🎤 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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I remembered that Deborah Van Valkenburg, David Patrick Kelly, and Lynne Thigpen were in 1979's "The Warriors." I did not know that Mercedes Ruehl was in it, as the woman undercover cop who busted Ajax for nearly raping her in the park. Yeah, man, 70s movies. 🤷🏼♂️
THE DEMOCRAT RUN "CITIES" ARE OVERRUN W/ VIOLENT GANG CRIMINALS. ONLY I, YOUR PRESIDENT, CAN BRING "LAW & ORDER" BACK TO BEAUTIFUL PLACES LIKE CONEY ISLAND, WHERE MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THE WARRIORS (A VICIOUS GANG OF STREET "THUGS") KILLED CYRUS, A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE WHO ONLY WANTS PEACE. SAD! DJT
But not deadnaming and misgendering, in school, at work, by government. That's protected by law (#13). Heck, trans, gay, unmarried, anyone can be denied health care if it violates the provider's morals (#53). Idaho is the Handmaid State. The lab of Stephen Miller's vision. Be warned. ✊🏻3/3
The parental consent law also kept doctors from treating a 13-year-old girl in active labor because her great-aunt brought her to the E/R (#38). That suicide line's probably getting calls from trans teens, since all trans healthcare (#8) and athletics (#75) are banned. 👇🏻2/3
That parental consent law that makes the suicide hotline hang up on teens (#74) also forces daughter incest victims to get their daddy rapist's permission for police to administer the rape kit (#32) for the rape she must report for an abortion exception (#6). Radicalruss.com/idaho 👇🏻1/3
The way the liberals on Bluesky are joking about the president's health is tasteless and crass. Now, here's a video shared by the president of Hispanic kids in shackles being shuffled into a plane headed to Guatemala set to "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye" by Steam.
🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements: Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. Link to watch live: youtube.com/live/q6fUosr... 🗣️ Release the Epstein files
"Lucy promised she would hold the football for me to kick it." Jesus Christ, this empty suit still thinks Republicans wish to find common ground to legislate for the (all) the American people. Every Dem running for Congress should pledge an "anybody but Jeffries" vote for Speaker.
You can catch up on my complete list of 75 reasons to #BoycottIdaho here: radicalruss.com/idaho ✊🏻3/3
Reason #75: SCROTUS to decide (probably to uphold) Idaho's ban on all transgender athletes. radicalruss.com/scrotus-to-d... 👇🏻2/3
Two more reasons to Avoid the Handmaid State of #Idaho! Reason #74: Suicide hotline hangs up on teenagers and kids. radicalruss.com/idaho-suicid... 👇🏻1/3
PUUUINN ONNA RIIIZZZ!
I'm sure there is a story here.
He went from being class of '76 to class of '75, I went from being class of '86 to class of '85. But it wasn't until I got to second grade that I took the entire 2nd grade math book and finished it in a day. Then we both end up being podcasters who got ourselves fired over our big mouths. 🤣✊🏻
Good lord. @olbermann.bsky.social telling the story of being moved up from 1st to 2nd grade in the middle of a school year because he powered through the entire 1st grade math book is eerily similar to my story of being moved up from kindergarten to first grade in the middle of a school year. 👇🏻
Important to know that being led to breath can save your life, but lead to breathe will kill you.
Pam compiled the Xcrement so we can get the full thread on Trump's health watch timeline.
If he stays around the house, he's gotta make conversation with a 24-year-old all day.
It's funny to me that supposedly the left is so terribly concerned about language like "birthing persons," yet there still exists an Oscar category for "Best Actress" (but no "Best Directress"). 🤔
Funny, but not true. When Bill Belichick was 41, Jordan Hudson was *negative 7*. She wasn't born until he was 48 years old. She is 24 and he is 73. They are both adults getting what they want from the relationship. Good for them.
But where's the panel of six people at a glossy table talking over each other while chyrons ask leading questions? How come nothing is BREAKING!? If I keep watching CBC News, I'm afraid I'm inching dangerously close to learning things and understanding people. Then what? 3 down football? Hockey? No!
As much as I harp on the elder Dems, I'd keep Nadler in exchange for Jeffries' retirement.
I've been checking in on CBC News occasionally. It's disorienting. The "u" in "color," the temps in Celsius, the polite nuanced discussions of current events between subject matter experts who are grounded in reality and science while trying to inform the populace, the funny way they say "about."
I think Gavin should do his next press conference with the orange foundation mask, not blended at the hairline, and just see if any reporter asks about it.
The Cuckteau Twins.
Imagine if Trump dies and Betelgeuse goes supernova on the morning of September 11th. MAGA will go from cult to full-blown religion.
BREAKING: Septuagenarian House Democrat *doesn't* run for re-election!
