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Yesterday I attended a panel presentation on Data Centers where I was the only one who knew that the Bonner Mill Site no longer has the discharge permit for the long-shuttered Stimson lumber mill because Mike Heisey gave it up years ago. Why didn’t Anne Hedges know this? Or the “Climate Smart” lady? Or Barbara, the water expert?

The panelists yesterday did appear to be somewhat informed about the topic they’ve been traveling around Montana discussing with local communities. They even had slides, like this one!

And this one!

And this one!

I’m going to make a prediction based on the observations and lived experience that informs my cynicism: when these three liberal female panelists say this is NON-PARTISAN, and go so far as to praise Rick DiSantis and Montana’s Dr. Al as anti-Data Center allies, it’s clear to me they actually DO NOT KNOW what is going on.

It’s easy to shit-talk “Tech Bros” and bash corporate greed. The audience eats it up, like they did yesterday. It’s also easy to champion your side of the political divide, which I heard endlessly last night. Saint Monica Tranel, for example, apparently spoke for the public in front of the Public Service Commission’s rubber stamp for that billion dollar energy deal, and I’m supposed to, what, be excited about that?

What’s next, expecting me to believe the Sierra Club has my interests in mind when they perform the kind of liberal virtue signaling that our local media will actually report on?

Montana utility regulators heard arguments over whether NorthWestern Energy should be allowed to merge with South Dakota-based Black Hills Electric.

The proposed deal would expand the utility across eight states. That possibility drew concern from people including Caitlin Piserchia of the Montana Sierra Club.

She said the commission should keep strong oversight of major utilities in Montana.

“We believe that Montana Public, the Montana Public Service Commission, should continue to have real power in assessing and holding Montana’s largest monopoly utilities accountable for reliable, affordable power that’s in the in the public interest of Montanans,” said Caitlin Piserchia.

The “real power” that should be getting scrutiny, but never will, is the power to control narratives. Why was I, for example, the ONLY person in a lecture hall full of smart people last night who had the answer about a discharge permit that no longer exists? I’m just an unpaid blogger with restraining orders and an active investigation into claims that I serially vandalize vehicles all over town. Pretty impressive that I still find the time to educate myself about what reality looks like outside the spaces where the smart dumb people meet to freak out.

One of the people I gave a heavy dose of reality to last night was the Climate Smart woman fresh off panhandling Missoulians for $20K during Missoula Gives.

I challenged her non-partisan platitudes with the uncomfortable reality that the class of “Tech Bros” the crowd was getting riled up about includes members of the Epstein network and their friendly bankers, like Steve Elkman and Klaus von Stutterheim.

Had she heard of old Klaus? Yep, she’s a liberal Missoula woman, so she was definitely familiar with his name and role (before he died) with Missoula Democrats, but when I suggested his proximity to the Epstein network, I saw her wheels of cognition come to screeching halt.

Just for fun I put “Sierra Club” into the Epstein DOJ search bar to see what came up and what I found was a newsletter from Greg Brown, who I believe is this guy:

Gregory Q. Brown (born 1960) is an American businessman. He has been chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions since 2008.

Brown joined Motorola in January 2003 as head of the communications, government, and industrial solutions sector. In this role, he led the acquisition of Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion. In 2007 he was promoted to chief operating officer and, in 2008, was named CEO. In 2011 he was named Chairman of the Board.

In March 2008, with the company losing money, Brown announced that Motorola would split in two. Motorola became Motorola Mobility (the cellphone side of the company), and Motorola Solutions. Brown continued to run the new Motorola Solutions, which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011. The company’s three business areas are land-mobile-radio communications (LMR), video security and the command center.

Further down in Brown’s Wikipedia info, a discerning reader can see what “bipartisanship” really looks like:

When I perused Brown’s newsletter, this excerpt stood out to me:

If you don’t think there’s a connection between our “health care” system and data centers, you probably weren’t present and listening closely, like I was, at the first Krambu Data Center meeting in Bonner where Steve Wood speculated that potential clients of their data center could very likely be working with medical data.

Unfortunately, because of how effectively narratives can be controlled, I have my own “friends” on Facebook publicly shaming me for wrong-think on my choice to NOT jab Big Pharma products into my body and the bodies of my own children amidst the most insane global pressure campaign ever seen.

