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There were moments in 2023 when I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I found myself in a toxic relationship after leaving my wife of 20 years and the price of leaving THAT relationship is a price I’m still paying.

Yesterday, the woman who turned our toxic relationship into 3 years of lawfare that ended my podcast, ended my ability to attend City Council in person, and stopped me from writing about United Way of Missoula County for 6 months spoke about love and connecting with homeless people at the Urban Camping committee update. Let me delve into why I find this so troubling.

Before the person I call my petitioner was able to get a substitute judge who knew her from law school to impose a civil restraining order on me (after he explained why her copyright claims weren’t inappropriate for a protection order hearing), she had been harassing me via texts in an attempt to get me and my mother to meet with her. My mother knew my petitioner from church and was more familiar with her relationship tendencies than I had been when I met her through Rembrandt Miller, my collaborator on Engen’s Missoula.

Here are some texts I’ve curated from this hell period in my life. I’ll note the “Susan” my petitioner is referring to is Susan Hay Patrick, the outgoing director of United Way, who I believe helped inspire my petitioner to take legal action against me, and “Quentin” is the notorious Quentin Rhoades, my lawyer until my petitioner started working for him and conflicted him out of helping me defend myself.

At the time of these texts I was living in my art studio in a building owned by someone who attended my family’s church. That’s where I recorded this footage on July 1st, 2023, when my petitioner refused to acknowledge NO MEANS NO and showed up outside my studio despite me clearly telling her to leave me alone.

I wrote about this time period in my life recently when I saw similar protection order shenanigans playing out in the case of Brandon Wayne Bryant. In that post I highlighted the email I got making the demands that I my own family suggested I should ignore. Yeah, that worked out great.

If my petitioner and I weren’t still politically active in the town we both live in, where she’s writing op-eds for political candidates, making comments about loving homeless people, and making podcasts about the amazing killing of an abusive father because the daughter called the cops on him, then this post wouldn’t be necessary.

The narrative-control around homelessness that puts me in a whistleblower role stems from what happened to Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry at the hands of local law enforcement, and that’s because when I attend Coroner’s Inquests it’s not to celebrate law enforcement’s power to kill an abusive man, but to question that power. Maybe if I had done so as a Daniel Carlino-style politician I wouldn’t have inspired such a vicious effort to destroy me.

Daniel speaks up for the vulnerable, champions the underdog, and does what’s right because it’s right. For years I’ve watched him on City Council take courageous stands, even when unpopular, demonstrating a fearless integrity rarely seen.

Through my work alongside our unhoused neighbors, I’ve seen the impact of having a voice on City Council who cares not only for the most well-off among us, but also for those in crisis. That’s the mark of true leadership. From the first time Daniel’s campaign literature graced my doorstep, I knew he was my representative.

Daniel asks the hard questions, empowers minority voices, and does the hard work. He is “the man in the arena,” as Theodore Roosevelt says, “(spending) himself in a worthy cause.” Hope thrives in adversity, and Daniel is Missoula’s man of hope for this hour. If you want a candidate who loves deeply and dares greatly, vote Daniel Carlino for Ward 3.

This op-ed was published in the Missoula Current, the unofficial mouthpiece for Missoula Democrats, since Martin Kidston used to be the literal spokesperson for Montana Democrats years ago, which I pointed out (around the same time I was being harassed by my vindictive petitioner) with this July 2023 article, titled “The Missoula Current’s “Reporting” On Monday Night’s Urban Camping Debate“.

For more context on what happens when you ask ACTUAL hard questions about the power to end life by local authorities, this May 2023 article, titled “Is This What Missoula Current Advertisers Want To Be Paying For“, shows how Martin Kidston helped our local narrative-controllers inaccurately depict me in 2023 as something I’m not.

After my divorce and desperate traveling around America on the divorce money to avoid the stated intent of my petitioner to make good on her threats, I racked up several criminal charges for trying to continue the local activism I had been doing long before becoming involved with this person. The first charge was later dropped by the city, but it served the purpose of enabling “stacking” in order to achieve the scare-tactic of felony charges.

