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Amplifying divisiveness and ignoring important stories that challenge power is the REAL role of local media, and today’s post will show readers why I don’t expect that role to change with a new city editor for the Missoulian, especially one I remember going to college with over two decades ago.

Yesterday, at the open house for the Downtown Safety, Access, and Mobility project (SAM), I told Jordan Hess (after introducing him to Pirate Booty) how lucky he was to have the kind of local media that TOTALLY IGNORES the fact that Missoula’s bus system, Mountain Line, embarrassingly lost a lawsuit a few months ago and had to pay over $20,000 dollars.

I also told Jordan Hess that those “leaning benches” by the homeless shelter that removed the part of the bench that people slept on were STILL stupid.

While the Missoulian focuses on the supposed “good” news that Mountain Line is getting Federal money to build a new headquarters for itself, the ONLY online outlet to highlight the Mountain Line lawsuit is the former Missoula radio show, Outerlimits, at their blog that still puts out reports on stuff every now and then. Here’s a quote from the article:

Norman says that while he sought to make the bus system better, his efforts were consistently met with resistance from company leadership. After he quit in 2023, Austin created a Facebook page to raise public awareness among Missoulians of the failures and dangers of Missoula’s “free” bus system. The page, Mountain Line, a Call For Transparency and Reform, has hundreds of followers and has succeeded in at least calling attention to problems that local newspapers and City leadership would rather pretend aren’t happening. Part of that ongoing campaign involved obtaining bus videos of unscrupulous behavior.

“I created [the Facebook page] almost as soon as I left,” says Norman. “People in Missoula needed to be aware of just exactly what’s happening, how this transit system works.”

But Missoula officials were less than thrilled whenever these videos surfaced on Austin’s Facebook page, in part because he was exposing their unwillingness to address the inadequacies of their mismanagement. The MUTD Board attempted to put an end to Norman’s citizen dissent of their bus system in February 2024 by attempting to universally prohibit the dissemination of videos captured by Mountain Line buses. At the 14 February 2024 MUTD Board Meeting, the policy on video evidence collected by Mountain Line buses was changed so that “All information acquired from the use of security cameras … is considered security sensitive information and is confidential.”

“And then they adopted this policy that says, ‘Nope – no more videos for anyone’,” Austin says. “And that’s what precipitated the lawsuit because that’s a ridiculous notion. I knew that could not be legally correct.”

Jordan Hess, the former placeholder Mayor who only became Mayor after a shady alleyway deal to break a City Council stalemate after John Engen died in office, is the PERFECT cog to run Mountain Line. I particularly enjoyed seeing that sphincter-clenching look on his face yesterday when he saw who was waiting to speak with him at the “open house”.

Free buses are GREAT for the “urban campers” who want to get back to their riverside trash heaps after burning calories on the bus masturbating in view of minors. One of those riverside trash heaps at Buckhouse bridge, just off highway 93, is getting cleaned up this week after TWO private land owners spent the last 7 months talking about the problem, which now looks like this:

I’ll be writing more about this situation and the factors that led to it becoming such a disgusting mess, including identifying one of the “campers” who inhabited this riverside trash heap.

For this post on media inversion, I think it’s more interesting to read how that former Democrat spokesperson, Martin Kidston, “reported” on one of the property owners, Buckhouse Shoptown LLC, as they attempt to develop land adjacent to this environmental hazmat zone, along with plans to “record an easement” to “enhance” public river access:

Missoula County commissioners last week approved a request to amend the county’s growth policy and rezone a parcel of vacant land off Highway 93 south of the city.

Buckhouse Shoptown LLC submitted the request and plans to build a dry shop and heated storage facility on a small portion of its 83-acre property. Shoptown also plans to record an easement off the highway to enhance and preserve public access to the Bitterroot River.

When I spent a thousand dollars of my own money in 2023 to remove Todd Keith Spence’s meth shack on the side of the Clark Fork, pulling 1.84 TONS of trash from going into the river, the “environment” reporter for the Missoula Current, Laura Lundquist, showed up to cover this achievement, but the story was later spiked by the former Montana Democrat spokesperson, Martin Kidston. Isn’t that interesting?

