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In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Evening Edition)
Posted on | January 21, 2026 | No Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Ride Public Transit? Maybe When It Is Safe, also Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process
Director Blue: Greenland & Hypersonic Weapons,
EBL: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Fastest Fish You Can Buy, Goth Waifu Amelia, National Championship Cheerleaders, and Steakhouse Fish
Twitchy: MN Troon Rep Demands Escalation, Va. Gov. Spanberger’s Hardcore Leftist Reveal Proves There Are No Moderate Democrats, and ICE Agent Refuses To Show Warrant To Nosy Lib Because “You’re A Nobody”
Louder With Crowder: Actress claims she saw lynchings growing up in Ohio, but the math doesn’t add up, Shorter Sunny Hostin: White people totally deserve to be discriminated against, especially at that church, CNN finds a DeSantis/Haley/Biden voter who was forced to admit Trump was RIGHT about EVERYTHING, Anti-ICE “Episcopal bishop” calls on parishioners to have their affairs in order because they may need to martyr themselves, and Woman Who Stole Conservative Journalist’s Camera Believed To Be The Owner Of Local Autism Center
Vox Popoli: Under the Sea, College Football is Back, A Necessary Revision, Not Our Crisis, and The Academy Unleashes The Gay
Mazelit Airaksinen: Why Israel Is Seen Everywhere & Everything Else Is Forgotten
Defending The Wood Perilous: Dating the Monsters
Incensepunk Magazine: The Signal Priest of Station Noctis
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 6,
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S. Economic Warfare Has Strangled Iran and Venezuela, also, Former Tory Chairman Says The Conservatives Must Tackle Immigration to Survive
American Greatness: Walz, Ellison, Frey’s Offices Served Grand Jury Subpoenas, DOJ About to Drop the Hammer on Don Lemon and Anti-ICE Agitators Who Stormed Minneapolis Church, and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Claims Anti-ICE Mob That Stormed St. Paul Church Engaged in Protected First Amendment Activity
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 71 – Winter Visitors
BattleSwarm: “Tanks? In My Vietnam War? It’s More Likely Than You Think.”, Celebrity Reality TV Star Porn Star Files For Austin Mayor City Council, Another Illegal Alien Ramming ICE Officers, and Paxton Says DEI Is Unconstitutional
Behind The Black: Computer simulations suggest Jupiter and Saturn have fundamentally different interiors, Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space raises $145 million in investment capital, Update on NASA’s damaged Goldstone antenna, Another Zimmerman op-ed today at PJ Media, and “A new empire has sprung into existence, and there is a new thing under the sun.”
Cafe Hayek: Trump Continues to Pick Americans’ Pockets, On Paul Krugman on China’s Manufacturing Trade Surplus, and A New Low
CDR Salamander: Hegseth At Starbase
Chicago Boyz: The Fire Next Time, MovingSongs, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride, and The Hunting Party
Da Tech Guy: Why Minnesota? What’s likely been going on and will Keep going on till Trump stops it
Dana Loesch: On NATO & Greenland
Don Surber: EU is splintering
First Street Journal: Now even coffee is Raaaaacist, also, I check Bluesky so you don’t have to
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part 23, We Have a New Dutch Cabinet, and Somalia on the Westerkanaal
The Geller Report: The West Embraces Former Al-Qaeda Chief Ahmed al?Sharaa as His Forces Massacre Kurds, Free ISIS, and Enslave Women, DOJ Moves to Arrest Don Lemon, Investigate Storming of Church, MOTHERS TERRIFIED, CHILDREN SCREAMING as Democrat Protestors Storm St. Paul Church, Three Tourists Shot Dead by Muslim Gunman Outside Disney World, and Schumer Vows to Reverse DOGE Cuts and Expand Spending
Hollywood In Toto: Jillian Michaels Slams Oprah Winfrey as ‘Evil’ for Obesity Defense, Agatha Christie Would Love A Private Life, Pendragon Cycle Puts Christ Back in Arthurian Legend, Labyrinth Made the ’80s SO Much Better, and Dave Smith, Theo Von Fawn Over ‘Brave’ Nick Fuentes
Legal Insurrection: Solar Radiation Storm Slams Earth, Generating Auroras and Threatening Satellites, Former AG Eric Holder Claims ‘There is a Concerted Effort to Re-Segregate America’, Physicians Raise Concerns About ‘Decolonizing Medicine’ Class at U. Maryland, Virginia on Fire: Insane Legislative Blitz on Tax Hikes, Sentencing Rollbacks, and ‘You’ve Just Gotta Live With It’: Minnesota AG Ellison Shrugs Off Church Ambush
Matt Taibbi: Bluesky Brain & X Brain – Two Viral Stories From Minnesota
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Briton on the Gifts of America to the World, Sunday Matinee: Midway, The Indispensable Man, and Last Weekend
Outkick: John Harbaugh Says It Was ‘Great’ President Trump Pushed Him And The Giants Together, “Greatest Sports Stories Of All Time”, BBWAA Elects Carlos Beltran As Steroid-Era Candidates Remain Outside Cooperstown, Final AP Poll Top 25 Is Once Again A Complete Joke, and Abella Danger Unhappy ESPN Showed Her During National Championship, Wants To Enjoy Game Like Any Other Student
Power Line: Voices of Sanity, Can’t stop won’t stop, Subpoenas Served In Walz Investigation, Lemon aid, and 11th Airborne to Minneapolis?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Awards $20 Million In LINE Funding To Address State’s Nursing Needs
Shot In The Dark: Goals?
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Crazy Nature Rights: For Wild Animals; For Bees; For Tax Collectors
This Ain’t Hell: Poll shows Left and right support for political assassinations higher than you think, A New Name You Should know, An LGBTQ+ center is frustrated that a man giving them crap doesn’t face arrest, “Where are the Carriers?”, and Sometimes you get the bear
Transterrestrial Musings: Stop Counting Calories, Poor Hitler, and The Canary In The Coal Mine Of Hollywood
Victory Girls: Don Lemon And Rabid Anti-ICE Loons Invade Minneapolis Church Service, Ilhan Omar Needs To Be Sent Back Home, and Ellison Proves Why DOJ Must Press Charges In Church Invasion
Watts Up With That: Aussie Coal Closure Delayed, to Lower Prices and Stabilise the Grid, Eye-rolling climate science from China, Trump EPA Gets Fraud Out Of Air Pollution Rules, Suppressing Climate Dissent Cannot Prevent Reality From Asserting Itself, and NYT goes full witchcraft, cites an academic declaring Trump will cause bad weather
The Federalist: Because Libraries Push Racism And Queer Extremism, They Deserve Their Massive Federal Funding Cuts, Virginia Democrats Want More Rapists And Murderers On The Streets, If Your Pastor Values Illegal Immigration More Than Your Right To Worship, Find A New Church, Extending Mail Ballots, Banning Hand Counts, And 3 Other Radical Election Changes VA Dems Have Planned, and Don Lemon Made Himself Relevant Again, And Now He Should Be In Federal Custody
Mark Steyn: You Make Me Feel So Young, Dick’s Picks, Not So Legally Blonde, Live Around the Planet – The Not So Secret Service, and The Future Has Shown Up
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In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Afternoon Edition)
Posted on | January 20, 2026 | No Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Heading down to Las Vegas today for a VA appointment in the morning. Hopefully I’ll have the energy tonight to get fully caught up on the linkmongling.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Massive Permian Oil Discovery, also, The Day When Anne Boleyn Was Executed (1536)
357 Magnum: Rick Beato Listened to These Songs, So You Don’t Have To, also Why Do Liberal Women Believe the Law Does Not Apply to Them?
