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How did Jon Turner get poop on the ceiling? Was it purposeful or accidental?

Obviously, an eviction would be forthcoming, since the overall state of the apartment was atrocious, but determining the poop mystery could help make a case, if the Missoula County Attorney gave a shit, that Jon Turner was a danger to himself and others, thus would need to be legally declared incompetent for his own protection.

I remember this case quite well, since it was one of the few times I got to hear the gallows humor of first responders as we waited around to see if we could put Jon Turner in jail for the night. Since Jon was fucked up on his preferred drug of choice, which was booze, we couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t try turning on the broken stovetop and starting a fire that could kill everyone in his building.

About a year before Jon got poop on the ceiling, he was being a vile and belligerent drunk at the Sleepy Inn, where he was in the process of being kicked out and dealing with cops. When I showed up at the motel, at the end of my shift coordinating the Homeless Outreach Teams, the cops dealing with Jon were delighted, and quickly left me alone to deal with a homeless drunk man in a wheelchair who could NOT stay at the Poverello Center, because we had kicked him out for breaking the rules, and could NOT remain in his motel room, because he was throwing things against the wall and bother the Native family living next door.

What did I do?

I pushed Jon in his wheelchair, east on Broadway, all the way to St. Pats hospital where the security guard explained to me that Jon was trespassed from the hospital and wouldn’t be admitted.

“Ok,” I said, “so call the cops and let’s get him arrested.” Reluctantly the security guard made the call, and when the cop showed up, I had to explain reality to them.

“Listen,” I said, “Jon can’t stay at the Poverello, and he just got kicked out of his motel room. If you want to get 911 welfare calls on him all night, or if you want to just let him die in the cold, fine, but getting him arrested is my last option. I will follow up tomorrow, call his payee for money, then see if any other motel will take him. He’s been kicked out of most of them.”

The cop was hesitant at first, but since he knew I was right, he complied with my request to use a trespassing charge from a hospital (the irony) to keep Jon from expiring on the streets of this stupid, retarded, toxically empathic town.

Yesterday, at the Housing, Redevelopment, and Community Programs Committee, I told an abbreviated version of my “poop on the ceiling” story and explained how our community’s lack of substance abuse programs ensures LOTS of failure (you can view my comment here).

After throwing a little shade at the new Unified Code and the industry expectation it won’t help affordable housing, I reminded the councilors around the “horseshoe” that the Headwaters Foundation sits on $80-100 million dollars, if they ever wanted to tap something substantive instead of just blaming the state while obsessing over taxing tourists.

Later in the day, while standing in the alleyway where Mike Nugent kissed Jordan Hess’ Mayoral mood ring, I was telling a street person how the Missoula County Attorney’s Office is actually the one killing homeless people like Lorrie Eisenbarth, and how the 60 year old woman sleeping and pissing herself at Barnes and Noble, then pepper spraying the barista when he led her outside, is also the kind of situation I suspect the Missoula County Attorney’s Office could address, legally, instead of the unofficial psych-ward known as “jail” where the woman, Erin Riggs, spent three days for “aggravated felony burglary” before being released.

While this alleyway conversation was happening between myself, the street person, and my companion (the man being criminally charged for losing a fight to four people with weapons and badges), a bunch of City Council members walked by, providing a GREAT opportunity for me to test their civic knowledge with my enhanced sign!

“JEREMIAH PETERSEN” said Kristen Jordan, to which I said…

“Correct!” then added, “But, in my latest post, the word I used was PUSSY!”

Next week I’ll be examining a new narrative push to glad-hand the Hip Strip condo abomination, including asking a question no one else will about the puff piece: why is a man who fondly remembers the ex-CIA turned newspaper man, John Talbot, ALSO admitting in print to secretly spying on “horny” people making out on paid work time?

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Did you know jokes can be weapons in a strategy to deflect attention from matters of serious importance? It’s true. That’s why I found this X post to be counterproductive to the effort of discerning what the fuck is going on in this world run by child-fuckers.

Actually, “Patel_Patriot”, Unicorns ARE symbolic of potentially sexually exploitive relationships, which is why I found the dirty stuffed unicorns at an abandoned homeless camp to be significant enough to report on in conjunction with that dead body found last November that STILL has not been publicly identified yet (link).

Before I get to the most recent news story about this area of town, let’s see what a smart lady like Jessica Banks thinks about Unicorns and how funny they can be when you imagine Jeffrey Epstein riding one bareback at fantasy island:

Jessica Banks? Yes, she’s a very smart gal with a company called Rock Paper Robot:

I don’t know if Jessica Banks knows this, but tweakers can also have kinetic furniture, and sometimes their camps, where this kinetic furniture proliferates, goes BANG, though this article doesn’t ever explain what that bang was. A gun? A bomb? A meth lab?

