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It’s really funny to me, for reasons I’m legally forbidden from discussing, that Judge Vannatta thinks 10 years is enough elapsed time to declare Ryan Funke’s little Brady problem a big old NOTHINGBURGER. What comes next, Judge Vannatta, do you open wide so Ryan Funke can give you a taste of his meat?

After three years of litigation, a judge has ruled that 10-year-old allegations of inconsistent reports by current Mineral County Sheriff Ryan Funke don’t constitute Brady material and don’t need to be provided to defendants in criminal cases.

The Mineral County Attorney’s Office, representing the Mineral County commissioners, has argued that inconsistencies in Funke’s reports when he served as a deputy in Lake County constituted Brady material, meaning the office would have to provide this material to the defense in cases where Funke’s testimony or reports were used. Judge Shane Vannatta ruled from the bench on Wednesday in favor of Funke and his attorney Paul Leisher, who argued that these inconsistencies were standard minor mistakes.

“I think it’s a nothingburger,” Vannatta said, borrowing the verbiage of Mineral County Attorney-elect Roy Miller, who took the stand during Wednesday’s evidentiary hearing.

If this was such a “nothingburger,” why did it take THREE YEARS for judge Vannatta to reach this conclusion? Was he too busy protecting the rights of bathrooms across Montana?

When it comes to bathrooms, Judge Vannatta was forced to recuse himself because he was caught with his bias showing. I find this judicial fact from last October to be VERY interesting and relevant to the argument of bias I will be making in my own cases.

Missoula County District Court Judge Shane Vannatta recused himself from hearing a lawsuit over a bill that says there are only two sexes, but he noted the “facts” in a move to disqualify him are “exceedingly thin.”

In a Sept. 25 court filing, Vannatta said he would withdraw from jurisdiction of the case “in the interest of preserving the public’s confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary.”

In August, Attorney General Austin Knudsen and the Department of Justice filed a motion to “disqualify for cause” and alleged bias.

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The state pointed to a news article Vannatta posted on social media before he was a judge and a couple of groups he follows on Instagram as evidence he should not oversee the lawsuit.

Vannatta took office in 2019 as the youngest judge in the district and first openly gay judge to serve in Montana, the Missoulian reported.

The critical question of whether or not the burger was a somethingburger or a nothingburger hinged on the whoopsie of Ryan Funke not Mirandizing someone, then saying he did–an act commonly referred to as LYING. When done under oath, this inability to be truthful is known as PERJURY. Call me crazy, but I don’t think is a desirable trait for a Sheriff to have. Good thing Funke has Vannatta to protect him!

The allegations against Funke were that he’d failed to Mirandize some suspects and then reported he had done so in some reports, and that he’d made a false statement about an attempt to stop a suspect vehicle in an application for a search warrant.

“I don’t think it results in something that makes Sheriff Funke unreliable or not credible,” Vannatta said in his decision.

The judge’s ability to provide objective metrics regarding what constitutes reliability and credibility took a big hit, in my humble estimation, when I continued reading the recusal article and discovered how much Shane Vannatta is “fascinated” by TIME magazine’s gender science content. I guess maybe the judge should think a little harder about perceptions of bias before promoting CIA/TIME propaganda.

In his response, the judge outlined the standards for disqualification and the Montana Code of Judicial Conduct.

A disqualifying circumstance includes statements made “while a judge,” the response said. It also pointed to court guidance that said “schemes to drive a judge out of a case should not be allowed.”

The judge said the only “extrajudicial statement” the state cited is his characterization on social media of a 2017 TIME Magazine article as “fascinating” — a comment he said is “neutral on its face” and was posted two years before he became a judge and six years before the current case.

The TIME story was called “Gender Laws Are at Odds with Science.” In its motion, the state alleged Vannatta showed bias because he posted content that noted “the legal recognition of only two biological sexes is ‘incongruous with science.’”

Personally, I think being told what I can and cannot rhyme about is incongruous with the FIRST AMENDMENT, but I didn’t go to law school, nor can I afford someone who did, which means I’ll have to just keep learning the hard way.

One of the things I’ve been hearing about myself (sometimes in sworn testimony) is that I’m delusional. I’m sure my co-workers thought I was delusional last June when I plainly stated I was going to campus to troll the CIA, showing off my copy of Hog’s Exit.

A book that describes the CIA’s interest in Missoula Smokejumpers like this:

And written by Gayle Morrison, who I met last June after meeting one of these “Kickers” on campus.

The University of Montana–a “humanities” college no longer interested in literature’s influence–is where I refined my poetry skills. Those skills earned me an aggressive visit from Gwen Jones, which she later regretted, since, in America, you should be able to publish a poem in a newspaper about sidewalk policies WITHOUT your employer’s City Councilor/Board Member verbally assaulting you on paid work time, an act Jones was forced to apologize in writing for.

If you’d like to see the video version of my poem from 2018, which includes footage of Lee Nelson before he was bludgeoned to death by a magic bat that causes sharp wounds AND blunt-force trauma ones (according to Baker-Bosch), then here it is:

And, for my First Amendment censors, here’s the lyrics of the poem-song I hope to publish over the weekend without being criminally charged:

For those unaware that Sheriffs are politically elected, the decision by Vannatta THREE YEARS in the making on the Brady issue is actually the SECOND time he’s appeared to put his judicial thumb on the scales for Mineral County, something I wrote about and followed closely in my “Writ of Mandamus” coverage.

If I was Funke’s political adversary, like Ben Banks is this cycle, I’d be watching what happens to a citizen journalist like me VERY closely, since Funke is ALSO the badge who was first on-scene to control the story around Rebekah Barsotti’s death, as told by Rebekah’s mother here:

Rebekah’s death is just one of many I’m suspicious of (I’ll note her name was recently referenced at a Mineral County Commissioner meeting by Funke himself), but how I’ve been dealt by local authorities regarding these suspicions is becoming so extreme, I think it’s important for me to note I’m not at all suicidal, nor even in possession of anything that would trigger a lethal venting of my skull.

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Before retirement Guy Baker was the kind of detective who knew all about selling and buying young girls. In fact, he even knew that the market trend in 2024 for selling young girls was to get them younger and younger, according to our young-girls-for-sale expert:

“There are a lot of people out there who are trying to exploit women but younger and younger seems to be more common now than it used to be,” said Baker.

After this quote Baker goes even further to demonstrate his expertise by showing the reporter how easy it is for a “customer” to find a piece of young ass to buy:

Baker says that victims of sex trafficking usually meet with “customers” up to three times a day.

The percentage of sex trafficking victims range between 80% to 85% female.

During our interview with Baker, he showed us just how easy it is for someone to open their phone, and find sex online.

He says that runaways are a particular risk because they don’t have a plan for life on the streets.

“Runaways make up a large portion of American Minors who are subjected to child pornography and sex trafficking,” said Baker.

I don’t think Guy Baker is smiling in this picture because of the young girl trend. More likely he’s smiling because the trend in local media, like the Missoulian, is to fawn over a guy like Guy, calling him “tall and friendly” when they finally reported Baker’s retirement months after I first reported it:

Baker, tall and friendly, is known for taking on some of the most violent crimes in the region over the last 35 years with the Missoula Police Department. He’s the third generation of his family to work in law enforcement in this corner of Montana. When you add up his grandfather’s, his father’s and his own years on duty, he’s going out on 100 years of Baker men wearing the badge. In an interview last week, he said that timing was more poetic than it was planned.

One of those violent crimes that Baker supposedly “solved” was the brutal beating death of Lee Nelson, a well-known local homeless man who Guy Baker said had two different types of distinctive head wounds despite the wounds being made by the same alleged weapon, which was a bat. It was around this time I started thinking maybe those rumors I had been hearing about Baker all those years working at the homeless shelter were true.

(notice the very serious look of Missoula’s bathroom judge as he looks at Guy Baker holding a dick-shaped microphone)

Right before the sentencing part of Lee Nelson’s murder trial, the Missoula County Attorney’s Office tried making me a part of their case, but I told Caitlin Creighton NO, then I wrote about it. While those who hate-read my every word might find it hard to believe, as recently as 2023 my presence was NOT deemed altogether criminal by the local powers that be. Hell, even the Missoulian thought I was photogenic enough to capture for some clicks!

Honoring murdered homeless men by discerning the actual truth of their deaths has not been a successful career choice for me. Is that because I got interested in the ones murdered by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office?

I am, though, deeply heartened by the impressive skillset of Sheriff Petersen’s Sheriff Office to determine my precise address, since there was some apparent confusion over the matter of where I’ve been living since upgrading from the lived experience of urban box truck camping. Hmmm.

Before I get more curious about the skillset of Sheriff Petersen’s Sheriff Office I should probably address the question posed by the title of this post, and I will address it by saying this: I can’t say. And any image suggesting Baker has been hired by a politician is AI slop, obviously.

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Inevitably I believe “Epstein” will be colliding with aliens soon. If you listen to the podcast, The Confessionals, this episode features the host, Tony Merkel, explicitly suggesting there’s a connection between Epstein, human trafficking, and the coming “disclosure” of non-human entities.

For a reminder about what I’ve connected regarding the still-active Epstein network and Big Sky country, this link is worth checking out.

It’s much safer to talk about aliens than local corruption. When you talk about local corruption, like I’ve been doing for many years now, the threats usually start anonymously and they can hit close.

I received this letter in 2022 when I was still married to my old money wife. Then I got divorced, my Dad paid out $140,000 dollars so my ex didn’t have to liquidate any of her gold and jewel holdings, and I blew through it traveling anywhere but Montana to avoid the rebound relationship that kicked off the years lawfare I’m still dealing with today.

When you have money and willing lawyers on your payroll you can do almost anything. The white African Studies professor who exploited the civil protection order process, for example, had legal counsel paid through the University, so he didn’t even have to expend academic dollars, or grifter consulting dollars, on the legal advise he received.

For the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office it’s ALSO public dollars they’re spending on lawyers–like little Lance from Reep, Bell and Jasper–in order to shake down Missoula County for more “parity pay” cash, like I covered in October of 2022 (same year I got that anonymous fan mail). We’ll get back to the Sheriff’s Office in a moment.

When you’re a bitch for corporate America, like my Dad was for many years, the lawyers and lawsuits are financed by the profits of the company. In my Daddy’s case, when third-party phone service carriers for Sprint got fucked by the corporation, he did what corporate bitches do and jumped when they told him to.

When I answer awkward but necessary questions regarding why I’m broke over the phone with anyone who might be able to help me, and explain WHY I’m trying to solicit funds to defend myself like a homeless panhandler after Quentin Rhoades took himself out of the running to be my lawyer, my new money Daddy had this to say in mid-March, when I tried using literal marbles as leverage for a small loan:

This “help” was taking my disclosure of the debt I have (under $20K) then denying my request for a few thousand dollars so I could make minimum credit card payments, suggesting instead I declare bankruptcy like the LATEST BREAKING PANGEA NEWS from the adorable Missoulian.

And guess what I did in response to the suggestion I declare bankruptcy? I didn’t “threaten” friends and churches, no. Though others might disagree with my perception, what I did was continue what I’ve BEEN doing, and that’s write about local power dynamics, and one primary way that power is expressed is through MONEY.

Since families are like microcosms of the meta-culture, it’s instructive to understand how my becoming impolite and accusatory about how local money plays power games to CRUSH anyone opposing produced predictable results. That doesn’t mean it’s any less painful, it just means I have to accept a large degree of victim-blaming will be directed at me from those closest to me because they believe this is what I deserve for not shutting up.

The phone ad that popped into my head this morning has its origins in things I’ve written about before, like my Grandpa’s role in developing phone networks in the Pacific Northwest. In that post I mention Motorola, the tech that supposedly transmitted the voices of American Astronauts from the moon. Many moons later the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office was going Motorola for their communications.

The Missoula County sheriff is praising a new contract with Motorola that will see his department receive new hand-held radios for the first time in nearly 15 years.

Sheriff TJ McDermott said the current radios used by his deputies have grown obsolete and are no longer reparable when they break or quit operating.

Three years before this new contract, Sheriff McDermott was talking with his “personal” lawyers about his Montana Electronics business venture. At the time T.J. tried to play it off as just politics:

I’ve been very public and, I think, hilarious with my Pirate Booty puppet campaign for Sheriff, and one reason I launched this “content creation” attempt to, you know, MAKE SOME MONEY, is because the people bleating NO KINGS like retarded sheep suggested to me they didn’t understand the role of Sheriffs and Fed-enforcers, like ICE. And why would they when the quality of ICE articles from local media look like this:

If ICE reporting is what the cool kids with bank accounts NOT fucked by lawfare are doing, then here’s a HOT TIP: perhaps my Daddy can help YOU with insights into a tech company sitting quietly across the street from Cognizant in the disgusting looking modern buildout of the Sawmill District.

Why should anyone care about Strong-Bridge? Because, according to their own website, they contract with the Feds paying ICE. Hmmm.

In conclusion, my Daddy isn’t wrong, this is a dangerous game I’m playing. I mean, one day you might be playing with Legos in the alley behind Butterfly Herbs, shooting the shit with commendable retard-maxxers unperturbed by the larger mechanisms shaping their life trajectories, then, before you know it, you’re in a place where power flexes, calling a shark to the stand and watching him raise his fin for the kangaroo.

What a strange dream that was. But what is life but a dream?

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Yesterday one of the temporary orders of protection served against me was vacated by the judge because the professor, Tobin Miller Shearer, didn’t show up. Since I don’t think this smart professor is that stupid, it appears he simply used the order of protection process to keep his retirement party safe in case I tried showing up to celebrate his departure with his colleagues.

To better understand Tobin’s state of mind regarding my years of calling him out for NOT caring about the inconvenient deaths of two black men, Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry, let’s look at some of the paperwork claiming my words required the costly actions of the court to move FAST to keep this white “African Studies” professor safe:

Tobin Miller Shearer is one of my best examples regarding local narrative control around the deaths of Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry. Why? Because Tobin represents how those who “educate” the public about WHY to care about “marginalized” people also seem to acquire the power to determine WHEN to care about marginalized people. I’ll explain exactly how this works.

Three years ago I wrote a post, titled “A White Man’s Guide To Profiting Off Racism In Missoula And Beyond“. In this post I captured Tobin’s FOR PROFIT company, Widerstand Consulting. But, when I went to Widerstand’s website TODAY, this is what I found:

What kind of work is Tobin proud to have added to his Professor salary in Missoula? How about the YWCA’s “Anti-Racism Audit“, which they hired Widerstand Consulting to conduct.

Cue the dead white man after a previous female victim refused to cooperate with prosecutors because it could mean putting a dangerous black man in jail:

She said the attack left her and her friend “in shock,” but they ultimately chose not to cooperate with prosecutors — a decision she now regrets after Burke was charged with murder on Friday for allegedly hurling 76-year-old stranger Ross Falzone to his death at a Chelsea subway station Thursday night.

Police had taken the violent brute to Bellevue Hospital for “acting erratically” Thursday afternoon before he was released about an hour later and allegedly launched the deadly unprovoked attack later that night.

“I regret it 100% and I actually feel really bad that a man lost his life,” the woman said.

When Leah Hartley died, one of my “Persons of Interest” was a local black man who can be seen quite often biking recklessly around town with a mask or bucket on his head. Another black man I knew from my days working at the Poverello Center, Fred, used to stand across the street from the shelter wearing bright red shoes. He was so conspicuous, but confident, I started developing a hunch that, perhaps, certain blacks in Missoula have a “liberal force field” that, thanks to the DEI virus, somehow protects them from problematic scrutiny.

Speaking of viruses, I have to drop in some friendly criticism I caught from a Covid true believer but, despite that, I still love the old guy because Kevin J. Hunt is a good dude.

To expound on being unimpressed with “dark money”, it’s the figuratively lighter versions of “non-profit” money and “public” money that many people in towns like Missoula are completely uneducated about until it becomes THEIR MONEY we’re talking about, like property taxes. Then they show up belly-aching to local councils expecting sympathy after voting for the latest school levy.

To wrap this up, I have an interesting structural challenge to anyone who has practiced law, like Mr. Kevin J. Hunt. The Crime Victim Advocate’s Office could potentially have legal exposure to “discoverable” material not being shared, from what I have heard. Another data point to consider is the inclusion of “stalking” in what triggers the assistance of all the resources intended for victims of primarily SEXUAL violence–not, say, a former employer.

Also, I have to point out the irony that the YWCA crisis line is being provided, since I just pointed out how the YWCA hired the now-shuttered Widerstand Consulting con to conduct a racist audit in order to skew their “lens” toward MORE racism, not less.

One final note: if Tobin Miller Shearer HAD shown up yesterday, he would have had a Crime Victim Advocate there representing him, and I know that because I saw the CVA guy whispering to the bailiff about the whereabouts of his next client. And, if the order was extended by the judge, this post could put me in jail.

Thankfully the order of protection process, which I’ll be repeating today, allows me to ask questions, under oath, of my petitioner, and that means it’s time for me to get to work.

Stay tuned.

Before Matt Jennings there was Kirsten Pabst, and before “MeToo” took down Harvey Weinstein, there was Missoula’s University rape scandal, which culminated in a book by Jon Krakauer that documented the trial that triggered the oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice.

For those who think this is the distant past, explain the recent PR articles about the “cultural shift” we have been told occurred since 2012:

Between 2010 and 2025, the Missoula County Attorney’s Office has seen a somewhat consistent rise in yearly convictions for sex crimes.

Jennings said the changes Missoula has made seemed to make people more likely to come forward about their experiences.

“A lot of victims feel more comfortable reporting than they used to,” Jennings said.

That’s a complication with sexual assault statistics, Jennings said — if more people trust prosecutors and police to handle sexual assault reports well, that leads to more reports of sexual assault.

