Later today, starting at 5:30pm, a fundraiser for Seth Bodnar is being held somewhere up in the Rattlesnake.
Do I know where? Yes I do. Am I going to say where? No I’m not. That means any would-be party-crasher who might be inclined to show up to tell this terrible, awful, no good, very bad candidate what they/them think about he/him, then they/them will have to do their/their own research.
I hope that makes sense.
The source I got this information from would like me to note that op-sec (operational security) doesn’t appear to be part of Chelsea Bodnar’s skillset, since the open-air meeting she held earlier today with a group of Boomers could have been overheard by anyone in the vicinity.
For example, if one of those Boomers loudly told his partner the specific address where this fundraiser was being held, then a discerning person writing down notes could easily figure out who is throwing the shindig.
And who is throwing the fundraiser?
That information I will share, for reasons that will soon be obvious.
I debated how much context to put into this post about a private citizen throwing a private fundraiser for a political candidate, but as I poked around online to see the nice things Rob does, like connecting with exotic blacks in their tribal element–something the Sentinel Outdoor Institute apparently does, which Lindner is a part of…
…I also discovered that Rob Lindner is fluent in Missoula’s local dialect of resource-acquisition, known as Tax Increment Financing.
Another place Lindner’s name pops up is a place that’s economic smart to be a part of: CLIMATE SMART MISSOULA!
While Rob gets thanked by city/county-connected people near the climate change money-spigot, Zoom Chron readers can thank ME at my new GoFundMe page. Your $5, $10, or $20 dollar contribution helps me disrupt the four and five figure donors duking it out during one of Montana’s most corrupt political cycles since the Copper King era.
Earlier this week I took a little day trip with a friend north of Missoula, where the billionaires play. We drove past Paws Up Ranch, the popular billionaire glamping spot on the Blackfoot river that hosted members of the PayPal Mafia last June, then we drove through Lincoln, where Uncle Ted once lived.
Uncle Ted, for those who don’t know, is Theodore John Kaczynski, the author of Technological Slavery and explosive critic of self-serving scientists selling out humanity to enslave it for their pay-masters, but don’t take that from me (or Ted), take it from Robert Oppenheimer:
To be fair to scientists, the existence of hidden motives lurking behind a person’s stated intentions is simply a part of the human condition, and too often those hidden motives even hide from the conscious mind of the person themselves. That said, even if Tom Siebel really BELIEVED his money could help Montana deal with “the devil’s drug”, the motive shouldn’t matter when the result has been a TOTAL FAILURE.
Instead of honestly reporting on the “philanthropic” motives of a billionaire like Tom Siebel, what local media did two decades ago was help establish this tech-titan’s unearned credentials by opening this 2006 article with Siebel’s unfunny comedy riff about meth labs, as reported by the Independent Record:
In the middle of moving a herd of black Angus cattle from one pasture to another, Tom Siebel dismounts his horse and starts picking up stray pieces of old trash – bailing wire, odd pieces of rusted metal, glass discolored by the years of exposure to the elements.
“Hey, this could be a meth lab from 1929,” Siebel jokes in his gravelly voice.
Coming from anyone else, the statement might earn a chuckle. But for Siebel, the man behind the Montana Meth Project, it carries a weighty message. He has invested more than $10 million into ridding the state of what he calls “the devil’s drug.”
If you continue reading this Independent Record puff piece, like I did, you get more aspirational intent about Siebel’s Deaborn Ranch, which overlooks the Dearborn river, which flows like a rich vein of pure liquid gold from the winter snowpack of the Bob Marshall Wilderness:
“I want this to be the best-run ranch in the state,” Siebel says. Along with his 50,000-acre N Bar Ranch near Grass Range, the Siebel cattle operation ships about 1.5 million pounds of beef a year and puts up about 3,500 tons of hay. “This is a working ranch, but with Tom, wildlife always wins out to cattle,” Harber says.
