watts Up With That: Trump’s Energy Policies Will Help U.S. Lead in Global AI Race, Endangerment Finding endangers energy & freedom, A new “Queer Centered” Climate Religion Claims Inspiration from President Trump, and Get Your Facts Straight, PBS – Senegal’s Prospects Have Improved Amid Climate Change
The Federalist: Republicans In Congress Look To Stop ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’, U.S. Congressman Backtracks On Social Media Post Claiming He Fired Weapons At Nuclear-Armed Russia, How No-Consequence Schooling Turns Kids Like Karmelo Anthony Into Killers, The Pete Hegseth ‘Chaos’ That Wasn’t Then And Isn’t Now, and The Legacy Of Pope Francis Is Chaos, Confusion, And Division In The Catholic Church
Mark Steyn: Summertime Blues: James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Bededag Meets Bard, Easter Parade, and The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital

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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 | Comments Off on Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

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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Rule Five Sunday: Bunny Season!

Posted on | April 21, 2025 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have plenty of bunny girl pics from Fate/Grand Order and Azur Lane, but I thought an authentic appetizer for Easter would be more apropos. H/T to @kbdabear for this young lady.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Joke Candidate Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Contempt, Fleur Geffrier, Your Friends’ Neighbors, The Amateur (1981), Happy Face, Rory McIlroy Wins The Masters, The Amateur, and White Bird

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Cassandra Fiona Houck, Gone Fishin’, Fish Pic Friday – Brandi Sully, Cry Evil, No, Just No, Begun the Trade War Has, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Chicks in Space!, Tattoo Tuesday, Penn Govs Mansion Firebombed, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Trump Drops Tech Tariffs on China, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five: Fore!

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: No Grandeur, Lots of Misery, Just One Victory

Posted on | April 20, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: No Grandeur, Lots of Misery, Just One Victory

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rob Kroese could use some help. Buy some books.

This week the Senators got their asses kicked good and hard. First we got swept by the Angels, thanks to two bullpen implosions and bad starts from Joe Coleman and Spaceman Lee, and then we went to the Polo Grounds to face the Yankees, who took two games out of three behind Bruce Kison and Wilbur Wood. So here we sit at 41-54, two and a half behind the A’s, and looking at another thrashing on Tuesday from the Reds, who swept us in the first series we played.
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This week in Senators baseball…

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Pennsylvania Arsonist Edition
First Street Journal
American Free News Network
A View From The Beach
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FMJRA 2.0: An Almost Perfect Week
A View From The Beach
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‘Clearly a Fanatic of Some Type’
The Daley Gator
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Fresh From The Shower
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Cody Balmer Update: Crazy, Yes, But Also Ranting About ‘the Palestinian People’
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 04.16.25 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 04.17.25 (Evening Edition)
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 04.18.25
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Top linkers for the week ending on Good Friday:

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The Intersection of Rage and Ignorance

Posted on | April 19, 2025 | 1 Comment

Tempted as I am to blame “misinformation” for this, the facts of the Kyle Rittenhouse case were accurately reported in dozens of major media outlets, so there is no excuse for these people who somehow got the idea that Rittenhouse “murdered . . . black kids in Michigan during a protest.”

Just to reiterate: The three people shot by Rittenhouse on the night of August 25, 2020 — JoJo Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz — were all white. All of them had criminal records, the most egregious being Rosenbaum, a convicted child rapist. It was Rosenbaum who first attacked Rittenhouse, trying to take away his gun, before being shot to death. Once that happened, others in the mob of rioters (“protest,” my ass) then began pursuing Rittenhouse. Huber tried to hit Rittenhouse on the head with a skateboard and was fatally shot. Then Grosskreutz, brandishing a pistol, was shot in the arm, but survived. No black people were killed. Nobody was “murdered” (self-defense is not murder) by Rittenhouse. It was a riot, not a “protest,” and it happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, not Michigan. But anyway . . .

The reason Kyle Rittenhouse got brought up (during a three-hour podcast hosted by Anton Daniels, who seems to be a decent guy himself) was because of the murder of Austin Metcalf in Frisco, Texas, more than two weeks ago. I wrote about it April 5 (“Texas Murder: An Exclamation Point on My Argument About ‘Adolescence’”) and expected the story to disappear from the headlines. It seemed to me an open-and-shut case. Karmelo Anthony brought a knife to a track meet and stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart, in front of numerous witnesses and, I am told, the police have video evidence. The main point, as I have said repeatedly since the story broke: Who brings a knife to a track meet?

Despite this being an open-and-shut murder case, Karmelo Anthony’s family has tried to claim that he is the victim and that he acted in self-defense, and many members of The Community™ have swallowed this claim hook, line and sinker. While I would be content to ignore this story and let the case play out in court, we instead have a situation where “activists” are trying to turn this into a civil rights drama to incite anti-white racial hatred. And they keep bringing up Kyle Rittenhouse.

KENOSHA HAD ALREADY SEEN TWO NIGHTS OF RIOTING before Kyle Rittenhouse got into that confrontation on August 25, 2020:

Jacob Blake is an African-American man who was shot seven times during an arrest by police officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha on August 23, 2020. . . .
A state of emergency was declared in Kenosha County starting at 10:15 p.m. [Sunday, August 23], and garbage trucks were used to block 56th Street. Starting at 11:05 p.m., police began using tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse crowds. This continued all night. Near midnight, the crowd lit a small fire in front of a ground-floor window of the Kenosha County Courthouse and at least three garbage trucks and a trolley car were set on fire.
By 2:30 a.m., a truck at a used car dealership along Sheridan Road was set on fire. The fire spread to most of the 100 other cars on the lot . . . The buildings surrounding Civic Center Park, along with many downtown businesses, including the post office, Reuther High School, the Kenosha County Administration Building, and the Dinosaur Discovery Museum sustained damage to their front windows and entrance foyers. . . .
[Monday, August 24] Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers activated the Wisconsin National Guard to protect firefighters and critical infrastructure in Kenosha. . . . [Kenosha County] announced a curfew that went into effect at 8 p.m. . . .
Protesters broke a door off its hinges in an effort to enter the Public Safety Building before being turned back by pepper spray. Teargas was deployed for a second night starting around 8:30 p.m. in an attempt to disperse unlawful crowds gathered near the courthouse, as protesters launched fireworks at police. Another garbage truck was set on fire, while armed gunmen appeared to be guarding a downtown gas station.
Arsonists targeted a Wisconsin Department of Corrections community probation and parole office and the city’s Danish Brotherhood Lodge. Other buildings set on fire included a furniture store, residential apartments and several homes. Firefighters worked into the morning of August 25.
The Kenosha Guard, a citizen militia organization with a Facebook group, created an event page named “Armed Citizens to Protect our Lives and Property” . . .

Riot in Kenosh, Wisconsin, August 2020

This was a genuine crisis in Kenosha, and Rittenhouse joined other armed citizens in an attempt to prevent further destruction. Much was made of the fact that Rittenhouse was only 17 and that he was from Antioch, Illinois: “He crossed state lines!” Yes, as he had been doing repeatedly his entire life. Antioch is about a 20-mile drive southwest of Kenosha; many people who live in Antioch work in Kenosha, the nearest big city. But the larger point is that there was concern about the possibility of a third night of arson and vandalism in Kenosha, which had already suffered enormous damage in two nights of rioting. It was clearly a dangerous situation and so we know why Kyle Rittenhouse was armed.

Why did Karmelo Anthony bring a knife to that track meet? Was there any reason for Anthony to fear violence there in Collin County, Texas? We do not have any plausible explanation for this, which is why the comparison to Kyle Rittenhouse fails — Rittenhouse was carrying a rifle because he was going to the scene of a riot (which, I will admit, was a questionable decision). But so far as we know, there was no similar reason for Karmelo Anthony to be armed with a knife at that track meet.

“One of these things is not like the other,” as the old Sesame Street jingle says. However, those attempting to justify the murder of Austin Metcalf — and make no mistake, they are literally arguing that Metcalf deserved to be stabbed in the heart — keep bringing up Rittenhouse, as if his case was somehow relevant. There was a press conference Thursday.

