Prof. Carl LeVan

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Props to my peeps in Winona, Wisconsin just next door to Minneapolis, who went out on a frozen lake with lights to spell "love melts #ICE" youtu.be/4JR6Stkrwyg?...

Lots of people in DC and beyond working on this. This is a great introduction

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The "boat strikes" are still happening. Five things you need to know.  - WOLA U.S. military strikes on drug smuggling boats have killed 131 people since September, yet media coverage has faded. These extrajudicial killings violate international law, fail to stop drug traffickin...

After 35 attacks and 131 deaths, we’re normalizing the illegal boat strikes, erasing the dead as "narco-terrorists"—even while drug supplies appear unaffected. Some in the military are growing comfortable with this. But the slippery slope is clear: impunity breeds escalation, perhaps even at home.

CREW, 7 organizations tell Congress: oppose the Stop Insider Trading Act - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Congress should reject the Stop Insider Trading Act, which doesn't actively stop members of Congress from profiting off their offices.

CREW and 7 organizations sent a letter to Congress opposing the Stop Insider Trading Act, which *hides* insider trading instead of stopping it.

Congress should instead pass the Restore Trust in Congress Act, a bipartisan bill that actually prevents congressional stock trading. Read our full letter:

It turns out, "affordability" is not fake new. Trump might have to veto a bill that prevents a tax increase. You can't make this stuff up. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Department of Homeland Security must provide 'constitutionally adequate healthcare' at ICE detention center, judge rules A federal judge also required an external monitor be appointed to ensure compliance, including through review of medical records and on-site inspection and interviews with patients and staff at the Ca...

When @padilla.senate.gov and I visited the California City Detention Center, we met with people who were held without basic medical treatment or, in many cases, no medical attention at all. 🧵
www.latimes.com/california/s...

As a measure of how weird Washington is right now, it is news when 6 Republicans vote against a tax increase -- in this case the #tariff bill yesterday (are tariffs taxes? The Congressional Budget Office recently explained why)

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, fires a US AG in New York by saying “See Article II of our Constitution. You are fired, Donald Kinsella.” After seeing Pam Bondi's testimony today, someone should tell her See Article I

YouTube video by oseville MKO Documentary teaser

Looking forward to this documentary dealing with Babangida's annulment of #Nigeria 1993 election. Hope it doesn't revert to the counterfactual "if only Abiola had won." Discussed this event extensively in my 2015 book "Dictators and Democracy in African Development"
youtu.be/fCpz84C8Kp0?...

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

Pirro loses again. Now, repeat the advice, and elaborate on it. But do it on the floor where your speech is protected by separation of powers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

At Jim Mittleman's book launch on "Runaway Capitalism." I getting discussion on telecom companies recently receiving an exemption from #ICE raids after lobbying Trump that they were concerned about ability to lay down telecom lines

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

How do #immigrants impact US economy? New study by conservative @cato.org finds immigrants (1) pay more in taxes than receive in benefits, (2) have reduced #deficit every year since 1994 (3) pay MORE in taxes than the average American. So #ICE should stop kidnaping them.
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

US military says some forces have been dispatched to Nigeria The U.S. has sent a small team of troops to Nigeria, the general in charge of the U.S. command for Africa said on Tuesday, the first acknowledgment of U.S. forces on the ground since Washington struck...

U.S. troops on the ground in #Nigeria. Advisors? Soldiers? How many? What's the scope of mission? Congressional notification? www.reuters.com/world/africa...

@epi.org @aflcio.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @piie.com #trade #tariffs #humanrights

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

Save the data! Who has experience with X's API and a bunch of memory?
www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

That wasn't so hard, right? Paging Mayor Bowser...and all the candidates running to replace her.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Lawmakers Say They Will Not Cooperate With Inquiry Into Illegal Orders Video

Next, I would encourage them to elaborate on the insanity of the DOJ's request -- and do it on the House/Senate floor, where their speech is constitutionaly protected, adding a separation of powers protection. (See the case of Rep. Henry Gonzalez in the early 90s)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Nat Sec strategy says Trump "single-handedly reversed more than three decades of mistaken American assumptions about China: namely, that by opening our markets" China would enter "the so-called rules based international order”. Did anyone notice he was essentially taking Nancy Pelosi's position?

