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In The Mailbox: 01.30.25

Posted on | January 31, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 3D Printed Semi Automatic Pistols Are Everywhere, also Brett Cooper Takes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
EBL: BREAKING NEWS: Plane crash at Reagan National Airport, Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing for FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard DNI Confirmation Hearing, and The Couple Next Door
Twitchy: “Abortion Laws, Not Personal Ego Or Narcissism Are Why I’m Single Now”, Bernie Sanders Posts Sel-Own During RFK Jr. Questioning, and Texas Democrat Gets Major History Lesson After Dumping On Robert E. Lee
Louder With Crowder: Kash Patel’s clapback at Amy Klobuchar rant that sent her into a hysterical tailspin, Did RFK Jr pop a Zyn while being berated by shrill Democrat senators? Round 2! RFK Jr goes scorched Earth on Bernie Sanders being a sellout to Big Pharma, Why Trump is the most PRO-woman President ever, and Belligerent councilmember goes off on police officer after getting pulled over
Vox Popoli: Little Black House on the Prairie, Conspiracy Theory: Presidential Model, Peter Thiel Guts Baen Books, and Cathedra – One More Day
Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback Thursday
Cedar Sanderson: My Land
Jim McCoy: Rex Regis
Toni Airaksinen: Star of David – The Shocking History Of Judaism’s Preeminent Symbol

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: End the Aid Charade
American Greatness: President Trump Signs Executive Order That Would Enable Deportation of Anti-Semitic Rioters, Trump Blames Biden Regime’s DEI Policies For DC Plane Crash, Tulsi Gabbard: ‘I Have No Love For Assad or Any Dictator–I just hate al-Qaeda’, Daily Illegal Alien Encounters Plummet by 93% Under Trump, and Former New Jersey Senator Asks for Delay of Prison Sentence
American Thinker: Democrats for Infanticide
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Fort Worth ISD Has A “Literacy Crisis”
Behind The Black: Ariane-6 gets more launch contracts, Update on upcoming Starship/Superheavy test flights, Samples from the asteroid Bennu reshape entirely our understanding of the solar system’s early make-up, and A big crack on Mars
Cafe Hayek: Gramm’s and Summers’s Open Letter in Opposition to Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Unhinged Left Attacks Trump Over Plane Crash
Don Surber: Cry harder
First Street Journal: Our #FreedomOfSpeech is different from that of other countries, and we thank the Lord for that! also, President Trump is doing what the American people want him to do
Gates Of Vienna: Making Austria Less Attractive for Asylum Seekers, Islam Does Not Willingly Coexist With Other Religions, The Assassination of Salwan Momika, and Rasmus Paludan: “Islam Will Never Live in Harmony in Our Countries”
The Geller Report: George Soros-Owned Radio Station Doxes Undercover ICE Agents, also, Suspect Accused of Plot to Kill Trump Officials Is Transgender
Hollywood In Toto: Anthony Mackie Goes Full Rachel Zegler, Emilia Perez – 13 Nominations. No Oscar Bounce? Why Tyler Fischer Couldn’t Wait to Flee NYC, Cancel Reservations to See You’re Cordially Invited, and HUGE: ‘Gutfeld!’ Scores Massive Ratings in Trump 2.0
The Lid: JD Vance Says Biden Admin. Knew Exactly Where Criminal Illegals Were & Refused to Pick Them Up
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Reports First Outbreak of Rare Bird Flu Strain on California Duck Farm, Anti-Israel Campus Protesters Demand Special Privileges Then Play Victim, ‘Murderous’ Gaza Mob Jeers as Hamas Releases Three More Israeli Hostages, FAA: Reagan Airport Air Control Tower Staffing ‘Not Normal’ Night of Crash, and Patel Promises to Find Those in FBI Responsible for Targeting Parents at School Meetings
Nebraska Energy Observer: Feasting on their hatred
Outkick: Philadelphia Eagles Invite Survivor of New Orleans Terror Attack as Special Guest at Super Bowl, Denver Nuggets Coach Michael Malone Calls Out NBA For Considering Shortening Games, Utah Hockey Club Calls An Audible After First Night Of Having Fans Vote On Permanent Name, Why Are The San Diego Padres Looking To Trade Star Pitchers? and WNBA Star Angel Reese Gets Her Own McDonald’s Meal
Power Line: Dems down so low, Schumer’s Unintended Confession, and On Confirmations, the Rubber Hits the Road
Shark Tank: DeSantis Warns Potential 2026 Gubernatorial Candidates About Backing “Weak” Illegal Immigration Bill
Shot In The Dark: Bob Richardson, also, Rigged
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Good Policy Is Good Even If Coincidental: Affirmative Action; Ending DEI; Ending Non-Deportation Of Illegals
This Ain’t Hell: Beetlejuice report issued, Pelosi, Military Black Hawk collides with American Airlines jet midair, and Pete Hegseth pushes to make promotion color blind, based on merit
Victory Girls: Media And Left Sink To New Lows To Blame Trump For Air Collision
Watts Up With That: It’s Time To Purge The Climate Scam From The Federal Websites, Citigroup Claims “Trump Can’t Stop Energy Transition”, End Federally Funded “Net-Zero” Building Codes, and Trump Admin Moves To Toss Out Biden’s Fuel Economy Rules
The Federalist: It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power, Dems Worry Kash Patel Could Weaponize FBI Against Political Enemies Like They Did, 5 Military Officials Whose Damaging Left-Wing Antics Must Be Accounted For, Gabbard’s Senate Critics Are More Interested In Protecting America’s Spy Agencies Than Fixing Them, and Polls Show Majorities Of Americans Support Trump’s Mass Deportations
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Flood The Zone, Energy in the Executive, and Trump 2.0