No, Kevin, next I’m going to put up a slide from another Missoula luminary who quietly sits on the Mountain Line board and pretends to not be involved in local politics anymore. Weird, then, that Jason Wiener got his own slide last night:

After bumming out Mrs. Climate Smart, I chatted with Jason. Does he read my shit, I asked him? No, he chuckled in reply. Well, I said, ___________, who you helped elect, really doesn’t like what I’ve exposed, and ____ now has ten years of protection from my words, I explained to this New Hampshire transplant who came to Missoula in 2003 to study philosophy, and who is another one of those story tellers who strategically takes the stage when the venue is right.

Jason Wiener is doing things more often than he is buying things and he is always looking for an excuse to go somewhere new. He recently returned from a walkabout and is still unpacking from that trip. He grew up in Concord, New Hampshire. He arrived in Missoula in 2003 to earn his Master’s in philosophy from the University of Montana. He’s worked at The Missoula Independent, served on the City Council and formed a computer consulting company called The Techxorcist. He’s a Ranger in Black Rock City every year at Burning Man.

Oh, look at that, another Ranger who likes to take rides to Black Rock City! Cool, man. Hopefully Jason has done his part to help save the world by carpooling with Ranger Abe.

Thanks for reading!

The cleanup at Buckhouse bridge began on May 7th and is still ongoing. The nastiest camp closest to highway 93 is only partially cleaned up, with the largest trash pile now getting submerged by rising river water. Some of the land where trash has accumulated belongs to IMEG, a company that wants to develop a small portion of this parcel for heated dry storage.

Another piece of this problematic patchwork of land is owned by the University of Montana. That’s why I reached out to University police last week after finding a couple stacks of fake cash in a blue backpack at the camp site.

There are often two competing narratives about urban camps that figuratively fight each other for attention. One narrative, generally promoted by the non-profits who get grants and solicit donations to perpetuate this crisis, frames every homeless person as a blameless victim of circumstance. This narrative gets amplified by liberal politicians for easy empathy votes.

The other narrative allows the reality of addiction, depravity, and insanity to shine through, so it’s easier for the information consumer to believe that they’re getting the unvarnished truth about what’s REALLY going on, but are they?

If information consumers are getting their subversive homeless camp content from the Kev and Choe Show, then I would say NO, instead of truth they’re getting Discovery Institute rage-bait from a couple of aura-farmers willing to take selfies with a drug addict for clicks.

For more context on why I call this Dumb and Dumber duo nothing but a couple of grifters, check these articles out:

“Astroturf Organizing Or Organic-Fed Grass, You Decide!” (March 10th, 2025)

“Life Under Two-Tier Information Occupation As The Homeless Content War Heats Up” (July 31st, 2025)

“On Stopping Operation Humans Suck” (August 18th, 2025)

“Real Independent Journalists Are Unicorns” (December 29th, 2025)

If you read the articles I’ve written about the Kev and Choe Show you will better understand how narrative control functions, including why it’s important to stop people like me from doing awful things, like dropping links to my work in the comments of Kev’s X account.

Intent is very important to discern when it comes to consuming information about sensitive, controversial topics with wide-ranging national policy consequences. That’s what people should ask themselves questions, like…WHO is paying someone to do the work of exposing the consequences of homeless policies, and the different ways in which communities react? Are they local? How long have they been doing this work? What were they doing before? And why chill with a crazy-ass nigga in a trap house for a selfie?

As a broke-ass blogger posting content specific to Missoula for the last 16 years, and with a previous work history of 10 years in the non-profit sector (including 7 at the local homeless shelter) I can say (and you can verify) that my intent is to find actual, collaborative solutions to the status quo of allowing a meth-fueled bicycle chop-shop to thrive next to one of our exemplary rivers.

When I say this camp was a chop-shop I bring receipts. When I say “Missoula Works” got the bid to do the cleanup I bring receipts. Why? Because I make calls, I go on-site, and I talk to ANYONE willing to talk to me, with a few caveats of the individuals who have been able to manipulate the restraining order protections, a form of insidious lawfare that the Kev and Choe Show are now making a public showing of having to go through.

If you would like to support this grifter, there’s a whole website now dedicated to helping Choe navigate his trials and tribulations. Great work, Johnny!

While the Kev and Choe Show fundraise on their lawfare LARP, I’m hoping my Buckhouse bridge final report can include how much money Missoula Works charged to provide homeless camp cleanup services, whether or not the University of Montana contributed to the cost of the cleanup, and what the plan is moving forward to ACTUALLY do the kind of work non-profits, like the Clark Fork Coalition, strategically stay away from.

