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CPAC: Too Early to Think About 2026?

Posted on | February 20, 2025 | Comments Off on CPAC: Too Early to Think About 2026?

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
So I get on the hotel elevator with a couple, and the guy’s wearing a red shirt emblazoned, “RON ELLER FOR CONGRESS.” Curiosity being a journalistic habit, I ask the guy, “Who’s Ron Eller?”

“I’m Ron Eller,” he says, and then proceeds to tell me that he ran for Congress last year in Mississippi against Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who was handpicked by Nancy Pelosi to chair the infamous J6 witch hunt committee. Mississippi has four congressional districts, three of which are held by Republicans with about 70% of the vote, whereas Thompson’s 2nd District, covering the Delta region stretching down the western side of the state, is rated D+11 by the Cook Political Report. Thompson’s been in Congress more than 30 years, and the last time any Republican challenger got as much as 40% of the vote against him was in 2004. There is no logical reason to think Thompson’s could be vulnerable in 2026, however . . .

Ron Eller got 38% of the vote last year despite being outspent more than 5-to-1 by the incumbent Democrat. The national Republican establishment didn’t lift a finger to help and wouldn’t even return Eller’s phone calls. Eller is a determined fellow who can and will give you his stump speech extempaneously, and he’s planning to challenge Thompson again in 2026. You got to like Eller’s bio — 20-year military veteran and small business owner, a deeply religious and patriotic man in a region where Bible-believing Christian faith is still nearly universal.

What could Ron Eller do in 2026, if we could mobilize grassroots MAGA activists to support his campaign? What would it mean, even in a D+11 district, to have major GOP fundraising efforts to back a candidate like Eller, the underdog against the 30-year incumbent lapdog of the left-wing Democratic Party establishment? So, after hearing Eller give his impromptu stump speech — I’m telling you, the guy’s a campaign machine — I said, “You remember the Tea Party year? Remember that campaign against Barney Frank?” Sean Bielat ring a bell?

That’s what we need — grassroots energy in a longshot campaign like the one that forced Barney Frank to spend half-a-million dollars of his own money to fend off the underdog challenger.

Even if you don’t win a campaign like that, the point is you force Democrats to play defense in otherwise “safe” districts, which limits how much money and effort they can put into fighting in the “purple” battleground races. Can MAGA generate the kind of grassroots energy in 2026 the Tea Party had in 2010? I don’t know. But what I do know is, I like this guy I met in the hotel elevator.

RON ELLER for U.S. CONGRESS



 

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CPAC: Today Is Vice President Day

Posted on | February 20, 2025 | Comments Off on CPAC: Today Is Vice President Day

‘Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Still don’t have my media credentials. The appointed time to pick those up was 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, so I showed up at the designated location about 4 o’clock and WHOA! A gigantic long line that wasn’t moving at all. So I figured there must be some kind of glitch in the system, and headed out to the lobby bar to mix and mingle, which is really the whole point of CPAC, right? Sure, the Vice President of the United States is giving a speech here at 10 a.m. Thursday, but you can see that on TV. What you can’t see on TV — and what most media coverage of CPAC ignores — is the continuous schmoozing that takes place all over this sprawling complex of hotels, restaurants and bars.

Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center

The Gaylord itself is massive, and the main ballroom — where people crowd in to hear the VIP speeches — is just one fraction of what goes on at CPAC. In the corridor outside the main ballroom is Radio Row and Media Row, with various talk show personalities, podcasters, etc., doing their thing live throughout the week. Each of these personalities has their own fandom, and CPAC attendees will crowd around to get a chance to see their favorites. And the various VIP speakers will go to Radio Row for interviews, so sometimes you’ll see a huge crowd form to watch some superstar in the MAGA galaxy do an interview. There’s also various panel discussions during the conference, which take place in meeting rooms scattered around the two upper floors of the convention center. Two floors below the main ballroom, there’s an exhibition hall where various policy institutes and activist organizations have their booths set up. Go down there and get a free canvas tote bag, and just fill it up with flyers, pamphlets, logo-embossed goodies, etc. My kids used to love it when I’d come home after CPAC and bring them a big bag of freebies.

Excuse the poor quality of the photo.

