Murdering Medicaid It’s Wednesday. There are 615 days until the midterm elections. The White House makes state media official, Trump’s psycho new plans and Republicans eff over America. Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman Feb 26 Be advised: This newsletter uses profanity. But at least it didn’t gut Medicaid like some fucking asshole. The Alt Media with Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman is a reader-supported and funded publication. We have no investors or advertisers. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Note: Well, Sexy Patriots, things are going about like we thought they would. And that ain’t great. The outrages and abuses pile up so fast that we’re not even sure we get to them all. Like we almost missed this despicable shit yesterday… Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country." Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:19:37 GMT View on Bluesky Fucking seriously?! Why stop there? Why not start pimping out Lady Liberty? Yeah, we can charge $20 million to let super rich freaks have sex with the Statue of Liberty. Fork it over, big boy, and then go hump the giant statue’s green pinky toe for six seconds. Yeah, she’s made of concrete but that means she won’t feel a thing, just like any other woman who’s slept with a Republican. And we don’t have to stop there! We can charge them to fuck the crack in the Liberty Bell too. It’s a really tiny crack, but we think the GOP are the perfect guys for it. Or here’s an even crazier idea — what if we stopped selling out every goddamn principle and value this fucking country was built on?! Anyway, we’re sorry to be so crass today, but this shit grosses us the eff out. Our apologies to Lady Liberty and that poor bell. Y’all have a blessed day. Note two: Before we go one step or f-bomb further, we want to show some love and gratitude to U.S. Reps. Kevin Mullin and Brittany Pettersen. Mullin’s health is bad and Petersen just had a baby and they still hauled ass across the country to try and stop Republicans from fucking us over last night. It didn’t work, but we do appreciate the effort. More” CPR.org Note three: We also want to show love and gratitude for Jasmine Crockett because this shit sounds like a chorus of angels to us… CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social NEW: I just asked Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett if she had a message to Elon Musk. What would she say to him? Here was her  answer: “Fuck off.” Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:35:50 GMT View on Bluesky Note four: How scared of Republicans of their own voters? They decided they’re not gonna do town halls anymore. Fucking cowards. More: NBC News Note five: Oh this is fun. Trump’s new guy at DHS wanted martial law and secession after Trump got his sorry ass beat in 2020. So this is what it would look like if the confederacy won. More: CNN Note six: Trump is going after the law firm that hired Jack Smith. Remember when the press acted like Kamala’s position on fracking was the most important thing in the world? More: ABC News Note seven: Trump is having a cabinet meeting today and Elon Leon is going. We’re sure it will be very productive and not at all cringe and infuriating. More: ABC News Note eight: Well this is way more accurate than our phones thinking we want to use the word ducking… Pop Base @popbase.tv Apple have announced they are working to fix a dictation feature for iPhones where the word “racist” is being momentarily transcribed as “Trump.” Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:35:13 GMT View on Bluesky Note nine: Yesterday we applauded Rachel Maddow for calling out the assholes at MSNBC for going whites-only with their line-up. Then MSNBC fired Rachel’s staff. Seems pretty vindictive to us and yet another reason to turn that shit off. More: Huff Post Adam’s piece on MSNBC is here: MSNBC just went full Jim Crow and the Resistance is DONE with them Adam Parkhomenko · 3:06 AM A major American news network just announced some big changes: four weekday hosts will soon be off air — and two weekend hosts’ namesake programs are being canceled. Lineup changes are common, so what’s the problem? All six of these hosts are people of color. Read full story Note 10: Just a giant FUCK YOU to billionaire butt-kiss Jeff Bezos, who announced this morning that the Washington Post editorial page will only write editorials about “personal liberties and free markets.” Farewell to a once great newspaper. More: Deadline Note 11: Someone died from measles in Texas. We assume the new HHS secretary celebrated with champagne and the desecration of an animal corpse. More: Associated Press Note 12: USDA says egg prices will go up more than 40 percent this year. Why would this be a scandal for Biden but it’s not for Trump? More: ABC News Note 13: Well this explains a lot. We’ve basically become the Trump Steaks of countries. Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Alina Habba: This is what we're about. We're running this county like President Trump runs the Trump Organization. Like Elon Musk running X. That's what we're doing. Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:17:51 GMT View on Bluesky Note 14: We are a little more than two weeks from a government shutdown and Republicans need Democratic votes to keep the government open. Democrats are demanding Elon Leon and Trump start following the law and Republicans are refusing. So shut that shit down. More: NBC News Note 15: Elon Leon is fucking over US military veterans. Sure seems like a major fucking scandal to us. More: Yahoo News Note 16: Byron Donalds is running to be governor of Florida and Vivek is running to be governor of Ohio. So yes those states can get worse. We’re surprised too. More: Associated Press Note 17: It helps to laugh… tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social Tue, 25 Feb 2025 02:31:30 GMT View on Bluesky Note 18: Thank you to the 21 federal employees trapped in Elon Leon’s nightmare who resigned yesterday rather than carry out despicable and illegal orders. We’re gonna need a shitload of this kind of courage. More: NPR Note 19: For today’s Happy Ending, we’re looking to sports and not politics because shit there is too messed up. And because we have to congratulate the amazing Diana Taurasi on her retirement. Taurasi is debatably the best women’s basketball player of all time, and we are grateful to her for growing the game by dominating it. More: ESPN Note 20: And on that lovely distracting note, let’s go do some news! We sure hope y’all are holding up ok. We know things are pretty royally fucked up. But at least you didn’t spend the morning writing crazy shit about the Statue of Liberty. Love y’all! Goodbye, free press All that kissing orange ass didn’t pay off. The mainstream media were desperate to get Trump back in the White House, and now he is fucking them over big time. Yesterday the White House announced that they, and not the correspondents association, will decide who gets to cover the president. So hell, state media. Today, HuffPo was kicked out of the pool and replaced by Axios (fucking scabs). Reuters is out too, but the Blaze and OAN are in. So what was already gutless and pathetic White House coverage is now pretty much gone altogether. It’s only a matter of time before the White House starts editing photos and video of the president. Goodbye, truth. More: Huff Post What the effing fuck?! We debated it and ultimately decided not to link to the despicable and horrifying AI video Trump posted last night of his twisted vision for “Trump Gaza.” Even for his psycho ass, this is some pretty fucked up shit. And what is Elon Leon doing in the video eating? And who is that woman the Trump figure is with? What the fuck is happening? We suppose that on some level it makes sense that America’s Hitler would be a gameshow host. More: The Hill Screwed Last night, House Republicans narrowly passed a budget framework that would cut almost $1 trillion from Medicaid and cut SNAP benefits to less than $2 a day just so they can give the world’s richest man another tax cut. This shit was so unpopular that Republicans had to pretend like they were closing the vote and then sneak it in. That part didn’t work as Democrats were united and even those with good reasons to be out (Pettersen, Mullin) showed up to defend Americans. Unfortunately, Republicans held their line too. The good news is this is just the start of the process and we still have time to make the GOP regret this so much that they don’t dare go through with this crazy shit. So keep working those phones! (Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121) More: NPR Today’s clips Ukraine and the U.S. have outlined an agreement in which they would jointly fund Ukraine’s future security and reconstruction using an investment fund powered by the country’s rare earth minerals, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. More: NBC News D.C.'s interim U.S. Attorney Edward Martin is facing a congressional investigation over allegedly using his role to target groups that challenge President Donald Trump's actions, including threats to news outlets, according to a letter sent on behalf of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. More: WJLA A shocking video from Chicago's Midway Airport circulating on social media Tuesday showed a near miss between a Southwest Airlines flight and an "unauthorized" Flexjet business jet on a runway, with Southwest Airlines aborting a landing to avoid the plane. More: NBC Chicago Recent Videos from The Alt Media Trump Golf Track from The Alt Media (TrumpGolfTrack.com) The latest from Sam and Adam The Resistance is alive and well and angry Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman · Feb 23 Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe knows it. Maine Gov. Janet Mills knows it. And the hundreds of Americans making their voices heard at town hall meetings know it too. Read full story The Alt Media with Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman is a reader-supported and funded publication. We have no investors or advertisers. To receive new posts and support our work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber!