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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 · 5h

Ah, Portland. I miss it.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 5h

Okay, same game, but Jean Baptiste and Green Day's "Holiday." This is fun!

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Hears For The First Time - YouTube

Watch the industry's best keyboardists and pianists react, analyze, and play songs they've never heard before! Experience their inspiring and spontaneous cre...

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 5h

Now the algorithm has fed me a young piano prodigy who has never heard "Crocodile Rock." They give him Elton's vocals and drum track alone and he writes an arrangement from scratch. It's "Crocodile Jazz."

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Child Prodigy Hears "Crocodile Rock" (Elton John) For The First Time

YouTube video by Pianote

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 6h

Couldn't get around to signing those LGBT bills. Had priorities.

(I'm in complete support of the pet laws.)

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10h

🐶🐱 New California pet laws!

🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 6h

His observation that we were unafraid back then to produce music to teach kids how to count that also opened their minds to complex jazz idioms and rhythms? Uh...yeah man. I was one of those 7-year-olds. Growing up in Idaho, weren't many 7/4 grooves with Gm7#9 steel drum solos on country radio.

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

Tonight's free TV? A young jazz guy deep diving on the music theory behind "1 2 3 four five 6 7 8 nine ten 11 twelve" from season 8 of Sesame Street back in 1975.

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This Song Teaches Counting But Is INSANELY Hard To Count

YouTube video by Charles Cornell

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

Ok, more genuine belly laughs in The Onion's "Bad Pedophile" in 21:16 than I had for all of "Naked Gun," and I liked "Naked Gun." But I do have a dark sense of humor.

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

"Soon," thought little Chan Ho, "it will be my White House!"

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

Hard-hitting stuff at the Bezos post

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 11h

"Lowering prices 1,500% is mathematically impossible, experts say."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 11h

Wow. With so much on the line for the teams, as well as the billions of dollars being wagered, it sure would be helpful if there were some sort of electronic way to accurately call balls and strikes. By the way, what's that funny looking digital box over home plate on my TV screen?

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12h

This home plate umpire blew three strike calls in the first inning and I’d just like to say that can’t happen in a playoff game.

If he misses three more in the bottom of the first they should just sub him out.

Thank you.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 11h

Which one?

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 12h

WAFFLES!

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 13h

My senior AP English report on the Great Depression, given three weeks to interview seniors who'd lived through it, I made it all up in three hours the night before it was due and got the highest score in the class.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 13h

This guy may primary House Dem Leader AIPAC Shakur. That's enough for my support. That he also strongly defends trans rights, directly standing up to GOP bullying on the issue, is just icing on the cake. They attack trans because they correctly sense Dems feel squishy about it. So don't be squishy.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

"I do not believe that we should turn our backs on the trans community in any way, shape, or form. I’ve been very proud to sponsor legislation that has increased trans healthcare and access to trans healthcare for our trans siblings here in the city."

Chi Ossé Is Tired of the Same Old Nonsense

From Kirsten Gillibrand (“she should resign”) to Eric Adams (“a power-hungry, egotistical man”) to the Democratic establishment, NYC’s Gen Z political star doesn’t hold back.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 13h

Literally laughed out loud at the first Elon Doge yard sign I've ever seen.

Some Republicans house that has a 45-47 magnet on the car, a God Bless America yard sign, a trump take back America sign, and a thank you Elon and Trump for uncovering the corruption sign.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 14h

... for gay marriage because of his lesbian daughter; John Boehner, against weed until he invested in it... I really do believe that a marked lack of empathy is crucial to becoming a conservative. ✊🏻

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 14h

Marjorie Taylor Green is suffering from what I call Conservative Empathy: It Happened To Me! She joins Nancy Reagan, against stem cells until Ronnie got Alzheimer's; John McCain, against torture cuz it happened to him; Jeb! Bush, for immigration cuz he has a Mexican wife; Dick Cheney...👇🏻

Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 18h

Marjorie – I call bullshit. Your votes put us here, and you own it. Now that your daughter is affected, you’re suddenly concerned. Not good enough.

You’ve been hearing from your constituents all along. You never listened until it hit your own house.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 14h

Millions of American Republican voters see no inherent contradiction in the combination of phrases Pro God pro-life pro gun.

White vinyl lettering on the back of an SUV that says Pro God pro-life pro gun

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 15h

Listening to Trevor Noah's interview with Bernie Sanders as the two of them dance around why the Democratic Leadership won't get behind Zohran Mamdani without ever broaching the fact that AIPAC does not want a mayor of New York City calling Gaza a genocide.

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 15h

Well, what do you know! I'm neurodivergent and my two uncircumcised brothers are not. I got the tylenol, they got the turtlenecks.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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

"We demand that you change course on this disastrous cutting of healthcare benefits that would absolutely demolish any chances you have of winning the midterms! This is our singular focus and you need not worry about us making demands about all the other incredibly unpopular things you're doing."

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

I try to do my part, too, here in MAGA red Southern Oregon.

My white Chevy Volt which I have stickered with red and blue vinyl Stars surrounding the words with liberty and justice for all, with an asterisk next to all, and the asterisk has below it includes: black, white, hispanic, asian, Etc.

White vinyl lettering on the black portion of the hatchback is a quote that reads every gun that is made, every worship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and not clothed. President Eisenhower.

White vinyl lettering on the black portion of my hatchback that is a quote reading those who make peaceful Revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable / my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. President Kennedy

White vinyl lettering on the lower back windshield that is a quote that reads there is not a liberal in America and a conservative America there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and White America and Latino America and Hispanic america. There's the United States of america. President Obama

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

Redneck pickup truck next to me at the stoplight as a bumper sticker that says Trump: America's Dirty Harry.

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

The Right has been trained to think that the Left hates Christians, the flag, and the troops.