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Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’

Posted on | January 30, 2025 | Comments Off on Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’

A “be-on-the-lookout” (BOLO) alert has been issued for Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, the 32-year-old “Zizian” who purchased the guns used in last week’s Vermont shootout that left a Border Patrol agent dead.

There have been several other developments in the radical vegan transgender death cult story, many of them covered in Andy Ngo’s exclusive story just published by the New York Post:

Killing of border patrol agent appears linked to ‘Zizian’ radical leftist trans cult

Well, we can forgive the New York Post editors for failing to get “vegan” in that headline, because what’s important is that this is the biggest media coverage so far to include the transgender aspect of the “Zizian” cult. This is not a trivial factor in their crime spree, which has already killed at least six people, including two members of the cult.

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). In a blog post, Ziz wrote:

A MIRI employee told me in a joint MIRICFAR staff meeting for AISFP [AI Summer Fellowship Program], that Anna said I should be disinvited, she had a bad feeling about me, when asked for details, saying I wore “black clothes, took supervillains as role models, and came up with dangerous plans.”

Andy Ngo perceives that the media are ignoring the transgender aspect of the “Zizian” cult because of political bias. My point is that transgenderism is fundamental to the whole thing. Were it not for Lasota/”Ziz” being transgender, and the accusation of transphobia against the CFAR director Anna Salamon, this bizarre splinter segment of the “rationalist” movement would not exist. A few excerpts from Andy’s article:

The murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused of killings across the country. . . .
Authorities now say the guns used by [Tersea “Milo”] Youngblut and [Felix “Ophelia”] Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender “geniuses” who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.”
Bauckholt was a biological male who identified as trans and used feminine pronouns. He was an award-winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany, who later graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Around 2021, he was hired as a quantitative trader at Tower Research Capital in New York. It is believed Baukholt was in the US on an H-1B visa. . . .
Youngblut is a biological female who identifies as trans and lists having neo-pronouns as “xe/xem/xyrs” on social media. Youngblut was a University of Washington student studying computer science. . . .
In November 2024, Youngblut filed a marriage application with a 22-year-old fellow Lakeside alumnus named Maximilian Bentley Snyder.
Last week, Snyder, an “any pronouns” computer science whiz from a wealthy Seattle family, was arrested in Vallejo, Calif., for the murder of an elderly key witness set to testify in an upcoming attempted murder trial against alleged members of the trans extremist group.
That group, the “Zizians,” are highly-educated trans vegan “rationalists” who hold fringe, esoteric ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights.
Their leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. He also used the name Andrea Phelps, and is accused of influencing followers to kill. LaSota’s archived prolific blog writings ramble about the use of violence and radical anarchist tactics to achieve various ends.
LaSota has a warrant for an arrest in Delaware County, Pa. after skipping out on court hearings on an open criminal case.
A source with knowledge says LaSota was living with Bauckholt and other members of the group in an AirBnb rental in Chapel Hill, N.C., since 2023.
A Jan. 27 motion by federal prosecutors to deny Youngblut bail strongly suggests links with the group.
“Her [Youngblut] associations with other individuals suspected of violent acts also warrants caution,” prosecutor Matthew Lasher wrote in a court filing.
“The individual who purchased the firearms the defendant and Bauckholt possessed on January 20, 2025, is a person of interest in a dual-homicide investigation in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.”
That person of interest is bioinformatics researcher Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, according to the ATF.