Now excuse me while I get ready for traffic court from the Marijuana DUI and subsequent suspended license charge I caught after the city dropped the DUI charge by not showing up to court and getting the initial charges dismissed. Sadly, thanks to a local judge, my method of warning locals about the dangers of DUIs has been declared 50% illegal for me to show in public.

Thanks for reading!

I found a book yesterday at the Book Exchange in Missoula and it’s blowing my mind. Published in 2021 by Ken Robinson, Montana Cold War contains some very interesting historical context relevant to my research into Missoula being a CIA town where narratives are highly controlled. Here are some highlights that leapt from the book like a Minutemen missile, starting with the “Lend-Lease” program that provided the Soviet Union with a pipeline for war machinery AND secrets related to nuclear weapons.

That last part about the reputation of Russian officers not paying bar tabs is interesting to me in light of what I wrote about C.E. “Abe” Abramson in this post. Why? Because, in the biographical information at the Tell Us Something page, Abe makes a big joke about not paying HIS bar tab for years. Did Abe pick up this trait from the Russians, or do ALL fly boys resist paying their bar tabs?

Using drugged-out counter-cultures like Burning Man and the Rainbow Family to subvert American culture can be seen as one part of a long-term plan to demoralize Americans. This concept of long-term cultural subversion was clearly articulated in a 1984 interview with a former KGB agent by the name of Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov. Here’s an excerpt from an article about that interview:

Across the world, the KGB did whatever it could to thwart pro-Western and anti-Soviet political movements and figures. The group would assassinate political leaders with cyanide and other weapons. It would fund and arm leftist groups, especially those in developing nations. And the KGB successfully established moles in U.S. intelligence agencies, though the exact number still isn’t — and may never be — known for sure.

Also unclear were the group’s long-term plans involving the U.S. One glimpse, however, comes from a former KGB agent named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, who defected to Canada in 1970. He claimed to know details of a Soviet plan to undermine the U.S., not on the battlefield but in the psyche of the American public.

In 1984, Bezmenov gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin from which much can be learned today. His most chilling point was that there’s a long-term plan put in play by Russia to defeat America through psychological warfare and “demoralization.” It’s a long game that takes decades to achieve but it may already be bearing fruit.

I mention the Rainbow Gathering because one of the elders, Barry “Plunker” Adams, has lived in Missoula for many years after he helped co-found this “Rainbow” branch of the inaccurately mythologized “Woodstock” origins of the hippie movement.

The Rainbow Family was created out of the Vortex I gathering at Milo McIver State Park in Estacada, Oregon (30 miles south of Portland, Oregon), from August 28 to September 3, 1970. Inspired in large part by the first Woodstock Festival, two attendees at Vortex, Barry “Plunker” Adams and Garrick Beck, are both considered among the founders of the Rainbow Family.[citation needed] Adams emerged from the Haight-Ashbury scene in San Francisco and is the author of Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? Beck is the son of Julian Beck, founder of The Living Theatre, known for their production Paradise Now!

The first official Rainbow Family Gathering was held at the Strawberry Lake, Colorado, on the Continental Divide, in 1972. A week before the festival was to begin, local authorities banned the event and state police blocked the road to the lake. A film of the 1972 Gathering states that Paul Geisendorfer, a local landowner, offered his land as a temporary site as over 10,000 attendees gathered behind police barriers. While there were hundreds of arrests, the huge number of attendees caused authorities to stand down and let them pass through the barriers.

When I moved to Missoula in 2000 I was in my early 20’s and a total dupe for American counter-culture. I read Beatnik poets, had dropped acid, and generally agreed with assessments that mainstream culture deployed authoritarian crackdowns because they feared the peaceful, loving utopias that organically sprung up to show that another way was possible. For a good example of this line of thinking, this interview is indicative of the vibe I’m talking about:

Montana was the location of the Rainbow Gathering in 2000 and again in 2013, where the same location in Montana’s Beaverhead National Forrest was used. By 2013, though, my outlook had changed from 5 long years working at the western Montana’s largest homeless shelter, the Poverello Center. What I saw on the streets of Missoula that summer (and heard from attendees of the gathering) turned out to be a trend of hard drug abuse and violence that made subsequent gatherings much more problematic, which even the Wikipedia page acknowledges:

There were three non-fatal stabbings at a gathering in Colorado in 2014. The same year, a woman was found dead at a Rainbow Gathering in Utah. In early 2015, there was a fatal shooting at a gathering in Florida.