EBL: Ilhan Omar declares the “U.S. goddamn States”, You Nazty Spy, and The Dick Van Dyke Show
Twitchy: Former Reaganite KT McFarland Schools Keith Olbermann After He Calls Her A Moron, Bill Kristol Claims He Knows Men Who Became Women And Matt Walsh Sets Him Straight, and Set Phasers To HA! HA! HA! William Shatner & Stephen Miller Team Up To Take Starfleet Academy Apart
Louder With Crowder: Don Lemon joins angry anti-ICE mob attacking a church, claims he didn’t when he learns it’s illegal, New filings expose how much taxpayer money Teachers Unions send to far left groups, total more eye-popping than expected, Old white liberals are at it again, this time singing spirituals until Target agrees to ban ICE (and other silly demands), Here’s why Trump wants Greenland, and why Europe is just gonna have to deal with it, and Kristi Noem battles Margaret Brennan over ICE detainees, only Noem has facts on her side
Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO Q&A, Where Biologists Fear to Tread, Oh, George, and The Legacy of Greenland
Based Book Sale: 2025’s Top Twenty Based Fantasy Books
The Bugscuffle Gazette: It was a trap last time
Jim McCoy: Help Your Boy Out, also, The Glyphwright Chronicles,
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Fleet of the 2030s & The Ghost of Transformationalism
Dana Loesch: Don Lemon & Protesters Invade A St. Paul Church, A Quick Broadcast Note, and The Gayest Show On Earth
Don Surber: Trump 2.0 is leaner, meaner, and out of their control
Matt Taibbi: Martin Luther King Jr. Is The Leader We Need, also, Activism Uncensored – Minneapolis In Crisis Part 2
STUMP: Dropping Numbers – Drug ODs, Homicides, Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths
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In The Mailbox: 01.19.26
Posted on | January 20, 2026 | No Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
A short collection of Substackery & other delights, as the internet was down earlier and I had laundry to do.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day When the Black Plague Arrived (1347), also, How The West’s Climate Crusade Built China’s Empire
EBL: Gordon Ramsay Shows How To Cook 5 Fish Recipes, Sperm whale gets help, Grilled Amberjack Collars, “Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love”, and “The Ballad of Captain Cook”
Twitchy: Eric Holder Calls Trump A Dictator Clinging To Power With ICE As His Gestapo, Anti-ICE Activist Who Terrified Kids In Church Is St. Paul School Board Member, and Harmeet Dhillon Has Answers For Those Asking Where The Arrests Are
Louder With Crowder: Two Major Hospitals In Wisconsin Ban Gender Affirming Care For Children, AWFL TikToker thinks she’s intimidating as she turns into the final boss of leftist protesters, Florida AG illustrates what happens when an anti-ICE leftist puts their hands on a cop in a normal state, ACLU launches ad where female sports stars call for more men to be allowed to play girls’ sports, and TikToker makes compelling argument that the REAL “incels” are liberal white women, offers a solution
Vox Popoli: Greenland for Ukraine, Enjoy the Audio, Watch Them Crumble, The Confirmation of IGM, and ????????
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 6, also, Tomato Wyrm Part 5
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Hawala and you
Born Lucky: How to Stay Sane In Crazy Times
Stoic Observations: Some Of The Best Books, also, The Shape of Technofeudalism
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Auto Pilot
CDR Salamander: Greenland – Belle of the Ball
Elizabeth Nickson: The Monstrous Century-Long Theft By Canadian Indians & The Liberal Party
Glenn Reynolds: Living In The 21st Century
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Ludicrous Irony: Life Advice for Young Men from the Former John Walker Flynt
Posted on | January 19, 2026 | No Comments

It’s been nearly 12 years since #GamerGate happened, and I’ve got grandchildren nearly that old. Must we rehash the whole thing — which began with the Tattoo-Covered, Mentally Ill Ex-Stripper Whose Real Name Is Chelsea Van Valkenburg — to explain the comic role played in that saga by John Walker Flynt a/k/a “Brianna Wu”?

