"Radical" Russ Belville
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It took a while scrolling through my feed to learn there is a left-wing political party in the UK called Your Party, in case you thought shit branding from the left was strictly an American phenomenon.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It took a while scrolling through my feed to learn there is a left-wing political party in the UK called Your Party, in case you thought shit branding from the left was strictly an American phenomenon.
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consultant: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
consultant: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
The #BoiseState Mountain West Threepeat is on! Broncos ranked 2nd by computers in 4-way tiebreaker of 6–2 teams because they didn't all play head-to-head, gets home field v. UNLV due to Oct 18 head-to-head 25pt beat-down of Rebels.
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The #BoiseState Mountain West Threepeat is on! Broncos ranked 2nd by computers in 4-way tiebreaker of 6–2 teams because they didn't all play head-to-head, gets home field v. UNLV due to Oct 18 head-to-head 25pt beat-down of Rebels.
Every time I see a picture like this I'm flummoxed to be part of a species that can observe and understand things from the cosmological scale down to the Planck length, yet we can't figure out how to feed everybody and not befoul our only habitat.
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.
It is at redshift 0.85 (lookback time 7.29 billion years) with coordinates (150.19474, 2.06790).
46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.85 (lookback time 7.29 billion years) with coordinates (150.19474, 2.06790).
46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Every time I see a picture like this I'm flummoxed to be part of a species that can observe and understand things from the cosmological scale down to the Planck length, yet we can't figure out how to feed everybody and not befoul our only habitat.
Sad how Russia controls both the red territories these days.
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sad how Russia controls both the red territories these days.
And if you cannot exit the simulation, what difference does it make? Either the steak I ate came from cow and its proteins triggered taste buds that made brain go yum, or all that was simulated, and so what? My brain go yum either way.
Flawless logic, sir! Makes perfect sense that because video games are improving, we must live in a simulation!
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
And if you cannot exit the simulation, what difference does it make? Either the steak I ate came from cow and its proteins triggered taste buds that made brain go yum, or all that was simulated, and so what? My brain go yum either way.
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One Afghan immigrant shoots two National Guard members, MAGA insists that all immigration from "Third World" (Read: Brown countries) is immediately and permanently halted.
Young white American males gun down dozens of school children each year, MAGA insists we make it easier for them to get guns.
Young white American males gun down dozens of school children each year, MAGA insists we make it easier for them to get guns.
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
One Afghan immigrant shoots two National Guard members, MAGA insists that all immigration from "Third World" (Read: Brown countries) is immediately and permanently halted.
Young white American males gun down dozens of school children each year, MAGA insists we make it easier for them to get guns.
Young white American males gun down dozens of school children each year, MAGA insists we make it easier for them to get guns.
The Robert Durst Defense!
He pleaded guilty to disposing of his wife's body, but maintains that he didn't kill her. Now his case will be heard before a jury. Watch live as opening statements get underway in the murder trial of Brian Walshe: https://cnn.it/4pKfffW
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Robert Durst Defense!
At the same time a lawless administration runs roughshod over our constitution, murdering guys on boats abroad, beating and disappearing families at home, AIPAC Shakur thinks "strong floor, no ceiling" is what we want and not "liberty and justice for all" or "prosecute the war criminals".
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
At the same time a lawless administration runs roughshod over our constitution, murdering guys on boats abroad, beating and disappearing families at home, AIPAC Shakur thinks "strong floor, no ceiling" is what we want and not "liberty and justice for all" or "prosecute the war criminals".
Has anyone started the fearmongering Satanic panic rumor about 6-7 yet? I'll start: I heard that 6-7 is part of an occult ritual where kids get fully naked in a 69 position, but stay just far enough apart so their lips don't touch genitals. It's a 69 minus 2. The tension summons Satan. Run with it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Has anyone started the fearmongering Satanic panic rumor about 6-7 yet? I'll start: I heard that 6-7 is part of an occult ritual where kids get fully naked in a 69 position, but stay just far enough apart so their lips don't touch genitals. It's a 69 minus 2. The tension summons Satan. Run with it.
Remember, he committed 34 felony frauds to "win" the 1st election that he lost by 3 million votes, lost the 2nd election and attempted to defraud Georgia's results, then fomented insurrection, and was never eligible for the 3rd election according to the clear meaning of the 14th Amendment Section 3.
