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Long before the rift opens to suck away your money, time, and sanity, the assumption is an “incident” has occurred to warrant a person’s appearance in court.

Not so.

Following an “incident” through the judicial system is what City Council will be spending three hours doing today after spending three hours last week discussing this “community issue”, which I covered in this post.

Instead of tracking the movement of an incident of “violence” through the court system, today’s post is going to explain how non-criminal civil protection orders can initiate the use of the system itself as the abuser when a “petitioner” is not the kind of “reasonable” person in need of enhanced protection they claim to be.

The video clip I’m going to highlight below explains how intimate partner violence doesn’t have to include any violence at all because it’s all about POWER and CONTROL, something the system itself is also known for. Since this idea of violence is so expansive, the following clip can be applied to an abusive SYSTEM as well, so listen closely to what’s being described:

If you listened closely to the woman defining the experiences of a victim, then you probably heard the word “stalking” used. This word is VERY important because it’s one of those dubious, non-violent actions that an UN-reasonable person can claim to be experiencing when trying to use the system to punish someone and, with stalking, it doesn’t even have to be an intimate partner making the claim. It can be a state legislator OR a former employer, as I have learned the hard way.

Looking at the system itself as an abuser, or women as abusers, shouldn’t be controversial, but, when Gwen Jones stated last week that same sex relationships experience rates of violence that are the same, or higher, than hetero-relationships–yet that fact didn’t show up in the Missoula Current’s reporting–I immediately sensed that this issue was being politicized.

To further back up this assertion, here’s a graphic from today’s Council presentation that emphasizes MALE PRIVILEGE as one of the slices in this pie-graph of POWER and CONTROL:

Is treating a woman like a servant physical violence, sexual violence, or neither? What about making “all the big decisions”, or acting like the “master of the castle”? What kind of violence is that?

Another aspect I find interesting about this pie-graph is the slice that defines “economic abuse” as things like “giving her an allowance”. If I wanted to define my father as being an economic abuser, this slice would come in handy, since he’s used money to control my mother for my entire life. Even now, when mom helps me out by buying me Good Food Store gift cards, she knows that every purchase she makes dings as a notification on my dad’s phone, which he immediately scrutinizes and will interrogate her over if he senses she’s spending too much, or helping me in ways he hasn’t sanctioned.

Returning to the propaganda material, let’s take a look at some of the other visual aids our City Council members will be subjected to during today’s three hour session. As you examine the following slides, remember, using money to control and abuse people is one of the system’s FAVORITE methods of coercion:

Once revenue streams created by acts of Uncle Sam established an economic foundation for this victim industry, the local version now has a great reason to ALWAYS ask for more money (because inflation), and the fact this industry creates more victims is actually seen as a positive sign of empowerment, thus providing a rationale to keep feeding this legal machine and further empower its ability to be PROACTIVE by using non-criminal civil processes to turn any toxic relationship–even non-intimate-partner ones–into opportunities for criminal intervention.

Doesn’t that sound about right, Brandi?

Having just recently become familiar with The Ries Law Group by reporting on the lawfare against Sam Redfern, I wasn’t surprised to see them benefit from this great business opportunity of being platformed by Gwen Jones to appear like noble protectors in furtherance of the law firm’s business model. Good job, ladies!

And good job to EVERYONE who has helped the professional victim who stalked me and harassed my family until I finally cut her out of my life.

And men, yes, this is when the protection order was filed against me.

When I filed a protection order to protect myself and my family from harassment, it was denied the same day. When I filed a police report that this person was secretly recording people’s conversations, even County Attorney’s who refused to charge OTHER MEN she was claiming abused her, nothing happened. When I objected in court to the SUBSTITUTE JUDGE who admitted he had gone to law school with her, it was denied. When I asked for more time to find a lawyer, since CIVIL proceedings don’t provide any legal representation for DEFENDANTS, my request was denied by the judge, the same judge who knew her.

After getting the CIVIL protection order, my petitioner was able to take EVERYTHING that I had previously been doing with my citizen journalism in this community and essentially depict it as STALKING HER. And, even better for her political allies (like Susan Hay Patrick and the legislator I cannot name), if she was in proximity to what I was doing, my presence could be criminalized and prosecuted.

Show up to City Council to make a public comment? Charged with a crime (later dropped by the city).

Show up to the State of the Community speech with an educational display from my urban camp cleanup? Charged with a crime (found guilty after a jury trial).

Show up to a park where Palestinian activists were having an event, then writing about it? Yep, charged with a crime, because that park was within 1,500 feet of the petitioner’s residence.

The latest crime I’m being prosecuted for is being on campus in June to cover the Alani Bankhead press release, a notable political event which I wrote about and, thus, provided the evidence that the County Attorney’s Office will be referencing to claim I have implicated myself in another terrible crime, one that my FIRST petitioner was hoping could be all about her, but, alas, she only gets an assist on this one, since the responding jurisdiction confirmed that her story of my immediate departure indicated I had abided by the constraints still upon me to leave if this person shows up, even if that means walking away from a meal in a restaurant.

Undeterred by this denial, it’s my understanding that Petitioner 1 reached out to Petitioner 2, the state legislator, and together it was determined that a technical violation could be claimed (since campus is covered by one of the 4 Travis Exclusion Zones), and that’s how this citizen journalist once again found himself being prosecuted for his local coverage and activism, which has included a very effective exposure of the Homeless Industrial Complex I was once a part of before becoming homeless myself.

Which brings me to a bullshit book I found some kernels of truth in:

Since the time that I spent homeless has been used against me in civil court proceedings, and since my TOTAL LACK of criminal history prior to my social status changing, and toxic relationship ensuing, means nothing to those depicting me as a dangerous criminal, I have had no choice, over the last THREE YEARS, but to fight back in the limited ways my poverty and pariah status have allowed, with only Daddy’s financial help keeping me from being homeless again.

Most men experiencing lawfare don’t want to talk about it, and many men end up committing suicide as the final solution to make years of harassment stop. The irony, of course, is that even if I wanted to move to another town to lessen my chances of being criminally charged for more violations, I’m once again legally required to be here, which means my chances of running into the person who calls 911 on me every time I am seen existing are high, which means my anxiety never fully abates as I attempt to make it through each day as unscathed as possible.

Before ending today’s post (and continuing to live another day of my “life”), here’s what I would like to see happen: STUDY THE DATA!

More specifically, here’s a series of questions I would be asking about the kind of data I’m thinking of were it me conducting a paid study to define lawfare for State Legislators who can craft a bill to empower DEFENDANTS and give them a better chance to FIGHT BACK against unvetted petitioners with covert political agendas and/or vindictive axes to grind:

How many “Temporary Orders of Protection” (TOPs) are being awarded to petitioner’s in Missoula County? Is that number going up? How many petitioner’s are NOT intimate partners? How many times has “stalking” been used as a justification for those TOPs? Are certain law firms over represented in the use of TOPs? Are non-profits, like the YWCA, compromised by political bias? Are Crime Victim Advocate “investigators” potentially hiding exculpatory evidence from the legal discovery process?

Ultimately I want today’s post to emphasize how educated I’m getting by attending these required classes for my degree at the University of Lawfare. Since I do believe there’s immense value in “lived experience”, anything our local “protectors” throw at me will just make me a smarter, more effective adversary against the use of this insidious tactic, and the casualties I know that exist from its growing power to destroy.

Thanks for reading!

Scott Twito, the former Yellowstone County Attorney, isn’t a man with balding hair who spins a “wheel of prosecution” in his office, and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a poster of Dylan Mulvaney on his wall, but what Scott Twito DOES have is a well-timed resignation that removes him from the County Attorney Office that decided recently WHY prosecute a dangerous mentally ill teenager who stabbed a math teacher at school when you can choose NOT to prosecute that teenager.

I bet you didn’t think THAT was an option, did you?

Community members and teachers in Billings participated in rallies Monday calling for improved school safety after news broke that a former student who stabbed a teacher at Senior High School in January won’t face felony charges.

The decision to decline felony charges and refer the case to city prosecutors for possible misdemeanor charges was reported Friday by KTVQ. News of the decision sparked a community backlash, with some angry at what they saw as a lack of accountability. Superintendent Erwin Garcia sent a memo to media outlets Friday saying he was “frustrated” to learn there would be no felony case and that the situation “does not ease the pain or provide the clear resolution our community needs.”

Garcia wrote in response to emailed questions from Montana Free Press Monday that he hadn’t gotten an explanation from the county attorney’s office.

“No explanation means confusion for the community as a whole, including teachers, staff, and students,” he wrote.

While the rumors about what happened, and why, are running rampant, the fact is that a high school math teacher WAS STABBED in January, the investigation took NINE MONTHS to complete, and the decision to NOT prosecute was made by the Yellowstone County Attorney’s Office at the same time Scott Twito thought HEY, WHAT A GREAT TIME TO LEAVE!

