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After failing to pay rent for several months, and a subsequent physical altercation with his roommate, the man pictured above, who goes by “Jim”, got a local court to implement a temporary order of protection to keep him safe.

To better understand this process, here are the statutes and legal language that describes this concept, and the requirements that need to be met, in order to get legally protected.

With this in mind, let’s ask ourselves a simple question: why would a person who is feeling so unsafe that they seek a Temporary Order of Protection choose to go to a physical location where they know the person they are terrified of will be? If there truly exists a “REASONABLE APPREHENSION” of danger, wouldn’t this act undermine that claim?

Yesterday, during the anti-war protest that’s been happening on Fridays at 12:30pm every week for years, Brandon Bryant, the JSOC drone-program whistleblower, was in attendance when his former roommate saw him from across the street and CHOSE to close the gap.

My understanding is that Brandon Bryant ALSO has a temporary protection order against “Jim”, who has a more accurate name that he doesn’t like circulating, since the name “Bryce Walker” connects to his incest conviction and the requirement that he register as a sex offender here in Missoula.

I wonder if the people at the Missoula Interfaith Collaborative know about this history, since “Jim” seems to have some kind of official role at this non-profit working with marginalized populations from a faith-based perspective (meaning suckers for a redemptive sob story from convicted pedophiles).

Not only did I see all this trouble for Brandon Bryant brewing back in August, when I wrote the preemptive threat assessment that I later expounded on in this post about the cultural context of a double homicide related to drug trafficking, I’ve been the only one to continue writing about Bryant’s alleged assault of the four badges who beat and tased him for not putting his stick down fast enough.

The combination of stick and verbal stones landed Brandon Bryant in serious trouble before, five years ago, but, after just two hours of deliberation, a jury of his peers returned a not guilty verdict in 2021 on the felony intimidation charge he faced and beat:

A Missoula District Court jury took just two hours to acquit a veteran accused of intimidating the City Council.

In 2020, Brandon Bryant landed in jail shortly after he brought a wooden Japanese training sword to a council meeting and criticized the use of special property tax money.

Prosecutors used that and an edited video of Bryant to charge him with a felony.

This week, three council members, Bryan von Lossberg, Gwen Jones and Julie Merritt all told the jury Bryant scared them.

But four council members and the mayor testified they did not fear him.

The feelings of City Council were VERY important in the County Attorney’s attempt to criminally charge Brandon Bryant five years, but when someone approached HIM at Charlie B’s just five months ago and called him a WOKE FAGGOT, to his face, leading to an brief altercation after Brandon’s attempt to video record this man’s aggression was cut short by a physical attack, our local authorities made NO EFFORT to investigate what happened INSIDE the bar, nor any effort to secure video evidence of this altercation, which led to the 911 call, which led to our four terrified and apparently poorly trained Missoula police officer resorting to excessive force on an officially disabled Veteran.

While Brandon Bryant has done himself NO favors by how his subsequent online posts have expressed anger and feelings of abandonment and persecution–posts which have led to additional criminal charges that will be adjudicated by this town’s criminal “justice” system–there’s a wide-range of data one might consider that doesn’t overtly name people loudly and angrily, but nonetheless should be considered when parsing out what might be happening. Having gone through something similar myself, I went scrolling through “Jim’s” publicly available Facebook posts to see if any red flags appeared, like perhaps a more subtle effort to gaslight someone by implying they are “crazy”.

I offer this tidbit of context because, as someone who has been meeting on a weekly basis with the person I believe “Jim” is referring to here, I’ve had nothing but good interactions, including chats about how to manage strong feelings while being actively targeted, thus triggered, leading to responses that can occur in physiological ways when you have PTSD and other underlying issues from serving in America’s armed forces.

When I had a temporary restraining order put in place nearly three years ago now, the “substitute” municipal judge who knew my “petitioner” denied the objection I raised, denied my request for a postponement, since I lacked legal counsel and she did not, and then the substitute judge (Judge Streano was on vacation, I was told) also ignored one of the final emails I received from my petitioner when I tried leaving this year-long, toxic relationship.

