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On August 25th of last year I wrote a post that preemptively assessed the alleged threat that Brandon Wayne Bryant poses to the Missoula community, and in that post I referenced the double-homicide case that all three Missoula residents pictured above were arrested for. Today I’m going to write more explicitly about what I only hinted at last August:

Recently a new person arrived on the scene where the social circles I circulate in have their little rag-tag sense of community. I was sympathetic, at first, of the criminal charges this person is facing, and the seeming pariah status this person achieved in their respective social circles, but that was before I learned about the double homicide of William and Yesenia Larsen in 2020, allegedly committed by several Missoula residents arrested in March of 2021, who this person may have some connections to.

Before I get to the connection mentioned above, the sentencing of Cory Spurlock to life in prison last month is now being challenged by the Trump administration with “unprecedented” pressure to put Spurlock to death. Huh?

A man who was the target of a Trump administration effort to put him to death after Biden-era prosecutors said they would not pursue capital punishment was sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Mirandu Du sentenced Cory Spurlock on Monday after jurors returned a guilty verdict against him in September.

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Federal prosecutors said in a July 2024 notice that they would not pursue the death penalty, then filed a formal notice stating that they would seek death on April 10, just 12 days before the intended start of Spurlock’s trial.

The reversal came after the U.S. attorney general’s office under the administration of President Donald Trump issued a Feb. 5 memo that stated federal prosecutors would be expected to seek death in some cases and directed the attorney general’s capital review committee to re-evaluate cases from President Joe Biden’s administration in which prosecutors decided not to do so.

Spurlock’s federal public defenders previously said the situation was “unprecedented.”

If this case becomes a political tug-of-war between the Trump administration and federal prosecutors, the attention will focus solely on Spurlock, but MY focus is on the liberal campus culture that influenced TWO Israelis, Orit Oged and the person I didn’t name in August’s post but will now–Hila Tzipora Chase.

Ten years ago Orit Oged attended Bezalel Academy and produced an art video, which the image above is taken from. You can see that video, titled “The Untangled Routine”, and several other videos here, including one called “Pineapples $ Lasers”.

For those squares out there who don’t know about pineapples, they’re a notorious symbol of “hook-up” culture, so I find it interesting that the video shows two ping pong paddles hitting a pineapple back and forth.

To confirm it’s not just me making this pineapple claim, here’s a quote from Men’s Health magazine:

WHETHER WORN ON clothing or jewelry, pushed around in a shopping cart, or otherwise put on display, an upside-down pineapple is a subtle signal that someone is a swinger or looking for a swinger party. Just to be clear: Swinging is a form of non-monogamy, wherein a couple enjoys swapping sexual partners with another couple or sets of couples. It’s where the “wife swap” and “keys in a bowl” stereotypes come from.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is none of my business, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. What we’re talking about is an aspect of drug culture that doesn’t respect the boundary between adult and minor, and THAT is the kind of charge Hila Chase is currently facing.

Doing circus shit, like acrobatics, is apparently where Hila Chase met Orit Oged and, since both women identify as Israeli (among other things), I’m sure they hit off quickly.

For Hila’s part in adding to Missoula’s campus culture, “they” got allowed to help the “Design Team” that Seth Bodnar relied on to rebrand the University of Montana. Here’s a list of names and the disciplines they came from:

Before I cut all communication with this individual I was taken to the “communal” house that New Jersey daddy owned right by Interstate 90. That’s how I was able to use the Montana Cadastral site to get this info:

The press-release last month from the United State Attorney’s Office depicts Cory Spurlock as quite a monster, but answer me this: do monsters exist in a vacuum?

“There were no bounds on the defendant’s cruel and violent actions,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada. “There is no parole in the federal system. The defendant will never walk outside of the prison walls. I want to thank our federal and local partners for relentlessly pursuing this case and ensuring justice for the families and community.”

“This was a horrific act of targeted violence. Spurlock’s callous and blatant disregard for human life was unconscionable,” said Special Agent in Charge Christopher S. Delzotto for the FBI Las Vegas Division. “The FBI will never stop pursuing those who threaten our communities’ safety. Thanks to the tireless work of our FBI personnel in the Reno Resident Agency and our committed law enforcement partners, Spurlock was located, prosecuted, and will not harm another person in our community again.”

One of my concerns back in August was the veracity of claims of sexual assault directed at a local employee of a thrift shop, someone who has since left Montana, I am told.

I was also told the FBI had been questioning other employees of that thrift store, and that the question of human remains had come up. Don’t worry, as a former member of the “Carcass Club”, I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for that.

Needless to say, I am STRONGLY ENCOURAGING my oldest, who graduates high school this year, to NOT consider UM, like at all, ever. And that was before I met another likely example of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Thanks for reading!

Today’s post is an Epstein appetizer post based on a curious email I found in the Epstein dump. Here’s the email:

Isn’t this interesting? I’m especially interested in how Missoula probation officers could “already know a lot about your participation…” Huh? Participation in WHAT?

Maybe Landee Holloway knows something about this? Too bad she’s so busy presiding over the bullshit prosecution of Brandon Bryant.

Landee was recognized by the Missoula Exchange Club as Probation and Parole Officer of the Year in 2013 and in 2014, she was honored with the Montana Governor’s award for Excellence in Performance for her work on offender reintegration. She served on the steering committee for the Missoula Jail Diversion Master Plan and , in June 2016, the Missoula County Board of County Commissioners unanimously appointed her to fill the interim term as Missoula County Justice of the Peace.

For more context on the effort of Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem to make business connections with Elon Musk, here’s a Jacobin article from ten years ago that offers some interesting insights:

Two years before hosting a meeting with Elon Musk in Dubai, Emirati logistics CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem asked Jeffrey Epstein to connect him with the Tesla head, newly released emails show. It’s not the only time Musk has come up in the Epstein files.

In 2015, an Emirati businessman emailed Jeffrey Epstein asking the financier to put him in touch with Elon Musk, according to leaked emails reviewed by the Lever.

According to the records, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Middle East logistics giant DP World and one of President Donald Trump’s early Middle Eastern business partners, wanted to chat with Musk about using Tesla batteries at a hotel Sulayem was building in Dubai. Musk, among the world’s richest people, would go on to serve in Trump’s second administration.

While many content creators and obvious partisans are looking for the most salacious click-bait material, it’s starting to look like the Epstein files will essentially be a Rorschach test that allows us to see what we want to see, while ignoring the broader implication that THE ENTIRE SYSTEM is corrupt.

When a “prominent” Montanan, like Jack Horner, is brought up, the easy focus is to point to his interest in “the girls”. Well, considering our Sultan likes real estate, I thought that perhaps land ownership would be a more interesting angle to apply to Horner’s appearance in the files and guess what? I was right!

Somewhere on his 9,500-acre ranch in Montana’s Paradise Valley, maybe as he watched the sun-dazzled Yellowstone River slide by the 12,000-foot Absaroka Mountains, Wall Street tycoon and self-described conservationist Wade Dokken must have had a vision: He would create a new kind of luxury community in the heart of the American West. Different from the typical recreation-based developments, utopian in concept, his Ameya Preserve would be a place of unsurpassed beauty, where bright and uncommonly well-heeled people could, however briefly, take their ease in a community implementing the kind of cutting-edge technology that could one day save the planet.

Along these lines, Ameya (Sanskrit for “without boundaries”) would be powered entirely by solar, wind or geothermal sources, the buildings would be constructed according to the most advanced environmental specifications. Most prominently, Ameya would also be designed to “zero out,” which means that the carbon emitted in the construction process would be scrupulously calculated, then offset by planting forest tracts somewhere else in the West.

In place of golf or skiing, residents could participate in a variety of Chautauqua-like events, conducted by Ameya “cultural directors,” community members with distinguished backgrounds in the arts and sciences. Indeed, the people Ameya would have on board include some of the brightest stars on the American scene: best-selling author and restaurateur Alice Waters; soprano Renée Fleming; paleontologist Jack Horner; and former head of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Thomas Hoving, to name a few.

While I haven’t made an exhaustive search of the files, there is a story I’ve been working on since before this latest Epstein dump, and that story will help show the corrupting influence of money and the inability of our elected officials to discern who they are selling out Montana to, so stay tuned.

Before I wrap this appetizer post up, there’s a few more data points relevant to Montana that I offer up for your consideration, and that’s an itemized purchase of an ambulance in Bozeman and subsequent training for CPR services. Curious.

Thanks for reading!

Are you sad that Don Lemon got arrested? Are you disturbed that other “journalists” got arrested along with him? Do you cry for Democracy and our beloved First Amendment? COOL! Then maybe you’d like to know about Archie and Edyth Bush, since it’s THEIR MONEY that encouraged Georgia Fort and Trahern Crews to transform themselves into smiling negro socks puppets for corporate cash.

What is the Bush Foundation? Let’s consult its history from the website:

We invest in great ideas and the people who power them. This has been the case since we were founded in 1953 by Archie and Edyth Bush, who set up the foundation with few restrictions, ensuring that board and staff members through the years would have the flexibility needed to meet the challenges of the day.