This is the way. I've lost fifty pounds under my very scientifically precise weight management principle, "don't eat all that shit all the time." You can eat that shit. Just not all of it. And not all the time. Like, what's this tab on the Cheez-it's? "Re-close?" It *does* that?
So remember, in Idaho, you can rest assured that your children are safe from CRT, DEI, trans ideology, and immigrants feeling welcome. But viruses, AR-15s, and rapists, not so much. Receipts: www.ksl.com/article/5136...
180-day local jail sentence and 200 hours of community service for this non-registered sex offender who raped a pre-teen girl over five years. Can you believe such a light sentence for a Black college athlete in Idaho? You can't, because it was this cracker with inbred features, Candon Dahle. 👇🏻
He won't be placed on the sex-offender registry after admitting to 5 years (2 as an adult) of raping a pre-teen girl! Judge then gives him a 5 to 10-year *suspended sentence* with 8 years of probation. Meaning: he doesn't go to prison if he stays out of trouble until 2033. But judge did give 👇🏻
🧵 In 2017, he's 14. He begins sexually assaulting her, age 7. This continues through 2022, when he's 19, she's 12. Now 15, she publicly testifies against him, a 22-year-old BYU baseball player. Charged in 2 Idaho counties, he's offered a plea deal: guilty in Fremont, dropped in Bingham. Oh, and 👇🏻
You're right. Trump says "Guard for crime" when it's really "Guard for fascist takeover." Dems say "But red crime higher" just says "We agree Guard for crime" and elides the fascism angle. Allows public to say, "They both agree Guard for crime, Dems just mad it's in their city, politics as usual."
Imagining the back alley drug deals of the future: "Hey, man, you got the vax?" I gots the COVID, the flu, the MMR, all the good stuff from Canada. "You got that mRNA AIDS?" My man! You know it! That mRNA shit is poppin' all over. "How bout some weed?" Weed? Shit, I look like a store to you?
Y'know, it's probably nothing that any 79-year-old obese lifelong McDonald's consumer doesn't have. Probably required some sort of routine care. But he's such the narcissist that it can't be known he wasn't perfectly healthy, so he engages in this cover-up that makes people think it's so much worse.
I theorize that one of the underlying reasons conservatives go on their culture war crusades against Hollywood is because the film industry is probably the most vertically-unionized industry in America.
I was just mentioning that... bsky.app/profile/radi...
Charles Bierbauer is his name. In olden times, journalists would have enough respect for the deceased to use their name in the headline of their obituary, not tantalize you with a mystery for a click.
I'll always cheer Packers because 1) publicly owned, 2) play outdoors, 3) cheeseheads, I'll root Blazers because I lived in Portland 15 years. But lately, I find myself, like kids, "fans of player." Following Raiders for Ashton Jeanty, Bills for Khalil Shakir, Spurs for Wemby, etc. Huh. 🤔✊🏻
"Fans of team," as one comedian noted, is really rooting for laundry. "Go, yellow pants and white shirts!" But at least in football, there are venue-related reasons to cheer that don't involve players (e.g. "frozen tundra," "Lambeau Leap", friggin' snow in GB, PIT, CIN, BUF, etc.) 👇🏻
Because what loyalty is there from anybody involved to the concept of the team? Owner will pack it up and move it somewhere. Few players stay with one team for a career. One indoor basketball arena is pretty much like another. I think the "fans of player" phenom is more basketball than football. 👇🏻
I wish it was six months from now so some journalist's new book could tell us what's going on with the president's health right now.
So, forgive me if I don't find it absurd to see National Guard picking up trash in D.C. or think there's a "gotcha" because Shreveport has more crime. Historically, if not for disaster relief, National Guard are deployed domestically for shooting striking workers and minorities who protest. ✊🏻12/12
In 1937, the Memorial Day Massacre happened in Chicago when striking steelworkers and their families were met by 250 Chicago cops hired by the company who began firing into the crowd. Ten people were shot, mostly in the back. www.chicagohistory.org/remembering-... 👇🏻11/12
In 1920, The Battle of Blair Mountain played out between 13,000 striking miners and the sheriff who had air support from private pilots to drop old WWI bombs and gas on workers. Up to 100 workers were killed before President Harding called in the Army. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/batt... 👇🏻10/12
In 1913, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, went on strike. The company hired goons and later the National Guard joined them, machine gunning their camp and executing their leader when they lured him out to negotiate a cease-fire. 200 workers died. coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/ludl... 👇🏻9/12
In 1912, the mine workers at Paint Creek & Cabin Creek went on strike. The company hired goons to beat them, contaminate their food, shoot at their homes, and shoot them. Fifty workers died, many more suffered malnutrition and poisoning. www.nps.gov/articles/000... 👇🏻8/12
In 1905, Teamsters in Chicago went on strike. The affected business community through the Employer's Association of Chicago funneled money into hiring private goons to attack the picket lines. Over 103 days, 21 workers (and no goons) were killed. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... 👇🏻7/12
In 1897, immigrant workers at the Latimer Mine in Pennsylvania went on strike. A sheriff's posse sent to disburse the few hundred workers shot 19 of them dead. Unlike previous strikes, here workers had destroyed no property and engaged in no violence. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-... 👇🏻6/12
In 1894, a strike of a quarter-million rail worker across 27 states led President Cleveland to send in thousands of US Marshals and 12,000 Army troops to break the strikes, killing a dozen workers in Chicago and 30 total nationwide. libcom.org/article/pull... 👇🏻5/12
In 1891 in Pittsburgh, mine workers went on strike against the wealthy industrialist Henry Clay Frick. After sending in National Guard who killed 7 workers, Frick then hired 100 goons to regularly attack workers until they went back to work. pittsburghlaborhistorytrail.org/morewood-mas... 👇🏻4/12
Or 1886, when mill workers in Milwaukee went on strike to demand an eight-hour work day. The strike spread to almost every mill and factory. The governor called in the National Guard and they shot and killed fifteen workers. www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/our-events/b... 👇🏻3/12
Like in 1877 when railroad workers in West Virginia and other states shut down the rail lines, and even sparked general strikes, so the companies and local, state, and federal government sent private militias, cops, and National Guard to just shoot them. www.history.com/articles/187... 👇🏻2/12
🧵 This Labor Day, let's remember that it's about the victories of the working class over the capital class that would send National Guard to shoot striking workers who dared to ask for safer conditions, decent work hours, and support in sickness and old age. Capital would rather you forgot. 👇🏻1/12
Modify America's Gun Attitudes radicalruss.com/podcast/modi... My two week August hiatus is over! Hear my pothead pundit thoughts on how we use gun owners' machismo to get *them* to help solve the mass shooting problem in America. Plus a new audio ad for FOMO-YOLO Fest 2025!
FOMO-YOLO!
Yup, I wrote it up on my blog. radicalruss.com/pocatello-co...
Running to unseat Susan Collins in Maine with the populist message Democrats have needed to return to since roughly 1992.
Are ! In speech equal to f in music? Like, f is loud (forte), ff is louder, fff is loudest, does that work for !, !!, and !!!? It does not work for x, which goes from being an algebraic variable or an arthouse film with sex in it, to xx chromosomes, to xxx, granny's moonshine or hard-core porn.
Betcha he's given instructions that if it does happen sooner, don't tell anyone until September 11, so his name becomes a part of that memorial every year.
In addition to stealing @mekka.mekka-tech.com's thunder about the racial composition of that red line and how they *like* what they've seen these last 7 months, I'd also note the '16–20 (until COVID) red line kept going steadily upwards. These ideological heirs of the Confederacy must be vanquished.
Seven cops, obviously. Seven cups in Guatemala is more like one and two-thirds liters.
Tonight's #TubiTVNight is Masters of Science Fiction, an anthology of six episodes. #3 is Heinlein's "Jerry Was a Man," with Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell. Fairly true adaptation, except Jerry's not a modified chimpanzee, rather a "plasto-humanoid." Kinda softens the "is he a legal man" question.
My Guard experience was a bit different. 6 years in the Army Band. We were either college kids getting school paid for like me, or old 15+ year service members looking to coast to the 20-year retirement mark. I can just imagine spreading mulch in D.C. in that heat and humidity in BDUs. Hoo-ah.
The poor private who works two jobs because neither one will schedule her more than 28 hours to avoid paying full-time benefits then gets called into 29-day active duty that pays less, gets her fired (illegally) from those two jobs, and avoids paying full benefits.
Seven cups in Guatemala vs a guy with a machete. Shots fired: zero. Remember a few months back when those cops in Pocatello had to gun down the autistic kid with a knife who was 20ft away from them behind a chain link fence? American cops are pussies.
Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser was a wife-beater who drove her to the church, shot her multiple times, faked a crime scene, and lied to cops that they'd been ambushed by the mob. Since he's a sheriff, they believed him and ignored contradictory evidence. His lies become a top copaganda film (twice). 🤬
Well, one side (the Constitution) says he has no power, but the other side (the President) says he does, so gee, it's just not clear if he does or not.
Thanks, "dad!"