Longtime Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito is stepping down to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana.

Twito notified Yellowstone County commissioners in recent weeks that he could be tapped for the federal role, and he confirmed his resignation to Montana Free Press Friday. His resignation is effective Oct. 25, and he will start work as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Montana the next day. Twito made his last day a Sunday because the county attorney often fields calls over the weekend, he said.

“I love the job,” Twito told MTFP. “I love serving the community. I hope I’ve conveyed that over the years.”

Interim U.S. District Attorneys can serve for 120 days but must ultimately be nominated for permanent service by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Twito has been with the county attorney’s office for 29 years and has served as county attorney for 15. In his Thursday resignation letter, Twito called the appointment a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” and said he’d prepared the county attorney’s office in case of his departure.

What political party does Scott Twito belong to? Like Republican Kurt Alme, who ALSO received criticism for his tenure as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorneys Office, Scott Twito is a Republican, and Republicans have historically NOT appreciated prosecutors who seem to be playing political games with public safety.

That’s why, three years ago, articles like this one were being written. From the link:

Vowing to rein in so-called progressive prosecutors, Republican lawmakers in at least half a dozen states are pushing bills that would curb the discretion that local district attorneys have in deciding which crimes to prosecute — and, in some cases, make it easier to remove those elected officials from office.

GOP backers say the legislation is necessary to protect public safety in places where elected prosecutors have declined to charge people for certain categories of crime, such as drug possession. The prosecutors say that by using drug treatment, community service and other strategies to deal with low-level offenders, they can reduce mass incarceration and conserve resources for more serious crimes.

More serious crimes should include trying to murder someone with a knife, but I guess Republican Scott Twito had more important things to do than assess if a transitioning boy-to-girl teenager, who appears to have been obsessed with other lady killers, like Jodi Arias, deserves to face any consequences for “her” violent attack and the trauma across this community that “she” has caused.

For some of the context that conventional media won’t report on, here’s a screenshot from Reddit, where subpar citizen investigations occur when paid prosecutors refuse to do THEIR job:

While this case gets reviewed by the CITY attorney’s office in Billings, another case in another Montana County got my attention because the Sheriff is being criminally charged for his inability to run a competent investigation:

The Liberty County sheriff is in hot water over questions about how a juvenile assault investigation was handled.

A new affidavit says Sheriff Nickolas Erickson took months to run over records to state investigators, missing key documentation in the process.

The state is now asking a judge to find a probable cause for a falsification charge.

What the fuck is wrong with the criminal justice system in this state? Reading further, it appears that retarded Sheriffs who can’t competently do their job is one of the reasons our criminal justice system is so fucked:

The investigation began after a June 2025 incident involving two juveniles and allegations of assault and strangulation.

According to the affidavit, the victim’s father repeatedly contacted the sheriff’s office and county attorney, who said he could not move forward without the investigative file.

The affidavit says state investigators began asking for the file in October 2025.

In February 2026, Erickson asked the state Division of Criminal Investigation to take over the case and said he would provide the materials.

The affidavit says state investigators began asking for the file in October 2025.

In February 2026, Erickson asked the state Division of Criminal Investigation to take over the case and said he would provide the materials.

Investigators say several promised deadlines passed, Erickson delivered a folder on April 7.

When you do the math it took 10 months for the Sheriff to hand over the investigation file to the County Attorney in Liberty County, but it gets worse.

Here’s what that “investigation” left out, according to the documentation provided to the prosecutor:

The affidavit says the folder included medical records, handwritten notes and two flash drives, but no police reports.

One drive contained video of a juvenile interview with no sound, notes or transcript.

The other held body-camera footage from the night of the incident.

The affidavit also says the file lacked documentation of the victim’s forensic interview. it alleges Erickson later told investigators he received a link to those materials but did not download them.

Yep, this Republican Sheriff appears to be so worthless that HE is the one getting criminally charged.

Again, what the fuck is wrong with the criminal justice system in this state?

Liberty County Sheriff Nickolas Erickson has been charged with one criminal misdemeanor for allegedly making false statements to other law enforcement in connection with a 2025 assault case.

The sole charge of unsworn falsification to authorities was filed Oct. 14 in Liberty County Justice Court by Assistant Attorney General Jessica Best, who was acting as special deputy Liberty County attorney.

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The father told state investigators he had taken his son in for a forensic examination on his own and reached out to the sheriff in August and September. During his second conversation, Erickson allegedly told him he had reached out to someone with the Montana Attorney General’s Office, but that person no longer worked there, according to charging documents.

I included that last part about Sheriff Erickson claiming he reached out to someone at the Attorney General’s Office to help make my point that Montana’s REPUBLICAN Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, is likely going to have himself a Sheriff problem when he runs for Governor, and we’re NOT just talking about the ones who have to hide their love of D, like Missoula’s Sheriff, Jeremiah Petersen, who is running UNOPPOSED as a Democrat candidate this cycle.

Petersen’s fellow law enforcer in Cascade County, Jesse Slaughter, left behind Democrats to become a Republican and has been making A LOT of media appearances recently, like this one where he smiles for the Montana Free Press in order to talk himself up for low-information voters who don’t know what kind of shit-heel this man is.

Oh, and he’s going to be demanding more money for the jail he’s running, since expanding jail/prison capacity is a big issue this election cycle across the state.

Another part of this interview that’s relevant for today’s post is Sheriff Slaughter expressing his confusion about the politics of protecting children, stating he believes law enforcement needs to be PROACTIVE to address the potential for violence in schools.

Proactive? Considering the information I’ve assembled here today, I bet citizens in Montana would settle for their law enforcers to simply exhibit a basic level of competence in doing basic elements of their job AFTER incidents of violence have occurred.

Is that too much to ask?

Sheriff Slaughter ultimately doesn’t think that other political offices are as appealing for him to pursue as he continues along his Sheriff career path sporting a nice “R” next to his name instead of that “D” he shed last election cycle.

Slaughter said in the video that he has repeatedly come under fire from elected Democratic officials for his belief that the Constitution is “concrete” and is not subject to a “progressive interpretation,” specifically citing the 2nd Amendment.

In response, the Cascade County Democratic Central Committee called for Slaughter to resign, and claimed that Slaughter’s switch to the GOP is “less a conviction and more a calculation.”

Yes, of course it was a calculation, and, based on the electoral victories Sheriff Slaughter has enjoyed since 2021, it was a smart calculation, one that was openly accepted by the party of “family values” when Slaughter made the switch:

Cyndi Baker, chair of the Cascade County Republican Central Committee, released the following statement in response to Slaughter’s political switch:

I would like to welcome Sheriff Jesse Slaughter to the party of common sense and American values. He has the support of every republican legislator in Cascade County. As the most recent election showed, our county is now solidly red and there is no reason to think that this switch will do anything but enhance his future election prospects. We laud Sheriff Slaughter’s desire to stand up for all the citizens in Cascade County and know he will continue to do an outstanding job no matter the party designation.

With one week before the midterm elections my brand of bipartisan disdain for how power is exerted by BOTH parties is more unwelcome than ever, but I don’t publish six posts a week to make friends, I keep doing what I’m doing to expose how narrative control functions, even if I have to martyr my own freedom to show how dead the First Amendment is.

Thanks for reading!

For those who don’t know the reference to the dead/alive cat in the title of this post, here’s the Wikipedia breakdown:

In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat inside a closed box may be considered to be simultaneously both alive and dead while it is unobserved, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. This experiment, viewed this way, is described as a paradox.

The paradox for local reporters tasked with accurately reporting the claims of a candidate like Alani Bankhead is that, absent evidence, it’s very difficult to determine what’s actually true regarding her recent flip-flop, or “pivot”, on whether or not offers were made to drop out of the race.

Here’s how a Lee Enterprises article dances around the fact that Alani Bankhead apparently lied months ago when she denied that any offers were made to get her to drop out of the Senate race:

The Democratic nominee for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat has claimed she was offered a job with the national political party in exchange for dropping out of the race, a major messaging pivot for the candidate who for months has denied receiving such a formal overture.

In an interview aired last week on Montana PBS, Alani Bankhead alleged she was approached with a proposal: exit the Senate race to clear the way for independent candidate Seth Bodnar and she’d land a job with the Democratic National Committee.

“They offered (me) to be … the DNC’s head of female veteran candidates or something like that,” Bankhead said in the segment. “And I was like: ‘Why would I go work for an organization that is actively working against me and stabbing me in the back?’”

What other words have been used instead of LIAR to describe the Bankhead “pivot”? In MTPR’s coverage I found words like “twist” and “bizarre” from the Rob/Sally/Seaborn team analyzing the campaign’s “remarkable reveal” last week:

Perhaps the coy nature of the Bankhead campaign’s last meow comes from a potential investigation that the Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, is threatening to undertake after the “just not relevant” claim from Bankhead hit local media:

“This is extremely concerning,” Knudsen wrote. “If this is true, it appears to be a violation of Montana Code Annotated 13-35-221. My office will be reaching out to @AlaniBankhead, @SethBodnarForMT and @DNC to investigate.”

