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The quick answer to the title of this post is NO, Missoula’s Jennie Dixon didn’t stop the proposed data center in Bonner. What actually happened is this unelected bureaucrat, who helped craft the special permit for projects like the Bonner data center, used the concept of a “heat island” to frustrate Krambu into going back to the drawing board.

Missoula County’s review of a data center proposed in Bonner has been cancelled for a third time due to the applicant’s delay in providing information required by the county.

The Missoula County Consolidated Land Use Board won’t review a Bonner data center application during its July 1 hearing, because the project developer “is continuing to finalize materials,” according to a Missoula County Voice post issued on Wednesday. Unlike previous rounds of back-and-forth between the county and the developer, the presentation has not been rescheduled.

The Consolidated Land Use Board will determine whether the data center would be compatible with the neighborhood across the highway, which includes an elementary school, and whether various environmental issues could be avoided or mitigated. Those issues include additional traffic, noise, lights or added heat. But first, Missoula County planner Jennie Dixon must ensure the data center proposal passes muster.

As I continued reading the Missoula Current article I discovered that “passing muster” means determining the effectiveness of cooling towers to help with the heat island effect:

Before the May 6 hearing, Dixon wrote a letter on April 17 telling Gordon Dobler, the developer with Idaho-based Dobler Engineering, that the first application was too vague, and the county needed better information by April 28, particularly about equipment on the building’s exterior and the associated noise, lights and hours of operation. She also needed more information about Krambu’s cooling towers, such as how much water they’d require and whether the operation would add to Missoula’s growing heat island.

After receiving Dobler’s second application on April 28, Dixon replied the next day, saying the application had “substantially improved,” particularly the information about the cooling towers. But information on noise and lighting was still missing. And Dixon wasn’t convinced by random photos Dobler included from Krambu’s facility in Washington state that there would be no heat-island effect, especially for neighbors living just across the street. Without this information, Dixon pushed the hearing back to July 1.

I’m sure Jennie Dixon is enjoying her new role as public protector from the evil data center because, normally, bureaucrats do more boring and/or unpopular things, like approve massive gentrifying housing projects inside Targeted Economic Development Districts.

Jennie Dixon, Missoula County planner, said the project falls within the Wye targeted economic development district, which should create opportunities for infrastructure development to serve the Grass Valley Gardens subdivision and the larger Wye area.

In 2020 and 2023, Missoula County implemented two targeted economic development districts around the Wye to allow the collection of tax increment revenue to help pay for needed roads, water, sewer and stormwater infrastructure. As improvements are made in the district and property taxes go up, the difference in tax revenue is collected in a fund for further investment in the district.

Do school districts and burned-out first responders support the gentrification of Targeted Economic Development Districts in Missoula County? No, they do not, and FINALLY some of the detractors are getting much more vocal and threatening to lawyer-up:

Matthew Driessen knows that 15,000 new homes with ZERO of the increased tax revenue going to his school district means a financial time-bomb is being set up by Missoula’s County Commissioners, and this time-bomb is being systematically approved by paid bureaucrats, like Jennie Dixon.

While regular taxpaying citizens in Missoula are getting financially hammered, a woman who recently moved from Idaho to Montana last November finds herself getting a nice spread in the New York Times about her noble fight to stop the Quantica data center in Broadview, Montana.

The headline paired with the picture already had me triggered, but then I read some of the actual content from this NEW YORK TIMES piece, highlighting a Montana transplant who doesn’t even understand the concept of jurisdiction, and it finally started clicking what I think is being set up here.

Should Kassi Solberg be told NO just because she doesn’t understand that CITY councils and COUNTY commissioners are different legal entities? Here’s some more context from the NYT article that I found amusing:

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As a NON-Montanan transplant born in Spokane, I can say with confidence that 26 years does NOT make me a Montanan, but it certainly gives me a little more native credibility than someone who just moved to Montana in November with her “menagerie” of animals.

Also, as the New York Times pointed out, local jurisdictions in rural Montana are finding it hard to find this thing called MONEY, so when a big company comes offering to help with infrastructure needs, it’s no surprise that Kassi SOLBERG is getting a chilly reception at her “city” council.

Yesterday I wrote about a Democrat “friend of the children” and his curious background with a private global intelligence firm, and later this week I’ll be writing about Missoula’s white George Floyd, killed two years ago by local law enforcement in a vacant field where the Midtown Commons will be getting built. But, unlike Kassi Solberg, I’ve learned the hard way how you definitely CAN be stopped from seeking justice in a righteous cause

While money deficits suck for local taxing jurisdictions, it’s the INFORMATION DEFICIT that I find most threatening to this Big Sky state where my kids are growing up, and here’s why: the data center, for Montana statewide politics in 2027, is going to be the new ZOOEY ZEPHYR. Please allow me to explain before you get fully triggered like Kassi Solberg’s New York Times spread triggers me.

I believe allowable cultural pressure-release valves, like George Floyd’s weaponized death in 2020, and gender designations for bathrooms at the Montana state legislature in 2023, function as a form of narrative control by taking up all the oxygen in the room, so to speak. In 2023, in Helena, that meant opposition to Tax Increment Financing wasn’t allowed much life-giving attention from local media, and it showed when it came time to vote.

Turns out, getting politicians and the public to fight a culture war means the bipartisan consensus of fucking you deep in the tax hole goes largely unmolested, which seems destined to happen again thanks to the NEW WARRIORS against the EVIL DATA CENTER.

I would really like to be wrong about this.

The NYT article that triggered me arrived in my in-box from The Pulp, a local news publication that gets to be invited to City Club functions, funded by developers like the WGM group, a favorite recipient of Tax Increment Financing and good for a quote when it comes to one of their “planned neighborhood” projects subsidized by public tax increment dollars:

Comments from agencies and the public submitted ahead of the meeting voiced some concerns about the project’s impact on water supply, infrastructure, traffic, agricultural land and the Frenchtown School District.

The developer has been in contact with the Frenchtown School District, and the project master plan includes the potential to dedicate land to the district for a new school building, said Jamie Erbacher of WGM Group, representing the developer.

The land was historically used for grazing, is not irrigated and produces about one cutting of hay per year, Erbacher said. As part of the long-term plan, the developer is working with the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition and other groups to regenerate the soil and develop the permaculture farm included in later phases, she said.

This article came from the Montana Free Press, a Helena-based media outlet that is also invited to this month’s City Club media event, where John Adams will more than likely face ZERO critical questions about why his media company omitted the aggressive actions of Zooey Zephyr’s supporters at the peak of the Zephyr Show in 2023.

For being outspoken, critical, and opinionated on subjects that are heavily controlled and sometimes used to manipulate who can speak, who will be listened to, and what can be said, I’ve seen how all this manipulation functions from an uncomfortably close vantage point, and what I see with the narrative control around EVIL DATA CENTERS has my hackles up.

For more context on what I’ve written up to this point from my unique vantage point, including being the ONLY news source to write about the former Stimson lumber mill’s discharge permit being given up years ago by the site’s manager, Mike, here’s a list:

“Putting The Proposed Krambu Data Center For Bonner Into Context” (March 23rd, 2026)

“Step 1 For Stopping Data Centers: Become Less Retarded” (April 14th, 2026)

“Step 2 For Stopping Data Centers: Identify Retarded Stakeholders” (April 15th, 2026)

“Do Data Center Drama Queens Understand What’s Actually Happening?” (May 20th, 2026)

“AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN, Part IV: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Data Center” (April 30th, 2026)

Yes, I’ve written a lot so far on this subject, and will write more as evidenced by the fact I put out 25 articles this past month, while The Pulp, with business sponsors and everything, only managed to publish 9.

Thanks for reading!

Where to begin with Ben Davis?

I guess a good place to begin is where The Pulp begins, and that’s with current job, past job, and political office sought (HD 93):

Global “intelligence” firm, you ask?

Yes, and they employ the kind of people you’d expect.

So, after working with Matthew EPSTEIN and CIA Janice, who did Ben Davis (first referenced by me in this 2022 Zoom Chron post) rub elbows with at Friends of the Children?

Amy Tykeson, I assume, since she lives in Ovando, Montana.

Who is Amy Tykeson? Where did she get her money? And, more importantly, where does that money go? Let’s find out!

Amy is the daughter of Donald Erwin Tykeson, a man from humble beginnings who worked in the same industry my father worked in: telecommunications.

Tykeson worked in the communications industry throughout his adult life, beginning in sales at The Oregon Journal, and then managing and buying minority interest in Liberty Communications/KEZI of Eugene, Oregon. He purchased Bend Cable in 1983, which became BendBroadband.

By 1983, when his firm was sold for US$186 million to Tele-Communications Inc., it “had become one of the top 20 cable operators in the nation.” Tykeson was a founding board member of C-SPAN.

Amy, the steward of Daddy’s telecommunication money, now helps steer the philanthropic aims of timber money, which is where Duncan Campbell got the resources to launch Friends of the Children:

Duncan Campbell, a Portland Native, had a rough past before he founded one of the nation’s first timber investment firms, The Campbell Group. Neglected from an early age by his alcoholic parents, he worked three jobs to put himself through school and always said that, if he became wealthy, he’d come back for those children who have experienced the greatest amount of trouble and heartache in their short lives.

For more context on this “timber investment firm” here’s some info about when they got into bed with Plum Creek in 2008, which produced this result:

Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. (NYSE: PCL) today announced it will form a joint venture with The Campbell Group LLC (Campbell Group) that will allow PlumCreek to capture the value of approximately 454,000 acres of investment grade Southern timberlands. The transaction values these timberlands at $783 million, or approximately $1,725 per acre. PlumCreek will contribute the timberlands to the joint venture and an investment fund sponsored by Campbell Group will contribute $783million in cash. Campbell Group, a timber investment management organization based in Portland, Ore., will manage the joint venturelands for continued timber production. The timberlands are located insix states including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

“This transaction highlights the value of our Southern timberlands and is both earnings and cash flow accretive for Plum Creek. The formation of this joint venture allows Plum Creek to immediately capture substantially all of the value of these timberlands and to maintain an ongoing interest in their continuing cash flow and potential for growth,” said Rick Holley, president and chief executive officer of Plum Creek.

John Gilleland, president of Campbell Group, said, “On behalf of our investors, we are extremely pleased to enter into this joint venture with Plum Creek. The 454,000 acres are strategically located in well-established log markets and provide for management efficiencies with the Campbell Group’s nearly 2 million acres of Southern timberland assets currently under management. We look forward to continuing to manage these lands responsibly and under the requirements of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative(R) Standard.”

Considering the timber land origin story of Friends of the Children, how ironic is it that Ben Davis married Monica Tranel’s sister, moved to Montana, and now extolls the virtues of PUBLIC LANDS?

Davis moved to Montana about a decade ago after marrying a Montanan — fellow attorney Adrienne Tranel, the sister of Monica Tranel, a Democrat who previously ran for Congress in Montana and is now running for Legislature in House District 92.

“I married a native Montanan and we’re really proud to make this our home. I have four children who attend public schools, and this is just the place that we love. I think that the people are unique in their love of public lands and their individuality, their passion for community and love of place. I think there’s a lot to love that is unique about Montana.”

While Friends of the Children has NATIONAL reach, including “indigenous locations”…

…it’s the local influence of charitable money controlled by Friends of the Children board secretary, Amy Tykeson, that I find most illuminating, so here’s some screenshots I curated from the publicly available info on the Tykeson Family Charitable Trust to consider before the primaries hit Tuesday, including money to the Montana Free Press, which employs the reporter that The Pulp used to report on Ben Davis in the first place.

One more thing about philanthropically befriending children that’s important to understand, and that’s how very bipartisan befriending children is in Montana, as Republican Governor, Greg Gianforte, has clearly shown:

To keep voters compartmentalized and retarded it will be very important for our local media to reinforce the fiction that Democrats and Republicans are distinct political parties with opposing values and policy ideas. Outlets like the Daily Montanan, for example, will amplify Davis’ sister-in-law, Monica Tranel, as she exploits the DATA CENTER freakout while ignoring and/or downplaying the fact Tranel got busted outsourcing her own Public Defender workload to AI.

Officials from NorthWestern have said data centers are not a relevant part of the merger, but Wednesday, the second day of the hearing, a lawyer quizzing the CEO showed the “large load customers” are a factor given statements in an earlier investors call and recent financial report.

Wednesday, NorthWestern CEO Brian Bird took the stand, and under questioning from lawyer Monica Tranel, Bird agreed he had discussed data centers as an opportunity for NorthWestern with the possible merger.

But Bird said the merger offers other opportunities for growth too, not just from data centers, but also from transmission and generation, and he said the benefits for shareholders will, over time, accrue to customers as well — but the merger needs to take place.

“There ultimately could be reduced costs to customers,” Bird said.

While I suspect most readers will be skeptical about Bird’s claims, I wish they were more skeptical about EVERYTHING being reported about the professional liars we call politicians, like AOC, who recently gave hundreds of Democrats in Missoula a boost to keep their delusions alive that shifts in rhetoric represent shifts in reality.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday that she is now opposing all U.S. military aid to Israel, a shift in her previous position that made exceptions to support Israeli efforts to defend itself.

The new stance distinguishes Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., from both leaders in her party and other potential 2028 Democratic White House contenders, should she launch a presidential run.

AOC was in town to sell Democrats on Sam Forstag, the Smokejumper candidate who obviously won’t be pitching his agency’s historic relationship with the CIA as a selling point, just like Ben Davis won’t be talking about his former Kharon/CIA colleague, Janice, working to protect Israel from charitable money going to Hamas.

I also don’t expect to hear anything too critical from Ben Davis toward Governor Gianforte, who, if you follow his money, goes back through Oracle to…YOU GUESSED IT! The CIA!

But don’t take MY word for it.

Turns out, when you do what Deep Throat suggested decades ago, you see how compromised the entire political landscape has become in this country.

Thanks for reading!

Who was Marshall McLuhan and how did his famous aphorism–the medium is the message–frame the new technology of visual content consumed via television screens? For some basic info, here’s some biographical context from Wikipedia:

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as “the father of media studies”.

McLuhan coined the expression “the medium is the message” (in the first chapter of his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man), as well as the term global village. He predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented. He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s. In the years following his death, he continued to be a controversial figure in academic circles. However, with the arrival of the Internet and the World Wide Web, interest was renewed in his work and perspectives.

In a Wired article from 1996, McLuhan’s influences and ideas are more closely examined in relation to the new “World Wide Web” technology emerging at the time, including the controversial Jesuit who developed the idea of the noosphere. From the first link:

McLuhan’s idea that media are extensions of man was influenced by the work of the Catholic philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who believed that the use of electricity extends the central nervous system. McLuhan’s mysticism sometimes led him to hope, as had Teilhard, that electronic civilization would prove a spiritual leap forward and put humankind in closer contact with God.

But McLuhan did not hold on to this brief hope, and he later decided that the electronic unification of humanity was only a facsimile of the mystical body. As an unholy imposter, the electronic universe was “a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ.” Satan, McLuhan remarked, “is a very great electric engineer.”

Why did McLuhan come to this conclusion about the “electric universe”? Was it simply his outdated Christian belief system reclaiming the cognitive territory he pioneered? Or, perhaps, McLuhan did see something forming on the future’s distant horizon, and he determined it wasn’t what we were being told.

Five years before Wired revisited Marshall McLuhan’s old stomping grounds, Scientific American published a special issue about how to work, play and thrive in Cyberspace. One of the contributors for this issue, as you can see on the cover, was then-Senator, Al Gore.

Like building railroads and highways, Al Gore made his case for letting the U.S. government build, with U.S. tax dollars, America’s new information superhighway so that our great and amazing technological future could arrive and make all our lives so much better. Let’s see how his words have aged 35 years later:

Why did Marshall McLuhan become so cynical by the end of his life? He was one of Canada’s most famous thinkers, pen pals with Pierre Trudeau and the widowed wife of Henry Luce (Time Life), and an accepted part of the academic conversation happening about new communication technology, as this 1968 press release from the University of Montana clearly indicates:

This post–and the answer, I believe, to McLuhan’s evolution in thinking–came from two letters I found in McLuhan’s collection of letters.

And, yes, considering modern communication technology has essentially eliminated the art and insights of letter-writing, the irony of discovering McLuhan bitching about Secret Societies to the poet, Ezra Pound, is not lost on me.

Nearly a half century after Marshall McLuhan’s death in 1980, the “art” of a director, like David Lynch, is getting some critical attention for reasons I think McLuhan would appreciate because it has everything to do with electricity.

The following excerpt about Lynch’s Twin Peaks comes from the book by Robert Guffey, Hollywood Haunts The World, which I mentioned briefly in part II of A Very Curious Montana Cold War Book. Here’s the excerpt:

The connection between electricity and interdimensional beings, hinted at in the original series as well as Fire Walk With Me, is made explicit in Twin Peaks: The Return, Lynch and Frost’s belated conclusion to the series. When Dale Cooper finally manages to escape from the otherworldly Black Lodge in which he has been trapped for twenty-five years, we see him emerge on Earth through an electrical socket. He spends many episodes unable to remember his Agent Cooper persona until, at last, he plunges a metal fork into another electrical socket, the resultant shock putting him into a coma, then restoring him to full consciousness.

When I rhymed the word “shock” with “pussy lock” yesterday in the poem that concluded my timely dismantling of Dick Manning’s writing agenda, it wasn’t just a crude reference to fucking. At risk of sounding like a New Ager, sex, like death, is all about energy, and it was at the moment of electrifying Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair that I believe a major shift happened as electricity–and the infrastructure needed to transmit it–transformed the country.

When you adopt the esoteric lens that informs Hollywood’s mind-magick manipulation, then David Lynch, Montana, and the continued focus on this specific geography to help tell larger stories becomes very suspect. Here’s a few before I wrap this up.

Taylor Sheridan’s endless series, starting with Yellowstone, is the obvious one, but then there’s a bunch of little references, like Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in Roadhouse coming from Missoula, aliens in Arrival arriving in Montana, David Cross sporting a Missoula beanie, Anna Kendrick shouting out a recipe from a “Missoula Mom” in A Simple Favor, and the American Horror Story reference to Butte, Montana, in season 8.

What’s going on here?

My cop-out answer to what’s going on here is A LOT, but since this post is getting long, I’m going to go back to Al Gore’s words from 1991 after pointing out the historical relevance of the copper deposit that made Butte, Montana, “the richest hill on earth”.

Does this sound like the rationale to build DATA CENTERS? Yes, it does. And, if you’re one of those well-meaning people being led to oppose data centers, Wired has a warning for y’all:

In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.

Thanks for reading!

Who is Richard Manning? And why is he throwing a tantrum over the independent candidacy of Seth Bodnar? Today’s post will contextualize Dick’s tears and MAYBE, if you’re lucky, I’ll share a song I’ve been working on, since Dick LOVES music so much!

Manning is the author of 11 books and has worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for more than 40 years, including four years at the Missoulian. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from Stanford University. He is a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992.

He writes frequently about the environment, neuroscience and music. He was a senior research associate at the National Native Children’s Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he wrote about trauma and poverty. In addition to his eleven books, his articles have been published in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon and The Bloomsbury Review.

To understand Richard Manning and the political tribe he represents, you have to understand how Democrats in Montana have slowly abandoned working class voters, especially white ones, as a parallel economic trend shifted economic influence from extractive industry, like timber and mining, to chasing tourist dollars.

Since first winning his Senate seat in 2006, Jon Tester has had to manage the uppity expectations of his environmentalist supporters, since they’ve been claiming for 20 years that Jon Tester only won in 2006 because the environmentalist’s candidate, John Morrison, bowed out and threw his support behind Tester (they aren’t wrong).

To STAY in power after getting elected in 2006, Jon Tester exploited the political cult of public lands by deploying anonymous dark money to support the Libertarian candidate, Dan Cox. And it worked!

Now Jim Messina’s friend, Seth Bodnar, is breaking poor Dick’s heart by NOT choosing a side like that political Kentucky song sings about, the same song dumb Dick references in his tantrum op-ed:

I have a song to sing to Seth Bodnar. It’s a time-tested tune steeped in a deep history of troubles much like the troubles of our own time. If Bodnar can’t hear it, this song still might prove useful to the voters of Montana. It frames a vitally important question specific to Bodnar’s candidacy..

The song itself arose in the heat of Harlan County, Kentucky’s long, bloody battles to unionize the coal mines, but from there it spread and endured, rang out as anthem for subsequent progressive battles for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, for universal education, decent wages, all those long Democratic fights for human dignity.

In its origins it arose at the apex of a generations-long struggle of common people against the greed of Gilded Age oligarchs, of billionaires, of plutocrats. They called them “plutes” then, but it was the same deal then as now.

This Dick Manning op-ed is one of the most amusingly hollow complaints I’ve ever read. Why? Because, just two years ago, Dick lent his name and Big Sky bonafides to the “Montana Independent”, an astro-turfed effort that hurt BOTH local politics AND local media by being neither. From the link:

A national progressive media organization with ties to a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC has launched a self-described news outlet in Montana ahead of the state’s slate of high-profile elections, most prominently the race for incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s seat in the U.S. Senate.

Veteran political journalist Joe Conason, who oversees editorial operations for the nonprofit American Independent Foundation, told Montana Free Press via email that the Montana Independent, one of four state-level affiliates of the American Independent, was launched earlier this year. News outlets in three other political battleground states, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, are also being published under the American Independent umbrella.

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But Montana Independent writers are almost all out-of-state journalists well-established in the progressive media sphere. (One apparent exception is Montana’s Richard Manning, a former Missoulian reporter and book author married to current U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning.) Some of the officers of the foundation that funds the American Independent are also connected to American Bridge 21st Century, a Democrat-aligned political action committee that receives substantial contributions from a dark money nonprofit of the same name founded by national Democratic operative and media figure David Brock. Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, is co-chair of the American Bridge 21st Century PAC.

The Dick Manning connection to Steve Bullock, who ran for president in 2020, is very important for reasons that will hopefully be clear by the end of this post.

Before I expound on WHY that connection screams out at me, let’s first appreciate that Dick’s wife, Tracy Stone-Manning, was selected by Joe Biden to be the director of BLM, and I’m not talking about Black Lives Mattering. Quite the opposite, as you soon will see.

Tracy Stone-Manning’s legacy among hardcore environmentalists is her role as a snitch to the Feds back in the day. For conservatives, they argued in 2021 the other side–that Stone-Manning was a key instigator in planning “eco-terrorism”:

Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) issued the following statement in response to receiving a letter from the retired special agent who was in charge of investigating the spiking of trees that were part of the Post Office Timber Sale in the Clearwater National Forest in 1989.

In the letter, the retired special agent criminal investigator for the Forest Service provided the facts of the entire case. He made clear that Tracy Stone-Manning, President Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was a target of the investigation, did not cooperate with investigators until she received immunity, and helped plan the 1989 tree spiking.

Barrasso is ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR).

“I am grateful to the lead investigator for providing the committee with all of the facts of the case,” said Barrasso. “Not only did Tracy Stone-Manning collaborate with eco-terrorists, she also helped plan the tree spiking in Clearwater National Forest. She has been covering up these actions for decades, including on her sworn affidavit to the committee. This new information confirms that Tracy Stone-Manning lied to the committee that she was never a target of an investigation. The nominee has no business leading the Bureau of Land Management. President Biden must withdraw her nomination and if he does not, the Senate must vote it down.”

Before Biden got his turn at the presidential grift spigot, Richard Manning was helping position national Democrats at the start of Trump’s first turn. That’s why he wrote this long piece for Harper’s Magazine, titled “Political Climbers: Environmentalist momentum in the West“.

Here’s what an optimistic Manning wrote back then about Colorado’s Hickenlooper and other states around the west:

Conservation, support for the arts — these are key platforms for a politician in his position. In 2014, though Colorado voters chose the G.O.P. for the Senate, they delivered Hickenlooper, a Democrat, to a second term as governor. The state has historically leaned Republican, but in recent years its constituency has changed, and the same has been true across the West, as hiker-progressives have turned districts blue. Last November, Hillary Clinton lost Montana, my home state, to Donald Trump by 20.5 points, but in the governor’s race the nature-loving Democrat Steve Bullock beat a superrich archconservative by 4. The states along the Pacific Coast — California, Oregon, Washington — have long been dependably Democratic; now Nevada and New Mexico are trending that way, too. These states, along with Colorado, all went for Clinton last fall.

Directly after this quote Dick writes, almost casually, about a curious call Hicklenlooper received while they drove across town:

Hickenlooper and I left his office and shuttled off to an SUV for a ride across town. In the back seat, as he pored over a speech, he took a call concerning meetings he’d had a week before, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He talked for twenty minutes or so, a monologue of arcane details about computer chips on bank cards and surgical joint replacements in livestock — the minutiae of Colorado business. Then we pulled up to a suburban conference center, a bit late.

Yes, you are reading this correctly–a phone call about computer chips on bank cards from someone who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos got causally explained away by Dick Manning (along for the ride) as simply “the minutia of Colorado business”. Amazing.

Also, total horseshit.

For more horseshit, here’s Manning talking about some “hired gun” fresh from the failed Banjo-Op of Rob Quist. I really wish I was making this horseshit up.

From the far end of the table came the voice of a guy in a Patagonia vest. He was Aaron Browning, who had been working in Montana, first as a hired gun on Bullock’s gubernatorial race and then on the congressional campaign of Rob Quist, a banjo-playing Democrat from Glacier County. In the spring, Quist ran to fill the House vacancy left by Ryan Zinke, whom President Trump had chosen as his secretary of the interior; the G.O.P. had long held the seat. The Democrats appeared to have a decent shot, but Quist would ultimately lose to Greg Gianforte, a Republican multimillionaire, in a vote that was split sharply between progressive cities and the rest of the state. In the abbreviated race, public-lands politics became a factor, but so did unprecedented campaign spending, health care, and Gianforte’s body-slamming a reporter after at least two thirds of the votes had been cast. In the end, the margin was 6 points among the same voters Trump had carried by more than three times that. The possibility of such a shift, Browning believed, implied a clear strategy for conservationists: “Make our issues the signature issues in a particular election and defeat people who are outside the mainstream of the consensus.” Of politicians who fail to sign on to environmental protections, he added, “It’s our imperative to make sure they are punished for that.”

Punished, Dick? You mean, like what the clique of von Klaus did to Bernie supporters in Montana?

Steve’s righteous disgust and disavowal of Democrats is precisely the sentiment Seth Bodnar is trying to side-step in this election cycle. Will it work?

Here’s my hot-take: I don’t give a fuck if it will work because I have a different focus, and part of that focus stems from Steve Bullock’s role as the Montana Attorney General who looked the other way during the Coyote Club law enforcement scandal.

Have I asserted that the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office has essentially gotten away with murder in the case of Sean Stevenson? Yes, and this murder–which occurred on January 5th, 2020, at St. Pat’s hospital–occurred while Steve Bullock was running for president. Curious.

But it gets even MORE curious when you consider the role of Josh Manning, the guy who officially investigated Missoula’s Sheriff at the time, T.J. McDermott, for post-campaign work place retaliation. And yes, there a Manning family connection. Hmmm.

Again, I wish was making this all up, but these curated screenshots from behind the Missoulian paywall are pretty eye-opening for me, considering what I now know about this town:

Here’s more biographical context on Josh Manning:

Pattern recognition is an affliction, and I do repeatedly remind myself that correlation is NOT causation, but sometimes the thing you see quacking in front of you REALLY IS a duck, so, in that spirit, here’s Josh throwing his support behind a Smokejumper for Congress, followed by some suggested summer reading titles:

There’s more I could say, but my pattern-recognition abilities are pretty controversial these days, as are my poems, which Pete Talbot once encouraged me to publicly share with local online audiences at the blog we both contributed to, 4&20 Blackbirds. Pete’s Daddy, John Talbot, retired from the CIA in ’57 then, 30 years later, stepped away from his work for Lee Enterprises, which owns the Missoulian.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Dick Manning worked at the Missoulian around the same time Talbot retired, ’85-’87 I believe (Pete will correct me if I’m wrong).

Yeah, I totally vibe with the sentiment of I GUESS IT’S UP TO ME. Too bad I broke the leash.

Ah, what fond memories of less complicated days, before I knew how devious, despicable, and truly dangerous some of the people I’ve been exposing truly are.

Now, how about a song for ALL the dicks and pussies out there! America’s 250th birthday is SO CLOSE, yet the founding principles of this Republic have never seemed so further away. Here’s how I cope (song link):

Benny Franklin what a shock 
penis key fits pussy lock 
ignore for now the skull, the bones 
kites fly high like planes and drones 

honest, Abe, the highway sings 
unlike chink and clack of rail 
bifurcate then stitch back boldly 
Frankenstein your holy grail 

let us think about Chicago 
back to eighteen ninety three 
Grover Cleveland pushed the button 
to make a chair of the lynching tree 

Benny Franklin, bones get found 
because the dead can still make sounds 
but your dead dick cannot rape 
and I never trusted honest Abe

Thanks for reading!

What does Laura Loomer know that we don’t? That’s what I immediately thought when I saw Montana join Michigan as the two places that Loomer thinks Ebola might already be spreading.

Huh?

Montana and Ebola have been paired together recently in local media–KPAX to be specific–and here’s the annoyingly vague reporting:

Two Montanans with deep ties to Africa are sharing what life looks like on the ground amid concerns over the Ebola outbreak — and what it could mean for their ability to return.

Conor Molloy, who works with a humanitarian group in Kenya, said the disease carries a significant psychological burden.

“Ebola has a lot of kind of fear associated with it and…a horrendous disease with a high mortality rate,” Molloy, who is from Helena, said.

Annette Leivestad spends six months out of the year living in Uganda, where she and her organization have helped people for 16 years.

“We are now full-time around the year helping the people in Rippon,” Leivestad, a Baker resident, said.

Leivestad said travelers are already taking the situation seriously.

The unspecified “humanitarian group” Conor Molloy works for is Trócaire, an Irish Catholic charity doing “God’s” work in places like Africa. Here’s Molloy addressing the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade a few days ago describing the kind of work his organization does:

Trócaire is the overseas humanitarian and development agency of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. We are part of the Caritas Internationalis network globally and we work in about 20 countries. We work around four key goal areas: democracy and human rights; climate and environmental justice; women and girls’ protection, voice and leadership; and humanitarian preparedness and response.

Before I get to the wildly speculative part of this post, let’s quickly review what kind of actual incidents have recently occurred at the Rocky Mountain Lab in Hamilton, Montana:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed two separate incidents where employees at Hamilton’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories were potentially exposed to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.

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A spokesperson for NIH told the Ravalli Republic on May 21, “Rocky Mountain Laboratories filed a required reporting form on Feb. 18, 2026, in response to a potential exposure to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus due to a hole in a glove that occurred while changing cages of laboratory mice. All reporting, emergency response, and safety protocols were followed. There was no release outside of the lab and at no time was there any risk to the public.”
Occupational exposures, such as a torn glove, are considered a “release” for reporting purposes. The reporting process is designed to be abundantly and overly cautious, according to the NIH spokesperson.

This same article also references the rumors that Laura Loomer is amplifying, citing the same supposed whistleblower group:

Rumors have circulated online surrounding recent exposure events at the Hamilton lab after Montana U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy joined fellow congressional Republicans in calling for scrutiny of RML last week, citing an anonymous whistleblower report by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW).

What’s really going on here? Well, buckle-up, because now I’m going to throw in aliens, data centers, and Clavicular’s looksmaxxing Op. Are you ready?

First up is Clavicular, the “looks-maxxer” who has successfully monetized the male insecurity and loneliness epidemic by introducing and familiarizing for his audience the option of injecting shit into your body to “improve” it.

Peptides for the face? Inject that shit. Cock filler for your dick? Inject that shit. Then, let in some experts to help bolster this normalizing process with literal studies about injecting filler into your body. Or maybe I’m reading this wrong? (hint: I am)

Aliens enter our story because fuck the CIA and this stupid alien bullshit getting mainstream media play right now. I mean, Yahoo News? Really?

Apparently, the government isn’t disclosing everything it knows about UFOs. A whistleblower has accused the CIA of attempting to use sites like 23andMe and Ancestry.com to uncover people with extraterrestrial DNA in their makeup.

“The CIA wants to hunt them down,” said philosopher and novelist Jason Reza Jorjani, Ph.D., while discussing the so-called top secret government program in an episode of the podcast “American Alchemy.”

While the alien/CIA/DNA bullshit circulates, rehashing what conspiracy theorists have been kicking around for decades, I’m more interested in this Rand Paul X post about our CIA pals:

Is Fauci connected to RML? Yeah, through his mentor, Maurice Hilleman.

Maurice Hilleman was responsible for developing more than 40 vaccines, including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningitis, pneumonia, Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, and rubella. His vaccines have been credited with saving millions of lives and with eradicating common childhood diseases. The measles vaccine alone has prevented approximately one million deaths. Among other accomplishments, he succeeded in characterising and isolating many viruses, including the hepatitis A vaccine in culture.

Despite Hilleman’s many breakthroughs in immunology and vaccinology, he has never been a household name. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Hilleman had “little use for self credit.” Dr Fauci told the BMJ that Hilleman’s contributions were “the best kept secret among the lay public. If you look at the whole field of vaccinology, nobody was more influential.”

This history is important when considering what’s brewing in Western Montana to help “solve” the Fentanyl “problem”, and who has invested in this “solution” through the public/private/Super-Hero nexus involving the University of Montana, the company Inimmune, and Batman, aka, Mike Goguen.

Inimmune, a Missoula-based biotech company founded by nationally recognized vaccine scientists that has been working on a vaccine for COVID-19, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Two Bear Capital, a venture-capital firm founded by Whitefish philanthropist Mike Goguen.

The firm plans to use the Series A investment to advance at least two late-stage pre-clinical drug candidates in oncology and allergy through Phase I human clinical trials.

The $22 million is believed to be largest round of Series A funding in state history, according to Two Bear Capital Chief Marketing Officer Liz Marchi, who has been involved in equity capital in Montana for decades.

Does Mike Goguen have ties to the CIA? You betchya! Just ask retired FBI man, Mark Seyler, who wrote a whole book about Batman and the private security company he funded, Amyntor, titled Go Big Or Go Home. It’s quite a read!

When you combine the contents of Seyler’s book with the conversation between Steven Snyder and Morgan Lerette in this episode of Snyder’s podcast, The Farm, you will understand how easily COP-MAXXING can involve cops doing illegal drugs, like steroids, trafficked by people like Matt Marshall, as alleged by Morgan Lerette in her excellent analysis of the Private Security blackhole that emerged as more of America’s war capacity shifted to less accountable private operators, or mercenaries, to use a more honest term.

To wrap this up, narrative control continues to be one of the most important aspects of gaining larger control over people’s thinking and actions, so Clavicular unfortunately MUST be part of the conversation about what constitutes being “sick” and “healthy” in a world increasingly going totally and completely insane.

And data centers? I mean, DATA CENTERS!!!!!!! How about, for 47’s upcoming B-Day celebration, we have a DATA CENTER face off against Erin Brockovich, who recently tossed her hat in the ring to fight back against this fever’d focus of public angst.

To really get inside the data center narrative I strongly recommend watching Ari Aster’s movie, Eddington, several times. When my PsyOp Cinema conversation finally drops I’m sure I’ll have more to say about why Aster so explicitly linked the 2020 “pandemic” with the rise of the data center.

Thanks for reading!