My new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, has been out in the U.S. for a few weeks. It was released earlier this week in the U.K.

Several publications, including LGB Courage Coalition and The Distance, have published reviews.

Many people, particularly those in the rationalist and effective altruist communities, have also reached out privately to praise the book. A recurring theme in their feedback is surprise at how much new information I uncovered and that I was able to present a balanced, nuanced account of the Zizians, their beliefs and their violence.

I owe much of what I initially learned about the Zizians, long before the group became widely known by that name, to two Bay Area rationalists: Taylor and Michael Vassar. Both knew members of the group personally, and both have given me permission to republish their reviews of my book.

Were it not for Taylor, a trans rationalist who knew many of the Zizians and was targeted for recruitment to the cult, the public might never have learned that the bicoastal killings last year were connected not only to each other, but also to other deaths in cases that had gone cold.

Jack “Ziz” LaSota, the cult’s leader, tried desperately to recruit Taylor as a possible test subject. As I wrote in my book on page 25:

Taylor was the first person to review my book, describing it as “the most comprehensive history of the Zizians available anywhere.” Taylor’s review appeared on X and LessWrong, the rationalist forum that the Zizians themselves frequented.

Vassar is the former president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a rationalist nonprofit where Ziz and other early Zizians became involved before breaking away to form their own group, which eventually developed into a cult. Vassar was even friendly with some of the Zizians years ago and was able to provide insight on their radicalization from 2019 onward.

I want to thank Taylor and Vassar not only for their contributions to my investigation, but also for their courage in speaking publicly.

Both faced criticism and pressure from left-wing rationalists not to speak with me. During my investigation, numerous potential sources backed out because they feared the social and professional repercussions of being associated with me.

Not Taylor or Vassar.

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Minnesota’s Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar has survived one political controversy after another, always with the protection of the Democratic establishment. From invoking antisemitic stereotypes to her past remarks about 9/11, Omar has repeatedly weathered scandals.

But that protection may now be at risk of collapse.

On Oct. 12, federal officials raided her Washington, D.C., home as part of a court-authorized investigation into alleged immigration fraud and conspiracy. Investigators are reportedly examining whether Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a Somali-British man long rumored to be her brother, was part of a scheme to defraud U.S. immigration authorities.

Omar’s family immigration history, unusual marital arrangements and questions surrounding her changing identity and age have fueled years of speculation about whether she misled government officials and the public about her past.

The allegations that Omar married Elmi for immigration fraud aren’t remotely new. A decade ago, I followed investigative reporting by Preya Samsundar and others at Alpha News on this case.

That reporting was dismissed and smeared by the liberal media and political establishment. Years went by. But on Oct. 29, 2026, The New York Times revealed that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security had investigated Omar’s marriage to Elmi during the Obama administration in 2016 and found compelling evidence.

According to the Times, investigators believed the marriage was fraudulent and that Elmi is her brother. Omar was never charged, however, and she has consistently denied wrongdoing.

Omar previously used a 2016 letter from then-Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger to dismiss the allegations. But Luger told the paper in the new report that his letter “was never meant to say anything about the substance of the claims.”

Elmi returned to the United Kingdom a few years after marrying Omar.

When I first saw photographs of him years ago, printed in news stories, I remember immediately thinking: He’s gay.

I’m a gay man, and I’ve long been familiar with the facial expressions and mannerisms sometimes described as “gay face.” I have it myself, and I spot it in my interview recordings when I am more relaxed and casual. Elmi’s flamboyant clothing, poses and presentation also struck me as familiar.

I noticed the striking facial resemblance between him and his ex-wife. To my eyes, they look like siblings.

On Oct. 21, MS NOW’s Chris Hayes gave Omar a friendly interview following the raid on her home. He asked her directly whether she was related to Elmi.

Her response?

“Not to my knowledge.”

There’s another part of this story I’ve never shared publicly.

Elmi lives in the greater London area. So do I, after becoming an exile following Antifa’s attempts on my life in Portland, Ore.

A few years ago, while browsing the gay section of the dating app Tinder (I’m single!), I came across a profile of a man using the name “Ahmadán.”

I immediately recognized his face.

The account had Ahmed Nur Said Elmi’s photos.

The allegations surrounding the Somali congresswoman and her ex-husband/rumored brother received very little media attention in Britain, so I wondered whether he felt more comfortable presenting himself openly here, far from the American political controversy.

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Despite a history of faking his death, escaping and disappearing, the lawyer for Zizian trans death cult leader Jack “Ziz” LaSota is pushing for his release from custody—to go live with another cult member.

The judge might allow it.

Read my new report at The Post Millennial. Here is an excerpt:

BALTIMORE — The lawyer for Jack “Ziz” LaSota, the transgender cult leader whose extremist group has been linked to eight violent deaths, is seeking his release from federal custody despite his history of faking his own death, becoming a fugitive in two states and evading police for years.

In an Oct. 21 motion filed in Maryland federal court, defense attorney Teresa Whalen argued that LaSota’s continued detention violates his constitutional rights.

LaSota is federally charged with being a fugitive in possession of firearms and ammunition.

Whalen proposed that LaSota be released into the custody of fellow cult member Daniel “Hastur” Blank, who was arrested alongside LaSota and Michelle “Jamie” “Alex” Zajko in rural western Maryland during a nationwide manhunt last year.

Order my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, to learn the secrets of this cult and why trans violence is rising.

Read my report:

I’ve shared some of the bigger interviews on my Substack already, but with so much happening over the past two weeks, many of you may have missed them.

I’ve compiled a selection of my video interviews below for you to watch and share.

If you haven’t already, please order my new book.

The Zizians is a dark and deeply disturbing true-crime investigation, but I urge you not to look away.

What began as a fringe Silicon Valley group descended into a trans cult that left a trail of violence and death across the country. But the story is bigger than the cult itself. My investigation examines the threads connecting the Zizians to a broader pattern of violence involving trans extremists, much of which has been denied, downplayed or covered up.

These are uncomfortable subjects, but that makes investigating and confronting them even more important.

Thank you to everyone who has purchased the book, shared my reporting and supported my work. I welcome your reviews of my book on Amazon, here in the comments or elsewhere.

A trail of brutal killings and suicides. A bizarre trans cult. Human experimentation. Hormone and drug abuse. And a story that’s almost too disturbing to believe.

I joined The Rubin Report to expose the shocking details behind one of America’s most covered-up true-crime cases that I investigated in my new book.

Watch my exclusive video of the February 2025 arrests of fugitive Zizian trans death cult members, including the leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, in rural Maryland.

They were wanted in multiple states after being linked to at least eight violent deaths. One tried to use a r—pe accusation to get police to back off.

In the box truck: a box labeled “Surgical Recovery.” The cult did human experimentation.

Learn the truth about one of the decade’s most covered-up stories. Order my book The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

Subscriber exclusive:

You are invited to my live book launch in D.C. on Oct. 29. Use code “subscriber” for a discount.

Each ticket includes a hardcover copy of my new book, which I’ll sign.

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Mainstream media has hidden the truth about trans violence from us. I spoke with Tucker Carlson about what I discovered and documented in my book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

From human experimentation to hormone abuse and murder, the truth is sicker than I could have imagined.

During the interview, Tucker also expressed his disappointment with the Trump administration on ongoing Antifa violence (he has become a strong critic of the administration and MAGA). I reminded him that both the Department of Justice and the State Department have taken concrete action.

Federal prosecutors secured convictions against all members of a North Texas Antifa cell earlier this year on terrorism charges tied to a shooting on an ICE facility. Sixteen people (including four Trantifa members) were convicted and sentenced collectively to over 560 years in prison.

In Minnesota, federal officials charged 15 people allegedly part of an Antifa network that helped organize anti-ICE violence and sabotage. The State Department has also banned a number of international Antifa terrorist organizations, including the Italian collective that provided the online infrastructure for many violent Antifa and anarchist cells.

Watch the interview and leave your comments below. I know people have very strong opinions about Tucker’s show.

We explored the unbelievable acts committed by members of the Zizian cult as they left a trail of violence across the country, driven by an ideology of trans vengeance, militant veganism, effective altruism and a fanatical belief that they were “saving the world.”

The Zizians are a fringe example of extremism, but they fit into a larger pattern of growing trans violence that is legitimized, supported and financed by many powerful figures, organizations and institutions.

The Zizians didn’t get to where they are alone.

Conservative commentator and author Glenn Beck has published an excerpt from my book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, on his site.

Read the rest of the long excerpt here.

In case you missed it, the New York Post also published another exclusive excerpt from my book.

Watch my interview with Megyn Kelly about my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, out now.

The New York Post has published the first look inside my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

How did a computer science nerd from Fairbanks, Alaska become the leader of a Silicon Valley trans death cult linked to violent deaths across the world? How did the Bay Area’s AI tech culture provide fertile ground for Jack “Ziz” LaSota to recruit?

This is Ziz’s secret origin story, finally revealed.

Read the excerpt at the New York Post. Order the book now.

Read the exclusive excerpt from my new book, The Zizians:

will join me live on Substack on Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. ET to discuss what I uncovered in my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

The book is out Oct. 13. Order your copy now and join us live for the conversation. Leave your questions in the comment section below.

For them to live, you must die. They believe death is a virtue.

Read the true story in “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.”

I’m devastated and in shock. I still can’t bring myself to believe this.

Waldemar Krysiak was an incredible conservative gay independent journalist based between Poland and Germany. He was also my friend. He fearlessly pursued stories on Trantifa, Antifa and the far left. He was the only journalist in the world who shared so much in common with me.

Today, I found out he died after suffering a pulmonary embolism at his family home overnight on Oct. 4. He was only 36.

You may not have heard of him because he reported only in Polish, but his stories and videos had great influence and impact across Polish media and politics. He was a longtime contributor to the publication Tygodnik Solidarność and its news site, Tysol.pl, where he was known for being critical of the excesses of the LGBTQ+ movement.

One of his best investigations was into a Polish trans Discord server where adults were discussing ways to traffic cross-sex hormones to children.

On social media, he went by “Myślozbir,” meaning “thought criminal.” Indeed, he repeatedly transgressed against the left in his writing.

I first met Waldemar in 2021, when he attended my speaking event on Antifa in Warsaw. We bonded over having shared enemies and became friends from then on. (Antifa and the SPLC later targeted me over that Polish event.) He was one of my first new friends after I had to leave the U.S. because of repeated violence against me by Antifa

Over the years, he helped me many, many times with my reporting on the ground. We were both undercover once in Berlin to discreetly report on Antifa rioting on May Day. We pretended to be boyfriends to better fit into the dangerous crowd.

Waldemar can be seen right at the beginning of this clip beside me as we reported undercover in the Antifa direct action in Berlin on May Day 2022. As it became darker, the leftist crowd turned violent and started fires.

In September 2022, Waldemar reported solo on an Antifa direct action aimed at shutting down Jordan Peterson’s live speaking event in Berlin. He sent me clips from the scene. In one video, a masked militant confronted him for recording. (Antifa regularly attack, rob and mob videographers in an effort to prevent their extremism and crimes from being documented.) Quick on his feet, Waldemar responded that he was filming the demonstration (“die Demo”) so he could show his comrades how to organize similar actions in Poland. The militant accepted that and walked away.

Waldemar even contributed to my upcoming new book, helping me locate Polish family members of one of the Zizian cult victims whom I had been unable to find, and acting as an interviewer and translator for one of the most crucial parts of the investigation.

Five days before he died, Waldemar texted me a screenshot of the Amazon page for The Zizians, writing in German: “I can hardly wait 😁.” Waldemar was completely fluent in English, but I had asked him to use basic German with me so I could practice. He asked me what I thought about the reporting on Candace Owens’ alleged lesbian life. When gays get together, we gossip.

I had been so excited to hear and read his reaction once the book came out. His name is in it, and at the end I have a personalized acknowledgment thanking him for his help. I will always be haunted by the fact that he never got to read it. This week is when media figures finally began receiving review copies ahead of the Oct. 13 release.

For several years, I kept inviting Waldemar to come see me in London, but he was always busy with his writing and traveling back and forth between Berlin and Warsaw. And then I was too busy to travel because of the book writing. I thought there would always be another opportunity.

Love the people in your life, don’t take them for granted, and forgive the slights they may cause you.

I want this to be a bad dream that I wake up from.

Waldemar, come back.

Content warning: This post contains graphic images.

Ahead of the Oct. 13 release of my book about the Zizian AI-doomer trans death cult, I traveled to Southeast Asia. You might have noticed I have not posted as much on Ngo Comment in the last few weeks. I apologize for that absence.

Most of my short social media posts about the trip highlighted the incredible foods I sought out and enjoyed with gluttony: pandan leaf desserts, noodle soups, pomelo salads and stir-fries to my heart’s content. Those lighthearted, apolitical posts also served another purpose: They helped mask how deeply disturbed I was feeling beneath the surface.