You may not recognize that guy on the right, but I did. Returning from dinner — fish and chips at the nearby Irish pub — I walked into the lobby and couldn’t believe my eyes. “Donut?” He turned when I called out to him, and sure enough it was “Donut Operator,” a/k/a Cody Garrett, an ex-cop whose YouTube has more than 5 million subscribers, which is about 10 times the size of the average hourly audience for CNN.

Donut Operator’s videos are mostly breakdowns of police body camera footage of officer-involved shootings, and I’m a stone junkie for that kind of stuff — car chases, shootings, suspects getting tased and pepper-sprayed, etc. Like, what part of “drop the knife” do I have to explain to these perps? Anyway, Donut is a bona fide celebrity in the 21st-century New Media universe, and it was kind of surprising to me that I was apparently the only one in the hotel lobby to recognize him, but maybe most CPAC attendees aren’t as into live police action as I am.

Erik Svane and me.

Speaking of action, the real action at CPAC is always in the lobby bar, a/k/a The Belvedere, which is where I bumped into my old friend Erik Svane who has been blogging at No Pasaran for more than 20 years. We first met at CPAC in either 2006 or 2007, during the G.W. Bush presidency, when the Global War on Terror was still the big thing for conservatives, and doesn’t that seem like a million years ago?

Erik and I talked about the old times, when “blogging” was still the New Thing, before social media, TikTok, YouTube and other such developments had revolutionized the information landscape. It was at CPAC 2007 (then held at the Omni Shoreham hotel in D.C.) that I first met Andrew Breitbart, and it’s stunning to think that it’s been nearly 13 years since Andrew died suddenly of a heart attack.

Well, I’m still alive, and still don’t have my media credential. Last night they were talking about opening up media registration at 5:30 this morning, so I woke up extra early and now must go over there and check in to see if I can get my badge. But failing all else, I’ll be in the Belvedere lounge. If you’re here at CPAC, just look for the fedora.



 

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In The Mailbox: 02.19.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | February 19, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.19.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Germany…Germany never changes.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Bubbles of Useless Research, also Don’t Hurt the Terrorist’s Feelings
EBL: The White Lotus Season 3, Elvis Presley in Paris, Wisconsin: Vote for Brad Schimel for Supreme Court, and Delta Toronto Crash
Twitchy: Chuck U. Schumer Claims Trump Is Crashing Planes To Enrich Billionaires, ABC News Headline Inspires Gutfeld’s Four-Step Summary Of Why Legacy Media Is Circling The Drain, and CNN Anchor Upset At DOGE Nuke Firings Was Unaware Sam Brinton Stole Women’s Luggage At Airports
Louder With Crowder: Trevor Noah makes shocking declaration that maybe segregation was a good thing after all, also, The new cringe leftist protest anthem dropped, this one squeals about “moving forward” from Trump and Elon
Vox Popoli: Nobody Asked You, The 7-Year Honeypot, Boomers Never, Ever, Learn, State Implies Support for Independence, and Cold Water
Bugscuffle Gazette: Lessons learned
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Crashing Of The Ice
Jim McCoy: A Brief Interminable Peace
Upstream Reviews: Escape From The Future

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CDR Salamander: So, About VP Vance’s Speech
Don Surber: AP’s silly gulf war
STUMP: Visualization of Social Security Fraud(?)

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‘Ziz’ Misgendered and Other Highlights of Tuesday’s Court Hearing for Cult Suspects

Posted on | February 19, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘Ziz’ Misgendered and Other Highlights of Tuesday’s Court Hearing for Cult Suspects

Left to right: Jack LaSota, Michelle Zajko, Daniel Blank

Rebecca Francoeur-Breeden is an attorney with the public defender’s office in Allegany County, Maryland, who probably never expected she’d be representing three members of a nationally notorious Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult, but who can predict such things?

So we’re all sitting there in District Court in Cumberland — me and about a half-dozen other reporters — listening as Judge Erich Bean conducts bail hearings by teleconference, which we can’t see, and the audio quality wasn’t ideal, either. The cases were called in alphabetical order by surname, and our three suspects spanned the entire range, Daniel Blank being the first case called and Michelle Zajko being the last, with reputed cult leader Jack “Ziz” LaSota in the middle. Interspersed between these three cases were several other strictly local crimes — child abuse, robbery, assault, drug possession, etc. — so the hearing that started at 11 a.m. went until 12:30 p.m. Because the “Zizian” cult is linked to no fewer than six homicides, including a Border Patrol agent who died in a January 20 shootout with two cultists, it must have been obvious to Ms. Francoeur-Breeden that her clients were going to be denied bail, but she was nonetheless under a professional obligation to try and present them in the most favorable light. This was probably why she made a point to list their academic credentials — each of them she described as “brilliant,” reciting their degrees and other accomplishments.