For context on how I try to make people in Missoula less ignorant, including our local reporters, here’s an email exchange I had with Laura Lundquist in 2022 to help educate her about her employer:

When I called Laura Lundquist this morning the voicemail I left included a reminder about that spiked story, along with my assertion that she’s working within a nexus of narrative control between local media, local non-profits (like the Clark Fork Coalition), and local government. No where is this more clear than the Missoulian’s obsession with bashing restaurants like Pangea and Taco Sano while completely ignoring what I had to deal with at Silk Road, owned by the son of Missoula’s beloved foodie, Ray Risho.

Before ending my employment after I complained about the hostile work environment his kitchen manager had subjected me to, Sam Risho told me directly that he considered two of my narrative control adversaries, local government/non-profit power players, Ellie Boldman and Susan Hay Patrick, to be friends of his. If I hadn’t been so desperate for the meager income part-time dishwashing afforded me, I would have left right there. Instead I’m still looking for a lawyer.

As Sam Risho does the smart thing by getting rid of me, safe from the Missoulian’s selective media attention squarely focused on Pangea’s Scott Billadeau (who made himself a local target when he publicly opposed local Covid measures in 2020 and the SAM project a few years later), I will note how ironic it was yesterday to have the SAM open house in the historic Florence building, where Abe Risho will soon be opening Sumac, and where the Missoula County Sheriff Chaplain, Lowell Hochhalter, has an office for his “non-profit”, the LifeGuard Group, which I’ve tied to the kind of “Christians” surrounding Charlie Kirk before he was assassinated.

With Sumac opening, and Silk Road getting more catering business from the increase in filming brought to them by Montana legislators, it most certainly isn’t smart business to have a citizen journalist around lamenting about that dead co-worker and being able to directly link movie/catering money to the illicit powder drug trade.

To wrap Part III up, if the paid reporters in this town would like to keep up with me, there’s an easter egg of court documents at the Buckhouse bridge “urban camp” I found in the trash, then conveniently left behind in the grocery cart closest to highway 93. Find it and you’ll know the name of the next tweaker known to the drug-trafficking Missoula County Sheriff’s Office I’ll be writing about.

For the next installment of AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN, which might have to wait until next week, I’ll show how no one escapes the effects of inversion in 2026, not even me, so stay tuned.

And, as always, thanks for reading!

The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office wanted to get closer to the river for a long time, going all the way back to a public bond, passed by voters, to buy some land next to the jail, a jail not everyone understands is run by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. The idea was to expand the jail into a “Law and Justice Center”, but that didn’t happen. Instead, local politicians, along with their non-profit advocates, like United Way of Missoula County, saw an opportunity to create the subsidized housing complex that shares a name with America’s first test of nuclear power: Trinity.

To highlight how butt-hurt feelings amongst the badges still lingers over this land grab, here’s a recent mention on Facebook by a real interesting character in our story, Detective Guy Baker, now retired.

For those who haven’t followed Detective Baker’s career, like I have, the phrase “would have been very practical” doesn’t sound nefarious at all, but by the end of this “Part II”, I hope readers will be left wondering how much Detective Baker may have known about the drug trafficking supposedly carried out by an alleged paid informant for the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by the name of John Skinner.

When John reached out to me last April it was because he claimed to be doing better with his life (this later proved to be a lie, which is why I’m writing this).

John wasn’t messing around with meth anymore, he claimed, and he was NEVER involved with child porn. Getting a minor drunk in a tent during “Occupy Missoula” was “not in any way like that” he said in his email threatening legal action:

I decided to give John the second chance he was demanding, so I took down the post before giving him a call last year. When I got John on the phone I told him, at the very beginning of the conversation, that I had already complied with his demand. That means what he told me wasn’t just an effort to wow me with a story to get the result he wanted, since I had already given him what he wanted. The story that came after, well, it’s one hell of a story.

John told me that he was a paid informant selling drugs for the cops. The money came from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and he operated out the Colonial Motel, on Broadway. He sold mostly heroin until a bad batch caused a bunch of overdose deaths, a detail that helped confirm the veracity of his story, since this detail was confirmed to me by multiple street addicts I spoke to looking to either confirm or discredit John’s claims.

