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Holy penis-head, Batman, who the heck is Doctor Fore-Shinn? Dickhead jokes aside, this smiling flesh knob has one more big smell-test to pass before sliding into your UM-DMs as the University of Montana’s ideal leftist lackey. I hope, if given the official nod, Doctor Shinn has time to say howdy to his fellow Boise transplant, Ellie Boldman (formerly Hill, then Smith), who helped prepare the ground for his arrival.

When consulting Wikipedia on Ellie Boldman (the Legislator/Attorney phenomenon helped into her position by the soon-to-be-retiring Susan Hay Patrick) you get this snippet describing Ellie’s time in Boise. Let’s see what kind of characters Ellie worked with while living in the potato state:

Boldman attended the College of Idaho on a soccer scholarship and after suffering a knee injury, transferred to Boise State University, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in English in 1997. Later, she attended the University of Idaho, College of Law, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2001. In law school, she was the president of the student chapter of the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association. She interned for the Nez Perce Tribal Count in Lapwai, Idaho, and also for Dave Bieter.

Upon graduation, Boldman worked at the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Garden City, Idaho Attorney’s Office. She also became active with the Idaho Democratic Party, where she worked for the campaigns for Keith Roark for Idaho Attorney General in 2002 and Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor in 2004.

While I’ve seen claims on X that Dr. Shinn left Boise under a cloud of unproductive leftism, I was curious to see what the characters who Ellie worked with were up to two decades later. Let’s start with Keith Roark, a candidate for Idaho’s Attorney General position in 2002.

In late 2023, Roark left his position at the Blaine County School District, ending a career in public service that started in 1977. After acting as a prosecutor, Roark worked hard to promote Democrats in Idaho, which is why Ellie Boldman was involved with him.

Roark started his own law firm in Hailey in 1985, and continued to practice until he retired in 2022. He also served as the city attorney for Hailey and Bellevue, as well as the Blaine County Airport Authority. In 2021, he spent a year as the Chief Public Defender for Blaine County.

Throughout his career, Roark served on countless committees and commissions, including as chair of the Blaine County Democratic Central Committee from 1986 to 1990, and chair of the Idaho State Democratic Central Committee from 2008 to 2010. In 2008, he was also the chair of the Idaho Delegation for the Democratic Convention.

When I saw the Blaine County Airport Authority my first thought was the granddaughter of a retired CIA man (Juniper Davis) who ALSO is a lawyer, like Keith Roark, and who ALSO works at an Airport Authority, but here in Missoula, where expansion to accommodate tech-bro PayPal Mafia summits must keep her busy.

I think the airport connection is quite relevant, especially as more towns (like Missoula) become ever more reliant on tourists, thus economically oriented around developing and catering to attract their dollars. Sure, some tourists may be coming to Montana to rape and hunt children for sport, but let’s not judge those with money TOO quickly, lest they take their dollars elsewhere. If my father has taught me anything, it’s how money is more important than anything else in the world.

When tourists travel they need somewhere to sleep, so in Missoula developers have built new hotels downtown where historic buildings once stood, as was the case with the Missoula Mercantile building. As we move on to Dave Bieter, the Mayoral candidate for Boise that Ellie worked with in 2004, we will see his public/private career ascent took him to…building a hotel by the airport! Of course!

Before Dave Bieter could fully enter the private sector to spread his wings and fly, he had to resign from an entity in 2022 that sounds suspiciously like the Missoula Redevelopment Agency.

Former Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is no longer a public figure.

Bieter resigned his commission on the board of the Capital City Development Corp. yesterday. Typically, the mayor’s office handles communication about resignations or appointments to the board. But Bieter sent a letter to CCDC Executive Director John Brunelle resigning “effective immediately.” Brunelle then provided the letter to Mayor Lauren McLean’s office.

Further down, Bieter’s private wings extend for takeoff:

Bieter’s term on the panel, which oversees urban renewal in Boise, was set to expire in mid-October. His departure comes just months shy of the end of his term. He didn’t say in his letter why he was resigning.

