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Four years ago I wrote a blog post that I’m now reexamining because, back in 2022, I was connecting a local church in Missoula to Charlie Kirk and the Phoenix-based “Dream Center” where a conference that year included Keith Craft, a former body builder who cashed in on the grift of motivationally speaking to gullible Christian audiences.

The grift is impressive. According to All American Speakers dot com, Craft charges between $20,000-$30,000 an event. And guess who he boasts being in proximity to? Politicians like Bill Clinton and celebrities like Bill Cosby. Is this the mighty power of Christian forgiveness we are seeing, or something else?

Before we get to the rabbit hole connecting Charlie Kirk’s assassination to some Turning Point people weirdly showing up in Montana last October, let’s briefly explore who started the Phoenix Dream Center, and why:

The Dream Center Network was founded by Tommy Barnett in 1994 with the first Dream Center in Los Angeles.

We had one single mission – to Find A Need And Fill It, To Find A Hurt And Heal It.

Since 1994, the Dream Center Network has been finding needs and filling them all over the world with over 300 Dream Centers healing hurts in communities around the globe.

In 2002 we began to Dream Big for the people of Phoenix and we started to build the Phoenix Dream Center.

We started with community-based outreach dedicated to ending childhood hunger among at-risk youth and homeless families. We started with just a few bags of groceries each week, and today deliver over 14,000 meals each week to help end childhood hunger.

When I actually tried to visit one of these 300 “Dream Centers” in Pasco, Washington, the storefront was not easily identifiable or even all that welcoming.

I was reacquainting myself with this material after watching a YouTube video by Baron Coleman, one of the researchers feeding the Candace Owens crusade to expose what she claims is the military-style operation behind the plot to assassinate Charlie Kirk.

Though I haven’t been closely following all the Candace Owens research, since I frankly find her style hard to watch, I was familiar with the claim that a witness saw Erika Kirk and Brian Harpole (Charlie’s head of security) before the assassination at some secretive, high-level meeting on the grounds of Fort Huachuca in Arizona, but it wasn’t until a supposed flight from Fort Huachuca to Kalispell, Montana, was referenced last week on the Candace Owens Show that I decided to pay closer attention.

That’s why I’m wondering, like Baron Coleman is wondering, why Brian Harpole and two other figures with TPUSA–Rick Cutler and Butch Hibbs–all appeared to be at, or around, a tiny lake 30 miles away from Bozeman, Montana, during the first week of October, 2025.

Butch Hibbs is the brother of Jack Hibbs, and Jack Hibbs is a very well known Southern California pastor with tv shows, podcasts, and a radio reach “from West Africa to the Southern Pacific”. Praise Jesus!

Jack Hibbs also appeared with Matthew Barnett, God’s main man for the LA Dream Center, at the same Christian conference in 2024. Isn’t that interesting?

The local church that helped put these types of conferences on my radar four years ago is the River of Life, the East Missoula church where former Undersheriff for Missoula County, Jason Johnson, worships God on Sundays.

And what does Jason Johnson do Monday-Friday? Well, he works for the Attorney General of Montana, Austin Knudsen, making sure all those dead bodies I have a problem with never become a problem for the important people running this state.

For more context on Jason Johnson’s legacy, ZoomChron readers might be interested to know that Jason helped former Sheriff, T.J. McDermott, go legal scorched-earth against Sheriff Ibsen, the Missoula County Sheriff who this duo claimed acted in a retaliatory nature after McDermott declared his intention to run for Sheriff. This legal tantrum ended up costing Missoula County taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars:

In February 2014, county commissioners approved $60,000 settlements for both McDermott and now Undersheriff Jason Johnson. They alleged Ibsen discriminated against them when McDermott announced plans to run for sheriff.

“My job as sheriff is not just to provide leadership and a new direction, but also lay out the expectations of how we are going to treat each other,” McDermott said.

…lay out the expectations of how we are going to treat each other? Oh yeah? Does that include removing a homeless man from life support in a private hospital room BEFORE notifying his family?

While Missoula has a different Sheriff now, with an almost invisible “D” next to his name to signify which corrupt political party he identifies with, the supposed man of God acting as Chaplain remains the same, and is, in fact, seeking to expand his mandated mission to end human sex trafficking for women, as described here, on a University of Montana web-page lending unwarranted credibility to Lowell’s crusade:

A month after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, an event was held in Bozeman to remember this charismatic young Christian leader, providing an opportunity for Montana’s Governor and Ohio’s Governor to rally their Christian base:

In what felt at times like a solemn church service and others a rock concert celebrating conservatism, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took the stage Tuesday night at Turning Point USA’s event on Montana State’s campus in Bozeman.

The organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was killed last month during a Turning Point event in Utah. Both Gianforte and Ramaswamy shared stories and lessons they took from the late right-wing influencer. Both men also used the event as a call to action for conservatives, giving those in attendance ideas on ways to uphold their version of Kirk’s legacy. Ramaswamy also took questions from the crowd for about an hour.

This political rally with a Montana politician who identifies as a Christian reminded me of another curious character from 2022 I was looking at in relation to Lowell Hochhalter and the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, and that’s the bizarre political candidacy of Michael Burks.

For a good primer on this supposed “Christian”, my post, titled “A Christian Piñata By The Name Of Michael Burks And His Connection To The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office” is a good place to start, since it shows the documentary focusing on Burks’ philanthropic “flying”, as documented by a former Missoula County Sheriff Deputy.

The post also includes some direct texts I got from Michael Burks where he expounded on his rationale for shutting down two Montana Fuel Fitness locations in Butte and Helena, which he announced in a bizarre rant that I documented, in full, here.

The text I received from Michael Burks went beyond making claims of financial malfeasance to making claims of drug dealing. Isn’t that interesting?

Naturally, I asked Michael Burks if he had reported this illegal drug activity to law enforcement. This was his reply to me:

So, with all this context in mind, it shouldn’t be surprising that I’m now wondering how Montana factors in to the Charlie Kirk assassination; an assassination which ideologically cleared the path for a totally insane war America has already politically lost.

And I’m not the only one.

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When I stopped watching Helena’s special City Commission meeting last night at 9:40pm, 59 people had provided public comment FOR the anti-ICE resolution, thumbing Helena’s proverbial nose at the state of Montana, and 11 people had spoken in favor of rescinding it. Ultimately the Commission voted 4-1 to rescind the resolution after a lawyer I’m quite familiar with, Natasha Jones, gave a sobering account of the possible consequences Helena could suffer were they to not back down.

Who is Natasha Jones, why did the city of Helena hire her to consult on this matter, and why were there so many self-described lawyers last night publicly pushing Helena officials to continue provoking a legal showdown with the AG, Austin Knudsen? I think trying to answer these questions will give readers a much clearer idea of what last night’s vote was actually about, and it’s NOT genuine concern for immigrants.

First, it’s pretty obvious why Helena hired Natasha P. Jones to consult on this matter. As a partner at Boone Karlberg and the vice-chair of the Missoula Redevelopment Agency (where I presented on Sigil Kult this Tuesday), Jones played a critical role in costing Missoula taxpayers $140.4 MILLION dollars so our alcoholic Mayor at the time, John Engen, could buy our city a water company.

Missoula’s eminent domain legal battle to acquire its water company, we were told at the time, would take less than $55 million, with around $400,000 estimated to be spent on legal costs. By 2017, when the deal was finalized, this is what actually happened:

Engen said the courts will continue moving forward on the few remaining issues – Missoula has already won approval to condemn and purchase the water system. In the meantime, the city will purchase and begin operating the utility.

The $140.4 million will purchase the water system, pay the city’s and the water company’s legal fees, finance an initial list of system improvements and provide a cash reserve for unforeseen expenses.

Mountain Water’s purchase price accounts for $88.6 million of the costs.

Was Natasha P. Jones and her law firm, Boone Karlberg, happy with this outcome? Apparently not, since they KEPT FIGHTING by making a losing legal argument that the big corporation they fought were big meanies who didn’t play fair, or some shit like that.

I’m clearly not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure this last attempt, dismissed by a panel of arbiters, was a big, educational slap in the face for one of Missoula’s most influential lawyers:

In separate litigation, however, the city sued Carlyle Infrastructure Partners of The Carlyle Group alleging the equity firm dealt with the city “in bad faith” when it failed to make good on a promise to sell to the city. In December, an arbitration panel of three unanimously ruled in favor of Carlyle and dismissed all eight of the city’s claims.

The arbiters found Engen exhausted the avenues at his disposal to buy the utility, but he never had a promise from Carlyle to sell, as the city argued. In the decision, the arbiters said Carlyle considered the city’s offers, but they weren’t nearly high enough.

“It was likely that the city could not afford to finance the acquisition of Mountain Water at anything approaching market value,” the panel wrote. “As a result of the City’s decision to pursue condemnation and its successful conclusion, it avoided those challenges.”

This context, I think, is important, because Natasha Jones clearly had lots of lawyers in the audience who later demanded, at the microphones, that the City of Helena ignore her dire warning about what could happen were Helena to proceed with its resolution. By my count, 9 of the 59 pro-ANTI-ICE resolution supporters indicated they were lawyers, so, presumably, their opinions mattered more, otherwise why identify as such?

If you listened to the rhetoric for nearly four hours, like I did (only taking brief breaks to record Instagram clips with Pirate Booty), then you heard the word “bully” used over and over, referring to the Attorney General. You also heard the term “sanctuary city” referred to as a “red herring”. Why?

It took a few, more overt statements from public commenters for me to finally realize what was going on. The lawyers in Helena seemed to be anticipating–and trying to preemptively block– Austin Knudsen’s Gubernatorial aspirations, and they were using immigrants and the agitation of ICE/protest violence in Minneapolis to rile up support for their larger, Montana-focused political agenda.

This political agenda, I believe, is mirrored in the covertly partisan “Montanans for non-partisan courts”, which I decoded for readers last month. I even caught the fact one of commenters last night worked for the ACLU, an entity directly involved in supposedly keeping the courts “non-partisan”.

Natasha Jones was most certainly NOT being partisan last night because her role, when representing clients, is to WIN, above all else, and the lawyers who know how to win get the most important thing in all the whole wide world, which any man on his death bed knows is money, right?

One final note about lessons on legal losing that Missoula can provide Helena residents, and that’s a very clear picture of what happened when our virtue-signaling CITY thought they could municipally restrict private gun transactions within city limits, something I wrote would have consequences at the time (2016). What happened is Missoula lost that stupid fight three years later when Montana’s Supreme Court struck it down:

The Montana Supreme Court Tuesday struck down a city’s attempt to perform background checks on people purchasing or transferring guns within its city limits.

The City of Missoula, Montana, enacted an ordinance in 2016 requiring people purchasing or receiving a firearm to pass a national background check.

Three months after the ordinance was enacted, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox issued an opinion that said cities with self-governmental powers, such as Missoula, are prohibited by Montana law from enforcing a regulation or ordinance requiring background checks on firearm sales or transfers.

The city then sought declaratory judgment from a state district court on Fox’s directive. The lower court ruled that the gun ordinance was authorized under state law, which authorizes cities to “prevent and suppress … the possession of firearms by convicted felons, adjudicated mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and minors.”

Fox appealed that ruling to the Montana Supreme Court.

For lawyers and well-meaning useful idiots in Helena, the fight is far from over. That said, don’t let the low turnout on the other side of my tally-count fool you. One woman, for example, submitted a list of 127 names, along with addresses, in support of rescinding the resolution, with the woman at the mic telling a story about an elder Native woman emphatically signing because of what she claimed was happening on the reservations with undocumented traffickers of drugs and humans.

Considering what I wrote about Jim Acosta, Missoula Democrats, and the curious attention of Jeffrey Epstein by his “accountant” to the showdown between Acosta and Stephen Miller in 2017 around immigration, you can bet I’ll continue watching for issue in Helena to reignite as Knudsen’s political aspirations become more obvious, if they aren’t already.

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Before we get to the email that Richard Kahn sent Jeffrey Epstein about Jim Acosta, who will be the keynote speaker for Missoula Democrats this year, let’s examine how critical Kahn was to Epstein’s money network while he was alive AND after Epstein’s supposed “death”:

Kahn was Epstein’s accountant for more than 10 years and became an executor of his estate after his death, CBS News reported. Kahn was one of Epstein’s closest associates in his final years, as he managed the disgraced financier’s investments, finances and other matters, such as renovations on his private island.

Comer said Kahn did not see any interactions with Trump or his family but that Epstein was a financial adviser for ex-Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, businessman Steven Sinofsky, the Rothschilds and investor Leon Black. Kahn said he saw large transactions with those five clients.

“Mr. Kahn testified under oath that — because the Democrats asked this question — that he had never seen any type of transaction to Trump or anyone in his family,” Comer told reporters. “That makes the fifth witness now that’s testified under oath that they’ve never seen any involvement by Donald Trump or the family.”

Democrats and Republicans are desperate to keep partisan focus on the bipartisan corruption of our entire political system, which is why a “journalist” like Jim Acosta is so useful. Back in 2017, for example, it was Jim Acosta who sparred with Stephen Miller over immigration, which is why Richard Kahn sent Epstein this email:

The following year, during a White House press conference, Acosta (who’s father immigrated to America from Cuba as a child) got even MORE aggressive, then sued the White House when the administration cut off his press access. Here’s some context from Acosta’s Wikipedia page:

On November 13, 2018, CNN and Acosta, through counsel Ted Boutrous and Ted Olson of Gibson Dunn, filed civil suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Trump, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff/Director of Communications Bill Shine, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the U.S. Secret Service and its director, Randolph Alles, and an unnamed Secret Service agent, all in their official capacities. The filing also requested relief by way of an order temporarily restraining the White House from denying access to Acosta for journalistic purposes.

Amicus briefs were filed with the court in support of CNN’s case, from journalistic entities whose editorial policies range across the political spectrum. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief arguing that First Amendment free speech rights do not “restrict the president’s ability to determine the terms on which he does, or does not, engage with particular journalists.”

The case was heard by Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee to the District Court for the District of Columbia, who, on November 16, ordered Acosta’s credentials restored for 14 days, owing to the court’s belief that Acosta’s due-process rights likely had been violated, with the court’s making no reference of the suit’s arguments thus far concerning the First Amendment.

CNN eventually dropped the lawsuit on November 19 after the White House restored Acosta’s press credentials with conditions, including that reporters called upon would be limited to one question with no follow-up questions unless granted permission.

Acosta wrote about the incident in his 2019 book The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.

What I believe Kahn and Epstein saw in Acosta’s “journalism” was an attack on the core strategy Democrats have for maintaining their power: unfettered immigration. Remember, Hillary Clinton had just lost the 2016 election amidst email disclosures and Pizzagate conspiracy theories, and the right wanted a revolution. Once Democrats lost in 2016, these political losers mobilized their mouthpieces across the country to pimp immigration, like Klaus von Stutterheim did from his perch in Seeley Lake.

You see, Missoula Democrats don’t care if women get raped by immigrants and they don’t care about pitting immigrants against locals for very limited housing amidst skyrocketing housing costs. They also give ZERO SHITS about the first amendment, especially if some uppity citizen journalist tries using it to expose THEIR schemes. But don’t tell their keynote speaker this because Jim Acosta is ALL ABOUT speaking “truth to power”.

This fucker didn’t suffer for speaking truth to power, he had high-paid lawyers to litigate for him, a book publisher ready with a book deal, and plenty of Democrats eager to platform him at a dinner fundraiser where King Cuck and Queen Cunt will be honored for all the amazing work they have done to ensure Missoula women can get raped by immigrants instead of just football players and ER doctors.

Pat Williams served Montana with distinction as the state’s longest serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Montana from 1979 to 1997. During his nine terms in Congress, he championed working families, wilderness conservation, tribal sovereignty, education, the arts, and workers’ rights, leaving a legacy of principled leadership and commitment to Montana values.

Alongside him throughout this journey has been his partner in life and service, Carol Williams. A lifelong advocate for education, environmental protection, and women’s rights, Carol carved her own path in Montana politics. Carol went on to serve in the Montana Legislature, first in the State House and then in the State Senate from 2004 to 2012. During her legislative career she made history as the first woman to serve as both Majority and Minority Leader in the Montana Senate.

Beyond elected office, Carol has continued to support civic engagement and leadership, founding what is now known as Carol’s List, an organization dedicated to recruiting and supporting progressive, pro-choice women candidates for public office in Montana.

If you think I’m being too harsh and offensive by referring to a progressive, pro-choice woman as QUEEN CUNT, well, that’s the first amendment for you! And Democrats support the first amendment, right? I mean, it’s not like they’re bigoted identity pimps and DEI racists creating an overall atmosphere stifling free expression, right?

It’s always impressive to see dollar amounts on plates for shindigs like the Missoula Democrats are throwing because it’s a reminder, at least for me, of the kind of money that floats around when your politics trumps your ethics and morals. When politics are jettisoned for principles, it’s more a matter of publicly begging for GoFundMe money while privately conveying the pros and cons of financially securing rare glass spheres.

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Yesterday I gave affordable housing developers some perspective about a demographic that negatively impacts housing. While terms like “workforce housing” and “the missing middle” are used by the gentrifiers, I explained how the “amphetamine bottom” can impact housing–they DESTROY it. That’s when I suggested the suits asking for $9 million dollars look up “Sigil Kult“.

A group of heavily tattooed influencers, who refer to themselves as an artist collective and “cult” called “Sigil Kult,” have earned online infamy by wrecking their taxpayer-funded apartment in Downtown Los Angeles — and broadcasting it on social media.

The subsidized unit, located in the historic and once-elegant Alexandria Hotel, has graffiti covering the walls, smashed mirrors, and trash and drug paraphernalia littering the floor, videos posted to Instagram show.

The “cult” was evicted from the premises last week, but not before the unemployed hooligans racked up scores of followers, who are both fascinated and disgusted, on social media with their antics.

Missoula has an eccentric character who, like “Egg God”, is not the greatest person to be around when hard drugs are involved. To exemplify what I’m talking about, here’s what was happening last May that led to “Madam Butterfly” returning to the streets after fucking up “her” affordable housing placement:

On May 3, 2025, at approximately 2:43 a.m., officers with the Missoula Police Department responded to an apartment complex on Mullan Road after receiving a report that 65-year-old James Muster threatened the complainant, John Doe, with a stick and refused to turn down loud music. Based on information obtained in another open case in Missoula County District Court (Assault on a Peace Officer) where Muster is the defendant, Muster prefers to be called Madame Butterfly and to use she/her pronouns.

Upon arrival, the officer walked around the apartment complex and heard loud music coming from the third-floor balcony. The officer then made contact with the complainant who was working as a staff member at the front desk.

Doe stated that earlier in the night, multiple tenants complained about the music coming from the third floor. At some point, Madame Butterfly came down to the lobby area. Doe confronted Madame Butterfly and told her to turn the music down.

Madame Butterfly was holding a large stick, approximately the size of a standard broom stick. According to court documents, Madame Butterfly threatened to kill Doe with the stick and told him that she would “get him.” Doe expressed fear for his safety and explained that this has been happening a lot with Madame Butterfly, and he is tired of being afraid.

The “staff member at the front desk” getting regularly threatened by Madame Butterfly is paid by the Missoula Housing Authority, a major recipient of Federal HUD money and partner in the new housing project discussed yesterday at the Missoula Redevelopment Agency meeting, which I attended with my puppet, Pirate Booty. Here are some highlights from that meeting.

After introducing myself as a “poet inspired by Afroman”, I sat in that insufferable conference room for 45 minutes because Karl rearranged everything to accommodate Mayor Harvard. Though annoyed at first, this post wouldn’t have happened had Karl not flexed and forced me to listen to the pitch for “Franklin Crossing“

In this minute-long clip I curated from the tedium, the “co-developer”, United Housing Partners, references a possible “third party” property manager, but wouldn’t say who. Later, when the “public” finally had a chance to comment, I suggested the “senior housing” building they’re proposing come with services to protect older people from the “amphetamine bottom”, a term I made up to counter the “missing middle” housing rhetoric I had heard earlier.

Here’s my public comment which featured my constructive ideas first before dropping Sigil Kult on the developer suits, Mayor Harvard, and the REAL Mayor of Missoula, Ellen Buchanan, a woman who gives ZERO FUCKS about dressing to impress, which I find impressing.

Less impressing–and the actual reason I was in attendance–is what passes for “outreach” when it comes to the Reserve Street Corridor, covered by one of the most effective grassroots groups I’ve ever seen, Kevin Davis’ “Let’s Improve Reserve Street” Facebook Page, recently the virtual host for Ginny Burton’s latest appearance.

Ginny Burton, who has a new book, titled “The Gabriel Plan” (which you can buy online) provided new insights into the current administration’s lost opportunity at providing REAL change in dealing with addiction. Instead according to Burton, she watched a rebranding unfold with ultimately Big Pharma at the wheel. Ginny proved she’s a realist, not a devotee of Trump making excuses for theatrics covering for the same monsters that destroyed so many families six years ago. God bless her.

You would think that Ginny Burton’s clout, and very specific geographical focus of the local group that hosted her presentation, would warrant, perhaps, some outreach (or at least participation in the presentation), were a recipient of public tax money (MRA) to go through that necessary step in doing outreach work in this part of Missoula’s ever-growing valley.

Well, the fact Kevin Davis didn’t even know that Reserve Street was on the agenda told me much of what I needed to know about who did NOT get “outreached”.

And then there’s the curious inclusion of who DID get outreached, that little production company that had to be oh so secretive when doing land deals and legislation deals on an impressive parallel track.

Apparently “Story House Montana” is worthy of “the reach”, but not a well-known “Neighborhood Leader” group doing effective work along one of Montana’s most DANGEROUS and LETHAL transportation corridors. Isn’t that odd?

Since I’m still working on the delivery of my “Afroman” poem about jurisdictional coitus between TIF and TEDD, you’ll have to find my reading to the people left in the conference room on your own. If you do, you’ll hear me articulate what I think might be going on with Reserve development, which I’ll detail in future posts, but here’s the gist: COUNTY taxpayers may be setting a table at which THE CITY will ultimately feast, post-annexation grab.

As Montana’s capitol city wonders whether or not to blink at our Attorney General’s threat to take them over his knee and give them a good spanking, there appears to be a lot of tension where those invisible lines demarcate authority. Weird how so many words in that link don’t appear to ever reference the Sheriff’s Office, which my puppet candidate finds quite offensive (follow Pirate Booty on Instagram @PirateBooty19). Thankfully I still have the ability to put words out to readers as I come across information relevant to the future growth of this town I’ve lived in for 26 years.

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Last year the CEO of NextDoor, Nirav Tolia, pledged to give his NIMBY app a reboot once Karen usage declined. How would Tolia accomplish this? AI, duh.

The heyday of Nextdoor saw the neighborhood-focused social app thrive as a hub for connections, local recommendations and coordinated responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. But after years of slowing growth and accusations of toxic content, the platform began to falter. Now, returning CEO Nirav Tolia is on a mission to revamp Nextdoor not by restoring it to its former glory, but by pursuing an entirely new path focused on hyperlocal news and A.I. features.

Five months later, local media and local law enforcement are having to deal with this reboot by telling people in Missoula that NO ONE WAS SHOT AT ROSE PARK. The “alert” on NextDoor was a total hallucination.

According to Missoula Police Department public information officer Whitney Bennett, the alert is false. Bennett isn’t sure who runs the “Safety Alerts” profile or where they get their information, but the account is not affiliated with the Missoula Police Department.

The profile that posted the false alert, Safety Alerts, says it is powered by samdesk.io. Samdesk.io, according to their website, offers an AI engine that creates crisis alerts based on public data sets.

While Whitney Bennett, the PIO for Missoula PD, admits she’s clueless about “who runs” the safety alerts, it’s the Top Dog at NextDoor who should be accountable for what his company is doing, but we all know people like this are NEVER held accountable. That’s why they’re always smiling.

Do you think this guy gives a shit about the local news your NIMBY app is feeding you? If you do, you’re retarded, and therefore an ideal customer for Nirav Tolia’s technology and all the local media NextDoor is now contractually bringing to its users:

One of the most striking changes is the prominence of local news in Nextdoor’s feed. For the first time, users will see a “Today’s local news” carousel of headlines from professional outlets at the top of the app. Nextdoor has signed partnerships with over 3,500 local and national news publishers across the U.S., U.K. and Canada – ranging from community papers to larger outlets like Axios and the Toronto Star – to pipe their stories into neighborhood feeds, Nextdoor told TechCrunch. These are not full articles hosted inside Nextdoor, but headlines, snippets and photos that link out to the publishers’ sites. Users can click through for the full story, and even discuss the news in comment threads beneath each item.

Hallucinating incidents of violence that would be crimes were they actually happening isn’t the only problem Missoula is starting to have with AI. At the Public Defender’s office, a liberal political loser by the name of Monica Tranel put her entire office in hot water when she got busted using AI in violation of a new District Court rule I reported on in November.

In response to getting caught, Tranel’s boss, Brian Smith, attempted to play the victim card for this liberal loser attorney:

In a Wednesday interview, Office of Public Defender Division Administrator Brian Smith told the Missoulian the AI-generated language was inadvertently included in an unrelated filing. And he criticized the county attorney’s office for filing a “four-page diatribe about the dangers of AI” instead of working with the defense to correct her mistake.

“That’s not helping the client or the case,” Smith said, “and all you are doing is trying to throw a professional colleague under the bus.”

If Monica Tranel was just a “professional colleague”, maybe Smith would have a point, but Tranel is actually a POLITICAL CANDIDATE, so maybe THAT has something to do with the “four-page diatribe” against her for potentially compromising confidential case information by uploading it.

If true, Brian Smith might want to rethink his high-horse position about what’s good for “clients” of the Public Defender’s Office.

In a response the following week, Ekwall points to that language while alleging Tranel’s filing also included incorrect information and obvious uses of artificial intelligence language.

“It is not plausible on its face that any source other than generative AI would have created such language for a filed version of a brief,” Ekwall wrote.

He wrote the defense’s filing also raised privacy concerns, suggesting confidential criminal justice information and the defendant’s mental health evaluations may have been uploaded to an outside server to generate the legal arguments. Tranel’s filing contained numerous citations that appeared as links to files uploaded to Amazon Web Services.

Smith, with the public defender’s office, pushed back on that criticism. The licensed AI tools his office is allowed to use, he said, utilize a “closed system” that doesn’t retain information inputted by attorneys.

The big problem that Smith can’t acknowledge is this: we aren’t taking about just attorneys here, we’re talking about POLITICAL CANDIDATE attorneys, which Monica Tranel has been for many years, and is again this cycle.

How does a busy public defender find the time to campaign?

Former Democratic congressional candidate and Missoula attorney Monica Tranel this week announced her campaign for the state Legislature.

Tranel is coming off two unsuccessful contests for the western congressional district against Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke in 2024 and 2022. In 2020, she lost a Public Service Commission election against Jennifer Fielder, another Republican.

When you pull back the lens from political losers, like Monica Tranel, and the total joke our criminal “justice” system has become, you might see the science fiction dystopia being put in place on the horizon, in real time. Here’s a sneak peek:

If you have children, especially boys, then this is the type of “face” they might see before getting executed by the machines. It won’t have Scarlett Johansson’s voice, since she can afford lawyers to tell the tech-bros NO, but I’m sure some other “feminine” sounding noises can be assembled for these future trials depicted in the new movie, Mercy.

Since our world is being rapidly reshaped by psychopaths, there will be LOTS of local opportunities to fight back. If you’d like to help a citizen journalist who got a big head start on doing the work of target selection, donate here.

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