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Today’s trifecta of embarrassment for badges spans three counties, beginning with a wrong-way driver on I-90 that MISSOULA authorities had to deal with because no one was available from Mineral County.

On July 9, 2026, shortly before 3:30 AM, Mineral County 911 received multiple calls regarding a wrong-way driver traveling on Interstate 90. The calls indicated that the suspect vehicle was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-90. The Mineral County Sheriff’s Office did not have any deputies available, so the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office provided aid. The driver, later identified as 60-year-old Dirk Hinkle, was ultimately stopped within the boundary of Missoula County after his vehicle was pinned by deputies.

How often does the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office “not have any deputies available” for interstate highway emergencies? July is Montana’s primetime month for summer travel , when traffic on highways around the state get busier and more dangerous, so it’s kind of worrying that no one from Mineral County could respond to 60 year-old Dirk Hinkle, who had to be “pinned” by Missoula County deputies to stop him.

Moving on to Sanders County, a young woman with an accent became the center of a Facebook controversy after the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office attempted to educate their community about this woman’s presence, including making note of her accent. I guess this caused people to flip out.

On July 6, the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office in western Montana put up a rather odd post on Facebook. 

It was a picture of a deputy standing with a smiling woman outside the sheriff’s office.

“Good afternoon, Sanders County residents,” the post read. “We have met and spoken with Sinija Loze. She works with Families for Education. She is a college student from Latvia doing her summer job selling educational products by Southwestern Advantage. We have verified her information, she does have a accent but is a very nice lady. Her vehicle is a Grey jeep. No need to be alarmed if you see her.”

The post got hundreds of reactions on Facebook, and many commenters were either confused or angry.

The cute young girl the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office was, I’m sure, eager to help out, actually provided the “script” for what to post about her, including the bit about her accent, and Sanders County obliged. Unfortunately, here’s how some people in Sanders County responded:

“I’m genuinely confused about the purpose of this post?” one of the top comments read. “Are people in Montana ‘alarmed’ by someone with an ‘accent’? Literally everybody has an accent.”

Someone else wondered if it was the “accent” part or the “selling educational products” that had everyone “on edge.”

Many comments were either xenophobic or assailing the sheriff’s office for implying that people with accents were to be feared unless told otherwise.

Moving on to Missoula, this KGVO article got my attention for a number of reasons, like the fact a “known drug house” exists in Missoula.

On July 12, 2026, at approximately 8:21 p.m., a Missoula Police Department Officer was on routine patrol when he observed a red Kia Sorento come to a stop directly in front of his vehicle at a known drug house. The officer determined that the registered owner of the vehicle, 42-year-old Melissa Brooks, had a suspended driver’s license.

Brooks exited her vehicle, at which time the officer activated his emergency lights. Brooks then walked to the front of the officer’s patrol vehicle. While communicating with Brooks, dispatch advised the officer that Brooks was on probation. The officer then contacted and advised Adult Probation and Patrol of the circumstances. Probation requested that a search of Brooks, her purse, and her vehicle be conducted.

Upon completing the search, the officer discovered drug paraphernalia, including multiple new hypodermic syringes, pre-cut folded pieces of tin foil, latex tourniquets, alcohol prep pads, pipes consistent with smoking controlled substances, butane fuel, single-use saline containers, and a multitude of small clear plastic baggies consistent with selling and buying small quantities of narcotics.

Do the cops know Melissa Brooks? Yes, they most certainly do, because Melissa Brooks once worked at Open Aid Alliance and was a panelist, along with a cop and another person back on drugs, April Seat, during an official city update of the 10 Year Plan To End Homelessness (emphasis mine):

When this article about Melissa Brooks being arrested near a “known drug house” first hit Facebook, people seemed confused about how a “known drug house” could exist. If the cops “know” about it, doesn’t logic lead one to assume they would be able to do something about it?

For being in possession of dangerous drugs (with intent to sell?), Melissa Brooks spent just one more day in jail than I did when I was arrested on June 19th in the parking lot of the Great Burn Brewery on a warrant alleging I was in technical violation of a restraining order on June 15th.