Siebel and his staff work with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other management agencies to make sure he’s using the best management practices. The 2,000 pairs of cows and calves are kept out of delicate riparian areas and are rotated frequently enough to maintain healthy grasslands.
Parts of the ranch are under FWP’s block-management program, which allows public hunting to those who ask. Harber said FWP has released several rehabilitated wildlife species onto the ranch. There are plots dedicated to upland gamebird habitat and areas where organic means have been used for weed abatement.
One way to understand this parcel of land where “the public” is “allowed” to hunt if they ask is to look up the Montana Cadastral data, which helps show where the protected money to own this parcel comes from:
After perusing this publicly available data, I added “First Virtual Group” to my search strategy in order to get some more fun newspaper context of alleged Siebel intent, like this from The Mercury News:
There’s a lot of distance between a tony office on Palo Alto’s University Avenue and a working cattle ranch in Wolf Creek, Mont. But since he sold his namesake software company to Oracle four years ago, Tom Siebel has been hanging his hat in both Silicon Valley and Big Sky Country.
These days, the billionaire and former CEO of Siebel Systems invests his wealth quietly through a Palo Alto holding company called First Virtual Group. He’s making a bigger splash with his philanthropy, including an in-your-face ad campaign that Siebel initially bankrolled in Montana — and which has since been adopted in other rural states — aimed at warning people away from methamphetamine use.
This article was written in 2009, back when the anti-meth campaign seemed legit. Since then I’ve written about anecdotal evidence that the Montana Meth Project failed people like Craig as it successfully helped Tom Siebel network with politicians and other influential people, like a Sheriff Deputy by the name of John Stevens:
Like Tom, for some reason this friendship with a Cascade County Sheriff deputy really got MY attention, especially when I stopped to check out the public access to the Dearborn river right near Siebel’s ranch:
What do vertical metal poles sticking into the river communicate to the public? Is it a message of “welcome” to the natural water resource they are supposedly guaranteed access to? Or is it something else, something NOT in alignment with the stated intent of this “philanthropist” cracking jokes on his horsey about meth labs?
There were other hints that public access to the Dearborn river at this particular spot is discouraged by design, like the poorly maintained, heavily rutted dirt pull-off for vehicles to park, along with a very narrow, angular access point through a wooden gate to get to the actual river:
Before Tom Siebel built his ranch house on this land, all the way back in 2001, a somewhat critical article (written by Martin Kidston at IR…oh the irony!) did acknowledge the local curiosity over this billionaire’s development. I guess adding an airstrip in rural Montana was difficult to hide:
Silicon Valley mogul Tom Siebel building part-time residence on historic Dearborn Ranch.
The structure slowly taking shape off Highway 287 near the Dearborn River between Wolf Creek and Bowman’s Corner has captured the attention of passersby.
The project is that of Dearborn Ranch owner and California billionaire Tom Siebel, and its details have been kept a secret since the beginning.
“It’s a private residence and they want to keep it that way,” said Bill Muth, site supervisor with Martel Construction of Bozeman.
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Steve Kilbreath at the county health department said the public septic records show the project is permitted for 12,000 square-feet. The septic permit was issued to Siebel on Nov. 10, 1998, for the address of 6115 US Highway 287.
“The septic is big, but the permit has expired,” said Kilbreath, saying it was unknown what the current size of the project is.
What’s more, pilots have reported seeing a runway near the home, allegedly for Siebel’s private jet, which Business Week Online said Siebel uses to commute between his California residence and the part-time Montana retreat.
Siebel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, was quoted in news stories as saying that he would keep the Dearborn Ranch as it was when he purchased it from Michael Curran in 1997.
Does it sound like Tom Siebel is a liar? Because, at the end of this lengthy excerpt, it certainly sounds like Siebel said one thing, then did another.
Hmmm.