The second charge, which I was found guilty of, was pursued by the city despite zero direct interaction with my petitioner. The incident involved my presence in the parking lot of the hotel where Missoula’s leaders were having their “state of the community” wank-off narrative-control event. My recent clean up of meth-wankers using a homeless sex swing on the side of the river meant that I had lots of recent evidence of what happens when you ignore drug addiction’s impact on “urban camping”. My arrest occurred because I didn’t leave fast enough after someone from United Way told me that my petitioner would be in attendance.

*If you click the link above you may notice all my Vimeo videos are gone. That’s because this lawfare has been very effective at making and keeping me broke, so I couldn’t keep paying for the Vimeo data storage. I still have LOTS of “urban camping” footage, though, that one day will be see the light of day again.

The third violation became a collaborative effort between the city and county, since number three could have been a felony charge, but had to be downgraded once the city stopped pretending they were going to prosecute the first one. Regardless, the bathroom judge I had previously written about regarding the Mineral County shit-show wanted to keep the case so that he could impose the restriction on my citizen journalism, which happened seamlessly because the bathroom judge is a good little kangaroo.

Did I forget to mention my petitioner’s adopted brother, Dylan Laslovich, used to be Jon Tester’s chief of staff? Yeah, sure wish I knew about Judge Vannatta’s political donations, maybe my Public Defender could have done something to get the judicial venue changed.

This is the context that makes it a risk for me to walk out the door every day in this town. My petitioner demanded a 100 year extension (I’m not kidding) of the “temporary” order of protection once the first year was up and, after being told no by Judge Streano, my petitioner used her law school knowledge to appeal, claiming bias and successfully using a higher level of kangaroos to legally browbeat Judge Streano into extending the protection order for two years instead.

If I’m not hyper-aware of my surroundings and don’t immediately leave an area where my petitioner is, like I had to do during an April First Friday event at an art gallery where I sell bulk Legos, then I could be charged with a felony and end up in prison. That’s my reality.

I’ve spent time in jail because of this and lived for 4 months in my box truck, meaning homeless. Could I have accessed homeless services? Even if I had wanted to, which I didn’t, no, because my petitioner is one of those “loving” Christians working within the Homeless Industrial Complex I’ve risked my own life exposing.

To conclude this post that may or may not be protected by the First Amendment, I’m going to publish the police report I spent a whopping $7 dollars to get a copy of. When I was at my lowest, and expressing legitimate anger and frustration at what was happening to me, this is how a Pastor (who sits on a board with my petitioner’s family pal, Mike Nugent) chose to respond.

While this post is going to suck for a lot of people, it had to be published because I’m not unique in how political power uses every human weakness possible when real power is challenged. Lawfare is one of the most awful forms of political retaliation, especially for men geared toward taking action to address issues, which I did effectively for ten years in the non-profit sector I now am called to expose.

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Since I was in Bonner on Monday, attending the meeting where the Data Center was being discussed by locals, I didn’t check out the latest posturing from our CITY officials about the COUNTY location for Krambu’s project until yesterday. Luckily I have the former Democrat Spokesperson, Martin Kidston, doing his reporter LARP for the “Missoula Current”. Here’s an excerpt:

City and county leaders on Monday expressed concerns over the potential impacts of data centers as new proposals proliferate across Montana, including one center eyeing operations in Bonner.

Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis said that as artificial intelligence advances, so too must city operations and ethics. And as new data centers launch to feed the power-hungry technology, their impacts on economics, water and energy must be taken into consideration.

Despite LOTS of Harvard, my contention is Mayor Davis is one of the retarded stakeholders who must be looked at closely as she signals her virtue by claiming the advance of AI means Missoula must similarly advance “city operations and ethics”. Reading further, I came to this part about the Public Service Commission, which I highlighted in yesterday’s post detailing Step 1 for stopping Data Centers:

The 1 megawatt of power sought by Krambu in Phase 1 is enough to power nearly 800 homes for a year in the Pacific Northwest, according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

Given the power requirements, Northwestern Energy has already filed an application with the Montana Public Service Commission seeking approval of its terms to serve the boom of data centers proposed across state.

So, what might “advancing ethics” look like in liberal Missoula as our elected officials seek to influence the actions of the Public Service Commission? I’m glad you asked because there’s a reason I had Gemini put Mayor Davis in a graphic novel scene with a stylized Mayan temple and a depiction of Moloch behind her, and the reason is the TERRIBLE THREAT of one particular PSC candidate, Jeremy Trebas, who once did something so culturally offensive, the Montana Jewish Project had to be brought in to force Trebas to bend the knee.

Here’s how the “Daily Montanan” depicted the 2023 social media transgression that Trebas apparently committed:

This week, Sen. Jeremy Trebas retweeted a post on social media — since deleted — that implies Jews sacrifice babies.

In a letter to the Great Falls Republican, the Montana Jewish Project said harmful tropes like the one he reposted were used as a justification for the mass murder of Jews, which “horrifically reached its apotheosis in the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were killed.”

“We expect better of you, Senator Trebas,” said Montana Jewish Project Director Rebecca Stanfel in the letter. “We ask that you immediately remove this offensive message on your X account and apologize for spreading vitriolic antisemitism.”

Trebas took down the post.

Before we get to the actual content Trebas re-tweeted, I’ll note my phone call to the Montana Jewish Project yesterday went unanswered, so I don’t have any updates on Trebas’ current thought crimes about the Jewish faith and the kind of women who associate abortions with Judaism in order to culture-bait people online. That said, here’s what the hullabaloo was all about in 2023:

The post from Trebas evolved on social media.

First, Sarah Marian Seltzer, an editor of Lilith, a Jewish and “frankly feminist” magazine, said this in an X post:

“Just a friendly reminder that banning abortion violates Jewish women’s ability to practice our religion.”

Rabbi Franklin shared how abortion fits into the context of the Jewish religion.

“Judaism is a religion that really values life and procreation, but also values the life of the woman over the developing fetus,” Franklin said.

She said it is permissible to end a pregnancy if the woman is in distress, which includes physical health and can extend to mental health.

“It’s actually a carefully worked out religious view which both recognizes the value of life and particularly the value of the woman who is bearing potential life, which is not yet realized,” Franklin said.

On social media, however, a different account that pushes Christian nationalism added an image of child sacrifice to Seltzer’s post with this: “If child sacrifice is a core tenant (sic) of your religion, you don’t worship Yahweh, You (sic) worship Moloch.”

The Montana Jewish Project said Molok refers in modern times to a god who demands child sacrifice.

Trebas reposted it.

If Jeremy Trebas is elected to the Public Service Commission, where some of the most important decisions about powering Data Centers in Montana will be made, I think it’s important to understand that EVERYTHING about this outrage in 2023 was total bullshit.

The Daily Montanan, for example, is an arm of “State Newsroom” reporting, which gets funding from Swiss billionaire, Hans Wyss. The reporter, Keila Szpaller, used to work at the Missoulian and, I was told, was the person who outed me to the Mayor back when I wrote under a pseudonym to avoid the kind of retaliation I’ve been dealing with now for years.

Then there’s the Montana Human Rights Network, which rebranded as Catalyst Montana, and the opportunity for outgoing race-baiter, Tobin Miller Shearer, to take a shot at Jeremy Trebas while the 2023 legislative session avoided taking action to restrain Tax Increment Financing.

Here’s another lengthy excerpt from the “news” article so readers in 2026 can see how MHRN and Shearer got to operate three years ago, before their beloved tiny-hat “victims” started mass-exterminating non-Jews wherever non-Jews try to interfere with “God’s” plan:

In a condemnation of Trebas’ repost, the Montana Human Rights Network pointed out the same conspiracy about child sacrifice came up during the legislative session this year at a hearing on a bill — sponsored by Rep. Stafman — to support the religious right to access abortion.

The bill, House Bill 471, died, but Franklin, Montana Human Rights Network board president, also commented in an interview on the public hearing.

“It just seems that among certain segments of our Montana community, there are people who are very, very hostile to religious freedom and very hostile to the idea that Judaism, for example or even other groups within Christianity, might find abortion to be acceptable under certain circumstances. And there is a demonization of those who would hold a view different from theirs — a very serious demonization — and that is disturbing.”

In an email, University of Montana Professor Tobin Miller Shearer said holding members of an institution accountable for reprehensible behavior matters.

“We have lots of historical examples … of lax enforcement leading to subsequent greater transgressions,” Miller Shearer said.

