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Missoula County’s “Justice Department” is angling to create a “Family Justice Center” because they know “families” have a hard time navigating the “justice system”. For more on this effort to help “families”, here’s KPAX explaining how Missoula County wants to give them even more support than they’re already getting from Crime Victim Advocates:

For those who go through the justice system, the process is long and arduous.

Missoula County’s Justice Department is well aware of this and they’re currently looking to establish a Family Justice Center to provide a better experience for those in difficult positions.

“What we’ve seen throughout the state this year has been heartbreaking. And if we can create a center, that’s gonna save people’s lives. I don’t know why we wouldn’t do it,” said Erin Shreder, crime victim advocate for Missoula County’s Justice Department.

As a Crime Victim Advocate, Erin Shreder’s job is dependent on helping victims of alleged crimes by taking their unvetted claims and transforming those claims into legal actions, like civil restraining orders. But this process is hard for “victims”, so that’s why Missoula County wants to spend MORE money.

Because WHY NOT?

Shreder says the current system often presents significant barriers for families who have to navigate multiple locations, court dates, and different judges along with childcare.

“The more times they have to travel between the agencies, they drop out and they don’t get the resources they need,” said Shreder.

Shreder also says that a Family Justice Center would reduce barriers, providing families and individuals a one-stop shop for all things related to their proceedings.

“If someone has been a victim of a crime, they can go there to speak with a detective or a prosecutor. They can get help for orders of protection. The dream-big version would have medical therapy, job training, resources, a diaper bank. Really, anyone who needs any resources in the criminal justice system, they go there, and they get it all,” said Shreder.

This is just the start of the Family Justice Center.

Wow! The Family Justice Center will have detectives, prosecutors, AND diapers? Amazing. I’m so glad bureaucrats like Erin Shreder are advocating for such an incredible use of tax money for all those victims out there with kids who will probably be murdered by their evil partners (men?) if we don’t come up with more money to help them get orders of protection.

Coming up with money is why “Compliance” called my family this week, since I’m one of those evil men that a Family Justice Center will be helping “victims” put in their place so that we don’t do more terrible things, like attending a trial of another terrible man who this town is trying to destroy.

Here’s my email exchange with “Pre-Trial Supervision”, which is different from “Compliance”–a convenient setup for diluting grievances of abuse:

The friend I’m being told I can’t support in person is Brandon Bryant, the drone whistleblower going through similar lawfare after those Crime Victim Advocates helped a registered sex offender get a temporary order of protection that he immediately used to harass Bryant, leading to criminal charges.

After city prosecutors dropped the main charge against Bryant, which was the alleged violation of the protection order, they kept a criminal charge of “disturbing the peace” against him because that’s how our city and county prosecutors play the lawfare game, defined by Wikipedia as this:

Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to affect foreign or domestic affairs, as a more peaceful and rational alternative, or as a less benign adjunct, to warfare.

Detractors have alternately begun to define the term as, “An attempt to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights”. The term may refer to the use of legal systems and principles against an enemy, such as by damaging or delegitimizing them, wasting their time, energy, and money (e.g., by bringing strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP), or winning a public relations victory. Alternatively, it may describe a tactic used by repressive regimes to label and discourage civil society or individuals from claiming their legal rights via national or international legal systems. This is especially common in situations when individuals and civil society use nonviolent methods to highlight or oppose discrimination, persecution, corruption, lack of democracy, limitations of freedom of speech, violations of human rights, and violations of international humanitarian law.

Brandon Bryant and I both made the mistake of giving a shit about the wrong kind of injustices and now we are paying a HEAVY price. The “Family Justice Center” being proposed will be just another layer of support for the victim class and the full deck of victim cards they get to play with ZERO accountability when those “victims” make false reports, something that can happen with frightening regularity when you become a target for elimination from society.

Before I risk my conditional release from jail to attend a criminal trial, let’s remind ourselves what the supposed intent of “pre-release” is for, according to some general principles as laid out by the American Bar Association:

The purposes of the pretrial release decision include providing due process to those accused of crime, maintaining the integrity of the judicial process by securing defendants for trial, and protecting victims, witnesses and the community from threat, danger or interference. The judge or judicial officer decides whether to release a defendant on personal recognizance or unsecured appearance bond, release a defendant on a condition or combination of conditions, temporarily detain a defendant, or detain a defendant according to procedures outlined in these Standards. The law favors the release of defendants pending adjudication of charges. Deprivation of liberty pending trial is harsh and oppressive, subjects defendants to economic and psychological hardship, interferes with their ability to defend themselves, and, in many instances, deprives their families of support. These Standards limit the circumstances under which pretrial detention may be authorized and provide procedural safeguards to govern pretrial detention proceedings.