John Walker Flynt a/k/a ‘Brianna Wu’
#GamerGate turned into a feminist victimhood narrative — women claiming to be harassed by misogynists — and John/“Brianna” jumped in to declare himself/“herself” the Ultimate Victim. Kiwi Farms:
A failure at pretty much everything she’s ever done, Brianna Wu claims to be an engineer, writer, linguist, business manager, and programmer, but in actuality failed out of college repeatedly and possesses no qualifications in any field.
Despite his/“her” lack of qualifications, John/“Brianna” was able to leverage his/“her” notoriety into a brief (and failed) political career, because fools will throw money at anything labeled “progressive.” In 2018, Wu challenged Massachusetts Rep. Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and lost by 48 points, 71%-23%. After announcing another primary challenge to Lynch in 2020, Wu quit the race in April 2020, citing COVID-19 concerns. Along the way, Wu co-founded a political action committee which, for all I know, may still be paying him/“her” because fools and their money are soon parted.
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, grifters gotta grift.
You’re literally a man pretending to be a woman telling men to man up. https://t.co/QO3xutyU9w
— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) January 19, 2026
Rollo never misses, does he? For the sake of discussion, let’s quote the entirety of Wu’s self-awareness-deficient post:
My honest opinion is young men are largely in a bed of their own making.
I work with a lot of women in their 20s and their dating stories are so bleak. Xbox-addicted man children with no career prospects, listening to figures like Andrew Tate who say women are responsible for all their problems.
Even the 5/10 men of my generation managed to get jobs. There was one slightly cute, socially awkward guy I went to high school with who ran a lockpick shop next to the mall. It was successful enough for him to buy a house. He would be considered a catch today because he could hold a conversation and took agency over his own life.
The truth is everyone has it tough, and no one is going to get out of all their problems by blaming it on the other gender.
Or becoming the other gender, for that matter. As previously explained, John/“Brianna” has failed at everything he/“she” has ever done, and in nothing did he/“she” fail worse than being a man. It would be interesting to know the context of Wu’s assertion, “I work with a lot of women in their 20s.” Where do you do this? Because I’m pretty sure that the one thing you are not doing is work. If John/“Brianna” has recently begun an actual job somewhere, this news would shock the world, but my guess is that “work with” actually means chat with on the Internet, which is pretty creepy — the deranged middle-aged tranny freak sliding into the DMs of unsuspecting 20-something girls. At any rate, what could be more laughable than John/“Brianna” presuming to criticize young men for being “Xbox-addicted man children with no career prospects”? Exactly what “career prospects” has the former John Flynn achieved?

Frank Wu and his ‘wife’ Brianna
Is this one of those “career prospects” young men should have?
The story told by Brianna Wu’s critics is that John Walker Flynt got $200,000 from his parents to fund a start-up company that was supposed to produce video games, and then promptly spent much of that “investment” on a sex-change operation. Whether that’s what actually happened, I can’t say, but Brianna’s company Giant Spacekat Studios produced exactly one game, Revolution 60, which sucked, and thus his/“her” entire claim to being a “game developer” is based on a failure.
Don’t take any advice from this person about anything.
Rule 5 Sunday: But First, Coffee
Posted on | January 19, 2026 | No Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Not from @kbdabear , but from some other public benefactor on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Sophie Scholl, “I, Don Quixote”, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Dusty Springfield, “Barracuda”, The Bionic Woman, Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan, MAGA Make Iran Great Again, Francoise Hardy, Battlestar Galactica, Iranian Women Lighting Cigarettes, Batman Opening & Closing Theme, Los Años Nuevos, and Bugonia
A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Cheyenne Swenson, Maryland Cuts Recreational Yellow Perch Limit, Fish Pic Friday, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday
BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will have A Beer
Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!