All of these “geniuses” were drawn into Ziz’s orbit because of his blogging about artificial intelligence (AI) and related topics. This includes Zajko, whose elderly parents were murdered at their Pennsylvania home in January 2023. At her blog, “Plum of Discord,” Zajko had written about suffering abusive treatment from her parents. Zajko also wrote a post, in February 2022, about being afraid that Ziz would murder her. At some point, Zajko purchased land in Vermont, not far from where the Border Patrol agent was shot. The Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union reports:

Police are searching for a 32-year-old woman suspected of purchasing the semiautomatic handguns used by two people involved in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent last week in northern Vermont. She is also a person of interest in the 2023 murder of her parents in Pennsylvania.
Michelle J. Zajko, who has ties to Vermont, Pennsylvania and Boston, is considered armed and dangerous and also adheres to an “anti-law enforcement ideology,” according to police records obtained by the Times Union. Police agencies in multiple states were told to be on the lookout for Zajko on Jan. 22, two days after 44-year-old Border Patrol Agent David Maland was gunned down during a traffic stop in Coventry, Vt., not far from the northern border.
A day after the fatal shooting, federally licensed gun dealers received a bulletin from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives urging them to contact that agency’s office in Vermont if they had information about any firearms that have been sold to Zajko.
A multi-state police bulletin issued last week indicates Zajko is a “person of interest in a double homicide that occurred in Pennsylvania in 2023” and said she may be driving a green 2013 Subaru Outback with an expired Vermont registration. . . .
Zajko’s ties to the Border Patrol agent’s death are referenced in court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Vermont. The records do not implicate her directly to that incident but allege — without identifying her by name — that she may have provided at least two semiautomatic handguns to the man and woman who were involved in the shooting. Those semiautomatic handguns, a .40-caliber and a .380-caliber, had allegedly been purchased by Zajko in February 2024 from a gun store in Mount Tabor, Vt. . . .
Around 11 p.m. on Jan. 14, Youngblut and Bauckholt checked in to the Newport City Inn and Suites in Newport, Vt. . . . only a few miles from the U.S-Canadian border. . . .
Public records indicate Zajko owns property about 10 minutes away from the inn in Derby. Addresses associated with Zajko also include a home in Orleans, about 20 minutes away.

There are layers and layers to this story. What is this “anti-law enforcement ideology” to which Zajko allegedly adheres? Is she also likely to die in a police shootout? And while we’re asking questions: Where is Jack “Ziz” Lasota now? As the purported mastermind behind all this violence, shouldn’t there be a “BOLO” for him, too?

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In The Mailbox: 01.29.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.29.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Blue Lights, Singapore Chinese New Year 2025 , ‘Courage is the key to life itself’, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Health and Human Services Hearing, and Former Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Gets 11 Years in Federal Prison
Twitchy: Bakari Sellers & JoJoFromJerz Rush To X, Blame Trump For DCA Crash,  Megyn Kelly Explains Why Fed-Up Voters Sent Trump Back To The White House, and Mass Criminal Illegal Alien Arrests Provide Shocking Visions Of A Do-Nothing Harris Presidency
Louder With Crowder: Elizabeth Warren has must-see meltdown when RFK Jr. calls her out for being a sellout to Big Pharma, Captain America actor backtracks from “anti-America” comments in record time (while a 2017 clip resurfaces), Trump’s Funding Freeze: Fact-Checking the Mainstream Media Lies, Bernie Sanders gets so unhinged he attacks RFK Jr over onesies, and Unbelievable! A GOP senator who is up for reelection is the one who tried to sabotage Pete Hegseth’s nomination at the last minute
Vox Popoli: Vaxx-Altered Behavior, Mailvox: A Tale of the Tubcuddler, Confirmed: Vaccination Causes Autism, Boxing Itself In, and Wruh-Wroh, Wrexham
Bugscuffle Gazette: Because I’m Dumb
Toni Airaksinen: Two High School Coaches Fired For Antisemitism, Pro-Hamas Flags In Denver
Ammo.com: Stray Bullet Statistics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Tulsi Gabbard I Know Is Perfect for DNI, also, Zelensky Demands an American Garrison
American Greatness: Mark Milley Sees Security Clearance Revoked, Security Detail Removed, CDC Employees Threaten to Quit if RFK Jr. Is Confirmed as HHS Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. Stands Tall Amid Unhinged Democrat Attacks During Senate Confirmation Hearing, Trump Signs Executive Order Instructing DHS and Defense Dept. to Prepare Gitmo For High-Priority Criminal Illegals, and Mr. Biden’s Pardons: ‘Do Unto Others Then Split!’
American Thinker: America’s Un-American Culture Of Disabled Workers
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Alaska Energy News, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Texas Congressional Delegation And Their Committee Assignments, Jeremiad To The Democrats The First: Abandon The Fucking Idiot Transsexual Woke Bullshit, Disney’s Pipeline Still Clogged With Woke, Trump Deals Two Blows to Woknesss, and How Bulletproof Is The Cybertruck?
Behind The Black: India launches GPS-type satellite, Blue Ghost makes second orbital burn, setting up transfer from Earth to lunar orbit, 200-foot-wide asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, Apple joins T-Mobile’s project to use Starlink satellites as orbiting cell towers, and Musk posts a silly tweet saying Trump wants SpaceX to rescue the Starliner astronauts and the press goes stupid again
Cafe Hayek: “Buy American” Rules Hurt Americans, Trump Doesn’t Understand Trade, and Trump Has No Comparative Advantage at Understanding Trade
CDR Salamander: So, We’re Back To Paying Tribute?
Chicago Boyz: Wes Isn’t Moore, The Matter of Milley, and Considering Media Teflon
Da Tech Guy: Trump as Decatur And Columbia as Algiers or FAFO
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Spending Freeze Frozen Then Rescinded, also, Quick Programming Note
Don Surber: How conservatives own the media
First Street Journal: The Patriot Front March for Life, President Trump finally catches up to what we’ve been saying for years, and Jenice Armstrong is all kind of sadz
Gates Of Vienna: Happy Vax: Testicles With No Sperm, Just Spike Protein, Faithful Muslims Abuse Women Because the Quran Tells Them To, Deep Fakery, An Entry Ban? and What Actions Will the Government of Mexico Take?
The Geller Report: TRUMP Admin Offers 2 Million Federal Employees a Buyout to Resign, “Fork In the Road”, also, President Trump Sending Worst, Most Dangerous Illegals to GITMO
Hollywood In Toto: Jewel Begs Fans to Forgive Her for Trump Inauguration Gig, The Big, Unsettling Picture Behind Shen Yun, Box Office Poison Drills Down on Movie Mega-Bombs, The Real Reason Stars Are Suddenly Targeting Trump, and Comedian Roasts Selena Gomez’s Crying Video
The Lid: Trump Cancels the $50Million Biden was Sending to Gaza for ‘Condoms’ (But Really Bomb Supplies)
Legal Insurrection: Caroline Kennedy Tries to Sabotage RFK Jr’s HHS Nomination, CalExit May Be on the Ballot in 2028, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Proposes Measure to Leave World Health Organization, Michigan State U. Dismisses Plagiarism Allegations Against Dean of College of Education, and Israel Set to Ban Hamas-Infested UN agency UNRWA
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, What a week, Stuff happens, and Liz Gets It
Outkick: Sen. Ted Cruz Is Looking To Pass Federal Law That Would Standardize NIL Rules, Mike Tyson Breaks Silence Months After Explosive Netflix Fight with Jake Paul, Julian Edelman Says Taylor Swift Is Good For The NFL, Unhinged Pistons Big Man Isaiah Stewart Shoves Player, Gets Ejected, Then Taunts With Finger Guns, and Former NFL Head Of Officiating Dean Blandino Says NFL Doesn’t Favor Kansas City Chiefs
Power Line: A Man of His Word, A Star Is Born, and Who’s Killing Whom?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Digital Kristallnacht
Shark Tank: Miami Mayor Cava Highlights Economic Accomplishments Of First Term
Shot In The Dark: Let’s Be Frank, Up There With “I Never Saw CD8 Going Republican”, Mission For Today, A Cold Chicago Part II, This Is Your Federal Government At Work, A Cold Chicago Part I, and Enabling The Addict
The Political Hat: How Woke Works
This Ain’t Hell: President Trump ordering 30,000-person facility in Guantánamo for illegal aliens, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order prioritizing military excellence and readiness, Milley’s Retirement Plans, Sweden Seizes Suspect Ship, and Gunfire exchange between Border Patrol and suspected cartel members
Transterrestrial Musings: Trump’s Golden Age, also, Off The Air
Victory Girls: Trump: The Government Will Not Fund Genital Mutilation Of Minors, also, Kennedy Hearing – Democrat Arseholes Show Their Backsides
Watts Up With That: Projected Increase in Heat-Related Deaths in Europe: Misleading Models and Statistical Fearmongering, Why Trump Needed to Declare a National Energy Emergency, and Trump Dumps the Paris Agreement: Is it a Big Deal?
The Federalist: Teachers Unions Conspire To Evade Trump’s Border Solutions With ‘ICE-Free Safe Zones’, Leftist Smear Group Attacking RFK Jr. Led By ‘Queer Trans Activist,’ Funded By PornHub’s Parent Company, New York Magazine Crops Out Truth With Young Conservative Hit Piece, Dem Senators Side With Big Pharma Over Kennedy’s Bipartisan MAHA Message, and Is Penny Schwinn A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing For The Education Department?
Mark Steyn: Clean Out Your Desk: Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, Old School Ties, O Sole Mio, Jews You Can Use, and Aiding and Abetting




