Month: March 2025

by Travis Mateer

Do college kids know what the fuck is actually going on in this country? I mean, beyond the politics of bathrooms and safe spaces? Because reading this article about a recent protest on campus has left me with the distinct impression that the University of Montana is retarding our youth. From the link:

On Wednesday, a group of about a dozen students gathered in front of University Hall and gave a series of speeches to two dozen onlookers calling for the University to be more transparent and listen to student voices and concerns. The protest comes in light of the University’s unknown response to various measures passed by President Donald Trump and his administration, many of which seek to cut diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Students gathered at noon holding signs that had messages such as “Quit hiding, Seth Bodnar,” “Open doors, open conversations,” and most explicitly, “Fuck these guys, we demand transparency.”

While I appreciate the intelligent eloquence of FUCK THESE GUYS, my actual understanding of what these students are upset about doesn’t improve the more I read, like this excerpt (emphasis mine):

According to Mickel, the extent of this concern affects how LGBTQIA+ students like themselves go about their day-to-day life and how they feel uncomfortable using all but a few bathrooms on campus.

Additionally, students spoke to a feeling of being silenced and expressed their desire to feel protected by the University, with the recent arrests and potential deportations of student activists at Columbia University being brought up as an example, among other concerns.

“Our right to be able to protest, to be able to use our freedom of speech, protected under the First Amendment of our Constitution, is under threat, as well as a lot of the rights and safety of our marginalized communities on campus and beyond that,” said Chester Phillips, a master of social work student and community organizer.

Let me tell these college morons what losing your rights ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE, staring with my experience on Friday in a bathroom with my dick in my hand and the door OPEN so the pee-tech could watch me urinate.

While the college kids might think this is some kind of kink scenario, I can assure you, it is not. I was peeing in a cup because I’m now under “misdemeanor supervision” which is run out of the organization I wrote critically about last September, Missoula Correctional Services. I will also be spending 48 hours in jail and will need to fork over hundreds of dollars in fines.

The first amendment part of fucking me up the ass, metaphorically speaking, was upheld by judge Vannatta last week, a judge I have ALSO written about, since he isn’t impressed with the private security keeping him safe in the courtroom, and said so near the end of 2023. Thanks to this judge, there’s a non-profit I have been criticizing FOR YEARS that I am now LEGALLY FORBIDDEN from writing about. Can I write about the FEDERAL organization this local one is a part of? The judge said I could, but I don’t trust this kangaroo just like I don’t believe ANY of the kangaroos dispensing “justice” are really anything more than narrative control agents making sure Missoula is a safe space for the Sheriff’s Office to treat black men like niggers.

Unlike the stupid college kids who FEEL like they are being silenced while they are non-silently protesting, I am ACTUALLY BEING SILENCED. I have been banned from attending City Council in person, I have been slandered and defamed by a sitting council person, and now MORE tax dollars will be spent to ensure my voice is further restricted.

Maybe I’m wrong and maybe the Sheriff’s Office in Missoula SHOULD have the power to euthanize and execute black men. Also, if the chaplain of that law enforcement organization happens to know sexually aggressive men, like…

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America is supposed to be different than China, but it’s not. Someone who considers themselves a whistleblower, like I do with the Homeless Industrial Complex, is NOT PROTECTED, and my case prove that fact.

Going back to the dumb college kids, my favorite part of the Kaimin article is the realization that diversity is nothing more than a PR performance (emphasis mine):

This protest was one in a series, with more to come in the future to showcase student disapproval. According to a recent graduate, the problems being protested by students are not new. 

“It’s frustrating, and it’s been going on for a while,” said River Watson, an alumni from the class of 2024. “It just seems like them promoting queer students, students of color [is] very, very performative, and just for marketing purposes.” 

Imagine what River Watson would think if this protestor knew that Sean Stevenson, a black homeless man, was euthanized by the Sheriff’s Office before that same Sheriff’s Office shot Johnny Lee Perry in the back out in the woods. When Georg Floyd was killed, cities burned. I guess narrative control is more alive than the Constitution is here in Missoula, Montana.