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FMJRA 2.0: Suddenly, A Winning Week
Posted on | January 18, 2026 | No Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
It was a good week to be a Senators fan. First, we rose up and defeated the Expos in two games of our three game series, including a 4-run 10th inning rally (featuring a two-run homer by The Human Rain Delay) that won the game for Roger Nelson in relief of Carl Morton. In Game 3, Jim Bibby held the Expos to two runs as the boys scored six runs off Luis Tiant and added a seventh off Paul Lindblad. Then we came home to RFK and took two of three against the Pirates, including a surprising 3-0 win for Carl Morton against the King of the Greaseballs, Gaylord Perry. So we finish the week 35-43, one game behind the Brewers and five behind the division-leading Twins. Next week we’re facing the pathetic Dodgers and then the Yankees (49-29). Hopefully we’ll manage another .500 week and not get swept by the Hated Yankees.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
In The Mailbox: 01.10.26
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FMJRA 2.0: Still Stuck In The Ruts
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Rule 5 Sunday: Hello, Nurse!
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In The Mailbox: 01.13.26
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In The Mailbox: 01.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition
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In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition)
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Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Three ‘Zizians’ Make Court Appearance
Posted on | January 17, 2026 | No Comments

Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota enters courthouse Friday
Let’s begin by giving full credit to Andy Ngo who, as he says, has “been reporting on the cult for over a year and broke the story that linked the homicides together a year ago.” Doing important work.
When last we updated this ongoing saga (“Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Ziz Claims to Be ‘Genocide’ Victim,” November 28), Jack “Ziz” LaSota had just appeared in a federal courthouse in Baltimore, ranting insanely about “genocide” against transgender people. That hearing involved a federal felony charge — possession of firearms and ammunition by a fugitive — while LaSota and two other “Zizians” are also facing state charges in Allegany County, Maryland, where they were captured last February after a nationwide manhunt. It was those state charges that brought the trio to court Friday in Cumberland, Maryland:
Three members of the Zizians, a cultlike group linked to six deaths across the U.S., were granted permission Friday to work together in preparation for their upcoming trial on trespassing, weapons and drug charges.
Jack LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank are among a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists drawn together by radical beliefs about veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence.
(Credit to the Associated Press for that concise summary.)
Authorities have described LaSota, a transgender woman known as Ziz, as the apparent leader of the “extremist group.” Since 2022, Zizians have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on a California landlord, the landlord’s subsequent killing, the deaths of Zajko’s parents in Pennsylvania, and a highway shootout in Vermont that left another member and a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead.
(Again, thanks for the concise summary, although I’ll have to deduct points for the phrase “transgender woman.”)
LaSota, Zajko and Blank were arrested in February after a property owner said he found them living in box trucks on his land in Frostburg, Maryland. Zajko was charged in Vermont with lying on her application to buy the gun used to kill agent David Maland in January 2025, while LaSota faces separate federal charges of being an armed fugitive.
On her way into the courthouse Friday, LaSota accused prosecutors of pressuring the trio to commit perjury by accepting plea deals and said, “They’re violating our speedy trial rights.” Friday’s hearing was supposed to include discussions of the trio’s motions to dismiss the charges and logistics of the trial that begins Feb. 9. Much of the agenda was postponed until Jan. 30 after Zajko indicated a desire to fire her attorney.
(Note to self: Plan trip to Cumberland for that hearing.)
Earlier, Allegany County Circuit Court Judge Michael Twigg agreed to allow the trio to work together on their defense. Since their arrest, LaSota and Blank have been allowed to meet, but Zajko was kept apart in what she described as “absurdly difficult circumstances.”
When the prosecutor told the judge he had reason to believe the three had already been communicating amongst themselves, LaSota interjected, “In the car ride here!”
“We should be able to talk to each other without being recorded and without fear of our notes being intercepted,” LaSota said.
“We’re adults. We have work to do, and we want to do our work,” Zajko said.
