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Alleged leader of cultlike ‘Zizians’ arrested in US as group linked to killings

The apparent leader of a cult-like group linked to multiple killings has been arrested in the US.

Police said Jack LaSota – known as Ziz – was detained on Sunday in Maryland, and faces charges including trespass, possession of a handgun in a vehicle, and obstructing and loitering.

Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26, were arrested on similar charges and all three are being held at a local jail.

“The Zizians” have been tied to the killing of US border patrol agent David Maland in January, as well as five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.

Mr Maland, 44, died in a shootout following a traffic stop near the Canadian border in Vermont.

One of LaSota’s followers, German national Ophelia Bauckholt, was also killed in the incident when a woman she was with, Teresa Youngblut, allegedly opened fire.

LaSota, 34, who uses she/her pronouns and said online she is a transgender woman, is a computer programmer and appears to be the leader of the Zizians.

According to the Associated Press news agency, the group appears to be made up of highly intelligent computer scientists, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who met online, shared anarchist beliefs, and became increasingly violent.

Their goals aren’t clear, but online writings cover topics from gender identity, radical veganism and artificial intelligence.

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No, Ladies, Self-Preservation Is NOT ‘Bigotry’ Despite What the New World Order Says

A friend I will refer to as “Carol” recently told me she fears for her safety as her Democrat-controlled town is crawling with illegal immigrants. Crime has exploded in her New York community and continuing to ignore it isn’t healthy.

Worse, she told me she is afraid to talk about it with her friends and neighbors, most of whom are progressive white women, lest she be deemed the most unconscionable monster since Dr. Frankenstein’s creation, a big, bad boogeyman “racist.”

Her fears are not unfounded.

One of the truly mind-boggling successes of the New World Order was its ability to indoctrinate Westerners into quietly accepting our own extinction.

Using public shame to control people is a weapon the communists have long used. During China’s “cultural revolution,” violent members of Mao’s “Red Guard” would haul perceived enemies into public and subject them to humiliating — and violent — “struggle sessions.”

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Florida: Jewish Man Shoots Two Israelis ‘After Mistaking Them for Palestinians’

A Jewish man in Miami on Sunday shot two Israelis after “mistaking them for Palestinians” and yet the media is reporting on the incident as an “anti-Semitic attack.”

From NBC Miami, “Man faces attempted murder charges after shooting 2 in Miami Beach: Police”:

A man accused of shooting two people in Miami Beach was arrested on Sunday, police said.

Mordechai Brafman, 27, was charged with two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

Police said on Saturday, surveillance video in the 4800 block of Pine Tree captured Brafman’s car going southbound on Pine Road and then making a U-turn at 48th Street where a vehicle with two victims was stopped.

The arrest report said that Brafman drove past them and stopped directly in front of them.

Brafman then got out of his car, stayed near the driver’s side and started shooting the vehicle as it drove past him, the report said.

The victims’ vehicle, the report said, was shot 17 times and struck both people inside.

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TDS Addled CNN Reporter Shares Link To Accused Murderer Mangione‘s Defense Fund

CNN activist White House correspondent ‘reporter’ Kaitlin Collins is facing calls for her firing after she posted a link to the defense fund of Luigi Mangione, the guy charged with shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.

Collins posted the link to X on Friday but then deleted it shortly after following swift backlash.

Mangione has been lauded by extremist leftists and also held up as a kind of sick sex symbol by deranged liberal women. 

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18-year-old trans suspect arrested for plotting Indiana high school shooting

Authorities arrested an 18-year-old transgender suspect who allegedly planned to carry out a mass shooting at Mooresville High School in Indiana. Trinity “Jamie” Shockley, of Mooresville, was taken into custody on Wednesday and has been booked into Morgan County Jail without bond. The FBI alerted the local police department to the matter on February 11 after receiving a tip that Shockley was planning a school shooting, WTHR reported.

An individual notified the FBI’s Sandy Hook Promise’s Say Something Anonymous Reporting System, saying that their friend was preparing to commit a shooting in Indiana on February 14, according to court documents. The informant said that the suspect had ordered a bulletproof vest and had access to an AR-15.

On February 11, Shockley reportedly told a school counselor that he had allegedly been sending letters to Florida Parkland High School mass shooter, Nikolas Cruz, while he’s been in prison. It was also reported that Shockley had a heart-shaped locket necklace with a photo of Cruz inside.

A search warrant was executed at Shockley’s home on February 12 as part of a joint law enforcement operation consisting of Mooresville police detectives, Morgan County Sheriff’s Office detectives, and officers from the Mooresville School Police.

Court documents state that detectives found multiple photos of Cruz and two other mass shooters – Dylan Roof and Andrew Blaze – in Shockley’s bedroom. Authorities also recovered AR-15 magazines and a box of .40 caliber rounds in the suspect’s father’s bedroom. Additionally, detectives recovered three notebooks in Shockley’s backpack, which included professions of love for mass shooters and the want “to hurt others.”

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Kamala 2.0? Buttigieg Made Same Pledge To Support Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgeries for Criminals That Dogged Harris Campaign.

It wasn’t just Kamala Harris. No, during the 2020 Democratic primary, presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg also supported taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for federal inmates and illegal immigrants.

The former mayor of South Bend, Ind.—now eyeing the 2026 Michigan Senate race—told the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019 that, if elected, he would use executive authority to ensure that federal inmates and illegal immigrants have access to “comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care.”

