Life Under Two-Tier Information Occupation As The Homeless Content War Heats Up – by Travis Mateer

Watching the watchers and reporting on the reporters isn’t something to build a lucrative content-creating gig on, or even a side-gig really, especially when you’re as ahead of the times as I was with bringing attention to the phenomenon now called “urban camping”. This article from last year, for example, is a good example of my coverage, but just providing a hyper-link to it now has me worried. Why? Because of the chilling effect that comes with being contacted by your probation officer because this post supposedly skirts the line of my legal sentencing conditions.

On the “reporting on the reporters” front, two Pacific Northwest homeless camp content creators have teamed up, a union I’m not surprised to see since I included BOTH their names in this post from March. Now they’re cross-posting on X.

Choe, who I tried getting an interview with a few years ago, works for the Discovery Institute, co-founded by a dude who once did police work for Reagan. Yes, that would be the same President who de-institutionalized America, a decision many credit with being a big factor in getting us to where we are today.

Closer to home, a fatal collision outside the Poverello Center, the homeless shelter I worked at for 7 years, sounds like a possible case of deliberate vehicular homicide, though the 33 year old assailant, Jeffrey Ryan Hill, is only facing negligent homicide charges after being arrested yesterday. If the Facebook profile I perused earlier is the same person, it appears Jeffrey might have a history of drug abuse.

While Trump made news with his July 24th wand-waving spectacle, my skepticism bordering on cynicism stems from a question I asked for nearly a decade: WHERE IS THE ACTUAL HELP GOING TO COME FROM?

Eventually Missoula will have the rock-star of meth recovery, Ginny Burton, coming to town for a visit and, when she does, I’m excited to get on the record again about WHY this town’s first “10 Year Plan To End Homelessness” failed.

That is, unless my bathroom judge tells me the first amendment still doesn’t apply to me right now.

Thanks for reading!