Before this 2026 arrest, Melissa Brooks was arrested in 2024 and had drugs stashed in her lady parts, including Fentanyl, the infamous drug killing thousands and thousands of addicts across the country.

Brooks was placed under arrest and taken to the Missoula County Detention Center. While the officer was filling out paperwork, court documents indicate he was informed by the jail that they had located drugs hidden in Brooks’ vaginal area and under her bra. The officer observed two clear baggies. One contained 12 fentanyl pills and the other contained a crystal-like substance that appeared to be methamphetamine but tested inconclusive.

The officer applied for and was granted a search warrant for Brooks’ car. Officers found a loaded hypodermic needle of meth, butane torches, a glass pipe, tooter straws, two pieces of burnt tinfoil, butane fluid, two containers filled with liquid methadone, and a black digital scale.

If I had to speculate about Melissa Brooks I’d say there’s a good chance she’s dealing drugs, and she could be one of the protected dealers doing it for the cops, like I suspect John Skinner had been doing, as an informant, for many years, which I wrote about in this post.

Since I know it’s hard to believe this kind of corruption could be happening in a nice liberal mountain town, like Missoula, here’s a 20 second clip from the latest episode of Sugar, a noir tv show about a PI who finds missing persons:

Here’s the dialogue written out for you non-viewers of video:

Tom Flyberg: “Fucking embarrassment, you know most Sheriffs are cool, good guys, good police, but there’s always been this group of ‘em, banger’s with badges.

John Sugar: “Starts in the jails, huh? Alameda Sheriff’s Department runs it?”

Tom Flyberg: “Uh-huh, it’s where they make the connections.”

Yep, this tracks, which reminds me…didn’t Missoula’s Sheriff, Jeremiah Petersen, run the jail before running unopposed to become TOP LAW DOG of Missoula County?

Yes he did.

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And no, I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

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A woman by the name of Danielle Egnew just put forth my favorite new conspiracy theory about the inexplicable rise of Alani Bankead and what it might all be pointing to in terms of who the grand manipulator could be, so I’m going to highlight some excerpts before the national media picks this up, which is imminent, apparently.

Let’s begin.

My inbox has been full with people asking me what I think is going to happen in the U.S. Senate race in Montana — which is about two seconds from hitting the national news and becoming the new high-drama scroll-bait. That breaks my heart.

I have some thoughts on the current Montana political race for Senate. I’ve been POURING over the weirdness of this issue. Something about it just wasn’t adding up, given the calculated nature of politics, and the money—and Tester’s experience. NONE of it added up.

Until it did.

And then it really, really did.

Egnew, who was once a candidate herself for Mayor of Billings a decade ago, spends a lot of time laying the foundation for how she’s arrived at her conspiracy theory, including what she hopes to accomplish by sharing her conspiracy theory, and why she hopes her conspiracy theory is wrong. That’s because what she describes is a complicated, 5-D chess maneuver assembled in her mind from a gut feeling that Mr. Flattop is playing the role of Machiavelli, so let’s skip ahead to where we start getting to the good stuff:

At this point, my speculation uncovers that Tester knows there’s no way Bodner wins. Tester’s declared unofficial war on the Dem party so it’s very doubtful they’re going to want to dump their candidate for his. He’s going to be aware of that. So this can’t be about Bodner winning. Tester knows he can’t and won’t. This can’t even be about Tester’s anger or disappointment at the party.

This has to be about watering the vote.

And THAT has to be about something else.

Danielle Egnew is taking us into a political house of mirrors where I had previously bumped around, wondering if Alani Bankhead was somehow a covert op for Kurt Alme and/or angling for a future job under the future Governor, Austin Knudsen. But that was before I found out about Tester’s role with Anthropic, which I had first picked up on scanning Facebook comments before seeing Egnew make it a central part of her conspiracy theory:

With a deep split in the vote, and many Dems feeling like they got “the finger” from Tester —which doesn’t inspire backing “his guy”, so to speak, and that, too, is something he would have considered— the next logical step is that short of a big Hail Mary, we’re going to get Alme, which means we’ll get data centers—and with Tester on the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, again, my eyebrow is really, REALLY RILLY RILLY raised here.

Yes, not only is Jon Tester assisting Anthropic now, his arrival on the Advisory Council scene (announced last August) puts him at the heart of an industry revolutionizing how we do EVERYTHING, especially war.

That’s why this Axios breakdown is so chilling:

If this new role for Tester includes playing the puppet master in order to split Democrats and ensure Kurt Alme’s victory in November, here’s how Egnew imagines the rationale could have played out in the dirt farmer’s Machiavellian head:

It makes sense Tester received that appointment. He’s a dirt farmer. He knows the vast expanses of eastern and southern central Montana. He knows the barren land, the greatest commodity in data processing besides power. Perhaps he took the appointment because he was watching the inevitable tech wave on the horizon imminently baring down on our open prairies to turn them into humming data factories, and he at least knows the difference between fertile soil, and rocky clay that could hold a foundation. Maybe it gives him no joy, but he can’t stop the inevitable, so better to just park it all on lifeless dirt? Perhaps he knew he couldn’t hold back the avalanche but could at least direct the flow.

Because if I were a speculating person, that’s LITERALLY the only thing that would make actual through-line-sense in this Michael-Crichton-From-Hell novel.

Bodner would be a pawn, the good faith of people believing in Bodner would be the pawn— so many pawns. Neill and Bankhead and Montana voters and the state itself are casualties.

This plan is so well laid out, right down to when Bodner loses and when we get Alme—Tester can blame the Dems for not backing Bodner, and blame Alani for not “dropping out”— and no one will be looking at DATA CENTER because the finger pointing will be poking out eyes.

Could Danielle Egnew’s conspiracy theory be correct? She’s certainly got that last part right about poking out eyes, which seemed to escalate after 17 legislators wrote that letter I would have written about more explicitly if I wasn’t legally forbidden from writing about one of the signatories.

Instead, let’s consult some curated comments from the digital commons about the signatories:

While the FB comments about the letter smacked of asking mom and dad to stop fighting, they seemed more hostile toward the dad side, which conveniently kept one aspect of Alani Bankhead’s candidacy from being closely scrutinized, and that’s the question of where she came from and how long she’s been a resident of Montana, something Montanans are notorious for taking pretty seriously.

Another thing not appreciated by Montanans is the state of California, so if Reilly really is running to Los Angeles to tattle on Montana for mean political conspiracies against women, like Egnew claims at the end of her Facebook post, then that will just worsen the animosity that has broken out between Democrat women and Seth Bodnar supporters, further increasing the odds of Kurt Alme will win easily in November.

Reilly is on her Facebook page claiming Alani is a “plant” to deliberately foul her campaign and that she’s a “ghost”, that everything she’s said about herself is fabricated. Neill’s saying she’s been interviewed by LA TV producers about all of this in an upcoming national expose on everybody involved — Bodner, Tester, Alani, herself. Yeah. Great.

We Montanans just wanted a shot at a decent senator to help fix what’s wrong in the USA.

We just wanted to have a primary and run a good campaign.

If this is correct— and I truly hope I’m simply having a demented Agatha Christie moment—then thanks, Jon Tester.

I guess if you can’t have it— then none of us can?

The “Data Center” angle is definitely a good conspiracy theory angle to apply to the Montana Senate race, and it may even be true because, to emphasize how weird things are getting, an environmental group just advocated to keep PSC pariah, Brad Molnar, close to the energy company merger action, since he knows (and opposes) what this merger could mean for…DATA CENTERS!

A Missoula-based environmental group has raised concerns about a replacement Montana Public Service Commissioner voting on a potential Northwestern Energy – Black Hills Corporation merger.

A replacement is needed because Gov. Greg Gianforte recently suspended Commissioner Brad Molnar of Laurel for one year, citing alleged inappropriate behavior toward staff members.

The group 350 Montana says Molnar knows the details of the proposed merger and needs to be in on the decision. NorthWestern officials have said they are seeking the merger to increase generation capacity in the face of rising demand. Critics, including Molnar, have said the merger is aimed at paving the way for development of data centers, which have drawn criticism from local ratepayers.

And to further highlight the strange bedfellows emerging in this data center drama, I was already quite suspicious of how the national narrative was forming when Erin Brockovich popped up to re-brand herself as an anti-data center warrior…

…but now, with last Saturday’s nationally organized protest being coordinated by a former Tea Party movement activist, that suspicion has grown significantly.