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In The Mailbox: 01.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 29, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Shit just got real.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People You Know Can Be a Threat
EBL: The Newsreader, Jim Acosta Quitting CNN, Kazoo Day, Prime Target, and 28 January 1986 : USS Challenger
Twitchy: Megan Kelly In The Background Was All Of Us When Bernie Sanders Asked RFK Jr. To Condemn Onesies, Former Kenyan Prez DRAGS Nations Mad About Foreign Aid Cuts, and If The Left’s Triggered Now, Wait Until They See This New Poll On Dem vs. GOP Approval
Louder With Crowder: “Captain America” actor claims Captain America shouldn’t represent…America, Reporter shares shocking IMMEDIATE effect Donald Trump has had on the border crisis, Here’s how Donald Trump CAN abolish America’s income tax, The Trump Admin held their first press briefing where Karoline Leavitt unleashed berserker fury on the MSM, and Morbidly Obese Influencer Files Lawsuit Against Lyft After Driver Refuses Services
Vox Popoli: Ukraine Peace Proposal, NFL Scripting Confirmed, Dark Horse Drops Gaiman, Where the Men Are, and Why the Scripting Will Continue
Cedar Sanderson: Home Library
Bugscuffle Gazette: Poetry Tuesday
Stoic Observations: The Other Black Captain America
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: SARs & Debanking

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Cable Wars Continue
Don Surber: California EPA is killing the state
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: SALT Watch – Is Trump Onboard With Removing The Cap?

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Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update

Posted on | January 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update

Y’all didn’t think I was going to let this story go with just one blog post, did you? How many times in my career am I going to get the chance to use “Vegan Transgender Death Cult” in a headline? In for a dime, in for a dollar — you’re gonna get in-depth coverage, my friends.

The “Zizian” plot continues to become more complicated:

A man accused of murder in California appears to have sought a marriage license with a woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
The woman, Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Washington state, faces two weapons charges in connection with the Jan. 20 death of 44-year-old Border Patrol Agent David Maland.
A prosecution motion seeking Youngblut’s detention Monday says she was in frequent contact with someone who is a person of interest in a homicide investigation in Vallejo, California.
Court records show that Maximilian Snyder, 22, was arrested by Vallejo police on Friday. He was charged Monday with murder and has a court appearance scheduled Tuesday in California’s Solano County. An attorney was not listed for Snyder.
In November, individuals identified as Teresa Youngblut and Maximilian Snyder took out a marriage license, according to a records search in Washington state’s King County. . . .
According to the criminal complaint filed in Solano County, Snyder allegedly killed a person with a knife on Jan. 17. The complaint alleges the person, identified as “C.L.,” was a witness to a crime who was “intentionally killed for the purpose of preventing his testimony in a criminal proceeding” or to retaliate for his testimony.
A gofundme.com page for a Curtis Lind mentions he was attacked on his property in Vallejo on Jan. 17 and died.

Curtis Lind made the mistake of renting his property to three members of the Zizian cult — Emma Borhanian, 31, Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, 27, and Suri Dao, 21. All of them were transgender. Leatham goes by the alias “Somnulence ‘Somni’ Logencia.” In November 2022, the trio of Zizians attacked Lind with a samurai sword:

Lind’s family said he had been trying to evict a group a people who hadn’t been paying rent.
His son, Carl Lind, said, “A big part of this problem was this moratorium on rent, COVID. People took advantage of it.”
Patrick McMillan, who lives on the property in a motor home, said after the attack Lind came to him covered in blood.
McMillan said, “He had a samurai sword stuck to his back with about a foot of it sticking out in front, his face cut up all over.”
“After they attacked him he got his gun out and shot two of them, killed one of them. The other one had three shots to the chest,” McMillan said.

Emma Borhanian

Borhanian was killed, Leatham was severely wounded, and both Leatham and Dao were charged not only with attacking Lind, but also with the death of their accomplice, Borhanian. “Lind was set to testify against his alleged assailants as the sole eyewitness in a criminal trial scheduled for April,” so the murder motive was to prevent him from testifying.