To wrap this post up, let’s connect Tom Siebel to Jack Horner, the dinosaur guy who appears to be the ONLY Montana figure tied to Jeffrey Epstein that our local media wants to talk about. The following excerpt comes from this philanthropy-focused article under the subtitle “The Making of a Dino Prodigy”:
If discerning patterns invisible to others are why Horner isn’t still driving a truck for a living, the discernment of others has also played a role in his success. His mentors looked past his outward failures and saw Horner as Horner could see certain fossils: something remarkable that to everyone else looked common.
It was Horner’s parents who encouraged his love of learning as a boy, and drove him around to fossil-hunting expeditions. It was a Montana geology professor who, blissfully ignorant of Horner’s grades, recognized a budding intellect behind his science-fair project and encouraged him to apply for college. It was a college adviser who wrote letters of support that allowed him to keep re-enrolling each time he flunked out. It was his supervisor at Princeton who saw the scientist in the technician. It was institutions like the Museum of the Rockies, the University of Montana, Montana State University, the National Science Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation that took the researcher who lacked any degree at all and, on the strength of his work, finally admitted him into the circle of academic legitimacy.
And all along the way, it has been philanthropists who underwrote his research even when conventional funding sources closed their doors to him. The NSF provided critical funding in Horner’s early years as head of MSU’s paleontology program, and continues to offer some support. But NSF grants are often capricious and limited to narrow projects. For unproven ideas, for iconoclastic approaches, for general support, Horner (and thousands of other scientists) relies more on philanthropists than on the science funding bureaucracies.
Philanthropy has been especially important in bringing science to the public. While Horner was building a renowned dinosaur research program in the 1980s and 1990s, the museum had no space to display even its most impressive new specimens. Enter Tom Siebel. Siebel was the founder of software firm Siebel Systems, which was acquired by Oracle in 2006. He is active in philanthropy, giving to numerous scientific, educational, and community programs, and founding the Meth Project, a public education and advertising initiative that helped cut Montana’s meth abuse by two thirds, and has expanded to seven other states (see “Lassoing Montana Meth,” May/June 2007)
When I rhetorically asked in back-to-back posts this week why Montana is a safe space for demons and Christian Zionists, the intent was to show readers how useless labels like “Democrat” and “Republican” are when looking at the Epstein Network and the geopolitics of WWIII. If there are hidden motives behind what I am saying, at least I can say one thing we can remove from the list of possible hidden motivations is making money, because there’s nothing more unprofitable than what I’m currently doing and how I’m currently doing it.
If you’d like to mitigate this extreme unprofitability, my GoFundMe page, as evidenced by a recent donation, does appear to be working, so thank you Mary!
If you were clueless about the Missoula Redevelopment Agency and its favorite tool to subsidize “affordable” housing–Tax Increment Financing–then you might get suckered into watching a documentary like “From The Ground Up“, described by the Missoulian like this:
When communities stand together, seemingly insurmountable challenges can be overcome. That’s the core message of the soon-to-debut documentary featuring Missoula’s Northside neighborhood and its tireless efforts to clean up the former White Pine Sash mill site.
The subject of countless community gatherings, City Council meetings, and local news headlines, the White Pine Sash mill site went from an active sawmill and window-and-door manufacturer to a contaminated Superfund site during its nearly 100-year stint on the Northside.
The film, “From the Ground Up: Restoring a Neighborhood, Reclaiming Its Future,” which premieres July 23 at Headwaters Confluence Center, details how community members fought to have the site restored to be fit for residential use.
Did the Northside community really FIGHT to have this site restored? Or, more likely, did the same recipients of public money, like the WGM group, simply team up with an investor, like Spark Plug Mary, to get the job done?
As I was poking around for additional context on this documentary I noticed the first comment of support on Facebook coming from a familiar name.
