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The Yiddish word “schvitz” was recently used by The Pulp in a cute attempt to introduce Democrat candidate, Sam Forstag, to its readers. This interview took place in Forstag’s backyard sauna, a European trend being pushed on Missoula by some idiots who got shocked when they realized ignoring zoning laws wasn’t a smart business idea for their new business on Toole Street:

Built in 1930, the building Johnson and Raddue hope will house Montana Sauna Co. was originally a grocery store called the Toole Avenue Food Center, but for years the property, not even two blocks away from neighborhood anchor Draught Works Brewery, has been conspicuously underused. Its mixed-use designation would welcome, say, a daycare or plant nursery, but not any business that offers “personal improvement.” They knew this, they admit, but, determined to open in the fall and short on cash (the rezone application fee typically costs around $5,000 and the process lasts several months), they opted to forge ahead anyway.

If you read Forstag’s pitch for himself he hilariously thinks working class men–or “labor”, as it once was known– will vote for him because once upon a time that’s what poor, working class men did.

When I was a kid growing up, what being the Democratic Party was about, as I understood it, was being the party of the working class. And we just lost people making under $100,000 a year. If we aren’t winning working-class voters, we are literally not the party of the working class. Whatever our policy priorities are, even if the Democratic Party’s policy priorities would be relatively helpful to working-class people. It clearly doesn’t work to be the less shitty option.

It’s adorable that Forstag can articulate why his party is despised, but what about HIS involvement in the Homeless Industrial Complex, the one currently involved in a toxic empathy offensive in Missoula?

Before I get to that, it should be noted that the era of identity politics under Obama was designed to hide the deep fealty to big money that the Clinton monsters constructed for themselves, and this financial infrastructure is absolutely tied to the Epstein network.

So, what was Forstag doing during the TOO BIG TO FAIL era of his party’s final sellout to dark money?

We had this huge conversation about representation in the last 15 years on the left. And it was healthy in a lot of ways. But also, it seems like we forgot about the most fundamental kind of representation, which is economic representation.

If you have a multi-millionaire running for office who has to manufacture anger about how hard it is to afford housing or childcare for the last 10 years, they probably do feel a lot more pressure to hedge on one issue or another. But I don’t want to hedge on any of this shit. You saw me. I worked for the ACLU, and I worked for homeless shelters. And I will tell people exactly what I told my coworkers on the fire line when they said something out of pocket about queer people: We don’t have to agree on everything. We just have to agree that none of that is in the top 10 list of issues making your and my life harder.

In case Sam Forstag is retarded I’m going to explain something to him: cancel culture DOES MAKE LIVES HARDER when it is YOUR LIFE being “canceled”. And the agenda to push alternative sex lifestyles on children is VERY SERIOUS if your own child is being targeted and considering life-altering medical procedures.

It’s clear that Sam Forstag doesn’t understand, or can’t admit, what is happening in our country, and one reason is because our media fucking sucks. Here’s an example of that suck from the “business” reporter, David Erickson, and his article about a dead homeless man (the bottom article in the image).

As the FIRST coordinator of the Poverello Center’s Homeless Outreach Program, and I’m able to translate what’s going on in the quotes below because I’m not susceptible to the tugging of heart-strings that comes right before the most important aspects of THIS homeless corpse, which our newspaper is suddenly concerned about. Here is the first quote:

Katie Leahy and Sophie Shrom, both staff members at the nonprofit Poverello Center homeless shelter in Missoula, worked closely with Eisenbarth for a long time. They were both devastated when they found out their friend had died.

“It was shock, disbelief and tears, immediately to your face, right?” Leahy recalled. “Like, all three emotions. Wait … is this real?

She’s the lead for the Pov’s Homeless Outreach (HOT) Team, and Shrom, a housing navigator with the team, and been working with Eisenbarth to try auto find him a stable place to live for a long time. There had been a few spots that became available, but it was a complicated situation, and those places didn’t work out. His medical and mental health conditions eventually made it impossible for him to stay at the Pov, which is a congregate shelter.

The first red flag is the word “friend” because if that’s the word PAID staff are using to describe their relationship with a homeless client, then there are already boundary issues. Just ask the Great Unifier of Code, Eran Pehan, and she will confirm the concerning lack of professionally this term denotes.

The second red flag is the phrase “complicated situation”. This phrase indicates someone is about to piss on your head and call it rain. Additional vague qualifiers explaining it was because of “medical” and “mental health” reasons don’t help.

Further down we get a little more idea about WHY the housing placements didn’t work. After this quote I’ll provide my professional assessment on which Missoula County entity is responsible, in my opinion, for killing this homeless man.

Because of his chronic homelessness, he qualified for permanent supportive housing vouchers with the Missoula Housing Authority.

Leahy and Shrom tried to find places that were a good fit.

They showed him one unit at The Palace Apartments downtown, but Eisenbarth found the maze-like interior too confusing for his mental state. Another place called the Maple Street Flats was also problematic, because he would get lost and knock on other people’s doors.

When I read this I knew exactly what was going on, since I had VERY similar cases with some chronically homeless clients (not friends), which is why I can say, with confidence, that the MISSOULA COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE killed Lorrie Eisenbarth.

At Missoula Aging Services, where I worked from 2016 to early 2020, I had a few very frustrating conversations with the Missoula County Attorney’s Office regarding the process for determining someone didn’t have mental capacity and had become a danger to themselves or others. For more context on what this process entails, Lewis and Clark County has a helpful guide that includes this:

When the County Attorney’s Office REFUSES to legally involve themselves in protecting adults who can no longer protect themselves, they die. Apparently in the five years since I left the non-profit sector in disgust, nothing has changed.

I’m glad Sam Forstag is running for political office because the historical role of smoke jumping is a BIG reason Missoula became a spook town, with Smoke Jumpers fronting as the useful idiots for one of the most corrosive elements this country has ever unleashed on itself.

Speaking of corrosive influences, people interested in pizza gate really should check out Orit Oged’s Vimeo page before it goes away. It has everything–murder, cannibalism, severed worms, pineapples getting ping-ponged, but one of my favorite screenshots is this one:

Thanks for reading!

On August 25th of last year I wrote a post that preemptively assessed the alleged threat that Brandon Wayne Bryant poses to the Missoula community, and in that post I referenced the double-homicide case that all three Missoula residents pictured above were arrested for. Today I’m going to write more explicitly about what I only hinted at last August:

Recently a new person arrived on the scene where the social circles I circulate in have their little rag-tag sense of community. I was sympathetic, at first, of the criminal charges this person is facing, and the seeming pariah status this person achieved in their respective social circles, but that was before I learned about the double homicide of William and Yesenia Larsen in 2020, allegedly committed by several Missoula residents arrested in March of 2021, who this person may have some connections to.

Before I get to the connection mentioned above, the sentencing of Cory Spurlock to life in prison last month is now being challenged by the Trump administration with “unprecedented” pressure to put Spurlock to death. Huh?

A man who was the target of a Trump administration effort to put him to death after Biden-era prosecutors said they would not pursue capital punishment was sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Mirandu Du sentenced Cory Spurlock on Monday after jurors returned a guilty verdict against him in September.

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Federal prosecutors said in a July 2024 notice that they would not pursue the death penalty, then filed a formal notice stating that they would seek death on April 10, just 12 days before the intended start of Spurlock’s trial.

The reversal came after the U.S. attorney general’s office under the administration of President Donald Trump issued a Feb. 5 memo that stated federal prosecutors would be expected to seek death in some cases and directed the attorney general’s capital review committee to re-evaluate cases from President Joe Biden’s administration in which prosecutors decided not to do so.

Spurlock’s federal public defenders previously said the situation was “unprecedented.”

If this case becomes a political tug-of-war between the Trump administration and federal prosecutors, the attention will focus solely on Spurlock, but MY focus is on the liberal campus culture that influenced TWO Israelis, Orit Oged and the person I didn’t name in August’s post but will now–Hila Tzipora Chase.

Ten years ago Orit Oged attended Bezalel Academy and produced an art video, which the image above is taken from. You can see that video, titled “The Untangled Routine”, and several other videos here, including one called “Pineapples $ Lasers”.

For those squares out there who don’t know about pineapples, they’re a notorious symbol of “hook-up” culture, so I find it interesting that the video shows two ping pong paddles hitting a pineapple back and forth.

To confirm it’s not just me making this pineapple claim, here’s a quote from Men’s Health magazine:

WHETHER WORN ON clothing or jewelry, pushed around in a shopping cart, or otherwise put on display, an upside-down pineapple is a subtle signal that someone is a swinger or looking for a swinger party. Just to be clear: Swinging is a form of non-monogamy, wherein a couple enjoys swapping sexual partners with another couple or sets of couples. It’s where the “wife swap” and “keys in a bowl” stereotypes come from.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is none of my business, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. What we’re talking about is an aspect of drug culture that doesn’t respect the boundary between adult and minor, and THAT is the kind of charge Hila Chase is currently facing.

Doing circus shit, like acrobatics, is apparently where Hila Chase met Orit Oged and, since both women identify as Israeli (among other things), I’m sure they hit off quickly.

For Hila’s part in adding to Missoula’s campus culture, “they” got allowed to help the “Design Team” that Seth Bodnar relied on to rebrand the University of Montana. Here’s a list of names and the disciplines they came from:

Before I cut all communication with this individual I was taken to the “communal” house that New Jersey daddy owned right by Interstate 90. That’s how I was able to use the Montana Cadastral site to get this info:

The press-release last month from the United State Attorney’s Office depicts Cory Spurlock as quite a monster, but answer me this: do monsters exist in a vacuum?

“There were no bounds on the defendant’s cruel and violent actions,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada. “There is no parole in the federal system. The defendant will never walk outside of the prison walls. I want to thank our federal and local partners for relentlessly pursuing this case and ensuring justice for the families and community.”

“This was a horrific act of targeted violence. Spurlock’s callous and blatant disregard for human life was unconscionable,” said Special Agent in Charge Christopher S. Delzotto for the FBI Las Vegas Division. “The FBI will never stop pursuing those who threaten our communities’ safety. Thanks to the tireless work of our FBI personnel in the Reno Resident Agency and our committed law enforcement partners, Spurlock was located, prosecuted, and will not harm another person in our community again.”

One of my concerns back in August was the veracity of claims of sexual assault directed at a local employee of a thrift shop, someone who has since left Montana, I am told.

I was also told the FBI had been questioning other employees of that thrift store, and that the question of human remains had come up. Don’t worry, as a former member of the “Carcass Club”, I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for that.

Needless to say, I am STRONGLY ENCOURAGING my oldest, who graduates high school this year, to NOT consider UM, like at all, ever. And that was before I met another likely example of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Thanks for reading!

Today’s post is an Epstein appetizer post based on a curious email I found in the Epstein dump. Here’s the email:

Isn’t this interesting? I’m especially interested in how Missoula probation officers could “already know a lot about your participation…” Huh? Participation in WHAT?

Maybe Landee Holloway knows something about this? Too bad she’s so busy presiding over the bullshit prosecution of Brandon Bryant.

Landee was recognized by the Missoula Exchange Club as Probation and Parole Officer of the Year in 2013 and in 2014, she was honored with the Montana Governor’s award for Excellence in Performance for her work on offender reintegration. She served on the steering committee for the Missoula Jail Diversion Master Plan and , in June 2016, the Missoula County Board of County Commissioners unanimously appointed her to fill the interim term as Missoula County Justice of the Peace.

For more context on the effort of Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem to make business connections with Elon Musk, here’s a Jacobin article from ten years ago that offers some interesting insights:

Two years before hosting a meeting with Elon Musk in Dubai, Emirati logistics CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem asked Jeffrey Epstein to connect him with the Tesla head, newly released emails show. It’s not the only time Musk has come up in the Epstein files.

In 2015, an Emirati businessman emailed Jeffrey Epstein asking the financier to put him in touch with Elon Musk, according to leaked emails reviewed by the Lever.

According to the records, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Middle East logistics giant DP World and one of President Donald Trump’s early Middle Eastern business partners, wanted to chat with Musk about using Tesla batteries at a hotel Sulayem was building in Dubai. Musk, among the world’s richest people, would go on to serve in Trump’s second administration.

While many content creators and obvious partisans are looking for the most salacious click-bait material, it’s starting to look like the Epstein files will essentially be a Rorschach test that allows us to see what we want to see, while ignoring the broader implication that THE ENTIRE SYSTEM is corrupt.

When a “prominent” Montanan, like Jack Horner, is brought up, the easy focus is to point to his interest in “the girls”. Well, considering our Sultan likes real estate, I thought that perhaps land ownership would be a more interesting angle to apply to Horner’s appearance in the files and guess what? I was right!

Somewhere on his 9,500-acre ranch in Montana’s Paradise Valley, maybe as he watched the sun-dazzled Yellowstone River slide by the 12,000-foot Absaroka Mountains, Wall Street tycoon and self-described conservationist Wade Dokken must have had a vision: He would create a new kind of luxury community in the heart of the American West. Different from the typical recreation-based developments, utopian in concept, his Ameya Preserve would be a place of unsurpassed beauty, where bright and uncommonly well-heeled people could, however briefly, take their ease in a community implementing the kind of cutting-edge technology that could one day save the planet.

Along these lines, Ameya (Sanskrit for “without boundaries”) would be powered entirely by solar, wind or geothermal sources, the buildings would be constructed according to the most advanced environmental specifications. Most prominently, Ameya would also be designed to “zero out,” which means that the carbon emitted in the construction process would be scrupulously calculated, then offset by planting forest tracts somewhere else in the West.

In place of golf or skiing, residents could participate in a variety of Chautauqua-like events, conducted by Ameya “cultural directors,” community members with distinguished backgrounds in the arts and sciences. Indeed, the people Ameya would have on board include some of the brightest stars on the American scene: best-selling author and restaurateur Alice Waters; soprano Renée Fleming; paleontologist Jack Horner; and former head of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Thomas Hoving, to name a few.

While I haven’t made an exhaustive search of the files, there is a story I’ve been working on since before this latest Epstein dump, and that story will help show the corrupting influence of money and the inability of our elected officials to discern who they are selling out Montana to, so stay tuned.

Before I wrap this appetizer post up, there’s a few more data points relevant to Montana that I offer up for your consideration, and that’s an itemized purchase of an ambulance in Bozeman and subsequent training for CPR services. Curious.

Thanks for reading!

Are you sad that Don Lemon got arrested? Are you disturbed that other “journalists” got arrested along with him? Do you cry for Democracy and our beloved First Amendment? COOL! Then maybe you’d like to know about Archie and Edyth Bush, since it’s THEIR MONEY that encouraged Georgia Fort and Trahern Crews to transform themselves into smiling negro socks puppets for corporate cash.

What is the Bush Foundation? Let’s consult its history from the website:

We invest in great ideas and the people who power them. This has been the case since we were founded in 1953 by Archie and Edyth Bush, who set up the foundation with few restrictions, ensuring that board and staff members through the years would have the flexibility needed to meet the challenges of the day.

A Granite Falls, Minnesota native, Archie began his career as a bookkeeper with a small company based in Duluth, Minnesota. He rose up through the ranks over the years, helping to shape it into the innovative multinational firm known today as 3M. With no children of their own to inherit their estate, Archie and Edyth established the Bush Foundation with an original investment of 3M stock.

Yes, that’s right, since Archie couldn’t put babies into his wife, he decided to impregnate his community with bullshit, providing grant money for “good ideas”. Here’s the pitch:

Before we get to the “journalism” being funded by 3M corporate stock money, how about we read something interesting from a more established media platform, like ProPublica, and the vast gaslighting 3M engaged in when it looked like they might be contributing to forever chemicals forever polluting our environment.

Here’s how ProPublica reported the secret studies that had already been done by 3M, but were kept secret:

What Hansen didn’t know was that 3M had already conducted animal studies — two decades earlier. They had shown PFOS to be toxic, yet the results remained secret, even to many at the company. In one early experiment, conducted in the late ’70s, a group of 3M scientists fed PFOS to rats on a daily basis. Starting at the second-lowest dose that the scientists tested, about 10 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, the rats showed signs of possible harm to their livers, and half of them died. At higher doses, every rat died. Soon afterward, 3M scientists found that a relatively low daily dose, 4.5 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, could kill a monkey within weeks. (Based on this result, the chemical would currently fall into the highest of five toxicity levels recognized by the United Nations.) This daily dose of PFOS was orders of magnitude greater than the amount that the average person would ingest, but it was still relatively low — roughly comparable to the dose of aspirin in a standard tablet.

In 1979, an internal company report deemed PFOS “certainly more toxic than anticipated” and recommended longer-term studies. That year, 3M executives flew to San Francisco to consult Harold Hodge, a respected toxicologist. They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers. According to a 3M document that was marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” Hodge urged the executives to study whether the company’s fluorochemicals caused reproductive issues or cancer. After reviewing more data, he told one of them to find out whether the chemicals were present “in man,” and he added, “If the levels are high and widespread and the half-life is long, we could have a serious problem.” Yet Hodge’s warning was omitted from official meeting notes, and the company’s fluorochemical production increased over time.

Armed with 3M corporate money, Georgia Fort essentially created a blog called BLCK. What is the purpose of her blog? Let’s take a look:

Our mission is to Reconnect News to Black Culture. We believe stories are powerful—and that access to accurate, relevant information can be both liberating and lifesaving. But when our communities are disengaged and disconnected from the news, how can we make the informed civic, economic, and personal decisions that shape our future?
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When news is created for us, by people who understand our lived experiences, it doesn’t just inform—it resonates. It reflects our values, speaks our language, and becomes part of our culture.
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We envision a world where Black communities have our own trusted news channel—one that speaks directly to us, empowers us to act, and keeps us connected, civically engaged, and economically strong.

I don’t care how many words Georgia Fort uses to describe her supposed mission of “reconnecting news to black culture”, this isn’t empowerment, it’s control, and it’s funded by a corporation that made LOTS of money on COVID fear.

U.S. conglomerate 3M Co, which makes N95 face masks, posted a 24.2% rise in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, benefiting from strong demand for its personal safety products due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Net income attributable to 3M rose to $1.62 billion, or $2.77 per share, in the quarter ended March 31, from $1.31 billion or $2.25 per share, a year earlier.

While all this context is easy to find, I haven’t seen any other “news” source following the Bush Foundation money.

Why?

Why is a broke blogger from a Montana college town able to spend an hour following the money and writing a blog post that provides more interesting and relevant perspectives than the majority of the alt-media information sphere has so far produced four days after Don Lemon got arrested?

After a big week last week, I’ve got some very interesting content I’ll be publishing this week, so stay tuned. Despite NO corporate cash in my coffers, I still managed to publish FIVE posts last week. Here they are in case you missed any:

Leave Rhyming To The Poets, Jimmy (January 26th, 2026)

This Isn’t Kent State And Missoula Leaders Hate The First Amendment (January 27th, 2026)

Flattop Tester, Pork Chops For Cops, And The Role Of Operation Stonegarden (January 27th, 2026)

Councilor Anderson, Missoula First Responders, And The Sometimes Constitution (January 28th, 2026)

Dear Mayor,… (January 29th, 2026)

When you understand what our local officials did last week to shit on my first amendment protection, the approach I’ll be taking this week will make more sense.

Thanks for reading!

Dear Mayor,

Do you believe the ends justify the means, or do you believe in equal enforcement of the law?

If you believe in the latter, then I believe it is your responsibility to address the behavior of the elected officials who help you conduct the business of Missoula on behalf of its citizens.

The most recent behavior that should bother ANY politician who pledges oaths to uphold our founding principles, like those outlined in the Constitution, is the censorious actions of Stacie Anderson, which I covered in yesterday’s post. Stacie also implied that I was lying last September when I correctly stated, then later documented, that the information for citizens to call in their public comment was inaccurate.

Stacie Anderson, though, is far from the only individual to act in an unprofessional and legally questionable manner. Another example is Kristen Jordan, who was caught slandering me when she made false claims about me in a text message to a constituent. Here’s the comment:

Recently I obtained evidence of Kristen Jordan attempting to join a Signal group, but her invitation was revoked. Why are you trying to join “City Council Watch” Kristen?

Mayor, this appears kinda sketchy, especially after the FBI launched an investigation into Signal chat groups in Minnesota. You might want to get ahead of this.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.

Patel said in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that he wanted to know whether any Minnesota residents had put federal agents “in harm’s way” with activities such as sharing agents’ license plate numbers and locations.

When the institutional knowledge of the Mayor’s office goes onto media platforms, like KGVO, to talk about “crisis intervention“, the picture of their faces, I assume, isn’t doctored or manipulated.

“I’ve been a firefighter for the last 16 years so, in the past when we’ve responded our goal when we get on scene as a firefighter or law enforcement is to always get done with that call, find a solution and go on to the next call. However, the Mobile Support Team can respond and not have an agenda, so we can meet people where they’re at. We can arrive on scene and take the time needed to de escalate the situation.”

After reading about first responders not having an agenda I had to laugh. You can try to be a purist about the “boots-on-the-ground” people doing their job, but the agenda of every other element around them makes their job essentially impossible. Add to that someone like Sean McCoy putting rocks in his pocket as a “street medic”, and the work of actual emergency responders is further diluted.

Another BIG problem we have is the “legacy media,” especially ANY media that thinks it’s ok to do this:

While this image-tweaking might help liberal white ladies get behind the martyrdom of Alex Pretti, the recent video footage of Alex spitting and kicking at Federal Agents will be a bit more difficult to airbrush–unless liberal white women suddenly feel differently about white men acting violently.

In summary, Mayor, it appears like you’re handling things quite poorly, and that’s too bad, because making a big deal about going to Harvard was intended to convey the impression that you aren’t fucking retarded.

To further bolster my hunch that some kind of politically-induced retardation is impacting the functioning of local government, this post from October of 2024 shows that, despite Harvard, the challenge of providing accurate information for calling in comments remotely has been an ongoing issue.

Let me now state something very obvious: if no penalty exists for what is being done to my first amendment right, then the anti-free-speech behavior will continue. If that’s ok with you, Mayor, fine, just maybe dial back the insanely hypocritical virtue signaling about a different city in a different state because I’m pretty sure you are ONLY the Mayor of Missoula, despite how globally you see this moment and the tiny bit of spotlight illuminating your face.

Thanks for reading, Mayor, and stay tuned, because there’s SO MUCH MORE that needs exposing.