At one point, all three spoke up in support of each other.
“I repudiate any notion of protecting me from our codefendants,” LaSota said.
“I do, too,” said Zajko.
“As do I,” Blank said.
In the Vermont case, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Zizians member Teresa Youngblut, who has pleaded not guilty to murder for her alleged involvement in the shootout. Though she initially faced lesser charges, President Donald Trump’s administration had signaled early on that more serious charges were coming as part of its push for more federal executions.
At the time of the shooting, authorities had been watching Youngblut and her companion, Felix Bauckholt, for several days after a Vermont hotel employee reported seeing them carrying guns and wearing black tactical gear. She is accused of opening fire on border agents who pulled the car over on Interstate 91. An agent fired back, killing Bauckholt and wounding Youngblut.
Two other members of the Zizians group are awaiting trial in connection with the 2022 attack on a landlord in California that left another member dead. Zajko has been called a person of interest in the deaths of her parents later that year, and another member of the group is charged with killing the landlord three days before the Vermont shooting.
Let’s recap the body count of the Zizian cult:

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
Earlier this month, there was a hearing in Solano County, California related to the 2022 attack on Curtis Lind:
Delays are continuing to affect an upcoming trial involving two attempted murder suspects associated with an anti-AI group known as the Zizians, including one suspect who is currently medically unable to stand trial and has been frequently moved within California’s penal system in order to get adequate mental health care.
Solano County Superior Court Judge John Ellis again asked California corrections officials where Suri Dao, one of two suspects charged with the attempted murder of Vallejo landlord Curtis Lind in 2022, can be housed and receive medical and mental health treatment for anorexia, catatonia and schizoaffective disorder.
(Andy Ngo has previously reported that “Suri Dao” is an alias, and the suspect’s real name is Tessa Berns.)
Dao, who appeared in court in a wheelchair and apparently catatonic with her head hanging down, was recently moved to the California Institution for Women in Chino to undergo psychological evaluation. However, the doctor initially assigned to review the case was unavailable, and, in anticipation of Monday’s [January 5] hearing, Dao was moved back to the Solano County jail, where she will be interviewed by what Ellis called an “alienist,” an older term describing a psychologist who appears as a court expert and determines the sanity of a defendant.
Ellis asked Jeff Harry, a deputy district attorney with Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, who appeared via Zoom, if a facility in that county could house Dao, and “had the ability to force-feed someone.”
“That’s beyond my scope,” said Harry. “I’m not trying to be cagey, but I couldn’t say.”
Harry said there weren’t any facilities he could recall that had what he’d consider “24/7 suicide watch,” and he said Dao needed to go to a facility with “a higher level of care.”
Ellis said he was trying to find somewhere near Solano County that could force patients to take medications and has in-house or on-call psychiatric services.
At a Dec. 1 hearing, Jordan Alarcon, a psychiatric registered nurse and the director of nursing at Wellpath, the jail’s medical provider, said Dao had lost 32 pounds since September due to anorexia and had an electrolyte imbalance. He said she developed a pressure ulcer on her hip and buttock area because she was “lying down in feces and urine” and refused to get up. Her condition, Alarcon said, could lead to cardiac arrhythmia, and increases the likelihood of stroke and death.
Dao’s attorney Brian Ford told the court he would prefer his client go to a facility that could help with her mental health diagnoses, but it was unclear where in Northern California she would be able to receive in-depth treatment.
The second defendant, Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, a transgender woman, sat in the courtroom with a mask on while her attorneys told the court about the defense retaining new counsel [for Leatham], which would hold up the trial until August, when attorney Allison Margolin would be available as co-counsel.
Leatham, unprompted, interrupted proceedings to say; “Allison Margolin doesn’t represent me, I represent myself,” after she thanked her supporters for donating to her defense.