If this was a football game, and I was Brandon Bryant’s football coach, I would remind him that it’s usually the “reaction” that gets the flag or penalty. I’ve also been trying to explain that, at the end of the day, unless more conventional media takes on our stories, no one is going to care about our Facebook posts or blog posts.

What I’m trying to do here, with this one, is share some of that highly valued “lived experience” our victim culture loves strategically deploying for their preferred demographics of dependency. In the spirit of lived experience, imagine trying to breakup up from someone and receiving this set of conditions followed by four consequences of saying no:

Before I get to the consequences, I will add that the people closest to me advised me to stop all contact. Was that good advice?

I don’t know, but from a more objective vantage point, I think the advice Brandon Bryant got yesterday from BOTH his therapist and Public Defender to self-report for clarification at the police station after NOT getting initially arrested was not good advice. Instead of clarification, Bryant was arrested and is currently sitting at the Missoula County Detention Facility.

Thanks to an eerily similar process, I also spent time at this facility because I didn’t think further direct engagement with someone exhibiting signs of borderline personality disorder making unreasonable demands and issuing threats which were definitely followed through on with maximum impact.

While I wouldn’t wish the experiences of lawfare on anyone, there are valuable lessons I have acquired along the way, so sometime next week I may try to explain why Sheriffs running county jails across the country might look at sex offenders differently than the general public thinks they would.

Next week will also be a challenging one for Mr. Bryant, who will exit jail to return to the courtroom for pre-trial hearings as judgement day, once again, comes knocking. And, like so many other local topics I am ahead of the curve on, expect the paid reporters to start covering this story eventually, maybe even the one with the amazing mustache who seemed really grumpy with me for saying hi the other day at Flippers.

Thanks for reading!

UPDATE: in thinking about the comment I highlighted from “Jim’s” Facebook account, the timeline doesn’t fit the “roommate” being Mr. Bryant, but that brings up the question of how offenders go about updating their information regarding where they are staying, something I will look at in a later post.

Did CityNews get caught using AI tools to manipulate the image of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter? Yes, it appears the image of the shooter was changed to make the shooter appear more feminine, and that’s fucked up. Check out this link for a technical breakdown on how this effect was achieved.

This comes on the heels of Alex Pretti’s image getting similarly manipulated. Is legacy media trying to become MORE despised than they already are?

This isn’t media, it’s propaganda, and any platform engaging in this kind of manipulation should treated accordingly.

Moving on to documentaries for dumb Missoulians, the Big Sky Documentary Wankfest is kicking off today and “The Pulp” wants you to know what kind of woke bullshit you can recharge your toxic empathy batteries with.

I’ll only be highlighting the two most obnoxious examples of this documentary film-fest’s dedication to liberal values, starting with “Wood Street”, a documentary from the “Activism and Justice” category described like this:

Films in the festival’s Activism & Justice category are examples of storytelling that can — or already have — changed things. Maybe not the world, but a place or a group of people, and the mindsets and policies that govern them.

Take Wood Street, which follows members of Oakland, California’s largest unhoused encampment — particularly John and LaMonté — as they organize against eviction and fight to stay in the community they built. Rather than relying on outside “experts,” the film centers the lived experience of unhoused people themselves, showing that those most impacted are also the truest authorities on the issues. The filmmakers have used screenings and conversations with the community as spaces for dialogue and organizing, inviting audiences to reckon with how housing, policy, and dignity intersect in real time.

Who cares about drug addiction and rampant violence when you can virtue signal for retarded liberal audiences? What a crock of shit, especially the claim that people in the throws of addiction are the “truest authorities” on the issues.

If you want an authority worth listening to, I suggest someone who has gotten OUT of the vicious cycle fueling homeless encampments, someone like Ginny Burton, an incredible woman with two shitty parents, especially her mother, who started giving Ginny drugs at the age of 7.

Ginny was raised by two drug-addicted parents. Her mom had never worked, and her dad was in the military when they first got together. Eventually, he separated from the military and started a family that, according to Ginny, they were ill-equipped to support and raise.

Ginny was one of seven kids, the third child, and the first girl born into the family. It was Ginny’s mother who introduced her to drugs, namely marijuana, at age 7, and then to methamphetamine at age 12. By age 14, Ginny was smoking crack cocaine, and by age 16, she was raped by a man who sold drugs to her mother. At age 17, she attempted suicide, and by age 23, she was a full-blown heroin addict.

