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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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When people in Southern Oregon learn I am from Idaho, they will sometimes ask, “why did you leave?” I usually […]
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So many of these Democratic invertebrates are thinking, "Oh, no, we got out over our skis on 'defund the police' post-George Floyd... if we go all 'abolish ICE,' come 2028 we'll get slammed by some terror attack and get blown out in the election. What can we say that Republicans might like? Reform?"
Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
January 13, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Okay, time to take the bass out for a walk!

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Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody by David Lee Roth (@RadicalRuss Bass Play-Along)
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January 13, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Life of Illusion by Joe Walsh #BassPlayAlong
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I dunno, somehow this song felt appropriate today. A really simple tune with a pretty little intro lick.
Life of Illusion by Joe Walsh (@RadicalRuss Bass Play-Along)
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January 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I fear they don't call out their cops and Guard for fear that the embedded white Christian nationalists in those ranks then sack any leadership loyal to the elected and go full fascist for Trump.
"Here are the demands we all need to make: Use the National Guard to protect our citizens. Arrest agents who commit crimes. Charge police, National Guard, and ICE with crimes when they commit or refuse to stop them. . . . Do it now."
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/my-first-7...
My First 72 Hours in Minneapolis and How I Got an ICE Agent to Scream “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
The activists on the ground are doing the work, that should give you hope.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Good to know, and add "Do you have a judicial court warrant signed by a judge?" to my previous advice on never opening the door and just yelling at cops through the door.
PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The mayors and governors aren't ordering the police and Guard to protect us from ICE because they know a significant number of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses, and the resulting disobedience would finally break any illusion of local control over this Confederate occupation.
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Yes, if only the drop-out incel roid-raged homophobic racists with guns and immunity just had a few more weeks of training to be taught things like "shooting unarmed moms in the face is bad" and "breaking down doors without a warrant and pointing guns at kids is wrong."
Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."
January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
"Einer von uns, alle von euch," in the original German.
If there ever was any doubt...
January 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Here's the inside view of the Cosplay Confederate no-knock raid I posted earlier.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Erich von Däniken, whose 1968 best-seller "Chariot of the Gods" popularized the debunked pseudoscientific theories that ancient alien astronauts influenced prehistoric human societies has died at the age of 91, sadly before he could be nominated to head up NASA under the Trump Administration.
January 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I treasure that my first viewing of The Terminator was in its initial release as a teenager at the midnight movies. We were literally asses out of the seats heading for Perkins and all-night coffee and fries — wait, the fucker's still alive? Okay. Okay. Okay. Now he's dead, let's go — what?
As a kid I watched Terminator 1 after 2 and 3 and I thought it was the weakest of the trilogy.

I also watched Alien after seeing Alien Resurrection and I thought Resurrection was better.

I still haven't forgiven kid me.
January 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Beneath all the layers of cruelty and racism and fascism, I can't help but note the sheer sloppy unprofessionalism. Having covered the War on (Some Americans With Some) Drugs for a couple decades, I know what a no-knock raid properly executed looks like and folks… that ain't it. 👇🏻
Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next?

Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.

That matters….
January 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"Why We Killed That Lesbian Bitch" radicalruss.com/podcast/why-...

Obvious content warning as Skye, a Marine veteran, describes her beating and torture by sadistic ICE goons who explain "why we killed that lesbian bitch," referring to Renée Nicole Good.
"Why We Killed That Lesbian Bitch" - RadicalRuss.com
A Marine veteran named Skye describes her torture by ICE, who explain "why we killed that lesbian bitch," referring to Renée Nicole Good.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The full videos of the sound clips I am posting shortly on my morning podcast.
Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on.

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January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.”
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Everyone in your home needs to know you do not open the door.

"We need to talk."

Got a warrant? No? GTFOH.

"Just open the door."

Why?

"So we can talk."

We're talking now. GTFOH.

"We know you're blah blah"

If you knew that, you'd break down the door. Go get a warrant.

"If you don't"

WARRANT
He went from, "I'm not inside your house" to "now that I'm inside your house I own your home"
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
5,764,801 to 46,656? That second set must have taken forever!
Elina Svitolina wins 6-3, 7⁸-6⁶ against Xinyu Wang to take the title in Auckland.

Wins her 19th WTA Title and the impressive thing is it's come in just 23 finals. She is 19-4 when she reaches the Final.

📸 Jimmie48/WTA Tour
January 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Sadly, it's true. I watched a lot of H.R. Puf'n'stuff and now look at me!
Sid and Marty Krofft have a lot to answer for
I loved Witchipoo! My gerbils were Orson and Seymour.
January 12, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Trump secured an iron grip on the Republican Party because he knew exactly what its base wanted, promised it to them, and delivered.

The Democratic Party is leaderless because it takes its base for granted and is constantly seeking approval from mythical moderate Republicans.
January 12, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I swear, the generic name for that drug Skyrizi sounds like three members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
January 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
ICE needs more training, Democrats? So, you're positing that there is a *right way* for an armed Federal force to patrol our neighborhoods with the intent of ethnically cleansing the United States?
January 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
But major news media can't drop their Twitter accounts because why?
I need to scrub my eyes out with soap
January 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Only *one* Packers run in the second half gained more than a single yard.
a cartoon character from king of the hill is riding a bike .
ALT: a cartoon character from king of the hill is riding a bike .
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January 11, 2026 at 5:49 AM