Ellis decided to postpone further discussion and decisions about where to house Dao until the psychologist turns in a report on Dao’s condition. A hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23 and is to address motions to compel and to continue and an arraignment for Leatham’s third attempted escape from jail.
The hearing date is the same date as a readiness conference regarding a trial in Solano Superior Court for a homicide charge against Maximillian Snyder, who is suspected of fatally stabbing Lind in the neck in January 2025. Lind had been set to testify against Dao and Leatham regarding the attempted murder charges.
In the attack for [which] Dao and Leatham are charged with attempted murder, Lind’s skull was shattered and his chest was impaled with a samurai sword. During the attack, Lind shot and killed another Zizian member, Emma Borhanian, and wounded Leatham. Both Leatham and Dao are charged with Borhanian’s murder, along with an aggravated mayhem charge.
Leatham and Dao belong to a group informally titled the Zizians, a loose, cult-like organization of radical vegans who claim AI is a danger to humanity. The two suspects are among roughly 10 known members of the Zizians — who are dedicated to the ideas of blogger Jack “Ziz” LaSota, a 34-year-old transgender woman who came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016.
The court should stop wasting time with these psychiatrists and just call me as an expert witness: Crazy People Are Dangerous.
PREVIOUSLY:
- November 28, 2025: Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Ziz Claims to Be ‘Genocide’ Victim
- August 14, 2025: Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Feds Seek Death Penalty in Vermont
- June 29, 2025: LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month Update: New Maryland Charges for Three Members of Radical Vegan Transgender Cult
- June 20, 2025: Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Federal Weapons Charge Indictment
- April 21, 2025: Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents
- February 19, 2025: ‘Ziz’ Misgendered and Other Highlights of Tuesday’s Court Hearing for Cult Suspects
- February 18, 2025: Bail Hearing Today for Cult Suspects
- February 17, 2025: MUGSHOTS: Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, Daniel ‘Hastur’ Blank
- February 17, 2025: BREAKING: Cult Leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota and Michelle Zajko Arrested in Maryland UPDATE: Third Suspect Also Captured
- February 17, 2025: ‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal
- February 16, 2025: Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Gets Mainstream Media Coverage
- February 2, 2025: Scott Siskind Didn’t Start the Fire: Rationalism, NY Times and the Zizians
- February 1, 2025: Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large
- January 30, 2025: Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Zizian ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Ideology’
- January 27, 2025: Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death
In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition)
Posted on | January 17, 2026 | No Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Why Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots
EBL: 4-hour marine spectacle, Grilling Golden Tilefish, Insurrectiony Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey, Bobby Hull, and Cubera Snapper
Twitchy: Seattle Jury Frees Illegal Alien After He Rams ICE Vehicle Head On, Michael Knowles Makes Kyle Kulinski Look Like A Frothing Moron, and DOJ Probing Walz & Frey For Shielding Illegals & Threatening ICE
Louder With Crowder: Minneapolis city hall gets employees “therapy goats” to deal with the stress of ICE enforcing immigration law, “You’re a left-wing hack”, Scott Jennings is fed up with everything CNN gets wrong about Minneapolis and ICE, Alleged “doctor” can’t tell GOP senator whether or not men can get pregnant, and Are you part of the white, middle class? Mamdani’s advisor calls YOU a problem for their agenda
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Da Tech Guy: The Obvious Conclusion that (Almost) Nobody Seems to Want to Say Aloud about National Democrats in General and Blue States in Particular
Don Surber: What Trump wants from Greenland
First Street Journal: Larry Krasner beclowns himself, (Purported) canon lawyer is very upset that infants can be baptized without their consent, Ilhan Omar Mynett claims the Minnesota fraud investigations are all just PR, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Brigitte Bardot: “I Do Not Want to Die in an Islamized France”, Islam’s Rape Gangs — As Instructed in the Mosques, Culture-Enriching Throat-Slicing in Mogliano Veneto, The Cultural Enrichment of Dortmund, and Did Somali Fraud Money Make Its Way to Al-Shabaab?