John continued his story, explaining that product was stored in trailers behind the Walmart, on Mullan, and sometimes on the property of a pawn shop in the area. Not only was I quite familiar with this pawn shop, I had also become familiar with the owner, a man who claimed to know some dirt on Sheriff Deputies, since he was personally friends with one who allegedly got internally disciplined for meth use and being in a hot tub with a male minor.

When I mentioned this alleged detail about the pawn shop to a source last week, he nodded his head vigorously, saying “Of course, that makes sense! I was wondering why he closed up and left!” Sure enough, when I biked by the building the next day, a new business has opened up where Riverside Pawn once operated. Hmmm.

Before I show how the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area really does give official money to the Sheriff’s Office and United Way of Missoula County, let me clarify something: this isn’t a story about corrupt cops simply selling drugs to make money. What I think John described to me is his role in a law enforcement operation designed to catch bigger and badder drug traffickers, and I believe this operation is directly connected to the deaths of Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry.

That said, here’s a blurb from a 2020 Department of Justice press release about HIDTA money “helping” the problem of drug addiction:

Missoula Substance Abuse Connect, a coalition created to develop a comprehensive community plan to reduce substance abuse, including methamphetamine-related violent crime, in Missoula County, has received a $248,000 federal grant as part of an overall initiative to fight violent crime, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy awarded initial funding of $248,000 through 2021 to the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA). Rocky Mountain HIDTA allocated the funds to the Missoula Police Department. The MPD will administer the grant through United Way of Missoula County, which is leading the Missoula Substance Abuse Connect effort.

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“The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office looks forward to this partnership with the United Way to provide assistance through Missoula Substance Abuse Connect to those in our community who are dealing with addictions and substance abuse issues. I’d also like to thank United Way of Missoula CEO Susan Hay Patrick for her efforts on this project,” Missoula County Sheriff TJ McDermott said.

A few weeks ago it might have seemed VERY outlandish to suggest that some of the $248,000 in grant money to FIGHT drug abuse may have been going to DEAL drugs, but, after yesterday’s post about the local implications of the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal, the scenario I’m describing now appears more than plausible to me.

Another pretty outlandish claim I’ve made over the years, one that now also seems disturbingly more plausible, is that Todd Keith Spence is law enforcement’s angel of death, killing problematic drug addicts with Fentanyl-laced Cannabis, like I reported in July, 2023.

Any good drug operation needs a few psychopathic killers around to help instill the kind of operational fear that keeps people in line. When violent sex offenders, like Todd Keith Spence, appear to be protected instead prosecuted, like the slap on the wrist Spence received in 2022 for violently attacking TWO Department of Transportation personnel during a homeless camp cleanup, the only explanation that makes sense is that Spence has some kind of unstated value to law enforcement outside of jail.

The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office controls ALL information around death, since Montana lets these idiots operate as CORONERS in addition to LAW men with the power to kill anyone they want to without any worry about accountability. That’s why, six months later, no one knows the name of the man who was found dead last November on a popular trail near the University.

Before Missoula County Sheriff Deputy, Sean Evans (pictured above), shot Johnny Lee Perry in the back out in the woods, Perry claimed to be the “new CIA” in this video footage I recorded just days before Johnny was killed. While Johnny is clearly fucked up in the video, making his claim sound insanely dumb and crazy, I had heard from another street source that Johnny actually did have a girlfriend in St. Regis, and that her Dad was a retired CIA agent.

Again, this sounded crazy, but that was before I read about some very real CIA agents in Montana who got conned by a private security conman in this very curious book:

After reading this book and writing a book where I cite passages from Seyler’s investigation into the private security company, Amyntor, I no longer laugh off Johnny’s crazy sounding claim, especially after I discovered Johnny Lee Perry was close (possibly related) to Oscar Grant before Grant was killed by cops on the BART.

After Johnny Lee Perry was killed by Missoula law enforcement, I met a guy near the Russell Street bridge who knew Johnny, and this guy had just arrived from Oakland (he got very sad and emotional when I told him what happened). This was after the major 2022 cleanup at Reserve Street, so I was at Russell looking into the new hot spot for drug dealing where Todd Spence had relocated to, as evidenced by several local articles about him and high water.

