A week ago, US Border Patrol Agent David Maland was killed in a shootout in rural Vermont. At first, everyone assumed that he had intercepted illegals or smugglers and that the encounter had gone deadly. As it turned out, the story was a lot more convoluted and downright weird; see Killing of Border Patrol Agent Goes in a Very Strange and Unsettling Direction – RedState.

One of the assailants was Felix Bauckholt, a German national with an expired visa. Bauckholt apparently had a genius-level IQ and a very lucrative job at Tower Research Capital, the high-frequency trading firm, though the expired visa makes it seem like he'd been fired. He was killed in the shootout. Bauckholt's partner, a 21-year-old woman from Washington State named Teresa Youngblut. She was wounded in the shootout and was charged on Friday with complicity in the killing. 

I give more details in my original story, but they checked into a hotel " dressed in all-black tactical style clothing with protective equipment, with the woman, later identified as Youngblut, carrying an apparent firearm in an exposed-carry holster." This led to a call to police, an attempt by law enforcement to question them, law enforcement placing them under surveillance, and finally, Agent Maland's death in what looks like a pretext traffic stop involving several Border Patrol agents.

Then things started getting strange; one might describe it as "post-apocalyptic." The Boston Globe reports:

The fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont appears to be tied to a fringe group of vegan activists on the West Coast whose members have been linked to at least three other slayings, including the murder of a state’s witness in California and the killing of an older couple in Pennsylvania, according to court records and interviews with associates.

In a masterful example of what is called "burying the lede," the Globe omits the fact that this deadly " fringe group of vegan activists on the West Coast" are also trans.

Bauckholt was a transgender who went by the name "Ophelia." Teresa Youngblut was a transgender who went by the name "Milo." 

As "Ophelia," Felix Baulkholt's social media and leaked private communications suggest Baulkholt was connected to the violent trans militant cell—or cult—centered around a person who used the alias "Ziz." Members of the trans group have been involved in violence.

Baukholt was a… pic.twitter.com/YyZohlwGV8

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 26, 2025

The group is led by Jack LaSota, whose transgender name is "Ziz." The group calls itself "Zizians."

Killing of border patrol agent appears linked to ‘Zizian’ radical leftist trans cult https://t.co/ISUVWKPQwe pic.twitter.com/4ZPC5ighQk

— New York Post (@nypost) January 30, 2025

Ziz is on the run in Pennsylvania, where he faked his death, and in California. He is suspected of complicity in murder in both states.

Police are also searching for Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, who purchased the firearms used in the shooting. She is the "trans nonbinary adult child of Rita and Richard Zajko, an elderly couple found killed in mysterious and unsolved circumstances in Delaware County in early 2023. Zajko’s past archived blog posts show close associations with “Ziz.” Zajko's parents are the murder in which "Ziz" is suspected of involvement.

Breaking: Police are on a manhunt for far-left trans terror cell member Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, who is considered armed and dangerous. Zajko, who is trans nonbinary, allegedly provided the guns the trans duo used in the shootout in Vermont that killed the Border Patrol agent.… pic.twitter.com/6sb0MAuIGn

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 30, 2025

If you can get past the part where she "may be driving a green 2013 Subaru Outback with an expired Vermont plate" without a belly laugh, you are stronger than me.

Andy Ngo's reporting is finally making its way into mainstream media, and hopefully, it will get some attention. Read the whole thread.

As "Ophelia," Felix Baulkholt's social media and leaked private communications suggest Baulkholt was connected to the violent trans militant cell—or cult—centered around a person who used the alias "Ziz." Members of the trans group have been involved in violence.

Baukholt was a… pic.twitter.com/YyZohlwGV8

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 26, 2025

Perhaps unrelated, Monday Speaker Mike Johnston, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Treasury Secretary Doug Bessent were the targets of a bizarre assassination plot involving two bottles of vodka modified to be Molotov cocktails; see Speaker Johnson and Secretaries Bessent and Hegseth Targeted in Bizarre Assassination Attempt – RedState. The assailant was a transgender named Ryan Michael English, who answers to "Riley Jane English." In the best stump-broke fashion, the government detention memo refers to him with female pronouns.

As I pointed out in the aftermath of the Nashville school shooting by Audrey Hale, transgenderism has taken a sharp swing toward violence; A Wyoming Democrat Encouraging Murder to Support 'Trans Rights' Reveals a Violent Political Movement – RedState. The female-to-male transgenders seem to be the most violent. With President Trump's executive order cracking down on transgender surgeries and hormone treatment in minors, we'll probably see a violent reaction. There is a hope that maybe the FBI will be able to look into this as they will no longer be occupied investigating Catholics and kicking in the doors of pro-life protesters.