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

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 · 1h

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 · 21h

#nokingsday Salmon Idaho!

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

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 · 3h

“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 · 1d

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 · 16h

Make people homeless

Make homelessness a crime

Punish crime with slavery

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

"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 · 1d

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

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 18h

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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

Points!

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

Okay, that made me spit take.

Aaron Rupar posts a video with the caption Trump at the Charlie Kirk Memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ice agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made eternity good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

Joe Corey replies: The irony that Charlie Kirk didn't have a turning point.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 20h

Well, lookee here: the Democratic Establishment lining up behind the 77-year-old, jumping into the race weeks after the 40-year-old shockingly raises millions and goes viral while embarking on a relentless meet-n-greet schedule.

Young Dems? Run *against* party leadership. Win by a landslide.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21h

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 21h

Each picture of them is just a sad little fat boy who never got picked for playground games.

Politico @politico.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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

Highly recommend?

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

My chihuahuas are incorrigable. Every attempt at corridging them has failed. I doubt they can ever be corridged.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

Ladies and gentlemen, George Santos, the latest to experience Conservative Empathy, It Happened to Me!

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

Yeah. Unfortunately, I've covered so many stories just like this when cops serve no-knock warrants on people over drugs.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

Have these guys ever seen John Wick?

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 2d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

The clones have mites!

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

Cops who would quit because a Muslim Democratic Socialist becomes mayor are revealing that they are the kind of cops that we want to quit.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

Yes, not only did a MAGA assassinate a Minnesota Democrat, but also the son of a MAGA assassinated Charlie Kirk, and another MAGA shot at Donald Trump, and another MAGA sent pipe bombs to a bunch of Democrats, and another MAGA attacked Paul Pelosi, and a whole bunch of MAGA stormed the capitol...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

The story of America is all the people those words weren't written for forcing the people those words were written for to live up to those words.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

It's reminiscent of recent Supreme Court rulings that determine that something can't actually be a bribe unless one person hands over a bag of cash and a note that has an explicit quid pro quo in it.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

"We're not engaged in fascism. We're trying to establish permanent one party rule and elimination of all our political enemies through lawfare and violence. But some of them still hold elected office, so you can't call it fascism."

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

"We're not committing genocide. We're merely trying to eliminate the terrorist group Hamas by flattening every single building and killing all the people around it. But some of them are still alive, so you can't call it a genocide."

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

In Tom's world, you can't call it fascism or genocide until it's complete.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

Cease-fire, aid convoys, prisoner exchanges…
Weirdest genocide ever.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 2d

That you misspelled lightning in this example is hilarious.

DManning @enidgumby.bsky.social · 3d

Using the almost right word instead of using the right word is like comparing a lightening bug to lightening. Word choice matters.