Among the places I visited were Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21, and Choeung Ek, the killing fields, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

S-21 and Choeung Ek remain two of the most notorious sites of the mass atrocities committed by Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot in the 1970s.

As a journalist who writes about far-left violent extremism and has experienced some of that violence myself in Portland, Ore., I was ashamed of how little I knew about how revolutionary communist violence had played out in Cambodia.

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S-21 displays hundreds of human remains found on the prison grounds in 1979. Many of the skulls were bashed in because regime cadres were instructed to save ammunition by killing prisoners with tools and blunt-force trauma.

I was familiar with the history of communist violence in Vietnam because my own parents experienced it after the fall of Saigon. My father was sent to a “re-education” prison camp, while my then-teenage mother and her family were relocated to do agricultural labor. I wrote about some of this family autobiographical history in my first book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

But my knowledge of what occurred in neighboring Cambodia was embarrassingly limited to what little I had picked up over the years from articles about the genocide.

You can read my full essay about the trip at The Post Millennial. I even had the chance to meet one of 12 known survivors of S-21.

I connect what I learned about the genocide to the ideological thread of fervent radicalism and the politics of jealousy that I see in Antifa, Trantifa and far-left extremists.

I have included exclusive videos and photos in this post for my Substack readers.

At Choeung Ek, one of the Khmer Rouge death camps near Phnom Penh, the larger exhumed mass graves are covered and identified. But around the field, smaller depressions are still visible from where bodies were found decades ago.

Please read my personal essay published on The Post Millennial and share your thoughts with me below.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

I’ve finally been able to unmask a long-time Dallas trans Antifa cell leader who uses the alias “Doberman.” His real identity is Hunter David Holmes. He has gone by the female name “Paige.” He uses she/they pronouns.

The violent militant was arrested over an attack outside the Republican midterms conference in Dallas last week. The FBI previously raided him, but he has not yet been charged with any federal crimes. Holmes claims to have traveled all over the U.S., including Portland, Ore., for his extremist political activities.

Read my new report at The Post Millennial.

Hiding identities through masking, using anonymous online accounts and wearing all-black clothing in riots is part of how Antifa keep their criminal activities clandestine. They rely on liberals and leftists to perpetuate the lie that they don’t exist in any organized form, despite multiple convictions for terrorism.

Trans violence is real. My upcoming investigative true-crime book reveals how a group of leftist tech nerds obsessed about the threat of super-intelligent AI ended up forming a cult where they believed trans people would save the world.

They left a trail of bodies in their wake. Pre-order my book now.

TUCSON, Ariz. — An African Muslim migrant has been identified as the shooter who targeted people outside a gay bar, resulting in the deaths of an Antifa associate and a leftist, as well as the gunman.

Ousman “Lofty” Ceesay, 44, from The Gambia, confronted Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, in the parking lot of the Venture-N gay bar at around 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 31.

Ceesay shot both men to death before shooting himself with a handgun, Tucson police said. He was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Ceesay did not attempt to enter the bar.

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Three members of the Zizian trans death cult have had their felony state cases in Maryland suddenly suspended. One is already out free. The group is linked to at least eight violent deaths, including the assassination of a key witness taken out before a California trial. They have repeatedly claimed that prosecutions against them across three states are “transphobic.”

The latest setback follows the California murder trial for three other Zizians being delayed again, this time to 2027.

Read my new report at The Post Millennial.

Are you surprised by this latest development?

Andy Ngo is the author of the upcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A transgender member of a violent satanic death cult network was sentenced to 77 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting and terrorizing underage girls around the world and grooming them into mutilating themselves and torturing animals to death.

Kyle William Spitze, 27, pleaded guilty in late 2024 to producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), possessing and accessing with the intent to view CSAM and helping distribute animal torture videos, but he wasn’t sentenced until Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan. The judge sentenced him to the entirety of what the prosecution had sought.

Spitze is a leader of the “HarmNation” group, which is part of the “764” satanic accelerationist cult-like online network.

The decentralized network of mostly teen boys and young men grooms its minor victims into producing child sex abuse material of themselves, mutilating their bodies, abusing or killing animals and, in some cases, committing suicide and/or killing others. They often target victims on online gaming platforms popular with children, such as Minecraft and Roblox.

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