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This is really bad. The New York Times reports that FBI managers were told the bureau will stop investigating violent confrontations involving immigration agents, handing those cases instead to an arm of ICE. In other words, letting the agency investigate itself.

These families deserve transparency and guidance they can trust. I will keep pressing until they have it. ktla.com/news/califor...

I want to be clear about what we know and what we don’t. A cluster of cases is not proof of a cause. That is exactly why we need a rigorous, independent investigation, so these families get real answers rather than speculation.

That is why I wrote to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin requesting an immediate investigation into potential environmental causes and an assessment of whether other children are at risk. We expect a formal response soon.

Six children in the community have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma. According to the American Cancer Society, roughly 200 children and teens in the entire country are diagnosed with this cancer each year. Six cases in one community is a number that warrants serious federal attention.

I’m closely following the deeply troubling pattern of childhood cancer in Ladera Ranch, and I’m standing with these families in my district as they demand answers.

Mike Levin@mikelevin.orgJul 23(source)

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

Mike Levin@mikelevin.orgJul 23(source)

Trump hung Teddy Roosevelt in the Oval Office like he’s the heir apparent. What a joke. Roosevelt busted monopolies, banned corporate cash, and jailed the spoils system. Trump runs the family business from the Resolute Desk. One man fought the powerful. The other invoices them.

Mike Levin@mikelevin.orgJul 22(source)

Today would be a good day for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth and replace him with someone competent. Every American, and every soldier we have deployed abroad, would be safer for it.

Picking a trade war with your friendliest neighbor over hockey sticks and milk is economic self-sabotage dressed up as toughness while working families foot the bill.

Trump Imposes Additional 50% Tariffs on Certain Canadian Goods

Ontario’s premier is already calling for dollar-for-dollar retaliation, which means our farmers and exporters get hammered next. We’ve seen this movie before. Canada retaliates, US alcohol sales there already dropped 81%, and everyone loses.

Measure applies to goods including wine, though energy and parts of other sectors are exempt.

You cannot negotiate a trade agreement, sign it, celebrate it, then blow it up and expect anyone to trust the next deal. And who actually pays? American importers and American families. Tariffs are a tax on us.

This is really dumb. Canada is our closest ally and the top buyer of American exports on Earth. These tariffs hit about $20 billion in goods and apply even to products protected under the USMCA trade deal Trump himself signed and bragged about.

As Los Angeles burned, people were on Polymarket betting on how many acres it would take. One wrote, “That was fun. Until the next time.” This is sick. I’m going to do all I can to ban it.

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations (Gift Article)

Remove that independent check, and you don't strengthen law enforcement, you just corrode public trust in it. No one is above the law, and that has to include the people enforcing it.

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

Real accountability is what protects good officers. When the public trusts that incidents get an honest, independent review, it protects the agents who follow the rules, and it isolates the ones who don't.

DOJ and DHS deny any change is underway. I hope they're right. But if this reporting holds, every American who respects the badge should be alarmed.

Reposted byMike Levin