Not coincidentally, this is also the spot in Missoula where I met Clayton Shaya, a homeless man with connections to northern Washington and proximity to the political advocacy for urban camping pushed by the rebranded Montana Human Rights Network. Isn’t that interesting?

Is Clayton Shaya the kind of guy who might be into informant/drug trafficking? I don’t know, but my direct interactions with him, combined with the fact he ran a write-in campaign in 2019 to be a Washington County Sheriff before arriving in Missoula, makes me very curious about WHY he chose this town to come and be homeless in.

I’m not kidding about the Sheriff campaign thing, because an official complaint exists to help document this interesting detail. Here’s a summary of the complaint:

When I quote the details of the massive drug case investigation I think Sean Stevenson was killed to protect, dates like 2019 (when Sean also arrived in Missoula) will be more obviously significant.

To bolster my claim that the Reserve Street homeless camps represented a “VERY PRACTICAL” spot to run a multi-jurisdictional HIDTA drug-trafficking operation, one last drug dealer who transitioned from Reserve Street to the short-lived “Authorized Camping Site”, post Reserve Street cleanup, merits a mention here, and that’s Tully Sanem, the tweaker I put into context last April after first reading his name in a local article about his propensity to build “pallet houses” within the authorized plot of land overseen by RI security.

How do I know so much about all this? Obviously, seven years working at the Poverello Center helps put me into contact with knowledgeable people, but plenty of other individuals on background have helped me understand this troubling terrain over the years.

That’s why Missoula’s most famous, now-retired, Detective, Guy Baker, tried pumping me for my sources a few years ago in a text exchange I sat on for awhile before publishing. Here’s the full exchange:

Ok, with all this crazy context in mind, it’s time to unveil what started happening in 2019 and, more importantly, WHY I think this particular operation happened, because we’re all (as in, Missoula) now living with the results. Here it is, the full press release in screenshot form:

Two words stand out to me from this public government celebration, and that’s “intelligence-driven”. Who and how that local intelligence is developed is left up to people like former Sheriff, T.J. McDermott, and the people who ride along with Detective Baker to see the decomposing body with a neck tattoo hanging from this tree, located just a couple hundred feet from that former pawn shop.

I posted the above image of the hanging tree, along with some graffiti that said BAKER, in last week’s post about the cost of keeping this area under and around the Reserve Street bridge clear of its previous activity. Upon hearing that former Detective, Guy Baker, is named more specifically and subtly on the other side of the river, just a few dozen feet from the former pawn shop, I had to go and check it out. Though hard to make out, it says “Ky Guy Baker” in golden lettering on the concrete of the bridge:

Before I get to my BIG BANG conclusion, shouldn’t I be happy that big, bad cartel traffickers got busted? Sure, if I didn’t think this big bust was to make room for a more nasty strain of RUSSIAN black market operators, yeah, I might understand the need to use some live bait and break a few scrambled-omelet/addicts in the larger “war on drugs”, but replacing Sinola with something else is what I think happened, so I’ll reserve happiness for when more actual transparency on clandestine operations comes out.

Ok, I’m going to do one final insane thing, and that’s to suggest that the dead homeless man, Sean Stevenson, rendered dead by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office on January 5th, 2020, is tied to all those missing scientists with connections to things like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Missoula’s former City Council guy, Bryan von Rocket Scientist, once worked.

Bryan, weirdly enough, was the guy I lashed out with a HARD-R N-Bomb while waiting for my taco during the lunch break of Johnny Lee Perry’s Coroner’s Inquest, where I sat in uncomfortable, pew-like seats with all the local badges to watch them spend 34 minutes planning Johnny’s execution. I think I may still be fucked up by that experience.

So, what’s the connection?

I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat wondering, right? I mean, how crazy could this get? It’s not like Sean’s father, Dr. Kenneth Stevenson, could have had some sort of official role studying one of the most studied holy relics of all time, the Shroud of Turin, along people from NASA, JPL, Los Alamos Labs…and SO MUCH MORE, because that would be REALLY CRAZY, right?

Whatever the fuck is going on here, this post represents A LOT of my cards in explaining the death of Sean Stevenson and the death of Johnny Lee Perry, but not all of them. Like I said, I have an entire manuscript going back, historically, a couple hundred years to really get my head around the things coming to seeming fruition in our current timeline.