The Geller Report: FOUR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Filed Against Corrupt Governor Tim Walz, 81 Traitorous Republicans Vote With Democrats To Fund Anti-Trump NED Targeting MAGA and the Constitution, Democrat Rioters in Minneapolis Break into Federal Vehicle and Steal FBI Rifle and Ammunition, Israel Warns Iran: ‘If You Attack Us, We Will End You For Good’, and Trump Moves to Deport Somali Criminals, Including Ilhan Omar, After Billions In Fraud Exposed
Hollywood In Toto: Ethan Hawke Makes Blue Moon Magical, Iranian Filmmaker Calls Out Hollywood’s Silence on Protests, Hollywood Honors Renee Good, Ignores Hundreds Killed in Iran, Wake Us Up from Dreamy Sound of Falling, and Carolla Called It: Palisades Fire Anniversary Sees Little Rebuilding
Legal Insurrection: ‘Strange Bedfellows’ The Protean Alliances of the American Left, Department of Education announces probe into ‘gender identity’ policies at 18 institutions, HHS May Have had No Choice but to Restore Planned Parenthood Funding, Uh Oh: Mamdani Under Fire for Excluding Black Leaders From Top City Roles, and Colorado Congresswoman Says Democrats are Planning to Impeach Trump Again
Matt Taibbi: The Weaponization of the Weaponization of Government
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scott Adams, Tyson, Part Two, Multipolar World, The Nickel Tour, and David Starkey Laments the Coming Death of Free Speech in the UK
Outkick: Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss Files Lawsuit Against NCAA Seeking Sixth Year Of Eligibility, Majority Of NFL Teams Are Busy Hiring Their Next Ex-Head Coach During This Cycle, Big Ten Has Passed SEC Thanks To Coaching Advantage, With Kyle Tucker Signing, Are The 2026 Los Angeles Dodgers The Best Team Ever? and Louisville’s New Volleyball Coach Has America’s Attention, Sofia Vergara Covered In Coffee & MLB Is Toast
Power Line: Anatomy of an insurrection, Meet Raul Gutierrez, We Are Shopping Elsewhere, What’s the matter with MN? and What is to be done?
Shark Tank: Uthmeier Announces Arrest of Illegal Aliens In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: Ritual Groveling, Quid Pro Quo, Whither Greenland, and Mostly Peaceful Weapons Theft
The Political Hat: Gender Eunuchorn, Quick Takes – Not Dead Yet: Cash For Rebranded DEI At Harvard; Cornell’s Zombie DEI; Banned Iowa DEI Continues, and Firing Line Friday: The Uses of the United Nations
This Ain’t Hell: Defense team for Charlie Kirk’s assassin tries to disqualify the prosecution team, Greenland and National Security, Valor Friday, Sailor Sentenced Selling Secrets, and We almost lost the Unknown Soldier?
Transterrestrial Musings: A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran, Starfleet Academy, Light Posting Explanation, Scott Adams, and Certain Women
Victory Girls: Democrats Need Remedial Home Ec STAT, Kamala Harris’s turn as Marie Antoinette, and Ilhan Omar Claims Fraud And ICE Investigations Are Just PR Stunts
Watts Up With That: New York’s Ridiculous Energy Policy Way Off The Edge Of The Cliff, Update on Australian NetZero efforts, A Good Mix of Sunlight and Rain is Now “Climate Whiplash”, BBC Fact-Checking Show More or Less Gets its Climate Facts Wrong Again, and New York Nuclear Plan
The Federalist: Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools, Exclusive: Child Abusers Top ICE’s Latest List Of ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegal Aliens, Criminal Illegal Alien Who Led Des Moines Schools Looking To Make Plea Deal, Leftists Play-Acting At Revolution Are Mad The Cops Won’t Play Along, and Parents Must Actively Opt Out Of Turning Their Kids Into Digital Age Zombies
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