The backlash against the AI data-center build-out – which we’ve been tracking since it was a smattering of county fights across 28 states – staged its first coordinated day of action on Saturday: 142 protests across 42 states, from Wasilla, Alaska to Naples, Florida, organized by Humans First, the nonprofit that Tea Party veteran Amy Kremer co-founded and chairs. The crowds spanned both sides of the aisle…uniting a MAGA stalwart in a ‘faith, family, freedom’ T-shirt in New Jersey, a first-time activist in Texas, and a left-leaning organizer in California’s Imperial Valley.

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Kremer is a founding figure of the Tea Party movement who went on to found Women for Trump, and an organizer of the January 6, 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol riot (she neither planned nor took part in the riot itself). She has spent months calling data centers the defining fight of her lifetime, warning the technology could threaten humanity itself, and she is open about running the old playbook: grassroots pressure, town by town, aimed at both parties.

Does Amy Kremer sound like a “grassroots” activist? Or, if your brain isn’t partisan retard mush, does she sound like a Fed?

I think Amy Kremer sounds like a Fed.

To finish this up, it’s my somewhat radical assertion that what’s happening right now with these more covert data center power plays possibly hiding behind local political theatrics was foretold in Ari Aster’s movie, Eddington, which I helped break down on an episode of the PsyOp Cinema podcast, which you can listen to here. There are even specific references to Montana that I caught in the movie and put into context with my pattern-recognition skills, so check it out!

I also caught what I believe to be a reference to the Epstein Network in that film, which makes sense considering Eddington takes place in New Mexico, where the Zorro Ranch is located, and where Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister, Christine Maxwell, does her work at the Santa Fe Institute, which I wrote about 3 years ago in a post titled “Six Degrees Of Jeffrey Epstein, Missoula Edition“.

Because of my research into the Epstein connections to Montana, which you can peruse in this post with lots of links to other relevant posts, my ability to live anything close to a “normal” life has been totally upended. While an alleged “plant” like Alani Bankhead uses the phrase “Epstein Era” for legacy media to take note of, my work on Epstein is only getting official attention from the courts as the bathroom judge listened attentively on May 12th to a state legislator commit perjury before putting a TEN YEAR retraining order in place that excludes me from downtown Missoula, a majority of UM’s campus, the capitol building in Helena, and essential services that I need to access in order to fight for my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS on appeal.

The people who continue to come after me, using whatever means available to try and shut me down, have VERY close ties to Jon Tester AND the Gianforte administration, so I’m in a unique position to see how non-partisan the corruption in Montana truly is, and how effective the manipulative efforts to control narratives actually are once you take the blinders off, and for that ability I am being severly punished.

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With unconfirmed reports that David Barsotti was found dead in his home recently in Superior, Montana, I rewatched a handful of “True Crime” content this weekend about his wife, Rebekah Barsotti, who went missing five years ago tomorrow and was found dead 10 months later. Here’s what stood out to me from my brief trip down memory lane where I, and many others, may have been manipulated from the very beginning of Rebekah Barsotti’s “disappearance”.

If David Barsotti murdered his wife, either directly or by paying someone else to do it, then it wasn’t just the prospect of divorce that may have been the catalyst, it was likely the specific impact on the couple’s main asset–their marital home–that made the prospect of divorce so threatening.

After Rebekah’s body was found (but before she was officially identified) Rebekah’s mother, Angela Mastrovito, discussed how this pre-disappearance marital fight was shaping up once Rebekah made up her mind to leave.

After being reminded about how important the house was to David Barsotti I was curious to see what the Montana Cadastral website would show about the property. Here’s a screenshot:

River front property? Hmmm.

Before moving on there are a few data points from Montana Cadastral to parse out, like this one:

The deed alteration due to “Termination of Joint Tenancy by Death” occurred on 8/25/2022, just three months after Rebekah was found dead under VERY suspicious circumstances. Considering how vigorously David Barsotti fought his mother-in-law to control his wife’s corpse after she was found NOT alive, and considering how vigorously Angela Mastrovito fought her son-in-law all the way to the Montana Supreme Court for money to compensate her choice to move to Montana and search for her daughter, it seems notable that David made legally updating his property information a priority.

It’s a possibility, though, that I’m not interpreting this data correctly because something else that seemed notable, like when the information on this property was “Last Modified”…

…only appeared significant (David possibly died BEFORE July 13th) until I ran this by someone else and they noticed the same date/time modification on their own property at this site, indicating a system modification done automatically, not a specific modification done by an individual.

If I was going on a live-stream, like Jim Terry asked me to do yesterday during our brief and repulsive phone conversation, then depicting the deed modification as being done in the wee hours of the night by an unnamed individual plays MUCH better for the eager audience of wine-moms Terry seems to both despise, and rely on, for income, as reported a few years ago by the Rolling Stone.

When I spoke to Jim Terry yesterday, he asked when I heard David had died. I told him Friday, then got some interesting tidbits from him, like his theory that some local cops are trafficking guns to and from Arkansas, but after I turned down his offer to appear on his YouTube channel, or go to David’s house and live-stream some bullshit for him, that’s when the phone line seemed to cut-out and I sensed a ploy to see if I was eager enough to play bullshit games and call back.

I did not call back.

One of the few bright spots in this dark period of my life is that I never played the “True Crime” game that other colorful characters, like Nathan, seemed to play when he pretended to go along with a plan to burn down Angela Mastrovito’s Virginia home.

By staying local and avoiding the trap of the spectacle I kept myself on the periphery as this drama of recorded phone calls and plans to commit arson, or worse, unfolded. Now I’m wondering why Angela Mastrovito’s first Private Investigator, John Baker, proposed the idea of ensnaring David Barsotti in the pre-planning stage of this arson conspiracy plot in the first place.

Could there have been an attempt to muddy the waters from the get-go?

I called John Baker’s PI office yesterday and left a message, so maybe I’ll get a chance to ask directly about the methods of a Montana PI, methods I’ll remind readers that former Mineral County Sheriff, Mike Toth, is trying to standardize for the whole state.

Grief is a powerful thing and, like most powerful things, an entire industry has been built around it, so I try not to fault Angela Mastrovito for potentially getting suckered by two Private Investigators, but no one forced this genuinely grieving mother to add her two cents to the Rolling Stone article. No, that was done to strategically amplify the profile her daughter’s story because it’s easy, with grief as an engine, the think the ends justify the means.

Though I’m skeptical about how and why they were acquired, the calls Nathan recorded with David Barsotti do provide a window into David’s drunken “planning” that might be helpful in ascertaining one of Jim Terry’s claims, and that’s the one that local cops are dealing guns (Terry also thinks someone should dig under a concrete pad at David’s property for the body he thinks is underneath it).

Here are some exchanges I took screenshots of from this episode of Hidden True Crime:

“They do not know how far it goes“…that stood out to me.

One of those “ex’s” is still alive and is most likely the one that gave an anonymous interview, probably the one who’s identity was used as a threat by the PI Mastrovito hired to get answers for her, at whatever cost.

Why is David’s face put on TV bad for him? Who is he afraid will see?

There are a few other threads that might be worth pulling on with the timing of David Barsotti’s supposed death, and one reason to pull is the possibility (right now, just a rumor) that Wayne Cashman is fixing to run a write-in candidacy for Sheriff to preserve the stank-ass legacy of Ryan Funke, a legacy carefully protected by my favorite Bathroom Judge, a judge who must love men in uniform so much he thinks of meat (“nothing burgers“, he calls ’em) when he SHOULD BE thinking of rights, as enshrined on the kind of paper you wouldn’t dream of using in a bathroom.

See that? That’s the smile of a law man who knows that rivers and other bodies of water in Montana are the best method for keeping the murder rate low.

If you know, you know.

For more context on this case, this post has 25 links to click through, so have at it.

And, in honor of NOT wanting to make a dime off this case, I’ll omit my panhandling link to my GoFundMe page for this post. But, stay tuned, because I may have more to say once the rumor of David Barsotti’s death is finally made official.