For everyone sticking with me on this crazy ride, thank you. And stay tuned, because I’m not done yet.

Can I get a hootie-hoo?

It took a few days for the immensity of the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal to sink in. They were doing WHAT? They were PAYING and literally CREATING the white supremacist threat they claimed to be fighting?!? When the shock wore off my mind started taking in pieces from the last six years of my life and what I saw, reassembled in my mind’s eye, was the clearest picture yet to try and “solve” the case of Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry, both dead via actions taken by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.

On the surface there’s nothing to solve. Sean Stevenson met a woman and left his subsidized housing in Denver to come to Montana for a fresh start. In Missoula, while getting services from the homeless shelter I once worked at, he met an Oakland kid with an attitude problem called “meth” and what I’ll call “nigger Tourette’s”, meaning he said the word “nigger” a lot. I even had this independently confirmed by a downtown business owner who once saw a tirade of explicit “N-bombs” dropped by Johnny as he walked down the sidewalk that he felt warranted a 911 call.

On January 3rd, 2020, an alleged fight ensued between (supposedly) only Johnny Lee Perry and Sean Stevenson. Sean—though much larger, physically, and despite Johnny’s impairment (confirmed via security footage later reviewed by the family)—was out-maneuvered as Johnny positioned himself behind Sean. At this point in the altercation, so the story goes, Johnny executed a “rear-naked chokehold”, rendering Sean unconscious. On January 5th, 2020, Sean was removed from life support inside St. Patrick’s hospital by the authority of the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office and—this is the part I’ve never been able to understand—this terminal action was taken WITHOUT ANY informed consent from his family.

How could this happen?

Pulling back the lens, a common stumbling block thrown down by a skeptic when considering the merits of a large conspiracy is that, to pull it off, too many people would need to be involved. Even if the retort of “compartmentalization” is thrown back at the skeptic, it’s still easy to lose credibility the more complicated a proposed scenario must become to address inconsistencies and/or improbabilities, kind of like telling someone a few weeks ago that the Southern Poverty Law Center was having to literally make White Supremacists because they didn’t actually exist to the extent that they NEEDED THEM TO EXIST in places like Colorado, where a black man by the name of Sean Stevenson lived, and Montana, where he died.

In May of 2021, a year and a half after Sean Stevenson’s death, I had come to know enough about the events of 1-3-2020 to be rightfully suspicious of the “lone perpetrator” theory positing Johnny Lee Perry as the sole aggressor that evening in the men’s dorm of the Poverello Center. The main evidence are autopsy pictures that, to publish, would be a violation of the Confidential Criminal Justice Information (CCJI) statute in Montana’s code of laws, called Montana Code Annotated. Those images, which I have seen, show significant damage to Sean’s body, like bruising and other marks, that directly undermine the cover story of what happened, who was involved, and why Sean’s coma was turned permanent by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.

When I reached out to Rachel Carrol Rivas, someone I knew from my time as a student at the University of Montana (2000-2003), it was because the organization she directed for years, the Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN), had become involved in Mayoral politics in Missoula. Jacob Elder, a candidate for Mayor appeared to be the RIGHT kind of black man for MHRN to care about, since he was being accused of having militia ties by an intern at their organization.

Since I didn’t think an intern should be engaging in this kind of political discourse while working for a non-profit, I had initially been communicating with Travis McAdam before reaching out to Rachel. Here’s my email exchange with MHRN’s Program Director:

To clarify the context of this email exchange, what I am essentially telling Travis McAdam in May of 2021 is that I had caught their intern, Maggie Bornstein, using MHRN information to facilitate a letter-to-the editor, published in the Missoulian, accusing mayoral candidate, Jacob Elder, of having rightwing militia ties.

Travis McAdam didn’t know I had already talked to Bornstein on the phone and that she had already eagerly disclosed to me where she got the information to make her public claims because, she assumed wrongly, she thought I was an ideological ally. Notice how quickly McAdam wised up to what I knew, pivoting in an attempt to do some preemptive damage control. Instead, like a naive asshole, I just tried to get him to care about the dead black man who I thought shouldn’t have been euthanized by the Sheriff’s Office like one would euthanize a cat or dog.