Shortly after 12:30 on February 7, 2026, multiple officers from the Missoula Police Department were dispatched to the Kim Williams Trail near the University of Montana campus. Dispatch received a report of gunshots being discharged near the river, followed by an individual yelling. 

Sergeants from MPD and UMPD were the first two officers to arrive on scene. They spoke with two individuals who both reported hearing gunshots coming from down the trail. One of the witnesses indicated that an involved party was a transient female. Another officer observed a female walking east through the brush between the trail and the river. 

She explained that she and “Curstin” were camped approximately 50-yards east. She said that she did not hear gunshots, but heard a loud “boom.” She said the disturbance occurred between herself and “Curstin” because he had pneumonia and was not taking his medication. During their interactions with the female, multiple officers reported seeing indications of impairment that would be consistent with the consumption of stimulants. 

Well, what happened? Was Curstin shootin’? That little detail must not have made the report:

An officer located a tent that was near the Kim Williams trail, directly across the river from 1515 E. Broadway Street. The officer observed some movement and saw an adult male emerge from a tent. The male, who was later identified as 43-year-old Curstin Teigen, disappeared into the brush.

Because Teigen was believed to be potentially armed with a firearm, officers did not directly approach him but began making announcements for him to come out. The announcements continued from approximately 12:56 p.m. to 1:49 p.m. when a drone was utilized to find Teigen hiding in the bushes. 

Teigen was lying down in a fetal position next to a tree. Teigen ultimately stood up on his own and began walking toward officers. At this point in time, officers still believed Teigen could be armed with a firearm due to the reported gunshots. For these reasons, an arrest team was put in place to immediately place Teigen into handcuffs. Teigen was informed he was being placed under arrest for obstructing a peace officer, but he was verbally and physically non-compliant with the officer’s demands. 

Following a search incident to arrest, an officer located a clear plastic baggie of methamphetamine on Teigen’s person. The officer also located a piece of tin foil containing black residue, a broken glass pipe, and a pipe wrapped in a blue surgical glove. 

Teigen is currently being charged with felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs, obstructing a peace officer, and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $25,000.

Another Unicorn of note in the Epstein Files is Brock Pierce, Mr. Unicorn Ventures. Sorry, Crypto-Bros, things aren’t looking good at all, are they.

Brock Pierce? Yes, Brock Pierce:

There’s so much more to report, but this is the free blog. My new research project crossed the 150 page mark, and I’m still shopping the project I completed last year, which puts Missoula into the context it deserves, so stay tuned for opportunities to obtain the long-form version of what I’m doing, where all the juicy excerpts from these things called BOOKS are contained.

And, as always, thanks for reading!

Yesterday Missoula’s Sheriff, Police Chief, and Fire Chief stood before the City Club audience and told them, the way a parent would tell a toddler, “Shhhhhh, everything is going to be ok. BIG BAD ICE won’t hurt you, children, not in Missoula.”

Before the ICE questions started, Sheriff Petersen described his department by saying “WE ARE ELITE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST”. Really, Jeremiah? Is that why one of your deputies told a family member of a brutal homicide that no charges will be brought because the key witness is deaf and the jury won’t like that?

While that might seem outlandish, this scenario is what Jule Banville reported on two years ago regarding the lack of criminal charges in the beating death of 88 year old, Delphine Farmer, which was the only murder case the Sheriff’s Office had that year (2022).

Delphine’s death happened after Debbie, who’s looked after her sister for years, briefly left the house. She did that every Sunday to play bingo at a church, says Bridges.

A hand-written note is among items taken from the house as evidence, according to a search warrant. Bridges, who says she’s talked repeatedly to investigators, says it was in Diane’s handwriting and found in her basement bedroom, and that it was about Monty; the lead investigator did not confirm or deny its contents. Bridges says her aunt Diane has also consistently acted out what happened to Delphine, blaming Monty. “She does not have the capacity to lie,” says Bridges.

In a call with Missoula County Detective Kelan Larson, Bridges says he told her he hasn’t brought charges because it’d be too difficult for a jury to understand and believe Diane. He has not responded to a request to confirm this.

To further erode the claim of being ELITE, Sheriff Petersen didn’t think it was worth his time to chat with KPAX about the City Club event. Why not, Jeremiah? Are you some kind of pussy scared of the BIG BAD MEDIA?

Although Sheriff Jeremiah Petersen declined an on-camera interview or to provide a statement, he told City Club Missoula that the sheriff’s office is seeing an increase in calls. He expects to release more information on his department later this week.

Both the Sheriff and Police Chief seemed quite eager to assure Missoula’s City Club audience that ICE isn’t on their radar, and that no city cops or Sheriff deputies are even authorized to participate in the enforcement of immigration laws, which apparently Democrats think should no longer apply. Because Trump.

Well, what about Mineral County, where our Missoula Sheriff sometimes sends over the dumbasses who can’t pass cop tests without cheating?

For those who don’t know how quickly outgoing Mineral County Sheriff, Mike Toth, threw Missoula’s Sheriff under the bus a few years ago when the writ of mandamus ploy blew up in their stupid faces, here’s the relevant part of my reporting at the time:

Sheriff Toth’s strategy on the stand was to overtly and, by insinuation, blame anyone else for what he’s ultimately responsible for. This strategy was on full display as Toth did damage control regarding the hiring of Deputy David Kunzelman.

For Missoula County voters, the first scapegoat should really be of interest, since Sheriff ELECT (Toth’s words), Jeremiah Petersen, was the one who allegedly referred Kunzelman to Toth as a “great guy” who should be hired as a Mineral County Sheriff Deputy, despite a little incident of stealing a law enforcement exam. As Captain of the Missoula County Detention Facility, Petersen’s referral carried a lot of weight with Toth.

Toth then threw shade at now Judge Marks, who at the time worked at the Missoula County Attorney’s Office, for “OK’ing” Kunzelman’s opportunity for rehire at the Sheriff’s Office in Missoula, implying this gave Toth some kind of additional cover for having to take accountability for his Sheriff Deputies in Mineral County.

Why am I mentioning Mineral County in relation to Missoula’s terror over ICE enforcements? Because there’s an unconfirmed claim that an elderly man was snatched by ICE a few days ago, then returned. This claim comes from Sam Redfern, who was allegedly raided by the FBI around the same time. Hmmm.

Now for the stupid questions from the dumb audience members this narrative-control event caters to.

The first question I recorded so you don’t have to wade through an hour of tedious bullshit is a question about bad GUYS rolling through town with an emphasis on “guys”, since the person asking the question believes women “seldom” commit those types of crimes. Also, she’s a member of Exchange Club, and they will be giving out figurative handjobs for law enforcement on Wednesday, so hopefully someone tells retired Detective, Guy Baker.

The second question I recorded is the first about ICE, and Chief Colyer gets the show started by cracking a joke. Smart. Then he and Jeremiah make their respective cases that they don’t DO nuthin and they don’t KNOW nuthin ’bout no ICE.

The third question I recorded is a follow up to the first ICE question, and it’s funny to see Jeremiah and Mike communicate with their eyes about how they should address the subtext of this man’s stupid question, which I will try to reproduce as accurately as possible.

“Should ICE come to Missoula,” he asks, “are you in a position where you would be supporting it, to the efforts posed by them, or how would you help protect us in a situation where, if things escalated, we as a citizenry would find ourselves perhaps at risk?”

In a room that is predominantly white and vastly privileged, this might be my favorite question, and I actually commend Chief Colyer for how he uses kid-gloves to handle these twats who want to be protected from the inevitable blowback that comes from using aggressive tactics against Federal agents.

If you don’t want things in MISSOULA to escalate, dude, then maybe remind your LOCAL elected officials that they were elected to help govern THIS town, not Minneapolis.

The fourth and final question I recorded features a woman that assumes if she says MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TOOLS enough times, Chief Colyer will know what the hell she’s talking about. No, lady, the term MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TOOLS is vague and unhelpful when saying the same thing your peers said before you, which is essentially this: how do you intend to keep telling us the essential fairytales we need to hear and believe in order to sleep at night?

If the privileged idiots who comprise the City Club audience want to think outside the Missoula bubble, here’s a map of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas they can look at and think about, since it represents geographical spots where their local tax dollars mingle with Federal money to catch those BAD GUYS trafficking drugs and humans.

At some point the narrative-controllers will pivot away from the strategic theatrics around “immigration” to focus on other facets of society’s decline, brought about by a layer of untouchable, transnational elite who definitely prefer that you focus on the salacious nature of who they fuck instead of pulling back the lens to see where the money goes.

Although, if we’re talking sharing torture videos, like that Sultan with an odd Missoula connection is alleged to have done, then it might be something more than just libido we’re talking about here.