Do I have a history of not showing up for court hearings? No. Do I have a history of violence? No. Yet, despite the conventional rationale for subjecting people to pre-trial supervision NOT actually existing in my case, here I am.

The recommendations laid out by the ABA further describe how the “least restrictive conditions” should be considered if pre-trial monitoring is deemed warranted:

In deciding pretrial release, the judicial officer should assign the least restrictive condition(s) of release that will reasonably ensure a defendant’s attendance at court proceedings and protect the community, victims, witnesses or any other person. Such conditions may include participation in drug treatment, diversion programs or other pre-adjudication alternatives. The court should have a wide array of programs or options available to promote pretrial release on conditions that ensure appearance and protect the safety of the community, victims and witnesses pending trial and should have the capacity to develop release options appropriate to the risks and special needs posed by defendants, if released to the community. When no conditions of release are sufficient to accomplish the aims of pretrial release, defendants may be detained through specific procedures.

In addition to ALWAYS showing up to my scheduled court appearances and NEVER being charged with anything to do with acts of violence, I’m also NOT an addict in need of treatment, having ended my toxic relationship with box wine on July 5th, 2020.

Do I have Cannabis dependency issues? Yeah, I smoke a lot of weed. Do I make unwise financial decisions? Yeah, I regularly spend my gift card money on $10 dollar pints of Gooey Butter Cake ice cream. I also used to regularly attend City Council meetings and County Commissioner meetings in person until I was told that kind of conduct, at least in person, was no longer an option for me.

To conclude this post, The Bail Project has this to say about the kind of electronic monitoring I’ve been dealing with since June 22nd, when I was released from jail:

If my effort to support a fellow target of lawfare results in my return to jail, readers will know from the lack of writing that will appear on these virtual pages. Undoubtedly this will add to my mounting legal bills, which I have no money to pay for, so help a citizen journalist out and consider donating to my GoFundMe page. Any little bit helps.

Thanks for reading!

According to a local news story, a mother in the Bitterroot is facing serious criminal charges for her part in allowing a party to happen where a teenager was beaten over the course of 3 hours by MULTIPLE people, including, allegedly, several members of the football team.

After multiple arrests were made, tensions in the community continued to mount, so Sheriff Colton decided he’d try taking his cowboy hat out for a spin in local media to calm things down.

Because, you know, that’s what Sheriffs in Montana are known for (that’s sarcasm):

The assault of a Stevensville teenager has grabbed the community’s attention, especially online.

So much so that Ravalli County authorities are addressing the situation by telling people to leave affected parties alone.

“Really, what it boils down to is this issue of civility in our society. And it’s really time to take a step back and look at look at how we behave online,” Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton told MTN.

If the problem is “civility in our society” and “how we behave online” then it’s doubtful a Sheriff will be able to arrest his way out of this terrible trouble with civility in our society, no matter how cool his cowboy hat looks.

That said, when a teenager gets a violent beat-down that goes on for hours, and it’s documented by the little budding psychos with cameras recording and laughing at the violence, then arrests will happen, and that’s what happened in this case, with even the MOTHER being arrested for her part in allowing the party to happen, then driving the victim home at 5am and leaving him in his driveway.

Yes, Jess McKay, that means YOU are in BIG trouble:

Court documents detail that while at a party on September 12, a Stevensville teen was assaulted repeatedly over the course of three hours.

Documents allege that an adult, Jessica McKay, witnessed the beating and then drove the injured teen home, leaving him in his driveway.

“The incident itself is horrific enough and there’s a lot of investigation left to do,” Holton said.

While these court cases move along on the wheels of illusionary justice, there’s another mother with a potentially violent son worth mentioning, a son who I think contributed to the violent death of Joey Thompson, and that’s April Seat.

Before relapsing, April Seat had a position of power and influence over homeless drug addicts at the Transitional Safe Outdoor Space, and I have heard MULTIPLE accusations from people using those services that she abused that power and influence over them.

Maybe that’s because it wasn’t “God” talking to her through drugs, but demons.

While April Seat tries to convince herself that she’s one of His Chosen Ones, I’m still wondering why her son, Dylan Seat, wasn’t more closely scrutinized for his involvement in the death of Joey Thompson, which I’ve written extensively about over the last three years, since all MY sources told me Joey was assaulted by Dylan and another young man at a keg party in the woods on April 11th.