In summary, fuck this town. I will happily spend my time in jail, and I will happily pee in a cup, because I know that standing up for what you believe in, in a retarded liberal town like Missoula, comes with SERIOUS consequences, and I’m willing to pay that price, while the cowards in this town dance the Tango and workout like we’re NOT in a civil war.

If you would like to support a citizen journalist who will CONTINUE to expose the pieces of shit in this town who think they can stop me with a professional misandrist, Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is one way to do it. I’m no where NEAR being done with exposing the corruption that operates this town, a town I am now LEGALLY obligated to remain in for the duration of my supervision, which just further inspires me to continue pursuing my calling of exposing the rot at the heart of Missoula.

Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

Since the prosecutors engaged in lawfare against me have the tendency to sometimes not show up for court, I wanted to have some appropriate reading material on hand to remind me what kind of world I’m dealing with here. I think the coloring book, pictured above, is the PERFECT choice.

Since I used the original cover image for a piece of art, I decided to test out the ChatGPT upgrade, which allows users to create anime versions of reality. Which cover do YOU like best?

I thought I had the first amendment right to write about non-profit organizations, but today might prove me wrong. I’m not being told I’ll be facing TWO WEEKS in jail if I continue writing about the non-profit currently bitching to City Council that Missoula citizens aren’t handing over enough money to house homeless people. From the link (emphasis mine):

At a press conference announcing the closure of Johnson Street earlier in March, Davis said the city will endeavor to put as many of the roughly 150 people staying at Johnson Street as possible in permanent housing, or at least connect them to family, transitional housing or a treatment facility. But she acknowledged that the city and its partners would be unlikely to house everyone in by the end of the summer.

Davis has expressed optimism that the city will be able to raise the funds required to pull off the sprint. But United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick told council members Wednesday that the sprint has generated only about $15,000 of its six-figure goal so far. United Way will not be providing funding, just administering the money.

“We will put energy and commitment into the sprint fund, but we will be looking to the public sector, and to institutional funders, foundations, businesses,” Patrick said. “It would be too big a lift for us to do alone to add that to our other responsibilities.” 

If you don’t see the connection between the Covid-con and non-profits like United Way, let me make the connection explicitly clear.

If you don’t understand at this point how FUCKING IDIOTIC the entire charade of masking and “social distancing” was, then you’re a casualty of the information that was waged against average people to coerce and destroy our freedom to make medial decisions for ourselves and our minor dependents, who would have gotten the jab if people like my own father had his way.

If that’s not bad enough, now the people who misled and shamed us non-conformists about Covid expect us to believe they’ll be good stewards of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of donated dollars to house the drug addicts who sometimes burn down a 2 million dollar pieces of private property. Judging by the worried comments of the director LONG PAST her professional expiration date, I’d say Missoula has finally wised up to the scam that’s been perpetrated on their heart strings and pockets books for FAR too long.

If you’d like to donate to my citizen journalism, which I’ve been doing for 15 years, then Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is one way to help out. Another way, if I’m in jail for two weeks, would be to put money on my commissary.

One final note to the hate-readers who are too stupid to understand that intimidation won’t stop me from exercising my rights: I’m not the only person listed as a contributor on this blog. Freeman Tao is definitely his own person, and if he gets inspired to look at United Way’s role in this community, I can’t guarantee it won’t be more problematic for our local narrative controllers, especially if he finds something he LIKES about you.

Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

First, the I told you so part of this post that confirms yesterday’s speculation (emphasis mine):

Birk acknowledged that she went into the shed and fell asleep. She stated that when she woke up, the whole shed was on fire. She advised that she was nearly burned alive. Birk stated that she did not have a phone, so she went to the nearest hotel to call 911 but realized that firetrucks were already on the way.  

Birk admitted that she cooked dinner inside the shed. She built a fire with sheets of paper. She “assumed” that she used a lighter to start the fire. She built the fire on a metal sheet located in the middle of the small shed. She believed that the fire was out when she fell asleep.  

She surmised that an ember might have sparked a tarp she was laying on but was unsure how the fire actually started. Birk let the fire burn for up to a half an hour while she warmed her food. Birk claimed that before going to sleep, she poured water on the fire and tried to stomp it out with her feet.  She added, “I’m sorry if I caused a big problem.”

Not much else to say except please uncritically give the United Way money and never ask why all this homelessness has gotten worse as the director has lectured citizens about getting TOO involved in coming up with their own direct-action-solutions.

The second part of this brief post is a clarification that Andrea Davis, according to the Mayor’s Office, did NOT say there are 3,000 refugee/immigrants in Missoula.

Instead, according to the sources familiar with this meeting where this number was discussed, the number was offered to Mayor Davis, and she said it was probably accurate. It sounds like Mayor Davis better work on her messaging regarding who is in Missoula, and what kind of pressures subsidizing housing for refugees creates while our local homeless population burn down private property despite ALL the options currently available to them.

Stay tuned, I’ll report on all this as much as I am able.

by Travis Mateer

When HuHot burned to the ground last week my first thought was whether or not the likely arsonist would be identified as homeless. An arsonist WAS arrested, but so far there’s no indication if Amy Birk is a housed alleged firebug, or a homeless alleged firebug, a distinction I’ll probably get flak for even suggesting is important.

Firefighters’ work is supposed to be all about controlling fires, not narratives, but in the geographic locations where the cultural retardation of liberalism has taken root, stories like this are slowly emerging (emphasis mine):

Gigi Graciette, a reporter for Fox 11 television, says fire officials have been advised to evade questions about homeless fires from local journalists. “Even when [high-ranking fire officials] know for a fact how a fire … was indeed connected to an encampment or to an unhoused individual, they are not to say that,” Graciette said during a February 21 broadcast. “They are just to say it’s under investigation,” she continued. 

Graciette noted that “many chiefs, many battalion chiefs, many captains are extremely frustrated to see their men and their women risking their lives on fires” at the same encampments repeatedly, including one whose squatters have taken over an abandoned office building in the working class neighborhood of Van Nuys. “It was there that a battalion chief told me ‘we’ve been to this one building ten times and I’m not allowed to speak about it,’” Graciette said. “That’s just the politics at play here.”

When fires repeatedly broke out at the Reserve Street encampments, I not only reported on it (December, 2019), I identified a person of interest (August, 2021) who I knew law enforcement was familiar with. When fires broke out at the California Street/West Broadway Island encampments, blowing up some propane tanks and sending shrapnel flying, I identified a person who was actually arrested for negligent arson and known to frequent this encampment.

The earlier quote I highlighted from the California fire chief references an abandoned building that was taken over by squatters, leading to multiple calls for first responders. Did you know a building in Missoula was briefly occupied for awhile? Yep, and the hilarious irony is that the building I heard was being occupied by squatters is the same building once occupied by LEE ENTERPRISES, the newspaper company making a blogger like ME look good by sucking so bad. Even MORE hilarious is how I correctly speculated on the current owner’s shady business partner months before he was arrested by the FBI.

Another sub-population I’ve been asking unpopular questions about since 2017 is the refugee population Mary Poole has been crusading for in order to transform Missoula into a more diverse community for her children. A recent piece at Western Montana News shows that my unpopular perspective has the potential to get MORE unpopular if the numbers of relocated refugees–or alien migrants, as they are referred to in the opinion piece–are true.

Seventeen illegal aliens were arrested at a construction site in Bigfork earlier this month. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported on X they were “found to be inadmissible to the United States,” a bureaucratic phrase that masks a stark truth: they should not have been here in the first place.

Just weeks before the raid, Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis acknowledged in a meeting with the Montana Veterans Association that over 3,000 alien migrants had been placed in Missoula over the last four years. The MVA, with eyes on the ground and firsthand exposure to the crisis, estimates the true number is closer to 4,000.