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The use of a “jail diversion” pre-trial program got some attention recently because of a class-action lawsuit in Ravalli County that made some claims about the costs burdening those merely ACCUSED of a crime, not convicted of one. From the link:

A jail diversion program in Ravalli County upends important values of the justice system by forcing defendants to pay hundreds of dollars a month in fees before they’re ever found guilty, lawyers alleged Monday in federal court.

In the class action lawsuit, lawyer Phil Telfeyan of Equal Justice Under Law said one man who is disabled and whose only source of income is his Social Security check of $1,100 was billed $1,073 for the fees, leaving him $27 for all of his needs.

“He’s become homeless for the very first time in his life at 71 years old,” Telfeyan said.

So, what was the original intent of this program, run by the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office, that’s making people like Phil Telfeyan homeless?

The Sheriff’s Office runs pretrial supervision, and Young said the idea behind it was to create a self-funded program and ensure accountability, which hadn’t taken place before 2018.

The idea is to “ensure accountability” for people who aren’t being accountable to the process, like showing up for scheduled court hearings. Is it working?

Sandra Martin, of Corvallis, testified that she was arrested for a failure to appear, and she had to pay $56 twice a week for urinalysis tests plus $105 a month for “pretrial services” — or $553 a month.

Martin said she didn’t ever get a call or a visit or help with housing or counseling as part of the pretrial fee, but she couldn’t afford to pay the costs anyway.

Her husband peeled logs for $1,600 to $2,000 a month while she cared for their grandchildren, for which the couple was financially responsible.

When Martin informed the pretrial supervision officers she couldn’t afford the fees, she heard it didn’t matter, she said.

“They said it was unfortunate, but I didn’t have a choice,” Martin said. “I was either going to pay the fine, pay the fees, or I was going to be kicked out of the program and go back to jail.”

The demand to either pay or go back to jail sounds like a threat from a shake-down, not “help” to be “accountable” to the judicial system.

Moving north, to Missoula County, here’s what the Missoula County website claims pre-trial supervision programs can do for people forced to be a part of them:

While I haven’t been in this program long, what I can already report from my “lived experience” is that unprofessional conduct putting my “freedom” at risk has already occurred with the person tasked with doing things like providing “assistance for housing, employment, transportation…” for her client (me), and my attempt to get these issues addressed by a supervisor have been ignored for a week.

To better understand what kind of “risk” I pose to the Missoula community, let’s check out my stats from pre-trial’s assessment of my criminal history:

According to the stats, there’s no violent criminal history, there’s no “failure to appears”, there’s no pending charges at the time of my arrest, and I’m 90% likely to appear for future court dates.

Instead of getting “help” and “support” from pre-trial supervision, my experience more closely aligns with the description in this report, which frames programs like the one I’m being manipulated by like this:

Have you ever walked into a meeting with your lawyer for the first time and your ankle monitor is beeping because your pre-trial compliance officer failed to send an email two days previous to ensure that entry into this forbidden zone for said meeting didn’t result in a technical violation of conditions of release?

I have.

If this was the only whoopsie, maybe I’d be a little more understanding, but I’ve already documented other troubling examples of new barriers being created by either incompetence, or something else, and I’m not the kind of “client” to sit back and allow myself to be further manipulated by cogs in this systemic meat grinder.

Going back to the report, done by the Urban Institute, here’s why they claim scrutinizing this process matters:

While I don’t often comment on the PTSD that lurks in shadows of how I interact with the world, the violence I was in proximity to working at the Poverello Center became acutely clear two years in, in 2010, when my co-worker was stabbed by a drunk client after being denied services.

For context, this article describes the legal argument his lawyer made for reducing his sentence after years already spent behind bars:

Briscoe went to the Poverello Center on June 28, 2010, seeking a shower after soiling his pants. But a worker there refused to let him in because Briscoe was drunk. He’d begun his day by drinking two-thirds of a quart of vodka and three or four beers, according to court documents. A breath test showed a blood alcohol level of .166, more than twice the legal driving limit.

After being turned away from the Pov, Briscoe returned and stabbed the man, according to court records.

Much of Thursday’s hearing focused on Briscoe’s alcoholism, as well as a nine-year stretch of sobriety when he lived in Chippewa Falls, Wisc., and worked at an alcohol treatment center.