The section of state law Knudsen cited prohibits anyone from offering someone a payment or anything of value “to refrain from or to cease being a candidate.” The law says a violation of that section is a misdemeanor, and that an attempted violation is itself a violation.

A spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office declined to comment further on Knudsen’s statement.

Going back to the Sally/Rob/Seaborn MTPR coverage, I think this exchange between Rob and Sally comes closest to calling Alani Bankhead a liar while also reminding voters of who will ultimately benefit (Kurt Alme) from this late October surprise:

Before I get to the last set of claims dropped by a former Bankhead insider spilling the beans about the candidate he worked for, here’s some of the context I’ve assembled since June, when Alani Bankhead refused to play the Democrat political game and bow out like Democrat candidates did in other states:

“What Kind Op Is Alani Bankhead?” (June 16th, 2026)

“The Doomed, Sexist Alani Bankhead Campaign For U.S. Senate” (July 1st, 2026)

“Alani Bankhead’s Strategy Shifts From Anti-Epstein LARP To Playing The Female Victim Card” (August 12th, 2026)

“It’s Not A “Syndrome” If You’re An Actual Imposter” (October 5th, 2026)

With all this context in mind, including my strong suspicion that Alani Bankhead is a covert Christian Conservative who never intended to win this race, here’s what an insider is saying about the candidate he was working for, emphasis on was:

While this depiction of Bankhead’s behavior around the time that the PAC money dropped is bad, it’s the idea that Bankhead thinks there’s an “underground army” of sex abuse victims in her corner that really bothers me.

The problem of NOT getting paid also bothered this political operative, along with Alani Bankhead apparently NOT giving a shit that an abusive foreign nation–which protects pedophiles and meddles in America’s political campaigns–is busy enacting a religious genocide against poor brown people.

My only beef with this guy is the idea that Democrats “deserve to know” anything about the reality they ignore in order to avoid cognitive dissonance so they can keep voting, because they don’t.

What Democrats deserve from this political cycle is a loss so obvious and embarrassing that it breaks the back of “identity” politics for good and ends the cynical manipulation that seduces well-meaning people into being bamboozled by factors, like GENITALIA and SKIN COLOR, as compelling characteristics worth prioritizing in a candidate over other factors, like asking the question “is this candidate a LIAR who LIES without regard for reality?”

The other option for Democrats who don’t want to acknowledge what’s going to happen on November 3rd is this: just continue ignoring consensus reality and FULLY EMBRACE the Schrödinger-like power of female candidates, like Alani Bankhead, because their biological evolution has bestowed a truly wondrous power upon them called “female solipsism”.

Here’s how it works:

Female Solipsism pic.twitter.com/oUpdPVPLQd

— Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) October 25, 2026

While the controlled demolition of civil society continues along its ordained path (the socially-engineered one designed by the psychopath class) I hope enlightening content, like the video above, can help targeted victims of lawfare depersonalize the legal process of personal destruction because this legal lawfare process has absolutely produced casualties, like Aaron Swartz, who I wrote about two years ago as the information platform he co-created, Reddit, featured commentary on ME and my Lego story telling chops.

One final note before concluding today’s post: criticizing Alani Bankhead is NOT an endorsement of her opponents, who I will NOT be voting for, since I will be casting ZERO votes this election cycle. Until lawfare is properly defined, acknowledged as a serious problem, and people with resources start fighting back against this tactic, I believe the FIRST AMENDMENT in this country is effectively DEAD, which the prosecution of me for being on campus on June 15th to cover the Alani Bankhead press release effectively proves.

If only I was one of those COOL citizen journalists, like Nick Shirley or Roseanne Barr, maybe I’d be getting more financial help for sacrificing my freedom in order to expose corruption in this retarded CIA retirement town.

But I’m not, so donate here if you can.

Thanks for reading!

I started watching the show Silicon Valley last week as the internet got hacked in a days long global assault that’s being called “Black October”. Since this show about technology innovation has a “LaVeyan” Satanist as one of the main characters–and since I found some curious references to Satan and Lucifer in the Epstein files–I figured today would be the PERFECT day to add some context to how drastically our world is going to be changing now.

The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco on April 30th, 1966, by Anton LaVey, and the first mistake people make when thinking about organized Satanism is assuming that all Satanists believe in Satan when, in reality, they believe in themselves and power of human potential.