“Ziz” LaSota identifies as a transgender woman, despite being a male named Jack, and Judge Bean therefore referred to him as “she,” “her,” “ma’am,” and so forth. And there was a slightly comic moment when Ms. Francoeur-Breeden, doing her bit to hype up her genius clients, said of LaSota: “This is a brilliant young man — er, woman.”

This is not trivial, as I explained last month:

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).

Yudkowsky and Salamon are associated with what is called the “Rationalist” movement, which is very big among Silicon Valley tech types involved with artificial intelligence (AI). After graduating magna cum laude in computer engineering from the Fairbanks campus of the University of Alaska, LaSota moved to the San Francisco Bay area trying to find a spot on the fast track to tech success, and being accepted in MIRI/CFAR “Ratlionalist” circles was apparently part of that ambition. LaSota believed that he was blackballed by Salamon, accusing her of “transphobia,” and that was the motive for a 2019 protest where LaSota and three comrades showed up at a CFAR event dressed in “Sith” robes and wearing Guy Fawkes masks, and ended up getting arrested. Since that first arrest, the cult has been linked to at least six violent deaths:

Left to right: Amir “Emma” Borhanian, Rita and Richard Zajko

  • Amir “Emma” Borhanian — Cult member shot to death on November 15, 2022, by Curtis Lind, who was defending himself after being attacked by Borhanian and others. Lind had rented space on his property in Vallejo, California, to the “Zizians,” who were living in vans and box trucks. They were months behind on rent and, with Lind preparing to evict them, he was “allegedly impaled with a sword and blinded in one eye” during the attempted murder by the Zizians.
  • Rita and Richard Zajko — Parents of cult member Michelle Zajko, murdered on New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2022/January 1, 2023) in their Pennsylvania home. Michelle Zajko has been described as a “person of interest” in her parents’ deaths.
  • Curtis Lind — Murdered in California on January 17, 2025. Cult member Maximilian Snyder is charged with the murder. It is believed that Lind was killed to prevent him from testifying against two surviving cult members who were charged in the November 2022 attack.
  • David “Chris” Maland — U.S. Border Patrol agent shot to death in Vermont while making a traffic stop that turned into a shootout on January 20, 2025.
  • Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt — Cult member from Germany, killed during the same Vermont shootout in which Maland died. Bauckholt’s accomplice, Teresa Youngblut, had taken out a marriage license with Snyder (the suspect in Lind’s murder). Youngblut survived the shootout and is now in federal custody.

Left to right: Curtis Lind, David “Chris” Maland, Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt

Despite whatever jokes you might want to make about the “Zizians,” you see that they are quite deadly. And also pathetic. Sitting in the courtroom Tuesday, we heard Daniel Blank’s squeaky voice blabbering incomprensibly, then Ms. Francoeur-Breeden mentioned that Blank has mental health issues. She said Blank’s stepfather, who was willing to help Blank get some kind of local residence if he could be released, had flown in from California and was present in the courtroom. Judge Bean asked the stepfather to stand up and address the bench. He was a gray-haired man in a brown overcoat, obviously distraught, and said he would do whatever he could to help his stepson. Daniel Blank reportedly has dyslexia and is somewhere on the “spectrum” of autism. Yet, as Ms. Francoeur-Breeden told the court, he was unquestionably “brilliant”:

Daniel Blank was born in Berkeley, California and always excelled in school, earning straight A’s and praise from his teachers, his mother Nadia Blank told Open Vallejo. He competed on a science bowl team throughout middle and high school and was fluent in three languages, she said.
Blank, who became vegan in college, graduated a semester early from the University of California, Berkeley with a double major in bioengineering and computer science, according to a resume posted on his LinkedIn profile. As an undergraduate, he conducted research for two Berkeley professors and interned at Oracle and Daphnia Labs.
Blank’s mother said he accepted a high-paying corporate offer in Oakland following graduation.