He pointed to the sexual assault crisis at the University of Montana roughly a decade ago.

Do “ethics” need advancing in Missoula? Yes. Is Mayor Davis and all the wonderful people who have spent the last 6 years ignoring the implications of allowing the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office to euthanize and execute black men, the kind of people to do the “advancing”?

FUCK NO.

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As the issue of “DATA CENTERS” becomes increasingly national my worry is that the nature of the conversation will become increasingly retarded as poorly informed community members enter the sausage-making process for local development to realize there’s not much they can do to stop what’s coming.

No one from Krambu was at the meeting last night in Bonner because why would they be? The community meeting they did appear at last month, hosted by the Friends of Two Rivers, was similarly non-obligatory, but Steve Wood understood the strategic benefit of putting a few crumbs of information out to the public. Hopefully “the public” understands it’s going to be up to them to educate themselves going forward.

Before I get to who was at last night’s meeting, let’s look at Newport, Washington, where Krambu is further along in the process of building their template for an environmentally friendly data center:

“In 2017 we developed some technology on the power and cooling side that was energy efficient and environmentally friendly,” Jank said. He said the technology allowed them to remove refrigerants and made the computers more energy efficient. “We got rid of waste.”

They were able to repurpose the heat from the computers. Steve Wood, former Ponderay Newsprint and Merkle Standard executive and now Krambu CEO, said the technology is the newest on the planet.

“We have been issued several patents,” Wood said, with additional patents filed.

“We partnered with Supermicro,” Wood said. Supermicro, Super Micro Computer, Inc., is a multibillion dollar global company that builds servers, storage systems and switches. Supermicro will be one of Krambu’s channel partners, he said, meaning they will help sell Krambu products.

The computers being built and located at the Newport site will be solving problems with Artificial Intelligence for clients, he said, using a computer network made up of 72 servers.

“These will be the highest performing computers in the world,” Wood said, using what is known as a 72-node cluster.

Missoula County officials at last night’s meeting confidently and proudly reminded those of us in the school cafeteria how they crafted a globally innovative provision to require data centers to use NEW, RENEWABLE energy for their computing infrastructure. My question was if the County officials had seen any indication that provision would be legally targeted with high-paid lawyers. While I got a non-answer answer local bureaucrats excel at providing, the question was more or less rhetorical, and that’s because companies like SUPERMICRO will have vastly more resources at their disposal than “the public” will.

For context, this comes from Supermicro’s Wikipedia page:

In September 2014, Supermicro moved its corporate headquarters to the former Mercury News headquarters in North San Jose, California, along Interstate 880, naming the campus Supermicro Green Computing Park. In 2017, the company completed a new 182,000 square-foot manufacturing building on the campus, which was designed to meet LEED gold certification. The company expanded its San Jose campus in September 2021 with a manufacturing facility for advanced storage and server equipment. Supermicro was reported to have 2,400 people working in San Jose.

In February 2025, Supermicro began building its third California-based manufacturing campus. The new campus is being developed with the intention to increase production of liquid-cooled services for data centers. The company produces a majority of its servers in California. Following a push for more state-side manufacturing by American President Donald Trump, Supermicro considered expanding server production in states like Mississippi and Texas. A few months later, in July 2025, Supermicro expressed its interest in expanding investment regarding manufacturing in Europe to meet artificial intelligence demand in the area.

In October 2025, Supermicro created a subsidiary focusing on American federal agencies, which would provide cloud-services and data center materials manufactured from its facilities in Silicon Valley, California.

One of my comments last night focused on the deplorable media landscape that exists, hence my retardation concerns. I mean, the irony of Supermicro moving into the former headquarters of the Mercury News is not lost on me.

When perennial Democrat candidate, Monica Tranel, made her comments about the Data Center, my re-dar (retard radar) alerted me to the hilarity of this “public defender”, who was recently busted for using AI to get a burglary charge dismissed, educating the room about a special Tariff we should all know about.

For a quick reminder about Tranel’s AI transgression, here’s the incident that inspired me to give her a specific shout-out:

A top attorney for the Office of Public Defender may have violated local artificial intelligence rules after the county attorney’s office discovered a case filing generated with AI.