Here’s the Facebook post from the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office about their search for Joey Thompson (including help from Goguen’s Two Bear Air):

And here’s Dylan Seat’s Facebook profile, followed by two key “friends” I found that I think helps explain why the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office never seriously investigated Joey’s death as a possible homicide:

Jason Tonn is the pastor at River of Life, where former Missoula County undersheriff, Jason Johnson, worships that God who speaks to his chosen ones through opiate dependency. Let me explain why this matters.

The “friend” connection to the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office and River of Life makes me think of other Christians, like Lowell Hochhalter, a man of God who also has one foot in the world of law enforcement, since Lowell Hochhalter is, amazingly, still the chaplain for the kind of Missoula deputies who sometimes bring along their wives on New Year’s Eve so they can witness their tough guys shoot and kill a man (Jason Johnson’s teenage son was also present that evening).

Earlier this year, in January, I wrote a post titled On Helping The Homeless With “Help” From Well-Meaning Christians which has more links for context on the Joey Thompson case, like the post with the death certificate from the outgoing Sheriff of MINERAL County, Ryan Funke:

I was inside the Missoula County Courthouse recently and I saw a sign, a literal one that I will be using as my metric of success in bringing down the people I’m going to bring down.

Here’s the sign:

I believe that when more people know what I know about local law enforcement and their deep corruption, which has spread THROUGHOUT the criminal justice system, then this sign will be taken down. Until then, it will represent a large part of what I’m fighting to expose.

If you appreciate my work please consider donating to my new GoFundMe page. Exposing the people with the qualified immunity to kill you isn’t the easiest pitch to make, but it’s the path I’ve been called to walk, even if every step is currently monitored by the expensive tracking technology I’m forced to wear.

Thanks for reading!

If you can read then you already know the sane idea bringing together a conservative activist and tranny legislator is hiring an ombudsman, but for whom? Also, what IS an ombudsman?

Let’s start with the last thing first:

Now that you know what an “ombudsmen” is, let’s look at a local article explaining what Zooey Zephyr is proposing in the Law and Justice Interim Committee:

On Tuesday, the Law and Justice Interim Committee voted 5-4 to support legislation that would create a program providing independent oversight of the Department of Corrections housed in the Governor’s Office. The bill will be introduced by either Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, or Rep. Katie Fire Thunder, D-Bozeman.

The oversight would come in the form of an ombudsperson position, of which Montana already has several, including the Department of Justice’s Office of the Child and Family Ombudsman.

DOC Director Eric Strauss has previously said the department was “pretty agnostic” to the idea, but not inherently against the concept.

Ok, so what’s the conservative argument for hiring an ombudsmen?

After listening to the X spaces where Cat Holley, the conservative activist, briefly referenced the idea behind this bill, the argument (as I understand it) is a fiscally conservative argument asserting the need for “independent oversight” before lawsuits descend over HOW BAD Montana jails and prisons are.

When I wrote yesterday’s post I began with an article about Cascade County’s jail, then focused on the “non-profit” law firm, Upper Seven Law, and their assistance in helping aliens, not citizens, get out of jail, but it’s CITIZENS who are dying while incarcerated, according to this July article:

Four Montana inmates have died at Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi this year, bringing the total deaths among inmates in Montana Department of Corrections custody to 14 in 2026.

That’s according to Department of Corrections officials, who appeared before legislators during a Law and Justice Interim Committee meeting this week. The committee has been digging into complaints around the facility this summer.

Since a good majority of people in Montana jails and prisons are poor, they can usually die without anyone caring too much about it, but if enough poors die, well, at some point a lawyer is gonna start smelling money in the form of “class action”, so I do think it could be fiscally sound policy to mitigate risk with a legislative bolstering of independent oversight via an ombudsmen.

One problem I’m anticipating with politicians doing something sane and beneficial for the poors, though, is the high likelihood of covert partisan seepage into this topic, which Montanans are pretty ignorant about, thanks to local media. That’s why I wrote what I did yesterday about the “non-profit” law firm, and it’s why I wrote about the transformation of the Montana Human Rights Network into the more innocuous sounding “Catalyst Montana”, which I see is moving into this ombudsman policy topic.

I wonder why?

The founder of 406Revolutionized, Amanda McKnight, recently got on my radar after she used a Missoula tasing incident to get a violent cop in Missoula reprimanded, which is a good start to addressing Montana’s law enforcement crisis. But, other than getting an individual cop reprimanded, it’s going to take A LOT MORE WORK to deal with the law-breaking law enforcers who are running the jails and ready to support AG, Austin Knudsen, for Governor when he inevitably runs.

That’s why I don’t see collaborating with Catalyst Montana as being productive for non-partisan coalition building, since they literally employed a Democrat legislator:

For further evidence of Catalyst Montana’s interest in funding an ombudsmen position for the Montana prison system, here’s the part of the previously quoted article highlighting this “advocacy organization’s” involvement:

Fire Thunder introduced the legislation to the committee earlier this year. Catalyst Montana, an advocacy organization based in Missoula, has supported the idea, which was originally presented to legislators by Amanda McKnight, who began advocating for transparency after a severe water crisis at Montana State Prison a year ago.

People who have incarcerated family members, including McKnight, have been frustrated with what they say is poor communication from the agency, visits being canceled, slow medical care and inmate transfers to out-of-state facilities with little or no notice.

What this “advocacy organization” rife with agenda-driven Democrats won’t tell you is there’s no fixing a PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that took four decades to build under BOTH political parties, especially when shitty Sheriffs, like Jesse Slaughter, are allowed to change their political colors like a chameleon to help camouflage how his wild west cowboy-deputies are too stupid and corrupt to understand the basic protections enshrined in our Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

In case you’re wondering, this is what a narrative controlling, punk-ass bitch with qualified immunity looks like:

You should have stayed a Democrat, Jesse, because it suited you better than the Republican LARP you’re pushing now.

I wrote about Cascade County and law enforcement recently in this post about a new County being envisioned for Montana, since residents of the Treasure State are THAT DESPERATE to get away from idiotic Tax Increment Financing schemes, but even WITH a more robust General Fund supporting first responders, I’m not sure the problems with law enforcers and jailers can be addressed if we don’t find a way to identify and handle SERIOUS corruption–the kind that gives law enforcers in Montana the impression they can get away with murder.

To continue this theme of weak confidence in local law enforcers, north of Missoula, in Ronan, residents are wondering what they’re getting from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office for what they are paying, and this wondering got the attention of local media:

A dispute between the Lake County Sheriff’s Department and the city of Ronan is growing over how much law enforcement coverage Ronan should have and who should pay for it.

The dispute became public on April 8, 2026, when Lake County Sheriff Don Bell and Undersheriff Levi Read spoke during public comment at a Ronan city council meeting, according to meeting minutes. They inquired about 24-hour coverage. Audio from that meeting was unavailable.

When you keep reading this article, like I did, you discover the top “city” cop in Ronan is ALSO getting some critical scrutiny:

Read also detailed serious concerns about Police Chief Jacobson’s communication practices, including refusing to check in with dispatch, deactivating GPS tracking, and failing to respond to emergency calls, including a domestic violence incident. Ronan officials declined comment, but their attorney provided a summary.

The County’s proposal generally contemplates Ronan Police Department coverage from 7:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m., with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office providing coverage from 3:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. The Sheriff’s Office also proposed handling calls requiring immediate action during its coverage period and referring appropriate non-emergency City matters back to the Ronan Police Department. The parties also discussed improved communication concerning coverage and continued mutual law-enforcement assistance.

Combine this with what’s going on in MINERAL County with outgoing Sheriff, Ryan Funke, and his lawyer, Lance Jasper, and one might really start to wonder how this state plans on handling its population growth.

I wanted to hear from both sides of this bipartisan ombudsmen bill effort, but as of this writing only one person was willing to speak with me directly, and that’s the person NOT connected to Catalyst Montana, which makes sense, since CM doesn’t think talking to both sides of certain topics is worth doing.

What else did I learn about the “non-profit” work of Catalyst Montana from their website?

Oh, you know, just stuff about terrible militia people, terrible white nationalists, and that terrible Freedom Caucus–totally non-partisan stuff, of course.

If Republicans and Democrats don’t find common ground over strategies to improve the conditions of incarceration for Montanans then litigation will eventually come, and it will highlight how corrupt Sheriffs can’t be expected to competently run detention facilities in Montana. Will the cost of THAT be more or less than hiring an ombudmen?

Speaking of cost, in Flathead County, voters authorized a $105 million bond for a new jail last year. In Yellowstone County, funding a jail expansion is also being discussed, while Missoula is budgeting $3.5 million for jail renovations after turning down a $5 million dollar request to fix the pipes.

Last month, when I was looking through the list of new requests for Missoula County’s 2027 budget, a denial caught my eye — $5 million to replace water pipes in the jail that “leak multiple times per week.”

After some brainstorming, Commissioner Josh Slotnick and county staff identified a way to pay for the project’s reduced $3.5 million-price-tag. But it’s not the only fix needed at the aging Missoula County Detention Center.