In a city the size of Missoula, those numbers are not incidental. They are transformational. They represent thousands of non-citizens competing directly with Montanans for housing, public services, and jobs. And yet, this pressure point is all but ignored in the dominant narrative about Montana’s housing crisis. Instead, we are offered endless sermons about zoning reform, density, and the supposed evils of single-family homes.

When I started raising my concerns about relocating refugees in Missoula I had just come off a 7 year stint working at the local homeless shelter, so I knew quite well the difficulty that existed BACK THEN to get certain types of AMERICANS into housing. Since the pandemic, Montana has garnered national headlines for our dramatic spike in the cost of housing, and the incompetent morons on BOTH sides of the political aisle in Helena are too busy fucking around with transgender bullshit right now instead of helping the vast amount of financially struggling regular people in this state who lack an astro-turfed movement to advocate for them.

While the fire-bombing-left is busy torching Teslas and circle-jerking over the Sheepdog again, I’m wondering what Montana’s fire season will look like this year. Remember last year when a woman connected to the shelters torched a bush outside the postal office? Here’s a part of the report from KGVO at the time (emphasis mine):

Another officer responded who is also familiar with Tarango. He knows she frequents homeless shelters in the area. He drove towards one of the nearby shelters and observed Tarango heading west on North Avenue. He and another officer placed Tarango under arrest.  

During a search incident to arrest, officers located a “tooter” straw and used tin foil with residue on Tarango. A clear plastic bag containing a used syringe was found in the shopping cart Tarango was pushing. An officer observed a red Bic lighter inside the cart as well.  

For political twats, like Pete Talbot, who advocate for retarded, self-destructive, drug-enabling approaches to drug addiction, they better hope nothing happens to my kids at the drug den known as the public library, where I recently cleaned up drug powder and a tooter straw, because then the gloves REALLY come off in this war for the future of our local communities.

If you’d like to make a donation, like the generous one I received recently which was VERY needed, then Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is one way to do it. Stay tuned later this week for another method I’m getting close to installing.

Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

A line in a local fluff piece about booze got my attention because it shows how the phrase BLACK LIVES MATTER is nothing more than bullshit marketing.

For context, this particular marketing comes in the form of a coin that a booze brand developed in 2013 for bartenders to signal to each other with. This type of booze, called Fernet, apparently found a San Francisco entry-point into bar culture. And, because Missoula is full of stupid transplants trying to make this place as hip as their favorite collapsing coastal city, this booze coin-culture provided the “reporter”, Kate Whittle, a chance to color her piece with a little empty virtue-signaling (emphasis mine):

Italian distiller Fratelli Branca is one of the major producers, offering Fernet Branca and Brancamenta (the minty version). In the U.S., Fratelli Branca is a popular end-of-shift shot and often referred to as “the bartenders’ handshake.” Buying one for your bartender signals an in-group affinity. The company doles out swag to service industry staff; Plonk bartender Barry Fawler carries a Fratelli Branca specialty coin that says “Black Lives Matter” on the back.

To verify the San Francisco provenance of this bullshit marketing schtick, here’s a quote from the source I imagine Whittle used for her “research”—the company’s own promotional content (emphasis mine):

The first ever Fernet-Branca coin was created in 2013 to consolidate what had long since been a common habit in the bartender community of San Francisco.

Bartenders were accustomed to having a shot of Fernet-Branca when they changed shifts and it became known as  the ‘bartender handshake’ whose purpose was to mark the moment in which bartending duty was passed over to a colleague.

Before I get to the black life that didn’t matter enough to the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office to stop them from ending it, I’ll note that Plonk is the restaurant where Rebekah Barsotti worked before she disappeared and showed up “accidentally drowned” in the river. Having seen body-cam footage during a criminal proceeding that showed her husband, David Barsotti, drunkenly talking to a Mineral County Sheriff Deputy during an alleged domestic violence incident, I can say that alcohol was DEFINITELY a factor in the abusive relationship Rebekah had ended before she died.