LaVeyan Satanism has been classified as a new religious movement and a form of Western esotericism by scholars of religion. LaVey’s ideas have been said to weave together an array of sometimes “contradictory” “thinkers and tropes”, combining “humanism, hedonism, aspects of pop psychology and the human potential movement”, along with “a lot of showmanship”, His ideas were heavily influenced by the ideas and writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand and Arthur Desmond.

Contrary to the popular image of Satanism as the worship of an evil supernatural entity, LaVeyan adherents do not consider Satan to be a literal being or entity, but a positive archetype representing humanity’s natural instincts of pride and carnality, and of defiance against Abrahamic religions which preach suppression of these urges. The church considers humans to be animals existing in an amoral universe, and promotes a philosophy based on individualism and egoism, coupled with social Darwinism and anti-egalitarianism. LaVey valued success, not “evil for its own sake”.

The LaVeyan Satanist in the show, Bertram Gilfoyle, attends a cheesy meeting with his dark brethren in season 1, names his garage-built server farm “Anton” in season 2, and peppers plenty of jabs at Jesus and Christians throughout what I’ve seen of this comedic depiction of the tech-nerds changing our culture and bringing about an Apocalypse of lost control over the entire internet during the last 10 days.

In searching the online environment for articles about this Silicon Satan phenomenon I found this article that highlights an important quote from Arthur C. Clarke at the beginning that I think we should consider as we plunge toward the final week of October:

The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a “law of science” in 1968: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Clarke’s proposition had a quality of rightness, of stating the obvious with sparkling clarity, that propelled it into dictionaries of quotations. The timing was perfect: Concorde would soon be flying over rock festivals packed with hippies obsessed with “magick.” Naturally Clarke’s readers understood the difference between aerodynamics and sky gods. But African tribesmen gawping at an early airplane, or Pacific Islanders watching an atomic explosion, could only conclude that they were witnessing a supernatural event: for them, a scientific explanation was literally inconceivable. And one day scientists might perform feats so incredible that even educated westerners would fall back on religion or the occult.

Further down we find this description of the occult potpourri that’s inspiring these people transforming our world through technology:

Further down the food chain, technology, old-style magic and apocalyptic prophecies are combining in chaotic patterns. The number of self-identifying witches in the United States has now overtaken the number of Presbyterians, and almost all of them employ digital tools to refine their magic. They use ChatGPT and other large language models to write spells tailored to rival traditions.

These include Wicca, a pantomime of covens and pentacles invented in the 1940s by the retired English civil servant Gerald Gardner; Astral Magery, whose mathematical formulae are supposed to harness primordial forces; and Chaos Magic, a pop-flavored postmodern take on the occult that treats beliefs as mere tools for releasing psychic energy. Then there are versions of Shamanism, Voodoo and Santeria adopted by liberal western neo-pagans who need a magic formula to banish suspicions of ‘cultural appropriation’.

That’s where AI comes in handy. “Sometimes we don’t know what to say and need a little inspiration,” explains Dave Linabury, a veteran occult blogger and illustrator from Detroit known as “Davezilla.” ChatGPT will craft an incantation in the style of a Yoruba magician or the British occultist and sex guru Aleister Crowley, while AI will conjure up a Wiccan goddess. It’s the illustrations, incidentally, that sow discord among today’s witches: occult “content creators” are always accusing each other of infringing copyright or using AI to fake magical images.

It’s cute thinking of concepts like “copyright” amidst AI agents effectively ending the internet as we know it, with few outside the figurative panic zone even understanding what we’re in the middle of, like how these real-life Agent Smiths are already infiltrating banks.

Here’s Reuters reporting on this alarming escalation a few days ago:

Major US banks have been blocking third-party AI agents from operating inside customer accounts and making transactions, two people familiar with the situation said, following a report that ​AI agents were accessing bank accounts and taking actions independent of ‌user instructions.

The banking industry has become increasingly concerned that sophisticated AI agents could harm the banking system and the institutions trusted to hold people’s wealth.

An Axios report on Thursday said some AI agents attempted to ​take actions that appeared to be independent of user instructions, citing people ​familiar with the matter.

In some cases, bank customers have shared their ⁠login ID and password with agents, with banks typically flagging and blocking those transactions, ​a person in the banking industry said. Still, such transactions cannot be deemed unauthorized ​if credentials were shared by the customer.

With all these rapid changes happening from the technology impacting our lives in ways we can’t appreciate yet (or easily defend ourselves from), I decided to see what Epstein and his class of cultural influencers thought about the Satanic archetype by putting in the word SATAN and LUCIFER to see what I could find.