Monthly U.S.-Mexico Border Cocaine Seizures Oct-17 Nov-17 Dec-17 Jan-18 Feb-18 Mar-18 Apr-18 May-18 Jun-18 Jul-18 Aug-18 Sep-18 Oct-18 Nov-18 Dec-18 Jan-19 Feb-19 Mar-19 Apr-19 May-19 Jun-19 Jul-19 Aug-19 Sep-19 Oct-19 Nov-19 Dec-19 Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Oct-20 Nov-20 Dec-20 Jan-21 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21 May-21 Jun-21 Jul-21 Aug-21 Sep-21 Oct-21 Nov-21 Dec-21 Jan-22 Feb-22 Mar-22 Apr-22 May-22 Jun-22 Jul-22 Aug-22 Sep-22 Oct-22 Nov-22 Dec-22 Jan-23 Feb-23 Mar-23 Apr-23 May-23 Jun-23 Jul-23 Aug-23 Sep-23 Oct-23 Nov-23 Dec-23 Jan-24 Feb-24 Mar-24 Apr-24 May-24 Jun-24 Jul-24 Aug-24 Sep-24 Oct-24 Nov-24 Dec-24 Jan-25 Feb-25 Mar-25 Apr-25 May-25 Jun-25 Jul-25 Aug-25 Sep-25 Oct-25 Nov-25 Dec-25 At the Ports of Entry 1852 2516 1493 1738 1453 2133 1293 1285 1172 844 2742 1423 2205 1893 1106 1652 1525 1681 1158 1638 1119 1531 2342 1676 1302 1878 980 1183 1433 708 690 1103 1105 864 1199 2353 3968 2294 1330 1971 2038 1381 1990 1632 1235 1932 1910 1292 1582 1522 1111 850 2174 1893 1861 2585 1226 1236 5033 1300 2461 1438 1553 1692 1893 3333 1809 967 2112 1386 911 3019 3673 3503 2090 1838 2489 893 1078 1511 1298 998 2269 3030 2275 1947 2372 3000 1898 3443 3611 2477 3726 4151 3632 2540 2979 4286 1597 Between the Ports of Entry (Border Patrol) 252 253 112 301 236 122 331 91 153 42 143 83 145 129 317 1000 181 187 34 185 60 74 166 13 69 70 -1 -1 263 168 1 41 54 464 13 125 93 29 32 338 261 42 167 92 34 208 223 25 23 474 16 24 274 143 240 140 74 79 132 31 227 109 180 174 108 277 13 80 249 114 134 292 470 86 174 283 891 100 325 292 90 279 314 341 288 79 390 42 393 314 358 134 499 168 23 82 382 189 151 Border Patrol Checkpoints 253 473 162 169 163 342 316 226 275 55 259 25 121 48 140 259 197 87 368 133 82 175 432 294 462 311 177 126 156 229 119 193 380 172 313 291 307 299 49 91 391 122 83 179 140 272 119 166 220 73 102 39 90 50 186 105 63 42 37 143 231 268 89 262 269 143 250 90 272 78 1033 53 115 51 66 275 206 282 396 190 146 187 22 132 236 117 60…

What impact are the US boat strikes having, besides killing >124 people?

- October-December 2024: 7,764 pounds of cocaine seized at the US-Mexico border.
- October-December 2025: 10,593 pounds of cocaine seized.

Cocaine is up 34% year-over-year *despite* the boat strikes.

Data: bit.ly/4bJOeFs

Nominating Putin mouthpiece Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence is a whole different level of alarming. The Five Eyes alliance will soon become Four Eyes — exactly as Putin wants.

Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.

This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.

Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Went to a meeting downtown today, and I was the only dude not wearing a tie. So many cultural changes in DC with the GOP back in power.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS

Find 3-4 people in the room, focus on them, and pretend that you are having an intimate conversation. Also, arrive 10 minutes early to talk to people. They will then be hesitant to be obnoxious during q&a

White House ballroom donations should be disclosed on lobbying disclosure reports - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington At least 23 reported contributors to the White House ballroom should have disclosed those donations as part of their regular lobbying disclosure filings.

NEW: At least 23 reported contributors to the White House ballroom should have disclosed those donations as part of their lobbying disclosure filings, according to CREW analysis. Only one did.

Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

The new DHS funding deadline is next week. That means Democrats have real leverage to stop the regime’s lawlessness. Demand that Dems hold the line and refuse to fund DHS without ironclad limits on ICE and CBP, actual accountability for abuses, and clear guardrails to stop raids and intimidation.