Retired marijuana activist and podcaster "Radical" Russ Belville records a weekly news and culture podcast from his undisclosed mountain hideaway in the beautiful State of Jefferson region of Southern Oregon.
Since nothing is too politically impossible to imagine these days, here’s my imagination run wild on how we get to eighty-five U.S. states through state separatist movements, with links to actual historical attempts to create these new states.
The Idaho Republican supermajority in the legislature passed and the Republican governor signed House Bill 37, which designated firing squad as the preferred method of execution in Idaho.
In order to keep the hospital “a welcoming environment for all,” St. Luke’s in Boise is no longer flying the “increasingly contentious” Gay Pride Flag.
I finally got the time and inspiration to tackle some of the issues I’ve been having with the website here.
For example, this fine neckbeard, replete in his “Long Bunch Of Text On A T-Shirt That The Facebook MAGA Algorithm Showed Me That Says Something Bad About Liberals,” his 9mm pistol strapped to his waist in case one of those grandmas across the street in a Pride cape is secret Antifa infantry, tattoos down his arm that explain his particular pride in the original Germanic runes, and a black-and-white striped Straight Pride Flag.
The angel shows up in the middle of the road and draws a sword, so the donkey freaks out and turns into the field. Not Balaam or the two slaves, though, just the donkey. Apparently, God has sent an invisible sword-wielding angel that only donkeys can see.
I wasn’t satisfied with the thrown-together nature of my rough draft recording from this morning’s podcast, so I re-recorded my
Redundancy, you say? Too much red tape? Reorganizing Idaho government to make it more efficient? Well, do I have an idea from Nebraska for you!
There was a fantastic turnout on 6th Street for the No Kings Day protest in Grants Pass, Oregon. Protestors lined the block in front of the Josephine County Courthouse, where 63% of voters picked Donald Trump in 2024.
Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers creatively used his veto powers to make a Republican-approved education budget increase last for four-hundred years, and the liberal state Supreme Court has okayed it.
This year, Idaho legislators tackled a vexing problem. Some places in the state were flying the rainbow flag, the symbol of gay pride! Determined to ensure that visitors to The Handmaid State didn’t confuse Idaho as a place that would be welcoming of LGBT people, they passed House Bill 96, which only allows the American flag, the Idaho (or other states’) flag, the city flag, and military flags to be displayed by any government entity.
Mere possession of a pot pipe is a misdemeanor with a potential one year jail stay. Making or selling a bong, however, is a felony with up to nine years in prison and a $30,000 fine.
I used to be a Twitter power user (22K followers), but since Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi pub, I then migrated to Threads, until Mark Zuckerberg began throttling political speech and forced me off that, Facebook, and Instagram. Then TikTok went and kissed the Felon’s ring, so bye bye, there, too. You can find me primarily now on BlueSky, where I’m verified as @RadicalRuss.com. I’m also on Mastodon, kinda, and YouTube with our live stream and video archive.
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