In 2015, a group of Native American academics and writers issued a statement against the Rainbow Family members who are “appropriating and practicing faux Native ceremonies and beliefs. These actions, although Rainbows may not realize, dehumanize us as an indigenous Nation because they imply our culture and humanity, like our land, is anyone’s for the taking.” The signatories specifically named this misappropriation as “cultural exploitation.”

Burning Man has followed a similar trajectory, culminating in a Russian national getting his throat slit last summer. Are these isolated incidents of violence or examples of America losing the Psychological War we were warned about over 40 years ago?

If the connection between WWII ratlines to deliver military equipment to Russia, and the modern day scourge of drug trafficking seemingly destroying America from within, isn’t obvious yet, let me return to Cold War Montana for a fascinating story of America, the CIA, and Canada collaborating last century as the Cold War was heating up:

A Missoula-born Air Force Captain dropping propaganda in North Korea for the CIA? How curious. And of course I couldn’t help noticing the name of the Air Force Base they returned to in California.

Later this week, in part II, I’ll share some new insights into Missoula’s role in the Manhattan Project, along with a surprising mention of two names I really didn’t expect to run across in this 2021 publication written by Ken Robison, so stay tuned!

And, as always, thanks for reading.

On Saturday Will Ferrell made an appearance on SNL as Jeffrey Epstein. If you suspect Epstein is NOT dead, like many do, then it’s entirely possible he could be hiding out somewhere in Big Sky Country, since Montana is such a desirable place for the Epstein class to visit, invest in, and control, which today’s post will be exploring through publicly available information, including emails from the man himself!

For context, this email was sent to Woody Allen’s daughter/wife, Soon Yi Previn, and it references an SNL ad featuring Will Ferrell using the “Me-Too” movement to generate a few laughs. Curious.

Even when the show drove toward serious, topical issues, the route was a giddy one. Ferrell has no small gift for playing the imbecile, and he plays it right up until you know you’ve been had.

One of the best examples of the night was “Next: For Men”, a deodorant commercial parody that kicked off with a sight gag – Ferrell grossly sweating through his shirt – only to get to its very sharp point: Some men are gonna need extra protection in this MeToo era.

“Yeah, I’m a guy,” said Ferrell’s pit-stained corporate type. “I work hard, I play hard, and something’s coming out about me real soon, because I’m Next.”

Ten years before this parody ad, one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, Jennifer Siebel, was getting married to Gavin Newsom south of Missoula, in Stevensville. According to Wikipedia, Jennifer helped launch ME TOO after being involved in a film with CIA Gloria Steinem:

In 2002, Siebel Newsom moved to Hollywood, where she concentrated on building her acting career. Siebel Newsom earned many roles in television, film, and theater. She has appeared on such television shows as Life, Mad Men, Strong Medicine, and Numb3rs.

Miss Representation premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to mostly positive reviews. The film went on to screen at numerous other festivals, including the San Francisco International Film Festival, Athena Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Palo Alto International Film Festival. The film interweaves stories from teenage girls with interviews with, among others, Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rosario Dawson, and Gloria Steinem discussing the media and its message regarding women. On February 10, 2011, Oprah Winfrey announced that she had acquired the film for the OWN Documentary Film Club.

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Siebel Newsom was one of several accusers against Harvey Weinstein in his 2022 Los Angeles criminal rape and sexual assault trial. In November 2022, Siebel Newsom testified in court that, in 2005, Weinstein had raped her in a hotel room, having lured her there under the pretenses of holding a professional discussion about film projects. Weinstein’s attorney claimed what took place was “consensual, transactional sex”. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on Siebel Newsom’s accusation.

For those still unfamiliar with the Siebel name, this post of mine from March puts former Oracle Executive, Tom Siebel, into the dubious context of the alleged “fight” to end human trafficking in Montana. For some Epstein context on the Siebel name, here’s something from the DOJ’s Epstein database:

The recipient of this email, Chip Packard, got lots of unwanted attention for being one of the Epstein guys at Deutsche Bank. For more on the Montana/Deutsche Bank connection, this post about Klaus von Stutterheim, and his involvement in supporting DEMOCRATS in Montana, is very important to consider as I continue.

For more on Epstein’s bankers, including the guy who emailed Epstein from a tent north of Missoula, this link is worth checking out. Why do Epstein bankers love Montana so much?