Jennings said there are some external factors reflected in the data as well.

Aside from prosecutors taking on more cases, a case may resolve years after the investigation begins. In other words, an investigation that launched in 2015 may not have been resolved until 2017. The pandemic also caused some court delays.

Globally the pandemic stopped the world. Locally, it stopped momentum that had erupted against an obscure taxing mechanism, and this eruption highlighted one of the most dangerous dynamics that exists in ANY community, and that’s the dynamic between the HAVES and HAVE NOTS. In other words, the poors who Matt Jennings is claiming to be the SAINT of JUSTICE for, in so many words.

There has been an increase recently in the number of violent crimes occurring at the Poverello Center in Missoula. Jennings said those are delicate issues.

“Some people hear what I’m about to say, and they think that we’re targeting folks that are vulnerable and are unhoused,” Jennings said. “But I actually look at my career as being focused mostly on serving people who are indigent and poor. A vast majority of the victims that we see come through our office are people of color, they are economically unstable, or they’re homeless. I would say probably half of the felony jury trials I’ve ever had in my life have victims who are homeless. I consider my professional career to be dedicated to the most vulnerable people in our community.”

Jennings believes that around 95% of the people who are unhoused in our community are well-intentioned but are struggling with issues like brain injuries, drug or alcohol abuse, and trauma. He said there’s a small subset of unhoused people in this community that are very predatory.

Not only can I speak from what the “experts” call “lived experience”, I now know three individuals with brain injuries, two CAUSED by law enforcement, who anecdotally disprove the bullshit idea that anything reformed has occurred, other than PR rebranding efforts, launched nationally by Kirsten Pabst in her role with the National Association of Counties, and continued by her successor, Saint Jennings.

Matt Jennings isn’t wrong about statistically relevant predators who wolf around the homeless sheep for easy pickings, he’s just forgetting to consider that wolves ALSO tend toward taking positions of power and influence, like police and Sheriff deputies, who Matt Jennings must rely on in order to make his numbers sing to the tune of his cherub trumpets (cuckold media feeders).

Here’s Matt Jennings talking about the “sifting” effort his office is doing to find the wolves and check them for rabies:

“They make the conditions on the streets extremely unsafe for those other unhoused people,” Jennings said. “We really try and sift through what’s going on, but there are some folks that basically hang around the Poverello Center that are victimizing the rest of the folks that are trying to get back on their feet, and that really ticks me off. We prioritize those cases because we actually see some real miracles come out of that facility of people that need a little bit of help and stabilization, and years later they’re doing well, but they’re not going to do well if they end up getting hurt, or victimized, or have drugs pushed in their face.”

According to Jennings, we need to balance the compassion that we have for the unhoused while also recognizing that there are some people out there who are trying to victimize and hurt those who are vulnerable.

Yes, Matt, no fucking shit, but tell me, what do you do to people like me who become TOO GOOD at recognizing who the wolves are, and why even the easiest ones to prosecute can still be seen, to this day, enjoying Missoula’s free bus system as a free wolf ready to kill (I have alleged) the next unsuspecting drug addict with a Fentanyl-spiked bowl of weed?

Another, more recent post of mine, attempts to put the offender substrata of our culture into better context, but elements of that citizen journalism include the problematic “lived experience” factor I’m currently under new restrictions from going into detail about.

The second link is to a case I just found this morning while looking for recent cases involving “citizen journalists” and the courts. Here’s the gist of the Texas case, rejected by the Supreme Court in March of this year:

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the appeal of a Texas-based online citizen journalist who said she was wrongly arrested in a case that drew attention from national media organizations and free speech advocates.

The justices left in place a divided federal appeals court ruling that found journalist Priscilla Villarreal, known online as La Gordiloca, could not sue police officers and other officials over her arrest for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, writing, “It should be obvious that this arrest violated the First Amendment.”

I’m glad this particular citizen journalist somehow found a lawyer willing to represent her. If you don’t have money, people assume there are non-profit organizations that magically appear to white-knight the persecuted truth-seeker, but that has NOT been my experience (so far).

My most recent *click* on the phone came from the law firm in Billings run by the wife of the politician stirring up a Big Sky hornet’s nest, which I’m now caught in the middle of. Fun times.

This upcoming week my posting might be limited. The Buckhouse bridge urban camp cleanup is the one subject I want to expound on, but it might have to wait until after my three court dates, so thank you for understanding.

I also want to give a shout out to a handful of men who have helped move some miraculous energy around for me. God is real, prayer works, and the truth still matters.

Amen.