Blank disappeared in 2022, and seeing his stepfather in court was emotionally jarring. Being a father myself, what must it be like to have your “brilliant” stepson disappear, end up in some kind of weird cult, and get arrested in connection with a nationwide crime spree?

As Ms. Francoeur-Breeden said of all three of her clients, Blank has no prior criminal convictions, but like the other two, he was ordered held without bond because of the circumstances surrounding the case, and the fact that they’re all considered “extreme” flight risks. And this, despite the fact that all the charges against them in Maryland are misdemeanors, which in almost any other case would get them released on very low bails.

It was near the intersection of Piney Mountain Road and Coon Club Road in Frostburg, Maryland, that the three “Zizians” were apprehended Sunday afternoon, as detailed in the police report:

Not long after 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Maryland State Police, Allegany County Sheriff’s Office and Maryland Natural Resources Police responded to a property on Piney Mountain Road off Coon Club Road in Frostburg after a man called and reported that two white box trucks with chains on the tires were trespassing on his property.
The man informed police that he told the three people who were wearing all black that they were not allowed on his property. They asked him if they could camp there for one month.
The property owner told law enforcement that the three people appeared suspicious and he wanted them removed from his property, police reported.
When Master Trooper Brandon Jeffries approached the vehicles, he alleges he saw a man sitting in the passenger seat of one of the trucks and ordered him to show his hands. That’s when Blank stated that he had a learning disability and did not understand, police reported.
Then, Jeffries asserts, he saw someone wipe the window in the other truck because it had fogged up.
Police reported that they found two people in that truck who were wearing gun belts that contained ammunition.
Next, Jeffries ordered them to get out of the vehicle. Michelle Zajko, he claims, cried and pleaded with him not to kill her.
Jeffries alleges that he told Zajko and Jack LaSota about the complaint that they were trespassing. The two agreed to leave, police reported, but they then refused to show their IDs.
As Jeffries looked through the back door of the truck, he asserts, he spotted a rifle and a handgun.
The three refused to give their names, police reported. Law enforcement arrested Blank and LaSota.
Police then took Zajko to the ground after they claim she refused to put her hands behind her back. Officers reported that they found a loaded handgun in her waistband.
The FBI identified Blank, LaSota and Zajko after looking at pictures.

Kind of peeved that I didn’t obtain a copy of that report myself, as I’d asked about the availability of such documents at the court clerk’s office. Meanwhile, the Vermont Digger has an excellent report about the federal firearms charges filed against Zajko, who apparently provided false information on her federal forms when she purchased four pistols in Vermont in 2024. Authorities say Zajko supplied the guns used by Youngblut and Bauckholt in the shootout that killed Chris Maland, which is a much more serious thing than the misdemeanor charges in Maryland.

The next court appearance for the three suspects is March 24, which gives investigators five weeks to gather more evidence. So far as I know, the only Zizian cultist whose whereabouts are unknown now is Jasper “Gwen” Danielson, but I’m sure the FBI has alerted law enforcement nationwide to be on the lookout for him/“her.” Hope they’re all locked up a long time, because as I keep telling y’all, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

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The Future of Gaza is Neu Schwabenland

Posted on | February 19, 2025 | Comments Off on The Future of Gaza is Neu Schwabenland

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We interrupt your normal evening linkagery for an important post about the current geopolitical situation.
Your normal linkagery will resume in the morning.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The future flag of the Gaza-territoriet i Antarktis.

Our God-Emperor, Donaldus Trump Magnus, has decreed the creation of Mar-A-Gaza on the currently rubble-strewn land called the Gaza Strip. To do this, however, we must remove the current inhabitants to a place where they can neither 1) interfere with the demolition and construction efforts nor 2) kill Jews. The problem here is obvious. None of Israel’s Arab neighbors want any part of having the Gazans on their land, not even temporarily, and for good reason. Everywhere the Palestinian “refugees” have gone, they have caused trouble and attempted to overthrow the local governments, and so neither Egypt, Jordan, nor Lebanon want them as guests.