Who is Neva Hassanein? She’s involved with Corner Farms, an 8 acre parcel of farmable land that became a land trust…
…with a little help from some famaliar friends:
For more on the close relationships involved with gentrifying Missoula, the last name “Erbacher” got my attention because I think Jamie Erbacher is related (married?) to Patrick Erbacher, the cop who’s signature is on the collective bargaining agreement with Missoula, and the cop who I spoke with years ago about the behavior of Johnny Lee Perry before he was shot and killed by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.
While public money continues flowing to the WGM Group, the documentary From The Ground Up frames this “working class” Missoula neighborhood with platitudes I’m a bit skeptical of for reasons I’ll explain after the quote:
In the film, the Northside’s residents talk about coming to the neighborhood seeking a more affordable community. Many noted how important community connection is for them, being relatively isolated from the city center and sandwiched between the railroad tracks, the highway and White Pine Sash.
“Folks talking about being able to make a living on a small income and having a really great life,” Palmer said. “Knowing their neighbors, and really sort of relying on each other in the absence of a bunch of wealth that can insulate you from your problems. They were, and I think continue to be, a really connected community, and I think those kinds of things are in the fabric of Missoula’s identity.”
Collaborating with Stories for Action, a Missoula-based media nonprofit, Front Step CLT has a personal stake in the story.
For an idea of the entities funded by Fractured Atlas, of which there are 489 listed in the 990 form, here’s a sampling from the B’s:
One project that got ZERO dollars from any outside funding sources is the documentary Engen’s Missoula. For anyone involved in stepping up to the mic to say STOP subsidizing development with Tax Increment Financing, the effort by the Missoulian to suggest people WANTING to use public money are BENEFICIAL AGITATORS is more than a little galling:
Reflecting on the film, and the people who fought to have the Northside viewed as a place worth living in and building housing in, Palmer noted that it likely would not have ended in affordable housing without community efforts.
“There’s an alternate reality in which the neighbors never did anything about this, and didn’t have a collective vision for this pretty large piece of land in their neighborhood,” Palmer said.
Neighbors stayed vocal at city council meetings and in meetings with the Department of Environmental Quality, pushing for several years for answers.
Palmer noted that in the film, neighbors recalled being considered “annoying” or “agitators” for their persistence.
“I think this is a good example of the role of the agitator in a community and how it can lead to something better for everyone,” Palmer said.
Congratulations, annoyingly persistent agitators. For your persistence you made developers, like WGM Group, more money, you added more tax revenue to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency instead of the general fund, and you ensured these units will go to the aging and/or mentally ill underclass of dependents who will provide a disproportionate strain on social services and first responders, which will then lead to more bonds, fees, and emergency levees to squeeze taxpayers to cover the difference.
“It’s thrilling to welcome new homeowners in for the first time, but I think what is exciting about this project is to think about who might move in 20, 30, 50 years from now,” they said. “To know that these homes will be made available and affordable … to working neighbors of Missoula is really exciting on that front to know that this isn’t just a one-time investment for the first families who move into these homes, but that this will really maintain in perpetuity.”
Anything in this article about Tax Increment Financing? Nope. Anything about Spark Plug Mary donating money to the Montana Free Press, which is then reporting on a Spark Plug Mary project? Nope.
What an amazing local example of how narrative control works. It almost makes you want to donate YOUR money to ME, doesn’t it?
I watched a 7 minute clip a few days ago that reminded me of Montana’s role in harboring some of the alleged Christians who make up the network involved, I believe, in covering up Israel’s role in the Charlie Kirk assassination, so after yesterday’s post asking why Montana is a safe space for demons, today I’ll be trying to answer the question about why Montana ALSO appears to be a safe space for Zionist Christians.
Before we get to the shills, though, let’s look at Robert Shillman, the man who made media mouthpieces out of James O’Keefe, Ben Shapiro, and Laura Loomer for his favorite blue and white country. And that’s just what I was able to glean from Wikipedia!
Shillman sits on boards of The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In May 2008, President George W. Bush appointed him to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel.