A few days later I messaged Rachel Carrol Rivas again, this time letting her know what I was planning to disclose about her organization. This was her response:

Five years later, post-SPLC scandal, a source sent me some screenshots last week with publicly available data on political donations made by Travis McAdam and Rachel Carroll Rivas as they distributed SPLC money to Montana politicians. I was also sent a copy of Rivas’ resume. Here’s the info:

To show how this SPLC/MHRN relationship functions with an academic like Tobin Miller Shearer, a white man teaching African Studies at UM’s campus and who quickly positioned himself upon arriving in Missoula as a victim of conservative targeting via TPUSA’s professor watch list, this 2020 article from KGVO was published just eleven days after Sean Stevenson was removed from life support.

The University of Montana African American Studies Department is preparing for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with special events and activities.

Director Tobin Miller Shearer spoke with KGVO News on Thursday and provided details of how the university and the community can take part.

“This year, we are trying to focus on King’s legacy,” said Dr. Shearer. “We’ve invited the campus community to think about how they are promoting his legacy in terms of the many different roles we fill here in the Missoula community.”

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Shearer said he will also be speaking in February as part of Black History Month.

“I’ll be speaking about the precarious position of minority rights during the Alumni Lecture Series that our university hosts,” he said, adding that the legacy of Dr. King does live on here in Montana. “I absolutely believe it does, especially when I see it in the many people who are pushing back against the rise of white nationalism that we’ve seen, not only in our state, but across the country, particularly concentrated here in the Pacific Northwest. I see that in groups like Missoula’s Idea for Racial Justice, Montana’s Racial Equity Project, the Montana Human Rights Network, and the Love Lives Here Coalition in the Flathead area.”

Three years after helping Tobin’s mission of “pushing back against the rise of white nationalism”, the Montana Human Rights Network rebranded itself as “Catalyst Montana” in 2023 after merging with Montana Women Vote, a change I caught when attending their agitation meeting against City Council for establishing an Urban Camping ordinance.

While MHRN rebranded, Rachel Carroll Rivas moved directly to SPLC via Zero to Five, a regional initiative connected to United Way of Missoula County, an organization directly involved in the lawfare against me.

I’m worried the scope of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has done won’t be dealt with because it’s too big a scandal for Americans to process. Last week this is how the New York Post reported on the scandal:

The Southern Poverty Law Center is accused of funneling millions of dollars to at least eight leaders and members of hate groups — including a Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and a fundraiser for a neo-Nazi group — to act as informants, which one nonprofit leader likened to paying an arsonist to help put out a fire.

The Alabama-based non-profit was charged by the Department of Justice with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy on Tuesday for allegedly hiding from donors the fact that it doled out more than $3 million over the course of nearly a decade to “field sources” tasked with infiltrating violent extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday.

As I kept reading I came across a name I knew from the book, The Silent Brotherhood, by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. Here’s the quote from the Post article that references the author of the infamous Turner Diaries:

One former chairman of the National Alliance was paid $140,000 from SPLC between 2016 and 2023 while being featured as part of the nonprofit’s “Extremist Files,” the indictment claims.

The page lists William Pierce as the founder and chairman of the group until his death in 2002. Erich Gliebe and Shaun Walker were subsequent chairmen.

And here’s some context from the book that has more than a few Missoula references in it:

It’s no coincidence that Tobin Miller Shearer is packing up and leaving campus at the same time that Susan Hay Patrick is retiring from the United Way. They know the con is being exposed now and they don’t want to be around to see someone like me proven right about how deeply corrupt this community has become thanks to their manipulation.

Coming up in Part II of this series, I’ll be telling a more complete story of the Missoula County Sheriff’s role in trafficking drugs, so stay tuned because it’s quite a story.

If anyone would like to help my dire financial situation, Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is ready for your donation (thanks Cheryl!)

Thanks for reading!

Last Sunday I declared the day HOLY despite the date (April 19th) being the anniversary of the human barbecue America’s government threw for those weird Christians in Waco, Texas. After a homeless man yelled FUCK GOD at me, I continued my walk to a location near the First Presbyterian Church where, once upon a time, a man named John preached:

John and Clara Maclean had two sons, both of whom graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1908 the Rev. Maclean moved to Missoula, Montana, and became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Missoula in 1909.