The other documentary dumb liberal assholes can watch is about entitled Bozeman football cocaine dealers who killed someone and, thanks to liberal retardation, THIS is the angle taken by the documentary film makers:

Big Sky Falling is a new documentary reexamining a scandal that rocked Montana State University and Bobcat Athletics in 2006, which included a cocaine-dealing ring and the conviction of two former MSU athletes in a homicide. To this day, it’s unclear who exactly pulled the trigger that killed Jason Wright in a drug robbery gone wrong. Big Sky Falling doesn’t linger on the mystery, or the cocaine-fueled orgies in Bozeman party houses. The filmmakers seem more interested in a nuanced, compassionate portrayal of the convicted men at the center of the story, and the way two young, underprivileged black men were treated in a white community. (As a side note, the filmmakers received impressive access inside two prisons — it’s rare to see cameras brought to the other side of the glass.)

Yes, you are reading this correctly, the filmmaker’s “nuanced, compassionate portrayal” of a violent crime is nothing more than a piece of woke propaganda intent on playing the “underprivileged” card for entitled football players who came to Montana, got heavily involved in abusing and distributing cocaine, and then killed someone for money, but why linger on things like “cocaine-fueled orgies” when you can instead tantalize Missoula virtue-signalers with toxic empathy slop?

Since Brandon Miller has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term for, you know, KILLING someone, I’m wondering if this documentary is trying to influence the judicial system in order to get Miller released early so he can, you know, help the children.

During closing statements, Lambert said Miller wanted to be part of a cocaine ring involving other former MSU athletes. Lambert said Miller admitted to another man that he shot Wright because Wright saw Miller’s face. Lambert also said Miller owned the murder weapon, hid the weapon and the gun had his fingerprints on it.

“That points to this defendant being the murderer, not John Lebrum,” Lambert said. “Branden Miller pulled the trigger and he killed Jason Wright.”

Ohman said during closing arguments that Miller has a lot of redeeming qualities, including an intellectual curiosity. He said Miller wants to pursue his education and learn about the world. He said Miller has the support of friends and family members.

“They all have good things to say about him,” Ohman said, adding that Miller can someday contribute to society, possibly by working with children.

If this documentary helps Miller get out of prison early, it wouldn’t be the first time a documentary has played this kind of role. Before Paradise Lost, Damien Echols was just a young psychopath rotting in prison for the brutal murder of three young boys in Memphis. But, thanks to celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder, Damien Echols is now a FREE psychopath able to appear on stage with Eddie when he isn’t using Pearl Jam to politically pimp for shit-heels like Democrat, Jon Tester.

Though I am but one man, expect to see me around town this coming week engaging these narrative control puppets with different strategies of cognitive infiltration. Yes, I’m sure Legos will be involved.

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How did Jon Turner get poop on the ceiling? Was it purposeful or accidental?

Obviously, an eviction would be forthcoming, since the overall state of the apartment was atrocious, but determining the poop mystery could help make a case, if the Missoula County Attorney gave a shit, that Jon Turner was a danger to himself and others, thus would need to be legally declared incompetent for his own protection.

I remember this case quite well, since it was one of the few times I got to hear the gallows humor of first responders as we waited around to see if we could put Jon Turner in jail for the night. Since Jon was fucked up on his preferred drug of choice, which was booze, we couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t try turning on the broken stovetop and starting a fire that could kill everyone in his building.

About a year before Jon got poop on the ceiling, he was being a vile and belligerent drunk at the Sleepy Inn, where he was in the process of being kicked out and dealing with cops. When I showed up at the motel, at the end of my shift coordinating the Homeless Outreach Teams, the cops dealing with Jon were delighted, and quickly left me alone to deal with a homeless drunk man in a wheelchair who could NOT stay at the Poverello Center, because we had kicked him out for breaking the rules, and could NOT remain in his motel room, because he was throwing things against the wall and bother the Native family living next door.

What did I do?