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As I’ve applied my Montana lens to the Epstein Network something has started to sink in, and that’s the possibility that “blackmail” is NOT the main operating principle binding together this connected group of wealthy predators because, once used, the gig would be up, and NO ONE would have associated with Epstein anymore, meaning his influence would disappear the moment he actually tried using the blackmail (h/t to Owen Benjamin for getting me on this line of thinking).

Right now there’s a political game going on with the Epstein Files akin to “hot potato” and this ensures what needs to happen–indicting the ENTIRE SYSTEM for being run by wealthy pedophiles–will never happen. People who hate the right will scream STEVE BANNON, while those who hate left will scream NOAM CHOMSKY, and this partisan bullshit WILL eventually lead to average people killing each other in a real kinetic civil war because THAT will be preferable, for Americans, than the more difficult task at hand, which is admitting your political allies, at the top, are all psychopaths who enjoy doing what they’re doing.

Mostly what people with vast sums of wealth enjoy doing is preserving and expanding that wealth, and the culture that emerges from this is just that–a culture–one that you don’t have to be a pedophile to be a member of. At least there is no evidence that a retired law professor from Missoula by the name of Greg Munro is a pedophile, more likely he just wanted to be compensated by a car corporation in a class action lawsuit initiated by Richard Kahn, an important financial cog in the Epstein network.

Signing on to a class-action lawsuit doesn’t signify anything nefarious, it’s just what people do when they have access to money and legal representation, but when I dug a little deeper I found that Greg Munro is so proud of adopting little girls that he went to “Tell Us Something” to tell his story about pioneering secrecy for Montana adoptions. Hmmm.

To contrast this old, white, conservative man who is hopefully genuine with his support for open adoptions in Montana, there’s a woman I looked into when her name appeared in relation to a link about Ryan Zinke.

Who is Sheila Redzepi? She’s one of those cogs groomed to be a “global leader” for entities like the World Economic Forum, and vast networks of money laundering and human exploitation can’t happen without cute cogs like these:

Another fallacy I see cognitively dividing the self-interested click-chasers is the either/or argument about Russia vs. Israel influence when, in reality, it’s BOTH. Why? Because the kind of money we’re talking about here is transnational, that’s why, and this shouldn’t be a difficult concept to wrap one’s head around.

Unfortunately, being an equal-opportunity critic of this totally corrupt two-party political system isn’t a smart business decision. What the psychopath class wants you to do is pick a side, attack your neighbor, and help them burn down the OLD system so they can usher in the NEW one, which they will have total control of.

There is a lot of stuff I’m coming across right now that will NOT be published here because it’s going into my second manuscript with the idea that people really should pay me for the work I’m doing, since I’m digging deep into Los Alamos, Robert Maxwell, daughter Christine and the Santa Fe Institute, and other fascinating threads.

That said, next Monday IS Stutter-Butter Day, so listen to my new song for clues and you will know who we are celebrating on February 16th.

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The Yiddish word “schvitz” was recently used by The Pulp in a cute attempt to introduce Democrat candidate, Sam Forstag, to its readers. This interview took place in Forstag’s backyard sauna, a European trend being pushed on Missoula by some idiots who got shocked when they realized ignoring zoning laws wasn’t a smart business idea for their new business on Toole Street:

Built in 1930, the building Johnson and Raddue hope will house Montana Sauna Co. was originally a grocery store called the Toole Avenue Food Center, but for years the property, not even two blocks away from neighborhood anchor Draught Works Brewery, has been conspicuously underused. Its mixed-use designation would welcome, say, a daycare or plant nursery, but not any business that offers “personal improvement.” They knew this, they admit, but, determined to open in the fall and short on cash (the rezone application fee typically costs around $5,000 and the process lasts several months), they opted to forge ahead anyway.

If you read Forstag’s pitch for himself he hilariously thinks working class men–or “labor”, as it once was known– will vote for him because once upon a time that’s what poor, working class men did.

When I was a kid growing up, what being the Democratic Party was about, as I understood it, was being the party of the working class. And we just lost people making under $100,000 a year. If we aren’t winning working-class voters, we are literally not the party of the working class. Whatever our policy priorities are, even if the Democratic Party’s policy priorities would be relatively helpful to working-class people. It clearly doesn’t work to be the less shitty option.

It’s adorable that Forstag can articulate why his party is despised, but what about HIS involvement in the Homeless Industrial Complex, the one currently involved in a toxic empathy offensive in Missoula?