The elder son Norman Maclean, was born at Clarinda, Iowa, in 1902 and went on to become a professor at the University of Chicago and a highly regarded figure in 20th century American literature.

Though much has changed since 1909 one thing that has NOT changed is the Bible urging believers to be NOT AFRAID. Variations of this phrase appear over 70 times in the Bible. Despite the prevalence of this Christian sentiment, the reality is that many Christians are terrified of the world and all the BAD people who do BAD things. That’s why two men are seen in the image above standing guard: they think the bad guy is ME and they are afraid of what I might do.

Another man who is afraid of what I might do recently contacted my family because I called him at his University office, then wrote about him like I’ve been doing since Tobin appeared on campus to play the victim card for himself in the larger mission of systemically demonizing conservatives, a mission Tobin Miller Shearer has been pushing for years, especially against TPUSA and Charlie Kirk before Charlie Kirks was publicly murdered.

As Tobin builds his legal case against me in order to add another restraining order to the one I just got served with on Friday, this supposed Christian man was doing the same thing my petitioner did, and that’s contact my family to tell them how terrible I am before filing their legal claims against me.

When one considers the adjective Tobin uses to describe me it’s important to recall that this is also the man who called University police because he found a “racially-charged flyer” that scared him. Knowing what I know now about his race grifter, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tobin put the flyer up himself just to be able to play the victim card.

The main source of my extreme frustration is the realization that only SOME dead black man are worthy victims for a race-baiting grifter like Tobin Miller Shearer. This realization has taken me a long time to formulate, and it’s based on the reality that Sean Stevenson, as a dead black man, wasn’t the kind of usable cultural race-product that the dead black man, George Floyd, was.

For an example of Tobin’s race-posturing around the time of George Floyd’s death, here’s an interview that name-drops Floyd for the liberal audience of retards who lap this shit up:

When you go to the link for “A New Angle”, put out by Montana Public Radio, you will see the kind of voices this “current affairs” podcast platforms:

Next week I’ll be putting politicians like Jon Tester and Greg Gianforte into the local context they deserve with some of my most explosive reporting yet about local narrative control and, specifically, what I’ve come to understand about the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal and the influence I’m finally able to understand about local organizations, like the Montana Human Rights Network, so stay tuned.

For retarded liberals who burned cities down because of George Floyd, you can say goodbye to your favorite propagandist next week at the Davidson’s Honors College. According to this announcement, “everyone” is welcome.

Don’t worry, Tobin, I know that the word “everyone” doesn’t include a white man like myself who gave a shit about the wrong kind of dead black man. Sean Stevenson’s family should be happy that an academic white man like you can make the important distinction for your ideological adherents about which dead black men are worthy martyrs to burn cities down for, and which ones are still just inconvenient niggers best forgotten because, to understand why they died, too many local power players might have to be implicated.

Tomorrow, for those who want to know how local power REALLY operates, that’s what I’m going to keep doing.

Thanks for reading.

It should be common knowledge that saying untrue things about someone can land you in court. It’s called “defamation” and, in Montana, defamation is defined as “a false and unprivileged statement, either written (libel) or spoken (slander), that damages a person’s or entity’s reputation, exposes them to hatred/contempt, or injures them in their occupation.”

For an example of what this can look like here are some defamatory statements made about ME by Ellie Boldman, a powerful Montana legislator with a law degree. Unfortunately I’ve never had a lawyer willing to assist me in taking this to court.

Have I ever been charged with a “physical assault”? No, I have not. And how many orders of protections have been served against me? Several? No, just one, and I wrote a very uncomfortable post recently about that toxic relationship that almost ended my life to help counter this digusting defamation campaign against me.

How about the claim that “nearly everything” I write is “verifiably untrue”? Again, this is absolutely false. When someone points out something that I’ve reported inaccurately, I make a correction and acknowledge it, unlike other “reporters”, who stealth-edit their “mistakes”.

I have never been sued for libel, slander, or defamation in all the years I’ve been writing, so what Ellie Boldman has claimed in her public statements are absolutely false and defamatory, but here’s the rub: so far, no lawyer in Montana has been willing to help me defend myself against Ellie’s claims, attacks which represent just one small part of the lawfare attacks against me.

