The cleanup at Buckhouse bridge began on May 7th and is still ongoing. The nastiest camp closest to highway 93 is only partially cleaned up, with the largest trash pile now getting submerged by rising river water. Some of the land where trash has accumulated belongs to IMEG, a company that wants to develop a small portion of this parcel for heated dry storage.
Another piece of this problematic patchwork of land is owned by the University of Montana. That’s why I reached out to University police last week after finding a couple stacks of fake cash in a blue backpack at the camp site.
There are often two competing narratives about urban camps that figuratively fight each other for attention. One narrative, generally promoted by the non-profits who get grants and solicit donations to perpetuate this crisis, frames every homeless person as a blameless victim of circumstance. This narrative gets amplified by liberal politicians for easy empathy votes.
The other narrative allows the reality of addiction, depravity, and insanity to shine through, so it’s easier for the information consumer to believe that they’re getting the unvarnished truth about what’s REALLY going on, but are they?
If information consumers are getting their subversive homeless camp content from the Kev and Choe Show, then I would say NO, instead of truth they’re getting Discovery Institute rage-bait from a couple of aura-farmers willing to take selfies with a drug addict for clicks.
For more context on why I call this Dumb and Dumber duo nothing but a couple of grifters, check these articles out:
“Astroturf Organizing Or Organic-Fed Grass, You Decide!” (March 10th, 2025)
“Life Under Two-Tier Information Occupation As The Homeless Content War Heats Up” (July 31st, 2025)
“On Stopping Operation Humans Suck” (August 18th, 2025)
“Real Independent Journalists Are Unicorns” (December 29th, 2025)
If you read the articles I’ve written about the Kev and Choe Show you will better understand how narrative control functions, including why it’s important to stop people like me from doing awful things, like dropping links to my work in the comments of Kev’s X account.
Intent is very important to discern when it comes to consuming information about sensitive, controversial topics with wide-ranging national policy consequences. That’s what people should ask themselves questions, like…WHO is paying someone to do the work of exposing the consequences of homeless policies, and the different ways in which communities react? Are they local? How long have they been doing this work? What were they doing before? And why chill with a crazy-ass nigga in a trap house for a selfie?
As a broke-ass blogger posting content specific to Missoula for the last 16 years, and with a previous work history of 10 years in the non-profit sector (including 7 at the local homeless shelter) I can say (and you can verify) that my intent is to find actual, collaborative solutions to the status quo of allowing a meth-fueled bicycle chop-shop to thrive next to one of our exemplary rivers.
When I say this camp was a chop-shop I bring receipts. When I say “Missoula Works” got the bid to do the cleanup I bring receipts. Why? Because I make calls, I go on-site, and I talk to ANYONE willing to talk to me, with a few caveats of the individuals who have been able to manipulate the restraining order protections, a form of insidious lawfare that the Kev and Choe Show are now making a public showing of having to go through.
If you would like to support this grifter, there’s a whole website now dedicated to helping Choe navigate his trials and tribulations. Great work, Johnny!
While the Kev and Choe Show fundraise on their lawfare LARP, I’m hoping my Buckhouse bridge final report can include how much money Missoula Works charged to provide homeless camp cleanup services, whether or not the University of Montana contributed to the cost of the cleanup, and what the plan is moving forward to ACTUALLY do the kind of work non-profits, like the Clark Fork Coalition, strategically stay away from.
Now excuse me while I get ready for traffic court from the Marijuana DUI and subsequent suspended license charge I caught after the city dropped the DUI charge by not showing up to court and getting the initial charges dismissed. Sadly, thanks to a local judge, my method of warning locals about the dangers of DUIs has been declared 50% illegal for me to show in public.
Thanks for reading!