Managing public defender Monica Tranel filed the motion Feb. 9 to dismiss a case about a local burglary, according to documents obtained by the Missoulian.

One week later, she asked the court to strike that document from the record after a county prosecutor suggested Tranel made the filing without properly disclosing the artificial intelligence use, or fact-checking its contents. She subsequently filed a corrected motion.

When Tranel said “Tariff”, it was clear many of the young people in attendance were immediately triggered. It was cute to see their fragile minds softly held by Tranel as she reassured them this wasn’t one of THOSE Tariffs, it was a really cool “large-load” Tariff, brought to you by the clown show currently running the Public Service Commission. Here’s the deets:

NorthWestern Energy recently filed an application with the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) seeking approval of a new tariff aimed at governing how the utility serves large new or expanding electricity users, including data centers and other energy-intensive operations.

The proposal, submitted by NorthWestern Corp., would apply to customers with electric loads of 5 megawatts (MW) or greater, and it outlines contract requirements and service terms designed to manage the costs and operational demands of serving such large users while shielding existing customers from potential cost increases.

When Tranel told the room “large loads” meant 5MW loads or greater, my non-retarded buddy immediately turned to me and said, “then 4.9 MW Data Centers”. Sounds about right.

I’ll be writing more specifically about the PSC soon, but something about this proposal from Northwestern Energy makes me think that Tariff’ing large loads is just a PR move ahead of their MASSIVE merger with Black Hills Corps., which was announced last August:

NorthWestern Energy announced Tuesday it plans to merge with Black Hills Corp “to create a premier regional regulated electric and natural gas utility company” in a process expected to take 12 to 15 months and result in an enterprise valued at $15.4 billion.

The director of the Montana Public Service Commission said regulators will scrutinize the deal, and an energy watchdog group said the merger could be an improvement for clean energy compared to the “current stagnant utility.”

NorthWestern Energy is a monopoly utility that operates in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska and serves 787,000 customers. It counts 413,400 electric and 214,500 natural gas customers in Montana.

The other notable person in the room last night was Tom Sergios, the Cognizant sellout I wrote about last week and who I immediately saw enjoying beer on the patio of Cranky Sam’s after posting my article. It’s important to enjoy the money you make in tech. I mean, why else compromise your morals, ethics, and soul for the child-fucking class?

May the odds be ever in their favor.

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Aaron Flint wasn’t happy being just a conservative radio talk show host. After convincing his audience that the only problem Montana has is Epstein-loving Democrats, no amount of inconvenient reality indicating otherwise will be allowed to derail the blimp of insanity this radio host has tied his political future to:

With a month to go before voting begins in the 2026 U.S. House primary election, Aaron Flint stood in a candidate-crowded gymnasium in Superior firing off some of his talk radio hits: Epstein, trans athletes, immigration.

“The Montana Democrat Party,” the presumptive Republican frontrunner told the audience, “is tragically the party of Epstein.”

Flint, who hosts the “Montana Talks” radio program, insisted there was money from the dead celebrity pedophile to be “given back,” without suggesting who such money might be given to. The tendons in his neck strained with intensity as he spoke. Flint, 46, is a military veteran with a trim physique and neat haircut that would still pass Army grooming standards. His black T-shirt featured a chalk-white characterization of the American flag in the shape of Montana punctuated by “AF.”

When Aaron Flint told the Montana Free Press that the Montana Democratic Party “is tragically the party of Epstein” it was before Melania Trump launched her weird press conference. It was also before Trump threatened to destroy an entire civilization, dropped an F-bomb before praising Allah on Easter, and then posted the latest AI slop depicting himself as Jesus. So, with this context in mind, who is going to be the real “Panican” in this election?

I didn’t start writing publicly 16 years ago to elect politicians or support one political party over another, so when I started researching the Epstein connections to Big Sky Country at the beginning of this year what I found was published, for free, without any consideration for party affiliation. That’s what truth-seeking members of the media should be doing.

Aaron Flint isn’t a member of the media anymore, he’s a politician shilling for the “conservative” deep pockets trying to keep the deeply fractured Republican party from totally self-destructing in Montana. Flint’s announcement was highly coordinated and his only opponent, Dr. Al, is most likely a fake candidate who’s political run allows Aaron to keep his primary money, something candidate Brian Schweitzer was said to have done during a run for Governor.

