Nine months before the FBI arrested Courtney Williams, the punk-ass bitch pictured above at the podium celebrated the opening of a “stand-alone” FBI office in New Zealand where taxpayer-funded FBI agents will work on the following “joint” efforts:
Since opening an office in a foreign country where Missoula’s sister city is located to combat things like “child exploitation”, how many arrests have been made in connection to the Epstein Files by the FBI in America? I guess they’re too busy shutting down a whistleblower who helped Seth Harp write this book:
Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with violating the Espionage Act in connection to the alleged transmission of classified national defense information to the journalist in violation of federal law.
“Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X.
While I’m not intending this to be racist, Kash Patel looks a lot like the preferred demographic for H-1B visas I imagine Oracle might eye-balling after ending the paid employment of 30,000 people. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is happy about this callous corporate move:
The Ellison Father/Son duo, along with tech-bros like Thiel, Altman, and Musk, are positioning themselves and their corporate leviathan’s to control everyone, everywhere, all of the time. That is what THEY are doing at meetups like Bilderberg and the notorious Sun Valley conference, where media activists have been going to protest for years (including a supportive ZoomChron reader).
And what are we doing? At best, letting it happen; at worst, eagerly handing over the keys to the soul-eaters who will NEVER have enough.
When Greg Gianforte sold his company to Oracle he was just following a well-established pattern mirrored by Tom Stergios and ATG-Cognizant, the Tom who employed my Daddy, Tom Mateer.
To see a tech-Tom in his natural, disgusting environment–along with Governor Gianforte AND Seth Bodnar–here’s a picture that embodies how nicely Stergios landed after fully selling out to Cognizant:
Nearly one year after leaving ATG Cognizant, Missoula tech executive Tom Stergios has come full circle. With the launch of his new venture, Craton Consulting, Stergios and his colleagues at The Whole Group, an affiliated company, now share an office on the second floor of Missoula College – occupying the same space where ATG started the groundbreaking Aim Higher program in 2018. Developed in partnership with the University of Montana, Aim Higher trained transitioning workers from fields like logging and food service to become technology consultants in just 12 weeks.
For Stergios, the former classroom is an auspicious location to pursue the next phase of his two-part vision – bringing high-paying tech jobs to Montana and helping hardworking people across the state find onramps to satisfying careers.
It’s not enough for Tom Stergios to make bank opening the back door so Cognizant can get fucked by Palantir like a nimble twink in a hot-tub, no, he wants to go TEACH THE YOUTH how to be a part of this technocratic circle-jerk like some creep on Roblox juicing the algorithm to up-estimate the age ranges of children so they can direct message.
If you don’t understand what we’re up against, this February blurb from the fornication report between Cognizant and Palantir spells it out in the multi-syllabic verbiage of the psychopath class:
Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. to accelerate AI-driven modernization across healthcare and enterprise operations. As part of the collaboration, Cognizant will leverage Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to advance AI integration within its TriZetto healthcare business, while jointly pursuing broader enterprise AI transformation opportunities for clients across industries.
Are we at the point of Vidkun Quisling or Vichy France? While my Daddy is a fan of history, he’s also a consummate reader of science fiction, so considering what H.G. Wells and those Fabian Fags were up, or the reading list of Jack Parsons, I’ll instead quote one of my former favorites writers, Philip K. Dick:
Did you know today is “local news day”? If not, that’s funny, since local news people are supposed to be helping you know about what’s going in your community, which is why John Adams is promoting local news day with help from the Headwaters Foundation and the Montana Newspaper Association.
Local News Day is a national day of action on April 9 that’s connecting communities with trusted local news. The mission is simple: reconnect people to trusted local outlets, empower newsrooms to grow, and spark a national movement that sustains local news for generations.
When I got to the “Local News Day partners” part of the “local news” article promoting “local news day” from a “news” source that omitted the inconvenient fact that projectiles were thrown at legislators by Zooey Zephyr supporters three years ago, I had to laugh. Of course the quiet money of the Headwaters Foundation would be involved, a foundation I have dutifully tracked over the years after they went dark, then reemerged in 2018.
The other local news day partner, the Montana Newspaper Association, includes newspapers like the Missoulian, which recently sent out David Erickson to investigate a restaurant group after his AMAZING breaking story about the terrible sadness of Taco Sano employees laboring under an evil boss who refused to allow them to politicize their workplace with anti-ICE propaganda.
In similar fashion, Erickson wrote LOTS of words about the Pangea Group recently in what I consider a hit piece against Scott Billadeau, the outgoing co-owner who once publicly criticized the now-discredited pandemic policies pushed on the public by media outlets like Lee Enterprises.
When I read a hardcopy of the article at a local coffee shop it was clear to me how the guy attempting to takeover ownership of Pangea, Kyle Riggs, is benefiting from this “news coverage”, which features his mommy, Marilyn, and HER lawsuit against Scott Billadeau. Curious for more context on Kyle Riggs I consulted his Facebook page, which highlights his past work for Paws Up Ranch, where the alleged sister-rapist, Sam Altman, was hanging with his tech-pals last June.
While David Erickson writes on behalf of sommeliers and social justice taco makers (and sometimes steals credit for my work), I break stories about retiring Detectives named Guy Baker, resigning Chamber of Commerce presidents, shady alpha condo developers named Aaron Wagner, and a pattern of deaths some speculate could be serial in nature.
Does it frustrate me to see grifters everywhere? Yes. Do I file butthurt reports on myself to cope? Yes. Does it work? Not really, hence my use of AI to make images like this one about the kind of people who SAY local stuff matters, but then flex like the petty gatekeepers that they are.
I’m going to end today’s post with a story I heard from someone living unconventionally in the woods near the area where a corpse was found last November, a corpse that STILL has not been publicly identified, despite my attempts to ask WHO DIED? A cop?
The person I spoke with said yes, the person who died last November was a police officer, and he died while in pursuit of a suspect. It was during this pursuit that the police officer, who was going up steep, mountainous terrain, slipped and fell to his death.
I don’t know if this is true, but it’s the second person who has suggested that the unnamed dead person was a cop, and with local authorities refusing to respond to my email inquiries, I’m leaning toward believing the gist of this alleged scenario (I’m withholding some details regarding what I was told as I keep digging on this story).
If you appreciate my local news on this local news day, please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), or come down the Missoula County Courthouse at noon today and say hi. I’m tentatively planning on tabling with my puppet candidate for Sheriff, Pirate Booty, from noon to around 2pm. And stay tuned for more local reporting on the Fireweed scandal, which I’m still looking into because even seasoned veterans of political shenanigans seem confused about this one.
Yesterday I called up Tobin Miller Shearer to ask him about his departure from campus, first reported by the Kaimin last September. But, after stating that he wasn’t comfortable discussing his departure with me, this race-baiting professor abruptly ended the conversation by hanging up the phone.
Is Tobin Miller Shearer another rat fleeing Missoula’s sinking ship of WOKE? To answer that question let’s review how Charlie Kirk’s professor watchlist helped catapult this professional race-baiter into a more prominent position on campus ten years ago. From the link:
Tobin Miller Shearer teaches history and is director of African American Studies at UM. A couple of weeks ago a colleague emailed him to let him know he’d been put on an online list with dozens of other academics nationwide.
“It’s a list called ‘professorwatchlist,’ put out by a group called The Turning Point, which is a conservative ‘student’ group that is attempting to identify professors who are promoting a dangerous liberal agenda in the classroom,” Shearer says.
He says the list provides “caricatures” of academics, and that in his nine years as a professor he has always been committed to promoting a free exchange of ideas in his classrooms, and that no students face discrimination based on their points of view.
“I’m on that list, according to them, because I talk about white privilege in the classroom,” Shearer says.
To highlight the nature of the terrifying threats Tobin suffered at the hands of privileged white terrorists on campus after being watch-listed, the following year (2017) saw Tobin targeted with a disturbing flyer that mocked his course listing with painstaking accuracy. Thankfully, local media was there to help document this unsettling development:
The director of the University of Montana’s African-American studies program found himself at the center of a racially charged attack on campus, and he says this is not the first time it’s happened.
On Thursday morning, professor Tobin Miller Shearer, walked by a program bulletin board in the Liberal Arts building on campus and immediately noticed a flyer he posted about an upcoming class had been replaced with a racist copy, reported The Missoulian.
Shearer posted a flyer about his spring class, “White Supremacy History/Defeat.” However, the sign he saw on Thursday was an exact replica except the class offering had been replaced with a fake course called “Black Nationalism History/Defeat.”
This “racially-charged attack” must have been very scary for Tobin. Someone spent LOTS OF TIME making this replica look JUST LIKE his original flyer, and the perpetrator also had a sense of campus history, since Tobin’s name was replaced by the name of the previous professor who ran the department. All these disturbing details were related to local media, then dutifully broadcast to eager liberal readers terrified of the new Trump era and thankful to have conservatives blasted as uniformly hateful and racist.
“It’s very disturbing because of the amount of time that was put into making it look real,” Shearer told The Missoulian.
Shearer was also disturbed that his name was replaced by the misspelled name of the former director of the program who has been out of their post for a decade.
“It’s at best someone who knows the history of the program. At worst, it’s another faculty member who knows the history,” Shearer told The Missoulian.
Three years later, when two black men were allegedly involved in a fight inside Missoula’s homeless shelter, what was Tobin thinking? When one of those black men–Sean Stevenson–was taken off life support by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Coroner, did Tobin make a big deal about it? What about when that other inconvenient black man, Johnny Lee Perry, was shot and killed by that same Sheriff’s Office? Surely a race-baiting liberal professor who made his career caring about black people would RAISE THE ALARM, right?
Wrong.
The Missoula County Sheriff at the time, T.J. McDermott, was a good Democrat with strong ties to United Way of Missoula County, where Susan Hay Patrick recently stepped down, but not before she helped Tobin help all the black people in Missoula NOT murdered by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office by establishing the MONTANA BLACK COLLECTIVE, which United Way of Missoula was a proud fiscal sponsor of:
United Way of Missoula County is proud to be the fiscal sponsor of the Montana Black Collective Missoula, the premier Black-owned and operated grassroots organization focused on social justice and Black activism in Missoula.
This “collective” was also referenced in the Kaimin article listing Tobin’s alleged achievements here in Missoula:
Shearer focused on building connections in Missoula and Montana, participating in public events and collaborative groups, like the Montana Black Collective. According to Shearer, he has spoken in nearly every city in Montana concerning African American studies.
Since I didn’t get the memo that Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry were the kind of black people who were fiscally unwise to care about, I’ve been spending the last few years putting their deaths into context, while Tobin has been popping up in newspaper articles defending Critical Race Theory and using Charlie Kirk’s assassination to victim-farm it like a widowed sociopath.
Here’s the Montana Free Press platforming Tobin back when mean Republicans in Helena were doing scary legislative things that made him sad:
CRT can take on many different forms. But for Tobin Miller Shearer, director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana, its core purpose in the educational world remains consistent: to provide people with a framework and a language for understanding how racism persists in a country where explicit racial segregation and discrimination are no longer the law of the land.
“Basically what critical race theory does is give us a much more sophisticated set of tools to figure out what has happened and how we can keep that from happening again,” Miller Shearer said. He added that CRT has evolved to include critical examination of discrimination against other racial and ethnic groups as well as the LGBTQ community, giving rise to the pluralization “critical race theories.”
For Tobin Miller Shearer, a professor of history at the University of Montana who had received death threats after being placed on a Turning Point USA target list, news of Charlie Kirk’s murder on a college campus in Utah prompted a flood of emotions. “I cried for our nation, for what this will mean for his family, for all the harm he did in his life, for all of us,” he said. “It was a horrible moment in all of its complexity.”
After those threats, Shearer moved his class on the history of white supremacy to a secret location, with a campus police officer on guard. “I did not want any threats on my life to ripple out and affect my students,” said Shearer, who heads Montana’s program in African American studies.
The image I have in my head of Tobin taking his students to “a secret location” with an actual campus police officer standing guard is beyond absurd, especially when one of the things this professor complained about, specifically with Turning Point’s watch list, was that the list provided a “caricature of academics”.
You mean, like pretending you’re shepherding slaves in some retarded Underground Railroad LARP?
To better understand the boiling temperature of my current disdain for this professor, it’s important to know that Tobin is pals with my Pops, who will be getting his own post soon. Tobin also used to attend the First Presbyterian Church, which got into the subsidized housing game like good progressive Christians with the building of the Hogan House, an integral part of my upcoming examination of how my own family has brought the corporate/suburbia sickness to the place I’ve called home for 26 years.
And for that, Missoula, I’m truly sorry.
While I do my best to be upfront about my biases, hopefully they don’t overshadow the criticism I’ve directed at Tobin over the years, which I’d argue is part of a missing counter-narrative that’s missing, in part, because the culture war has been fought, from the left side of the dumb political divide, by brainwashed zealots indoctrinated by professors like Tobin to be dangerously intolerant of what they see as wrong-think.
For examples of my unpaid work, the following posts are relevant to today’s topic, with the first one going all the way back to 2017, documenting my early suspicion of how Tobin Miller Shearer was establishing his presence in the post-Trump, pre-Covid era.
Holy penis-head, Batman, who the heck is Doctor Fore-Shinn? Dickhead jokes aside, this smiling flesh knob has one more big smell-test to pass before sliding into your UM-DMs as the University of Montana’s ideal leftist lackey. I hope, if given the official nod, Doctor Shinn has time to say howdy to his fellow Boise transplant, Ellie Boldman (formerly Hill, then Smith), who helped prepare the ground for his arrival.
When consulting Wikipedia on Ellie Boldman (the Legislator/Attorney phenomenon helped into her position by the soon-to-be-retiring Susan Hay Patrick) you get this snippet describing Ellie’s time in Boise. Let’s see what kind of characters Ellie worked with while living in the potato state:
Boldman attended the College of Idaho on a soccer scholarship and after suffering a knee injury, transferred to Boise State University, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in English in 1997. Later, she attended the University of Idaho, College of Law, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2001. In law school, she was the president of the student chapter of the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association. She interned for the Nez Perce Tribal Count in Lapwai, Idaho, and also for Dave Bieter.
Upon graduation, Boldman worked at the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Garden City, Idaho Attorney’s Office. She also became active with the Idaho Democratic Party, where she worked for the campaigns for Keith Roark for Idaho Attorney General in 2002 and Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor in 2004.
While I’ve seen claims on X that Dr. Shinn left Boise under a cloud of unproductive leftism, I was curious to see what the characters who Ellie worked with were up to two decades later. Let’s start with Keith Roark, a candidate for Idaho’s Attorney General position in 2002.
In late 2023, Roark left his position at the Blaine County School District, ending a career in public service that started in 1977. After acting as a prosecutor, Roark worked hard to promote Democrats in Idaho, which is why Ellie Boldman was involved with him.
Roark started his own law firm in Hailey in 1985, and continued to practice until he retired in 2022. He also served as the city attorney for Hailey and Bellevue, as well as the Blaine County Airport Authority. In 2021, he spent a year as the Chief Public Defender for Blaine County.
Throughout his career, Roark served on countless committees and commissions, including as chair of the Blaine County Democratic Central Committee from 1986 to 1990, and chair of the Idaho State Democratic Central Committee from 2008 to 2010. In 2008, he was also the chair of the Idaho Delegation for the Democratic Convention.
When I saw the Blaine County Airport Authority my first thought was the granddaughter of a retired CIA man (Juniper Davis) who ALSO is a lawyer, like Keith Roark, and who ALSO works at an Airport Authority, but here in Missoula, where expansion to accommodate tech-bro PayPal Mafia summits must keep her busy.
I think the airport connection is quite relevant, especially as more towns (like Missoula) become ever more reliant on tourists, thus economically oriented around developing and catering to attract their dollars. Sure, some tourists may be coming to Montana to rape and hunt children for sport, but let’s not judge those with money TOO quickly, lest they take their dollars elsewhere. If my father has taught me anything, it’s how money is more important than anything else in the world.
When tourists travel they need somewhere to sleep, so in Missoula developers have built new hotels downtown where historic buildings once stood, as was the case with the Missoula Mercantile building. As we move on to Dave Bieter, the Mayoral candidate for Boise that Ellie worked with in 2004, we will see his public/private career ascent took him to…building a hotel by the airport! Of course!
Before Dave Bieter could fully enter the private sector to spread his wings and fly, he had to resign from an entity in 2022 that sounds suspiciously like the Missoula Redevelopment Agency.
Former Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is no longer a public figure.
Bieter resigned his commission on the board of the Capital City Development Corp. yesterday. Typically, the mayor’s office handles communication about resignations or appointments to the board. But Bieter sent a letter to CCDC Executive Director John Brunelle resigning “effective immediately.” Brunelle then provided the letter to Mayor Lauren McLean’s office.
Further down, Bieter’s private wings extend for takeoff:
Bieter’s term on the panel, which oversees urban renewal in Boise, was set to expire in mid-October. His departure comes just months shy of the end of his term. He didn’t say in his letter why he was resigning.
Under Idaho Code, McLean will appoint Bieter’s successor on the panel.
Bieter now works in the private sector as a development coordinator for Gardner Co. He’s been actively working on a project to redevelop a large hotel site near the Boise Airport for the Utah development firm.
While Dave Bieter already checked off a lot of boxes for me, an article describing how his Mayoral administration surveyed some VR tech for college students at some college-funded “lab” was another. To make this an even better fit for woke Missoula, the VR tech was being considered for its ability to help autistic people navigate airport security. Weren’t we just talking about airports? What a coincidence!
A tour at Boise State University was held on Tuesday morning that highlighted the innovative virtual-reality projects that are being used to help those in need around the Treasure Valley community.
Anthony Ellertson, the Gaming Interactive and Mobile Media Lab director, showcased several projects, which included a virtual reality experience of going through security at the Boise Airport. The project is intended to help people who have Autism spectrum disorders and sensory sensitivities.
Going back to UM finalist, Dr. Jeremiah Shinn, this candidate for university president has given Missoula a clear indication of what UM can expect from his leadership when you consider Shinn’s involvement with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators James E. Scott Academy Board. When I looked around the NASPA website I found this under “leaning in to the next 100 years“:
Let me pull back the lens and explain why this matters, starting with the kind of culture I wrote about in a February post, titled “The Cultural Context Of A Missoula-Based Double Homicide Case“. In that post I included some of the “art” of Orit Oged, the young Israeli woman involved in a brutal double-homicide case over drug trafficking, and who developed her eye for art at a University in Israel.
For context, here’s two more screenshots from Orit’s Vimeo account; one scene shows killing, the other scene, cannibalism:
College culture feeds protest culture, and the person I wrote about in February is facing criminal charges for how “they” have influenced minors in Missoula. As a father of three kids, one of whom will be looking at college options after graduating this year, I find it absolutely necessary to scrutinize CLOSELY the kind of people leading these institutions, because right now American society refuses to step up and “retire” people like Nicholas Negroponte.
Before this morning I had never heard of this academic piece of shit running MIT’s Media Lab, but, after reading this old article suggesting Aaron Swartz was murdered because of what he was REALLY trying to expose at elite universities, and then finding Negroponte’s name ALL OVER the Epstein files, I’m increasingly frustrated that these people are sharing our air and consuming food resources.
For more on who this motherfucker is, check the details of his Wikipedia page:
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 book Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.
Negroponte was born to Dimitrios Negropontis, a Greek shipping magnate, competitive alpine skier and member of the Negroponte family. He grew up in New York City’s Upper East Side. He has three brothers. His elder one, John Negroponte, is the former United States Deputy Secretary of State. Michel Negroponte is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. George Negroponte is an artist and was President of the Drawing Center from 2002 to 2007.
And here’s an idea of Negroponte’s friendly proximity to Epstein:
When the powerful and their progeny commit sexual violence near campuses in America, like that Saudi Arabian student in Missoula allegedly did before hopping on an AIRPLANE at Missoula’s AIRPORT to fly away, victims are left wondering why they don’t matter. Well, duh, you don’t matter because you’re not rich and powerful.
While Missoula’s alleged perpetrator in that incident wasn’t Jewish, and the victim wasn’t a minor, the phenomenon of Israel protecting pedophiles became such a problem that CBS News actually ran a story about, titled “How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel”. Here’s an excerpt:
A CBS News investigation has found that many accused American pedophiles flee to Israel, and bringing them to justice can be difficult.
Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an American organization that tracks accused pedophiles, has been trying for years to find Karow and help bring him to justice.
JCW says Karow and other wanted men and women have been able to exploit a right known as the Law of Return, whereby any Jewish person can move to Israel and automatically gain citizenship.
Since the small organization started tracking accused pedophiles in 2014, it says more than 60 have fled from the U.S. to Israel. Given its limited resources to identify these individuals, JCW says the actual number is likely much larger.
Until Missoula’s culture starts to change, I think Dr. Shinn is the PERFECT candidate to lead the University of Montana into the post-Epstein era, where narratives are more important to control now than ever.
If you’d like to help someone actually doings something about all this, my GoFundMe page could use a donation or two. Lawfare, and the cowardice of my own blood, has taken a serious toll on my ability to simply exist in this retarded town, so any bit helps.
The black man dressed like a pimp, and pictured with two liberal white women, is Laurent Mugondozi, a man from the Congo who now lives in Missoula, Montana. The picture is a part of Mugondozi’s interview with StoryCorps, a national non-profit launched in 2003 to promote the following mission:
StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Since our founding in 2003, we’ve helped over 700,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives. These recordings are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in our online archive which is now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.