I pushed Jon in his wheelchair, east on Broadway, all the way to St. Pats hospital where the security guard explained to me that Jon was trespassed from the hospital and wouldn’t be admitted.

“Ok,” I said, “so call the cops and let’s get him arrested.” Reluctantly the security guard made the call, and when the cop showed up, I had to explain reality to them.

“Listen,” I said, “Jon can’t stay at the Poverello, and he just got kicked out of his motel room. If you want to get 911 welfare calls on him all night, or if you want to just let him die in the cold, fine, but getting him arrested is my last option. I will follow up tomorrow, call his payee for money, then see if any other motel will take him. He’s been kicked out of most of them.”

The cop was hesitant at first, but since he knew I was right, he complied with my request to use a trespassing charge from a hospital (the irony) to keep Jon from expiring on the streets of this stupid, retarded, toxically empathic town.

Yesterday, at the Housing, Redevelopment, and Community Programs Committee, I told an abbreviated version of my “poop on the ceiling” story and explained how our community’s lack of substance abuse programs ensures LOTS of failure (you can view my comment here).

After throwing a little shade at the new Unified Code and the industry expectation it won’t help affordable housing, I reminded the councilors around the “horseshoe” that the Headwaters Foundation sits on $80-100 million dollars, if they ever wanted to tap something substantive instead of just blaming the state while obsessing over taxing tourists.

Later in the day, while standing in the alleyway where Mike Nugent kissed Jordan Hess’ Mayoral mood ring, I was telling a street person how the Missoula County Attorney’s Office is actually the one killing homeless people like Lorrie Eisenbarth, and how the 60 year old woman sleeping and pissing herself at Barnes and Noble, then pepper spraying the barista when he led her outside, is also the kind of situation I suspect the Missoula County Attorney’s Office could address, legally, instead of the unofficial psych-ward known as “jail” where the woman, Erin Riggs, spent three days for “aggravated felony burglary” before being released.

While this alleyway conversation was happening between myself, the street person, and my companion (the man being criminally charged for losing a fight to four people with weapons and badges), a bunch of City Council members walked by, providing a GREAT opportunity for me to test their civic knowledge with my enhanced sign!

“JEREMIAH PETERSEN” said Kristen Jordan, to which I said…

“Correct!” then added, “But, in my latest post, the word I used was PUSSY!”

Next week I’ll be examining a new narrative push to glad-hand the Hip Strip condo abomination, including asking a question no one else will about the puff piece: why is a man who fondly remembers the ex-CIA turned newspaper man, John Talbot, ALSO admitting in print to secretly spying on “horny” people making out on paid work time?

Thanks for reading!

Did you know jokes can be weapons in a strategy to deflect attention from matters of serious importance? It’s true. That’s why I found this X post to be counterproductive to the effort of discerning what the fuck is going on in this world run by child-fuckers.

Actually, “Patel_Patriot”, Unicorns ARE symbolic of potentially sexually exploitive relationships, which is why I found the dirty stuffed unicorns at an abandoned homeless camp to be significant enough to report on in conjunction with that dead body found last November that STILL has not been publicly identified yet (link).

Before I get to the most recent news story about this area of town, let’s see what a smart lady like Jessica Banks thinks about Unicorns and how funny they can be when you imagine Jeffrey Epstein riding one bareback at fantasy island:

Jessica Banks? Yes, she’s a very smart gal with a company called Rock Paper Robot:

I don’t know if Jessica Banks knows this, but tweakers can also have kinetic furniture, and sometimes their camps, where this kinetic furniture proliferates, goes BANG, though this article doesn’t ever explain what that bang was. A gun? A bomb? A meth lab?

Shortly after 12:30 on February 7, 2026, multiple officers from the Missoula Police Department were dispatched to the Kim Williams Trail near the University of Montana campus. Dispatch received a report of gunshots being discharged near the river, followed by an individual yelling. 

Sergeants from MPD and UMPD were the first two officers to arrive on scene. They spoke with two individuals who both reported hearing gunshots coming from down the trail. One of the witnesses indicated that an involved party was a transient female. Another officer observed a female walking east through the brush between the trail and the river. 