There, he had a reputation as a compassionate man and hard worker, who’d be welcome to return to his former line of work there, according to testimony presented at the hearing.

His belligerence at the Poverello Center was an alcohol-fueled aberration, Boggs said, featuring “things that were said by a drunken man … (who’d) reached absolute bottom.”

Briscoe himself told Townsend that “I am an alcoholic. Alcohol has run through my life.”

Boylan said the true aberration comprised Biscoe’s nine sober years in Wisconsin, pointing out that even when incarcerated, Briscoe was caught this past September drinking “pruno,” an alcoholic jailhouse concoction.

Townsend pointed out that nowhere in Briscoe’s presentence report does he say he’s sorry.

Psychologist Janet Allison, who interviewed Briscoe extensively, testified that “he felt very bad about himself” because of the incident.

“Is that not another way of saying he’s sorry he got caught?” Townsend queried.

She again sentenced Briscoe to 20 years in prison, but this time suspended five years.

No, I don’t think John Briscoe was ever sorry that he attacked and stabbed my co-worker, who I was supervising at the time, because there are other things that wouldn’t be in a “pre-sentence report” that contributed to the dangerous atmosphere at the Poverello Center.

Right, Eran Pehan? Isn’t that why we settled with Tom and his lawyer when he sued us?

After my co-worker was stabbed, I was targeted by some unstable clients and had to take out several restraining orders. I also had weapons pulled on me several times, so yeah, PTSD, but I’m not bringing this up for sympathy. No, I’m referencing my own struggles because the conduct of alleged “professionals” gaslighting me behind the scenes right now is, I believe, part of a strategy, and it’s one I am saddened to see occur, since some of these people knew me when I was the coordinator for the Homeless Outreach Program from 2010 to 2016, when I recognized my own significant “burnout” and left on my own accord.

While it might seem outlandish to claim, there’s a chance what’s coming down on me like a snowball made of shit is, in part, the result of my Big Sky Epstein Network coverage, like this post about Sultan Sulayem, Missoula Probation and Parole, and someone involved in P&P who is now a judge…the same judge who signed my arrest warrant, I will add.

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

While I watch how the watchers watch me, the city of Missoula is getting sued left and right and I’m loving it. There’s the litigation to pry the report on Keithi Worthington’s unprofessional conduct from Mayor Davis’s sweaty hands, there’s the wrongful death lawsuit for how Missoula cops killed Ross Robertson, and now there’s litigation against the crown jewel of midtown gentrification, the Midtown Commons:

Residents near a public-private development in the Missoula Midtown neighborhood allege in a lawsuit filed last month that they did not have a proper ability to participate in the project.

The suit, filed by a nonprofit called Rooted in Environmental Justice on June 17, argues the Midtown Commons development was illegally approved by the Missoula City Council.

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Lawyers for the neighbors allege the process did not follow the state Constitution’s right to participate, a right to a clean and healthy environment and did not follow local rules when selling a portion of the land.

“Members of the public, including plaintiffs, who attended the May 18, 2026 hearing did not have access to all the information that informed the city’s decision, had not been able to participate in previous meetings developing the decision and were not able to meaningfully participate in the decision,” the lawsuit said.

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Unions and Government both exist, whether we want them to or not, and when two retarded things combine forces–like unions and government–what you get is the modern American police force.

In my attempt to match the vibe, I used AI to develop a prototype of mechanized discipline for local law enforcement called the “Reprimand Machine” and this machine uses what I’m calling the “Wheel of Wrist Slaps” to reprimand misbehaving cops. If Mayor Davis (or Stacie “Dark Money” Anderson) would like to give me a million dollars, I can 3-D print a version of this handy machine and start testing it out on the kind of cops who are taser-trigger-happy for tiny women in yellow cars.

Yeah, I’m talking to YOU, Lucas Bighouse!

When you let the Police Union develop disciplinary actions for their dues-paying members, what you get looks like this from the collective bargaining agreement police have with the city of Missoula:

All these colors and numbers are probably confusing for the simple creatures we give guns and tasers to, so I think MY accountability machine will simplify and streamline the process of pretend accountability, just like renters in Missoula are pretending they live in a FIGHTING COMMUNITY!

