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Two years ago an RV started on fire in a vacant lot near the Town Pump on Reserve Street. After one person was taken to the hospital, the “news” report simply stated that the fire was “under investigation”. Like most local media “news” reports, no subsequent reporting was ever done to give readers a better idea WHY this vacant lot has become such a problem.

To confirm that Brad Morris owns this vacant lot I went to the Montana Cadastral website. Who is Brad Morris? Brad is a former surgeon who bought Snowbowl in 1984 with some other doctors who, after less than a decade, all divested themselves from the skiing business, leaving Morris and his wife the sole owners of both Snowbowl and the vacant lot by Town Pump.

According to Montana law, Brad Morris, as the private land owner of this lot, has a “duty of care” to fix or warn of hazards on his property. When the Facebook group that regularly organizes volunteers to CLEAN this private land, the comments from a handful of dumbasses were worth documenting for posterity, like this proud defender of private property rights:

Does Brad Morris have a right to allow illegal drug use on his private land? What about the right to litter, or the right to let people dump piss and shit on the ground? The answer is NO because laws do exist that set limitations on what can be done with private land. Got that, JP?

Another commenter provided the predictable victim card defense that excuses ALL behavior generated by those living marginally in our community.

This assumption that enforcing existing laws is somehow criminalizing being homeless is complete bullshit. When you listen to those who are actually dealing with this issue on the ground, like volunteers picking up needles or people actually WORKING in proximity to this shining example of RV tweaker culture, you get a much more accurate description of reality than what the “Jacob Noahs” of this dumb town choose to see.

If Missoula virtue-signalers would like MORE reality to help cure them of being willfully retarded, here’s someone from the frontlines of Seattle’s “homeless” problem explaining the differences between working-poor homeless and drug addicts:

I’ve spent years working directly with Seattle’s homeless population, not studying them from university offices, or analyzing data sets from a comfortable distance, but on the streets, in the encampments, doing street-level engagement and intervention. When I read yet another opinion piece (“Homelessness in Seattle: We can’t unsee it,” Dec. 28, 2025) attributing our homelessness crisis primarily to housing costs, I have to ask: Are we really going to continue trusting consultants and researchers over what our own eyes tell us?

The December piece by Walter Hatch follows a familiar pattern in academia: Start with a conclusion, in this case, that “it’s a housing problem,” then find data to support it. However, those of us working on the ground are aware of a critical fact that these analyses consistently overlook: There’s a fundamental distinction between the “crisis population” living in visible squalor on our streets and individuals who are the working poor — couch-surfing, living with family or struggling with roommates to afford rent.

We cannot conflate these populations. They are not the same.

Walk through any encampment in Seattle. What you see is not a collection of people who simply can’t afford first and last month’s rent. What you see, what we all see, is the devastating evidence of severe mental health crises and, far more commonly, active drug addiction. The refuse, the chaos, is not created by economic hardship. This is the visible manifestation of untreated addiction and serious psychiatric illness.

Thank you, Andrea Suarez, for stepping up and telling all the Homeless Industrial Complex FAILURES more politely than I can muster that their models are fucked and their scam is no longer viable.

Lee Enterprises–one of the main culprits exacerbating Missoula’s retardation problem–is doing its best to leverage empathy for clicks, but I’m here to counter this disingenuous effort to go BOO HOO about the most recent corpse the virtue-signalers are eager to get you to feel sorry for.

Congratulations, Lorrie, your death is now a leveraged talking point for the “professionals” who turn their failure into job security through an amazing process of emotional alchemy, which couldn’t happen without Lee Enterprises stoking the fire.

I don’t expect a Lee Enterprises article on this contested dirt lot to appear any time soon, but if they DO decide to engage in another manipulative attempt at “reporting” on the local Homeless Industrial Complex, I would be willing to bet the angle will be a critical one aimed at the volunteer group and NOT the private land owner who has a legal responsibility to maintain his land.