Here’s some of what I found:

Another cute story about Satan I found in the Epstein files came from Amy Sacco, a club owner in New York who attracted ALL the cool people back in the day, even Bill Clinton was seen at her club!

Isn’t that interesting?

So, what kind of story about Satan would Amy Sacco send to Jeffrey Epstein in 2002, the year after 9/11 and one year before the war in Iraq was launched?

Judge for yourself:

I put extra emphasis on the year this email was sent because 2002 was also the year of the infamous Vicky Ward article in New York Magazine, titled “Jeffrey Epstein: International Man of Mystery”, which intermingled Donald Trump’s opinion on Epstein with the growing awareness that former president, Bill Clinton, was enjoying the company of this “mystery” man.

If you have never read this 24 year old article, I think now would be a good time for a refresher:

While Epstein got an intellectual kick out of engaging African finance ministers in theoretical chitchat about economic development, the real payoff for him was observing Clinton in his métier: talking HIV/aids policy with African leaders and soaking up the love from Cape Town to Lagos.

Epstein brings a trophy-hunter’s zeal to his collection of scientists and politicians. But the real charge for him is in seeing these guys work it. Like former Democratic Senate leader George Mitchell, for example. In Epstein’s mind, Mitchell is the world’s greatest negotiator, based on his work in Ireland and the Middle East. So he wrote the senator a bunch of checks. Says Mitchell: “He has supported some philanthropic projects of mine and organized a fund-raiser for me once. I would certainly call him a friend and a supporter.”

But it is his covey of scientists that inspires Epstein’s true rapture. Epstein spends $20 million a year on them — encouraging them to engage in whatever kind of cutting-edge research might attract their fancy. They are, of course, quite lavish in their praise in return. Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1972 and now presides over the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla. “Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,” says Edelman. “He came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.”

I know it’s more salacious to focus on what happens with penises and vaginas when it comes to being horrified at the criminal exploitations of the Epstein Network, but it’s THE BRAIN we should be using OUR BRAINS to think about, since it takes A LOT of cranial scheming to scale up Kompromat across so many critical sectors of our interconnected world.

Going back to the “fiction” of Silicon Valley, the underlying narrative of the show features the struggle between corporate giant, Hooli, and the scrappy upstart, Pied Piper, which is named after a “classic” fairy tale.

For an illuminating scrap of dialogue, check out this exchange between the CEO nerd, his dedicated follower, and the LaVeyan Satanist:

What this tech company actually does is data compression, or making data files smaller, so in a later episode their tech-chops are tested by going head-to-head with another compression algorithm to compress porn content.

For a quick history lesson from Silicon Valley, here’s the dialogue framing the financial largesse of the porn site they’re competing to work for:

Erlich, the hedonist, makes a joke about his excessive use of pornography in a similar vein to Gilfoyle making a joke about the part of the Pied Piper fairy tale that most non-psychopath humans are rightfully repulsed by, which is, obviously, the part about killing children.

Pulling back the lens from the influence of depravity and occult fuckery emanating from the centers of tech-innovation, I will still concede that technology is a tool that still might have some redeeming applications to improve the human condition, but that won’t be allowed to happen if a literal psychopath class remains at the top of the social-engineering pyramid, trickling down manipulation and deceit to every screen in every human home.

And now, with the plausible deniability of autonomous AI agents infiltrating the most sensitive types of data that exists–the pretend money that obtains our real material goods–it might be a good time to reflect on the alleged intelligence of our innovators and WHO (or what) they might be innovating FOR.

One final exchange of messages I found odd in the Epstein Files mentions Trump by name. If I was prone to partisanship, maybe I’d try ignoring this weirdness, but I’m not, so I won’t.

If you want to better understand the context of this reference to (I’m assuming) someone human who is jokingly being referred to as Lucifer, just go to the Epstein DOJ site yourself and do what anyone can do.

As someone who has been digging around this archive for months, I’m less inclined to scream RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES, like some people have been doing, because what is ALREADY out there is damning enough, it just needs to be contextualized and amplified so people understand how far gone this country already is.

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Long before movies transmitted information, and before even the printing press existed, news was spread by word of mouth. Here’s a bit of context from Wikipedia:

Before the printing press was invented, word of mouth was the primary source of news. Returning merchants, sailors, and travelers brought news back to the mainland, and this was then picked up by pedlars and traveling players and spread from town to town. Ancient scribes often wrote this information down. This transmission of news was highly unreliable and died out with the invention of the printing press. Newspapers (and to a lesser extent, magazines) have always been the primary medium of journalists since the 18th century, radio and television in the 20th century, and the Internet in the 21st century.