What “important story” did Laurent Mugondozi have for the smiling white ladies? Based on the subject log of the interview, Mugondozi told Greta and Genevieve about the benefits of his zucchini, his love of gardening, and the culture he’s bringing to Missoula.
Less enticing than a chat with a real life African man about the benefits of his zucchini is having to dodge bullets on a Saturday night, something that seems to be happening on a more regular basis here in Missoula. This time, though, two men were quickly arrested, including a man by the name of Laurent Mugondozi. Since I don’t have a mugshot to confirm it’s the same Mugondozi who enjoys shoving a trowel in fertile soil, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it is.
For some details on what is alleged to have happened late Saturday night, here’s the reporting from KPAX:
Missoula Police responded to a report of shots fired in a busy downtown area just after 2 a.m. Shortly after, an adult male arrived at the Missoula Police Department with a gunshot wound and what appeared to be multiple strikes from bullets on this vehicle.
Officers found multiple spent shell casings near the 200 block of Ryman Street. Later, officers found another man involved in the incident in the 200 block of Woody Street. Nearby, they also found another vehicle and a handgun, according to a press release from the department.
One of the men was transported to St. Patrick Hospital and the other was interviewed by detectives at the Missoula Police Department.
Missoula Police consulted the Missoula County Attorney’s Office and charged 33-year-old Laurent Mugondozi and 36-year-old Anthony Brodie with Attempted Homicide and Criminal Endangerment, due to uninvolved pedestrians being nearby when shots were fired. Mugondozi was also charged with a 3rd offense DUI.
After scrolling through Laurent Mugondozi’s Facebook profile I searched for the other man arrested, Anthony Brodie, and found a profile for an Anthony “BrodiethePharoah” in Missoula. This you, bro?
Brodie was, I’m assuming, a passenger in the vehicle that Mugondozi was driving when this shooting in a BUSY area of downtown occurred. At least Brodie appears to be a Grizzly fan!
If the identities of these two men connected to the weekend shooting holds up then Montana Democrats might have another inconvenient example of what can happen, in reality, when their liberal useful idiots eagerly embrace Schismogenisis, which I’ve written about before.
Schismogenesis is a term in anthropology that describes the formation of social divisions and differentiation. Literally meaning “creation of division”, the term derives from the Greek words σχίσμα skhisma “cleft” (borrowed into English as schism, “division into opposing factions”), and γένεσις genesis “generation, creation” (deriving in turn from gignesthai “be born or produced, creation, a coming into being”). The term was introduced in the 1930s by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and has been applied to various fields.
If you don’t think immigration is a critical issue for Montana Democrats, well, you’re not paying attention, and even if you were paying attention, you wouldn’t find the kind of criticism I bring to this issue, having been a critic of relocating refugees to Missoula since 2016, when I was still working at Missoula’s local homeless shelter, the Poverello Center.
For a trip down memory lane, here’s what Missoula’s Mayor, alcoholic John Engen, had to say about re-starting the refugee relocation efforts in Missoula ten years ago:
There’s been opposition to refugee resettlement in Missoula, but it’s largely been from elsewhere and based on misinformation, fear and outright lies. Most Missoulians, the folks I and Missoula City Council members swore to serve, believe that we’re up to the task of helping our share of refugees, whatever their situation, provided they’ve been thoroughly vetted by our government and the agencies who only continue to exist if they keep communities and refugees safe. And if I’m wrong about this or any of a number of issues, I will learn soon enough at the polls.
Was John Engen wrong about Missoula and his confidence in “the polls”? That’s debatable, but one thing is for sure, political challengers to his drunken reign, like Lisa Triepke, had to learn the hard way how despicable those controlling the levers of power in Missoula can be when they feel their power is being threatened.
Now, in 2026, the issue of immigration has blown up nationally, with the trickle-down effect visible in Helena’s failed showdown with Montana’s Attorney General, and featured as the main talking point, from what I could hear, for speakers pushing the corporate NO KINGS bullshit last weekend. All this context makes it VERY UNLIKELY local legacy media will investigate the potential immigration angle of this past weekend’s shooting.
If you find my decade-long skepticism about the refugee/immigration issue, delivered from the perspective of a former insider of the Homeless Industrial Complex, to be helpful, then please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). Any little bit helps.