While 27 years might not seem that old for critical infrastructure like water pipes, the jail is different from other buildings, Sheriff Jeremiah Petersen told me Thursday during a meeting with the Missoula County commissioners and other staff members.

“The water is continuously used, and the copper wears out,” he said.

In Mineral County, a Facebook post highlighted how a recent jail expenditure for appliances might not be getting properly documented:

Does Montana need an ombudsmen position? Yes, we do. Will we get one? I don’t know, but if sanity wins out, we need to ensure the job is TRULY INDEPENDENT and capable of holding people accountable at the highest level possible. If Catalyst Montana has their way, I suspect this issue will look more and more partisan as their “advocacy” work infiltrates this topic to politically benefit their chosen marginalized populations.

I hope I’m wrong about that.

Thanks for reading!

There’s a post I’m still going to write about jails and prisons in Montana but today’s post is NOT that post. Instead, I found myself looking into the “non-profit” law firm taking a victory lap over the release of 24 people being held in the Cascade County jail:

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of 24 people held by federal immigration officials in Cascade County after finding they were unlawfully detained, according to the Montana-based nonprofit law firm Upper Seven Law.

The order was delivered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, after some of the individuals had reportedly been incarcerated for more than six weeks.

Again, I’m going to write about this story from a different angle later, but today the phrase “non-profit” triggers an immediate scan of 990 forms, which, in this case, gave me a familiar name.

While I’m sure Rachel Carroll Rivas believes in the work she’s doing as “Treasurer” for Upper Seven Law as much as she did when working for the Montana Human Rights Network, and existing within the orbit of the Southern Poverty Law Center, it’s precisely the political nature of that belief that I have a problem with, since tax-exempt organizations are supposed to follow certain rules about engaging in political activity.

So, what about Moonshot? Is it a weird project involving a rocket of blah blah blah, like my AI image is implying, or am I recklessly defaming Upper Seven Law and the great work they’re doing for journalism?

Because I’m sure journalism appreciates this defamation case:

Although the non-profit firm Upper Seven Law in Helena may soon challenge some of the bills passed during the 2023 Montana Legislature, they’ve got a separate, wider-reaching case on their hands as well: on Wednesday, May 10, the firm announced that they will serve as lead counsel in a new defamation suit against Fox News.

Less than a month after Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting System for $787 million, Nina Jankowicz—the researcher and former head of the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—has filed a separate lawsuit against Fox.

The lawsuit alleges three major falsehoods pushed by Fox: 1) that Jankowicz “intended to censor Americans’ speech,” 2) that she was fired from her position with the federal government (as opposed to resigning) and 3) that she “wanted to give verified Twitter users, including herself, the power to edit others’ tweets.”

Upper Seven will work with local counsel in Delaware, where Fox is incorporated, as well as the New York-based firm Pollock Cohen.

To get a better idea of how Upper Seven takes its “Unicorn” powers to the moon, I consulted their website.

Upper Seven Law (USL) hasn’t been around that long, but they hit the ground running in the 2023 Montana Legislative session in order to quickly undermine what those TERRIBLE conservatives had done by trying to “narrowly define” gender.

For those who don’t remember the 2023 session, local media and statewide conservatives had a VERY hard time ignoring the Zooey Zephyr show. To exemplify this annoying dynamic, the legislative bill targeted by USL after being passed into law shows how Upper Seven Law took full advantage of this attention:

A nonprofit law firm filed suit Tuesday against Gov. Greg Gianforte and Department of Public Health and Human Services Director Charlie Brereton, asking a judge to force their offices to turn over public documents the firm requested but were denied over assertions of executive and attorney-client privilege.

Upper Seven Law filed the lawsuit in Lewis and Clark County District Court. The Helena-based firm also sued Gianforte and the state last week on behalf of a group of transgender, two-spirit, intersex and nonbinary Montanans who are challenging the state’s newly passed law narrowing the definition of sex.

The suit filed Tuesday ties in with the challenge to Senate Bill 458, which defines sex as a binary in state law, because it involves records attorneys for the firm requested in preparation for the suit challenging the new law.

“In Montana, the days of policymaking in the dark and behind closed doors are long gone,” Upper Seven Law Executive Director Rylee Sommers-Flanagan said in a statement.

This law firm’s most high-profile client, Nina Jankowicz, had her moment in the Biden administration cut short because media meanies at Fox were allegedly saying such defamatory things about her role as Disinformation Czar, which we’ll get to in a moment.