Today’s post is partly in response to Jake Eaton’s effort to get Ellie Boldman’s DUI footage released. Here’s Eaton’s post on X followed by an excerpt from the IR article:

Boldman argued in court filings last week that Eaton, a political operative for several high-profile Republicans including Attorney General Austin Knudsen and western congressional candidate Aaron Flint, should not be granted access to those records for what she expects will be a harassment campaign against her.

She also claimed she has a “heightened” privacy interest because she previously notified the city that she intends to have the conviction wiped and the investigative file destroyed when the case is eligible for expungement in 2030.

The city, unsure of whether the video and investigation notes would be considered confidential criminal justice information and whether it could be publicly released upon Eaton’s request, asked a Lewis and Clark County District Court judge to decide what is releasable, and he agreed last week to take up the question.

Though it pains me to say this, I think Ellie might be correct that this is just a “harassment campaign” against her instead of what I would like to see happen, which is a well-funded legal campaign to litigate Ellie Boldman into full disbarment for a bunch of troubling behavior I believe she’s engaged in over the years while practicing law. After disbarring this public official from the ability to do damage with her law degree, I’d like to see a criminal probe into her role in the suicide of Catherine Tooley Shepard.

It doesn’t help Eaton’s effort that it’s his wife’s law firm doing the legal work challenging Ellie’s claim that she has a “heightened privacy interest” because she’s going to make all her embarrassing DUI footage go away in 2030. Despite this scenario, I gave that same law firm a call yesterday and left my contact information. If they’re actually interested in holding this PUBLIC official accountable, I’ll get a call back.

In November, Jones Law Firm, run by Billings attorney Emily Jones, who is also Eaton’s wife, filed a public information request with the city of Helena to release investigative information related to Boldman’s arrest, including any officer body camera or dash camera footage.

Jones Law Firm was acting on behalf of the nonprofit Montana Public Policy Center, which is also connected to Eaton and Jones.

In an April 15 filing, Jones argued that Boldman’s arrest materials should be public, saying her conduct as a state lawmaker needs to be open to public scrutiny.

If I do get that call back I’ll tell the Jones Law Firm everything I know, both from my direct experiences, and from what I have been told by sources over the years, like an alleged legal complaint filed against Ellie at the ODC office for billing an impossibly high amount of hours on a case for the Public Defender’s Office, a credible accusation of an unreported sexual assault, and the alleged purchasing of undergarments at Victoria’s Secret for a minor she was legally representing at the time.

Yes, lawsuits happen all the time, and many are frivolous. Laura Loomer, for example, recently had her defamation case against Bill Maher dismissed by a Federal judge, while President Trump’s recent attack on his former media amplifiers highlights the destructive financial intent of this kind of lawfare:

“…or “Crazy” Candace Owens, who accuses the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close! Or Bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims…”

My favorite recent case, though, has to be the successful two year legal odyssey of a woman seeking “justice” because she got black-out drunk on a cruise ship after being served over 14 shots of Tequila and fell down some stairs. Sadly, the social cost of this bullshit isn’t as quantifiable as the absurd judgement awarded this woman was:

A Carnival cruise passenger who alleged the ship’s staff served her an excess of 14 tequila shots in the span of eight hours has won $300,000 in damages.

Diana Sanders sued Carnival Corporation for damages in a Florida federal court after she said she was overserved alcohol despite being visibly intoxicated while on board the Carnival Radiance in January 2024.

Sanders said she fell down a flight of stairs and suffered severe injuries as a result of the incident, according to court filings.

While Diane enjoys the fruits of her litigation, Jake Eaton is actually risking giving Ellie Boldman an opportunity to play the victim for herself over the impression this move is just political theater. If political theater is the intent, and the Eatons swing and miss, Ellie Boldman will only be emboldened to keep doing what she’s been doing for many, MANY years.

For anyone inclined to help out a poor citizen journalist, it’s been several months since my GoFundMe has seen any love, so donate today if you can. With what I’m cooking up for next week, post SPLC scandal, I think it’s worth it.

Thanks for reading!