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Feb. 28, 2026 - The Culture War - Tim Pool
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CBP Agent SHOT AT, Feds INVESTIGATE Possible Link To Trans CULT ft. Andy Ngo

Andy Ngo examines the violent "Zizian death cult," linked to seven radicalized transgender members across U.S. states, tied to eight deaths including Border Patrol agent David Marlin’s 2023 murder and a California knife attack. Ideology stems from Bay Area trans activists framing violence as self-defense against "trans genocide," echoing the Nashville Covenant Presbyterian shooter’s case where six victims were downplayed. Kansas’s new law invalidating falsified gender documents fuels similar rhetoric, while Ngo questions unstudied medicalization of minors—like puberty blockers—and estrogen’s impact on aggression, citing reduced brain gray matter in males. Easy U.S./Canadian firearm access worsens the trend, contrasting Europe’s stricter laws, as mainstream media shifts stance amid political backlash. [Automatically generated summary]

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andy ngo
And this is also in the context now of what appears to be like a crisis in trans violence where February is not over yet and we've had now three trans shootings in North America.
What happened in British Columbia earlier this month and then in Rhode Island and then now this.
tate brown
Over the weekend, another trans shooter allegedly fired upon a Border Patrol agent at the Canadian border.
This attack is shockingly similar to another trans shooting last year in Vermont.
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Hello, Andy.
unidentified
Hello.
tate brown
Well, thank you so much for coming on.
I think 99% of everyone in the audience is very familiar with who you are.
But for those like three people who aren't, could you give them a quick intro of who you are and what you do?
Trans Violence Escalation 00:09:30
andy ngo
I am a journalist who reports on Antifa, trans violence, and the extreme far left.
tate brown
Absolutely.
Well, I appreciate you so much for coming on.
Obviously, your sub stack, no comment, fantastic.
Everyone needs to be subscribed, quite frankly.
It's one of the best reads on the internet.
But you put out this piece regarding this situation in New Hampshire, obviously the shooting of a border patrol agent.
And again, the alleged suspect in the shooting, again, was trans.
This is all, again, alleged, but it was trans.
And in the article, you kind of explained this Zizian death cult.
And you kind of tie it back to the shooting last year in Vermont.
You're saying, look, there's a lot of similarities here.
There's a lot of indications that this Zizian death cult could be involved.
Could you break down kind of what you know so far and sort of this trans element in these shootings?
andy ngo
So what happened is on the 21st of February in very rural, remote area of New Hampshire in a town called Pittsburgh, there was an incident involving a not alleged trans person, actual trans person.
There's documentation of gender identity changes.
A suspect named Lou Daly, that was the chosen name.
And this person is accused by the federal government of trying to kill a border patrol officer, firing upon him.
And in the shootout, getting seriously injured, that suspect is still in hospital receiving treatment.
However, he has been federally charged with attempted murder of a federal agent.
Now, this has some eerie similars to an incident that happened on Inauguration Day a year ago, about an hour away in neighboring Vermont, also right by the Canadian border, where two transgender members of a trans death cult were involved in a shootout.
One of them, a German national, died at the scene.
A border patrol officer was murdered.
His name is David Marlin.
And a American woman from Seattle named Teresa Youngblut, who used the name Milo, was injured but survived.
And she's been charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon.
And federal prosecutors in New Hampshire are looking at if there are any possible links between Mr. Blue Daily, birth name Colin Zeke, by the way, with what happened in Vermont, given how there's just so many similarities.
And this is also in the context now of what appears to be like a crisis in trans violence, where February is not over yet.
And we've had now three trans shootings in North America.
What happened in British Columbia earlier this month and then in Rhode Island?
And then now this.
tate brown
I mean, it's really, it's unbelievable seeing this escalation.
We had Libby Emmons, obviously the post-millennial.
She was on yesterday.
We were kind of discussing what's going on in the trans community where they, again, you're seeing an escalation in violence.
It's really a disturbing situation.
But obviously, you'd brought up there's sort of some organized elements going on with some of these incidents, these trans violence incidents.
I mean, obviously the one in Rhode Island seems to just kind of be out of nowhere, that sort of thing.
But specifically with the Zizian death cult, that's a lot of interest to people because they hear the name, but they don't really know too much about it.
Could you maybe expand on what's going on, if there's like a degree of organization with some of these shootings?
You know, obviously some online, they're interacting with people online, these sorts of things.
andy ngo
The so-called Zizian death cult is named that because the leader of the cult is a trans person who uses the alias Ziz.
Now, there's seven members in custody across multiple states across the U.S., and they are linked to at least eight violent deaths, really brutal stuff.
So there was a border patrol agent who was shot to death.
And then just a few days before that, there was an elderly witness and victim who was set to testify at an attempted murder trial in California.
And he was assassinated by knife by the husband of the person who's been charged federally in the Vermont shooting.