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Remember, he committed 34 felony frauds to "win" the 1st election that he lost by 3 million votes, lost the 2nd election and attempted to defraud Georgia's results, then fomented insurrection, and was never eligible for the 3rd election according to the clear meaning of the 14th Amendment Section 3.
"Mr. President, what is seven times eight?"
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"Mr. President, what is seven times eight?"
Not to be lost if you can't bear to hear him, is his closing, "and you couldn't pass it [the cognitive test] or you" to the two women reporters.
My brain is so perfect that I don't know why I got an MRI
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Not to be lost if you can't bear to hear him, is his closing, "and you couldn't pass it [the cognitive test] or you" to the two women reporters.
As I used to say in my stump speeches, "It's nice that we have facts, science, reason, and logic) on our side, but if facts, science, reason, and logic won the day, marijuana would've been legalized in the 1940s."
Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
As I used to say in my stump speeches, "It's nice that we have facts, science, reason, and logic) on our side, but if facts, science, reason, and logic won the day, marijuana would've been legalized in the 1940s."
I'm sorry, it is a sad story, but hearing "victims ranged in age from juveniles to adults" made me lol. So, like, they were alive age?
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm sorry, it is a sad story, but hearing "victims ranged in age from juveniles to adults" made me lol. So, like, they were alive age?
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
The Packers a half-game behind the conference-leading Bears, with the two of them set to play each other twice in the next three weeks, is giving December to Remember vibes.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The Packers a half-game behind the conference-leading Bears, with the two of them set to play each other twice in the next three weeks, is giving December to Remember vibes.
Ya gotta love a century so far where creating capitalist bubbles that burst and crater the economy and then bailing out the cause with some socialism every decade is just an expected feature of the system.
One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ya gotta love a century so far where creating capitalist bubbles that burst and crater the economy and then bailing out the cause with some socialism every decade is just an expected feature of the system.
Strong Investigations, No Pardons.
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Strong Investigations, No Pardons.
I was on the fence about sitting sober in front of my computer listening to electronic music from a woman who mated with Elon Musk while a billionaire has a psychedelic experience, but knowing Mr. Beast *and* the CEO of Salesforce will be there moved me from "no" to "fuck no."
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I was on the fence about sitting sober in front of my computer listening to electronic music from a woman who mated with Elon Musk while a billionaire has a psychedelic experience, but knowing Mr. Beast *and* the CEO of Salesforce will be there moved me from "no" to "fuck no."
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All hat, no cattle!
Strong floor, no ceiling!
Big windows, small walls!
Narrow bedrooms, wide baths!
No couch, all ottomans!
Fluffy carpet, smooth tiles!
Big windows, small walls!
Narrow bedrooms, wide baths!
No couch, all ottomans!
Fluffy carpet, smooth tiles!
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
All hat, no cattle!
Hakeem Jeffries is an elaborate Andy Kaufman parody, isn't he? As if he were tasked to make a Tony Clifton version of Tip O'Neill.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hakeem Jeffries is an elaborate Andy Kaufman parody, isn't he? As if he were tasked to make a Tony Clifton version of Tip O'Neill.
This just in from the Department of Unsurprising News.
GOP voters backed Trump as the ‘anti-war’ candidate. Now many back action in Venezuela.
Many Trump supporters bought his questionable line about not starting any “new wars” — but new polling shows they’re supportive of military action against Venezuela. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Many Trump supporters bought his questionable line about not starting any “new wars” — but new polling shows they’re supportive of military action against Venezuela. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | GOP voters liked Trump as the ‘antiwar’ candidate. Now they’d support an attack on Venezuela
Philip Bump: In 2024, Trump had the support of many "antiwar" voters. In 2025, a lot of those same voters would support him launching an attack on Venezuela.
www.ms.now
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This just in from the Department of Unsurprising News.
Getting better, Democrats. Now, start calling Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Tom Homan, Russ Vought, and Donald Trump racists. They are white nationalists engaged in ethnic cleansing. They wish to eradicate non-white people from America. Be explicit.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Getting better, Democrats. Now, start calling Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Tom Homan, Russ Vought, and Donald Trump racists. They are white nationalists engaged in ethnic cleansing. They wish to eradicate non-white people from America. Be explicit.