Prove me wrong, Missoulian.

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Missoula’s Mayor is right where she belongs–in a foreign country some billionaire globalists are preparing to bunker down in when the shit hits the fan, billionaires like Peter Thiel, who just happened to visit Missoula last June before heading off to chat with the Bilderberg globalists. Hmmm. If you’re curious how this relates to Epstein, just put “Valar Ventures” into the Epstein Files search bar and see what comes up.

One of the things I learned about our “sister city” relationship with Palmerston North is that the caliber of man in this foreign country is so high, we imported a Sheriff Deputy, since I guess we can’t find enough men in Montana to do the job. Hmmm.

Mayor Davis met recently with Willie Brown, who moved to Missoula from Palmerston North 17 years ago and works as a Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy. “As someone who is from Palmerston North and who has lived in Missoula for 17 years, I have been involved in numerous exchanges between our cities and regions,” Brown said. “This Sister City partnership is extremely important, strategic and beneficial to both cities, our people and our nations as a whole. Through these relationships and interactions, representatives from Palmerston North have taken ideas and initiatives from Missoula and implemented them in our city in New Zealand, and vice versa.”

Thanks to the Epstein Files I now have a better idea how cosmopolitan Missoula truly is. I wrote about Sultan Sulayem’s odd Missoula connection on February 3rd, weeks before he was tied to the torture video and subsequently stepped down from DP World, then I showed how quickly enmeshed a Berlin-born banker like Klaus von Stutterheim became after “retiring” from his lucrative managing director position at Deutsche Bank to pull Democrat strings in Big Sky Country.

In the USVI (United States Virgin Islands) Epstein donated to United Way through a trust and, it would appear, Catholic Charities, which are the type of non-profit organizations funding the programs I once did here, in Missoula.

And here’s some of what I found regarding the foundation that donated to Catholic Charities (EFTA01125352):

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has just donated critical funds to the Catholic Charities of the US Virgin Islands. The Catholic Charities of the USVI is the largest catholic organization in the USVI and it provides vital and uniquely effective support for the poor throughout the USVI.

For more than 46 years, the Catholic Charities of the Virgin Islands (CCVI) has been feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and clothing the needy. CCVI offers a wide spectrum of services to struggling families and individuals; including the homeless, mentally ill, the substance abuser and homebound elderly. For such a small organization, CCVI also provides an impressive volume of support. Just last year, they assisted more than 700 people, served more than 44,000 hot meals and fed more than 200 people daily.

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Like many Catholic organizations, CCVI also has a strong focus on youth education. Kids Learn and Camp Shriver both offer intensive multi-week learning and sports camps to underprivileged children and continue to stay involved in the children’s lives, mentoring them through school and challenges they might face.

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation was founded by science philanthropist and education activist, Jeffrey Epstein in 2000. Jeffrey Epstein is a resident of St. Thomas in the USVI. In addition to science research, his foundation actively supports education and youth initiatives across the US Virgin Islands. Jeffrey Epstein is a former member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the NY Academy of Science, The Trilateral Commission and a former board member of Rockefeller University.

If all this wasn’t worrisome enough, it’s an organization I had never heard of before that really got my attention, and it’s one I haven’t seen much attention on yet. Hopefully that will change when you understand what William Spear and his board are up to.

For context on the “Fortunate Blessings Foundation“, here’s some of the history that stood out after making my first run at the website:

In 1998, William and Joan Spear incorporated the Fortunate Blessings Foundation which became the more formal non-profit educational entity that remains today. It was granted a 501(c)3 designation and began to actively solicit donation in support of its activities. FBF became the primary host of The Passage, the five-day residential retreat for caregivers, hospice staff and others I health care. The Passage was first offered in Switzerland and later in Italy, Ireland, England, Croatia, Portugal, Oregon, Georgia, California, Massachusetts, and New York. Parallel to FBF, the Silent Oceans Trust was established in 1999 as one of its initiatives to bring greater attention to the damage to marine mammals through the deployment of low frequency sonar.