It has been suggested that the Gazans be deported to Greenland. Aside from immediately being a provocation to war with Denmark, from whom we are trying to buy the place, it would needlessly antagonize the Inuit, who have done nothing to deserve this sort of neighbor being inflicted on them. It has also been suggested that they be deported to Russia. Leaving aside for the moment how Russians feel about most Arabs, does anyone doubt that President Putin would genocide the lot of them if they looked at him sideways? Or worse yet, use them as meatcubes in the ongoing Ukraine war? Let’s not tempt the man.

No, the real solution is one that requires Norway to get off its oily butt and actually contribute something to the cause of world peace besides empty words. There is a section of Antarctic coast formerly called New Swabia, or Neu Schwabenland in the original German, which was briefly claimed by the Third Reich after the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39. World events being what they were, the German claims lapsed and were passed to Norway. This is the ideal place to dump all the obstreperous Gazans and their death cult. There is nobody around but a handful of Indian and Russian scientists hundreds of miles away in the Schirmacher Oasis, leopard seals, and penguins. UNRWA can teach Gazans how to build igloos and provide them with small wooden boats and harpoons with which to hunt seals and (maybe) whales, and the Norwegians can maintain a blockade of the coast to prevent any Gazans from leaving.

Harsh? Perhaps, but what have the inhabitants of Gaza done to deserve better? Why should the peaceful Arabs of Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon be saddled with the duty of housing these genocidal nutbags? No, let us install them in a land where they can harm nobody but themselves, until such time as they decide to start acting like peaceful, productive human beings again. Your move, Norway.

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Bail Hearing Today for Cult Suspects UPDATE: Judge Orders All Three ‘Extremists’ Held Without Bond

Posted on | February 18, 2025 | Comments Off on Bail Hearing Today for Cult Suspects UPDATE: Judge Orders All Three ‘Extremists’ Held Without Bond

CUMBERLAND, Maryland
The first court appearance for Jack LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank — the leader and two members of what the Associated Press has politely called a “cultlike group” — starts at 11 a.m. ET. Drove 70 miles to cover this hearing, and I’ve got about a five-block walk to the courthouse from the Undisclosed Location where I’ve set up my laptop, so this initial report will necessarily be brief. Since their arrest on Sunday, the three suspects have been housed at the Allegany County Detention Center, about four miles away, and I expect the prisoner transport van to arrive at the courthouse about 15 minutes before the hearing, so that maybe I can get pictures of them. So now I’ve got to walk in the windy cold.

UPDATE: The three suspects appeared via teleconference, not appearing in the court, and all were represented by a public defender. The prosecuting attorney, James Elliott, described each defendant as being associated with an “extremist group known as the Zizians,” which may be the first time this has been stated as a matter of fact in a court proceeding. Judge Erich Bean, citing the “very concerning” nature of the charges, the ongoing federal investigation, and the fact that none of the suspects were local residents, ordered all three held without bond.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE III: Among other things we learned in today’s hearing, we now know how the arrest went down Sunday. The three suspects were camped in two box trucks on private property on Piney Mountain Road in Frostburg, about nine miles west of Cumberland. The property owner discovered their presence and called the cops.

Sheriff’s deputies, Department of Natural Resources police and Maryland State Police responded. All three suspects refused to provide identifying information, and thus were charged with “obstructing and hindering” law enforcement. Zajko had a pistol in her possession, and another pistol was found in the box truck where LaSota was hiding. Zajko’s pistol, a Sig Sauer 9mm, was one of four she purchased in Vermont. Two of those pistols were in possession of Teresa Youngblut and Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt when they got into their deadly shootout January 20 in Vermont. One of the two box trucks the three suspects had in Frostburg was registered in Youngblut’s name. So the connection to the Vermont shooting was pretty cut-and-dried as a matter of evidence.

UPDATE IV: In the comments, Ms. EBL remarks, “I wonder how good the vegan food is in jail.” Funny you should mention that. Although all three of these Zizians are radical vegans, Jack LaSota was the only one to complain about the jailhouse menu, claiming to be near “starvation” and suffering from “delirium” as a result. Meanwhile, I’ve been blogging from the Corner Tavern & Cafe here on Centre Street, where the food is tasty.

I recommend the Roast Beef Panini.

Unfortunately, I’ll have to be leaving these cozy confines shortly, as I’m driving my wife’s car and she needs it back before 3 o’clock. I’ve got three or four pages of notes from the hearing today, which was also attended by reporters from the Associated Press, Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. So I’ll be able to put together a much more complete story once I get back to the house. There’s only time now for me to remind readers that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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In The Mailbox: 02.17.25

Posted on | February 18, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.17.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Spring Based Book Sale continues! Over 200 books for free or just 99 cents!
L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright has a Kickstarter: The Art & Craft Of Writing Romance. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Ending soon, God willing.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: If You’ve Never Dropped A Key In The Shredder
357 Magnum: Tell Me How Worried You Are About Incriminating Data on Your PC
Director Blue: Top 20 Deep State Revelations From Mike Benz
EBL: Every President’s Favorite Food During Their Presidency, Margaret Brennan thinks the Nazis weaponized “free speech”, The Substance, Hook Up Culture Depression, and USA vs. Canada: 3 Fights in the first 9 Seconds
Twitchy: We’ll leave the light on for you, National Councilor Wants To Block X In Switzerland As A “Threat To Democracy”, and “Conservative” Voter Wants To Make Republicans Republicans Again – Like McCain & Romney
Louder With Crowder: George Washington, Our First President | 3 in 3 Special, Alleged “presidential historian” wants to cancel President’s Day because of certain presidents (cough TRUMP cough), and Texas Church Invites Drag Queen To Perform Who Then Threatens Trump Supporters
Vox Popoli: The Sheep Bare Their Cud-Chewers, The Importance of Knowledge, He Doesn’t Care, Margaret, Kiev Doesn’t Count Either, and Vaccines are the Cause of Autism
Toni Airaksinen: Students Call On Bowdoin College to Drop Charges Against Students Suspended For “Disruptive” Palestine Protest
Upstream Reviews: Beyond The Blood Veil
Hans Schantz: The Rise Of The Antibiotic-Resistant Creator
Bugscuffle Gazette: Fencon XX

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American Conservative: Invite Canada’s Conservatives to Join America
American Greatness: Another U.S. Prisoner Released From Russia Ahead of Ukraine Talks in Saudi Arabia, also, The Realignment of Unions
American Thinker: Democrats Prepare for the Big House
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: DOGE vs. Bureaucracy, NYSE Chicago Moving To Dallas, and DOGE Vs. The Vampire Menace
Behind The Black: Starlink Falcon 9 launch sets new reuse record for first stage, Texas commission rejects anti-SpaceX calls to deny company its Starship deluge water permit, Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit, targets March 2, 2025 for landing, Glacial material even in Mars’ Death Valley, and With CBS helping him, under no condition should Trump settle his $10 billion lawsuit against the network
Cafe Hayek: An Open Letter to Some Correspondents
CDR Salamander: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Got Bumped Ugly
Chicago Boyz: The Return of International Villainy, Trade, Tariffs, and Prices, continued, and Brennan, JD Vance, and the Spirit of 1776
Da Tech Guy: Five Frozen Thoughts Under the Fedora 
Dana Loesch: The Left Blames Nazis & The Holocaust On Free Speech
Don Surber: Trump shares the spotlight
First Street Journal: What a great plan!
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Eure-et-Loir, “Everything That is Written in the Qur’an, I Stand Behind It”, Knife Jihad in Villach, “Mr. Sánchez, You Do Not Defend the Interests of the Spaniards”, and One Deported, a Hundred Brought In: What Could Go Wrong?
The Geller Report: Social Security Paying Benefits to a Mind Blowing 8,952,476 People Aged 110 to 369 Years Old
Glenn Reynolds: Abolishing The Income Tax
Hollywood In Toto: How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Betrayed Its Legacy (and Us), Al Franken Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About ‘SNL’, Why Vince Gilligan’s Anti-Trump Rant Got One Thing Right, The Monkey Delivers Enormous Blast of Outrageous Kills, and Clooney’s Truth-Telling Play Arrives at Terrible Time
The Lid: Internet Searches Show that Deep State Democrats are Desperate to Hide their Crimes
Legal Insurrection: Dem Political Resistance to Trump 2.0 Focused On Fighting Highly-Popular Policies, Activists at Indiana U. Protest Trump’s ‘Extreme Brutality’ Against Illegal Aliens, Ireland: Fungus Turns Cave Spiders Into Zombies, In Lebanon, IDF Strike Eliminates Top Hamas Operative Planning Terror Attacks on Israelis Abroad, and Dear DOGE – Why Is The U.S. Government Funding “Media Literacy” Informers And Indoctrination?
Nebraska Energy Observer: There’s something I want to share, Vox Populi. Vox Dei, and Running in Fear from Your Own People
Outkick: MLB Hall of Famer Wade Boggs Rings the Bell, Posts Big Win Over Cancer, LA Burglars Are Now Targeting Soccer Stars, TNT NHL Analyst Rips NBA For Its Predictability, Mayhem Ensues As Colorado Parks Workers Capture Herd Of Bighorn Sheep In Massive Net, and Trump Aide Margo Martin Had A Big Valentine’s Day, Tiff Ann Devours A Cupcake & MSNBC Cancels President’s Day!
Power Line: The Brennan Syndrome, Word salad on Broadway, and Free Speech, German Style
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
Shark Tank: Haridopoulos Torches “Nonsensical” Democrats Opposing DOGE
Shot In The Dark: Eras, also, Our Moronic Elites
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Opera! More Opera! Gorey Details!
This Ain’t Hell: Crash update, DeepSeek warning, European elites ‘horrified’ at how JD Vance spoke to them, David Hogg leverages DNC contact list to solicit money for his own PAC, and Let them eat cake!
Transterrestrial Musings: The AI Companies, NATO, Manifest Destiny On Mars, and Jimmy Carter
Victory Girls: Kaitlan Collins Is Not Very Good At Her Job, 60 Minutes Airs USAID Sob Fest, But There’s A Problem, and Happy Presidents Day – President Calvin Coolidge
Watts Up With That: London’s Blade Runners – Climate, Class War and the Corruption of Science, The Social Cost of Carbon: A Bureaucratic Boondoggle Exposed, and A simple way to save the grid from more wind and solar
The Federalist: Besides Bludgeoning The Constitution, The Judges Stopping DOGE Are Boosting Inflation, Democrats Keep Convincing Themselves Their Problem Is Podcasts, No, China Won’t Swoop Into The Void USAID Leaves Behind, The Atlantic Admits The Deep State Is A ‘Regime Change’, and Zeldin To Claw Back $20 Billion That Biden’s EPA Dumped Into Leftist ‘Climate’ Groups
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MUGSHOTS: Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, Daniel ‘Hastur’ Blank

Posted on | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on MUGSHOTS: Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, Daniel ‘Hastur’ Blank

Jack Amadeus LaSota, Inmate #57555

Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, Inmate #57552

Daniel Arthur Blank, Inmate #57553

All three suspects are currently inmates of the Allegany County Detention Center in Cumberland, Maryland, after being arrested Sunday by Maryland State Trooper Brandon Jeffries on charges that included trespassing, unlawful possession of a firearm, disorderly conduct and other misdemeanors. LaSota, known as “Ziz,” is the leader of what the Associated Press has politely called a “cultlike group,” of which Zajko and Blank are members — allegedly, I hasten to add, for the sake of libel law.

No fewer than six people have been killed in connection to this “cultlike group,” with the victims including two cult members, as well as the parents of Zajko and a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The fact that these radical vegan cultists were arrested about an hour’s drive away from my house led my brother to jokingly suggest that they were on their way to kill me, so I’m grateful to Trooper Jeffries for apprehending them.

Anyway, they’ll be in District Court in Cumberland on Tuesday morning, and I plan to be there. Meanwhile . . .

VIDEO: My interview with Andy Ngo, the first to cover Bay Area Trans Murder Cult by Ann Coulter

Andy Ngo on the transgender cult accused of multiple murders

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Ann Coulter interviewed Andy Ngo, who was way ahead of the mainstream media in covering the story of the “Zizian” cult, and deserves full credit for his work, which I have used extensively, as have a lot of other media types who won’t acknowledge the debt they owe to Andy. He’s persona non grata to the mainstream media.

Speaking of acknowledging sources, a lot of credit goes to Jessica Taylor, who was personally acquainted with LaSota, and also acquainted with Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt, who died in the January 20 shootout with the Border Patrol agent in Vermont. The fact that Taylor is willing to talk to any reporter interested in the story (including Andy Ngo and me) is remarkable, given the existing climate of political division.

Yeah, shout-out to the Kiwi Farmers. Say what you want about them, but they can be a valuable resource on a crazy story like this.



 

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