She explained that she and “Curstin” were camped approximately 50-yards east. She said that she did not hear gunshots, but heard a loud “boom.” She said the disturbance occurred between herself and “Curstin” because he had pneumonia and was not taking his medication. During their interactions with the female, multiple officers reported seeing indications of impairment that would be consistent with the consumption of stimulants. 

Well, what happened? Was Curstin shootin’? That little detail must not have made the report:

An officer located a tent that was near the Kim Williams trail, directly across the river from 1515 E. Broadway Street. The officer observed some movement and saw an adult male emerge from a tent. The male, who was later identified as 43-year-old Curstin Teigen, disappeared into the brush.

Because Teigen was believed to be potentially armed with a firearm, officers did not directly approach him but began making announcements for him to come out. The announcements continued from approximately 12:56 p.m. to 1:49 p.m. when a drone was utilized to find Teigen hiding in the bushes. 

Teigen was lying down in a fetal position next to a tree. Teigen ultimately stood up on his own and began walking toward officers. At this point in time, officers still believed Teigen could be armed with a firearm due to the reported gunshots. For these reasons, an arrest team was put in place to immediately place Teigen into handcuffs. Teigen was informed he was being placed under arrest for obstructing a peace officer, but he was verbally and physically non-compliant with the officer’s demands. 

Following a search incident to arrest, an officer located a clear plastic baggie of methamphetamine on Teigen’s person. The officer also located a piece of tin foil containing black residue, a broken glass pipe, and a pipe wrapped in a blue surgical glove. 

Teigen is currently being charged with felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs, obstructing a peace officer, and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $25,000.

Another Unicorn of note in the Epstein Files is Brock Pierce, Mr. Unicorn Ventures. Sorry, Crypto-Bros, things aren’t looking good at all, are they.

Brock Pierce? Yes, Brock Pierce:

There’s so much more to report, but this is the free blog. My new research project crossed the 150 page mark, and I’m still shopping the project I completed last year, which puts Missoula into the context it deserves, so stay tuned for opportunities to obtain the long-form version of what I’m doing, where all the juicy excerpts from these things called BOOKS are contained.

And, as always, thanks for reading!

Yesterday Missoula’s Sheriff, Police Chief, and Fire Chief stood before the City Club audience and told them, the way a parent would tell a toddler, “Shhhhhh, everything is going to be ok. BIG BAD ICE won’t hurt you, children, not in Missoula.”

Before the ICE questions started, Sheriff Petersen described his department by saying “WE ARE ELITE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST”. Really, Jeremiah? Is that why one of your deputies told a family member of a brutal homicide that no charges will be brought because the key witness is deaf and the jury won’t like that?

While that might seem outlandish, this scenario is what Jule Banville reported on two years ago regarding the lack of criminal charges in the beating death of 88 year old, Delphine Farmer, which was the only murder case the Sheriff’s Office had that year (2022).

Delphine’s death happened after Debbie, who’s looked after her sister for years, briefly left the house. She did that every Sunday to play bingo at a church, says Bridges.

A hand-written note is among items taken from the house as evidence, according to a search warrant. Bridges, who says she’s talked repeatedly to investigators, says it was in Diane’s handwriting and found in her basement bedroom, and that it was about Monty; the lead investigator did not confirm or deny its contents. Bridges says her aunt Diane has also consistently acted out what happened to Delphine, blaming Monty. “She does not have the capacity to lie,” says Bridges.

In a call with Missoula County Detective Kelan Larson, Bridges says he told her he hasn’t brought charges because it’d be too difficult for a jury to understand and believe Diane. He has not responded to a request to confirm this.

To further erode the claim of being ELITE, Sheriff Petersen didn’t think it was worth his time to chat with KPAX about the City Club event. Why not, Jeremiah? Are you some kind of pussy scared of the BIG BAD MEDIA?

Although Sheriff Jeremiah Petersen declined an on-camera interview or to provide a statement, he told City Club Missoula that the sheriff’s office is seeing an increase in calls. He expects to release more information on his department later this week.

Both the Sheriff and Police Chief seemed quite eager to assure Missoula’s City Club audience that ICE isn’t on their radar, and that no city cops or Sheriff deputies are even authorized to participate in the enforcement of immigration laws, which apparently Democrats think should no longer apply. Because Trump.

