John Prosser

For context, I estimate about 50-70 of those BP agents to be affiliated with either BORTAC (or BORSTAR to a much lesser extent), which would be 1/6 of the entire available Border Patrol agents assigned to one of these units. This was never a sustainable operation.

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.

Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.

this is literally never not accurate

Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it

"Pro-democracy Americans should use 2026 to primary any Democrat from the Don’t Fight caucus and demand new Congressional leadership ahead of the bigger fight in 2028, when there’s a risk the Trump regime has consolidated enough authoritarian power that elections are not free and fair."

i just realized what hes describing here is a fundraising email, they sold us out for for the promise of dope ass fundraising emails

Literally no one was unaware of his cruelty and hostility.

No one needs reminders.

This is just a devastating capitulation. There is zero silver lining. Don't sanewash this betrayal by our "electeds".

There's arguably no effective way for any future administration to undo the strategic damage being done to the U.S.'s relations with these and other states.

No matter what we do, the U.S. will be seen as an untrustworthy, craven & mercurial "partner"—something simply to be endured or hedged.

Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders. After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.

If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.

This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.

Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.

Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.

Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.

But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.

My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:

newrepublic.com/article/2029...

Yeah it was the 8 that voted to to invoke cloture, but it's on Murray as SAC Vice Chair and Heinrich and Ossoff as the Dems on the Leg subcommittee as to how they either were a-ok with this, or didn't bother highlighting it as something in the bill they disagreed with

We need lab grown beef so bad

Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward

It was “NO” yesterday.
It’s “NO” today.
And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House.

I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.

Rhetorical pleas against infighting are always begging the question about who's actually on the same side as you.

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Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

How about we primary every democratic senator who does NOT call for chuck schumer’s resignation.

Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders. After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.

We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.

If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Zoom in: At the very beginning of the shutdown, Schumer was put on notice that a group of moderate Democrats didn't want to pick the government shutdown fight in the first place. "We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who led the bipartisan talks to find a compromise. Asked if she ever felt that Schumer was working against her compromise package, Shaheen declined to comment. "I don't really want to get into the private discussions we had," she told reporters Monday afternoon. The bottom line: By Sunday afternoon, the Democratic moderates ultimately decided that the cost of continuing the shutdown exceeded the benefits. They extracted a promise from GOP leaders to hold a vote in December on extending the ACA tax credits. Internally, Schumer and most of his caucus argued that the concession wasn't enough. But eight senators who caucus with Democrats broke ranks, voting with Republicans to advance the deal that looks set to end the shutdown.

the caucus gets how this is *worse* right? if you're just going around Schumer, what's the point of leadership

I think the correct dimension to categorize Democrats isn't liberal to moderate, but those who think elected office is for the exercise of power and those who think elected office is your just reward after climbing the career ladder and waiting your turn.

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.

This is consistent with what we reported on Saturday, though the framing is (preposterously) positive.
-Schumer was getting regular updates from the Cave Caucus
-He didn't want to be seen as pro-caving but was fine with them negotiating to cave
-Shaheen wouldn't say Schumer was working against her