Yeah, I don’t know how many of those new folks are or aren’t in that union. All I know is that the veteran border patrol folks are.

And my guess is that a lot of those existing employees are pretty pro Trump. Policing borders isn’t usually the public service job that bleeding heart liberals go for.

The The AFGE is larger organization and the NBPC uses their resources and muscle.

This administration is like Game of Thrones with the cast of Veep.

If these evil idiots had half a brain, they wouldn’t have immediately bum rushed the press and social media with half baked lies. They could’ve taken a beat to fully bake their lies.

This union doesn’t “oversee” border patrol.

The murdered nurse was a member of AFGE, and the AFGE is affiliated with the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). But that doesn’t mean the AFGE fully represents the NBPC. It’s a team-up to have more collective bargaining power.

If the NBPC says that their leaders should be fired, THEN shit will have really hit the fan.

The 3.5% rule.

Nonviolent resistance has a higher success rate when compared to violent resistance. But non violent resistance does not mean the resistance movement will be bloodless. Authoritarians will respond to both a violent and nonviolent movement with aggression.

I see we’ve now hit the “Trump is tired of this and wants to TACO, but you have to make it look like he’s winning something” stage.

Hearing Trump say “color blind, merit based” is infuriating when you live in a city where the kids near the white schools have music programs and the kids near the black and brown schools don’t.

For anyone wondering about why the Marines aren’t playing, it’s because they were scheduled to perform with Equity Arc, an organization that helps black and brown kids have access to the music programs that have been cut from their schools.

So, because racism.

But the article is about racial profiling. These off duty cops aren’t white.

Sliced white bread = boo

Sliced sour = now we’re talking

White bread / Wonder bread is also universally used as an analogy for something bland and boring.

IMHO, the stupid bean counters got to her and they stared obsessing about messages, positions, and tactics that will give you a percent here and a percent there.

They were playing way too fucking safe.

Totally agree. Sliced bread is great. But that white bread sandwich which stuff. Bleh.

IMHO, I don’t know why people buy those sliced white bread loafs. That bread is weak sauce.

Baguettes are bomb sandwich bread. Ask France.

If you look at Chavez’s regime toward the end of his life, you’re honestly going to find a lot of shit that is analogous, or identical, to what Trump is doing. Authoritarian populist demagoguery, but wrapped in North american conservatism instead of South American socialism.

It was weird, but pivoting to poll tested messages, and refusing to shit on Biden, is probably what really sunk her. She was doing well early on when she was being fast and disruptive. Then she reverted to the boring old playbook.

Everyone’s boosting food with protein now, when every doctor on earth is screaming “eat some fucking grape nuts dawg.”

90% of all American wine is grown in California. Napa and Sonoma, the heart of the industry, overwhelmingly voted against Trump in 2024 by like a 2/3 majority.

They will gladly funnel their additional wine money into campaigns against Trump.

RT is straight up trying to stoke the fire with even more disinformation.