Here’s a question worth asking: what will the Freedom Caucus wing of the Montana Republican Party do when Aaron Flint inevitably wins the primary? Will they mindlessly vote for this MAGA Trump-puppet following orders for Oracle Greg and Empty-Hat Austin, or is there enough independent thought within the Freedom Caucus to make Flint’s transition to political puppet a little bit more rocky than he’s expecting?

Some of this depends on who Democrats choose in the primary, so I’ll be making the case soon about which Democrat candidate I think will give Aaron Flint his stiffest competition. Another variable Aaron Flint should be mindful of is the Turning Point problem, since researchers like me aren’t shy about asking WHY some curious Turning Point characters showed up in Montana just one month after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Here’s another problem: if Trump’s war for Israel escalates to a ground invasion, Mr. Veteran, Aaron Flint, is going to have a tough time maintaining this rhetorical bullshit, regardless of how many breakfasts his voice has been a part of:

“You’re with them at their breakfast table every morning, in their pickup. You’re in the combine cab with them. And they really get to know you, not only what you think about the issues, but they get to know you as a person,” Flint said.

Listeners with their kids off to school and windows rolled up find in Flint a voice that’s unabashed about saying the quiet parts — opinions they might think twice before sharing at work, or in church — out loud. Like President Donald Trump, Flint amplifies normally private doubts and fears and disputes about transgender people, or vaccines, or immigrants, while providing a safe haven for conservative politicians to demonize Democrats.

Flint has brought that same bullhorn to his campaign.

“Donald Trump is doing a great job, but radical politicians like AOC, Mamdani and Bernie, they’ve taken over Washington. But here’s the deal — they’re coming for Montana next. Sanctuary cities, boys in girls’ sports, public lands being fenced off, locals being priced out, and our way of life being pushed aside,” Flint said in the campaign video that served as his campaign’s curtain raiser.

Locals being priced out? Then why does Gianforte collaborate with Ellie Boldman on housing? Public lands fenced off? Uh, check your Governor, bro. And don’t get me started on the “sanctuary city” branding that triggered liberal lawyers in Helena for the well-laid trap they walked into so that Empty Hat Austin can look strong by putting them in their place.

Once upon a time conservatives valued things like the Constitution, and privacy, and helping the AMERICAN workforce. Now they’re members of the Peter Thiel party where public money paves the way to a total panopticon as Oracle casually fires 30,000 workers amidst massive corporate profits.

For those paying attention to how American workers feel about being squeezed tighter and tighter and tighter, I guarantee you this is just the beginning:

One surefire reality of politics in 2026 is that candidates have to be responsive to billionaires, so let me give Aaron Flint one final warning about his new career trajectory: when I agreed with Jeff Bezos in 2024 it was because the media had become so fucking odious that I couldn’t help celebrating Bezos’ smackdown of his media property. This quote from Bezos, sadly, still resonates:

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Remember this sentiment, Aaron, and remember it wasn’t just the liberal director of United Way I told you about in that DM.

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To the casual observer, this relatively new housing complex at 243 South 6th Street West represents one small step toward addressing Missoula’s housing crisis. To me, it represents everything I have come to hate about my father and the soulless aesthetic of suburban growth I thought I was leaving behind when I moved here 26 years ago.

Tom Mateer was born in Spokane in August of 1955. My Grandpa, like many men of his generation, had fought in the war and developed a drinking problem, while my Grandma was your average homemaker who had no reason to think Nazis were giving her miscarriages with Thalidomide. Like many women of her generation taking “medication” during the 50’s and 60s to help with nausea, the Thalidomide scandal would undermine her ability to start a healthy family:

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, thalidomide was prescribed to women in 46 countries who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the “biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever,” with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of miscarriages.

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Thalidomide was first developed as a tranquilizer by Swiss pharmaceutical company Ciba in 1953. In 1954, Ciba abandoned the product, and it was acquired by German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal. The company had been established by Hermann Wirtz Sr, a Nazi Party member, after World War II as a subsidiary of the family’s Mäurer & Wirtz company. The company’s initial aim was to develop antibiotics for which there was an urgent market need.