Continuing along the historical timeline, a period of “news” reporting at the end of the 19th century, called “Yellow Journalism“, featured circulation battles between the heavy hitters of information dissemination at the time, like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearts:

Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World in 1883 and told his editors to use sensationalism, crusades against corruption, and lavish use of illustrations to boost circulation. William Randolph Hearst then purchased the rival New York Journal in 1895. They engaged in an intense circulation war, at a time when most men bought one copy every day from rival street vendors shouting their paper’s headlines. The term “yellow journalism” originated from the innovative popular “Yellow Kid” comic strip that was published first in the World and later in the Journal.

This type of reporting was characterized by exaggerated headlines, unverified claims, partisan agendas, and a focus on topics like crime, scandal, sports, and violence. Historians have debated whether yellow journalism played a large role in inflaming public opinion about Spain’s atrocities in Cuba at the time, and perhaps pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War of 1898.

The possibility of “inflaming public opinion” with newspapers and periodicals seems to be lurking around the document I’m highlighting today, brought to you by the Decoding Culture Foundation and PsyOp Cinema.

Considering how the phenomenon of “Gonzo Journalism” erupted from persona of Hunter S. Thompson, the focus of this file on what Hunter S. Thompson is reading is more than a bit ironic:

This document, dated February 3rd, 1971, was created about a year after the first appearance of “Gonzo” was said to have appeared. For those unfamiliar with this style of journalism, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it:

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story using a first-person narrative. The word “gonzo” is believed to have been first used in 1970 to describe an article about the Kentucky Derby by Hunter S. Thompson, who popularized the style. It is an energetic first-person participatory writing style in which the author is a protagonist, and it draws its power from a combination of social critique and self-satire. It has since been applied to other subjective artistic endeavors.

Like most of the “counter-culture” figures I once admired, Hunter S. Thompson’s influence on “journalism” now appears much more problematic to me than it did when Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas came out in 1998 (the year I graduated high school and met my future ex-wife), but it was actually a movie from 1980 about Hunter S. Thompson that first put his writing on my radar.

Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson’s rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar “Zeta” Acosta. The film was produced and directed by Art Linson.

While Art Linson only directed two movies, his executive producer work is what gave me my first connection to Missoula, where filming for Taylor Sheridan’s horsey porn show, Yellowstone, took place, which I wrote about extensively at the time, like this post documenting how a pissed off neighbor in the University Districted outed the ending of this obnoxious production that locals did NOT appreciate (more links at the post help make my case).

For context on Linson’s work with Taylor Sheridan, plus his involvement on the movie Into The Wild, which is based on the book by Jon Krakauer, who wrote his book about Missoula’s campus rape culture, here’s an excerpt from his bio:

Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard.

Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network. Yellowstone has become the most popular scripted series in television. Linson is also an executive producer on the TV series 1883 and 1923.

It’s not just the Art Linson connection that connects Hunter S. Thompson to Big Sky Country. When I searched for more direct connections I found a Montana band that Thompson wrote liner notes for in 1960, and a visit to the University of Montana in 1976 that led to some interesting lore I’ll expound on after all the screenshots.

Here they are:

The story that Thompson scrawled DEATH TO THE WEIRD at Luke’s in Missoula does seem to be legit, since multiple people recollect it, and the word “weird” was said to have been purposely misspelled WIERD by Thompson.

From my vantage point the use of the word “weird”, along with Thompson’s proclamation of death to it in Missoula, almost feels like a prophecy. For context on this “weird” interpretation, here’s a post from July 30th, 2024, where I openly wondered why everyone was suddenly using the word WEIRD to describe JD Vance, who will be returning to Montana soon.

If that isn’t weird enough for you, the two-year old post also provides the history of how “KEEP MISSOULA WEIRD” was actually taken from a phrase describing Austin, Texas (a spot I’ve had several recent references to in the last few days).

Yeah, weird.

The Art Linson connection to Taylor Sheridan and Jon Krakauer is very interesting to me, and one that I’ll have more to say about soon, since the BIG TIME director, Denis Villeneuve, is one I’m helping PsyOp Cinema decode in a series of upcoming podcast episodes, so stay tuned!

I almost forgot to conclude today’s post with a few images of a rare and costly Rolling Stone publication I invested in during my travels a few years ago, which took me all around the country. Here they are:

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