Are you sad that Don Lemon got arrested? Are you disturbed that other “journalists” got arrested along with him? Do you cry for Democracy and our beloved First Amendment? COOL! Then maybe you’d like to know about Archie and Edyth Bush, since it’s THEIR MONEY that encouraged Georgia Fort and Trahern Crews to transform themselves into smiling negro socks puppets for corporate cash.
What is the Bush Foundation? Let’s consult its history from the website:
We invest in great ideas and the people who power them. This has been the case since we were founded in 1953 by Archie and Edyth Bush, who set up the foundation with few restrictions, ensuring that board and staff members through the years would have the flexibility needed to meet the challenges of the day.
A Granite Falls, Minnesota native, Archie began his career as a bookkeeper with a small company based in Duluth, Minnesota. He rose up through the ranks over the years, helping to shape it into the innovative multinational firm known today as 3M. With no children of their own to inherit their estate, Archie and Edyth established the Bush Foundation with an original investment of 3M stock.
Yes, that’s right, since Archie couldn’t put babies into his wife, he decided to impregnate his community with bullshit, providing grant money for “good ideas”. Here’s the pitch:
Before we get to the “journalism” being funded by 3M corporate stock money, how about we read something interesting from a more established media platform, like ProPublica, and the vast gaslighting 3M engaged in when it looked like they might be contributing to forever chemicals forever polluting our environment.
Here’s how ProPublica reported the secret studies that had already been done by 3M, but were kept secret:
What Hansen didn’t know was that 3M had already conducted animal studies — two decades earlier. They had shown PFOS to be toxic, yet the results remained secret, even to many at the company. In one early experiment, conducted in the late ’70s, a group of 3M scientists fed PFOS to rats on a daily basis. Starting at the second-lowest dose that the scientists tested, about 10 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, the rats showed signs of possible harm to their livers, and half of them died. At higher doses, every rat died. Soon afterward, 3M scientists found that a relatively low daily dose, 4.5 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, could kill a monkey within weeks. (Based on this result, the chemical would currently fall into the highest of five toxicity levels recognized by the United Nations.) This daily dose of PFOS was orders of magnitude greater than the amount that the average person would ingest, but it was still relatively low — roughly comparable to the dose of aspirin in a standard tablet.
In 1979, an internal company report deemed PFOS “certainly more toxic than anticipated” and recommended longer-term studies. That year, 3M executives flew to San Francisco to consult Harold Hodge, a respected toxicologist. They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers. According to a 3M document that was marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” Hodge urged the executives to study whether the company’s fluorochemicals caused reproductive issues or cancer. After reviewing more data, he told one of them to find out whether the chemicals were present “in man,” and he added, “If the levels are high and widespread and the half-life is long, we could have a serious problem.” Yet Hodge’s warning was omitted from official meeting notes, and the company’s fluorochemical production increased over time.
Armed with 3M corporate money, Georgia Fort essentially created a blog called BLCK. What is the purpose of her blog? Let’s take a look:
Our mission is to Reconnect News to Black Culture. We believe stories are powerful—and that access to accurate, relevant information can be both liberating and lifesaving. But when our communities are disengaged and disconnected from the news, how can we make the informed civic, economic, and personal decisions that shape our future?
When news is created for us, by people who understand our lived experiences, it doesn’t just inform—it resonates. It reflects our values, speaks our language, and becomes part of our culture.
We envision a world where Black communities have our own trusted news channel—one that speaks directly to us, empowers us to act, and keeps us connected, civically engaged, and economically strong.
I don’t care how many words Georgia Fort uses to describe her supposed mission of “reconnecting news to black culture”, this isn’t empowerment, it’s control, and it’s funded by a corporation that made LOTS of money on COVID fear.
U.S. conglomerate 3M Co, which makes N95 face masks, posted a 24.2% rise in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, benefiting from strong demand for its personal safety products due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Net income attributable to 3M rose to $1.62 billion, or $2.77 per share, in the quarter ended March 31, from $1.31 billion or $2.25 per share, a year earlier.
While all this context is easy to find, I haven’t seen any other “news” source following the Bush Foundation money.
Why?
Why is a broke blogger from a Montana college town able to spend an hour following the money and writing a blog post that provides more interesting and relevant perspectives than the majority of the alt-media information sphere has so far produced four days after Don Lemon got arrested?
After a big week last week, I’ve got some very interesting content I’ll be publishing this week, so stay tuned. Despite NO corporate cash in my coffers, I still managed to publish FIVE posts last week. Here they are in case you missed any:
Leave Rhyming To The Poets, Jimmy (January 26th, 2026)
This Isn’t Kent State And Missoula Leaders Hate The First Amendment (January 27th, 2026)
Flattop Tester, Pork Chops For Cops, And The Role Of Operation Stonegarden (January 27th, 2026)
Councilor Anderson, Missoula First Responders, And The Sometimes Constitution (January 28th, 2026)
Dear Mayor,… (January 29th, 2026)
When you understand what our local officials did last week to shit on my first amendment protection, the approach I’ll be taking this week will make more sense.
Thanks for reading!