chapotraphouse

Long story short: an offshoot of the rationalists (the ones who are scared of a hypothetical future AI god torturing their metaverse avatar) got really extreme, insular, and cultlike. This has resulted in numerous deaths, including multiple of their own members, an ICE officer, and the landlord who owned the RV lot that they lived on. A few of the members are in jail, but I think the leader tried to fake their own death and is still on the lam. The story has Manson Family vibes, with a charismatic leader gathering a group of troubled people to their side and pushing them to do violent shit, and in this case that leader is a trans nonbinary vegan.