Curtis Lind

Based on a post warning “the rationalist community” about the Zizians, “Suri Dao” also made bail, while Leatham/“Somni” is apparently still in custody. Meanwhile, the cult leader, Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz,” was also arrested in connection with the January 2023 murder of Richard Zajko, 72, and his wife, Rita, 69, who were the parents of a Zizian cult member named Michelle “Jamie” Zajko. However, “Ziz”/Lasota was released on bail in June 2023, but not before Maximilian Snyder, a/k/a “Audere,” had tried to raise money for Ziz’s bail. Based on the latest news, then, it appears that the Vermont shooting suspect Youngblut (who identified as “Milo”) was married to Snyder/“Audere,” who is now accused of murdering Curtis Lind. That would be no fewer than five deaths — Borhanian, Lind, Richard and Rita Zajko, and now Border Patrol agent Chris Maland — connected to the Zizian cult.

AI Doomer Cool Kids Club

What must be understood about “Ziz”/Lasota and his followers is that all this craziness originates in the West Coast world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research. If you thought this tale was convoluted and confusing so far, just buckle your seatbelts, because we’re about to dive headlong into an abyss of insanity. Ziz attended a workshop sponsored by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and an associated organization, the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR). “In 2000, Eliezer Yudkowsky founded” what was to become MIRI “with the purpose of accelerating the development of artificial intelligence”:

However, Yudkowsky began to be concerned that AI systems developed in the future could become superintelligent and pose risks to humanity, and in 2005 the institute moved to Silicon Valley and began to focus on ways to identify and manage those risks, which were at the time largely ignored by scientists in the field.
Starting in 2006, the Institute organized the Singularity Summit to discuss the future of AI including its risks, initially in cooperation with Stanford University and with funding from Peter Thiel. The San Francisco Chronicle described the first conference as a “Bay Area coming-out party for the tech-inspired philosophy called transhumanism.”

Following so far? Well, because of Yudkowsky’s idea that AI could “pose risks to humanity,” he spun off CFAR to promote “rationality,” as some sort of defense against this risk. In 2016, the New York Times did a feature story about CFAR, and this would have been no more than two or  three years before “Ziz”/Lasota attended a MIRI/CFAR workshop. It would appear that among nerds interested in AI research, being part of “the rationalist community” is like membership in the Cool Kids Club.

What I’ve shared with you so far is the briefest, most superficial summary of MIRI/CFAR that I could devise. This background is important because Lasota/“Ziz” first became notorious in 2019 when he and his followers staged a protest against CFAR that resulted in a police standoff.

Ziz accused Yudkowsky of sexually abusing minors and other malfeasances, but the accusations were expressed in a bunch of jargon that struck police as insane gibberish. And this is where I direct you to Nirit Weiss-Blatt’s article from September 2024, “When Effective Altruism Takes a Dark Turn.” Y’all remember that “Effective Altruism” (EA) was part of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX scam. There is a close connection between EA and the “rationality” promoted by CFAR.

The nexus of this is “AI Doomerism,” i.e., the belief that “the most pressing problem in the world is preventing an apocalypse where an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) exterminates humanity.” This is the organizing fear of the existential risk (“x-risk”) community, which concerns itself with probability of doom, “p(doom).”

Weiss-Blatt quotes AI researcher John Wentworth as saying that “some people are very predisposed to craziness spirals”:

“’AI is likely to kill us all’ is definitely a thing in response to which one can fall into a spiral-of-craziness, so we naturally end up ‘attracting’ a bunch of people who are behaviorally well-described as ‘looking for something to go crazy about.’” . . . “On that model,” he concluded, “insofar as EAs and rationalists sometimes turn crazy, it’s mostly a selection effect. ‘AI is likely to kill us all’ is a kind of metaphorical flypaper for people predisposed to craziness spirals.”

Is the point clear enough? The “rationalist community” originated with Yudkowsky, the Godfather of AI Doomerism, and it was logically predictable that this would attract a lot of crazy people, which is what ultimately explains how “Ziz”/Lasota became the leader of a vegan transgender death cult. Some further reading:

As you can see, this story is beginning to attract more widespread attention, although it is not yet a national media story. Eventually, I think it will be the subject of a documentary on Netflix, at the very least, and perhaps a segment on “60 Minutes.” In the meantime, I’ll keep updating you — got a lot of traffic Tueesday from a Reddit link — because how can I resist the temptation of writing more RADICAL VEGAN TRANSGENDER DEATH CULT headlines?