He has funded Brigitte Gabriel’s ACT for America, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, FrontPage Magazine and Rebel News, and has argued against the US accepting Syrian Muslim refugees.
He has been described as a counter-jihad “elite” and high-profile financier. In and around August 2017, he funded several far-right counter-jihad activists who were appointed “Shillman Fellows”. Among these fellows were Laura Loomer, Raheem Kassam and Katie Hopkins.
While Shillman made the shills, a pair of billionaire bros from Texas made the platforms to amplify the shills. For more on that front, here’s some context about how the Wilks brothers, who own LOTS of land in Montana, provided the seed money for The Daily Wire:
Like the Koch brothers, the Mercer family and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. “It’s hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum,” says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group.
Texas, which has few limits on campaign spending, is home to a formidable army of donors. Lately Dunn has outspent them all. Since 2000, he and his wife have given more than $29 million to candidates and PACs in Texas. Wilks and his wife, who have donated to many of the same PACs as Dunn, have given $16 million. Last year, Dunn and his associated entities provided two-thirds of the donations to the state Republican Party.
The duo’s ambitions extend beyond Texas. They’ve poured millions into “dark money” groups, which do not have to disclose contributors; conservative-media juggernauts (Wilks provided $4.7 million in seed capital to The Daily Wire, which hosts “The Ben Shapiro Show”); and federal races. Dunn’s $5 million gift to the Make America Great Again super PAC in December made him one of Donald Trump’s top supporters this election season, and he has quietly begun to invest in efforts to influence a possible second Trump administration, including several linked to Project 2025.
To emphasize the power of money to TPUSA, Robert Shillman showed Charlie Kirk he wasn’t fucking around with his loyalty to Israel just days before Kirk’s assassination by yanking some of that money, as reported by the Grayzone.
Catty-corner from the Freedom Center is the Pearson Building. According to a TPUSA insider, this structure was to be emblazoned with the name of one of Kirk’s largest and most committed backers, the tech mogul Robert Shillman. A pre-eminent funder of right-wing Zionist and anti-Muslim causes across the Atlantic, Shillman’s millions helped transform Kirk from a young age into one of Israel’s most effective gentile assets.
However, as Kirk drifted from the official, Netanyahu-enforced line on Israel in the past year, expressing frustration with onerous demands from Zionist donors and hosting the leading conservative critics of Israel at his TPUSA events, Shillman apparently grew resentful.
A TPUSA insider has told The Grayzone that Shillman recently cancelled plans to erect the plaque bearing his name inside the conservative organization’s office complex. Those who contribute $1 million or more to TPUSA become eligible for an honorary plaque, but Shillman’s donations were said to be considerably higher.
A decade before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and five years before Robert McCoy came to Montana to do damage control for the Potter’s Field Ministry, the Wilks money was helping to establish McCoy and other men of the faith for political involvement, according to this Reuter’s article:
One Sunday two years ago, Pastor Rob McCoy, who believes in banning abortion and gay marriage and putting prayer back in schools, stood at the pulpit of his California mega church and announced he was endorsing a political candidate: himself.
“Every single person in this room has been inculcated and trained to think that any time a pastor opens his mouth to talk about politics from the pulpit, somehow that’s wrong,” said the 51-year-old McCoy. “You’ve been taught incorrectly. There should be no other place that you should speak of it but from the pulpit.”
McCoy lost his bid for the California State Assembly but, with the help of 650 volunteers, mostly from his church, he later won a seat on the Thousand Oaks, California, city council.
The shift to politics that McCoy represents got noticed by the billionaire class, who helped grease the wheels to maximize this new political influence with an organization called the American Renewal Project, where a Republican operative by the name of David Lane got down to work with thousands and thousands of pastors (and their wives) across the country:
In the runup to November 2016, Lane says he is holding conferences in hotels across the country nearly every week, bringing together thousands of far right pastors and their wives for two-day, all-expenses paid retreats. There are lectures on running political campaigns, turning out voters, and injecting sermons with a healthy dose of politics.