First, the cutting short:

DHS’ change of course began after a storm erupted in May in reaction to the administration’s creation of a Disinformation Governance Board. Congressional Republicans called it a “Ministry of Truth.” The board was terminated just months later.

Aspects of the administration’s retreat on disinformation have been reported, including a CNN story about the DHS’ rejection of a project to protect election workers from harassment. But the extent of the turnabout has not been fully examined.

“They paused all the work on disinformation, not just the board,” Nina Jankowicz, the former executive director of the DHS Disinformation Governance Board, told ProPublica. “The administration kowtowed to the disinformation rather than fighting it.”

And second, the legal response to the orgs that said bad things about Nina:

I think that the way in which Fox News went after her parroted a lot of talking points that were coming straight out of Russia. While it may be the case that [certain employees of Fox] are simply useful idiots who really did the bidding of the Russian media because it was beneficial to them, the sort of ultimate effect is the same, which is that the Russian disinformation machine was able to oust a person who would’ve…potentially held their feet to the fire in thoughtful ways.

From our perspective, Nina Jankowicz has a great defamation claim against Fox News. The basics of a defamation claim are that you say things that are untrue about someone that are damaging to them. And when you have a person like Nina who is a public figure, those statements need to not only be false and damaging, but the intent behind them needs to have what’s called actual malice.

Yes, that’s right, with the help of a “non-profit” Montana law firm, poor Nina Jankowicz got to explain how she was just doing her patriotic duty to keep America safe from all that disinformation coming from Putin’s Russia and the evil right, who demonized her.

Thank the pagan gods for Upper Seven Law!

Controlling narratives can’t be accomplished with just non-profit law firms, so it’s a good thing Montana has that Chat House guy from Berkley/San Francisco to help inform dumb Montanans about their political options.

One of the people Max interviewed last year is Mary Poole from Soft Landing, the refugee resettlement agency that got some Royal money from Harry and Meghan before they fled America.

Here’s Mary telling Max how excited she is that America overthrew Syria and installed a former al-Qaeda insurgent as the new President so that retarded liberal white women in Missoula can get authentic Syrian food:

Since its founding in 2015, the non-profit organization Soft Landing has found creative and engaging ways to help hundreds of refugees and immigrants settle into life in Missoula.

One of the best, in my humble opinion, is through food. Among other projects, Soft Landing curates Supper Clubs, where a client with a passion for cooking can prepare and organize a multi-course meal held at a restaurant in town; members of the pubic can buy tickets and savor the flavors of cultures from all around the world.

…

Max: Can you share an example of a recent victory at Soft Landing?

Mary Poole: Syria, right? [The fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad] is really important to us. It was definitely the Syrian conflict that catalyzed all of this. There’s definitely a lot of celebration happening. A lot of trepidation, too.

All the Syrian families are coming in to see us, to talk about their joy around the liberation of their country. We ask, will you go home? Unanimously they say, “Oh, our home is Missoula.” They say, my kids are in school, my life is good. Things are stable here, which is unfortunately probably not going be the case in Syria.

Do you know what’s really important to ME, Mary? Identifying the idiotic trajectory of Missoula, with its addiction crisis, its affordability crisis, and more non-profits per capita than nearly any other community in America, and STOPPING THE MADNESS because what this community is doing is obviously NOT WORKING.

Instead, this is what gets Mary Poole excited:

He’s a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage shaking hands with President Donald Trump and achieving a major feat for his fledgling administration.

Trump announced he would lift the crippling U.S. sanctions against Syria and urged al-Sharaa to meet specified conditions in hopes that it will stabilize the country. These conditions include normalizing relations with Syria’s neighbors, including Israel, as well as the United States.

Before concluding this post I’d like to offer a solution to fix America: END tax breaks for ALL non-profits and send any liberal white women we can’t re-educate to the Middle East and Africa. Only then, I suspect, will America start healing.

Giving partisan lawyers “non-profit” status is NOT the way to start healing, especially when you look at the type of cases Upper Seven is promoting at their website:

If you appreciate my citizen journalism and relative poverty from exposing local power dynamics WITHOUT “non-profit” lawyers coming to my rescue, please consider donating to my new GoFundMe page. Any little bit helps.

Thanks for reading!

On January 1st, 2020, a police report listed Sean Stevenson as an “informational informant”. Two days later Sean was assaulted inside the Poverello Center, which put him into a coma that he would never recover from, thanks to the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. Today, for the first time, I’m including the full report that I think led directly to Sean Stevenson’s death:

The reporting officer listed in this police report is Mike Colyer, Missoula’s current police chief. Knowing what I now know about law enforcement fusion center activity with drug traffickers, I’d REALLY like to have a candid conversation with Mike about Sean Stevenson, what happened to him on January 3rd inside the Poverello Center, and why a coroner involved with exhuming a dead CIA agent was involved in controlling the narrative around Sean’s death.

