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Dear Mayor,

Do you believe the ends justify the means, or do you believe in equal enforcement of the law?

If you believe in the latter, then I believe it is your responsibility to address the behavior of the elected officials who help you conduct the business of Missoula on behalf of its citizens.

The most recent behavior that should bother ANY politician who pledges oaths to uphold our founding principles, like those outlined in the Constitution, is the censorious actions of Stacie Anderson, which I covered in yesterday’s post. Stacie also implied that I was lying last September when I correctly stated, then later documented, that the information for citizens to call in their public comment was inaccurate.

Stacie Anderson, though, is far from the only individual to act in an unprofessional and legally questionable manner. Another example is Kristen Jordan, who was caught slandering me when she made false claims about me in a text message to a constituent. Here’s the comment:

Recently I obtained evidence of Kristen Jordan attempting to join a Signal group, but her invitation was revoked. Why are you trying to join “City Council Watch” Kristen?

Mayor, this appears kinda sketchy, especially after the FBI launched an investigation into Signal chat groups in Minnesota. You might want to get ahead of this.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.

Patel said in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that he wanted to know whether any Minnesota residents had put federal agents “in harm’s way” with activities such as sharing agents’ license plate numbers and locations.

When the institutional knowledge of the Mayor’s office goes onto media platforms, like KGVO, to talk about “crisis intervention“, the picture of their faces, I assume, isn’t doctored or manipulated.

“I’ve been a firefighter for the last 16 years so, in the past when we’ve responded our goal when we get on scene as a firefighter or law enforcement is to always get done with that call, find a solution and go on to the next call. However, the Mobile Support Team can respond and not have an agenda, so we can meet people where they’re at. We can arrive on scene and take the time needed to de escalate the situation.”

After reading about first responders not having an agenda I had to laugh. You can try to be a purist about the “boots-on-the-ground” people doing their job, but the agenda of every other element around them makes their job essentially impossible. Add to that someone like Sean McCoy putting rocks in his pocket as a “street medic”, and the work of actual emergency responders is further diluted.

Another BIG problem we have is the “legacy media,” especially ANY media that thinks it’s ok to do this:

While this image-tweaking might help liberal white ladies get behind the martyrdom of Alex Pretti, the recent video footage of Alex spitting and kicking at Federal Agents will be a bit more difficult to airbrush–unless liberal white women suddenly feel differently about white men acting violently.

In summary, Mayor, it appears like you’re handling things quite poorly, and that’s too bad, because making a big deal about going to Harvard was intended to convey the impression that you aren’t fucking retarded.

To further bolster my hunch that some kind of politically-induced retardation is impacting the functioning of local government, this post from October of 2024 shows that, despite Harvard, the challenge of providing accurate information for calling in comments remotely has been an ongoing issue.

Let me now state something very obvious: if no penalty exists for what is being done to my first amendment right, then the anti-free-speech behavior will continue. If that’s ok with you, Mayor, fine, just maybe dial back the insanely hypocritical virtue signaling about a different city in a different state because I’m pretty sure you are ONLY the Mayor of Missoula, despite how globally you see this moment and the tiny bit of spotlight illuminating your face.

Thanks for reading, Mayor, and stay tuned, because there’s SO MUCH MORE that needs exposing.

This morning, at the Public Safety Committee, my public comment was cut short by the Constitutionally challenged City Council member pictured above.

Remember that pose, Stacie, because this time I might finally adjudicate your rationale for what is germane to your committee, what is not, and why you think my attempt to read a news article about an unnamed City Council member was impugning that UNNAMED City Council member.

To see my comment get cut short, click here.

If I hadn’t been cut-off by Stacie Anderson I would have explained, without naming him, that Sean McCoy’s life was saved by first responders in 2003 after he attached himself to a logging truck on the Madison bridge and earned a felony charge for his stunt, which was a failed banner-hang on behalf of Earth First! about a timber sale.

Before making my comment I spoke with a retired fire fighter and he explained how dangerous McCoy’s river rescue was that day, since it was spring run-off and the pilings of the bridge create a very serious water vortex to navigate.

And what did McCoy do after he whined about his high bond, made his plea, and served out his four years of probation after Missoula’s finest saved him from his little dangle over the Clark Fork?

Sean McCoy’s 2009 political activism was what I was in the middle of reading when Stacie cut me off, depriving me of my right to make a public comment. Too bad, because I suspect the 9 firefighters being confirmed earlier today might have wanted to know about why a “street medic” would be arrested with rocks in his pockets:

According to newspaper records, McCoy also traveled to the Twin Cities in 2009 to serve as a volunteer street medic but was instead arrested for protesting the Republican National Convention. Upon arrest, he was carrying rocks in his pocket, according to reports.

During the trial, covered by the Pioneer Press, McCoy faced misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly, obstructing traffic and fleeing police. Protesters were painted by prosecutors as anarchists who encouraged others to “swarm, seize and stay” in an attempt to disrupt the convention.

Missoula’s Mayor, Andrea Davis, is allowed to rearrange the entire Monday night schedule to accommodate her grandstanding Minneapolis-is-Kent State performance, but my attempt to talk about why a past protest dangerously using public infrastructure is relevant was shut down.

Had I been allowed my full three minutes, I would have referenced the recent protest on the pedestrian bridge spanning Reserve Street, the one built with public TIF money. Here’s a Facebook post that recently got a lot of attention:

There are legitimate concerns about protestors using this bridge, like impeding the flow of multi-modal traffic, pissing off motorists and sparking road rage, or the possibility something could be dropped from the bridge onto a vehicle below.

Maybe I shouldn’t have led with my March 2023 reporting about McCoy’s convenient omission of his criminal history when he ran for Mayor, and the subsequent “reporting” nine months later, after the election, by Martin Kidston.

OR, even better, maybe Stacie Anderson should read up on the first amendment, open meeting laws, and why her use of the mute button might be a costly mistake for her to have made.

Thanks for reading!

When I comb through local news stories the way I imagine a politician might comb through his flattop hair, I don’t often learn new and important things, but with everyone so upset over the use of Federal resources in the guise of ICE agents killing people, perhaps knowing a little more about “Operation Stonegarden” would be helpful, and LORD KNOWS I love to help.

What is Operation Stonegarden? Glad you asked. Here’s a description from the link:

Operation Stonegarden is a federal grant program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of the State Homeland Security Grant Program. Operation Stonegarden provides funding to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to enhance their capabilities to “support joint efforts to secure the United States’ borders.” Funds are to be used for additional law enforcement personnel, overtime pay, general purpose equipment, and travel and lodging for the deployment of state and local personnel – among other applicable activities – to “improve overall border security.”

I discovered this program earlier today as I read about a “Muti-agency” drug bust in Lewistown. The name of the funding source was tucked away at the bottom of the article, where only assholes like me will read it and go HMMMM…

A coordinated criminal interdiction mission on Jan. 26 resulted in significant law enforcement activity across several Montana counties.

Agencies involved included the Phillips, Fergus, Judith Basin, Wheatland, and Golden Valley County Sheriff’s Offices, Fort Belknap Police Department, US Border Patrol, Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Montana Highway Patrol, Central MT Dispatch, Phillips County Dispatch, and Fort Belknap Dispatch.

The operation aimed to target high-crime areas within each jurisdiction to disrupt and stop criminal activity.

The mission led to 62 traffic stops, two arrests, 19 citations, three K9 deployments, and the seizure of illegal narcotics and drug paraphernalia.

The majority of the operation was funded by Operation Stonegarden.