“I would direct my HHS Office of Civil Rights and Department of Justice to vigorously enforce all federal laws against discrimination based on gender identity, including ensuring the provision of all medically necessary care for transgender Americans,” Buttigieg wrote in response to the question. “This includes medical care for transgender individuals incarcerated in federal prisons and under immigration detention.”

A spokesman for Buttigieg told the Free Beacon that he “made clear his position that the law must be applied equally and fairly to all people seeking necessary care, and that he would faithfully enforce all federal laws against discrimination.”

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Chicago Alderman: We’re Getting More Upset at Trump for Enforcement than at Biden for Letting Criminals Into City

On Friday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez discussed the lawsuit between the Department of Justice and the city of Chicago, Cook County, and the state of Illinois over sanctuary policies and stated that it’s bizarre that officials weren’t upset at the Biden administration for allowing dangerous illegal immigrants to remain in Chicago and are only getting “upset now that judgment has come” under the Trump administration.

Lopez said, “[W]hat I think is important for your viewers to remember is that the target list that Tom Homan is going off of was compiled under the Biden administration. They knew we had 2,000, at least 2,000 dangerous individuals in our city that were threats to our neighborhoods and our country that they allowed to come here that they are only now going after.”

He continued, “But yet, no one is questioning why Biden allowed that to happen, they’re only upset now that judgment has come.”

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DOJ Launches Inquiry Into “Individuals and Networks Stealing Government Property” After Referral by Elon Musk’s DOGE Team

Here we go!

The Justice Department will launch an inquiry into the individuals and networks stealing government property and threatening government employees.

Ed Martin, the Acting US Attorney for DC, sent Elon Musk a letter informing him that he will be launching an inquiry after a referral from DOGE.

“Thank you for the referral of individuals and networks who appear to be stealing government property and/or threatening government employees. After your referral, as is my practice, I will begin an inquiry,” Ed Martin wrote in a letter to Elon Musk.

Earlier this week Ed Martin announced his office would be charging and arresting individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team.

Ed Martin did not name any names as he announced that arrests and charges were coming. It is unclear which laws were violated.

“Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees,” Ed Martin said.

“We are in contact with the FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing,” Ed Martin added.

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A Critically Important Trial Has Just Begun, and No One Involved Will Speak About Motive

When the defendant entered the courtroom, he was dressed respectably in a blue button-down shirt and dark slacks. When his presence was announced, he stood up, said “Good morning,” and gave all present a cheery wave. And thus began one of the most important trials of our age, although everyone involved is doing everything possible to ignore all the reasons why it is so important.

Hadi Matar finally went on trial Tuesday for attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie back in Aug. 2022. There is little, if any, doubt about Matar’s guilt, even though he has pleaded not guilty, for he stabbed Rushdie multiple times in full view of a shocked crowd at the Chautauqua festival. Matar was supposed to have gone on trial in Jan. 2024, but Rushdie wrote a book about the attack, and Matar’s defense attorney, public defender Nathaniel Barone, received a delay in the trial so that he could review the book. It’s hard to fathom how what the victim thought about what happened might affect the guilt of his client, but nevertheless, Barone managed to delay the trial for over a year.

Now that it has begun, both Barone and his opposite number, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt, seem curiously intent on preventing any discussion of Matar’s motive. Matar tried to kill the man who, at the time of the stabbing had carried for 33 years the most famous bounty on his head since the days of the Wild West.

It was on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 1989, that Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie to be killed for supposedly blaspheming against Muhammad in his novel “The Satanic Verses.” By 2022, Iran’s bounty on Rushdie’s head was $3 million. Without Khomeini’s death fatwa on Rushdie, Matar wouldn’t have tried to kill him, and there would be no trial. Nevertheless, neither the prosecution nor the defense wants any talk of that as Matar is tried.

Matar himself was upfront about why he stabbed Rushdie. Back in Aug. 2022, he said: “I respect the ayatollah. I think he’s a great person. That’s as far as I will say about that.” Of Rushdie, Matar said: “I don’t like the person. I don’t think he’s a very good person. I don’t like him. I don’t like him very much. He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.” Matar isn’t the most articulate person in the world, but what he said was clear enough to establish that he wanted Rushdie dead in accord with Khomeini’s fatwa.

Schmidt, however, insists all that is irrelevant, saying: “Here, I don’t believe we have to get into issues of Mr. Matar’s religious beliefs, his nationality, and his background to prove an attempted murder charge, which is what we’re doing. The allegation is that Mr. Matar stabbed Mr. Rushdie and stabbed Mr. Reese in an unprovoked attack. Therefore, I think we can prove that without getting into matters that give rise to prejudice of our jury pool.”

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Two airport authority workers arrested for allegedly leaking DC plane crash video to CNN

Two employees of the authority that manages Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were arrested over their alleged involvement in leaking surveillance footage of last week’s deadly midair aircraft collision to CNN.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) staffers are accused of making an unauthorized copy of records and are facing charges of computer trespass, the agency said Monday. 

The legal trouble is tied to the chilling video obtained by CNN last week that offered a horrifying new vantage point in the crash over the Potomac River, ABC News reported. 

The Wednesday night collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet killed all 67 people on both aircraft. 

The exclusive videos gave a closer and clearer look at the air disaster, including one clip in which the chopper is darting from the left side of the screen as the American Airlines flight approaches the airport.

A second short clip shows the Black Hawk, which was carrying three soldiers, and the Bombardier CRJ700 heading toward each other before the two smash together and explode.

Both videos were shot on cellphones, CNN reported Friday.

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