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.
To begin this bit of self-indulgent fun, I picked “Reminiscing” by the Little River Band. It’s one of my go-to songs for singing karaoke—yacht rocky, some nice jazz vocal licks at the top end of my range—and it’s also got this nice little pop bass line that I’ve never been in a band with the horns and keys to perform.
We’ve returned from the No Kings Rally in Grants Pass, Oregon. It was clearly a larger turnout from the previous No Kings, both on the anti-fascism side and on the MAGA side. For a county that voted 62% for Trump, our turnout, estimated at 2,500 by the local organizers, is quite impressive.
Our movement is one that is rooted in the foundational principles of the United States of America—the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—no matter what Mike Johnson says.
This one is the Robert Morris who founded the Gateway megachurch in Texas. The Robert Morris who was counted as Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor. He’s just pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old starting in 1982. Morris was a traveling preacher then, living with a family in Oklahoma, where he continued abusing the daughter for the next four years.
Five incidents of violence from the left isn’t good, but there haven’t been that few incidents on the right since 2007, and every incident of ICE terrorizing immigrant and American citizens without warrants and probable cause is right-wing political violence.
Today, the guy you voted for told the assembled leadership of the United States military that they will be waging war on Democratic U.S. cities and he expects their loyalty when he orders them to fire on Americans in those cities.
Now as part of their government’s plan to soften their image the Saudis debut this comedy festival in their capital. Ha ha ha, what great jokes they tell—so funny you won’t even notice the hellish women’s prison used to punish wives who don’t submit to their husband’s sexual abuse.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t just a “political influencer.” We need to come to terms with the fact that they are engaged in a holy war. This is more akin to a pope’s death to them.
The House Oversight Committee has released the Jeffrey Epstein 50th Birthday Books. Here are the lowlights of the entire book, to set the context for just who Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, and others were pals enough with to send personalized birthday wishes.
“Ms. Hecox has also come under negative public scrutiny from certain quarters because of this litigation… her top priority is graduating from college and living a healthy and safe life.”
Idaho Gov. Brad Little celebrated the ban, saying it “reversed years of attacks on girls and women who have worked hard for the opportunity to play fairly and safely in their chosen sport.”
“We can hear a little bit, and then we would basically say, ‘we can’t continue the conversation unless you have a parent there who can give consent,’ and then we’d have to end the call,”