So there are all these links in killings and suicides happening across the U.S. Basically, their ideology is there are a group of rationalists, most of them who came to the Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and then they became radicalized around their transgender identity.
If you read, they were perpetually online.
So they left all these blog writings online.
You can see that they felt that the whole world was against them.
And this is a very common theme we're seeing with many of these trans extremists.
They leave posts online accusing this and that of transphobia of basically the whole world being against them.
And it gives a justification in their minds quite often for violence, which is why we can see in even the mainstream messaging among transgender activists, they're very quick to allude to violence and threats of violent retribution against people who they accuse of transphobia or being against trans rights.
And they view themselves in their own language as victims of trans genocide.
Therefore, anything they do is self-defense, including injuring people, killing people, minging them, or death threats.
tate brown
Yeah.
I mean, that's what's so disturbing when we see, I mean, the one that jumps out to me was the Covenant Presbyterian shooting in Nashville.
I think it would have been two years ago now.
Immediately following the shooting, we had a lot of these trans activists come out.
And of course, they put out a brief condemnation because it's for PR.
But then they follow it up with like asterisk after asterisk after asterisk of, you know, they're almost more concerned with the backlash against the trans community, whatever that is, versus the actual situation that we're seeing, which is, okay, we are seeing an increase in violence that needs to be addressed.
And then the backlash, so to speak, again, are just people really asking questions like, hey, what's going on over there?
Why does this keep happening?
Can you guys maybe provide an explanation for us here?
And instead, it just from what it seems like is sort of these people end up going into tighter and tighter circles.
They tighten ranks more and more.
That to me just seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
I don't know.
andy ngo
Yeah, and how that's particularly manifested, we can see this just in the last five years, is that trans people and radical queer activists are being encouraged to take up firearms training, stockpile weapons, coupled with an ideology of an anti-government ideology and I would call the misindress ideology.
And they're having a simmering hatred, resentment against wider society.
You brought up some of the reaction to the Nashville Covenant Christian School shooting in which a transgender shooter, Audrey Hale, a female, one of the few female mass school shooters, was transgender.
And the reaction to that was when there was a protest at the state capitol in Nashville a few days after the shooting.
There was a memorial held by trans activists and queer activists, and they held up seven fingers for the victims.
But there were six victims in the shootings, which I think was quite telling that they viewed Ms. Hale as a victim, even though she was a perpetrator of killings of children and those who worked at the school.
And they always speak about a fear of backlash, and the backlash doesn't come.
It comes in the form of common sense legislation, such as Kansas State just now putting into law that they are invalidating official documents like birth certificates and driver's licenses that have been falsely altered with inaccurate information.
Most states in the U.S., particularly ones run by Democrats, allow people to self-identify their gender identity, which means then those documents are inaccurate.
You know, somebody is born male or female.
And if you go back and change it based on how you feel for any particular moment, that birth certificate is inaccurate.
So Kansas now has a law in effect, thanks to the Republicans in power there.
And this is now being brought out by trans activists as an example of transgenocide.
And of course, the big elephant in the room, which I'm sure the listeners and viewers are thinking of, is what are the effects of cross-sex hormones on people who already have very, very high rates of mental health and psychiatric disorders.
There's been research that's been done in the past.
We don't see it very much now, but the effects on the brain, on the male brain, for example, when estrogen is introduced for an extended amount of time, they have a reduction in brain gray matter, which has all sorts of effects on mood and other things that need to be studied.
In the past, when there was research, particularly on homicides, where there was a sexualized violence angle to it, there were very high rates of people uh, the perpetrators, who had genital and gender dysphoria.
The Trans Violence Conundrum 00:06:05
andy ngo
So in the literature, in academic literature, peer research studies i've been done in the past there's a lot of evidence that this is a community that has um, a lot of issues, let's just say.
And now in the you know, contemporary 21st uh, 21st century context, where they do have access very easily to drugs and cross-sex hormones and guns and weapons, I think that may be partially what's explaining this crisis we see of Toronto islands.
tate brown
Now, you obviously are, you know, keep an eye on everything internationally.
Um, you know, I I think it's safe to say you're one of the best reporters around um, is this kind of a uniquely American, maybe even Canadian issue, or is this happening kind of broadly across western civilization?
andy ngo
I live, i'm speaking to you from England and there's a far-left trans militancy in western Europe as well.
That's broadly a western phenomenon.
It's a product of the excesses of liberalism.
However, what's happening in the U.s and you could say to Canada as well, is that the trans individuals in in the U.s have have easy access to firearms which they can use to kill people, mass numbers of people in some instances, whereas that type of um variable is not in play in other places.
tate brown
Right, that makes sense.
That makes sense.
What, I guess, when you see an attack on a border patrol agent, that obviously indicates um, these people obviously are.
There's a there's a leftism component.
I mean that's just obvious, that it's it's, captain, obvious.