Before I get to that, it should be noted that the era of identity politics under Obama was designed to hide the deep fealty to big money that the Clinton monsters constructed for themselves, and this financial infrastructure is absolutely tied to the Epstein network.

So, what was Forstag doing during the TOO BIG TO FAIL era of his party’s final sellout to dark money?

We had this huge conversation about representation in the last 15 years on the left. And it was healthy in a lot of ways. But also, it seems like we forgot about the most fundamental kind of representation, which is economic representation.

If you have a multi-millionaire running for office who has to manufacture anger about how hard it is to afford housing or childcare for the last 10 years, they probably do feel a lot more pressure to hedge on one issue or another. But I don’t want to hedge on any of this shit. You saw me. I worked for the ACLU, and I worked for homeless shelters. And I will tell people exactly what I told my coworkers on the fire line when they said something out of pocket about queer people: We don’t have to agree on everything. We just have to agree that none of that is in the top 10 list of issues making your and my life harder.

In case Sam Forstag is retarded I’m going to explain something to him: cancel culture DOES MAKE LIVES HARDER when it is YOUR LIFE being “canceled”. And the agenda to push alternative sex lifestyles on children is VERY SERIOUS if your own child is being targeted and considering life-altering medical procedures.

It’s clear that Sam Forstag doesn’t understand, or can’t admit, what is happening in our country, and one reason is because our media fucking sucks. Here’s an example of that suck from the “business” reporter, David Erickson, and his article about a dead homeless man (the bottom article in the image).

As the FIRST coordinator of the Poverello Center’s Homeless Outreach Program, and I’m able to translate what’s going on in the quotes below because I’m not susceptible to the tugging of heart-strings that comes right before the most important aspects of THIS homeless corpse, which our newspaper is suddenly concerned about. Here is the first quote:

Katie Leahy and Sophie Shrom, both staff members at the nonprofit Poverello Center homeless shelter in Missoula, worked closely with Eisenbarth for a long time. They were both devastated when they found out their friend had died.

“It was shock, disbelief and tears, immediately to your face, right?” Leahy recalled. “Like, all three emotions. Wait … is this real?

She’s the lead for the Pov’s Homeless Outreach (HOT) Team, and Shrom, a housing navigator with the team, and been working with Eisenbarth to try auto find him a stable place to live for a long time. There had been a few spots that became available, but it was a complicated situation, and those places didn’t work out. His medical and mental health conditions eventually made it impossible for him to stay at the Pov, which is a congregate shelter.

The first red flag is the word “friend” because if that’s the word PAID staff are using to describe their relationship with a homeless client, then there are already boundary issues. Just ask the Great Unifier of Code, Eran Pehan, and she will confirm the concerning lack of professionally this term denotes.

The second red flag is the phrase “complicated situation”. This phrase indicates someone is about to piss on your head and call it rain. Additional vague qualifiers explaining it was because of “medical” and “mental health” reasons don’t help.

Further down we get a little more idea about WHY the housing placements didn’t work. After this quote I’ll provide my professional assessment on which Missoula County entity is responsible, in my opinion, for killing this homeless man.

Because of his chronic homelessness, he qualified for permanent supportive housing vouchers with the Missoula Housing Authority.

Leahy and Shrom tried to find places that were a good fit.

They showed him one unit at The Palace Apartments downtown, but Eisenbarth found the maze-like interior too confusing for his mental state. Another place called the Maple Street Flats was also problematic, because he would get lost and knock on other people’s doors.

When I read this I knew exactly what was going on, since I had VERY similar cases with some chronically homeless clients (not friends), which is why I can say, with confidence, that the MISSOULA COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE killed Lorrie Eisenbarth.

At Missoula Aging Services, where I worked from 2016 to early 2020, I had a few very frustrating conversations with the Missoula County Attorney’s Office regarding the process for determining someone didn’t have mental capacity and had become a danger to themselves or others. For more context on what this process entails, Lewis and Clark County has a helpful guide that includes this:

When the County Attorney’s Office REFUSES to legally involve themselves in protecting adults who can no longer protect themselves, they die. Apparently in the five years since I left the non-profit sector in disgust, nothing has changed.

I’m glad Sam Forstag is running for political office because the historical role of smoke jumping is a BIG reason Missoula became a spook town, with Smoke Jumpers fronting as the useful idiots for one of the most corrosive elements this country has ever unleashed on itself.

Speaking of corrosive influences, people interested in pizza gate really should check out Orit Oged’s Vimeo page before it goes away. It has everything–murder, cannibalism, severed worms, pineapples getting ping-ponged, but one of my favorite screenshots is this one:

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