While Democrats across America are ready to go to war with ICE–which will require their collective hive mind to allow even MORE stupid emotions to erode even MORE of their critical thinking capabilities–it should be noted the DEMOCRAT Jon Tester, back in 2019, co-sponsored the reauthorization and funding increase of this amazing pork chops for cops program:

Senator Jon Tester is co-sponsoring a bill to reauthorize and increase funding for Operation Stonegarden.

That’s a federal program focused on border safety.

The new bill would increase funding to $110 million.

Operation Stonegarden is what’s known as a force multiplier.

The federal government gives local agencies money to work with border patrol.

Before Tester got his political ass handed to him to give him the free time to ensure Democrats will keep losing in Montana as he helps push the Seth Bodnar Independent LARP, he was getting Byrne-JAG money for local law enforcement. Here’s what that money is supposed to fund:

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program is the leading source of federal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. The JAG Program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas including law enforcement, prosecution, indigent defense, courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, planning, evaluation, technology improvement, crime victim and witness initiatives, mental health programs and related law enforcement and corrections programs, including behavioral programs and crisis intervention teams, and implementation of state crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives including, but not limited to, mental health courts, drug courts, veterans courts, and extreme risk protection order programs.

Conceivably this kind of money would help teach Missoula police officers–let’s say a group of FOUR of them responding to an altercation at Charlie B’s–how NOT to be so terrified of ONE man and his stick that they end up taking him down to the sidewalk, punching him, tasering him, and injuring him before our brave County Prosecutors charged him criminally for…not putting his stick down fast enough?

Going back to the all-important MONEY, if local elected officials are so horrified at what coordination with Federal authorities yields, then take a REAL step and GIVE BACK THE MONEY! And I think City Club on February 9th would be a great time to let those local law enforcement agencies know.

City Club–where unintentional comedians pretend to have “new ideas” and a “free exchange of thought”.

Thanks for reading!

It appears that “Kent State” will be the Democrat talking point moving forward in the Democrat street war against election results, which I gleaned after watching a very painful minute of complete bullshit from our Harvard educated Mayor, who didn’t blink an eye at making the stupid Kent State comparison. Check it out for yourself.

One of the most toxic politicians Montana has ever had to endure–Ellie Boldman Hill Smith etc.–saw immediate opportunity with the ICE shootings, just like she did when that German exchange student was shot and killed in Missoula a decade ago. I told Democrats back then that their strategy was fucking stupid, but they doubled-down on stupid and, a decade later, these political losers turned the entire state of Montana from purple to RED.

Here’s the “secret police” ICE op-ed from Ellie, the most despicable politician Missoula has ever foisted on Big Sky Country:

If you have trouble reading this op-ed, just know that the alcoholic train-wreck who penned this bullshit claims…”We must choose transparency over secrecy, accountability over impunity, and constitutional government over fear…” because “…History has already shown us what happens when we don’t.”

Yes, when a politician like Ellie isn’t held accountable for bullying a young woman into committing suicide, or over-billing the Public Defender’s office on a CPS case, or double-dipping on Covid money, the result isn’t pretty. Will Montana Democrats every understand the extensive damage allowing Ellie Boldman to run rampant for two decades has done to their brand?

Here’s a screenshot of the article (Western Montana News) where I wrote publicly about the thing people in this town have been whispering about for years:

When Ellie arrived in Missoula from Boise twenty years ago, the director of Missoula’s United Way, Susan Hay Patrick, helped her land the job at the homeless shelter. When Ellie was compelled to leave that job at the homeless shelter after using shelter resources to help run her political campaign–which is legally dubious, to the say the least–Eran Pehan took over and commenced doing damage control to protect Ellie for her own career trajectory.

Today, Susan Hay Patrick is still the director of United Way, Eran Pehan is overseeing the total revamping of building codes with a background in social work, and Ellie Boldman is still a State Senator who helped corrupt RINOs undermine their own party for the entire duration of the legislative session.

The men who stay visibly tied to Montana Democrats like hemorrhoids on an asshole, or barnacles on the hull of the Titanic, are actually impressive creatures because, like Mark Anderlik, they know exactly what kind of nasty shit the Ellies of their party pull against their own people behind the scenes, yet they persist, wondering why working class men don’t show up to their street tantrums:

Why the fuck would labor show up for Democrats in Montana when Democrats stopped showing up for labor a LONG time ago? This isn’t rocket science, Mark. This is the legacy of the Clinton Machine and the only way forward is to curb-stomp the fuck out of it, which will never happen with a party infrastructure of sniveling professional victims running the show.

If anyone wants to really understand how party politics is played in Montana, just reflect on MY trajectory after leaving the non-profit world and coming forward under my real name to write aggressively about what I knew to be vast local corruption in the town I’ve lived in for 26 years.

When it comes to targeting citizen journalists like me and whistleblowers like Brandon Bryant, Mayor Davis knows how important depicting local cops as well-trained angels is to her own political existence, so that’s what this Harvard-educated politician did last night, regardless of the reality that individuals within her own political sphere are getting away with verified criminal behavior.

If these pathetic hypocrites don’t want their grandstanding bullshit to be mocked by someone who knows better, then hold your own side accountable. Until that happens, take your Kent State comparisons and shove them, past the hemorrhoids you refuse to hold accountable for all the asshole pain.

Thanks for reading!

To write about Renee Good getting put on ICE, Jimmy wants to go back in time to Ohio in a “viewpoint” piece about the “rhyme” of history. Why?

We know what happened to the most spoiled and entitled generation to exist on this planet after Vietnam ended and the war came home–they sold out. But hey, go ahead and repackage that anti-war vibe like Kent State has anything to do with what’s happening today in Minneapolis.

Here’s how Jimmy opens his viewpoint:

On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State students engaged in a peaceful campus protest against this extension of the War. The students were also protesting the Guard’s presence on their campus and the draft. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded, including one who suffered permanent paralysis.

Fast forward. On January 7, 2026, Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen was fatally shot by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Johathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ross was described by family andfriends as a hardcore conservative Christian, MAGA and supporter of Republican President Donald Trump.

With no substantive historical context, like considering the “days of rage” in Chicago the previous year, and with 56 years between the two incidents, Jimmy isn’t off to a strong start. It doesn’t matter, though, because Jimmy is only preaching to the liberal choir, which is why he can depict the incident he’s turning into propaganda like this:

A number of videos of the shooting, show that Good was in her vehicle, bantering with the ICE agents engaged in these operations. When she attempted to drive slowly away from the ICE agents, Ross fired three shots point blank, killing Good. One video showed that Good was denied medical care even after the person offering her help identified himself as a physician. An ICE agent responded “I don’t care.”

President Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and their lickspittles defended the shooting as one of “self-defense”—i.e., that Good was trying run over the agent with her vehicle. Indeed, Noem went so far as to characterize Good as a “domestic terrorist.”

Politically, both sides of civil war 2.0 have their martyrs now, and martyrs don’t get to be real people–they are props for people like Jimmy to use while citizen journalists who focus on local corruption regardless of party affiliation get decimated, and a whistleblower like Brandon Bryant gets targeted AGAIN for prosecution, including the possibility of terrorism-related charges, which I wrote about in last week’s post speculating about the dead body that doesn’t even have a name yet two months after being found last November.

Let’s go back to Jimmy, a former lawyer and Montana Supreme Court guy, and let’s view his quaint little notion about “rights”.

Whether it be an unpopular military war or Trump’s war on immigrants, people have the right to raise their voices in opposition and interject their personal presence against such government actions without threat of being attacked or killed by their government’s agents.

Second, while it would be unfair to paint all of these agents with the same brush (and I do not), it is impossible to ignore that some are acting with a level of aggression and recklessness that endangers the very people they are supposed to protect. The issue is not simply that individuals prone to overzealous or militaristic behavior find their way into federal enforcement ranks—especially in the absence of meaningful screening—but that their leaders, supervisors, and at times even courts and juries, implicitly condone this “shoot first, justify later” posture. What we are witnessing is not merely individual misconduct but a systemic failure of supervision and accountability.