The last panelist to present, Sapp brought in qualitative information based on the work of the Tenants Union. Sapp stated that before the Tenants Union existed, he believed that there weren’t many options for renters, that they just had to accept a lack of control over housing.

But now, as more unions arise across the state, Sapp said there may be a different, more community-empowered way forward.

“Renting in Missoula now means that you are part of a fighting community,” Sapp said. “You are a part of a community of people who are rediscovering the power of strong neighborhoods and strong relationships and strong unions.

“We are rediscovering western Montana’s storied and deep history of people power and community defense, standing on the shoulders of the giants who fought before us against the Copper Kings and the Timber Barons.”

Sorry, but just saying you’re part of a “fighting community” doesn’t magically make it so. When you invoke the labor fights of yesteryear, it’s important to understand that many of those fights were, you know, ACTUAL FIGHTS where people actually got hurt, sometimes even killed, and often arrested. In fact, that’s why we have a “Free Speech Corner” in Missoula: enough rowdy laborers were willing to get arrested and fill the jail because they understood THAT is what was required, back then, to move the needle on peasant rights.

In autumn 1909, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Jack Jones arrived in Missoula, soon followed by there comrade Frank Little. After renting space for a union hall, they took to the streets, determined to spread “the glad tidings of a great revolutionary union” to Missoula’s working class. From this corner, they demanded union hiring halls for timber workers while preaching the destruction of capitalism, worker control of production and workplace-centered democracy. On September 28, 1909, the police arrested Little and Jones for violating Missoula’s long-ignored ban of public speaking. Flynn immediately put out a call for additional speakers. Her goal was to fill the Missoula jail and cost the city so much money and trouble that it would agree to allow the IWW to continue organizing. During the next week, over seventy IWW speakers were arrested, including the pregnant Flynn. On October 8, faced with overflowing jails, increasing expenses, and a growing public relations nightmare, the city council capitulated. The IWW had secured its right to speak, a lasting victory for the First Amendment.

Did the IWW secure a “lasting victory” for the First Amendment? No, I don’t they did, and I say that as a citizen journalist who would be arrested if I entered the exclusion zone pictured below, which includes the “free speech corner”, without permission from the individual tasked with monitoring my movements.

Why did the Missoula County Attorney’s Office change this NO TRAVIS bubble? Did they realize that the original one, which centered on Break Espresso, wasn’t legally binding because it banned me from accessing a Federal Highway? And why won’t they disclose the communication I demanded about this change for my appeal with the Montana Supreme Court?

What are you trying to hide from me, Mr. Bloom?

If I was a paid news reporter at the Billings Gazette then the protective umbrella of something called the Montana News Guild might be able to help me, but I’m not, so it can’t.

For the citizens of Billings, though, their union-protected reporters have taken that union support and, in turn, turned that support into stories about Veterans of wars, missing and murdered indigenous women, and the community EVERYONE knows needs the most protection, peaceful Jews who want nothing more than to get along with their neighbors and calmly integrate with their adopted local communities.

The Montana News Guild was founded to protect the future of The Billings Gazette’s journalists.

We are the inheritors of a proud tradition in a great state. Since 1885, The Billings Gazette has published in what is now Montana’s largest city, documenting the lives of a diverse citizenry in one of the largest newspaper coverage areas in the nation. In the course of that 135 years, our newsroom has educated and advocated for its readers while holding those in power accountable to a democratic society.

Our newsroom has covered the effects of combat on families and soldiers from World War I to Afghanistan and Iraq. We’ve published stories and editorials advocating for our Jewish community, and held law enforcement and political officials accountable for failing to investigate missing and murdered indigenous people.

Newspapers, cops, and unions sucking dues from their individually-impotent members have all contributed to us arriving at this point in our history. Does anyone think that’s a GOOD thing?

Information has ALWAYS been the most valuable commodity because knowing what others don’t is a tremendous advantage. I hope the corrupt, vile, and vindictive local power brokers now understand what I’m willing to take from them in order to make the community my kids are growing up in less retarded than the retarded status quo the psychopath class has worked so hard to establish.

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