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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.
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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

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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

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
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
Mark Steyn: Fundamental Things, Try That in a Small Town: The Last Picture Show, Come Rain or Come Shine, Rush: Four Years On, and Happy Valensteyn’s Day!

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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

Read on Substack

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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BREAKING: Cult Leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota and Michelle Zajko Arrested in Maryland UPDATE: Third Suspect Also Captured

Posted on | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on BREAKING: Cult Leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota and Michelle Zajko Arrested in Maryland UPDATE: Third Suspect Also Captured

Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota (left); Michelle Zajko (right)

Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult members now behind bars:

Two individuals affiliated with the Zizians, a fringe movement with ties to Vallejo that is allegedly linked to killings in several states, were arrested Sunday evening in Allegany County, Maryland, according to county records.
Michelle Jacqueline Zajko and Jack Amadeus LaSota — also known as “Ziz,” according to media reports — were arrested and charged with several misdemeanors, according to Maryland court records.
Both were charged with misdemeanor firearm possession charges, trespassing on private property and “obstructing & hindering” a police officer, according to court records. Zajko also faces an additional charge of resisting or interfering with arrest.
Detailed information about the arrests and charges was not immediately available early Monday afternoon.
Maryland State Police officer Brandon Jeffries, who is based in Cumberland, Maryland, carried out both arrests, according to county records. Zajko was booked into the Allegany County Detention Center at 6:12 p.m. Sunday, while LaSota was booked at 7:40 p.m.
Lt. Elizabeth Shoemake, the director of operations at the Allegany County Detention Center, confirmed that LaSota and Zajko are currently detained at the facility.
Shoemake said she could not comment on the circumstances of the arrests, but she said that the two were not arrested based on a warrant, but rather “on-site activity.”
Both Zajko and LaSota have bail review hearings scheduled for tomorrow.

That’s about an hour’s drive west of here.

UPDATE: These dangerous criminals are being held in Cumberland, Maryland, and I don’t know what time the court hearing is on Tuesday, but it’s definitely within driving distance.

UPDATE II: Another known associate of the Zizian cult, Daniel Blank, is also under arrest in Allegany County:

UPDATE III: Andy Ngo, who was the first journalist to report on the Zizian cult, is understandably pleased by these arrests:

UPDATE IV: Andy Ngo points out that Daniel Blank had been considered a missing person since December 2022, and there were rumors that Blank was dead “but that was another lie.”

‘Zizian’ cult member Daniel Blank

To explain Daniel Blank’s role in the cult’s crime spree, recall that Michelle Zajko’s elderly parents were murdered on New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2022, or January 1, 2023). From NBC News:

Ten days after the Zajkos’ bodies were discovered, Pennsylvania state troopers showed up to a Candlewood Suites near the Philadelphia airport with a warrant to search the room and car of the dead couple’s daughter, Michelle Zajko. One of the troopers later testified in court that they were looking for the handgun believed to have been used in the killings.
The troopers knocked on Zajko’s hotel room door and took her into custody. As they were leading her out of the hotel, she called out to staff at the front desk and told them to tell a Daniel Blank that she was being detained, a trooper, Matthew Gibson, said in court, according to a transcript obtained by NBC News.
The troopers knew Blank. They had previously interviewed him in connection with the double homicide, Gibson later testified.
The troopers made their way to Blank’s room and banged on the door. Blank answered but refused to open it, Gibson said, prompting the troopers to return to their barracks to seek a search warrant for his hotel room.
When they returned with the warrant, no one responded to an order to open the door. So the troopers forced it open and found Blank and a second person in the bathroom, Gibson said in court.
The troopers arrested Blank and marched him out of the room. Things did not go as smoothly with the second person, identified in court papers as LaSota, the person also known as Ziz.
Troopers issued commands to LaSota, but LaSota “did not do anything,” Gibson later testified, according to a transcript obtained by NBC News.“He had his eyes closed. He would not speak,” Gibson added. “He was just laying almost unconscious as if he was dead on the ground.”
LaSota was ultimately charged with obstructing the investigation and disorderly conduct, according to a criminal complaint.

This ties Blank directly to both LaSota and Zajko. All three of them are likely “persons of interest” in the murder of Zajko’s parents.

UPDATE V: According to CNN, a hearing for the suspects “is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Allegany District Court,” which is 73 miles from here — a little over an hour drive, and I feel like I must be there for the hearing, which means that it’s time once again to remind readers that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal

Posted on | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal

Six years ago (“The Media’s ‘Climate of Hate’ Myth,” American Spectator, Jan. 18, 2019), I examined the political forces behind allegations of an “epidemic” of violence against transgender people. The mainstream media were complicit in a propaganda campaign to convince the public that right-wing “hate” was responsible for this phenomenon. The propaganda campaign involved a running total of how many transgender people had been “murdered” during the current calender year, so that a news report about a recent death could include the fact that the victim was 14th (or 27th or whatever) such person killed in the U.S. that year.

Of course, the activists compiling those lists of transgender victims were not scrupulous about who got included in their totals — they wanted a big number to promote the EPIDEMIC OF HATE narrative, and relied upon the gullibility of journalists not to examine the details of these deaths on a case-by-case basis. Any reasonably curious person could do some basic research and realize that the “epidemic” narrative was bogus. The number of transgender victims whose deaths could be clearly attributed to “transphobia” was so close to zero as to be statistically neglible, a drop in the bucket in a nation where there are about 20,000 homicides a year. Let us stipulate that a drag queen who gets shot during an argument outside a bar at 3 a.m. may, in some vague way, be a victim of “transphobia,” but does it make sense to depict such an incident as evidence of a “Climate of Hate”? And yet this was the substance of the alleged “epidemic” of anti-transgender violence that the media kept hyping up during Donald Trump’s first term. Anyway . . .

As noted in an update on my most recent post about the “Zizian” radical vegan transgender death cult, there is now a Kiwi Farms thread about the Zizian cult, which includes a screenshot from the Instagram account of Robyne Plaga, mother of Amir “Emma” Borhanian:

Borhanian’s mother described him/“her” as being an “advocate for justice, animal and human rights activist” who “passed away Sunday, November 13, 2022, in Vallejo, California,” a description that omits some rather crucial details. Borhanian was shot by Curtis Lind, who fired his pistol in self-defense after being nearly murdered in an attack in which he was “impaled with a sword and blinded in one eye.” Borhanian and her fellow Zizian cultists had been staying on Lind’s property, but stopped paying rent during the COVID-19 lockdown, when there was a moratorium on evictions. After the pandemic ended and the moratorium was lifted, Lind wanted the Zizians to pay the rent they owed him. The Zizians refused to pay, and Lind was planning to have the sheriff evict them, so they concocted a scheme to murder him, a plot that included plans to dismember his corpse and dissolve it in vats of acid.

As noted on the Kiwi Farms thread, Borhanian also got mentioned in a #SayTheirNames tribute by the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus on “Transgender Day of Remembrance” in 2023. Why would a bunch of legislators in Texas be paying tribute to someone from North Carolina who died while committing a crime in California? I can’t explain this, and I’ll bet the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus can’t explain it either. Probably some junior legislative staffer had a connection to Borhanian via social media, so that name just got thrown on the list.

Borhanian also got listed in this “Remembering Our Dead” tribute page, as having been “one of two people shot during a property dispute,” which is rather euphemistic, all things considered. My point is that once any category of people are deemed Official Victims of Oppression, then everything about them gets filtered through the warped lenses of this victimhod narrative. Even when a transgender person gets killed while engaged in attempted murder, this does not diminish their status as an Official Victim of Oppression, which entitles them to obituary praise.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Casual

Posted on | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Casual

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Another fine lass thanks to Rule5Texan.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Joe Rogan Shreds The Dems, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Ashley St. Clair, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, “My Funny Valentine”, The Gorge, Vintage Valentine’s Day, My Fault: London, MAGA Karoline Leavitt & DOGE, Palentines or Galentines Day, Lady Jane, Big Balls & Media Triggering, The Winemaker, “Muleskinner”, Humane, Tom Robbins RIP, Eve Keneinan, Cheerleaders, and “La Ci Darem La Mano”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Rachel Cook, MDDNR Seeks Higher Fishing License Fees, Happy Belated Valentines Day!, Fish Pic Friday – Veronica Blaze, Quarter Life Crisis, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, MDDNR Set Sights on Blue Catfish, Trump Goes to the Super Bowl, FBI Outs ICE, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Super Bowl Prediction?, Palm Sunday and DOGE Has Big Balls, Trump Revokes Biden Security Clearance 

FLAPPR: How Abby Shapiro (And Porn) Saved My Marriage

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Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Gets Mainstream Media Coverage UPDATE: Finally, the KiwiFarms Thread

Posted on | February 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Gets Mainstream Media Coverage UPDATE: Finally, the KiwiFarms Thread

What’s with this “cultlike group” bullshit, AP? Like, you’re afraid they’re going to file a defamation suit if you call them a cult? As if these murderous weirdos — who are all either in police custody or fugitives from justice — have nothing better to do than to pursue tort cases in defense of their reputations? Bert the Samoan Lawyer has assured me that I can safely call the followers of Jack “Ziz” LaSota a radical vegan transgender death cult without fear of civil liability, because truth is always an ironclad defense against any libel claim.

Anyway, about five hours after the Associated Press published its story about the so-called “Zizians,” CBS News did its own summary:

In the wooded outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a perplexed landlord noticed odd sights at two of his rental properties.
Tenants wore long black coats and parked box trucks outside the duplexes. They ran an electrical cord from one box truck into one of the condos and kept a stretcher inside another.
A neighbor remembers similarly dressed figures walking around at night holding hands. They never spoke a word.
By the time the FBI searched the property last week, one of the most recent tenants had been killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Vermont, and a second was under arrest. A third, a shadowy figure known online as “Ziz,” remains missing after authorities linked their cultlike group to six deaths in three states. . . .
Associated Press interviews and a review of court records and online postings tell the story of how a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists, most of them in their 20s and 30s, met online, shared anarchist beliefs, and became increasingly violent. . . .
Jack LaSota moved to the San Francisco Bay area after earning a computer science degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2013 and interning at NASA, according to a profile on a hiring site for programmers, coders and other freelance workers. NASA officials did not respond to a request to confirm LaSota’s internship, but a Jack LaSota is listed on a website about past interns.
In 2016, she began publishing a dark and rambling blog under the name Ziz, describing her theory that the two hemispheres of the brain could hold separate values and genders and “often desire to kill each other.”
LaSota used she/her pronouns, and, in her writings, says she is a transgender woman. She railed against perceived enemies, including so-called rationalist groups, which operate mostly online and seek to understand human cognition through reason and knowledge. Some are concerned with the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
LaSota began promoting an extreme mix of rationalism, ethical veganism, anarchism and other value systems, said Jessica Taylor, an AI researcher who met LaSota both in person and online through the rationalist community and knew her as Ziz.
When LaSota left the rationalists behind, she took with her a group of “extremely vulnerable and isolated” followers, Anna Salamon, executive director of the Center for Applied Rationality, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Taylor said Ziz adherents use the rationalist ideology as a reason to commit violence. “Stuff like, thinking it’s reasonable to avoid paying rent and defend oneself from being evicted,” she said.

Well, you can read the whole thing, but you won’t learn much that I didn’t already report in my five blog posts on the topic, beginning January 27. Basically, three weeks after I start blogging about something, the mainstream catches up, and they don’t even hat-tip me (or Andy Ngo, who was the first to put this story together). The important thing, however, is that at least three members of the “Zizian” cult are fugitives at large, whereabouts unknown, considered armed and dangerous.

Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota (left); Jasper ‘Gwen’ Danielson (right)

If you should spot one of these dangerous weirdos, do not approach them. Do not ask what their pronouns are. Nor should you offer them a cheeseburger. Instead, contact law enforcement immediately.

Like I keep telling you: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

UPDATE: Did I say “crazy”?

In case you didn’t already know, Maximilian Snyder, 22, applied for a marriage license with Teresa Youngblut, 21, who is being held without bail in a Vermont jail for murdering a Border Patrol agent. Snyder, meanwhile, is being held without bail in California for murdering Curis Lind, who had been the landlord for the Zizians. Despite being an accused murderer, however, Snyder (a/k/a “Audere”) thinks the world needs to know his feelings about animal rights.

UPDATE II: NBC News has an excellent and very detailed story about the late Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt:

Ophelia Bauckholt was living her best life in spring 2023.
A math whiz from Germany, Bauckholt, then 26, was making more than a half-million dollars at a New York City trading firm and juggling a bustling social calendar. Her apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey, was the gathering place for her network of friends, most of whom were highly educated transgender women like her.
“She was the glue of our friend group,” Bauckholt’s roommate at the time, Astra Kolomatskaia, said. “She was living a very good life.”
But over the next few months, things turned dark. Bauckholt began to retreat from her friends and talk on the phone for long periods of time to people she wouldn’t identify. She started taking frequent weekend flights to places she wouldn’t talk about. And then, in November 2023, she hopped on a flight out of Newark Liberty International Airport and cut off all contact with her friends, leaving them with no idea where she had gone. . . .

Read the whole thing, which includes some extensive quotes from Anna Salamon about her experiences with “Ziz.” Meanwhile, a Vermont TV station had a nice five-minute summary of this cult crime spree:

 

UPDATE III: KiwiFarms thread about “Ziz.” I knew from the start that the KF crew would eventually be on this story, and they kind of took their sweet time about it, but they are nothing if not thorough.

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