Well, what about Mineral County, where our Missoula Sheriff sometimes sends over the dumbasses who can’t pass cop tests without cheating?

For those who don’t know how quickly outgoing Mineral County Sheriff, Mike Toth, threw Missoula’s Sheriff under the bus a few years ago when the writ of mandamus ploy blew up in their stupid faces, here’s the relevant part of my reporting at the time:

Sheriff Toth’s strategy on the stand was to overtly and, by insinuation, blame anyone else for what he’s ultimately responsible for. This strategy was on full display as Toth did damage control regarding the hiring of Deputy David Kunzelman.

For Missoula County voters, the first scapegoat should really be of interest, since Sheriff ELECT (Toth’s words), Jeremiah Petersen, was the one who allegedly referred Kunzelman to Toth as a “great guy” who should be hired as a Mineral County Sheriff Deputy, despite a little incident of stealing a law enforcement exam. As Captain of the Missoula County Detention Facility, Petersen’s referral carried a lot of weight with Toth.

Toth then threw shade at now Judge Marks, who at the time worked at the Missoula County Attorney’s Office, for “OK’ing” Kunzelman’s opportunity for rehire at the Sheriff’s Office in Missoula, implying this gave Toth some kind of additional cover for having to take accountability for his Sheriff Deputies in Mineral County.

Why am I mentioning Mineral County in relation to Missoula’s terror over ICE enforcements? Because there’s an unconfirmed claim that an elderly man was snatched by ICE a few days ago, then returned. This claim comes from Sam Redfern, who was allegedly raided by the FBI around the same time. Hmmm.

Now for the stupid questions from the dumb audience members this narrative-control event caters to.

The first question I recorded so you don’t have to wade through an hour of tedious bullshit is a question about bad GUYS rolling through town with an emphasis on “guys”, since the person asking the question believes women “seldom” commit those types of crimes. Also, she’s a member of Exchange Club, and they will be giving out figurative handjobs for law enforcement on Wednesday, so hopefully someone tells retired Detective, Guy Baker.

The second question I recorded is the first about ICE, and Chief Colyer gets the show started by cracking a joke. Smart. Then he and Jeremiah make their respective cases that they don’t DO nuthin and they don’t KNOW nuthin ’bout no ICE.

The third question I recorded is a follow up to the first ICE question, and it’s funny to see Jeremiah and Mike communicate with their eyes about how they should address the subtext of this man’s stupid question, which I will try to reproduce as accurately as possible.

“Should ICE come to Missoula,” he asks, “are you in a position where you would be supporting it, to the efforts posed by them, or how would you help protect us in a situation where, if things escalated, we as a citizenry would find ourselves perhaps at risk?”

In a room that is predominantly white and vastly privileged, this might be my favorite question, and I actually commend Chief Colyer for how he uses kid-gloves to handle these twats who want to be protected from the inevitable blowback that comes from using aggressive tactics against Federal agents.

If you don’t want things in MISSOULA to escalate, dude, then maybe remind your LOCAL elected officials that they were elected to help govern THIS town, not Minneapolis.

The fourth and final question I recorded features a woman that assumes if she says MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TOOLS enough times, Chief Colyer will know what the hell she’s talking about. No, lady, the term MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TOOLS is vague and unhelpful when saying the same thing your peers said before you, which is essentially this: how do you intend to keep telling us the essential fairytales we need to hear and believe in order to sleep at night?

If the privileged idiots who comprise the City Club audience want to think outside the Missoula bubble, here’s a map of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas they can look at and think about, since it represents geographical spots where their local tax dollars mingle with Federal money to catch those BAD GUYS trafficking drugs and humans.

At some point the narrative-controllers will pivot away from the strategic theatrics around “immigration” to focus on other facets of society’s decline, brought about by a layer of untouchable, transnational elite who definitely prefer that you focus on the salacious nature of who they fuck instead of pulling back the lens to see where the money goes.

Although, if we’re talking sharing torture videos, like that Sultan with an odd Missoula connection is alleged to have done, then it might be something more than just libido we’re talking about here.

Thanks for reading!