They are lessons pastors such as Beryl Amedee put into practice after attending one of the gatherings over the summer, where she learned how to deal with the media and fend off attacks on her religion. In November, Amedee won a seat as a Louisiana state representative, beating out an 8-year incumbent.
“In the 1970s, our attitude was, ‘We are not of this world, Jesus is coming, so why bother with government?’,” said Amedee. “Now, we know we are the government.”
Helping fund the events are political donors like the billionaire Wilks brothers, who have given up to $10 million according to sources close to the family. The Wilks, together with their wives, have also given $15 million to a Super PAC supporting the presidential campaign of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a favorite of evangelicals.
What does this money buy? Does it buy weird opportunities for Robert McCoy to use his proximity to Hollywood stars, like Brittany Spears, through people that look more like mind-control handlers than managers?
Or maybe this billionaire Zionist Christian money trickles down to accomplish more practical things, like deploying the damage control services Robert McCoy brought to Montana to help quiet down what was emerging from Potter’s Field:
A new allegation against Potter’s Field Ministries founders Mike and Pam Rozell has surfaced from the owners of a Whitefish area ranch who claim the ministry leaders operated in bad faith and failed to make lease payments on the ranch property.
“They were the cause of our financial ruin,” said Amy Ericksen, who rented the property known as Potter’s Field Ranch—formerly the Whitefish Equestrian Center—to the Rozells from June 2018 to July 2019 when the ministry suddenly closed. amid allegations of abuse against interns.
“We suffered financially from their shenanigans and we still are suffering to this day.”
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When the ministry came under fire for widespread abuse allegations, Ericksen said she was approached by Rob McCoy, who told her the ministry was shutting down, they were selling all of their properties and there was no money left to pay her. In 24 hours, and following a police raid on the ranch to check on the Potter’s Field interns, Ericksen hastily drew up the paperwork to terminate the lease, hoping to avoid any potential liability for wrongdoing that might have occurred at the ranch property and to recover any amount of money possible from her supposedly financially strapped lessee.
The key phrase in the above quote to consider is “abuse allegations” because I believe, due to the prevalence of “abuse allegations” from sex-trafficked victims across the globe, controlling (not helping) alleged abuse victims has become the BUSINESS INDUSTRY that many churches have allowed themselves to become a part of.
Now that I can see how Wilks cash has been sloshing around the Christian salvation-circuit for years, the Christian anti-trafficking LARP run by Lowell Hochhalter and family, called the LifeGuard Group, is making A LOT more sense…even their interest in horses and the trend of providing EQUESTRIAN THERAPY is coming into sharper focus!
As prey animals, horses have an awareness about the subtlest changes in their environment that makes them incredibly mindful of strong human emotions. Horses see insight into people in a way that people often do not see for themselves, which is why around one year ago, Kirsten Pabst decided to organize wellbeing workshops on her property in the Miller Creek area.
Pabst’s home, Sunridge Ranch, now acts as a wellbeing discovery center that offers a variety of workshops and events that promote team building, resilience and inspiration, and are aimed to reduce anxiety, burnout and feelings of being overwhelmed.
Kirsten Pabst? Yep, the former Queen Prosecutor of Missoula County, who started laying the ground work to play the victim card for prosecutors many years ago (covered here most recently last November), is finally cashing in on the vertical integration strategy for the predator class of running ALL the games in the abuse cycle, even the therapeutic recovery ones.
If you want to see a fictional depiction of this strategy at work, watch the movie Inherent Vice, where the problem of heroin junkies losing teeth is seen as an opportunity to infiltrate the dentist industry (didn’t Jeffrey Epstein pay for one of his girlfriend’s to attend dentist school? Yeah, he did).
