Sam Youngman
@samyoungman.bsky.social
Kentuckian in LA. Reformed campaign reporter/WH correspondent. Basketball fan. Shitty surfer. Cussing newsletter: www.thealtmedia.com
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A reminder that WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns the largest sailing yacht in the world and spent $50 million on a tacky wedding.
January 24, 2026 at 4:58 AM
A reminder that WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns the largest sailing yacht in the world and spent $50 million on a tacky wedding.
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Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
Jen is one of the finest reporters writing about politics there is. She’s on the ground in Minnesota.
It's so cold out here, I can't take pics or film for more than a minute because my fingertips hurt so much. Just looked, it's currently negative 8.
And yet, look at everyone out here, going strong, fired up, so kind to each other. Some have been singing.
And yet, look at everyone out here, going strong, fired up, so kind to each other. Some have been singing.
January 23, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Jen is one of the finest reporters writing about politics there is. She’s on the ground in Minnesota.
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It’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
It’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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This is what leadership looks like. Love to see local officials standing in solidarity with their constituents
-11 degrees at MSP & we are protesting the ICE Occupation in Minnesota during a day of General Strike & Truth and Freedom. We are demanding ICE leave, Accountability for the officer who murdered Renee Good, businesses no longer working with ICE, and no more funding to ICE. Stay safe, Stay warm!
January 23, 2026 at 7:17 PM
This is what leadership looks like. Love to see local officials standing in solidarity with their constituents
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Friday in America:
* Congratulations to Adam and Ally on the birth of their son!
* Trey Nehls is a giant a**hole and liar. #StolenValor
Thank you to @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social & @samyoungman.bsky.social for the awesome reportage.
We’re all Minnesotans today
open.substack.com/pub/adampark...
* Congratulations to Adam and Ally on the birth of their son!
* Trey Nehls is a giant a**hole and liar. #StolenValor
Thank you to @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social & @samyoungman.bsky.social for the awesome reportage.
We’re all Minnesotans today
open.substack.com/pub/adampark...
We’re all Minnesotans today
Happy Friday. There are 284 days until the midterm elections. The sofa-screwer is a damn liar, the pro-slavery administration and BS Bondi gets embarrassed again.
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Friday in America:
* Congratulations to Adam and Ally on the birth of their son!
* Trey Nehls is a giant a**hole and liar. #StolenValor
Thank you to @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social & @samyoungman.bsky.social for the awesome reportage.
We’re all Minnesotans today
open.substack.com/pub/adampark...
* Congratulations to Adam and Ally on the birth of their son!
* Trey Nehls is a giant a**hole and liar. #StolenValor
Thank you to @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social & @samyoungman.bsky.social for the awesome reportage.
We’re all Minnesotans today
open.substack.com/pub/adampark...
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Kaine is engaging in performance art and it’s bullshit kabuki. Murray is already touting it so Dems are gonna offer the votes with wink and nods.
Dems likely to collaborate:
CCM
Fetterman
Rosen
Shaheen
Hassan
King
Gillibrand
Peters
Murray
And probably Durbin, Schumer, Schatz.
Cowards.
Dems likely to collaborate:
CCM
Fetterman
Rosen
Shaheen
Hassan
King
Gillibrand
Peters
Murray
And probably Durbin, Schumer, Schatz.
Cowards.
👀 Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., one of 8 Senate Dems who voted for the November deal, slams the House-passed approps package. His concerns include ICE. As a bundle, he doesn’t support it “without significant amendment.”
This still needs 60 senators to avert a shutdown next Friday. Stay tuned.
This still needs 60 senators to avert a shutdown next Friday. Stay tuned.
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Kaine is engaging in performance art and it’s bullshit kabuki. Murray is already touting it so Dems are gonna offer the votes with wink and nods.
Dems likely to collaborate:
CCM
Fetterman
Rosen
Shaheen
Hassan
King
Gillibrand
Peters
Murray
And probably Durbin, Schumer, Schatz.
Cowards.
Dems likely to collaborate:
CCM
Fetterman
Rosen
Shaheen
Hassan
King
Gillibrand
Peters
Murray
And probably Durbin, Schumer, Schatz.
Cowards.
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Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.
👀 House Approp. Committee’s “top Democrat” @delauro.house.gov takes a “victory photo” with the top Republican of the committee Tom Cole after passing massive bills to fund the Trump regime incl. its out of control DHS/ICE squads unleashed in MN and elsewhere (arresting 5 yr olds etc) @notus.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.
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why isnt amy klobuchar celebrating hockey day minnesota with wayzata high school taking on rogers above the fold
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
why isnt amy klobuchar celebrating hockey day minnesota with wayzata high school taking on rogers above the fold
Let NPR die
NPR just said a protest led to Renee Good’s death.
January 23, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Let NPR die
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Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
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Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.
218 with 7 Democrats voting for it, the DHS bill passes
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 PM
218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.
But it was important to put the Robert E Lee portraits back up. Gosh. I wonder what message is being sent here.
January 22, 2026 at 10:01 PM
But it was important to put the Robert E Lee portraits back up. Gosh. I wonder what message is being sent here.
Shut up and take it, America
JD Vance: "The number one thing I learned today is that the best way to facilitate reasonable enforcement of the law but also to lower the chaos in Minneapolis would be for state and local officials to cooperate"
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Shut up and take it, America
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CBP is in South East L.A. while ICE is in other areas today 1/22.
January 22, 2026 at 6:21 PM
CBP is in South East L.A. while ICE is in other areas today 1/22.
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Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul
Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.
So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.
Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.
So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.
January 22, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul
Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.
So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.
Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.
So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.
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So I guess the White House Press Corps collectively decided to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein Files. Trump must be happy to know he'll never get asked about it again.
January 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM
So I guess the White House Press Corps collectively decided to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein Files. Trump must be happy to know he'll never get asked about it again.
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Concept of a D’oh
It’s Thursday. There are 285 days until the midterm elections. America kidnaps children, Jack Smith speaks and farewell to the Fourth Amendment.
It’s Thursday. There are 285 days until the midterm elections. America kidnaps children, Jack Smith speaks and farewell to the Fourth Amendment.
Concept of a D’oh
It’s Thursday. There are 285 days until the midterm elections. America kidnaps children, Jack Smith speaks and farewell to the Fourth Amendment.
www.thealtmedia.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Concept of a D’oh
It’s Thursday. There are 285 days until the midterm elections. America kidnaps children, Jack Smith speaks and farewell to the Fourth Amendment.
It’s Thursday. There are 285 days until the midterm elections. America kidnaps children, Jack Smith speaks and farewell to the Fourth Amendment.
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There was a time when clear physical and cognitive decline in a sitting U.S. President would trigger nonstop news headlines.
January 22, 2026 at 3:50 PM
There was a time when clear physical and cognitive decline in a sitting U.S. President would trigger nonstop news headlines.
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Donald Trump's AI-generated "Board of Peace" logo is so bad it doesn't even have Greenland on it, the territory he almost took the US to war this week to seize. No, really, look closely:
January 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Donald Trump's AI-generated "Board of Peace" logo is so bad it doesn't even have Greenland on it, the territory he almost took the US to war this week to seize. No, really, look closely:
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Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
Violence only helps Trump & may provide him an excuse to further trample our rights by invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 22, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
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The gormless Gestapo-fluffers of @nytimes.com
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 AM
The gormless Gestapo-fluffers of @nytimes.com