Let’s try out this first amendment thing: are you fucking retarded, Jimmy? Or, perhaps the frontal lobe you’re using is getting squishy, because MONTANA is the kind of state where NO ACCOUNTABILITY will ever happen with the process I’ve mocked for years, known as the CORONER’S INQUEST. In fact, someone just commented on that 2023 post of mine because, though the years might change, the LARP of justice remains purely theatrical in Big Sky Country.

The reason I get salty with my words and the stoking of political outrage at a national level is because my sense of narrative control is informed enough that I can see better than most how rare independent thinking actually is.

For example, I’m currently watching the show Succession, and “fly-fishing in Montana” is referenced by Roman, one of my favorite characters. Well, if you want to unpack the influence of Robert Redford and his ability to set narratives in the minds of the passive audience “entertained” by movies, check out the latest episode of PsyOp Cinema, where I join the boys for the first time to share my insights on the movie, Sneakers.

The new book I’m working on about unicorns and serial killers considers movies like Nefarious and the serial killer in that movie, Edward Wayne Brady, being modeled after the real-life serial killer, Edward Wayne Edwards. When I read that Edwards was a member of the Knights of Pythias I scanned the Wikipedia entry for this fraternal organization against gambling and boozing and found an old Mayor of Minneapolis, A.A. Ames.

Here’s how Ames led this northern city during a time period later known as “the shame of Minneapolis”:

After entering office, Ames consolidated his power over the city’s police department (the one area of city government over which the mayor had full control). He fired nearly half of the city’s officers and replaced them with his political allies, henchmen, and criminals who purchased their badges. As police chief, Ames appointed his brother Colonel Frederick W. Ames, who, despite being “a weak, vacillating individual,” had recently commanded an entire regiment of Minnesota soldiers during the Philippine–American War. Norman W. King, a gambler and underworld figure, became the city’s chief of detectives. Medical student and confidant Irwin A. Gardner was made a special policeman, worked as the Mayor’s bagman, and was also put in charge of the city’s vice squad.

Mayor Ames and the Minneapolis police began operating as an organized crime syndicate, extorting protection money and various “fines” from the city’s illegal businesses. The money collected was turned over to Ames, and only small fees were given to his associates. Minneapolis was promoted as an “open city” to criminals across the country, and criminals were released from the city’s jail. Illegal businesses such as opium joints, gambling parlors, and houses of prostitution blossomed, many in the Gateway district. It was speculated that women were setting up candy stores to run a legitimate business to children and workers out front, but providing the services of prostitutes in the back.

After a year in office, Ames’ organization began to swirl out of control. Ames was drinking heavily and the various police and politicians under him began to fight among themselves, withholding money from Ames or developing their own extortion schemes without his approval. Attempts by the Hennepin County sheriff to crack down on the widespread criminal activities were quashed, but even average citizens were aware of the city’s descent into corruption.

Yes, corruption does get harder to get away with when “average citizens” become aware of it, so it makes sense that energy and resources are put into shutting up those who grow impertinent with the segments of polite society who don’t want to hear that their pals are using homeless people like meat-shields to hide their scheming behind.

If you appreciate the local-focus that I WILL be bringing to larger platforms, then get in on the ground floor and donate to my nearly complete gofundme page, just a few more hundred dollars to get to $5,000!

While I haven’t checked, I heard some reporting that both fundraising efforts for Renee Good and the ICE officer who killed her, Jonathan Ross, have reached or exceeded a million dollars. I guess partisan outrage really does payout!

To finish up, as a poet trained by the University of Montana to rhyme, here’s a poem-song for Jimmy and anyone else who appreciates the process of making art in a time of collective retardation.

Thanks for reading!