If you would like to read more on the kind of “Christian” networking I’ve already identified as sus over the years, check these posts out:
And, if you would like to support a citizen journalist who can go from a meta-analysis of a long-term influence campaign to the local connections of how this plays out in our own Big Sky backyard, with years of time-stamped receipts, well, donating to my humble GoFundMe page is one way to help out. Any little bit helps.
Tomorrow’s post will be a deft dismantling of a propaganda documentary about the Ravara housing development that I don’t have to see to know is propaganda, and it’s the kind of propaganda that a compromised media outlet, like the Montana Free Press, will happily amplify while conveniently forgetting to disclose their own close financial ties, so stay tuned!
While idly scrolling Insta this morning I came across an unfamiliar name who is ALL OVER the Epstein Files. Who is Jeff Koons, I wondered, and why are people spending millions of dollars on his shitty art?
When I added “Montana” to the mix I discovered Jeff Koons and his “muse”, Lady Gaga, came to Montana over a decade ago for a little shindig at the Yellowstone Club.
If you read the comments to the right you will read that, according to “tatanga.co”, Montana…”has a way of pulling the right people in.“
“There’s nothing like it,” she says.
Five years before Gaga and Koons flew to Montana to talk about art, Koons was in Missoula talking about art. I wonder if laundering money for human traffickers who fuck children was a part of the polite conversation that evening?
What Koons talked about at the Yellowstone Club never made it out to the public, as this society piece coyly notes:
The Daily Mail reports that Jeff Koons and his muse Lady Gaga (or was it the other way around?) went on a little vacation last Friday. Not too shocking to hear, except they didn’t head to the Hamptons, Aspen, or some Mediterranean island, but rather to Montana. While the tabloid was largely concerned with a certain nipple-bearing selfie Gaga posted to her Instagram account while en route, we’re far more curious as to what the art stars were doing so far afield.
It seems the destination was Big Sky, where Koons was giving a talk at the Yellowstone Club, a luxury residential community. Gaga also brought along her pup, Asia, who posed for a picture with the pair.
Unfortunately, this mysterious “group chat” that Koons participated in doesn’t appear to have been documented anywhere other than Gaga’s Instagram feed, so we’ll just have to take her word for it. And while Montana isn’t exactly known for its bustling contemporary art scene, The Yellowstone Club is an exclusive resort and residential domain that charges an estimated $250,000 just to join (plus the cost of a $5–35 million mountainside home, as well as annual dues), so we imagine the duo felt right at home.
Yeah, I bet they did.
Before I get to the Epstein File excerpts I’ve curated for this post (art people love the word “curate”), let’s see what the current exhibits at the Missoula Art Museum look like to get a feel for where the art hosts of Jeff Koons in 2009 are at in 2026:
If I had to choose one word to describe what I’m looking at that word would be death because I see buffalo skulls, a pyramid-shaped skull, and an ugly hammer shaped blob that makes me think of the guy who brutally murdered a woman with a hammer two years ago, then drove her corpse to a gas station where he was arrested, something that rarely seems to happen to members of the Epstein network.
The Koons references in the Epstein files range from casual dinner plans to more formal invitations to the privileged spaces where rich Russians and Saudi royals co-mingle. I’ll start with the more formal description of Koons’ work, then show the more friendly side of these “art lovers”:
To answer the question posed by the title of this post, Montana is a safe space for demons because they appear confident nothing bad will happen to them here. Since the only figure local media seemed interested in writing about was the dinosaur guy, Jack Horner–and since the best writing on the Big Sky connections to Epstein is coming from a blogger with an ankle monitor (me), it makes sense that Montana is a very popular destination location for the rotten wealth destroying this country from within.
Speaking of wealth (or the lack thereof), the money crumbs I’ve been soliciting from readers through my GoFundMe page is apparently giving one reader this result:
If you are seeing this “Bad Gateway” result, feel free to email me at willskink at yahoo dot com, or let me know in the comments. I wouldn’t be surprised if this meager effort at raising funds was also somehow being targeted.