When you review Mike Colyer’s resume for the position he got selected for by Missoula’s interim Mayor, Jordan Hess, it’s not just the Quantico training that stands out, it’s being a Drug Recognition Expert, a Drug Recognition Expert Instructor, and a Drug Evaluation and Classification Program Coordinator that leads me to believe Mike Colyer would be aware, through a cursory examination of Facebook, that the people Sean Stevenson was around on January 1st, 2020, were connected to the slice of the drug trade coming out of Browning and controlled by Blackfeet with well-known surnames.

When I reviewed Billy Bullplume’s friends on Facebook I saw surnames like Heavyrunner, Ingraham, and Marceau, with that last one popping up in a pretty serious drug case with ties to Mexico:

A Great Falls woman who admitted to dealing methamphetamine and heroin for a drug trafficking organization in Mexico was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.

Katie Marie Marceau, 38, pleaded guilty in March to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.

Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided.

The government alleged in court documents that Marceau was a significant drug dealer in Great Falls and had direct connections to a drug trafficking ring in Mexico. Leaders of the organization sent workers to Great Falls to distribute meth and heroin and to recruit local workers, like Marceau, to distribute drugs. The workers typically distributed the drug in Great Falls for a few months, and then the leaders rotated to the next worker to avoid law enforcement detection. In late 2020, Marceau became the new designated worker for the drug organization and sold meth and heroin to undercover officers. Marceau also was on state supervision at the time when she engaged in this drug activity.

When I found this case online the time-frame and connection to Mexico all lined up with what a known informant told me a few weeks ago. I also took note of the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted this case, since Jesse Laslovich is related to Dylan Laslovich, the former chief of staff for Jon Tester.

Hmmm.

The named victim in the police report, Seth Reeb, popped up in a local article after getting his 8th DUI. What I found significant is that Reeb is reported to have cases out of California, where Johnny Lee Perry was from.

“During the investigation, officers observed indicators of impairment from Reeb,” Arnold said. “Between the observed driving behavior and the indicators of impairment during the contact with Reeb, Reeb was placed under arrest for a felony DUI, which is a fourth or subsequent offense. Drug use is suspected in this incident. Thankfully, the vehicle was stopped without incident and no person was injured.”

Court documents indicate Reeb has three prior DUI convictions, two pending felony DUI’s in the Fourth Judicial District, and two DUI arrests with unclear dispositions out of California.

The Chief Deputy Coroner who exhumed a CIA agent before getting tasked with controlling the narrative around the sequence of events that led to Sean Stevenson being removed from life support BEFORE his family knew what happened to him is Jace Dicken, now retired.

Below is a picture of Jace Dicken from Facebook, along with an image from the 1982 burying of Hog Daniels in a Missoula burial plot and some excerpts from the article:

Thirty-five years later, one mystery is solved. There’s a body buried in Jerry Daniels’ grave in the Missoula Cemetery.

The next question: Is it his?

Even the skeptics are convinced it is, though Dr. Robert Kurtzman, Montana’s chief medical examiner, continues to analyze evidence in Billings after the body was exhumed for several hours on Oct. 25.

“They requested the press not be there or it could have turned into a circus,” said Kent “Dan” Daniels of Florence, one of Jerry’s three surviving brothers.

As it was, the process at the cemetery, Garden City Funeral Home shop and the state crime lab on Palmer Street in Missoula was a private and by all accounts professional affair. It was conducted under the auspices of Kurtzman and Lt. Jace Dicken, chief deputy coroner for the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.

For those unaware of how the CIA recruited Smokejumpers for Vietnam, Jerry “Hog” Daniels was the rockstar who earned unparalleled respect among the Hmong and, during the war effort, he was an indispensable asset for the CIA. It was Hog’s story, as told by his biographer, Gayle Morrison, that inspired me to troll the CIA last June during the 80th anniversary Smokejumper celebration on campus.

Besides exhuming the body of a CIA agent in 2018 (the same year Jermaine Charlo went missing), what other red flags in Jace Dicken’s background did I find? Did I find that Jace Dicken was involved in a fatal shooting with fellow Sheriff Deputy, Tony Rio?

Yes, but it gets worse.

After shooting dead 42 year old, Eugene Statelen, who was allegedly trying to run down Dicken and Rio in his car, it was discovered that the Sheriff Deputies had their WIVES riding along with them that night, as well as the minor child of Undersheriff, Jason Johnson.