Alcohol was also a factor in the death of Sean Stevenson, that once-alive black man who long-time readers of this blog might be tired of hearing me write about, but it wasn’t just the personal struggles with this substance that contributed to Sean’s death, it was ALSO the deliberate policy decision of the homeless shelter where Sean was assaulted–a “low barrier” policy approach to serving people under the influence–that contributed to the unsafe environment that gave a person (or persons) the opportunity to kill Sean for what he knew.

This policy choice by the Poverello Center led the Fire Chief at the time to restrict first responders from responding to incidents inside the shelter until AFTER the scene had been secured by law enforcement. How many extra minutes expired because of this policy? If the Stevenson family had sued the shelter, maybe there would have an answer to a question like that, but so far that lawsuit hasn’t happened (though I think it should).

Alcohol sales popped up in yesterday’s critical look at the decline of Missoula’s music scene, alcohol was the main factor in the dangerous nap Missoula’s State Senator took behind the wheel after a political event, and alcohol was the soothing substance Pete Talbot was drinking at 3:45pm on a Monday afternoon at the Union Club.

Gee, I’m beginning to think this town might have a drinking problem!

I took my last drink on July 4^th, 2020, so it wasn’t booze that brought me to the Rhino on St. Paddy’s day, but my calling to educate this retarded town in the hopes of making it less retarded. The two zines I am currently offering are quite something, and my intention is to cultivate a unique direct-sales approach. You can think of me like the flower lady who used to make the rounds so that men could increase their chances of getting laid by buying some drooping gesture of their desire for a well-lubricated lady.

Was I well-received at the bar? No, I was not. In fact, I got the distinct impression that, had I persisted in telling my “Tale of Two DUIs”, I would have been told emphatically to leave this popular watering hole. Kind of like the MAGA hat wearing woman recently kicked out of a bar for wearing her MAGA hat.

Mass Ave’s Chatterbox Jazz Club is in the national spotlight after a video of a bartender telling a woman wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat to leave the establishment went viral.

In the days since the video posted, the decades-old live music haunt and Indianapolis resident Elise Hensley, the woman asked to leave, have offered conflicting versions of what transpired Friday before Hensley recorded the 35-second clip.

The video, which has garnered hundreds of thousands of views and reactions across social media platforms, features Hensley asking from behind the camera why she is being asked to leave the bar. A Chatterbox bartender replies, “Because you’re a (President Donald) Trump supporter.”

The double standard with this incident is impressive when you recall how this same political tribe freaked out after a gay couple wasn’t allowed to buy a fucking cake. Considering how the torching of ELONmobiles is being treated versus THE INSURRECTION, the double standard is not unexpected.

Anyway, now that I know some bartenders might have cool booze coins in their pockets, I’ll make sure to educate them about how other sub-cultures, like cops and soldiers, ALSO enjoy carrying around coins. I even have some examples, which I keep in my very serious looking handmade wallet along with my CRIME STOPPER badge.

The bottom coin with the skull and black cowboy hat is carried by those involved with the Association of Montana Violent Crime Investigators, like Detective Smith, the Missoula cop I talked to when I had concerns about what certain graffiti in Missoula might indicate. Before becoming a cop, Detective Smith was in the media, which I find to quite interesting.

As I expose the Homeless Industrial Complex and ALL the narrative controllers in this town who have contributed to suppressing the story of the Missoula Sheriff’s Office and their ability to literally kill a black man in a private hospital room, conventional media is SO BAD when it comes to the topic of homelessness, they can’t even get the names of people and organizations correct in their abysmally shitty reporting.

Here’s KGVO’s “article” about “impactful ways to support Missoula’s homeless community” (emphasis mine):

In this brief quote the “reporter”, Peter Christian, gets three things wrong. First, it’s Casey DUNNING, not Gunning. And it’s the ZACC, not the Zac. And the address is 216 Main, not 316 West. Was Peter Christian drunk when we wrote this?

The deplorable media environment in this town is a big reason why I decided to drop the pseudonym and take my direct knowledge about local corruption straight to their stupid fucking faces, and that’s what I’m going to keep doing.

If you’d like to help out my no-filter approach to local Gonzo journalism, Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is one way to help.

Thanks for reading!