UPDATE: Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’



 

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Unarmed Suspect Shot to Death by Police in Tampa, and Nobody’s Protesting

Posted on | January 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Unarmed Suspect Shot to Death by Police in Tampa, and Nobody’s Protesting

Jeremiah Bailey

Well, they thought he might have a gun and, considering that he’d gone on a hit-and-run rampage that killed one man and injured three others, Tampa citizens seem to understand the situation:

The Tampa Police Department released video of the pursuit that ended with shots fired on I-275 late Sunday night.
Jeremiah Bailey, 48, was shot and killed after the pursuit. He is the suspect in a series of hit-and-runs that turned deadly.
Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said it started around 8:30 p.m. Sunday with a dispute at Dollar General off Dale Mabry Hwy. and Interbay Blvd. in South Tampa.
Bercaw said Bailey used his car to block 47-year-old Eric Archield’s car, then moved his car and followed the victim to a friend’s home near W Meadow St. and S. MacDill Ave., where Bailey hit the victim with his car before taking off.
Archield suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene, police said.
According to TPD, Bailey then intentionally hit Jesse Rickett, 43, on MacDill Ave. near Interbay Blvd. Rickett suffered head injuries and is listed in critical but stable condition at the hospital.
Minutes later, they say he purposely hit a man who was walking on the 5800 block of Interbay Blvd., police said. He later died.
Then around 10:15 p.m., a fourth hit-and-run was reported in the area of Westshore Blvd. and Lemon St. The man who was hit there was conscious and alert at the scene, TPD said.
None of the victims knew Bailey.
According to Bercaw, officers pursued Bailey onto I-275 northbound, where police executed a PIT maneuver near the Howard Ave./Armenia Ave. exit.
Police said Bailey refused to come out of the car and appeared to reach for something, leading to officers firing shots. Bailey died at the scene. . . .
Bailey’s criminal history includes battery on a law enforcement officer, battery on an EMT, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

More background: “Bailey had served prison time for attacking an Outback Steakhouse manager” and “according to court records had a history of mental health issues.” Gee, ya think so?

Bailey was still on probation at the time of his deadly rampage. So far, we haven’t gotten the “family demands answers” headlines on this case, and Ben Crump’s not showing up in Tampa to demand “justice.” Most importantly, no statues have been toppled and nobody’s looted Best Buy in “mostly peaceful” protest of this shooting, because when a career criminal gets killed by cops, nobody cares, as long as he’s white.



 

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In The Mailbox: 01.27.25

Posted on | January 28, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.27.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Mondays have gotten a tad harder since so many Substackers like to pontificate over the weekend, and it just tends to pile up. Bitch, bitch, whine, whine.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Piglet and Pooh bemoan the nature of time.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Conservative Art or Apolitical Art?
EBL: Tulsi Time, Kaddish at Yad Vashem, Colombia accepting its illegal immigrants back, Aramaic Kaddish Sung and Played to a Melody, and Vice President JD Vance’s first interview on Deface the Nation
Twitchy: Honest Question – What is The Benefit Of Banning Treansgender Troops? Intel Officer Forgets To Remove Her Name From “Secret” Post About Sabotaging Trump Administration, and SecDef Hegseth “Deadnames” Bases Whose Names Were Changed
Louder With Crowder: Of course! Woke, Soros-funded district attorney looking for state-level charges against pardoned J6ers, Donald Trump has NOT forgotten North Carolina (unlike Democrats) and he let hurricane victims take the mic, Beware MAGA! Leftists are totally threatening you for eating Mexican food over Trump’s deportation orders, JD Vance gives his first interview as VP, “Face the Nation’s” Margaret Brennan’s face tells you how bad he CRUSHED it, and Singer makes shocking claim Ozempic left her with life-threatening bone disease
Vox Popoli: The Deep State Purge, The NFL’s Scripting Crisis, Inside the OODA Loop, One Pertinent Question, and Who is That?
Bugscuffle Gazette: Zero Out Of Ten, 
Jim McCoy: Shirtaloon’s He Who Fights With Monsters
Bacon Time: Stocking Mill Coffee
Draw & Talk Comics: Raise Your Hand If You Have This Problem
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Lesson of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
Gab: DeepSeek – A Sputnik Moment for AI
Toni Airaksinen: CANCELLED – UMD SJP Order for “Swastika-Lite” Palestinian Flag Sweater Shelved By Clothing Company

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Condition of the Navy’s Amphibious Fleet & Its Impact On Marines, also, This Is Where The Navy Gets More Money
Dana Loesch: Selena Gomez Posts Vanity Video Weeping Over The Deportation Of Violent Criminals
Don Surber: A very Trumpy weekend
Glenn Reynolds: The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0, 
STUMP: 2025 Update On Senate Demographics, The Week In Meep, 

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He Who Fights With Monsters
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Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death
UPDATE: Landlord ‘Impaled With a Sword’ by ‘Vegan Sith’ Cult Members

Posted on | January 27, 2025 | Comments Off on Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death
UPDATE: Landlord ‘Impaled With a Sword’ by ‘Vegan Sith’ Cult Members

Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz”

You’ve never heard of the “Zizians,” and neither had I until this afternoon, but you’re probably going to be hearing a lot more about them now that this weirdo California cult has been connected to the shootout in Vermont last week that left a Border Patrol agent dead. Credit to Andy Ngo for putting together the pieces of this bizarre puzzle. When the shootout went down in Vermont on January 20, the initial reports were very thin, but piece by piece, we’ve learned more about the two suspects, Teresa Youngblut, a 21-year-old from Seattle, and Felix Bauckholt, a math genius from Germany who had worked in the financial industry on an H1B visa. About seven months ago, Youngblut’s parents had reported her missing, saying she had cut off contact with them and they were concerned she might be in a coercive relationship. The police didn’t do anything, saying that as an adult, she couldn’t be considered a runaway.

Youngblut and Bauckholt showed up in Vermont a couple of weeks ago and attracted suspicion because they were wearing black “tactical” gear and Youngblut had a pistol in a visible holster. Eventually, this led to an attempted traffic stop on I-91 in which both Youngblut and Bauckholt pulled pistols. Bauckholt was killed in the resulting shootout, but Younglut survived and will face charges. This was mysterious. Why were they in Vermont? What were they doing with the tactical gear, an “arsenal” of weapons and even night-vision goggles? But then there’s this:

In court papers filed earlier Monday, federal prosecutors in Vermont said Youngblut and Bauckholt both possessed firearms purchased by a resident of the state in February 2024. That person, who was not identified, is a person of interest in a double homicide in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.
Bauckholt flew into the U.S. in the hours before the Pennsylvania murders. Prosecutors also said that Youngblut has been in “frequent contact” with an individual who was detained during the investigation into the double homicide.
That individual is also a person of interest in a murder investigation in Vallejo, California, federal prosecutors said. No other details were provided.

That’s three other murders that this is connected to. And then, thanks to Andy Ngo (and @jessi_cata) we learned that both of the suspects in the Vermont shootout were transgender, Youngblut identifying as “Milo” and Bauckholt calling himself “Ophelia.” Furthermore, it appears that both of them were involved with the Zizians, whose leader Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz,” became notorious for a 2019 protest against CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality). Among other things, the Zizians are radical vegans. The Pennsylvania double homicide was in January 2023 and the victims, Richard Zajko, 72, and his wife, Rita, 69, were the parents of a Zizian cult member named Michelle “Jamie” Zajko.

It appears these highly intelligent people lacked common sense. They got sucked into the vortex of radical vegan transgender craziness, despite being warned about this cult, and now Bauckholt is dead, as is a Border Patrol agent, while Youngblut is likely facing life in prison.

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?

UPDATE: Thanks to Ms. EBL for pointing this out:

The theoretical basis for Zizian social conduct is Yudkowsky and Soare’s “functional decision theory”. “Functional decision theory” is designed as an answer to Newcomb-like problems where the actions of others are conditional on which decision theory an agent uses. In normal English, it’s about situations where the environment will change depending on who you are. . . .
In Zizian thought this concept is expanded to justify behavior that would make a Sovereign Citizen blush. Zizians do not think it is ever valid to surrender. The reasoning goes that if someone is trying to extract a surrender from you, giving in is choosing a strategy that gets coerced into surrender. If you fight bitterly you prevent the coercion in the first place by making it too costly to fight you.

As I remarked in the comments, the philosophical basis of Zizian belief is a lot of lunatic gibberish about “ethics” and “effective altruism.” Meanwhile, mainstream journalism catches up:

Two young people who applied in November for a marriage license in Washington have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that claimed the lives of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont and an 82-year-old landlord in Vallejo, according to police and court records obtained by Open Vallejo.
Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old data scientist arrested in Northern California on Friday on suspicion of murder, and Teresa Youngblut, the 21-year-old computer science student charged last week in connection with the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, appear to follow a fringe, self-described “vegan Sith” ideology that started in the Bay Area and has connections to violence . . .
Vallejo police arrested Snyder around 12:40 a.m. Friday in Redding, California, in connection with the Jan. 17 stabbing death of Curtis Lind . . .
In 2022, Lind was allegedly impaled with a sword and blinded in one eye during an attack by several young people who lived in box trucks on his Vallejo property and had stopped paying Lind during the pandemic-era rent moratorium. Court records obtained by Open Vallejo show that Lind was set to testify against his alleged assailants as the sole eyewitness in a criminal trial scheduled for April.

Latter-day Manson gang, a gigantic pancake stack of craziness.

UPDATE II: Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update.

UPDATE III: Linked at KiwiFarms, who took their sweet time about it.

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