Here the leftism component is that what's going on in these cults?
Are these cults the, the recruitment effort?
Are they recruiting people that are just broadly left-wing, that are sort of queer, or is this specifically targeting people that have already transitioned?
Like, how does that specifically work?
What kind of people are getting roped into these operations?
andy ngo
So, going back to the Zizian Trans Death cult they um, their worldview was particularly left-wing right.
It's clear in all the writings that were left by the um alleged members of this network and cult, and they incorporated aspects of anarchist politics as well as just mainstream leftism as well, particularly this grievance against what they say is Republicans pursuing agenda fascism and transgenocide against people like us.
tate brown
I mean, that's just, it's just so disturbing.
This is happening because, to a degree, it feels like there's not really that much the government can do about it, because I mean, if these are just happening again online um, in these online communities, there's a you kind of feel a degree of helplessness.
It feels like the issue is further up the chain again.
We need to address the implications of these, these hormones um, that are that are being implemented, perhaps having conversations around access to gender reassignment surgery broadly.
I don't know if you think those are fair categorizations, but when I look at like the trans death culture, I just don't see what the government can really do about that in and of itself.
It feels like the issue is a lot further up the chain.
andy ngo
You're right that policy discussions are up the chain.
However, the first thing that needs to be done is just having honest conversations about it.
And we really aren't, I mean, other than people reacting on social media, it hasn't been engaged with as a real crisis by intellectuals, by people who study all the components that are part of this.
You know, we're talking about health, mental health, policies around access to weapons and a whole number of other things.
So we can't even take the first step because the first step is shut down as transphobia.
And there's so many parallels to what was happening two decades ago with those who wanted to have discussions about radical Islam.
In some ways, I feel like we almost haven't made very little steps in that as well.
And we had 20 years to work on that.
tate brown
That's what's so interesting now is seeing these.
I guess I was talking to Libby about this yesterday, these permission pieces that are coming out from like the Washington Post and the New York Times where they're saying, okay, maybe we need like, maybe we've gone too far with the trans thing, but we have to have another conversation about, you know, where's the line?
You know, what age should we be, you know, these sorts of things.
They're having these permission pieces where now they're kind of signaling to the left, hey, we might have gone too far.
Let's start retracting a little bit.
Even Gavin Newsom, you know, came out a few days ago and was saying, this isn't, you know, this isn't going to play in Peoria.
We need to reshape our approach to the trans issue, so to speak.
I think the most offensive thing to that would be to people that have already transitioned and they're saying, hey, wait a second, you just pulled the ladder up behind me.
I thought this was like the new thing.
And then now you're, again, now we're having a conversation about it because it's not politically viable.
I think that's the primary reason.
But do you see this as like a reckoning on the left, or do you think that they're just saying this is a very politically inexpedient policy to have?
andy ngo
It's not a reckoning.
It's a little bit of progress on one particular part of the story, which is around the medicalization of minors, which is not the direct issue, I think, to the issue of trans violence, but it's connected to it.
unidentified
Sure.
andy ngo
In that some of these, those who have been accused of or engage in this mass violent have involved teenagers.
Some of them transition quite young, for example, like the Canadian trans shooter.
And there are a lot of questions about why, why now are some of the medical associations, some of the big ones, there's been two, who have spoken out saying, hey, in terms of cosmetic procedures, that should be delayed until adulthood.
I mean, I'll give them a clap for that late, but I'm glad they came to that.
There was another one that followed up on that recommendation.
And, you know, I'm not, I support like coming on late is better than coming on never at all.
Puberty Blockers and Gender Confusion 00:01:34
unidentified
Sure.
andy ngo
And I think, you know, puberty blockers, despite what trans activists say about how the science is outhold, science is real.
On this particular, on their claims, it's actually, it's not settled.
Puberty blockers being used to treat children with gender confusion is new.
And so the long-term effects aren't known.
And during puberty, and just in terms of the physical development of the body, that's where your bones develop the density that's needed for later in life.
There's a lot of brain development that happens through puberty.
So, you know, you're playing with a lot of dangerous things when you're putting children and young adolescents on a delay of something that their body is supposed to go through in terms of developing into a healthy human.
You know, this is just beyond the discussion about how they identify gender-wise.
It's about physical health.
tate brown
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, it's, I agree.
I mean, at least the football is moving down the field, so to speak.
I think, you know, again, to give them a little golf clap here and there.
But Andy, I know we're running out of time here.
I really appreciate you coming.
I'm such a legend.
So I'm so happy to have you on.
Where can people find you to get more?
unidentified
Thank you.
andy ngo
My reporting's at ngocomment.com.
No comment.
I also have a New York Times bestseller that came out in 2021 called Unmasked.
And that's all about Antifa.
tate brown
Let's go.
Thank you so much, Andy.
I'll catch you next time.
andy ngo
My pleasure.
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