Following the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2002, FBF launched its disaster response initiative, Second Response (SR), leading teams of trauma specialists to Sri Lanka (2002-2005), Indonesia (2006), Samoa (2009), Japan (2011, 2012), the Philippines (2013), Croatia (2015), Nepal (2015) and Uganda (2018). Second Response facilitators trained more than 6,000 parents, caregivers, nurses and community health staff in these countries, resulting in 400,000 children participating in PLAYshops throughout the world. FBF also dispatched teams in the US to the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut after Super Storm Sandy (2012). Training for FEMA and Homeland Security staff and volunteers through the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York took place from 2013 to 2018. Nearly all public educational efforts offered by FBF and SR as FBF then became dormant during the outbreak of the COVID epidemic.

I already have some very interesting additional perspective on this organization, but I’m saving that for another day. For today (Twin Peaks Day) I’m going to end today’s post with an image of a different woman holding an axe, one that I hope reminds anyone traveling around the world to PR-pimp Missoula what kinds of realities the underclasses have in the wake of globalist supremacy.

Stay sharp out there, moon crickets, thems snipe hunters be some real nasty muthafuckers!

When Todd Keith Spence physically assaulted TWO state workers during a 2022 homeless camp cleanup and received only ONE misdemeanor assault charge, I was confused. Surely this was an opportunity to criminally charge a violent, non-compliant sex offender with at least TWO assault charges, right?

Wrong.

Here’s an excerpt from my article (link above) that I wrote about the incident, which I discussed with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office after the violent attack occurred:

The details are where this story gets absolutely maddening, especially when you consider this day, September 8th, was the same day our elected leaders got together on the Missoula County Courthouse lawn to beg the Missoula electorate to pass the 5 million dollar mill levy for “crisis services” this fall. Those services include the Mobile Crisis Unit.

I wish the Mobile Crisis Unit would have been on site when Todd Spence returned to the area of the clean up because I doubt they would have momentarily detained him on the sidewalk, the way a volunteer described seeing Sheriff Deputies do, then inexplicably RELEASE him with another empty verbal command to leave, which Spence promptly ignored.

And then guess what the Sheriff Deputies did? They DROVE AWAY!

After obtaining a safety vest, Todd Spence took his bike and went to defend the destruction of his home, which entailed climbing a bulldozer and punching a MDT staff repeatedly in the face. This is how Todd Spence dealt with the confusion he had expressed earlier, at the volunteer sign-in area, as to why MDT was present, stating the property out there was his. I guess after 3 years of allowing this man to live out there, he got the impression the land belonged to him.

When I asked Deputy Jessop, later in the day, why the Mobile Crisis Unit wasn’t brought in, I was told that Spence wasn’t in the right state of mind for them to be effective, so the Sheriff’s Office didn’t want to “waste their time”. Instead, they let Spence go, and it wasn’t just two assaults that resulted. A local reporter, who was there to cover the cleanup, had to quickly evacuate the area after the volunteer coordinator called to warn her of the developing situation.

To contrast this situation, the FIVE charges Brandon Bryant faced last Friday during a jury trial were the result of standing in front of the bar where an altercation had just occurred (Bryant was NOT the instigator) and not putting his stick down fast enough when commanded to do so by local law enforcement.

While the jury rationally determined Brandon Bryant was NOT guilty of assaulting the four cops who beat and tased him (the most serious charge), the estrogen-dominated jury DID find Bryant guilty of obstruction, resistance, a subsequent “privacy in communications” charge, and some other bullshit I can’t recall at the moment.

Justice served?

When I experienced jail for the first time as the result of a weaponized restraining order it was the classification process, and my two cell mates hatred of a coloring book image on our wall, that gave me some of the final insights I needed to understand WHY a certain County Attorney (Pabst) and Sheriff (McDermott) go so excited about “jail diversion” five years ago.

