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"Radical" Russ Belville

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🎤 Host of The RadicalRuss Show podcast, former 🌲 NORML podcaster, 📡 XM Progress host, 🖋 liberal blogger, 🎸 6-String Bass, 🪖 Natl Guard Vet, 🏈 Boise State Bronco. Born 🔴 Idaho, Love 🔵 Oregon. 🇺🇸✊🏻

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · Nov 23

Hey, new followers! I'm "Radical" Russ (80s🤙🏻radical, not 60s✌🏻radical). If you follow me, you're going to get a lot of #progressive #politics, #BoiseState #football, #marijuana, #AT40 #music, Southern #Oregon, my 6-string #bass performances, and the other things I think about. Radicalruss.com/idaho

Why "Radical" Russ Left Idaho (Have You Read the News?) - RadicalRuss.com

When people in Southern Oregon learn I am from Idaho, they will sometimes ask, “why did you leave?” I usually […]

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Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 9h

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 7h

I give Trump a little slack because he was born a silver spoon racist idiot. He knows nothing else.

But Vance grew up poor white trash, and miraculously escaped the trailer park through education at Ohio State & Yale. He is purposefully, thoughtfully, methodically cultivating his fascist racism.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“Kids”

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 8h

We really need to put some teeth into forcing government officials to do their jobs. No, Mr. Speaker, you must open the House. No, Mr. Leader, you can't deny a Supreme Court pick. No, Mr. President, you can't impound funds, or accept Emoluments, or murder civilians.

Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov · 8h

Speaker Mike Johnson has basically decided to dissolve the United States House of Representatives. That's NOT how you end a government shutdown for the American people.

Speaker Johnson has basically dissolved the U.S. House. That's NOT how you end a government shutdown

YouTube video by RepAdamSmith

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 16h

This SCROTUS has declared you can't use race for college admissions but you can for ICE abductions and will soon decide there is no racism so states can gerrymander away by race to enable permanent white minority rule, so any Democrat for 2028 not promising court expansion is not serious enough.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 17h

I took time away from my busy Antifa Halloween season, buying expensive marijuana edibles with Soros Bucks to re-wrap in regular candy wrappers to fool innocent children into getting super high so they can be transed, to go to No Kings 2.0 just because the Babadook is making an appearance.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 19h

I kind of thought you might say some shit like that, so I went and cataloged just how much more I love America than you do, Mike Johnson. George Soros sent me the twenty bucks for the poster board, markers, and paint. Hail Antifa!

Front side of my 30" by 44" no Kings protest sign. It's a table with the heading who really hurt America, and three columns: Antifa, US Constitution, and MAGA. The center column lists all of the relevant Constitutional Amendments, the left Antifa column is filled with green yeses for all of the amendments, the right MAGA column is filled with all the ways they are violating those amendments in red.

The back side of my 30" by 44" No Kings protest sign which is a rainbow background from top to bottom, a giant red heart in the middle, black letters above it that read "We Love" and black letters below it that we read "AMERICA."

My 22" x 28" No Kings protest poster featuring the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima in black silhouette on white with the label below it reading "O.G.ANTIFA" in red and blue text.

My 22" x 28" No Kings protest poster written in purple cursive on white that reads "Dear Mr. Kotter, Please excuse Juan from class today. He was abducted by ICE. Sincerely, Epstein's Mother. P. S. Release the Epstein Files

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 19h

"Young boys like these 25-year-old white Republicans do stupid things. Now, let's address why we need to charge 14-year-old Black boys as adults when they do stupid things."

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 22h

It's deeper than that. There is both a song called the Monster Mash and a dance called the Monster Mash that one does to the song.

Also: The writer of the theme to The Golden Girls and the theme to The Addams Family is the same fellow, who also wrote and performed "Lonely Boy."

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 22h

ICE events happen daily that I've reported on in the drug war. Entire apartment building rousted? Kids held in cuffs outdoors in the cold? Innocent people's houses broken into by mistake? Kids separated from their parents for who knows how long? The drug war was always dress rehearsal for this shit.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 22h

Note that what the border patrol agents are doing in our cities is not necessarily illegal. I've been warning folks since 2013 that these agents have jurisdiction within 100 miles of the US border to stop and search people without cause. But since it was about weed busts, who cared? 👇🏻

Me holding up a copy of my February 2013 article for High Times magazine entitled Beware of the Border.

Front page of the article entitled Beware of the Border that goes into detail about how celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson were busted at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint in Texas.

Backpage of my article entitled Beware of the Border that explains how border patrol agents have jurisdiction within a 100 MI range of any US border or coastline and can detain citizens randomly and without cause.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

The Chevy Volt:

The red side of my car, a white Chevy Volt featuring red stars and Republican Presidential Quotes in red text, leading with "If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."— President Ulysses S. Grant

The blue side of my car, a white Chevy Volt with blue stars and Democratic Presidential Quotes in blue text, leading with "When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."— President Harry S Truman

The gas cap on the blue side of my white Chevy Volt that features a black silhouette of The Blues Brothers with stencil font below it that reads smash fascism.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Just had a white dude who parked beside me here in Rogue River, Oregon, give me mucho kudos for my patriotic Chevy Volt. He thinks this weekend's No Kings rallies will be the largest, but also too big an opportunity for the fascists not to stir shit up. While I type this, Confederate walks by.

Blue dude who loved my car is walking out just as fat redneck in sleeveless black t-shirt with a Confederate Flag on it is walking in.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

You can Nostalgia that toward 80s alt music or toward 50s memory boardgames.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Charlie Kirk was raping Black women on the side?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Because Mexican drug cartels are well known to have deep empathy for poor migrants in the United States and will not accept Border Patrol and ICE diverting their resources from going after Mexican drug cartels to round up poor migrants with no criminal records.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Beating women isn't really serious to Mike Johnson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

He was getting under their skin!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

These are the kinds of people who get upset that people "just can't see past politics" in friendships, as if one's politics is some sort of hobby—"we got along fine until she learned I do crochet!"—and not a manifestation of your morals and values.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

A rundown 15 year old van in front of me has window stickers that say "Who is John Galt?", hammer and sickle = skull and crossbones, "Actual Electoral Votes: Trump 410 Biden 128", and of course, "WWG1WGA".

Dude. You're not in the club. You never will be. They are laughing at you. You're in a cult.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

You know what the range of a clarinet is?

About 60 yards, if you have a good arm.

You know how you make two clarinetists play in tune?

Shoot one of them.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Dear readers, Salmon is as rural, conservative, isolated, and naturally gorgeous as Idaho gets.

If folks are turning out against the regime in Salmon, it's only a matter of time before it falls.

The Idaho 97 @theidaho97.bsky.social · 2d

#nokingsday Salmon Idaho!

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Betcha they're taking folks to jail in Vancouver, Washington, because Portland won't take them. The Couv has long been the base of ops for the Proud Boys attacks on Portland.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2d

If I were a Mainer, and I'm not a Mainer, and the Senate election were today, I'd vote for Graham Platner to take on Susan Collins. Simply put, I can't think of a metric by which Janet Mills would be better against Collins, better for Maine, or better for the Democratic Party than Platner. THREAD.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

Make people homeless

Make homelessness a crime

Punish crime with slavery

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 1d

"Sure, I had a +7% popular vote win, +57 votes House majority, and, for 187 days, a 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate, but I just couldn't get everyone in my party to follow me." Well, WHY THE HELL NOT?!

This helplessness rings so hollow in the Trump Era, when he gets whatever he wants with +3 votes.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

OBAMA: “Better’s good… we’re not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive would’ve been smarter? Absolutely.”

President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didn’t have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll