January 2025: Violence Spreads Across States

They called themselves vegans, tech-savvy anarchists, idealistic rationalists, but beneath the coded language of AI fears, vegan ethics, and brain-hemisphere theories lurked something far darker. The Zizians began as an obscure fringe community online, but. when members of this online collective began turning up dead, vanishing without explanation, or popping up in the background of bizarre, violent crimes across multiple states, investigators realized they weren’t dealing with just another fringe community. They were looking at something far more unhinged…
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