To decode the jail questionnaire I had to take before getting assigned to a “pod” I should note that a brush with the law in my youth for alcohol possession had already prepared me for the kind of tests that ask you the same question in different ways in order to get at some underlying, unspoken factor.

While it was easy to see what the “chemical dependency evaluation” was trying to get at (if, and how much, I was lying about my use of substances) the test I took in jail seemed to be all about my “safety”, and if I didn’t feel safe, why I didn’t feel safe. I didn’t understand at the time what the underlying factor was, since the whole experience was new and disorienting, but, in hindsight, it became obvious which subpopulation was being identified for extra safety precautions.

The coloring book picture seemed innocent enough until my cellies explained the context of their hatred for it. The pod I had been assigned to had originally been the one for sex offenders, but because of their growing number inside jail, they had moved that population to a larger pod.

“Notice what THAT picture has that OUR pictures don’t?” One of my cellmates asked me.

I compared the coloring book material my cell mates had to the one they tried scraping off the wall and, yeah, none of theirs featured kids snorkeling. This seemed to confirm, to them, a degree of catering to certain tastes by jail staff that my cell mates very much opposed to.

Keeping offenders safe in jail is a government job (or a private sector CoreCivic one, in the case of Nathan Lake) that could result in costly litigation if not done properly, so when you have a subpopulation that comes with additional risks to that bottomline, you have to take extra precautions, and THAT feeds an underlying tension of both individual AND institutional resentment that would collectively prefer to externalize that risk as much as possible.

On the other side of the jail cell, then, a whole world has blossomed for the societal substrata that technology has helped proliferate. Locally that means the Sheriff’s Office getting into bed with affordable housing efforts, like Blueline Development’s Trinity project, but, nationally, I think something larger and more culturally corrosive is happening.

Sex offenders, on the outside, are natural snitches managed by probation and parole officers who require their clients to report ANY contact with law enforcement. I saw how this worked up close when the kitchen manager at Silk Road was questioned as a person of interest in the accidental drowning death of Leah Hartley.

It’s been six months since Leah’s death and, after accessing her autopsy report via a third party, I’m confident that her culture killed her, not an individual. So I’ll be writing about that culture and the supposed “artists” adding their names to the list of locals that would prefer I not write about the things I am writing about.

To wrap up this post I’ll remind readers how the state of Montana, thanks to the Montana Supreme Court, is making big changes about what can be ascertained regarding offenders and their risk to local communities.

The Montana Sexual or Violent Offender Registry (SVOR) is undergoing major changes following a Montana Supreme Court ruling that limits what information the state can publicly share, even retroactively.

The decision affects more than 1,100 Montana sexual and violent offenders, 90 of whom are Tier 3, the highest risk offenders to the community. The order removes or reduces long-standing requirements for people who were convicted before newer registry laws were enacted.

Photos, convictions, and living or working restrictions are no longer publicly available in those cases, prompting concern from law enforcement and community members, such as Hannah Flocchini.

While some of these concerns are theoretical, my time working at the Poverello Center gave me concrete examples of how some offenders used those services, like free food, to lure potential victims, and this week I think I’ll be telling some of those stories, so stay tuned.

Until I read this op-ed by George Ochenski, titled “Dark money targets Llew Jones in GOP’s civil war”, I didn’t fully appreciate how Montana Democrats had become so stupid.

Now I understand.

As “Montana’s longest-running columnist”, George Ochenski is shoveling bullshit to his readers from the get-go by framing the effort to target Llew Jones as coming from “dark money”. Nope!

If you accept the premise that “dark money” means obscuring from scrutiny the entity responsible for engaging in political activity, like launching a political attack, let me clear up Ochenski’s disingenuous framing by identifying one prominent backer of this anti-Jones effort with a simple link and screenshot.

Instead of telling his readers that AFP is openly targeting Llew Jones because LOTS of conservative voters in Montana were VERY upset that their votes were undermined ALL legislative session by Mr. Watery Eyes, his parrot, and 8 other RINOs, Ochenski writes shit like this:

Of course the dark money forces now attempting to crush Jones would much rather have had that money go to corporations and the already wealthy as tax breaks instead of doling out a few hundred bucks to financially hurting Montanans — or even worse, putting it in an interest-earning trust fund instead of continuously scrambling for funds and raising taxes when roads, bridges and water systems need replacement.

Jones put it bluntly: “To dark-money operators — and the ideological hardliners who do their bidding — taking out the informal leader of Republicans focused on solutions over D.C. slogans would be a trophy. Not just to silence me, but to intimidate the rest: Kiss the party bosses’ ring, or you’re next.”

Bucking the GOP’s MAGA loyalty tests is an incredibly brave stand for a Republican officeholder. But Jones is absolutely right — and despite the hundreds of thousands of dark money dollars being spent in attack ads against him, he may well prevail. Why? Because Montanans appreciate straight talk, taking care of our state’s and each other’s needs as Jones has, and value individuality over political party intimidation and control.

Sure, George, I’m sure Montanans have all the folksy tendencies you describe, but your brain is obviously stuck in VERY outdated modes of political thinking, so the quicker you and your ilk are mothballed, the better.

While I believe BOTH parties are deeply infected by an anti-human agenda, the most threatening cultural accelerationists exist on the left, and I will call them out anywhere I see them, including this opinion writer I once appreciated before I knew better.

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Why vote for this guy in November? What has Jeremiah Petersen done since 2023 other than hide his face from the public and retreat from the Missoula County courthouse? And why did it take a phone call to the election office to determine that Jeremiah Petersen is, indeed, running as a DEMOCRAT?

When I consulted local media all I got was vague, boilerplate bullshit and NO info on what party Petersen was choosing to affiliate himself with.

Petersen announced on Tuesday that he had officially filed for re-election.

Since taking office in 2023, Petersen says he has strengthened public safety, improved response times, and increased deputy training and retention.

A lifelong Missoula County resident and 22-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, Petersen says there’s still important work ahead in supporting deputies and ensuring fair law enforcement.

After failing to find the most basic information in the KPAX “news” article, I went to the County election website and, guess what? The candidate filing list wouldn’t load! Was it really going to be THIS difficult to find out if Jeremiah Petersen was going to take the big D or run from it?

My next step was to CALL the election office and wait for nearly 10 minutes on hold just to bug poor Ashley about Jeremiah’s mysterious “D”. Ashly, after listening to how enthusiastic I was at 8:30am to obtain this very important piece of information, confirmed that “D” was indeed the political party that Sheriff Petersen still identified as. Thanks Ashley!

One reason this party affiliation is important can be found in the Missoula County Jail Diversion Plan, which contains stuff like this:

Does Sheriff Jeremiah Petersen still believe in the “housing first” model? Or, more likely, is he too busy running away from the Missoula County Courthouse to think about outdated models of dealing with serious mental illness and very destructive drug addiction issues?

The retreat from the Missoula County Courthouse lawn was first articulated at the City Club event earlier this month, which you can watch here, and follows the physical retreat the Sheriff’s Office took last July when they officially moved their offices closer to the jail, which I’ll be writing about next week.

Knowing how informal Montana lawmen can be, I wanted to know if Police Chief Colyer and Sheriff Petersen have actually formalized this jurisdictional shift in responsibility, so I emailed the people who get paid to communicate to people like me, the inquisitive public, and I cc’d the ones who sign the paychecks for Sheriff Deputies–you know, those HIGHER paychecks our previous Sheriff, T.J. McDermott, SUED Missoula County to get after handshake deals went sour behind the scenes, but that’s another story.

While I wait for a response, I’ll offer some free advice to Sheriff Petersen: don’t run from the D, Sheriff, embrace it, because when it comes to the law, some of us understand better than others who is really being protected.

And it’s not “the public”.

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