Two officers involved in a shooting on New Year’s Eve had their spouses in their patrol cars. The women are now being treated like witnesses in the investigation.

We found out the wives of Captain Tony Rio and Sgt. Jace Dickens we’re on ride-along’s with their husbands when shots were fired. Undersheriff Jason Johnson’s 13-year-old son was also riding with another deputy who arrived at the scene shortly after the shooting.

Under Missoula County policy, citizens can ride along with a deputy once a year and family members can do so with permission of the shift commander. Patrol Captain Bill Burt tells us it’s not rare for loved ones to do ride-alongs.

“I think the primary reason is that there is an exception for spouses, is so spouses can have more opportunity to come out and see what these stresses are. Law enforcement has stresses that are unique.”

None of the people named in this article needed to convince me they lacked professional discretion, but this incredibly problematic scenario certainly helps me make my case to people outside this bubble that something is SERIOUSLY wrong in western Montana when it comes to law enforcement, drug trafficking, and the wreckage of drug abuse all over the country.

For more context on who and how narrative control is exerted by local authorities I’m offering–again, for the first time–documentation that shows Jace Dicken in the early stages of controlling the narrative in order to manipulate the expectations of the Stevenson family, who didn’t know enough at the time to wrap their heads around law enforcement’s complicity in killing, then covering up, Sean Stevenson’s death.

Then, after that, I have a video clip of an informant I recorded (for my own safety) who says, straight up, what he thinks Sean Stevenson knew that got him killed.

But first, the Dicken performance:

While the Dicken performance goes on a bit longer, I’m stopping it here because I’ve seen the autopsy pictures of Sean Stevenson’s dead body and can therefore comfortably say fuck Jace Dicken and his little performance.

Moving on to the video clip I recorded on August 31st at 6:40pm along the river trail in Missoula, the individual in-frame is the guy I wrote about here who claimed, I believe credibly, to be a dealer for the cops working the regional HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area).

In the video clip below, “Coby” is a younger black guy I spoke with recently who knew “Johnny Blaze”, or Johnny Lee Perry, the guy NOT credibly blamed for being allegedly responsible for putting Sean Stevenson into a coma on January 3rd, 2020, before getting shot and killed himself on August 29th, 2021.

Listen carefully to what the man in the video clip says because this is the moment I’m finally getting some substantive answers to a question I’ve been asking for years.

What this guy says lines up nicely with the case prosecuted by Jesse Laslovich against Katie Marceau, and it confirms what I’ve heard from other street sources that something BIG was brewing around the time Sean Stevenson got assaulted by, I believe, MULTIPLE people inside the men’s dorm of the homeless shelter I once worked at.

The clip I’m using today is from a longer recording where a man, off-camera to the right, can be heard claiming to be Jermain Charlo’s cousin. A few days later I ran across this same guy and we had a longer conversation about the person he said was involved in the drug money negotiations that led to Jermain Charlo disappearing AND Sean Stevenson being killed.

“the last Governor,” he said.

No, I immediately thought to myself, that’s too much. Nope.

But that didn’t stop me from thinking about it, then thinking some more, then putting this out cryptically on X:

I know, this post started with implying Missoula’s Police Chief, Mike Colyer, put Sean Stevenson’s name on paper, which led to his targeting and eventual death, and now I’m claiming an even more important public official–a fucking Governor–could be implicated in large-scale money laundering as he jockeyed his massive ego for a run at President.

What am I smoking, you might be wondering?

Currently, a Sativa strain called Blue Dream, but that’s beside the point. The point is Steve Bullock DID ignore some pretty crazy shit as Attorney General for Montana, as evidenced by these curated excerpts from a Missoula Independent article you can read here:

When I first read this article I was 32 years old and working at the Poverello Center. Ten years later, when Sean Stevenson was assaulted inside the Pov’s new facility on West Broadway, it had become a different world, one where it’s taking me 6 years to finally understand why it appears Sean Stevenson had to die, and who continues to benefit by keeping the reason for his death covered up.

Unlike Mike Colyer and Bob Franke, who got nice promotions and enjoy even more power over people’s lives in this town, I spent an entire summer homeless, living in my box truck, and the last three years defending myself from active lawfare, which has left me broke and very socially isolated.

All because I couldn’t accept the bullshit narrative of what happened to Sean Stevenson on January 3rd, 2020, inside the Poverello Center.

Don’t worry, Mike, as the old saying goes, you can’t BREAK the law if you ARE the law.

Thanks for reading.