Dominique Alexander speaks to the media Thursday

Matt Walsh calls this the most disgusting press conference he’s ever seen, and I’m inclined to agree. Begin with the fact that the Anthony family’s chosen spokesman, Dominique Alexander of the Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), is a convicted felon who arguably should be in prison himself. In 2009, Dominique Alexander brutalized his girlfriend’s 2-year-old child so severely the child ended up in the intensive care unit, and that’s just one of the crimes on his rap sheet. Furthermore, Alexander has a history of inciting deadly racial violence:

He took to the streets [of Dallas] with 200 other protesters in late November 2014 when a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, declined to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. They marched through downtown Dallas, shut down Interstate 35E and chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist cops have got to go” in front of Dallas police headquarters after seven of their protesters were arrested.
In July [2016], Alexander joined with the Southern Baptist minister Rev. Jeff Hood to lead another protest through downtown. They gathered to speak out against the killing of Alton Sterling, an armed black man and registered sex offender who was shot and killed by Baton Rouge police officers. But their protest ended with Micah Johnson’s gunfire and five officers dead.

Have you forgotten about that deadly attack?

Micah Johnson had planned his sniper attack on Dallas police for months and practiced combat tactics in preparation, a Dallas official said . . .
Dallas County Chief Executive Judge Clay Jenkins said Johnson had been planning and training, and took advantage of the protest because of the high police presence.
“He knew police would be amassing at that scene and he used it as an opportunity to shoot,” Jenkins said.

Mass murderer Micah Xavier Johnson

Even if Alexander knew nothing about Micah Johnson’s plan, this protest provided the “target-rich environment” in which Johnson shot 14 cops, five of whom died. It was an absurd and pointless protest, by the way. Alton Sterling was an armed criminal and a subsequent investigation found the officers acted in a “reasonable and justifiable manner” in the incident in which Sterling was shot while resisting arrest. But whatever the case, why protest in Dallas about a police shooting in Baton Rouge, which is more than 400 miles away, in another state?

The logic of such things is never questioned by the media, who are apparently afraid to question self-appointed leaders of The Community™ about anything, for fear of seeming to be racist — “RAAAAACIST!”

So, during this press conference about the Karmelo Anthony case, Dominique Alexander accused critics of being “racist bigots,” and then asserting that video shows Kyle Rittenhouse “shooting three people in the back with an AK-47.” This is false. Rittenhouse didn’t shoot anyone in the back, and the weapon he used wasn’t an AK-47, it was a Smith & Wesson M&P 15, described in most media accounts as an “AR-15 type” rifle (which is, incidentally, the most popular type of rifle in America, with about 25 million in civilian hands). So at this press conference, the spokesman for the stabber’s family defamed an innocent man.

Will Kyle Rittenhouse sue Dominique Alexander? Probably not, but somehow I suspect Dominique Alexander will soon have other reasons to regret grabbing the spotlight in this case. It seems to me quite likely that someone in the U.S. Department of Justice will find a reason to open an investigation of Dominique Alexander and his organization. Is all his paperwork in order? Has the Next Generation Action Network kept a strict accounting of its finances as a tax-exempt 501(c) organization? Because if anyone were to contact the FBI and express suspicion of fraudulent activity by Dominique Alexander and NGAN . . .

Well, who knows what such an investigation might find?

My hope is that we’ll see no more press conferences like this, so that we can just wait for the court to deal with the Karmelo Anthony case without any further attempts to turn this situation into a race riot, by exploiting ignorance for the sake of inciting rage. And just one more thing:

On January 5, 2021, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley, the top prosecutor in the county, declined to bring charges against police officer Rusten Sheskey. He said that investigators had reviewed 40 hours of video and hundreds of pages of police reports before making the decision.
In April 2021, it was reported that Sheskey has returned to regular duty and will not face any administrative discipline.
In October 2021, the US Department of Justice announced it would not be bringing civil rights charges against Sheskey.

Officer Sheskey was the cop who shot Jacob Blake. The Kenosha riot? It wasn’t about “justice.” Jacob Blake was a dangerous criminal armed with a knife, and the officer who shot him did nothing wrong.

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Category: Crime, Racism, Texas

In The Mailbox: 04.18.25

Posted on | April 19, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.18.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

…and [He] cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
This was more than the centurion could stand. He snatched the pilum from Balba’s hand and drove it with all his strength into the rabbi’s heart. Then he pulled it out, but all that came from the terrible wound he had made was a little blood and water. He knew at once that the rabbi was already dead and his gift of death, which was all he had to give, had come too late.
At that, he wept.
– Leonard Wibberley, The Centurion