We will never solve the gun problem peacefully without buy-in from the hundred million Americans who own four hundred million guns. Use the reasons they like guns to make their hobby like an exclusive club only the hottest people can enter. Address the human beings, not the inanimate objects. ✊🏻
Like, it would only be in rare cases of disaster or distress that county militia would ever be called up. So bad that the state guard isn't enough. A real "break glass in emergency" organization that is rarely, if ever, activated, and really just functions to do the annual testing. 👇🏻
"Militia card" would just be your voluntary membership in the county militia. You'd have an annual evaluation, testing, etc at the sheriffs (like getting a CHL), and the sheriff could call you up for local emergencies. Like a county national guard, but with far less time commitment. 👇🏻
They'd be challenged and so far SCROTUS has disregarded entirely the militia half of the 2nd for an unfettered right to bear arms. But long-term, I'd work the courts like the right did abortion until we restore the militia requirement, such that having a "militia card" was required for gun owners. 👇🏻
Leverage the gun guy's disdain for the armed lunatic who's making him look bad and scaring the normies into gun bans. Get his buy-in on "here's how you get to be elite manly AR-15 man and how we keep crazy coward lunatic from getting one." Even Scalia said such regulations weren't out of bounds. 👇🏻
The answer is, counterintuitively, to promote the guns. But promote them as specialized tools that only the manliest elite protector men (and women) get, then "address the human being" by setting the high standards of psych evals, training, safety, marksmanship, legal understanding for gun owners. 👇🏻
But when they hear "it's the guns," they hear "we're going to collectively punish all you proud law-abiding gun-owners who'd never massacre a school because some lunatic a thousand miles away did, and if some lunatic comes to your door armed, you'll be defenseless against him." 👇🏻
🧵 I know people like the dunk, but Gorka here gives us the key to solving the problem. On our side, we say "it's the guns," noting how every other country has mental health issues, violent video games, heavy metal, trans kids, or whatever excuse the right offers up. 👇🏻
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Relatives of soldiers who've been buried with military honors should mail their folded flags back to Pete Hegseth with a note that they refuse to share that honor with Ashli Babbitt.
The whole story of America is its people fighting for its Founders' descendants to live up to its Founders' promises to its people.
This is the way.
LOL, "chemistry bass." The New 5-string Fender Acetone. When you want that slippery funk.
My kind of radicals are less hydrogen peroxide and more Huey P Newton. Still, I strive for accuracy in my chemistry bass jokes, and I sincerely regret forgetting about that extra hydrogen atom.
If Boise State has to go down as a ranked team on opening weekend in Florida, then Alabama going down as a ranked team on opening weekend in Florida does balance out my life a little.
Once again, our top story tonight: Donald John Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, is still alive. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Again, the way to battle this is to start painting up other crosswalks far from this one. Start with one in front of the cop shop and the one in front of the Capitol. For every one they paint over, paint two more new ones. Make it so they wish they just allowed that one rainbow crosswalk.
Silly me, confusing my hydrogen peroxide for hydrogen superoxide.
I maintain that what we think of as our musical decades really start at year 4. The 50s are 1954 (Elvis) through 1963. The 60s are 1964 (Beatles) through 1973. The 70s are 1974 (KISS) through 1983. The '80s are 1984 (Bon Jovi) through 1990. Only by the '90s, 1991 (Nirvana) through 2000, is it reset.
Hey, if there's anyone out there that wants to secretly pay me to influence somebody online, I'll do it for half of what they're offering per month.
I remember some old TV show where the expert goes into the audience seeking to prove that he can pick anyone at random and prove they had committed a crime in the past 24 hours and the first guy he selects hadn't ripped the tax stamp on his pack of cigarettes, thus he was breaking the law.
The college football gods felt bad for me and that horrible Boise State outing by giving me a Manning loss and an Alabama loss would almost soothe the hurt.
Hey, speeders on Interstate 5 in Oregon? Now is your chance! There are four Oregon State Trooper cars in Grants Pass right now that have one guy pulled over.
If the right-wingers are that concerned about transgender people being school shooters, wait till they hear about cisgender white boys.
I've never understood the saying, "If you ain't _____ (e.g., Country, or a Chevy driver, or a Cowboys fan), you ain't shit!" So, if you are _____, you are shit?
Teen Vogue, maybe?
If you know who B.J. Hunnicutt is, it's time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you know it stands for "Bea" and "Jay," his parents, it's time to find some group activities. #AT40
Dang, War had the opportunity to write a song called "Edwin Starr" and never took it. #AT40
"I wanna make it with you. I really think that we could make it, girl." No! I am not going to IKEA with you. Stop singing that song! #AT40
Yes, the #BandsNotPersons Tour with Mungo Jerry, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Greta Van Fleet, Luscious Jackson, Mr. Big, Mr. Mister, Mr. Bungle, Fleetwood Mac, Mott the Hoople, Bon Iver, Billy Talent, Sister Hazel, Uriah Heap, Molly Hatchet, Franz Ferdinand, and Pablo Cruise! #AT40