Under Idaho Code, McLean will appoint Bieter’s successor on the panel.

Bieter now works in the private sector as a development coordinator for Gardner Co. He’s been actively working on a project to redevelop a large hotel site near the Boise Airport for the Utah development firm.

While Dave Bieter already checked off a lot of boxes for me, an article describing how his Mayoral administration surveyed some VR tech for college students at some college-funded “lab” was another. To make this an even better fit for woke Missoula, the VR tech was being considered for its ability to help autistic people navigate airport security. Weren’t we just talking about airports? What a coincidence!

Seriously, I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried:

A tour at Boise State University was held on Tuesday morning that highlighted the innovative virtual-reality projects that are being used to help those in need around the Treasure Valley community.

Anthony Ellertson, the Gaming Interactive and Mobile Media Lab director, showcased several projects, which included a virtual reality experience of going through security at the Boise Airport. The project is intended to help people who have Autism spectrum disorders and sensory sensitivities.

Going back to UM finalist, Dr. Jeremiah Shinn, this candidate for university president has given Missoula a clear indication of what UM can expect from his leadership when you consider Shinn’s involvement with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators James E. Scott Academy Board. When I looked around the NASPA website I found this under “leaning in to the next 100 years“:

Let me pull back the lens and explain why this matters, starting with the kind of culture I wrote about in a February post, titled “The Cultural Context Of A Missoula-Based Double Homicide Case“. In that post I included some of the “art” of Orit Oged, the young Israeli woman involved in a brutal double-homicide case over drug trafficking, and who developed her eye for art at a University in Israel.

For context, here’s two more screenshots from Orit’s Vimeo account; one scene shows killing, the other scene, cannibalism:

College culture feeds protest culture, and the person I wrote about in February is facing criminal charges for how “they” have influenced minors in Missoula. As a father of three kids, one of whom will be looking at college options after graduating this year, I find it absolutely necessary to scrutinize CLOSELY the kind of people leading these institutions, because right now American society refuses to step up and “retire” people like Nicholas Negroponte.

Before this morning I had never heard of this academic piece of shit running MIT’s Media Lab, but, after reading this old article suggesting Aaron Swartz was murdered because of what he was REALLY trying to expose at elite universities, and then finding Negroponte’s name ALL OVER the Epstein files, I’m increasingly frustrated that these people are sharing our air and consuming food resources.

For more on who this motherfucker is, check the details of his Wikipedia page:

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 book Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.

Negroponte was born to Dimitrios Negropontis, a Greek shipping magnate, competitive alpine skier and member of the Negroponte family. He grew up in New York City’s Upper East Side. He has three brothers. His elder one, John Negroponte, is the former United States Deputy Secretary of State. Michel Negroponte is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. George Negroponte is an artist and was President of the Drawing Center from 2002 to 2007.

And here’s an idea of Negroponte’s friendly proximity to Epstein:

When the powerful and their progeny commit sexual violence near campuses in America, like that Saudi Arabian student in Missoula allegedly did before hopping on an AIRPLANE at Missoula’s AIRPORT to fly away, victims are left wondering why they don’t matter. Well, duh, you don’t matter because you’re not rich and powerful.

While Missoula’s alleged perpetrator in that incident wasn’t Jewish, and the victim wasn’t a minor, the phenomenon of Israel protecting pedophiles became such a problem that CBS News actually ran a story about, titled “How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel”. Here’s an excerpt:

A CBS News investigation has found that many accused American pedophiles flee to Israel, and bringing them to justice can be difficult.

Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an American organization that tracks accused pedophiles, has been trying for years to find Karow and help bring him to justice.

JCW says Karow and other wanted men and women have been able to exploit a right known as the Law of Return, whereby any Jewish person can move to Israel and automatically gain citizenship.

Since the small organization started tracking accused pedophiles in 2014, it says more than 60 have fled from the U.S. to Israel. Given its limited resources to identify these individuals, JCW says the actual number is likely much larger.

Until Missoula’s culture starts to change, I think Dr. Shinn is the PERFECT candidate to lead the University of Montana into the post-Epstein era, where narratives are more important to control now than ever.

If you’d like to help someone actually doings something about all this, my GoFundMe page could use a donation or two. Lawfare, and the cowardice of my own blood, has taken a serious toll on my ability to simply exist in this retarded town, so any bit helps.

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The black man dressed like a pimp, and pictured with two liberal white women, is Laurent Mugondozi, a man from the Congo who now lives in Missoula, Montana. The picture is a part of Mugondozi’s interview with StoryCorps, a national non-profit launched in 2003 to promote the following mission:

StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Since our founding in 2003, we’ve helped over 700,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives. These recordings are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in our online archive which is now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.

What “important story” did Laurent Mugondozi have for the smiling white ladies? Based on the subject log of the interview, Mugondozi told Greta and Genevieve about the benefits of his zucchini, his love of gardening, and the culture he’s bringing to Missoula.

Less enticing than a chat with a real life African man about the benefits of his zucchini is having to dodge bullets on a Saturday night, something that seems to be happening on a more regular basis here in Missoula. This time, though, two men were quickly arrested, including a man by the name of Laurent Mugondozi. Since I don’t have a mugshot to confirm it’s the same Mugondozi who enjoys shoving a trowel in fertile soil, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it is.

For some details on what is alleged to have happened late Saturday night, here’s the reporting from KPAX:

Missoula Police responded to a report of shots fired in a busy downtown area just after 2 a.m. Shortly after, an adult male arrived at the Missoula Police Department with a gunshot wound and what appeared to be multiple strikes from bullets on this vehicle.

Officers found multiple spent shell casings near the 200 block of Ryman Street. Later, officers found another man involved in the incident in the 200 block of Woody Street. Nearby, they also found another vehicle and a handgun, according to a press release from the department.

One of the men was transported to St. Patrick Hospital and the other was interviewed by detectives at the Missoula Police Department.

Missoula Police consulted the Missoula County Attorney’s Office and charged 33-year-old Laurent Mugondozi and 36-year-old Anthony Brodie with Attempted Homicide and Criminal Endangerment, due to uninvolved pedestrians being nearby when shots were fired. Mugondozi was also charged with a 3rd offense DUI.

After scrolling through Laurent Mugondozi’s Facebook profile I searched for the other man arrested, Anthony Brodie, and found a profile for an Anthony “BrodiethePharoah” in Missoula. This you, bro?

Brodie was, I’m assuming, a passenger in the vehicle that Mugondozi was driving when this shooting in a BUSY area of downtown occurred. At least Brodie appears to be a Grizzly fan!

If the identities of these two men connected to the weekend shooting holds up then Montana Democrats might have another inconvenient example of what can happen, in reality, when their liberal useful idiots eagerly embrace Schismogenisis, which I’ve written about before.

If you need a reminder, here’s the definition:

Schismogenesis is a term in anthropology that describes the formation of social divisions and differentiation. Literally meaning “creation of division”, the term derives from the Greek words σχίσμα skhisma “cleft” (borrowed into English as schism, “division into opposing factions”), and γένεσις genesis “generation, creation” (deriving in turn from gignesthai “be born or produced, creation, a coming into being”). The term was introduced in the 1930s by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and has been applied to various fields.

If you don’t think immigration is a critical issue for Montana Democrats, well, you’re not paying attention, and even if you were paying attention, you wouldn’t find the kind of criticism I bring to this issue, having been a critic of relocating refugees to Missoula since 2016, when I was still working at Missoula’s local homeless shelter, the Poverello Center.

For a trip down memory lane, here’s what Missoula’s Mayor, alcoholic John Engen, had to say about re-starting the refugee relocation efforts in Missoula ten years ago:

There’s been opposition to refugee resettlement in Missoula, but it’s largely been from elsewhere and based on misinformation, fear and outright lies. Most Missoulians, the folks I and Missoula City Council members swore to serve, believe that we’re up to the task of helping our share of refugees, whatever their situation, provided they’ve been thoroughly vetted by our government and the agencies who only continue to exist if they keep communities and refugees safe. And if I’m wrong about this or any of a number of issues, I will learn soon enough at the polls.

Was John Engen wrong about Missoula and his confidence in “the polls”? That’s debatable, but one thing is for sure, political challengers to his drunken reign, like Lisa Triepke, had to learn the hard way how despicable those controlling the levers of power in Missoula can be when they feel their power is being threatened.

Now, in 2026, the issue of immigration has blown up nationally, with the trickle-down effect visible in Helena’s failed showdown with Montana’s Attorney General, and featured as the main talking point, from what I could hear, for speakers pushing the corporate NO KINGS bullshit last weekend. All this context makes it VERY UNLIKELY local legacy media will investigate the potential immigration angle of this past weekend’s shooting.

If you find my decade-long skepticism about the refugee/immigration issue, delivered from the perspective of a former insider of the Homeless Industrial Complex, to be helpful, then please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). Any little bit helps.

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Since I’m legally forbidden from stepping foot on the property of the church where my parents worship God, I spent Easter morning watching Jesus fight demon-snakes in the movie The Carpenter’s Son. The title of this post is taken from a line of dialogue, spoken by Satan to Jesus, foretelling how the Jews would be dealing with his divinity. “You will die for miserable people,” Satan says.

Was Satan right?

This coming week I’ll be posting part II of my Old Money vs. New Money series, so get ready to learn even more about how money steers local development in Missoula, while naysayers like me get targeted and persecuted for speaking up. Thankfully, for those who cater to the powerbrokers in this town, like the Risho family, they have good Christian volunteers like my own mother, and the First Presbyterian Church, to help them as Mommy Risho struggles with her health.

For me, I guess I’ll just have to work harder at forgiving them for what I had to endure as their cocaine-abusing kitchen manager got investigated as a person of interest for potentially killing our co-worker, Leah Hartley, a part-time Silk Road kitchen employee who the Risho family didn’t even acknowledge after she died.

One method I’ve relied on over the years for making my inner rage more presentable is to make it rhyme, so enjoy the words of this poem-song I recorded yesterday with Pirate Booty (Instagram reel coming soon). I’m calling it “Brunch with Juice Box”. Hopefully, if good Christians can’t access their deep wells of forgiveness, they will at least appreciate that no act of obscenity with mere words comes close to the obscenities of what’s currently transpiring in the name of God.

BRUNCH WITH JUICE BOX

spice my loosh with Cortisol 
sweet Jesus, let us walk 
meat is not the final curtain 
let's take a seat and talk 

which lamb should we blam, blam, blam
and which one gets the milk?
I'm tired of my sackcloth, Jesus 
at night I dream of silk 

pussies drink milk from the floor 
while bitches stand and cry 
you, my son, are on the run 
from eating the whole damn pie 

me, I cry for ice cream 
melting slowly in a bowl 
or listening to shitty music 
coming for your soul 

that's nice advice, wise Jesus 
but the gun is in my hand 
and the script is so exciting 
so let's stick to the plan 

maybe you're trying stalling
so here, I'll kill them all 
and if you do not like it
you know who to call 

there's no rhyme or reason 
like a breeze to cool the heat 
it's his little season now 
they claim on groundless feet 

some will lose by winning 
some losers will be just fine 
and some refuse to play the game 
until refusing becomes a crime 

If you’re wondering where I cultivated such impressive rhyming skills, I give lots of credit to the University of Montana, an institution considering letting this guy take the helm:

Tomorrow, to start off the first full week of April (the cruelest month), I’ll be helping Dr. Fore-Shinn unpack his Boise baggage in the manner only I can, since my familiarity with another Boise transplant–Ellie Boldman, formerly Hill–gave me the immediate political lens through which to view this incoming skin-bag.

The link above is to an article archived at Western Montana News, and it’s the best one regarding Ellie’s time in Boise. For even more context, this link takes you to the post of mine that has links to 12 others documenting Ellie’s shenanigans over the years, like how she maximized her taking of emergency Covid money in what I think is an act of fraud she should have been prosecuted for.

I guess when you help make the laws in Helena, it’s less likely you’ll have to adhere to the laws in Zoom Town.

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Thanks to privileged, entitled women like Amber Heard and Blake Lively, the powerful “victim card” is starting to provide diminishing returns for white women, and it must be very terrifying for them. I mean, what’s the world coming to if a hottie can’t feel safe enough to commit an act of violence against the evil patriarchy by slapping Clavicular in the face at the club?

Yesterday, a Federal judge dismissed the claim of sexual harassment that Blake Lively added to her lawfare campaign against Justin Baldoni for alleged “harassment” that included non-consensual nuzzling while dancing and simulated nakedness for a birthing scene. Yes, really.

During a January court hearing, Lively’s lawyer Esra Hudson had argued that Baldoni repeatedly went too far, including by deviating from the script by adding unnecessary sexual content.

Hudson alleged this included a dance sequence in which Baldoni “nuzzled” Lively without consent, and a scene when Lively’s character was giving birth and ​she was pressured to wear little clothing and simulate nudity.

Liman wrote that Baldoni’s alleged conduct appeared to be directed towards Lively’s character in the scene, rather than Lively herself.

“Creative ​artists, no less than comedy room writers, must have some amount of space to experiment within the bounds of an agreed script without fear ⁠of being held liable for sexual harassment,” the judge wrote.

Here’s the problem: women don’t want actual equality, they want social power, and like most fallible humans seduced by the intoxicating effects of power, once they get a taste of it they can’t get enough. Then, what usually happens next, is that those who acquire this kind of power start acting tyrannical with it because why wouldn’t they?

The fear of becoming targeted by this social power removes accountability and the fear of consequences for those wielding it, so inevitably we see the kind of behavior pictured above: a young, attractive white women casually assaulting someone on camera, then acting shocked and horrified when confronted with the consequence.

The entire fabric of society is now deeply enmeshed in the social power of female victimhood and the downstream realities for men are real and horrifying, ensuring even things like “dating” have now been transformed into a gauntlet of total insanity, with costs that stretch far beyond the monetary if you make one wrong move.

To show readers how knowledgeable I am of this cultural trend to “believe all women”, my post yesterday highlighting two political operators (who happen to be women) is getting A LOT of traffic this morning, and that’s going to be a problem for Lauren Caldwell, Caite Butler, and all the moderate conservatives going into Easter weekend wondering how they’re going to spin working with a “Drag Story Hour mom” to conservative voters back in their districts.

One option that might be getting some consideration right now, if the preferred option of IGNORE THE BLOGGER doesn’t hold, is pivoting to BLAME the blogger and make the story (or whisper campaign) about my personal baggage and motivation for doing something as awful as showing my readers that Lauren Caldwell is willing to use her own kid in a political photo-op.

For example, didn’t Travis get arrested multiple times? I heard Travis had felony charges. I heard he beat up his girlfriend. Did you hear that church had him trespassed? I see him on the streets with Legos. Yeah, me too, and now he has a puppet he calls “Pirate Booty”. And he’s slashing tires. And smoking meth. And, and, and.

Yesterday I recorded a deep analysis of the movie Eddington with Thomas from PsyOp Cinema (available in a week or two). We also looked at Ari Aster’s 2023 release, Beau Is Afraid, and the movie Bugonia. A meta-analysis of Hollywood, from the shared perspective of the PsyOp Cinema duo (which I agree with), is that Hollywood operates under the influence of goddess-oriented death cult, symbolized by a spider and a spider’s ability to spin webs and catch its prey, and Aster is currently at the top of its worship-pile.

I mean, how much do you have to hate Jesus to have his ugly face seemingly squeezing out the meat flaps of a vagina on a billboard?

While I don’t have much control over the most important parts of my own life, I’ve doggedly maintained my ability to control this small patch of virtual space after going rogue against the Homeless Industrial Complex and all the creepy-crawlies I found when I started kicking over rocks and NOT shutting up about what I found underneath them.

So, that’s what I’m going to keep doing, and I’ll do it how I like to do it with Fireweed Campaigns because THEY are the ones who got caught with their pants down, and I don’t give a flying fuck what kind of genitals these political operators have as they work with politicians who don’t return calls, like Linda Reksten (HD 13, Poison), and seem to con nice old men, like Curt Cochran (HD 90, St. Regis).

*while finishing this post I did get a call back from someone I contacted yesterday, and what I learned I’ll write about next week.

If you’d like to help support a rogue citizen journalist brought low by nasty lawfare, my Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) could use a buck or two.

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Meet Caitie Butler, a liberal woman from Portland working with Montana conservatives this election cycle. At least she was working with Montana conservatives until scrutiny descended on Fireweed Campaigns. Now, Montana’s statewide GOP leadership is doing damage control by pressuring its compromised candidates to take concrete steps to distance themselves from this growing controversy:

The Montana Republican Party (MTGOP) Executive Board passed a resolution on Tuesday rebuking 17 Republican legislative candidates and three elected party officers for working with progressive political groups tied to out-of-state billionaire donors.

According to publicly available records, these progressive billionaires are attempting to advance their agenda in Montana through a multi-layered, deceptively designed network of political action committees (PACs) and dark-money nonprofits, including Helena-based Fireweed Campaigns Inc., which manages political candidates and liberal ballot initiatives.

Fireweed began billing 11 Republican primary candidates thousands of dollars in January 2026 for “campaign management” services. Additionally, Fireweed’s staff made maximum contributions to the 11 candidates for whom they provided services, as well as six other Republican candidates.

The same candidates supported by Fireweed are also backed by Conservatives4MT, a phony group that shares leadership with progressive organizations like Big Sky Fiscal Guardians, Treasure State Stewards, and Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund. Three elected officers of MTGOP county central committees are tied to the progressive PAC infrastructure.

Earlier this week I took the breaking of this story by the MissoulaGOP and added my perspective. By mid-week the paid reporters at the Missoulian decided to join the party, framing the New Kids on the Political Block like this:

This election season has also given rise to a new player in Montana politics: Fireweed Campaigns, a campaign consulting company that was formed in 2024 but appears to have taken on many more candidates this cycle. The firm has made a name for itself in the state’s political world as the group running campaigns for more centrist Republicans in contested primaries. If a candidate was at odds with the hardline faction of Republicans during the 2025 legislative session and they are running for reelection, they are likely employing Fireweed.

Notably, the company is in part run by former Democratic staffers or former staff at left-leaning organizations. The company’s owner, Lauren Caldwell, is the former director for the Montana Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the group dedicated to getting Democrats elected to the Legislature.

When you read the press release from the GOP’s statewide machine, led by Art Wittich (link above) you see the breakdown of candidates PAYING Fireweed and candidates GETTING PAID by Fireweed, which is pretty brazen and impressive, if you ask me.

I called a handful of candidates yesterday in preparation for this post, but only Curtis Cochran (HD 90, St. Regis) had the under-developed political instincts to call me back. Linda Reksten answered, said she’d call me back, then never did like a REAL politician. I also called Michele Binkley and David Bedey, but neither bothered to call back. Because why would they?

When Curt Cochran called me back the name Lauren Caldwell was unfamiliar to him. Curt is a first-time politician living in Mineral County and running for office at the young age of 70, so I told him that he might be hearing more about the name Lauren Caldwell, since she’s the kind of liberal who takes her kid to Drag Story Hour so her liberal pals at the Daily Montanan can write about it. In my PiratePuppet Instagram report on this I made sure to block out Caldwell’s kid with something more appropriate:

This morning, before writing up today’s report, I also called George Nikolakakos to see if he would answer the phone, but no luck. If I hear back from any candidates today, or the State GOP office, I’ll add a comment or update, otherwise…

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