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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025

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10+ arrested after a rifle ambush of security at Prairieland Detention Center near Alvarado, TX on 4th july.

Shortly before 2300, some of the arrested fired fireworks at center to draw out a response, when it arrived at least two of them started shooting at the responding officers from a distance of 100-150m. Soon after, a driver (trans, seems the only one) with a van that had 2 ARs was stopped by a responding cop (map & times)

The shooters fired about 30 shots at responding cops, hitting one in the neck, suffered a jam, probably faced return fire and then started running. Shortly after cops arrested 9 of them in a field 300 m away, armed and in body armor in addition the driver in the van. At least one got away. $25k reward.

Total equipment recovered so far on the spot: 4 AR rifles, pistols, 12 sets of body armor and several helmets.

NYT article: https://archive.is/CBvms Unusually big ambush, usually it's just one guy.

Here's a twitter thread with more details. Can't vouch for the veracity of it. It seems logical - we've been hearing for years how antifa can organise and has people. These people look too clean though, antifa protesters usually look much scruffier.

This looks very.. amateurish. Sure there was a plan but it seems they underestimated the difficulty of hitting anything at night. Or just chickened out.

Andy Ngo has some good long form coverage of the suspects. Actually he's got a few good articles on his substack about this and other culture war adjacent incidents. Some of the shooters were trans which is an interesting datapoint.

I don't know what these clowns were thinking. How did they expect this to end? They're lucky the majority of them are still alive.

Are people really in such a mental state that they think an assault on trying to murder federal agents over deportations is an appropriate course of action?

Appropos of nothing but would love to know the statistics for how overrepresented Trans individuals are in violent political crime. Considering how small a percentage of the population gotta be like 40-50x

Also apropos of nothing, this reminded me of how so many pro-trans-rights-activist comics I've seen on social media just feature a punchline of someone of the wrong opinions being murdered, and how their slogans like "punch a transphobe" or "throw bricks at transphobes" tend to be along those lines. My pet theory is that this is due to TRAs being dominated by people with far more testosterone than a typical woman but also who have a tendency to indulge in their emotional urges as is the common stereotype of a woman in contrast to a man.

A simpler explanation; transwomen are often formerly (still?) autistic men, who have difficulties with regulating emotions, especially emotions that arise from what they feel as personal attacks. This would explain the overly violent comics and memes; it's emotional dysregulation.

I feel also lack of permissible targets for aggression within the hugbox makes for super performative expression directed towards those allowed. If you're a modern liberal you're only really allowed to express hatred or violent intentionality towards MAGA or transphobes.

Same way I feel if Trump walked into the middle of one of the Floyd riots he'd likely be significantly more at risk of spontaneous crowd violence than if Joe Biden was at Jan 6

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