A Granite Falls, Minnesota native, Archie began his career as a bookkeeper with a small company based in Duluth, Minnesota. He rose up through the ranks over the years, helping to shape it into the innovative multinational firm known today as 3M. With no children of their own to inherit their estate, Archie and Edyth established the Bush Foundation with an original investment of 3M stock.

Yes, that’s right, since Archie couldn’t put babies into his wife, he decided to impregnate his community with bullshit, providing grant money for “good ideas”. Here’s the pitch:

Before we get to the “journalism” being funded by 3M corporate stock money, how about we read something interesting from a more established media platform, like ProPublica, and the vast gaslighting 3M engaged in when it looked like they might be contributing to forever chemicals forever polluting our environment.

Here’s how ProPublica reported the secret studies that had already been done by 3M, but were kept secret:

What Hansen didn’t know was that 3M had already conducted animal studies — two decades earlier. They had shown PFOS to be toxic, yet the results remained secret, even to many at the company. In one early experiment, conducted in the late ’70s, a group of 3M scientists fed PFOS to rats on a daily basis. Starting at the second-lowest dose that the scientists tested, about 10 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, the rats showed signs of possible harm to their livers, and half of them died. At higher doses, every rat died. Soon afterward, 3M scientists found that a relatively low daily dose, 4.5 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, could kill a monkey within weeks. (Based on this result, the chemical would currently fall into the highest of five toxicity levels recognized by the United Nations.) This daily dose of PFOS was orders of magnitude greater than the amount that the average person would ingest, but it was still relatively low — roughly comparable to the dose of aspirin in a standard tablet.

In 1979, an internal company report deemed PFOS “certainly more toxic than anticipated” and recommended longer-term studies. That year, 3M executives flew to San Francisco to consult Harold Hodge, a respected toxicologist. They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers. According to a 3M document that was marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” Hodge urged the executives to study whether the company’s fluorochemicals caused reproductive issues or cancer. After reviewing more data, he told one of them to find out whether the chemicals were present “in man,” and he added, “If the levels are high and widespread and the half-life is long, we could have a serious problem.” Yet Hodge’s warning was omitted from official meeting notes, and the company’s fluorochemical production increased over time.

Armed with 3M corporate money, Georgia Fort essentially created a blog called BLCK. What is the purpose of her blog? Let’s take a look:

Our mission is to Reconnect News to Black Culture. We believe stories are powerful—and that access to accurate, relevant information can be both liberating and lifesaving. But when our communities are disengaged and disconnected from the news, how can we make the informed civic, economic, and personal decisions that shape our future?
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When news is created for us, by people who understand our lived experiences, it doesn’t just inform—it resonates. It reflects our values, speaks our language, and becomes part of our culture.
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We envision a world where Black communities have our own trusted news channel—one that speaks directly to us, empowers us to act, and keeps us connected, civically engaged, and economically strong.

I don’t care how many words Georgia Fort uses to describe her supposed mission of “reconnecting news to black culture”, this isn’t empowerment, it’s control, and it’s funded by a corporation that made LOTS of money on COVID fear.

U.S. conglomerate 3M Co, which makes N95 face masks, posted a 24.2% rise in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, benefiting from strong demand for its personal safety products due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Net income attributable to 3M rose to $1.62 billion, or $2.77 per share, in the quarter ended March 31, from $1.31 billion or $2.25 per share, a year earlier.

While all this context is easy to find, I haven’t seen any other “news” source following the Bush Foundation money.

Why?

Why is a broke blogger from a Montana college town able to spend an hour following the money and writing a blog post that provides more interesting and relevant perspectives than the majority of the alt-media information sphere has so far produced four days after Don Lemon got arrested?

After a big week last week, I’ve got some very interesting content I’ll be publishing this week, so stay tuned. Despite NO corporate cash in my coffers, I still managed to publish FIVE posts last week. Here they are in case you missed any:

Leave Rhyming To The Poets, Jimmy (January 26th, 2026)

This Isn’t Kent State And Missoula Leaders Hate The First Amendment (January 27th, 2026)

Flattop Tester, Pork Chops For Cops, And The Role Of Operation Stonegarden (January 27th, 2026)

Councilor Anderson, Missoula First Responders, And The Sometimes Constitution (January 28th, 2026)

Dear Mayor,… (January 29th, 2026)

When you understand what our local officials did last week to shit on my first amendment protection, the approach I’ll be taking this week will make more sense.

Thanks for reading!

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!