To answer the question about bankers and Montana I found a very interesting article published in New York Magazine just two months after the attack on 9/11. Titled “The Power of Partnership“, and penned by Robert Kolker, I’ve never read a more disgusting example of psychopaths being praised for literally worshiping mammon:

Further down we get Montana’s Senator, Max Baucus, positioning himself as being, on the record, strategically “skeptical” about giving this “Partnership” what it claimed it supposedly needed:

To deepen the connection between Montana’s Rattlesnake Wilderness champion, Max Baucus, and Mort Zuckerman, who is referenced in the New York Magazine piece (and who appears all over the Epstein files), this Independent article from earlier this year is worth noting, especially this part about a fundraiser for Montana’s influential Senator:

In November 2012, Mortimer Zuckerman, the billionaire then-owner of The New York Daily News and US News & World Report, sent an email to Epstein, asking him to attend a fundraiser at his home for then-Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who left office in 2014.

“I’d like to add that Senator Schumer is likely to attend the gathering and I think this will be an excellent chance to interact with two key Senate Democrats,” he wrote, referring to New York’s senior senator.

Zuckerman’s name surfaces repeatedly in the DOJ’s files. In 2009, he exchanged emails with Epstein discussing how to influence media coverage of the sex offender’s 2008 guilty plea. At one point, according to the files, Zuckerman wrote to Epstein, “We r doing major editing over huge objections.”

Another fun fact about old Mort that I caught from his Wikipedia page is the fact one of the women this Big Media man dated was…GLORIA STEINHEM!

I’ll further note, again from Wikipedia, that Mort Zuckerman has a long relationship with the higher education institution that fucked up Uncle Ted before educating Missoula’s current Mayor, Andrea Davis, about how to run a CIA stronghold established decades ago with the help of a leftist labor agitator who was doing strange bedfellows over half a century ago by being pals with the Grandaddy of the Neocons, Irving Kristol.

I’m of course referring to Harvard, the increasingly infamous institution Mort Zuckerman attended, then taught at:

In 1962, he received an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School.

After graduating, Zuckerman remained at Harvard Business School as an associate professor for nine years. He also taught at Yale University.

For further reading, here’s an updated list of the relevant articles I’ve written since using the DOJ Epstein search bar to find the data points that put Montana on the map as a serious tentacle for the network’s global trafficking operations:

“Six Degrees Of Jeffrey Epstein, Missoula Edition, Featuring Submarines, Stickers, And A Crazy Occultist Who Dreamed Of Making A Moon Shot!” (June 30th, 2023)

“Was There A Paws Up PayPal Mafia Summit North Of Missoula?” – (June 9th, 2025)

“Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, Sultan Sulayem, And Missoula’s Probation And Parole” – (February 3rd, 2026)

“What If It’s NOT A Blackmail Network?” (February 9th, 2026)

“Klaus von Stutterheim Day: How A Berlin-Born New York Transplant Connects Big Sky Democrats To Jeffrey Epstein” – (February 16th, 2026)

“Globalist Missoula And Philanthropic Epstein” (February 24th, 2026)

“Montana War Whores And Epstein’s Lego Man” (March 2nd, 2026)

“Is This Why Gavin de Becker Knows So Much About Jeffrey Epstein?” (March 3rd, 2026)

“Does Seth Bodnar Need To Explain His Jim Messina/Jeffrey Epstein Connection?” (March 11th, 2026)

“Jeffrey Epstein, Rahman Hosain’s Bankrupt Jawbone, And The Yellowstone Club” (March 16th, 2026)

“The Post-Epstein Era Of Combatting Human Trafficking In Montana” (March 17th, 2026)

“Epstein, King of the Jews (a collection)” (March 19th, 2026)

“Why Did Epstein’s Accountant Email His Client About Jim Acosta?” (March 26th, 2026)

“A Message To Voters: No One Is Coming To Save You” (April 10th, 2026)

“AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN, Part I: The Southern Poverty Law Center And Non-Profit Inversion” (April 27th, 2026)

“AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN, Part II: The High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area And Law Enforcement Inversion” (April 28th, 2026)

“AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN, Part III: Local News Reporters And Media Inversion” (April 29th, 2026)

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

“AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN, Part V: Killing Literature For The United States Of Inversion” (May 1st, 2026)

I don’t know if anyone else has ever had poetry and Biblical scripture cited as evidence against them in a court of law, but after a surreal week last week, I’m better able to see how truly concerned local power seems to be that certain dots DO NOT get connected, like how entangled the snakes are with our retarded concept of “medicine”.

For an antidote to living in an inverted realm dominated by the psychopath class, I opened my 1923 Bible for some inspiration.

And this is what I found:

Praise Jesus! (and thanks for reading)

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.

Thanks for reading!