While the malignant seeds of Big Pharma were taking root, Tom grew up, graduated high school, then married into a family who’s patriarch, Robert Ditton, worked in the telecommunication business. After Tom moved his young family to Seattle in pursuit of better corporate opportunities, Grandpa crashed his airplane and died.

While my family moved around a handful of times in the Seattle area, it was our move to the suburbs of Kansas City, so Tom could take a job with Sprint, that really solidified my Daddy issues. Kids of my generation inherently knew something wasn’t right with the cookie-cutter houses built to accommodate corporate expansion, and if we didn’t, our culture had the faces of lost kids on milk cartons to remind us.

For more context on Tom Mateer and his business relationships with ATG and Strong Bridge, you can visit his website.

The “disruptive change” that made Tom Stergios lots of tech money ended up transforming ATG into ATG-Cognizant, then ATG-Cognizant got into bed with Palantir in February, which I covered in Friday’s post about no one coming to save us:

Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. to accelerate AI-driven modernization across healthcare and enterprise operations. As part of the collaboration, Cognizant will leverage Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to advance AI integration within its TriZetto healthcare business, while jointly pursuing broader enterprise AI transformation opportunities for clients across industries.

The other company my Daddy promotes his relationship with, Strong Bridge, is proud of its work with NASA, the space organization that just celebrated the supposed return of astronauts from its trip around the moon.

For over two decades, Strongbridge has been at the forefront of technological innovation, driven by a commitment to improve the lives of American citizens every day. Founded as a custom software engineering company, Strongbridge has evolved into a recognized leader in artificial intelligence, machine learning, low-code development, and data strategy. Our journey reflects a steadfast dedication to harnessing the full potential of information technology investments across the federal government.

Our legacy of service is rooted in firsthand experience with public service. Our CEO, Jeff Powell, began his career in the U.S. Air Force and later supported critical national missions at NASA Headquarters and the Goddard Space Flight Center. That early exposure to government operations and the impact of technology on mission outcomes shaped the values that still guide Strongbridge today. As the company has grown, we’ve extended our support across civilian and defense agencies, consistently adapting to meet the evolving needs of our clients.

While Tom’s business pals were playing space rockets and selling out their business platforms to the evil tech giants now fighting WWIII for Israel, the First Presbyterian Church was trying to figure out what to do with their valuable land, which a local cabal of do-gooders was eyeing for subsidized housing.

With the help of Tom’s corporate negotiating skills, the elders in the church who wanted to build a covered skywalk were politely told to kick rocks so that MMW architects, like Colin Lane, could push their ugly density housing agenda for the city gentrifiers who dominate Missoula’s City Council. And that’s what happened.

To further contextualize why this process smacks of everything I’ve been working to expose about local corruption, the picture below is credited to Martin Kidston, the former Democrat spokesperson now LARP’ing as a reporter so he can target opponents of City tax policy, like me. Also visible in the picture below is the bank financing the Hogan House project, Stockman’s Bank, a known abuser of Tax Increment Financing.

MMW Architects have an amazing ability to get public money to perpetuate their ugly aesthetic all around Missoula because their “do-gooder” architects, like Colin Lane and the guy I’m familiar with, John Wells, the architect who designed the new Poverello Center, know how to grease the wheels of Democrat control.

And I know how to correlate their political donations with that ability to get public money. Just ask John, Burt, Brent, Todd, or Ellie and they will tell you how obnoxiously observant I can be.

To finish up this post, which I’m writing on a Sunday morning while my Daddy is attending worship services at the church that helped target me, here are two supportive comments for the Hogan House project, and one critical comment. I’ll provide the missing context of the “support” after the quotes:

Sorry, Doc, you’re not the kind of virtue-signaling supporter of refugees, like Doug Odegaard is, and you’re not a New York transplant like Danny Tenenbaum, sneaking into churches like a Jewish Don Lemon while lending his support to Governor Gianforte for housing policies.

It’s disappointing to continue learning new aspects of how the people closest to me have directly contributed to what I’ve gone through these last few years of personal hell, but I still have enough of my marbles to know that Daddy’s effort to coerce me into declaring bankruptcy and shutting down this blog was one of the stupidest things he’s ever considered in that vaccinated brain of his.

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